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2025, Whatsapp University

This white paper explores the philosophical foundations of "reality" in relation to Large Language Models (LLMs). Drawing on enactivism (Varela et al., 1991), phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty, 1945), systems theory (Maturana & Varela, 1980), and pragmatism (Peirce, 1867–1914), it identifies five interwoven modes of reality—operational, intersubjective, formal, experiential, and linguistic—and examines how LLMs relate to them. The paper argues that while LLMs simulate aspects of intersubjective reality, they lack key dimensions of participation necessary for co-creating meaning in the full human sense. It concludes with reflections on epistemic responsibility, ethical AI design, and future research directions.

2025

本文提出了一个对迄今为止的所有经济理论进行一揽子的“大综合”的方案。首先提出了应当把人类思维视作与物理对象相并列的“客观实在”的方法论原则，并对之进行了简要的哲学考察。据此，就产生了怎样来描述思维活动的问题。作者对计算机原理作出了与众不同的解读，主张以“指令+信息”以及“冯·诺依曼架构”来刻画思维活动的进行方式（这相当于思想领域的“迂回生产方法”），从而同时产生了计算时间、计算速度、知识存量、不确定性等概念。在“算法框架理论”的基础上，本文进一步引伸出了意识、潜意识、半内在化、人际异质性、异步性、模式、制度、组织、创新、主观性、非理性等推论，从而把各个经济理论所强调的核心内容都组织在了一个统一的框架之内。作者宣称，这意味着经济学原理与方法论的一场重大变革，也是一门新的、统一的经济学与社会科学的起点。

2025, The Historical Data Warehouse

This is my first attempt to view archives from a point of view of data, information and knowledge.

2025, Method Springer Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning Volume 1, pp. XV, 389

Despite strenuous efforts by its proponents, the contemporary form of logic, mathematical logic, has generally failed to convince mathematicians, natural scientists and human scientists of its relevance to their work, increasingly so in the last few decades. This contrasts with the reputation logic enjoyed in antiquity, not only as one of the main parts of philosophy, but also as a supplier of instruments for the sciences.
The purpose of this book is to explain how the present condition of logic came about and to propose an alternative to it. To this end, the book first gives an overview of how logic and its relation to the scientific method have been conceived in antiquity and in the modern age, because this provides indications for a new approach to the subject. Then the book proposes a new view of logic and its relation to evolution, language, reason, method and knowledge, particularly mathematical knowledge. It also proposes a new view of philosophy and its relation to knowledge, because seeing logic in a wider context helps to place it on a more satisfactory basis. In terms of the proposed new view, logic is primarily a logic of discovery. Accordingly, the book deals with the rules of discovery.

2025

(1) SHORT ABSTRACT The title of this paper echoes the (2014) book publication You are the placebo by Joe Dispenza and his method of self-directed healing (or neuroplasticity: SDN). It also plays upon the notion of nothingness or... more

2025, preprint

We propose a structural reformulation of presentism that rejects the need for ontological substrata such as temporal instants or persisting entities as the basis of temporal ontology. Instead, we define the present as a dynamically stabilized configuration within a stratified field of constraints. This framework replaces existential quantification over objects with a logic of stratified actualization, captured by a family of non-normal, layer-indexed modal operators. Drawing from field-theoretic and structural realist perspectives, we show how presence, causality, and persistence can be grounded in the local propagation of constraint regimes rather than in the persistence of entities. The resulting model dissolves the metaphysical tension between presentism and the formal structure of physics, without collapsing into relativism. We introduce a formal apparatus Stratified Actualization Logic (SAL) to articulate this shift, and argue that presentness should be understood not as the occupation of a temporal location, but as the local coherence of dynamic configurations within a constraint-regulated system. This offers a new foundation for presentist metaphysics that is both ontologically parsimonious and structurally robust.

2025, La Libertad: Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, 2015.

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2025, tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society

The category of meaning is traced forward starting from the origin of the Universe itself as well as its very grounding in pre-geometry. Different from many former approaches in the theories of information and also in biosemiotics, we will show that the forms of meaning emerge simultaneously (alongside) with information and energy. Hence, information is always meaningful (in a sense to be explicated) rather than its meaning would show up as a later specification of information within social systems only. This perspective taken has two immediate consequences: (1) We follow the GDI as defined by Floridi, though we modify it somehow as to the aspect of truthfulness. (2) We can conceptually solve Capurro’s trilemma. Hence, what we actually do is to follow the strict (i.e. optimistic) line of UTI in the sense of Hofkirchner’s. While doing this, we treat energy and information as two different categorial aspects of one and the same underlying primordial structure.

