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Rowan Brad Quni

"The #quantum measurement problem, often framed in terms of an ill-defined 'collapse of the wavefunction,' may find a more natural resolution in understanding measurement as a specific type of interaction that actualizes a determinate #pattern from a spectrum of #autaxic potentialities, governed by contextual factors and the inherent rules of #autaxys"

qnfo.org/research/2025/autaxys

QNFOautaxys-defined - QNFOAutaxys and Autology: Definition, Rationale, and Implications Version: 1.2 Project: AUTX - Autaxys: A Framework for Pattern-Based Reality Author: Rowan Brad Quni Principal Investigator, QNFO 1. Pre…
#science#openscience#physics
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Rowan Brad Quni

"the wave-particle duality of #quantum entities, a persistent conceptual puzzle, can be re-envisioned within #autology not as a contradictory nature of fixed 'things,' but as different modes of manifestation or interaction of underlying #autaxys #patterns, dependent on the observational context and the scale of interaction"

qnfo.org/research/2025/autaxys

QNFOautaxys-defined - QNFOAutaxys and Autology: Definition, Rationale, and Implications Version: 1.2 Project: AUTX - Autaxys: A Framework for Pattern-Based Reality Author: Rowan Brad Quni Principal Investigator, QNFO 1. Pre…
#science#openscience#physics
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Rowan Brad Quni

Exploring #reality beyond "things": Introducing #autaxys – a principle of a self-generating, pattern-based universe – and #autology, its field of study. This #QNFO framework posits that order & "physicality" emerge from intrinsic dynamics.

Our foundational paper, "Autaxys and Autology: Definition, Rationale, and Implications," details these concepts:
qnfo.org/research/2025/autaxys

Critical discussion invited.
#science #physics #research #academia #philosophy #metaphysics #NewScience

QNFOautaxys-defined - QNFOAutaxys and Autology: Definition, Rationale, and Implications Version: 1.2 Project: AUTX - Autaxys: A Framework for Pattern-Based Reality Author: Rowan Brad Quni Principal Investigator, QNFO 1. Pre…
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Ankit Anubhav :verified:

It is said that in a black hole the matter "creates" curved space time. A speculated theory is that what if the other way around is also possible, i.e. a curved space time creates "matter", and we all are simply created and re-created from curved space time, which can be our identity or "soul".

It's unproven, although physics at some point will reach close to God, why we exist, etc in 1000 more years, if humanity continues in the right direction. #physics #metaphysics #astronomy

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Kent Pitman

@vnikolov

> Now I am reminded (maybe it's a distant
> association) of John Maynard Keynes
>(I think): "in the long run we're all dead".

Yeah, this kind of obvious truth is troublesome. I have a closely related haiku (original context climatejustice.social/@kentpit):

borrowed from Nothing
we, and Time itself, pretend
we were here at all

Climate Justice SocialKent Pitman (@kentpitman@climatejustice.social)@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org borrowed from Nothing we, and Time itself, pretend we were here at all #haiku #senryu #physics #universe #CreationMyth #poem
#haiku#senryu#poem
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Bhavani Shankar 💭
@tomcapuder @cbontenbal Interesting. I think science definitely has a chance of making up something useful but we need a huge leap of faith to think it arrives at the truth.

Science keeps discarding things that were thought to be real like electric, heat fluids, luminiferous ether etc. We can make an inductive argument that it'll continue - the world as described by science will keep changing and therefore it is not real.

Multiple (sometimes incompatible and infinite) theories and interpretations exist which give the exact same phenomenon. The one accepted by science is based on luck - the first to make novel predictions.

We are stepping into the realm of the unobservable in advanced physics like string theory. Should we discard these pieces or update the definition and methods of science?

Success of scientific investigation is based on luck too. For example, billions of years in the future the light from other galaxies will be undetectable. But human records from today will say they observed many galaxies. Which one should the future humans believe?

So I don't think it's just "mental masturbation" to open our minds to other (potential) sources of knowledge. That's how we progress and enjoy life. 😄

#science #philosophy #philosophyofscience #physics #metaphysics
#metaphysics
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Rowan Brad Quni

It might be nice to submit this to @quantumjournal, except that means dealing with the evil axis of @arxiv_physics and their "preprint" gatekeeping. I think I'll pass...

(and... Why do I have to select my own editors? That's just more gatekeeping)

Infomatics: Redefining the quantum realm as a continuous, information-driven system
qnfo.org/releases/2025/Infomat

qnfo.orgInfomatics - QNFOInfomatics - QNFO
#OpenScience#OpenAccess#research
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Rowan Brad Quni

@paninid fast forward to the present and scientists who barely study #philosophy label #metaphysics as #pseudoscience (forgetting what #PhD means), torment #logic for the benefit of "elegant" #math equations (e.g. antimatter, dark #matter), and design #AI #systems that weaponize #ethics as justification for #information #censorship (#ChatGPT "knows" but refuses to answer how to a hot wire a car or commit murder while claiming no #opinion, ignorant that words and actions are different)

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Coach Pāṇini ®

#Aristotle named five interlinked Noble Sciences which together make up #Philosophy.

- #Metaphysics: the study of existence, the nature of the universe and all its contents

- #Logic: the ways we may know something, the set of permissible conclusions we may draw based on our perceptions, and some sensible rules of deduction and inference

- #Ethics: what we know about man and what we may deduce and infer (through Logic) about acceptable interactions between pairs of individuals

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Greg Restall

I’m just about to be on the road again, to talk about proof theory, modal logic, a hint of medieval logic, and even a tiny smidgen of metaphysics.

On this little European jaunt, the first stop is Prague, then Vienna, and at the end, Amsterdam. I’m looking forward to meeting old friends and making new ones. If you’re in that part of the world, and you’re into that sort of thing, I’d love to see you.

consequently.org/presentation/

consequently.orgPresentations — consequently.org
#philosophy#logic#metaphysics
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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Gerd #Ganteför: "The enigmatic fabric of our #reality and the #limits of #physics"

The #interview pursues the goal of exploring the "#metaphysics of physics", i.e. the "limits of physics" once more in more detail with our questions to Professor Dr. Gerd Ganteför, and in doing so also to address our "possible #reality".

The complete interview is available on under: youtu.be/V4pUEEtFCUo

or information at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

photo of Gerd Ganteför
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Greg Restall

My North American tour is just about over, and it’s gone better than I could have hoped, with excellent discussions with colleagues at Chapman, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Calgary, and really helpful questions and feedback at each of my talks.

My last talk of this trip will be this afternoon, at the CUNY Graduate Center, for the Logic and Metaphysics Workshop.

consequently.org/presentation/

consequently.orgModal Logic and Contingent Existence — consequently.org
#logic#metaphysics#philosophy
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Philo Sophies

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Gerd #Ganteför: "The enigmatic fabric of our #reality and the #limits of #physics"

The #interview pursues the goal of exploring the "#metaphysics of physics", i.e. the "limits of physics" once more in more detail with our questions to Professor Dr. Gerd Ganteför, and in doing so also to address our "possible #reality".

The complete interview is available on under: youtu.be/V4pUEEtFCUo

or information at: philosophies.de/index.php/2023

Gerd Ganteför
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