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Biological Presentism and Consciousness

Goldberger, Joseph
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Contemporary physics remains fractured by a profound explanatory gap regarding the ontological status of the present moment. While the Block Universe of General Relativity dismisses the passage of time as a persistent illusion, human phenomenological experience, quantum non-locality, and modern quantum gravity foundations strongly imply the existence of an absolute, privileged present moment. This paper proposes The Biological Presentist Model. I reframe spacetime not as a static, four-dimensional geometric manifold, but as an active, five- dimensional manifold comprising a two-dimensional spatial hardware lattice (2S) and a three- dimensional temporal phase-space (3T), both driven by an independent, universal system clock (T4). Utilizing a formalized Neo-Lorentzian framework and the structural stability constraints of Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT), I demonstrate that the relativity of simultaneity is an informational latency effect within a localized user interface rather than a fundamental metaphysical truth, anchoring the master system's execution rate to the isotropic frame of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). Crucially, I propose that living biological organisms do not merely observe this cosmic runtime but function as its high-bandwidth hardware terminals. These autopoietic systems sustain real-time synchrony with the universal clock through active, negentropic error-correction protocols, paying a localized processing tax dictated by Landauer's Principle. By analyzing the spectrum of altered conscious states ranging from general anesthesia (telemetry bandwidth throttling) to brain death (irreversible ontological decoupling), I show that consciousness is the literal, active execution thread of this universal code.
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