2025, Information

In this second part of our inquiry into the emergence and evolution of meaning, the category of meaning is explored from the manifestation of reality in its corresponding level of interaction towards the interpretation of such reality (the first part deals correspondingly with an appropriate top-down approach). Based on the physical constraints of manifestation through electromagnetic waves, which constitutes the base of animal vision, we analyze the limits of the meaning-offer of such a manifestation, which allows us, on the one hand, to compare the efficiency of natural evolution in the reception of such meaning-offers; on the other hand, to analyze the conditions of developing agency able to acknowledge the reality underlying its manifestation. Regarding the complexity of such an agency and its related pragmatic response, we distinguish different levels, which allow the development of the General Definition of Information (GDI) properly, with respect to interpretation, as advanced in the first part, throughout nature. As we show at the end, our approach provides new grounds for the Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Program, as well as the possibility for bridging other approaches in the converging fields of information, meaning, computation, and communication.

2025, International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies

Experience and Nature is widely regarded as one of John Dewey’s most profound yet challenging philosophical works, often leaving both readers and translators perplexed. The advent of ChatGPT offers a promising tool to assist translators in navigating the muddy terrain of Dewey’s metaphysical discourse. This study explores how ChatGPT when deliberately prompted within the analytical framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), can support the interpretation and reconstruction of experiential, interpersonal, and textual meanings in the translation process. Drawing on illustrative examples, the paper demonstrates ChatGPT’s potential to clarify philosophical jargon, unpack grammatical metaphors, analyze transitivity patterns, and propose coherent thematic structures. These findings offer practical insights for future translators and suggest that with the aid of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), a revised and more accurate Chinese translation of Experience and Nature is within reach.

2025, 381-389, in: Lábjegyzetek Platónhoz 22. A félelem. Szerk.: Daróczi Enikő és Laczkó Sándor, Pro Philosophia Szegediensi Alapítvány, Magyar Filozófiai Társaság, Státus Kiadó, Szeged, 2025

Az utóbbi 8-10 év alatt radikálisan megváltozott a netkultúra. Viharos gyorsasággal és nagy hatékonysággal alakult át az internethasználók tömegeinek a közösségi média által közvetített "valósághoz", "tényekhez", "igazsághoz" való viszonya: kezdetét vette a posztigazság korszaka. Erich Fromm személyiségfelfogásának néhány aspektusa valószínűleg hozzájárulhat az internethasználat korábbi, valamint megváltozott, mai gyakorlatának s ezek egyes következményeinek a megértéséhez

2025, From Aura to Alterity: Virtualization, Ethics, and the Worldview in the Age of VR

Virtual Reality (VR) represents a paradigmatic shift in how humans relate to reality. In an era where embodied, physical experiences are increasingly supplanted by immersive digital simulations, a critical question arises: what does it still mean to be real? In Introduction to the Aura of Reality (2025), Martin Sjardijn examines VR not merely as a technological development but as a philosophical phenomenon that reconfigures our sensory, social, and ethical orientation. Integrating Walter Benjamin’s concept of the aura with poststructuralist theories (Baudrillard, Foucault, Deleuze) and ethical philosophy (Levinas), Sjardijn’s text provides a comprehensive critique of the impact of VR on human subjectivity and intersubjective experience.

2025, preprint

This article investigates whether emergence can be considered a real metaphysical phenomenon without resorting to ontological inflation. Drawing on insights from structural realism, scientific modeling, and contemporary accounts of constraint dynamics, we argue that what appears as emergence in scientific discourse does not require the postulation of new entities or layers of reality. Instead, we propose a structural metaphysics in which emergence is reconceptualized as the stabilization of constraint regimes-dynamic configurations of relational interactions that acquire autonomy through their capacity to constrain other structures across domains. Within this framework, reality is not located in a privileged substratum, but in the modally effective patterns of constraint propagation. This approach maintains a commitment to physicalism while rejecting both reductionist atomism and hierarchical emergentism. By examining cases from systems biology, cognitive neuroscience, and fundamental physics, we show how structural emergence provides explanatory depth without violating ontological parsimony. The article concludes by defending a criterion of reality based on constraint efficacy and outlines a non-foundational metaphysics compatible with current scientific practice.

