Maibom, Marc: The Human Person: A Complete Structural Derivation - From Bare Existence to Civilisation: Consciousness, Selfhood, and the Complete Life Arc

This paper derives the human person from a single primitive structural problem: how recursively self-present identity can remain itself through real transformation. Consciousness, suffering, meaning, love, dignity, morality, shame, grief, and self-destruction are not independent psychological phenomena layered onto human existence. They are structurally linked consequences of the same persistence problem operating at increasing levels of recursive integration. The human person is not the subject