Absolute Units: The metabolic basis of the experiential self
Commentary on Seth (2025):
Unity is intrinsic to being both an experiencing and an embodied subject.
Computational accounts of consciousness, being observer-relative, cannot account
for this unity. The thermodynamics of life can but, contra Seth’s suggestion, the free
energy principle fails to capture the distinctive metabolic interdependencies by virtue
of which a living system constitutes itself as a unified perspective on the world.Biological Naturalism·Consciousness
