I've developed two theoretical frameworks that extend Wolfram's work on computational irreducibility and Class 4 systems to foundational problems in philosophy of mind.

CIFW (Computational Irreducibility and Free Will) argues that the phenomenology of free will, the felt sense that multiple futures are genuinely open during deliberation, corresponds directly to Class 4 computational dynamics in neural decision-making. The subjective experience of freedom isn't illusion, but the epistemic signature of computationally irreducible processes where outcomes cannot be predicted without step-by-step execution.

CIPC (Computational Irreducibility and Phenomenal Consciousness) proposes that qualia emerge necessarily when systems exhibit: (1) Class 4 dynamics, (2) self-modeling, (3) environmental modeling, (4) information integration, and (5) operation under uncertainty. Consciousness isn't something added to computation, it's what Class 4 self-referential computation is like from the system's own perspective.

Both papers make testable predictions via EEG complexity measures and comparative neuroscience, and both dissolve rather than solve their respective philosophical problems by revealing them as category errors.

I would be honored if the community could give their opinion on my ideas.