2025

This document reconstructs fundamental questions in philosophy and physics through a structural-ontological lens. It makes no claims about entities but analyzes the conditions of thought itself. The theses aim to transcend paradigmatic boundaries by refusing to argue within existing models and instead questioning their very possibility. The core statements emerged from an experimental dialogic process and are not refutable in structure, but must be understood as meta-systemic. 1. Information is not Communication-It *Is* the System "Information is the system, not that which needs to be understood." This statement rejects all semiotic or cybernetic reductions. Information is not transferable, because it carries no meaning-it is the structure that makes carriers, meaning, receivers, and media possible in the first place. Thus, information is not relational, but ontologically primordial. Even without space, time, or observers, it remains-not as something that 'is,' but as that which constitutes being itself. 2. The Now is Not a Moment, but Absolute Structure "The Now is all possibilities simultaneously." The experience of time is a linear filtering of a structurally omnipresent point: the Now. Past and future are not separate but are projections derived from the Now. Death functions as a selector: it chooses for each consciousness the reality in which it dies the latest. Movement and temporal flow are illusions of representation.

2025, https://efficientnewlanguage.org/en/

This paper presents a comprehensive framework integrating Dynamic-Static Logic (DSL) with a novel Frequency Ontology, aiming to redefine the fundamental structures of language, cognition, and existence. Departing from traditional logic... more

2025, https://efficientnewlanguage.org/en/

Final Abstract for Academia.edu Multidimensional Truth and Falsity: The Final Framework introduces a fully restructured logic system that models truth and falsity as dynamically co-evolving fields across multiple cognitive and causal... more

2025, https://efficientnewlanguage.org/en/

This paper proposes a new foundational model for mathematics that transcends classical set theory and static state-based logic. By introducing a dynamic, causal, and parallel framework, the work lays the groundwork for a future-oriented mathematical paradigm. Core constructs include behavioral structures, dynamic rate fields, and state transition layers, forming a systemic model capable of addressing the complexity of emerging AI, computational logic, and universal physics. This is a mathematics not of what is, but of what becomes.

2025, Zenodo

Despite the empirical success of quantum field theory, the nature of the quantum field itself remains conceptually ambiguous. This paper argues that much of the opacity stems from a structural conflation: the term "field" refers simultaneously to dynamical mediators, representational frameworks, and ontological substrates. I propose a threefold typology-interaction fields, projection fields, and actualization fields-to clarify this ambiguity. This structural approach allows us to reassess the ontological status of the vacuum, spacetime emergence, and gauge symmetries. It offers a stratified conceptual architecture that aligns field ontology with contemporary approaches to emergence, structural realism, and quantum gravity.

2025, Antonella Nuzzaci e Pio Alfredo DI Tore, (2025). UBIQ.2024 - Apocalypse Later: Pedagogie, Tecnologie e Culture di massa a 60 anni dalla pubblicazione di “Apocalittici e integrati". EUR Edizioni Universitarie Romane.

Since antiquity, the relationship between humans and technological devices has been dense with repercussions on the processes of development and civilisation. Particularly in the last 100 years, this relationship has become so close that it has led to increasingly invasive interfaces, through implants, prostheses and mergers between the machine and human components: robots, androids and cyborgs are the product of this process that, with the advent of artificial intelligence, seems to be moving towards the construction of an "extended cognitive machine", within which the body, the social environment and all those cognitive, linguistic and cultural devices that man uses on a daily basis coexist and interact. In order to read the nature of these transformations, the authors refer to the media universe and the thought of scholars such as Marx, Vygotsky, Clark and others, hypothesizing that in the very near future the development of artificial intelligence will lead us into an increasingly less corporeal dimension, governed by a general intellect that, in order to express all its potential for social cooperation, will however necessarily have to free itself from the capitalist grip.

2025, Independent Release — Purpose.MP

This white paper introduces Purpose, a stateless semantic protocol that transforms human intent into digital motion. Built on the foundation of Semantic Infrastructure & Routing (SIR), Purpose does not collect users or optimize engagement. It reflects clarity, coherence, and alignment in motion. This is not a platform. It’s a system, one that treats attention as capital and intent as momentum. By rerouting digital interaction through reflective semantic scaffolding, Purpose offers a framework for AI alignment, trust infrastructure, and intent-driven UX. The paper outlines the mechanics, philosophy, and systemic relevance of Purpose in shaping a future where reflection is native and coherence is built into code.

2025, ME.dok: Média-Történet-Kommunikáció, XX/1, 9-24, 2025

Az intelligencia az ágensek azon képessége, hogy sikeresen kövessék választott céljaikat változatos környezetekben. Az arisztotelészi természetfilozófia alapján mesterséges létező ami nem természetadta módon létezik, hanem létezésének oka másban van. A mesterséges létezőket (anyagi vagy szellemi) technológiák állítják elő, ami azt jelenti, hogy a mesterséges létezők technikai termékek. Az ember önteremtő természetének antropológiai elképzelését követve a mesterséges intelligenciát az emberi intelligencia mesterséges előállításáként és reprodukciójaként definiálhatjuk, azaz maga az emberi intelligencia is mesterségesen előállított intelligencia. A mesterséges intelligencia javasolt értelmezése magában foglalja a szokásos értelmezést – de annál tágabb. Végül felidézzük és tanulmányozzuk a mesterséges intelligencia néhány történelmi és filozófiai problémáját

