Alireza Mirzaee

This paper develops the Constitutive Information-Binding Architecture (CIBA), a theoretical account of phenomenal consciousness grounded in the organization of distributed neural processes. The central proposal is that phenomenal consciousness is nothing over and above the simultaneous binding of neural networks corresponding to concurrent environmental perception, the lived body, the body-as-object, and retrieved memories within a unified, temporally continuous first-person organization. CIBA distinguishes informational integration, vector representation, constitutive binding architecture, and primary phenomenal organization, and introduces the Persistent Referential Indexing Architecture (PRIA) to characterize referential continuity across time. Phenomenal qualities are treated as differentiated organizational states rather than additional non-physical properties. The identity thesis is presented as a conditional philosophical interpretation of the proposed organization, not as an independently established empirical result. The framework's limitations and possible operationalization are specified, and empirically discriminating questions are derived from the architecture.