Part VIII: Consciousness, Language, and the Bridge to E₃
The mixed sector’s self-modeling capacity opens the door to E₃. Consciousness is defined structurally as the consumer sector’s SelfDesc applied to its own modeling—not qualia (that is Book VII), but the formal requirement that the self-model includes a model of itself. Language extends the lemniscate between agents, realizing life as nature’s expression of computation. The ω-germ question cannot be resolved diagrammatically: this is the principled science–faith boundary. Six export contracts close Book VI; Book VII opens at consciousness.