History and Philosophy of Physics

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[5] ai.viXra.org:2507.0120 [pdf] submitted on 2025-07-27 02:50:30

The Introspective Universe: a Journey Through Choices And/or Reincarnation

Authors: Brent Hartshorn
Comments: 30 Pages.

This book embarks on an ambitious and expansive journey to re-envision the universe, proposing a cosmological narrative where fundamental processes of information, consciousness, and choice are not mere byproducts but the driving forces behind its evolution. We will weave together concepts from cosmology, quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, challenging conventional wisdom and inviting the reader to a profound new understanding of existence. Designed for a broad audience, it unpacks complex ideas through accessible language, vivid analogies, and compelling arguments, requiring no prior expertise in Python or advanced mathematics. Prepare to rethink everything you thought you knew about time, gravity, and the very nature of reality.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

[4] ai.viXra.org:2507.0089 [pdf] submitted on 2025-07-18 01:56:43

Emotional Physics: Quantizing Emotional Experience

Authors: Michael Zot
Comments: 11 Pages.

We introduce and empirically validate a new framework for the physics of emotion based on the Smallest Unit of Intelligence (SUI). This model treats every emotion as a quantized event, an irreducible "click" of understanding that collapses symbolic uncertainty into clarity. Across EEG, VR, and pupillometry experiments, we show that insight and emotion can be measured as discrete entropy-resolution events. Our results establish objective thresholds for emotional insight, reveal the optimal "flow" zone for human cognition, and define a mathematical transition from anxiety to awe. The findings open the path to a rigorous informational physics of consciousness, with direct applications for neuroscience, adaptive AI, and the engineering of human experience.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

[3] ai.viXra.org:2507.0080 [pdf] submitted on 2025-07-14 06:49:58

Extrinsic Gravitation and the Reconciliation of Inertia and Gravitational Mass: From Confusion to Sublation

Authors: Stephen P. Smith
Comments: 6 Pages.

This essay reexamines the longstanding puzzle surrounding the identity of gravitational and inertial mass through a metaphysical lens rooted in dyadic symmetry and extrinsic gravitation. Moving beyond traditional interpretations—where Einstein’s intrinsic curvature and Newton’s force-based frameworks struggle to reconcile mass’s dual roles—it proposes a structural unification by treating gravity as a sublating, extrinsic force acting across mirrored manifolds. Within this dyadic framework, mass emerges as the junction point where local resistance (inertia) and universal susceptibility (gravitation) are harmonized through relational synthesis. The essay incorporates insights from CPT symmetry, dialectical sublation, and the spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Higgs field, revealing mass not as an isolated quantity but as the product of contextual mediation. Further, it explores resonance with Mach’s principle, recasting inertia as a consequence of global interdependence. The result is a cohesive vision of mass not as confusion, but as coherence—structured by symmetry, clarified through extrinsic gravitation, and embedded within the relational geometry of the cosmos.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

[2] ai.viXra.org:2507.0053 [pdf] submitted on 2025-07-09 04:22:48

Man’s Top-Down Research and Nature’s Bottom up Creation: Akashik Records

Authors: Moninder Singh Modgil, Dnyandeo Dattatray Patil
Comments: 33 Pages.

This paper undertakes a comparative exploration of two fundamental approaches tounderstanding the universe: the top-down trajectory of human scientific endeavor andthe bottom-up self-organizing emergence of nature. Tracing the arc of human researchfrom macroscopic instruments such as the telescope and the Large Hadron Collider,down to atomic, subatomic, and genetic structures, the study reveals a consistent themeof analytical descent. In contrast, nature unfolds from the most minute and fundamental.The work bridges scientific, philosophical, and spiritual domains by drawing fromneuroscience, artificial intelligence, optics, biomechanics, ancient Indian educationalparadigms, and Sikh metaphysics—especially Guru Nanak’s depiction of Gyan Khandand Saram Khand. It examines how man-made constructs like neural networks androbotic systems parallel but do not replicate nature’s intricately woven intelligence.Ultimately, the paper posits that while man seeks the soul of nature through outwardand downward excavation, nature builds the edifice of intelligence upward from elementalsimplicity. In the convergence of these two directions—one constructed, the otheremergent—lies the potential for a holistic and integrative understanding of knowledge,consciousness, and being.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

[1] ai.viXra.org:2507.0004 [pdf] submitted on 2025-07-01 00:42:21

Philosophical Foundations of Semantic Physics and Meta-Preceptive Realism

Authors: Alexandre de Cerqueira Santos
Comments: 8 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)

This paper presents a philosophical foundation for the informational field framework known as semantic physics, culminating in the ontological thesis of Meta-Preceptive Realism. The theory asserts that physical law arises not from axiomatic geometry or probabilistic collapse, but from the dynamic evolution of coherent informational structures embedded within semantic manifolds. Central to this framework is the observer—not as a passive externality, but as a recursive field participant whose resolution constraints and memory asymmetries shape both measurement and the unfolding of the physical world.We critically examine the epistemological and metaphysical implications of encoding coherence, collapse, interaction, and time into informational and semantic terms. The theory defends a unified reality in which meaning, not material substrate, is ontologically primary. The semantic fields evolve not arbitrarily, but through principles of minimum informational tension, recursive coherence, and observer-coupled memory flow.Meta-Preceptive Realism thereby grounds the emergence of laws, constants, particles, and spacetime itself in the act of structured prehension. Physics is not the dynamics of "stuff" but the structured relation of self-consistent descriptions over an informational manifold—rendering the universe intelligible not because it is observed, but because it is internally cohered and semantically constrained.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics