Admissibility Theory of Consciousness

Consciousness debates often promote familiar capacities of human minds into necessary conditions while leaving the underlying organization unspecified. This paper proposes the Admissibility Theory of Consciousness (ATC): admissibility--the distinction between eligible and excluded continuations--as a candidate structural kernel around which consciousness-relevant organization develops. The claim is not that every constrained process experiences, but that sensing, meaning-binding, persistence, reflexivity, and situated agency can be investigated as different organizations of constrained continuation. Drawing on Dynatology, ATC distinguishes conceivable transitions, admissible transitions, and realized trajectories; separates physical feasibility, epistemic warrant, and authorization; and distinguishes context-sensitive behavior from alteration of the governing relation. Five organizational regimes connect elementary constraint to situated sensitivity, persistence, reflexive representation, and authorized self-authorship without imposing a scalar consciousness ranking. The Ableman Consciousness Ontology supplies multidimensional description; Semantic Reactor Theory supplies a proposed, inspectable architecture of epistemic positioning, governance, execution, and feedback; Meaning--Inertia remains an optional physical hypothesis. The paper locates these proposals within process philosophy, cybernetics, organizational closure, enactivism, and contemporary consciousness research. Its principal obligation is empirical discrimination: specifying which organizations of admissibility explain evidence beyond generic descriptions of lawful dynamics. Phenomenality remains an explicit bridge problem, not a property established by definition. Keywords: admissibility; constrained continuation; consciousness; reflexivity; meaning-binding; organizational closure; Dynatology; Semantic Reactor Theory.