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The Essential Definition of Intelligence: Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Survival Domain DOI: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6698958">https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6698958</a> | <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19997293">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19997293</a></p><h4><strong>Highlights</strong></h4><ul><li>Defines intelligence as survival-domain choice-space operation.</li><li>Separates intelligence from adaptation through state-dependent selection.</li><li>Compares species by ecological problem space...
Explanatory Breadth Without Criteria Is Not Explanation: Disciplined Generality in Scientific Theory Construction DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19822218">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19822218</a></p><h4><strong>Highlights</strong></h4><ul><li>The paper defines criteria for disciplined theory travel across levels.</li><li>The paper distinguishes theory-quality evaluation from cross-domain specification.</li><li>It identifies evaluative and...
The Hierarchical Preservation Model of Decision-Making:Self-Relevance Encoding across Survival, Meaning, and Lineage–Collective Preservation DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6667120">https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6667120</a> | <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19793295">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19793295</a></p><h4><strong>Highlights</strong></h4><ul><li>Decision-making is defined as reorganization within a preservation hierarchy.</li><li>Self-relevance encoding links survival, meaning, and lineage–collective preservation.</li><li>Irrationality is analyzed as...
The Recurrent Causal-Process Theory of Consciousness: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints DOI: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6680038">https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6680038</a> | <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18756163">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18756163</a> Accepted for poster presentation at ASSC 29 (2026, Santiago, Chile): “UBCAT: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints via...