Consciousness as the Local Tracking of Emergent Informational Time: A Philosophical--Physical Framework Based on WeightedCausal Networks

This paper proposes a philosophical–physical framework in which consciousness is understood as the local capacity of a system to track and model the informational changes that give rise to emergent time. Building upon the ΩT framework, where time is not fundamental but arises from the evolution of weighted causal networks, the work argues that consciousness and temporality emerge from the same underlying informational structure. By linking information, causality, subjective experience, and the arrow of time within a unified conceptual model, the paper offers a new perspective on the relationship between mind and reality while providing a foundation for future interdisciplinary research.What if consciousness is the local experience of the same informational processes that generate time itself?