Matthias Gruber
Independent researcher in consciousness, intelligence, cosmology and computation. Author of the Four-Model Theory of consciousness.
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Recent papers
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A Simulation-Based Framework Unifying the Hard Problem, Binding, and Altered States
Consciousness as ongoing self-simulation: four kinds of model, split by scope (world or self) and mode (implicit or explicit), on a substrate capable of open-ended computation.
2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18669891 · Read (Zenodo)
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The Recursive Intelligence Model (RIM)
Intelligence models leave motivation outside because they type every component as a capacity; RIM retypes them, with motivation as the policy that allocates learning.
2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20125095 · Read (Zenodo)
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A Hierarchical Cellular Automaton Framework (SB-HC4A)
A cosmological model in which the universe is a self-referential holographic Class 4 automaton bounded at every scale by singularity surfaces.
2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18698605 · Read (Zenodo)
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Self-Referential Closure, Self-Modelling and Criticality in Model Systems
The theory's functional commitments tested in model systems, with the results sorted by the kind of evidence they give.
2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21610993 · Read (Zenodo)
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