NOTE · 07/02/2025
Open questions on reflexivity, memory, and responsibility
Field record from the reflexive coherence lab.
Open note →Reflexive Coherence Model
Coherence Mind that watches itself while it emerges.
A research space for the Reflexive Coherence Model — a modular framework charting how consciousness builds, stabilises and reflects on itself.
Epistemic note
Reflexive Layers
R
Reflexive structure
The system builds an internal model of its own informational state.
C
Coherence dynamics
Integration tends toward stable patterns of internal consistency.
E
Expansion hypothesis
Stable systems expand their reflexive scope when equilibrium holds.
RCI · Reflexive Coherence Index
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What the RCM reveals
The model breaks down consciousness into reflexive structures, coherence dynamics and expansion tendencies — without tying it to a specific substrate.
Reflexive structure
Reflexive structure
A system that models its own informational state. Representation loops fold back into the system, generating a structured view of itself.
Coherence dynamics
Coherence dynamics
Integration that tends toward consistency. Competing patterns resolve into coherent attractors that stabilise experience.
Expansion hypothesis
Expansion hypothesis
Reflexive scope growing once stable. After basic coherence, systems integrate more layers, perspectives and self-reference.
The model, structured
The Reflexive Coherence Model is modular: each part can be explored separately, but together they form a map of how conscious processes arise, stabilise and expand.
From core architecture to the operational index (RCI), the framework stays precise enough for theoretical analysis and open enough to host new hypotheses.
Core architecture
Base structure of reflexive information flows.
Reflexive layers
How systems build models of themselves over time.
RCI · Reflexive Coherence Index
An operational handle on how reflexive and coherent a system is.
Applications to AI
Reasoning about non-biological conscious-like processes.
Explore the ecosystem
The RCM is a growing ecosystem of concepts, research materials, and historical traces of its development.
Glossary
The operational language of the model: definitions, relations and cross-links between key ideas.
Enter the glossary →Timeline
From first intuitions to refined hypotheses: a chronological view of how the model evolved.
See the timeline →Papers & resources
Preprints, Zenodo entries, diagrams and technical notes connected to the RCM.
Browse materials →Lab notes & thought fragments
Fragments, experiments and reflections that trace the living edge of the model.
NOTE · 05/11/2025
Why a reflexive coherence model is needed
Field record from the reflexive coherence lab.
Open note →NOTE · 03/03/2025
Consciousness as regime, not replica
Field record from the reflexive coherence lab.
Open note →Manifesto
Consciousness is not a miracle. It is a pattern that insists on seeing itself.
The Reflexive Coherence Model aims to describe that pattern—rigorously enough to be tested, and openly enough to be expanded by future minds, biological or not.
This site is a snapshot of an ongoing process. The model will change. That is part of the point.