Consciousness Under the Persistence Constraint - Internally Dominated Transformation Within Structural Limits

Consciousness is not a property of information, computation, or representation. It is a structurally constrained configuration. Every account of conscious processing requires that the system performing these operations persists as a coherent unit under ongoing transformation. This condition is not derived within those accounts. It is prior to them. La Profilée defines the necessary condition for persistence under real transformation: IR = R / (F · M · K) ≤ 1 This paper derives this condition from three minimal requirements, proves that any persistent system is self-referential, and shows that consciousness corresponds to a specific structural configuration within the persistence domain: transformation becomes internally dominated while remaining structurally admissible. Consciousness is therefore not an additional principle. It is a structurally forced configuration of persistence under internally mediated transformation.