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    This paper develops a formal, non-biological framework for engineering autonomous entities that exhibit aliveness, livingness, and life without relying on central processing units or biological nervous systems. Grounded in Inscriptionism—Creatio ex Materia et Instructione—first articulated by Lawsin (1988), the work adopts Inscriptional Physicalism, the principle that all cognitive, identity, and autonomous properties arise from inscriptional materiality. In this view, the material configuration…Read more
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    This paper advances a general theory of consciousness grounded in inscriptional materialism, proposing that awareness, consciousness, and self‑consciousness emerge from the organization of differences within inscription–material systems. The framework formalizes three generative processes: detection produces awareness, correspondence produces consciousness, and self‑correspondence produces self‑consciousness. These processes operate across aneural, neural, and exoneural domains, enabling a unifi…Read more
  • In this paper, I propose a new theory for understanding energy and existence—Emergent Energy. This framework challenges the conventional view of energy as a conserved quantity that flows through systems. Instead, I argue that energy can be summoned—evoked into being when specific structural conditions within a system align. These conditions may be biological, physical, social, or symbolic, but they share a common logic: they remain inert until triggered. When the right configuration is met, a pu…Read more
  • This paper delves into Lawsin’s AI Paradox, the blueprint that draws the inherent limitations of artificial intelligence(AI) in achieving human equivalency. The core argument revolves around the distinction between "choice-driven learning"—a deterministic approach integral to AI—and "chance-driven discovery", a hallmark of human ingenuity, creativity, and individuality. The absence of stochasticity in AI systems renders them incapable of replicating the serendipitous processes that define human …Read more
  • Inscriptionism is a view that posits existence can be explained through the inherent collaboration between Intuitive Objects (IO) and Embedded Instructions (EI). This perspective, coined by Lawsin (1988), challenges conventional paradigms of creation, existence, life, and consciousness, arguing that these concepts are either misinterpreted or fundamentally flawed, thereby necessitating a comprehensive reevaluation and redefinition. This paper presents an in-depth, sequential analysis of the evol…Read more
  • Programmed to Know, Unable to Discover: Why AI Can Be Conscious but Not Sapient
    Autognorics: The Study of Engineered Life Forms. 1998.
    The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked intense debate over its capacity to achieve consciousness and its limitations in replicating human traits. According to Lawsin's Dictum—"If I can match X with Y, then I am conscious"—consciousness arises from the ability to correlate and associate information. Both AI and humans can exhibit forms of consciousness under this proposition. However, the distinction lies in the methods of information acquisition: humans learn both "by choice,"…Read more
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    How did information emerge into the early minds of our very first humans? Who supplied our primitive ancestors with information? Where did it originate? Where did it come from? Was the source of information a who or a what? Was it god, space aliens, or something else? How was information stored and retrieved by an aneural organism? These basic questions were the keys that opened the conceptualization of a new school of thought known as Originemology, a pioneering discipline that examines genera…Read more
  • In this article, Joey Lawsin argues that intelligence, behaviors, perceptions, awareness, consciousness, and other related mental interims can be processed without the need of the brain. His claims are built upon the concepts of The Aneural Brein Theory, Inscription by Design, and Generated Interim Emergence, also known as The Single Theory of Everything. The first deals with A Brain without The Brain Paradigm, the second deals with Intuitive Systems, Embedded Inscriptions, and Generated Interim…Read more
  • The Phrenological Argument, also known as God's Parapraxis, is a new provocative philosophical argument that showcases God's Mental State of Inadequacy in his creation of the Human Mind. Lawsin* argues that if God has a perfect mind flawlessly capable of knowing things in advance, then he should have anticipated ahead of time the repercussions of creating a human mind that cannot fathom Truth and Reality. But since he created a mind incapable of knowing what is real and what is true, then it sho…Read more
  • According to Joey Lawsin, consciousness, thoughts, emotions, animations, dreams, music, noise, density, colors, sensations, life, and the self are all simply generated interims. They are latent by-materials that only emerge due to the presence of intuitive objects, dubbed as physicals. They are interim-generated parameters perceived to be REAL much like the temperature, pressure, volume, energy, and inscription that are derivatives of materials which only exist when conditions are met. When thes…Read more
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    Many thinkers, past, and present, have tried to solve the underlying mystery of consciousness. Yet, no one has ever categorically expressed its exact concrete essence, scope, or meaning until a new school of thought known as Autognorics was conceptualized in 1988 by Joey Lawsin. Consciousness, awareness, and self-realization, are three different things that can not be properly explained by science and philosophy due to the fact that their theoretical and philosophical bases are misguided. When t…Read more
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    In the realm of philosophy, concepts such as dualism, physicalism, panpsychism, functionalism, epiphenomenalism, the theory of the mind, closing the explanatory gap, and solving the hard problem often suffer from misinterpretation due to their fundamentally flawed foundations. To address this, we propose a novel perspective rooted in Originemology—a new school of thought centered on the origin, creation, and evolution of early information. By applying Originemology’s seminal theories—the Cavema…Read more
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    The concepts of zero and one are abstract constructs that lack intrinsic physical existence and arise through cognitive processes and formal definition. In mathematics, they function as numerals that encode quantitative relations, and when expressed as the symbols 0 and 1, they operate as numbers within established representational systems. These inscriptions allow abstract concepts to take on perceptible form and circulate within scientific, social, and material practices. Yet the ontological s…Read more