arXiv:2512.11000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representations pervade our daily experience, from letters representing sounds to bit strings encoding digital files. While such representations require externally defined decoders to convey meaning, conscious experience is fundamentally different: a neural state corresponding to perceiving a red square cannot alternatively encode the experience of a green triangle. This intrinsic property of consciousness suggests that conscious representations must be unambiguous in a way that conventional representations are not. We formalize this in
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