Consciousness as Gestalt: Information Processing Through Resonant Coupling

Abstract

This work presents a unification of information theory with thermodynamics through holographic encoding in space’s substrate, replacing stochastic quantum interpretations with chaotic determinism. We describe how information systems achieve resonant coupling through accurate internal modeling, allowing conscious systems to selectively strengthen preferred causal patterns. Rather than viewing causality as linear chains, we introduce ‘paracausality’ - a network-based understanding of simultaneous causal threads that explains how complex systems can actively participate in reality’s evolution. This framework provides a mechanical basis for both consciousness and free will within a deterministic universe, while offering new perspectives on analog computation and the P vs NP problem through interference-based parallel processing. The model demonstrates how conscious systems can meaningfully shape reality’s unfolding through resonant pattern recognition and amplification, without violating deterministic causality.