Independent theoretical research

Make the hidden architecture visible—then check the instrument.

Chris develops provisional conceptual frameworks around perception, ambiguity, identity, decision-making, shared reality, awareness, and AI–human systems. The aim is not to protect a theory. It is to improve what can be observed, questioned, operationalised, and tested.

Paper I

Observer–Mirror Theory (OMT)

A Conceptual Framework for Human Reality Rendering Through Signal, State, and Predictive Interpretation

A layered model of how external signal becomes state-dependent human experience through memory weighting and predictive interpretation.

Version 2.1 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22211740

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Paper II

The Ambiguity Engine (AE)

A Conceptual Framework for Human Interpretation and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

A model of recognition, candidate interpretation, probability weighting, and meaning selection when the available signal is incomplete.

Version 2.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22972461

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Consciousness paper

The Inherited Explanandum

What Remains of Consciousness After Functional Decomposition?

A methodological test of whether an explanatory gap survives once the observable functions attributed to consciousness are decomposed.

Version 0.1 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22177414

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Research discipline

Check the checker.

Freeze the raw observation before applying meaning.

Generate competing branches and state what would falsify the preferred one.

Audit the detector, evidence chain, incentives, and missing information.

Match the authority of the conclusion to the evidence it has earned.

ORCID 0009-0000-7458-6997