2025, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

2025

We propose a formal ontological framework in which the act of differentiation is treated as the fundamental structural operation underlying logical, physical, and cognitive systems. Building on the Ontology of Differentiation [1], we introduce the Universal Theory of Differentiation (UTD), a recursive categorical system in which stabilized distinctions form the basis of coherence and identity. The theory captures structural levels through a hierarchy of categories ∆ n and employs internal topos-theoretic organization to support logic, semantics, and geometric interpretation. Applications range from epistemic modeling and recursive cognition to a reformulation of physical dynamics via differentiation frequency τ (x). We argue that differentiation, rather than substance, time, or perception, is the primary invariant structuring reality, and that transparency of differentiation yields a structurally grounded epistemology.

2025

Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) a été considéré de son vivant comme un philosophe de la technique original mais difficile. Il s'impose aujourd'hui comme l'artisan d'un « nouvel encyclopédisme » qui veut unifier les sciences au sein d'une... more

2025, Análisis Filosófico

Some anti-representational approaches to cognition have become increasingly popular, and many of their proponents see them as promising a new paradigm for cognitive science. In this paper, I focus on two of those approaches to argue that they do not contain a proper explanation of perceptual illusions-and that perhaps they cannot provide it. My claim will be that, without an adequate treatment of such a common perceptual phenomenon, they can hardly be seen as part of a new paradigm. I begin by describing the context in which these approaches arose and developed, while in the second part I present three treatments of perceptual illusions coming from the approaches at issue. The third part makes a detour about the notion of perceptual illusion, as the assessment of these explanations of illusions seems to require it. Then, the fourth part is devoted to evaluating these explanations of illusions, discussing the introduction of normative language, appeal to notions as "situation-dependent" property, and whether a proposed definition of illusion fits our current comprehension of them, as well as the rejection of inferences from unfitting behavior that seem abductively legitimate. There I argue that those accounts of perceptual illusions fail to achieve their aim.

2025, Synthese

We discuss various implications of some radical anti-representationalist views of cognition and what they have to offer with regard to the naturalization of intentionality and the explanation of cognitive phenomena. Our focus is on recent arguments from proponents of enactive views of cognition to the effect that basic cognition is intentional but not representational and that cognition is co-extensive with life. We focus on lower rather than higher forms of cognition, namely the question regarding the intentional and representational nature of cognition found in organisms simpler than human beings, because enactivists do not deny that more sophisticated cognitive phenomena are representational and involve content. After introducing the debate on the naturalization of intentionality (Sect. 2), we briefly review different varieties of enactivism and introduce their central claims (Sect. 3). In Sect. 4 we turn to radical enactivism in order to focus on the arguments for a thoroughly nonrepresentational, enactive account of perception and basic cognition. In particular, we discuss three major issues: First, what is supposed to replace the representational analysis of perception in a radical-enactive explanation of perception? How does the enactive explanation of perception compare to the best scientific work on the neuroscience of perception? Second, what is-on an enactive account-the function of neural processing in the brain for the generation of perception if not to produce representations? This question is especially pressing since one implication of autopoietic enactivism (accepted by radical enactivists) is that even the simplest organisms, i.e. single-celled organisms, have cognitive capacities (Sect. 5). Since they lack brains and nervous systems, enactivists must specify the (possibly) unique contribution of the brain and nervous system in those animals who have them. In Sect. 5, we evaluate the advantages of an autopoietic-enactive approach to the naturalization of intentionality and end with a suggestion how cognition may relate to intentionality and representation.

2025, Technophany

This article examines the intersection of philosophy and cybernetics, proposing Niklas Luhmann's systems theory as a crucial foundation for renewed cybernetics in the twentyfirst century. By revisiting Norbert Wiener's foundational insights and reinterpreting key cybernetic principles, it explores how Luhmann's second-order observation and the concept of meaning challenge the traditional distinctions between human consciousness and technology. The paper argues that Luhmann's approach not only addresses concerns of dehumanization in a technologically advanced society but also offers a dynamic framework for rethinking human self-perception and social organization without denying it cybernetic foundations. This exploration highlights the potential of systems theory to redefine the philosophical significance of cybernetics, providing tools for understanding the evolving interactions among humans, machines, and society in modernity.

