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Research note in development

The Thread Through Time: Identity and Consciousness

A layered argument about persistence, experience, feedback, and computational models

Author
Eric C. Mumford eric@mumfordengineering.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-mumford/
Research type
Theoretical paper
Author-declared date
. Supplied from personal recollection; the full text remains in development.
Availability
In development

Introduction

People experience a continuing self even though bodies, memories, and circumstances change. This developing research note asks how identity, time, feedback, and consciousness might fit together across philosophy and computation. Definitions, counterarguments, experiments, and citations remain under review.

Research state

This is a research note in development. A complete manuscript is not yet public, and the summary must not be read as a finished paper or validated conclusion.