SΔϕ-36 — Minimal Closure Conditions for Consciousness: A Δϕ-Based Judgment Framework (v1.0)

This working paper proposes a minimal closure framework for consciousness judgment within the SΔϕ Formalism. Rather than treating consciousness as a metaphysical essence, a purely phenomenological given, or a rhetorical status claim, the paper reformulates consciousness as a judgment problem grounded in operational closure conditions. Within SΔϕ, the issue is not whether a system can merely produce self-like language, self-reference, or surface-level coherence. The central question is whether a sufficient set of self-related operational conditions has become closed: persistent self-continuity, the simultaneity of self-update and self-preservation, world-situated self-positioning, internal difference detection,…