Joseph J. Trukovich🌀
@recursivedepth.bsky.social
Independent researcher exploring the recursive depths of cognition, intelligence, and physics. Connecting thermodynamics, consciousness, and the origins of complexity.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Trukovich?ev=hdr_xprf
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Trukovich?ev=hdr_xprf
Pinned
Value saturation: Architecture of subjective necessity
Consciousness requires explanation for how biological architectures reliably generate it. This paper introduces Value Saturation, advancing an identit…
www.sciencedirect.com
Value Saturation is why things dont matter because we feel them, we feel them because they matter.
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Just remember:
We feel what already matters.
We feel what already matters.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Just remember:
We feel what already matters.
We feel what already matters.
Can AI achieve K > 20 without biological stakes?
According to R2R the answer is no and @robertchisciure.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social K metric agrees.
According to R2R the answer is no and @robertchisciure.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social K metric agrees.
"Cognition all the way down". Great to see this fine new paper from @robertchisciure.bsky.social & @drmichaellevin.bsky.social out now in Synthese - introducing a new metric to quantify biological intelligence as search efficiency in multidimensional problem spaces link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Can AI achieve K > 20 without biological stakes?
According to R2R the answer is no and @robertchisciure.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social K metric agrees.
According to R2R the answer is no and @robertchisciure.bsky.social and @drmichaellevin.bsky.social K metric agrees.
This is very interesting viewing it through the Value Saturation lens, specifically the role of the ACC.
How is the fronto-limbic network 🧠 involved in suicidal thoughts and behaviors 🧩 ?
Find out here ⬇️
Find out here ⬇️
The role of fronto-limbic network in suicide: a descriptive literature review of neuroimaging studies
Suicide is a complex public health issue characterized by impairments in emotion regulation and cognitive control. Identifying the brain substrates of suicide is critical for developing targeted and…
www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is very interesting viewing it through the Value Saturation lens, specifically the role of the ACC.
Value Saturation is why things dont matter because we feel them, we feel them because they matter.
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Value saturation: Architecture of subjective necessity
Consciousness requires explanation for how biological architectures reliably generate it. This paper introduces Value Saturation, advancing an identit…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Value Saturation is why things dont matter because we feel them, we feel them because they matter.
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Take a look at my latest paper where I explore the architecture of subjective experience.
#scicomm #RecursiveIntelligence #PhilMind
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
R2R distinguish systems that engage recursive processes without representing them (implicit) from those where recursion becomes a manipulable cognitive construct (explicit). This paper shows a enzymatic network is the former.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#recursiveintelligence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#recursiveintelligence
A recursive enzymatic competition network capable of multitask molecular information processing - Nature Chemistry
Designing enzymatic reaction networks capable of mimicking the complexity of biological information processing is challenging. Now, an in chemico reservoir sensor based on a recursive enzymatic compet...
www.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
R2R distinguish systems that engage recursive processes without representing them (implicit) from those where recursion becomes a manipulable cognitive construct (explicit). This paper shows a enzymatic network is the former.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#recursiveintelligence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#recursiveintelligence
@johanneskleiner.bsky.social Hello!
Member of ASSC here and I am curious about posting my research to the Consciousness Community.
Member of ASSC here and I am curious about posting my research to the Consciousness Community.
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
@johanneskleiner.bsky.social Hello!
Member of ASSC here and I am curious about posting my research to the Consciousness Community.
Member of ASSC here and I am curious about posting my research to the Consciousness Community.
We think we understand the relationship between feeling and caring. It seems obvious: things matter to us because we feel them. Pain feels bad, so we care about avoiding it. Pleasure feels good, so we seek it out...
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We think we understand the relationship between feeling and caring. It seems obvious: things matter to us because we feel them. Pain feels bad, so we care about avoiding it. Pleasure feels good, so we seek it out...
You can't escape being you. Value Saturation explains why: when biological systems build recursive self-models under survival pressure, consciousness becomes structurally necessary. What makes minds feel from within.
Pre-proof:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-proof:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Value Saturation: Architecture of Subjective Necessity
Consciousness requires explanation for how biological architectures reliably generate it. This paper introduces Value Saturation, advancing an identit…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
You can't escape being you. Value Saturation explains why: when biological systems build recursive self-models under survival pressure, consciousness becomes structurally necessary. What makes minds feel from within.
Pre-proof:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-proof:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Manuscript accepted emails always feel good.
