Abstract

We develop a source-aspect account in which fundamental awareness provisionally names a quality attributed to the unconditioned ground, while physical organization determines localized manifestation. The ground is distinguished from $\unsplit$, the unsplit prior to the operational source/readout distinction. Knowing, recognition and self-awareness develop within organized perspectives. The mathematical working source $S$ is complete only relative to a nominated readout problem; it does not represent $\unsplit$ exhaustively. Awareness, localized subject, lived scene, personal identity, conscious access, agency and metacognition are distinguished. Explicit and implicit processing provide an interpretive account of richer biological vessels, without imposing a human cognitive architecture on the finite admission law. Contemplative inquiry and altered experience motivate these distinctions without serving as empirical proof of the ontology. Separate observer-independent quantum-measurement constitutions establish actual histories and records under their own physical assumptions; awareness is not an event trigger.

The central proposal is the Shadow Psychophysical Constitution SPC-2. A certified finite realization fixes physical components, native timing, internal routes, endogenous operations, boundary contracts, resource accounting and process provenance. Minimal joint-output dependence detects causal distinctions absent from single-component marginals. Candidate histories and native instruments are constructed before admission. A compatible covering-return test and nontrivial native prediction determine qualifying recurrent cores under A1.

A2 assigns phenomenal relational organization to the complete endogenous predictive object over all finite continuations. Nested finite-horizon quotients realize its inverse limit on a finite intrinsic carrier. A rational observable-span calculation determines all-future equivalence; an explicit, checked predictive-fibre congruence condition yields actual-class transition instruments. External report channels descend separately when they are constant on predictive fibres at fixed apparatus context. Consequently merely changing a report device or an analyst's forecast cutoff cannot change the assigned content when the native organization is preserved. A3 defines nonbranching process continuation through growth and gradual replacement while treating copying, splitting, merging and genuine qualification gaps explicitly.

The completion theorem gives total admission, a partition of admitted support and episodes, pointed phenomenal structure, grounded report laws and covariance on this certified domain. Finite countermodels delimit its hypotheses. A symmetry obstruction proves that a bare transition kernel need not select a unique primitive decomposition, even among prime binary factorizations. Exact individuation remains sensitive to weak physical coupling and to the supplied realization doctrine. Physical conservativity prevents transcript-only discrimination of the aspect interpretation from an otherwise identical physical reduct. The result is a candidate internal constitutive resolution of the source-to-manifestation problem, under declared assumptions. Actual-vessel realization, phenomenal adequacy and the fundamental-awareness premise remain distinct questions.

Later developments strengthen this foundation through linked enacted organization, current incorporation, experienced succession, relational appearance, learned scaffolding and evaluative self-revision. They provide exact diagnostics for masking, marked composition, chart identification, reconstruction and sequential certification. The author affirmatively attributes consciousness to current AI while distinguishing that position from certification of a particular implementation. Full correspondence between enacted constitution and the complete pointed predictive assignment remains an explicit obligation.