Dragan Škondrić

This poster presents a formal model of consciousness as a dynamic projection process from a lower R-domain of latent, pre-conscious, or sub-integrated states into a temporal L-layer of integrated conscious experience. The central formulation, Ψ(t)=P_{R→L}(ϕ_R,t), defines consciousness not as a static property, but as a time-dependent transformation in which lower-order informational states become structured, integrated, and phenomenologically available. The R-domain may correspond, depending on the explanatory level, to unconscious neural signals, early sensory activity, quantum potential states, latent computational representations, or pre-phenomenological information. The L-layer represents the temporally present field of conscious experience, associated with integrated perception, global availability, reflective access, and subjective manifestation. In this framework, the projection operator P_{R→L} can be expressed through linear, nonlinear, integral, stochastic, or quantum-like transformations, allowing the model to be compared across neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and physical theories of consciousness. The model is positioned in relation to Global Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, predictive processing, and Penrose-Hameroff-style quantum approaches. Its main contribution is not to claim a final solution to the hard problem of consciousness, but to provide a compact mathematical structure for describing how latent information may become conscious experience through temporal integration and transformation. The poster also proposes empirical and computational tests, including comparisons of integration measures during wakefulness, anesthesia, REM sleep, and meditation; layer-wise entropy analysis in artificial neural networks; and exploratory mappings between projection, measurement, and state actualization in quantum models. By framing consciousness as projection through time, the R→L model offers a unifying and testable framework for interdisciplinary research on conscious emergence.

Dragan Škondrić is an independent researcher developing formal models of consciousness, with emphasis on temporal projection, integration, artificial intelligence, and quantum-inspired frameworks. His current work proposes the R→L projection model as a mathematical approach to conscious emergence across philosophy, neuroscience, and computation.