In 1949, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger posed a question that continues to haunt the frontiers of science and philosophy: What is consciousness, and why does it feel like something to be us? Despite decades of progress in neuroscience and machine learning, that question lingers—untouched by brain scans and unbothered by artificial intelligence. While models explain memory and perception, they still don’t account for the subjective presence behind those functions. The ΨC framework (Psi-C), a ...