James Rose

2026 marks 30 years since Dr Hameroff’s 1996 1-hour phone call with James N Rose resulted in asking him to present “Integrity Paradigm” at “Towards a Science of Consciousness, II”. That conference was science’s benchmark event spanning 8 days, with 1200 attendees from all branches of world science and the arts, including a half dozen Nobel laureates. Several premiere topics included Dr Hameroff & Sir Roger Penrose “microtubules” ~ Orchestrated Objective Reduction; Dr Brian Josephson’s “QM Junctions” brain synapses; the opening plenary debate of Daniel Dennett “Multiple Drafts delay” vs. Steven Pinker’s “Hard Problem of Consciousness”; Bernard Baars “Global Workspace of the Brain”; and even JNRose “Integrity Paradigm”, bringing Systems Theory and Complexity relations to the conversation. Overall, the conference was a unique Masters Agora on Consciousness. ** In 2026, Consciousness [Cs] remains an unsettled topic of both objective interest and subjective concern – from quantum mechanics [QM] to the vast beyond-quantum performance universe. ** In that 1996 context “Integrity Paradigm” presented a creative foray into the Rules of Performance and Behaviors of the Universe keyed to Consciousness – by opening with broadly recognizing that mathematics was apparently habituated and deficient in touching the relations -or- machinery of Consciousness. Then, Cs was tied to distinctly different mathematic depictions: QM, neurobiology, cybernetics, semiotics, psychology, sociology, communication, et al. Now, in 2026 per AI review, there still exist 39 different mathematical propositions – diverse and uncoordinated (!). ** At “TSC-II” Rose broached describing several novel “new Mathematic thema relations of engagements and responsiveness” – based on information relations expanded from energy-modelings alone. Those included reconsiderations of a) the Turing Test -vs- Maxwell’s ‘sentient demon’, b) Gödel’s ‘incompleteness theorems” reinterpreted as open rather than constrained ‘communication~awareness’ – citing accessible information relations built on the fundamental “Gödel alphabet”, c) others. ** For ‘TSC 2026’ Rose rejoins the conversation, prepared to complete Integrity Paradigm’s original “ambitious mathematics” proposition – now with explicit and significant details. Because, even with 30 years of sci~math advances in complexity, emergence, quantum computing, neural mappings, and even AI Artificial Intelligence language modelings approaching conversant “meaning compositions” on par with human communication – a true viable global depiction of “consciousness’ has still eluded all other efforts of description and reasoned explanations. For a century+ no new rigorous mathematics – distinct from (yet inclusive of) thermodynamics, QM and bio-social relations – have been available to break the tail-chasing myopic math models then conventionally in place. Until NOW. ** Now, at the 3rd-decade anniversary of 1996 “TSC”, Rose will present expanded mathematics conventions and viable logic-based ‘frames of reference’ to firmly bridge QM with biological sentience. Topics include: Leibniz ‘information bit’; Boole Idempotence to define “general entroepy” for information – peer to ‘energy entropy’; Nested Cantorian Infinities – math of natural hierarchy tiers of physical existence; et alia; including a new identification of two distinct “forms/types” of Consciousness! Improvements to expand math conventions - not replace them. ** As momentous as 1996 “TSC” conference was, 30th anniversary conference will be as important – fulfilling the aspired insights spotlighted. ** “Re-conceiving consciousness thru Re-imagining the principles of the universe.”

James N Rose, Biologist and General Systems specialist has been an emeritus General Systems Theorist [GST/TOE] since 1973.  His most recent status is as Chair of International Society for the Systems Sciences [ISSS] "General Systems Mathematics and Languaging SIG" (Special Investigations Group).  He has presented, by invitation, at international conferences from 1996 to present.  He is also currently active in professional Cybernetics groups in the USA and UK; and is doing focused AI deep explorations and concepts testing.