VIVENS investigates whether consciousness can be understood as the first-person mode of organismal integration, and how organism-level states become causally effective across the living whole. It connects consciousness, multiscale causation, cellular autonomy and biological history while preserving explicit boundaries between empirical evidence, mechanistic reconstruction and ontological inference.
A mechanistically constrained model of how organism-level states can alter cellular fate: the cell does not receive the meaning of an event, but a changed local world that may become durable biological history.