History and Philosophy of Physics

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[2] ai.viXra.org:2512.0043 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-11 21:59:05

Topological Control Theory: Deriving Time and Agency from Recursive Feedback Loops

Authors: Athanasios V. Oikonomou
Comments: 35 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)

Contemporary physics struggles to reconcile the timeless block universe of General Relativity with the subjective experience of flowing time and agency. The Topological Control Theory proposes a unified ontological framework in which matter, time, and consciousness emerge from a minimal set of topological axioms, without invoking fundamental physical laws or dualistic substrates. Reality is modeled as a discrete, deterministic, self-referential Relational Graph (Substrate G), where PoincaréRecurrence stabilizes causal chains into Recursive Loops that constitute matter, andforces arise as computational costs of constraint density. Subjective Time is derivedfrom control theory: biological and complex systems act as PID controllers, with theIntegral term mapping directly to experienced duration. Qualia are defined as the metric geometry of this internal reference frame, subject to temporal aliasing. Agency emerges as the self—a Narrative Loop within the swarm of autonomous control modules—creating a closed epistemic interface that simulates a temporal world within a timeless static block.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics

[1] ai.viXra.org:2512.0011 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-03 21:24:58

Reconsidering Classical Scientific Method: the Spiritually Guided Scientific Method of Spirintuilytics

Authors: Victor Christianto, Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 13 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite all listed scientific references)

The classical Scientific Method is the bedrock of our modern world. It has allowed us to harness electricity, decode the genome, and send machines beyond our solar system. It is a systematic, rigorous, and proudly Left Hemisphere (LH)-dominated process, designed to strip away bias and deliver objective, verifiable truth. Its very strength—its insistence on the explicit and the measurable—is, however, its most critical limitation when facing the complex, interconnected problems of the 21st century. This suspicion is given profound, scholarly weight by the work of psychiatrist and literary scholar, Prof. Iain McGilchrist, particularly in his seminal text [1], The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. We came up with a modest proposal that the next great leap in discovery will not come from abandoning the Scientific Method, but from re-thinking its starting point—the crucial moment of genuine insight.
Category: History and Philosophy of Physics