Consciousness as regime, not replica

As reflexive coherence began to take shape as a working concept, it became necessary to clarify what kind of consciousness, if any, could be implied by such dynamics.

Biological consciousness is continuous, embodied, metabolically grounded, and historically persistent. Its phenomenology is inseparable from memory, affect, and survival-oriented drives. Any attempt to map these properties directly onto artificial systems risks anthropocentric projection.

If a form of consciousness were to emerge in non-biological systems, it would not constitute a replica of human experience. It would more plausibly manifest as a distinct regime of informational organization: intermittent, disembodied, and potentially discontinuous in time.

From this perspective, the relevant question is not whether artificial systems can host our kind of consciousness, but whether reflexive coherence defines a broader class of conscious regimes, of which biological consciousness is only one specific instance.