# Unconscious Control as a Natural PCF By: An M. Rodriguez (an@preferredframe.com) and Anes Palma Aug 5 2025 ## Abstract A measurement becomes part of shared reality only after its outcome decoheres—that is, after the information has been copied into a large set of uncontrolled microstates. We propose that an *unconscious* decision not to engage with a nascent stimulus can prevent that stimulus from decohering. Unconscious control therefore functions as a natural, endogenous programmable collapse filter (PCF), regulating which potential events crystallise into awareness. ## One-Sentence Summary Unconscious control can act as an internal collapse filter, stopping neural micro-events from decohering into classical awareness. ## Keywords finite-bath decoherence, unconscious veto, programmable collapse filter, neural threshold, Maxwell ontology ## 1 Conceptual Framework Classical measurement requires copying an outcome into the environment, thereby forming a classical record. If a stimulus is prevented from entering awareness, its branch never decoheres and remains physically reversible. Because the non-chosen branch does not decohere, it is never experienced. ## 2 Discussion This framework implies that the faster layer of unconscious control—rather than deliberative “free will”—selects which micro-events are allowed to decohere. Training practices that refine this control should influence which potential futures become part of shared awareness. ## References [1] Rodriguez A. M., Palma A. (2025). *Deriving the Schrödinger Equation from Source-Free Maxwell Dynamics.* DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.19900.76167 [2] Palma A., Rodriguez A. M. (2025). *Un-measuring via Finite-Bath Control: Saving the Cat with a Programmable Collapse Filter.* DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.19047.15522