MNO and Ontological Recurrence: A Non-Representational Account of Quantum Measurement and Conscious Experience

This paper proposes a structural bridge between the quantum measurement problem and the hard problem of consciousness. It introduces MNO (Submergence–Indimergence–Emergence) as an operator-level description of how definite outcomes arise: openness of possibilities, tension toward form, and forced actualisation.The core claim is an identity-style constraint: collapse is not phenomenally relevant unless it is preceded by a recurrent return to the space of possibilities from which the outcome is selected. Externally,this recurrence appears as measurement/actualisation; internally, it is the lived aspect of the same return movement. We distinguish quantum superposition (a physical state in Hilbert space) from an…