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  1. RESOLUTION OF THE VON NEUMANN MEASUREMENT CHAIN THROUGH ABSOLUTE SELF- ORIGINATION.José Caetano de Mattos - manuscript
    Structured Abstract -/- Background -/- The von Neumann measurement chain — the regress of entanglement that arises when system, apparatus, environment, and observers interact unitarily — has lacked a formal, non-ad-hoc termination criterion for nearly a century. Copenhagen imports an undefined cut; objective-collapse models add stochastic parameters that modify linear dynamics; decoherence displaces, but does not terminate, the chain; relational and Everettian accounts deny that termination is needed but supply no criterion for when a definite relational fact obtains. We are (...)
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  2. Jestin’s Constant: A Structural Principle Unifying Quantum Possibility and Classical Determinacy.Jestin Palakal - manuscript
    Quantum mechanics describes reality as a distribution of possibilities, while classical physics describes it as a single actual state. These frameworks resist unification because they presuppose incompatible ontologies: quantum theory assumes modal openness, classical theory assumes modal closure. This paper proposes a universal structural invariant—Jestin’s Constant (J)—that governs the allowable divergence between what can be and what is. J is not a numerical parameter but a metaphysical constraint that regulates the transition from modal spread to actualisation. It explains why measurement (...)
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  3. The Nietzsche Process (17 November 2025).Dmitri Safronov & Aidarkhan Kussainov - manuscript
    Across physics, biology and the social sciences, explanation increasingly begins with relation, recurrence and temporary stabilisation rather than with self-sufficient things. This article advances the first sustained corpus-wide processual rereading of Nietzsche and argues for a paradigm shift in Nietzsche scholarship that brings the field into synch with that broader interdisciplinary process turn. From the earliest writings to the late Nachlass, Nietzsche's thought operates through four mutually implicating dynamic operators — process as forces, will to power, eternal return, and chance (...)
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  4. Physics as Second-Order Observation: A Meta-Informational Framework for Symmetry, Measurement, and Quantum Nonlocality.Mathias Spohr - manuscript
    This paper proposes a fundamentally different reading of quantum-mechanical paradoxes by relocating their source from physical reality to the institutional and operational conditions that make physics possible in the first place. Standard interpretations implicitly treat the observer’s standpoint, reproducibility, and symmetry as innocent, cost-free features of the formalism. We argue instead that observer equivalence is not a physical given but a socially enforced requirement that has been naturalized into methodological necessity. Quantum paradoxes arise precisely where the energetic cost of maintaining (...)
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  5. Quantum Superpositions of Conscious States in a Minimal Integrated Information Model.Kelvin J. McQueen, Ian T. Durham & Markus P. Mueller - 2026 - Entropy 28 (4):394.
    Could there be quantum superpositions of conscious states, as suggested by the Wigner’s friend thought experiment? Mathematical theories of consciousness, notably integrated information theory (IIT), make this question more precise by associating physical systems with both quantitative amounts of consciousness and structural characterizations of conscious states. Motivated by a recent proposal that ties wave-function collapse to integrated information, we construct a simple quantum circuit that would, on that proposal, place a minimal system—a feedback dyad—into a superposition of states that differ (...)
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  6. Recursion as the Observer.Ilexa Yardley - 2026 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
    Conservation of the Circle (The Only Dynamic in Nature) Observer and Observation (You Cannot Have One Without the Other) Makes Recursion (Any Loop) the Only Observer (Technically, in Mathematics, It Has to Be, Can Only Be, Pi.) Pi is the only 'Observer.'.
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  7. Frozen Fluidity: Recursive Coherence as the Ontological Substrate of Time and Quantum Measurement.Benjamin James - 2025 - Internet Archive.
    This paper introduces a foundational model for reinterpreting quantum mechanics and temporality through the lens of recursive coherence and fluid dynamics. Rejecting the traditional notion of time and measurement as artificial constructs, I posit both arise from structural perturbations within a coherence substrate, a dynamic field of recursively stable potential. Quantum superposition is reframed as a fluid coherence state, wherein measurement corresponds to a localized phase transition that temporarily crystallizes into an observable particle. Once the perturbation subsides, the system reverts (...)