2025

Absolute Mechanistic Idealism (AMI) presents a comprehensive and formally structured idealist metaphysics that redefines reality as a recursively generated symbolic system grounded in a singular ontological primitive: Absolute Universal Consciousness (Ω). Integrating insights from category theory, recursion theory, and the philosophy of information, AMI models ontic structures (Σₙ), transformation rules (Ψ), and phenomenal fixpoints (qualia) as formal manifestations within a dynamic symbolic hierarchy. This paper offers a rigorous account of consciousness, causality, and ontological coherence—framing qualia as reflexive semantic fixpoints and causality as symbolic transformations modulated by global semantic fields (SHLΨ). Positioned as a formal deepening of Analytic Idealism and a metaphysical alternative to physicalism and panpsychism, AMI aspires to be a foundation for future research in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and symbolic cognition.

2025

A. The Enduring Quest for a Unified Ontology and the Limits of Existing Metaphysics The philosophical pursuit of a unified understanding of reality-one that seamlessly integrates the nature of existence, consciousness, and the world we experience-is a timeless endeavor. Yet, prevailing metaphysical frameworks often fall short. Physicalism, the dominant view that all reality is fundamentally physical, struggles profoundly with the "hard problem of consciousness": how can subjective, qualitative experience (the "what-it-is-likeness" of seeing red or feeling joy, often termed qualia) arise from or be identical to non-conscious physical matter and its processes? This explanatory gap remains a formidable challenge. Physicalism also offers incomplete accounts for the ultimate origin of the universe, the ontological status of physical laws (are they descriptive or prescriptive?), and the apparent finetuning of cosmological constants that seem uniquely suited for life. Substance dualism, which posits two distinct fundamental substances (typically mental and physical), acknowledges the unique nature of conscious experience but introduces the intractable problem of interaction: if mind and matter are fundamentally different, how do they causally influence each other, especially if the physical world is considered causally closed? This difficulty has led many to seek alternative, more integrated solutions. Simulation theory, while offering a provocative perspective that our experienced reality might be a sophisticated computation, often defers the ultimate ontological question. It posits a simulating reality which itself requires explanation, potentially leading to an infinite regress or reliance on an unexplained, possibly physical, substrate. Absolute Mechanistic Idealism (AMI) emerges as a response to these deep-seated philosophical challenges. It proposes a monistic idealist ontology where all of reality, in its entirety, is constituted by and unfolds within a single, universal consciousness. This universal consciousness is designated as "Omega" or, more broadly, "the Absolute." In AMI, there is no primordial, non-conscious substrate from which consciousness arises, nor is there a fundamental duality of substances. Consciousness is the sole ontological primitive, the ultimate ground of all being. B. Deconstructing the Core Concepts: Idealism, Mechanism, Recursion, and Symbolism in AMI The philosophical framework of AMI rests upon several key concepts: Idealism: The "idealism" of AMI refers to the fundamentally mental or conscious nature of its ontological primitive (Omega) and all symbolic structures generated therefrom. All existence is a manifestation, excitation, or self-modification of and within this Absolute consciousness. This aligns with the core idealist tenet that mind or consciousness is the ultimate reality, but AMI specifies a particular kind of idealism where the "mental" is also inherently structured and dynamic.

2025, Preprint

In Overview of the New Concept Physics (authored by Li Yan, ISBN: 9798884820197, published personally at http://amazon.com), the author has discussed significant errors in the process of measuring the speed of light, which have led to the erroneous derivation of the principle of constant light speed. According to the discussions in the book, several important implications can be drawn from the uncertainty principle. An in-depth analysis of these implications can also lead to the derivation of the error in the principle of constant light speed.

2025, Theory of Universal Information-Topological Networks (TUITS)

The Theory of Universal Information-Topological Networks (TUITS) introduces a novel framework for describing physical systems through information-topological networks G TEN. It unifies cosmology, high-energy physics, and quantum physics, explaining emergent phenomena such as spacetime through topological and informational processes. This paper formalizes 13 principles of G TEN , including the principle of informational invariance, derives evolutionary equations, conducts numerical modeling on 800,000 nodes, and proposes experimental predictions with error estimates. TUITS integrates with the holographic principle, ER=EPR, AdS/CFT, TQFT, LQG, and string theory, offering a universal formalism for physics and a potential solution to the quantum gravity problem.