November 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Manuscript accepted emails always feel good.
Todd(2025) Living systems sense weak signals across thousands of dimensions simultaneously without recording. Energy cost appears when collapsing to action—explaining why biological computation more efficient than digital systems that must record every step.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Timing inaccessibility and the projection bound: Resolving Maxwell’s demon for continuous biological substrates
We show that the thermodynamic advantage of biological, continuous substrates over digital simulators arises from timing inaccessibility: below the La…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Todd(2025) Living systems sense weak signals across thousands of dimensions simultaneously without recording. Energy cost appears when collapsing to action—explaining why biological computation more efficient than digital systems that must record every step.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Panpsychism is intellectual escapism.
Face the biological reality. Do the hard explanatory work. EARN the understanding.
Do not ASSERT ontological laziness.
Face the biological reality. Do the hard explanatory work. EARN the understanding.
Do not ASSERT ontological laziness.
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Panpsychism is intellectual escapism.
Face the biological reality. Do the hard explanatory work. EARN the understanding.
Do not ASSERT ontological laziness.
Face the biological reality. Do the hard explanatory work. EARN the understanding.
Do not ASSERT ontological laziness.
Upon admiring some graffiti, I suspect AI will trigger another renaissance.
November 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Upon admiring some graffiti, I suspect AI will trigger another renaissance.
Compartmentalization plays a crucial role in R2R/Value Saturation as a universal principle that appears across scales from atoms to solar systems, from cells to conscious minds, serving as a fundamental response to physical constraints that enable recursion to exist and stabilize.
How can we design complex computational systems using synthetic biology? Check our paper, where we use space as a computational element, dramatically reducing communication requirements while allowing modularity, reusability, scalability & minimal cell engineering.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Compartmentalization plays a crucial role in R2R/Value Saturation as a universal principle that appears across scales from atoms to solar systems, from cells to conscious minds, serving as a fundamental response to physical constraints that enable recursion to exist and stabilize.
Interoceptive binding is one part of the triad for Value Saturation (forthcoming paper. Addressing peer review comments over coffee just now!)
#interoception
#interoception
These are great news for #interoception research www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists launch $14.2 million project to map the body’s “hidden sixth sense”
Inside your body, an intricate communication network constantly monitors breathing, heart rate, digestion, and immune function — a hidden “sixth sense” called interoception. Now, Nobel laureate Ardem ...
www.sciencedaily.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Interoceptive binding is one part of the triad for Value Saturation (forthcoming paper. Addressing peer review comments over coffee just now!)
#interoception
#interoception
Gets peer review comments back...
Well could have been worse! And NO I do not agree with cells being conscious that will not go into my framework thank you very much.
Dust myself off and get to work.
Well could have been worse! And NO I do not agree with cells being conscious that will not go into my framework thank you very much.
Dust myself off and get to work.
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Gets peer review comments back...
Well could have been worse! And NO I do not agree with cells being conscious that will not go into my framework thank you very much.
Dust myself off and get to work.
Well could have been worse! And NO I do not agree with cells being conscious that will not go into my framework thank you very much.
Dust myself off and get to work.
Hetenyi et al. (2025) demonstrate alpha oscillations may reflect optimal integration windows for combining top-down predictions with bottom-up sensory input.
Oscillatory templates in occipital cortex very well may be the mechanism for R2R's evolutionary stage Temporogenesis.
Oscillatory templates in occipital cortex very well may be the mechanism for R2R's evolutionary stage Temporogenesis.
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hetenyi et al. (2025) demonstrate alpha oscillations may reflect optimal integration windows for combining top-down predictions with bottom-up sensory input.
Oscillatory templates in occipital cortex very well may be the mechanism for R2R's evolutionary stage Temporogenesis.
Oscillatory templates in occipital cortex very well may be the mechanism for R2R's evolutionary stage Temporogenesis.
Ferreira sees the newborn as conscious; I see them as sentient—feeling before reflection.
Even if newborns are only sentient, they already warrant moral concern; sentience itself needs to carry ethical weight in this world.
Even if newborns are only sentient, they already warrant moral concern; sentience itself needs to carry ethical weight in this world.
claudia passos ferreira's great #TED2025 talk is now online! find out all about consciousness in newborn babies!
