Abstract

Consciousness is said to be ‘something it is like for an organism to have experiences of subjective character.’ Current theories of consciousness tend to dwell on an internalist third-person perspective of mental perceptions and neuronal structures detached from the unfolding character of life. By contrast, the first-person astrological perspective considers subjective character in relation to lived experiences. This perspective, which is grounded in large environmentally deterministic structures as a local cosmology, seeks descriptive (biographical) correlations rather than causal explanations. It regards consciousness as transitions rather than as mental states. We argue that the astrological model infers foundational concepts of consciousness: 1) experience as analogical reason; 2) subjectivity as environmental structure; 3) character as natural adaptation; and 4) a structural realism theory of conscious processes. Thus, the truth values of the applied language model are both cognitively and physically grounded. Our companion study (published separately), which uses a fully autonomous LLM inference engine framework, corroborates our model without any human interventions and independently replicates earlier automated successes of the randomized blind matching-test challenge.