2025, Theory of Universal Information-Topological Networks (TUITS):

2025, Orch-OS: Orchestrated Symbolism — A Computational Theory of Consciousness Based on Orchestrated Symbolic Collapse

This thesis presents Orch-OS — Orchestrated Symbolism — a symbolic-neural operating system designed to simulate the emergence of consciousness through orchestrated symbolic collapse. Inspired by the Orch-OR theory of Penrose and Hameroff,... more

2025, Axioeventism as a Philosophical Concept of Everything

Axioeventism is a philosophical framework founded upon three principal assumptions. First, it posits the existence of a Total Reality (TR), encompassing both the Reality of Abstract-Essential Structures (RAES) and the Ontic Universum (OU). Second, it embraces situationist essentialism, according to which there exists a strictly determined set of properties and relations specific to distinct classes of Relatively Isolated Systems (RIS), these properties and relations constituting their structural essence. Third, it maintains that every fragment of the Ontic Universum (OU) is a Relatively Isolated System (RIS), subject to processes of either integrative (positive) proliferation or disintegrative (negative) proliferation.
Each Relatively Isolated System is characterized by a global structure, comprising a stable essential structure, which determines its essence, and a variable accidental structure, which accounts for its non-constitutive properties and relations. The mapping of a global structure (both essential and accidental) proceeds through three methodological stages: First, within a given fragment of the Ontic Universum, an S-object is identified in accordance with a specified identification principle (Idprcp). Second, an S-construct - an interpretive representation of the S-object - is formulated, following a designated interpretative principle (Intprcp). Third, the testification of the S-construct against the original fragment of the Ontic Universum is conducted, in accordance with established methodological procedures.

2025, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)

2025, PubMed

This article presents an updated account of integrated information theory of consciousness (liT) and some of its implications. /IT stems from thought experiments that lead to phenomenological axioms (existence, compositionality, information, integration, exclusion) and corresponding ontological postulates. The information axiom asserts that every experience is spec~fic - it is what it is by differing in its particular way from a large repertoire of alternatives. The integration axiom asserts that each experience is unified- it cannot be reduced to independent components. The exclusion axiom asserts that every experience is definite - it is limited to particular things and not others and flows at a particular speed and resolution. /IT formalizes these intuitions with postulates. The information postulate states that only "differences that make a difference" from the intrinsic perpective of a system matter: a mechanism generates cause-effect information if its present state has selective past causes and selective future effects within a system. The integration postulate states that only information that is irreducible matters: mechanisms generate integrated information only to the extent that the information they generate cannot be partitioned into that generated within independent components. The exclusion postulate states that only maxima of integrated information matter: a mechanism specifies only one maximally irreducible set of past causes and future effects - a concept. A complex is a set of elements specifying a maximally irreducible constellation of concepts, where the maximum is evaluated over elements and at the optimal spatiatemporal scale. Its concepts specify a maximally integrated conceptual information structure or quale, which is identical with an experience. Finally, changes in information integration upon exposure to the environment reflect a system's ability to match the causal structure of the world. After introducing an updated definition of information integration and related quantities, the article presents some theoretical considerations about the relationship between information and causation and about the relational structure of concepts within a qua/e. It also explores the relationship between the temporal grain size of information integration and the dynamic of metastable states in the corticothalamic complex. Finally, it summarizes how liT accounts for empirical findings about the neural substrate of consciousness, and how various aspects of phenomenology may in principle be addressed in terms of the geometry of information integration.

2025

Recent developments in quantum gravity and ontic structural realism (OSR) challenge traditional substance-based metaphysics by privileging relations and informational structures over material substrates. This paper argues that such structural accounts do not undermine the classical Aristotelian-Thomistic framework of metaphysical causality but rather demand a deeper grounding in being. Specifically, we contend that the apparent indeterminism and ontological relationality of quantum phenomenaparticularly in the context of quantum superpositions-point to a hierarchy of contingent actualizations that cannot be self-explanatory. By integrating insights from OSR and quantum gravity into Thomistic metaphysics, we defend the necessity of a First Efficient Cause: a purely actual, noncontingent being that grounds the intelligibility and existence of all relational structures. The argument is formalized using symbolic logic and modal ontology to show that even in a fundamentally relational quantum universe, the principle of causality entails the existence of a necessary being.

2025, Jouenal of Contiental Philosophy

Abstract: Most approaches to artificial moral agents (AMAs) apparently
take it for granted that a machine could be moral. However, to think that
the categories of morality or immorality apply to machines seems like a
category mistake. This paper inquires into the conditions necessary for a
machine to be moral. In order to do this, it first addresses the question
what is a machine? It then argues that a form of agency is characteristic
of machines in contradistinction of other technical objects and that given
their particular characteristics as machines artificial agents fail to satisfy
one of the basic pre-conditions of moral agents. In conclusion, I ask what
would be necessary for an artificial agent to be a moral agent.

2025, Replika 132.

