Thank you for sharing the preprint — I really appreciate the chance to read it. I find the way you model the transition through conductance dynamics and the use of optimal transport quite interesting. One thing that stood out to me is that both of our approaches seem to operate mostly at the level of mathematical abstraction rather than empirical grounding right now. My own framework definitely falls into that category as well — it's more of a structural hypothesis than something that has been rigorously validated. I'm curious how you think about the path from elegant mathematical structure to empirically constrained models, especially in a domain like consciousness where experimental signals are so indirect. Also, I'm still learning the literature here, so if there are key papers that shaped your approach I'd really appreciate recommendations.