Testable Predictions of the Knower Centred Model of Consciousness (KCM)

The Knower Centred Model of Consciousness (KCM) proposes a subject-first ontology in which experience is irreducibly structured by the co-arising of the Knower, Knowing, and Known. In this framework, the Knower is treated as the witnessing presence in which experience appears, while neural, computational, and informational processes modulate the organization and accessibility of experiential content. Building on this triadic ontology, the present paper derives a set of testable predictions that distinguish KCM from models that identify consciousness with structural complexity, global accessibility, or predictive inference. KCM predicts that structural or informational complexity alone does not entail consciousness, that neural processes modulate experiential content rather than generate awareness, that consciousness may persist in minimal-content states, and that reportability and awareness may dissociate. The model further predicts that purely structural descriptions of physical or informational systems will remain insufficient to account for the presence of experience. These predictions define empirical and conceptual pathways across artificial systems, brain states, minimal-awareness conditions, and observer-dependent descriptions. Rather than proposing new experimental data, the paper outlines a research program based on dissociations between complexity, neural modulation, representational richness, and experiential presence. By deriving testable implications from a subject-first ontology, KCM moves from conceptual clarification toward an empirically evaluable framework for interdisciplinary consciousness research.