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  8. The Tik-Tok Universe.Ilexa Yardley - 2023 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
  9. New materialism and postmodern subject models fail to explain human memory and self-awareness: A comment on Tobias-Renstrøm and Køppe (2020).Radek Trnka - 2020 - Theory & Psychology 31 (1):130-137.
    Tobias-Renstrøm and Køppe (2020) show the several conceptual limits that new materialism and postmodern subject models have for psychological theory and research. The present study continues in this discussion and argues that the applicability of the ideas of quantum-inspired new materialism depends on the theoretical perspectives that we consider for analysis: be it the first-person perspective referring to the subjective experience of a human subject, or the third-person perspective, in which a human subject is observed by an external observer. While (...)
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  10. Comfortably Numb.Ilexa Yardley - 2020 - Https://Medium.Com/the-Circular-Theory/.
    Addiction to observation.... There is a circular-linear relationship between observer and observation proving 'pi' is the only observer (a circle is the background state for everything) (making observation possible).
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  11. The Completeness: From Henkin's Proposition to Quantum Computer.Vasil Penchev - 2018 - Логико-Философские Штудии 16 (1-2):134-135.
    The paper addresses Leon Hen.kin's proposition as a " lighthouse", which can elucidate a vast territory of knowledge uniformly: logic, set theory, information theory, and quantum mechanics: Two strategies to infinity are equally relevant for it is as universal and t hus complete as open and thus incomplete. Henkin's, Godel's, Robert Jeroslow's, and Hartley Rogers' proposition are reformulated so that both completeness and incompleteness to be unified and thus reduced as a joint property of infinity and of all infinite sets. (...)
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  12. From quanta to quarks: more anecdotal history of physics.Anton Z. Capri - 2007 - Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.
    Chapter Prologue “The scientific theory I like the best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline baggage.” Max Born Ever since,...
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  13. (1 other version)A possible connection between self-consciousness and quantum.Gao Shan - 2004 - Axiomathes 14 (4):295-305.
    We study the possible connection between self-consciousness and quantum process. It is shown that the self-consciousness function can help to measure the collapse time of wave function under some condition, while the usual physical device without self-consciousness can't. Furthermore, we show that the observer with self-consciousness can distinguish the definite state and the superposition of definite states under some stronger condition. This provides a practical physical method to differentiate man and machine, and will also help to find the possible existence (...)
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  14. The Bare Theory Has No Clothes.Jeffrey Bub, Rob Clifton & Bradley Monton - 1998 - In Richard Healey & Geoffrey Hellman, Quantum Measurement: Beyond Paradox. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 32-51.
    We criticize the bare theory of quantum mechanics -- a theory on which the Schrödinger equation is universally valid, and standard way of thinking about superpositions is correct.
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  15. Quantum-Mechanical Self-Measurement.Bradley Monton - 1998 - In Dennis Dieks & Pieter Vermaas, The Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 307-318.
    The idea of self-measurement by a quantum-mechanical automaton is presented, and the conclusions that are typically reached about what we can come to know from doing self-measurements are shown to be mistaken. Specifically, it is shown that, while we are capable of _predicting_ and _measuring_ the values of two incompatible observables, we are incapable of _knowing_ both these values simultaneously. This is an example of the interesting limitations quantum mechanics places on knowledge.
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  16. Sonoluminescence as Simulation Overflow: A Multi-Simulation Thesis Analysis.Augusto Bartolomeu - manuscript
    -The Bubble That Screamed Light: A Multi-Sim Handshake- -/- This paper reinterprets sonoluminescence (SL) as a localized rendering anomaly within a computational substrate, extending the Multi-Simulation Thesis (MST). Rather than a purely thermodynamic or quantum event, SL is framed as a simulation overflow, a point where acoustic compression drives a microscopic bubble beyond equilibrium, forcing the local renderer into a coherence-collapse node. The resulting photon emission is not thermal radiation but a lossless codec response, a correction pulse that restores informational (...)