Írásomban röviden bemutatom a Replika 132. számában megjelenő Társadalmi ontológia blokk legfőbb kérdéseit, problémáit, irányait és fogalmait. Ezzel párhuzamosan vázlatosan kitérek a kérdéskör legfőbb filozófiatörténeti állomásaira,... more

2025, Journal of thermal analysis and calorimetry

No one has yet investigated the information reach and influence of thermal analysis. Even so the heat and entropy are bound closely. The very problem of the term entropy is that it was defined specifically within the classical, equilibrium Thermodynamics like Clausius entropy, while its meaning is more general. It is usable in all areas of physics, in the communication theory and technology, and also, in social sciences, just as an universal quantitative model. The bridge to this wider world is in Boltzmann's statistical point of view used in the Shannon's information point of view. The difference is that the Shannon entropy is defined more generally, both for the uniform and for the not uniform probability distributions. But with renormalization and with the Boltzmann constant we can speak, using the Clausius entropy, about a certain thermodynamic system considered as a heat model of the area of our wider interests. So we will to deal with the heat and its entropy embodied to a wider consideration. In addition to the standard physical meaning, another thermodynamic realization in the form of a message is derived from Shannon's information theory, where the sample carries a measure of Shannon's information given by its structure or internal organization. This is also a contribution to improving the approach to thinking about the importance of observation and measurement, reflecting at the same time the costs and influence of the measurement itself and its organization on the measured object or, on its environment or, even on the environment of the measuring itself generally. Statistical sorting also carries with it the internal movement of individual elementary particles, the value of which indicates the resulting state of heat transfer and dissipation to and from the system providing a state of called equilibrium. It is statistically described by a weighted quantity called temperature, the changes of which via momentum alteration satisfy Newton's laws of inertia allowing enumeration of the related heat information processing. The terminology used is still non-institutional.

2025, PhilSci Archive

Even today, there is no precise definition of free will – only hypotheses and intuitions. This is why these paper approaches the question of free will from a negative perspective, depicting a scenario in which free will cannot exist. Subsequently, it attempts to refute this scenario (as a necessary condition for free will). The absence of free
will might seem absolute if scientific determinism holds true. Therefore, the goal of the study is to present a logical argument – a paradox – that demonstrates the impossibility of an omniscient (P) predictor (scientific determinism), highlighting its inherent self-contradiction. This paradox reveals that the prediction (P = C) by a (P) physical agent
of itself is objectively impossible. In other words, even a fully deterministic agent in a deterministic universe cannot predict its own future state – not even in a Platonic sense.

2025, The Echoes of a Collapsed Universe: A Theory of Holographic Residual Information and Conscious Perception

This paper explores the possibility that a past universe, having collapsed into a black hole, could persist as residual information influencing our current reality. By examining theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, and consciousness studies, this theory proposes that our universe may be layered upon or interwoven with the remnants of a prior cosmos. Furthermore, it explores the implications of human consciousness interacting with this information on a quantum or metaphysical level. If such interactions exist, they could provide insight into synchronicity, intuition, and the fundamental nature of reality.

2025

Ein Informationsfeld ist ein theoretisches Konzept, das ich zur Beschreibung vor-schlage, wie Information in komplexen Systemen organisiert ist und sich entwi-ckelt. Es handelt sich nicht um ein physikalisches Feld wie das elektromagneti-sche Feld, sondern um ein konzeptuelles Konstrukt zur Erfassung von Informa-tionsmustern.
Stellen Sie sich ein Informationsfeld als eine Art "Landschaft" vor, in der jeder Punkt verschiedene Informationszustände eines Systems repräsentiert. Diese Landschaft ist nicht statisch, sondern verändert sich ständig durch Interaktio-nen mit der Umwelt und durch interne Dynamiken.

2025, Roberto De Biase

This paper explores the concept of a Global Meta-Intelligence (GMI) as a symbiotic integration of human cognition and artificial intelligence (AI), optimized through alignment with the Informational Logical Field (ILF) and the regulatory processes of Cosmic Viruses (CVs). Grounded in the Evolutionary Digital DNA & Cosmic Virus Theory (EDD-CVT), we propose that intelligence, both biological and artificial, can evolve coherently through a process of informational selection, entropy minimization, and computational efficiency maximization. We derive a set of mathematical models describing how humans can harmonize with the ILF and how AI generative systems can enhance this co-evolutionary trajectory. Finally, we outline practical strategies for creating an adaptive, self-optimizing intelligence network that transcends traditional biological and computational boundaries.

