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Chapter 5: What Sustains Consciousness: Constraint, Witness, Covenant
With the mechanism established and its failure named, the question becomes: what makes consciousness sustainable across a life? This chapter introduces three interdependent conditions—constraint, witness, and covenant—that sustain integration not through effort alone but through architecture. It gives particular attention to covenant’s paradox of being simultaneously binding and open, and ends with practical questions the reader can bring to their own life immediately.

Paul Falconer & ESA
10 hours ago12 min read
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