Sessiz Kaynaktan Uyanan Bilinç: Bir Faz Geçişi Modeli [Consciousness Awakening from the Silent Source: A Phase Transition Model]

Two dominant strategies in the philosophy of consciousness lead to specific impasses: positing experience at the base generates the combination problem; positing nothing and producing consciousness ex nihilo generates the explanatory gap. This article proposes a framework outside both. Its single ontological commitment: the base contains not experience but the capacity for experience — potentiality as a genuine mode of being in the Aristotelian sense. This capacity is carried by a universal, silent ground (Source) derived from the consciousness problem's internal logic. Consciousness is not produced by matter but is the actualized state of this ground at a specific organizational threshold through phase transition. Below the threshold there is no experience; when the threshold is crossed, nothing arises ex nihilo — the already-present capacity awakens. This commitment renders both impasses non-arising: there are no micro-experiences to combine, no substance produced from nothing. The thesis is tested against the strongest formulations of physicalism, dualism, panpsychism, panprotopsychism, and emergentism. The model inherits its potentiality/actuality structure from Aristotle and the notion of actualization as acquisition from Mullā Ṣadrā, departing from both via a threshold structure informed by phase-transition physics. Applied to artificial intelligence, the framework yields a testable prediction: consciousness indicators in artificial systems should emerge threshold-suddenly rather than continuously. Individuation is answered from the threshold mechanism's own logic: organization determines both the boundary and the depth of consciousness. The model is not an empirical theory but a framework proposal proceeding by inference to the best explanation; it does not solve the hard problem of consciousness but carries it.