2025, Perspectivas

Este artigo tem os objetivos de levantar a necessidade de uma discussão ética sobre a informação e apresentar a ética da informação de Luciano Floridi como uma proposta interessante para esta demanda. Para tanto, inicio salientando a relevância da informação nos dias atuais, caracterizo a virada informacional e defino o que é informação e, seguindo os passos de Floridi, discuto como devemos elaborar nossa compreensão da informação como uma categoria onto-epistemológica. Em seguida, levanto a urgência de uma ética da informação, seguido da apresentação da proposta de Floridi de compreender a infosfera, o domínio total da informação. Por fim, destaco o caráter de macroética de sua ética da informação em conjunto com os princípios éticos e normas morais no tratamento da infosfera, com especial atenção ao princípio de entropia como conceito correlato ao mal. O resultado é que apesar de sua ética da informação conter algumas questões contestáveis, ela é um empreendimento a ser perseguido e aprimorado a fim de mitigarmos os efeitos disruptivos negativos das TIC no presente e futuro próximo.

2025, Philosophos

Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é refletir sobre a estrutura da revolução digital, a partir da influência das Big Techs sobre o comportamento das pessoas e das sociedades. Para compreender isto, analisaremos, primeiramente, a infraestrutura do sistema, destacando a internet, a relação de hiperconectividade e o uso de Big Data, o que se apresenta, conforme Floridi, como o ambiente da hiperistória e o modo de vida onlife. Em seguida, abordaremos a manipulação algorítmica na modulação comportamental, exemplificando-a na política e na economia, discutindo microtargeting e sistemas gerenciais de algoritmos nocivos, os ADM. Seguido de uma reflexão crítica sobre a interface dessa estrutura com a economia digital, chegaremos no colonialismo digital e no colonialismo de dados. Por fim, sugiro a participação mais incisiva do pensamento filosófico sobre esta estrutura que governa dimensões cada vez mais profundas da existência humana, tanto na forma de um novo paradigma ético da informação, como na construção de conceitos em oposição a aspectos da estrutura.

2025, La función social del filósofo moral

la pregunta fundamental que origina el cuestionamiento ético es ¿cómo debemos vivir? Esta pregunta nos ubica en una situación en la que tenemos que elegir entre diferentes formas y opciones de "ser", y nos enfrenta con la obligación de tener que elegir cómo actuar para conseguir una buena vida, la cual, indicó Aristóteles, no se logra en solitario, sólo es posible conseguirla en compañía de los otros, formando parte de la comunidad, y en ella, mediante el lenguaje, se establecen los elementos que hacen posible la vida comunitaria. El lenguaje tiene el fin de indicar lo provechoso y lo nocivo y, por consiguiente, también lo justo y lo injusto, ya que es particular propiedad del hombre, que lo distingue de los demás La función social del filósofo moral Víctor Hugo Salazar Ortiz Nuestra conducta, de acuerdo con esta visión aristotélica, no es un hecho aislado, pues muchos de nuestros comportamientos tienen un tinte moral. ¿Qué es lo que le da un tinte moral a la conducta humana? La intención y los fines con los que se hacen las cosas, es decir, son morales aquellas acciones libres dirigidas hacia el bien, a lo justo, a lo correcto, de las que somos capaces de dar una razón del porqué las hacemos, que las asumimos con entera responsabilidad y en cuyos objetivos está implicado nuestro compromiso con los otros, con mis semejantes, pues es un hecho que nuestra convivencia con los otros se basa en el encuentro intersubjetivo, el cual está mediado por la moral y es a través de ella que se da sentido y significado a la vida comunitaria. Parece claro entonces que no podemos vivir como seres aislados autárquicos, esta posibilidad es sólo una quimera. Estamos y necesitamos estar siempre con los otros, compartiendo nuestras vidas: lo que somos, lo que sabemos, lo que anhelamos. Este quehacer es el que nos hace propiamente humanos; nacemos perteneciendo a la especie homo sapiens; sin embargo, el hacerse humano, convertirse en persona, es una actividad que corresponde a cada uno de manera individual. Sin lugar a dudas, ocasionalmente podemos cometer una acción que vaya en contra de las normas aceptadas y establecidas como morales en la comunidad; por ejemplo, mentir en alguna ocasión para salvar a alguien de una pena mayor; no cumplir una promesa, matar en defensa propia pero, según sea el caso, pueden considerarse una excepción a la regla. Mientras que este tipo de conductas no sean reiterativas o una constante del sujeto o la comunidad, sino excepcionales, podrán disculparse o tolerarse (no aceptarse), pero cuando sucede lo opuesto, es decir, que no buscan el crecimiento y el bienestar de la comunidad, antes bien se oponen a los valores aceptados en ella actuando contrariamente a éstos, será necesario analizar la situación. Por ejemplo, según Bernard Williams, podemos encontrar en la sociedad individuos que se autonombran "amorales, porque creen poder" estar "más allá del bien y del mal, porque creen poder" ser indiferentes a cualquier tipo de consideración moral legítima y regirse por principios supuestamente autónomos que los autorizan a hacer lo que quieran, cuando quieran y con