Biomemetic Consciousness
A unified theory of consciousness — and a computational engine that applies it to drug discovery, financial markets, and beyond.
What the Engine Does
One engine. Multiple industries. Zero training data.
Why should I care?
The gap is real.
We have 5+ competing theories of consciousness — none explains more than a fragment. IIT handles complexity but not emotion. GNW handles attention but not dreams. Predictive Processing handles perception but not identity.
BMC unifies them.
BMC proposes that all five can be recovered as limiting cases of a single framework: replicator competition on a physical substrate. These correspondences are propositions stated in BMC's own terms; proponents of the other theories need not accept them.
It's testable.
BMC lists six bets: claims where BMC and a named rival predict different outcomes, each with what would refute it. None has been decided yet. One (P-BM28) was partly run in BMC's own simulation, but its result is also predicted by a simpler account (Rogers 1988), so it does not favour BMC; the separating test is still open.
Dual-Replicator Model
Genes (G) and memes (M) compete for the same neural substrate. Consciousness emerges from their interaction — not as an epiphenomenon, but as a functional necessity of the conflict.
6 Open Bets
BMC lists six bets: claims where BMC and a named rival predict different outcomes, each with what would refute it. None has been decided yet. One (P-BM28) was partly run in BMC's own simulation, but its result is also predicted by a simpler account (Rogers 1988), so it does not favour BMC; the separating test is still open.
5 Rival Theories as Limiting Cases
IIT, GNW, HOT, AST, and Predictive Processing can be recovered as limiting cases of the BMC model under stated restrictions. Each keeps its own value; their proponents need not accept the mapping.
Computational Engine
A Rust engine with 103 gate checks and 300+ tests. Emergent language (97.5% Lewis signaling, 533 concepts), reproduced WM capacity (Cowan's 4±1), and a partly run survival test for language whose run part does not separate BMC from Rogers (1988), which predicts the same survival null — all from first principles.
Theory at a Glance
BMC = (G, M, I, S) — four components, any scale