Theoretical Research paper Consciousness, Event, and Duality : The Nature of Our Knowledge Philosophical Inquiry into the dynamic, event-driven nature of contentful consciousness. Ayyappan Manikantan Nair Published: September 27, 2025 Abstract This paper examines the role of events and change in shaping consciousness. I propose the guiding principle "No event, no contentful consciousness ," arguing that the acquisition of perception and knowledge is not a static state but a dynamic response to transitions in the environment or the organism's internal state. Perception and conceptual knowledge arise through dualistic contrasts (for example, night/day or dark/light), by means of which the cognitive system measures phenomena and constructs meaning. The paper develops this thesis through sensory examples ( light–dark , stillness–motion ), an account of habituation and resource conservation in cognitive processing, and a conceptual model that relates static states, events...
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