Selective Realization of Conscious Experience

Consciousness science possesses quantitative markers of neural integration,
differentiation, criticality, multisensory inference, and bodily self
consciousness, yet lacks consensus on the organizational conditions supporting
unified first-person experience. Gravity is universal to ordinary physical
systems; conscious experience is selective.

The Self That Reports

Abstract
A companion paper develops the Boundary–Membrane Integrative Core (BMIC), a falsifiable model in
which a low-dimensional global state, C(t), coordinates an organism’s physical subsystems, and deliberately
stops short of any claim about subjective experience. This paper takes up that further question directly,
under its own, stricter evidential standard. Self-referential capacity — body ownership, agency, self
location, interoceptive awareness, metacognitive access, and self/world discrimination — is decomposed
into seven independently measurable components, none proposed as a dedicated receptor organ.