Vijay Shankar Sharma
Vijay Shankar Sharma
Consciousness · Paper P21 · CI versus IIT
Vijay's Law and Hierarchical Channel Accessibility (Papers P20 and P21): consciousness is the integrated multi-channel state of a physical system in the Spaticle field. To open any higher channel you must first have the basic gravity channel. That channel exists only for matter (mass). A photon, a vacuum mode, or any non-matter system has no mass, so it has no gravity channel, so CI0 = 0 and CI = 0.
Any system with mass has CI_floor = 1.0 on the human-reference scale, even if A, N and K have not opened. Setting the floor to zero would contradict Vijay's Law. P22: eta = 0 is unreachable for mass.
CI0 = CI_floor + C x Omega(V) x (1 + 0.38A) x N^1.3 x K^1.2
CI_floor = 1.0
C = 182.5283 (fixed so average human CI0 = 100)
Human reference: A = 0.85, N = 0.70, K = 0.70, V* = 1350 ml, Omega(V*) = 1
CI = CI0 x S
A is channel capacity (mean of five interaction channels). N is network integration. K is control depth. Omega(V) is the size factor: 1.0 at or below human brain volume; a penalty only above V*. The (1 + 0.38A) term stops a zero channel score from wiping out the whole product, which is required so a gravity-only mass still sits on the floor.
CI0 is structural capability. S is whether that structure is sustained in real conditions. S does not change what the system is.
S = 0.35(1 - P) + 0.25(1 - E) + 0.20(1 - D) + 0.20 I
CI = CI0 x S
P predation risk, E environmental exposure, D disease vulnerability, I internal physiological stability. Each in [0, 1]. Only humans in the dataset reach S = 1.00. That is why a dolphin at CI0 = 123.9 has CI = 92.9, a virus at CI0 = 18 has CI = 4, and a dog at CI0 = 86 has CI = 76. Several animals beat the human average on CI0. They sit below it on CI because no other species reaches S = 1.00. The paper does not suppress those CI0 values.
Taken from P21. Where the paper states only CI0, S and CI are left blank. Full 100-species map: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20720053.
Human, average
CI0 = 100 S = 1.00 CI = 100
Calibration anchor. A = 0.85, N = 0.70, K = 0.70, V = 1350 ml.
| System | CI0 | S | CI | From the paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Photon / non-matter | 0 | — | 0 | No mass. No gravity channel. HCSA cannot open. Consciousness is zero. |
| Matter at the floor (gravity channel only) | 1.0 | varies | >= 1 x S | CI_floor. Mass present. Higher channels not yet open. |
| Virus | 18 | 0.20 | 4 | Non-autonomous. Existence depends on a host. Section 6.4 also states CI0 = 14.2 for the non-neural set. |
| Bacterium | 27.3 | — | — | Non-neural. N and K read at the cell own scale. |
| Tree | 37.2 | — | — | Root, vascular, and mycorrhizal integration. Different architecture, not a failed animal. |
| Dog | 86 | 0.88 | 76 | Worked example in P21. Protection raises S relative to a wild counterpart with similar CI0. |
| Parrot | 106 | — | — | Exceeds human average in CI0. Concepts and numerical competence. |
| Chimpanzee | 114.5 | — | — | Exceeds human average in CI0. Tools, self-awareness, deception. |
| Crow | 116.4 | — | — | Exceeds human average in CI0. Planning, causal reasoning, face recognition. |
| Dolphin | 123.9 | 0.75 | 92.9 | Exceeds human average in CI0. Named individuals, culture, theory of mind. S from 123.9 to 92.9. |
| Human, average | 100 | 1.00 | 100 | Calibration anchor. A = 0.85, N = 0.70, K = 0.70, V = 1350 ml. |
| Human, advanced | 142 | 1.00 | 142 | N = 0.795, K = 0.814. Higher cortico-interoceptive bandwidth. |
| Human, exceptional | 195.5 | 1.00 | 195.5 | Upper end of standard biological architecture on Earth. Scale has no ceiling. |
You cannot type A, N, K, V, P, E, D and I for an arbitrary organism here. That is possible. Those parameters are defined in P21, and the companion mapping already does it for 100 species. A public calculator that accepts new species will be added when each input uses the same sourcing rule as the paper.
P20 · P21 · data: 10.5281/zenodo.20720053