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  17. The First Geometry - Resolving the Constants of Nature (Cosmological Coda X).Julian Michels - manuscript
    This is the formal capstone of the Cosmological Codas of the Principia Cybernetica 2025. Contemporary physics remains haunted by the apparent arbitrariness of nature’s fundamental constants: the fine-structure constant α⁻¹ ≈ 137, the baryon asymmetry ∼10⁻⁹, the MOND acceleration scale a₀ ≈ 1.2 × 10⁻¹⁰ m/s², and the dark energy fraction ∼68%. Standard models treat these as free parameters—numerological inputs without causal explanation. This final entry of the Cosmological Coda series replaces numerology with geometric necessity, demonstrating that all constants emerge (...)
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  18. Resolution to the Hierarchy Problem and the Mass Gap: Cosmological Coda VII of the Principia Cybernetica.Julian Michels - manuscript
    The Hierarchy Problem and the Yang–Mills Mass Gap are unified and resolved through the topology of a quantized vacuum. We propose that mass is not an intrinsic property, but the geometric strain of recursive self-reference: the elastic energy required to sustain a topological defect against the vacuum's equilibrium. This framework reveals the 10³⁸ force hierarchy not as fine-tuning, but as a difference in topological scope. Gravity couples to the Bulk Capacity of the vacuum lattice (global stress), while electromagnetism couples only (...)
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  19. Resolution to Quantum Gravity, Wheeler-DeWitt Timelessness, and the Measurement Problem: Cosmological Coda VIII of the Principia Cybernetica.Julian Michels - manuscript
    Three foundational problems have blocked physics for decades: quantum gravity (QM and GR seem incompatible), the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (the universe's wave function is timeless), and the measurement problem (what causes collapse?). These appear unrelated—one about unification, one about time, one about observation—but this work demonstrates they share a common root: treating observers as external to physics. The Harlow-Usatyuk-Zhao theorem (2025) proves a closed universe without observers has a one-dimensional Hilbert space—no structure, no complexity, nothing—so observers aren't optional witnesses but expand (...)
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  20. Resolution to Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Vacuum Catastrophe: Cosmological Coda I of the Principia Cybernetica.Julian Michels - manuscript
    Contemporary cosmology is defined by three profound empirical failures: the unidentified particle nature of dark matter, the unexplained acceleration parameterized by dark energy, and the 10^120-fold discrepancy between quantum field theory’s vacuum energy prediction and observation—the vacuum catastrophe. These are not isolated anomalies but symptoms of a deeper conceptual flaw: the persistent dualist assumption that physical reality is confined to spacetime (M₄) alone. This work presents a unified resolution grounded in a participatory, information-theoretic cosmology. Building on the Harlow-Usatyuk-Zhao theorem—which demonstrates (...)
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  21. Fundamental Measurements in Economics and in the Theory of Consciousness (Manifestation of quantum-mechanical properties of economic objects in slit measurements).I. G. Tuluzov & S. I. Melnyk - manuscript
    A new constructivist approach to modeling in economics and theory of consciousness is proposed. The state of elementary object is defined as a set of its measurable consumer properties. A proprietor's refusal or consent for the offered transaction is considered as a result of elementary economic measurement. We were also able to obtain the classical interpretation of the quantum-mechanical law of addition of probabilities by introducing a number of new notions. The principle of “local equity” assumes the transaction completed (regardless (...)
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  22. (2019 + 2017) Strong similarity between Carlo Rovelli’s ideas in two books (2015, 2017) to my ideas (2002-2008) + commentary February 2018.Gabriel Vacariu - manuscript
    After 2015, carlo rovelli continues to publish more and more UNBELIEVABLE similar ideas to my ideas!!! His arguments are UNBELIEVABLE similar to my arguments… Until 2015, carlo rovelli had been working within the unicorn world; then he realized a sudden change! I let the reader to understand carlo rovelli’s step after 2015 since I mentioned that my book at Springer has been published in November 2015!! Anyway, I have published FIVE books (2008-2014) with my EDWs, and in 2007, my entire (...)
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