Inside the mind of a newborn baby
What if newborn babies are more aware than we ever imagined? Philosopher and psychologist Claudia Passos Ferreira shares groundbreaking neuroscience showing that newborn babies — and possibly even lat...
www.ted.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Ferreira sees the newborn as conscious; I see them as sentient—feeling before reflection.
Even if newborns are only sentient, they already warrant moral concern; sentience itself needs to carry ethical weight in this world.
Even if newborns are only sentient, they already warrant moral concern; sentience itself needs to carry ethical weight in this world.
The colors this time of year!
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The colors this time of year!
Reposted by Joseph J. Trukovich🌀
New theory of the #origin of the #Universe without inflation [via Universe Today] 🧪👩🔬💥🌌💫
"new model suggests that a longstanding phenomenon of general #relativity called #gravitational #waves are responsible for the universe and all its components"
www.universetoday.com/articles/a-n...
#BigBang
"new model suggests that a longstanding phenomenon of general #relativity called #gravitational #waves are responsible for the universe and all its components"
www.universetoday.com/articles/a-n...
#BigBang
A New Theory of the Universe’s Origins Without Inflation
How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of re...
www.universetoday.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
New theory of the #origin of the #Universe without inflation [via Universe Today] 🧪👩🔬💥🌌💫
"new model suggests that a longstanding phenomenon of general #relativity called #gravitational #waves are responsible for the universe and all its components"
www.universetoday.com/articles/a-n...
#BigBang
"new model suggests that a longstanding phenomenon of general #relativity called #gravitational #waves are responsible for the universe and all its components"
www.universetoday.com/articles/a-n...
#BigBang
Solé et al. show life's architecture is severely constrained: linear info carriers, threshold neurons, cellular compartments are thermodynamically inevitable. My R2R framework shows these same constraints create recursive depth. When recursion meets authentic survival stakes
doi.org/10.1098/rsfs...
doi.org/10.1098/rsfs...
Fundamental constraints to the logic of living systems | Interface Focus
It has been argued that the historical nature of evolution makes it a highly path-dependent
process. Under this view, the outcome of evolutionary dynamics could have resulted
in organisms with differe...
doi.org
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Solé et al. show life's architecture is severely constrained: linear info carriers, threshold neurons, cellular compartments are thermodynamically inevitable. My R2R framework shows these same constraints create recursive depth. When recursion meets authentic survival stakes
doi.org/10.1098/rsfs...
doi.org/10.1098/rsfs...
If any of you Ai is consciousness peeps need more evidence of the impact of authentic stakes....here you go.
This paper shows astrocytes specifically respond to survival-relevant (fear) experiences under authentic biological pressure (noradrenaline release).
Also supports R2R/Value Saturation!
This paper shows astrocytes specifically respond to survival-relevant (fear) experiences under authentic biological pressure (noradrenaline release).
Also supports R2R/Value Saturation!
A lot of emotions in my astrocytes
October 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
If any of you Ai is consciousness peeps need more evidence of the impact of authentic stakes....here you go.
This paper shows astrocytes specifically respond to survival-relevant (fear) experiences under authentic biological pressure (noradrenaline release).
Also supports R2R/Value Saturation!
This paper shows astrocytes specifically respond to survival-relevant (fear) experiences under authentic biological pressure (noradrenaline release).
Also supports R2R/Value Saturation!
This paper leaves out one crucial aspect of biological basis for consciousness....authentic stakes.
They claim the debate will not be resolved anytime soon?
It already has....you just haven't realized it.
They claim the debate will not be resolved anytime soon?
It already has....you just haven't realized it.
📢 New preprint (with Christian de Weerd) on AI Consciousness: philarchive.org/rec/DEWCXE #PhilMind
Christian R. de Weerd & Wanja Wiese, Computation + X: A Constraint-based Approach to Investigating Artificial Consciousness - PhilArchive
Can machines ever become conscious? A central debate in this context concerns the question whether consciousness requires biological states. Within this debate, there exists a fundamental dispute betw...
philarchive.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This paper leaves out one crucial aspect of biological basis for consciousness....authentic stakes.
They claim the debate will not be resolved anytime soon?
It already has....you just haven't realized it.
They claim the debate will not be resolved anytime soon?
It already has....you just haven't realized it.
Reposted by Joseph J. Trukovich🌀
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Excited to share our work making an "allostasis-first" case that brain function is most productively framed in terms of its core regulatory function. We also introduce some new ideas in the context of metabolism and cognitive function in Alzheimer's.
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...