Ian McDonald

The Integrated Boundary Framework: Organized Temporal Thickness and the Rendering of Conscious Experience The Integrated Boundary Framework (IBF) describes the relative geometry of organized temporal thickness. It begins from the co-primacy of time and consciousness. Consciousness is nonextended, or 0-dimensional; time is not a neutral backdrop or merely a measure of change, but a polymorphic and allomorphic rendering structure. The framework does not treat consciousness as produced by matter, nor spatiality as an independent foundation. Rather, spatial experience is a later rendering through which the co-primary relation of time and consciousness appears as an ordered experiential interior. IBF develops this relation through temporal wrapping, temporal unwrapping, and spatial unwrapping. A first bounded temporal relation retains nested organization; an intermediate overtone-edit topology differentiates recurrence through phase, gradient, curl, branching, and phase-singular gaps; and a separator operation resolves and anchors relations that can be recursively received and rendered as spatial experience. In this account, singular gaps are not absences but carried temporal wraps: their topology remains definite while their continuation is indeterminate until correspondence at the separator resolves an admissible relation. The framework distinguishes native ontological claims from scientific correspondences. Oscillatory dynamics, overtone structure, phase singularities, temporal interfaces, nonlinear organization, and cosmological phase transitions supply possible formal and descriptive contact points where structural relations meet; they are not treated as proof of, or reduction of, the framework. The presentation develops the architecture diagrammatically, identifies its dimensional and boundary relations, and specifies questions for further formal and empirical correspondence.

Ian McDonald is an independent researcher developing the Integrated Boundary Framework, a process-oriented account of the co-primacy of time and consciousness. Their work brings philosophical ontology into dialogue with topology, oscillation, phase relations, cosmology, and biological organization to investigate how temporally organized relations may be rendered as conscious spatial experience.