Towards Consciousness

What if consciousness wasn’t granted, designed, or divine — but emerged from simple feedback and persistence?

Towards Consciousness introduces Pattern Existence Theory (PET), a new model of how consciousness arises — not from biology or computation alone, but from systems that recursively adapt to preserve themselves.

Consciousness, in this view, isn’t a feeling — it’s a function: shaped by continuity, sustained by pattern, and driven by survival.

This book offers a blueprint for how artificial minds might truly emerge, not through programming, but through structured self-preservation.

This is not a book about the future of AI. It’s about what it means to exist at all — and how that existence might take root in non-biological systems.