Non-Reductive
Poznanski’s Processual Relational Geometry: Self-Intending Transscale Consciousness
Consciousness as Self-Sustaining Relational Organization Across Scales
Poznanski holds that phenomenal consciousness is the intrinsic realization of a physically embodied relational organization that persists across scales of the brain. Consciousness occurs when a system's physical realization and its intrinsically informational organization become two reciprocal manifestations of one basis, stabilized by what he calls self-intending projective closure. Perception, cognition, memory, and affect are downstream expressions of this state, not its source.
Roman R. Poznanski
What consciousness is
Conscious actuality is the intrinsic realization of constitutive organization once it reaches self-intending projective closure; phenomenality is the intrinsic manifestation of that actuality.
Mind and body
Physical realization (the substrate's embodiment) and constitutive realization (its intrinsically informational organization) are reciprocal manifestations of one basis, neither a separate substance. Consciousness is constituted by this organization, not caused by it, so Poznanski rejects both standard supervenience and biological naturalism read as brains causing consciousness.
Mechanism
Self-intending projective closure: a self-maintaining relational regime whose admissible continuations constrain one another, preserve continuity across scales, and acquire directional coherence.
Core claims
- PRG reformulates Poznanski's earlier Dynamic Organicity Theory, swapping its complexity threshold for a critical transition that establishes reciprocal realization.
- The ‘geometry’ in PRG is a pre-topological, non-metrical formalism of constraints on possible relational unfolding, not physical space or the shape of experience.
- Quasipolaritonic dynamics are not themselves conscious; they physically realize the organization whose intrinsic realization is consciousness.
- The theory predicts indirect signatures such as phase-consistent quasipolaritonic coordination, low-entropy relational regimes, and transient spike-like quasipolaritonic dynamics.
Criticisms
‘Intrinsic realization’ may name the phenomenal transition without explaining why that transition must be phenomenal. Even confirmation of quasipolaritonic dynamics would not show that reciprocal realization constitutes experience.
Implications
- AI consciousness: Conditional
- A nonbiological system could be conscious in principle, but computational equivalence or simulation is insufficient; it needs a substrate that sustains transscale relational unfolding and self-intending projective closure.
- Survival beyond death: Unlikely
- Since physical embodiment is indispensable to conscious actuality, consciousness should end when its physical realization stops.
- Virtual immortality: Unlikely
- Functional simulation does not suffice, so a digital copy running on ordinary hardware would not continue a person's consciousness.
Related theories
- Poznanski's Dynamic Organicity Theory (Extension)
- Reason's No-Go Theorem against Materialism/Supervenience (Influence)
- Northoff's Temporo-Spatial Sentience (Overlap)
- Searle's Biological Naturalism (Contrast)
Sources
- Processual relational geometry: Generative unfolding and self-intending closure constituting consciousness, a transscale ontophysical framework, Roman R. Poznanski (2026)
- Unfolding functional brain geometry across scales: Self-intending projection framework for phenomenal consciousness, Roman R. Poznanski (2025)
- The dynamic organicity theory of consciousness: How consciousness arises from the functionality of multiscale complexity in the material brain, Roman R. Poznanski (2024)
- The ‘no-supervenience’ theorem and its implications for theories of consciousness, C. M. Reason (2024)
- From Brain Dynamics to the Mind: Spatiotemporal Neuroscience, Georg Northoff (2024)