I’ve been working on a conceptual model (ICT Model) that tries to unify information dynamics (dI/dT), temporal structure and the emergence of conscious processes.

The core idea is simple but unusual:

Physical energy, conscious experience and the arrow of time may all be different manifestations of the same underlying informational gradient.

The model predicts that:

energy = frozen information interacting with changing information,

consciousness ∝ local dI/dT,

reality’s “levels” emerge from stable mappings between I_fixed and dI/dT.

A full 23-page preprint (with equations, phenomenology and testable criteria) is here:

For discussion, please join us here:

https://www.academia.edu/s/8924eff666#comment_1478583

Doi:

10.5281/zenodo.17584782

I would be grateful for feedback from physicists, cognitive scientists, information theorists and anyone familiar with foundations of QM.