Hello everyone 🌿

I’m applying to the Foresight Institute — AI for Science program, and I need one neutral reference contact (full name and email) — not a recommendation, not a letter, and no endorsement of the content.

The role is minimal: If the committee decides to reach out (most likely they won’t), they may ask only:

whether you have seen or read the work;

whether the application appears serious.

I am developing an interdisciplinary model called ICT (Information–Consciousness–Temporality).

At the core of the model: — dI/dT as a formal dynamic of consciousness, — I_fixed as a model of material fixation of informational states.

Discussion and preprint: https://www.academia.edu/s/8924eff666

PDF: https://www.academia.edu/144946662/The_Conceptual_Model_of_the_Essence_of_Information_Temporal_Interaction_of_Consciousness_and_Matter_The_ICT_Model_by_Baturo_Elion_

DOI: https://zenodo.org/records/17584783 Docx format

If any researchers here are willing to serve as such a neutral contact, I would be very grateful. It requires zero time from you other than possibly confirming briefly by email.

Thank you to everyone who responds.

  • DmitriiBaturo@beehaw.orgOP
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    5 days ago

    Thanks for the critique — fair points. A few clarifications directly based on the ICT Model v1.1 (the version linked in the post):

    1. About “consciousness” as a red flag

    In the paper “consciousness” is used operationally, not philosophically.

    ICT defines it strictly as:

    C ∝ dI/dT — rate of informational change over time (Section 1.1, Eq. 2)

    No metaphysics, no claims about qualia — only measurable information dynamics (entropy-rate, LZ-complexity rate, update-energy).

    1. What field the work belongs to

    Also clarified in v1.1: ICT sits at the intersection of:

    information physics,

    thermodynamics of computation,

    temporal dynamics,

    neuroscience of information processing.

    (Sections 1.1, 2, and Correspondence Table)

    The model does not present itself as philosophy of mind.

    1. Background / prior work

    v1.1 explicitly connects the framework to:

    Landauer limit,

    Bekenstein bounds,

    Friston’s free-energy principle,

    algorithmic complexity measures,

    temporal stability / phase structure.

    (All referenced in Sections 1.1–2)

    1. Falsifiable predictions

    The paper includes three concrete experiments (Section 8) designed for empirical testing:

    1. Neuroenergetic test of dI/dT

    2. Structure-without-energy input experiment

    3. Cross-substrate information-fixation thresholds

    All with operational variables, not philosophical language.

    1. Summary

    Your comment is useful — especially about clearly signaling the disciplinary context. But everything I’ve referenced above is directly in the v1.1 preprint and defines ICT as a physical/informational model, not a metaphysical one.

    Happy to refine further if needed.