Cosmogenesis and Collapse

Philip Pearle

Jérôme Martin, Vincent Vennin

Giro Hong

Contemporary quantum theory, despite its predictive success, remains ontologically fragmented. Competing interpretations—Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, pilot-wave, decoherence, information-theoretic—each capture partial truths but fail to explain why coherence emerges from superposition or how collapse reinstates order. This paper proposes Qiosmosis, a quantum-informational ontology that replaces the particulate paradigm with a wave-based cosmogony. Reality, in this view, consists of continuous qi-fields—quantum-information-carrying waves whose resonant interactions generate the apparent discreteness of matter and mind. Collapse, rather than a discontinuous measurement event, is reinterpreted as recursive resonance: the self-stabilizing condensation of informational flux into coherent form. This framework extends insights from Bohm’s implicate order, Feynman’s path integral, and Prigogine’s dissipative structures toward a unified account of cosmogenesis, computation, and consciousness.

Daniel Sudarsky

Nicole Bryant

Nicholas James Letchford

This paper develops the quantum grounding of Signal-Bifurcation Theory (SBT) by introducing Proto-Actuality and two constitutive boundaries: the constitution of actuality and the constitution of classicality. It extends SBT’s process-monist account across quantum mechanics, gravity, thermodynamics, and consciousness within a single processual frame, rather than treating these as disconnected ontological layers. Core proposal Proto-Actuality names the pre-classical regime in which “what is real” is not yet classically tractable as stable objects and determinate histories. Classical actuality becomes available only when interaction-structure supports stability-selection and stability-inscription: some patterns stabilise and become repeatable (and so become model-tractable), while others fail to stabilise. Quantum → classical bridge (SBT framing) The quantum–classical transition is framed in stability terms: classicality is constituted when interaction yields stable continuations that can support robust, repeatable description. On this view, invariants and “laws” are treated as compressed descriptions of stabilised regularities—summaries of what stable continuations make available. Two constitutive boundaries Constitution of actuality: transition from Proto-Actuality to stable, tractable actuality (where structure can be carried forward and re-registered). Constitution of classicality: transition where actuality becomes classically describable in standard representational terms (including redundancy/decoherence conditions that enable classical robustness). Wavefunction (accessible framing) The wavefunction is treated as a bookkeeping description of interaction-structure: a formal way of tracking which outcomes are admissible and how strongly they are weighted prior to classical description (definite objects with definite properties). It is a structured summary of what the situation makes available under interaction. Collapse (classical register) Within Proto-Actuality, non-classical fluctuations and configurations can stabilise into stable continuations without “collapse” being a well-formed description, because classical partitioning (system/environment), definite outcomes, and spacetime ordering are not yet fully available. “Collapse” becomes a meaningful term only once stable structure is sufficiently instantiated for classical description, so that outcomes register as definite events within spacetime geometry. Cosmogenesis (model-relative boundary) The “Big Bang” is treated as a classical, model-relative boundary description within standard cosmology (an extrapolated regime limit of an expanding spacetime), not as an ontological absolute beginning. On this view, “beginnings” and “ends” function as regime-transition descriptions internal to particular modelling frameworks. Relation to consciousness (architectural continuity) Within the same continuity, SBT distinguishes: Semepoietic consciousness (tormentless): lived continuity in sufficiently organised sensorimotor biological systems. Semepoietic-Signal Narration: a symbolic, diagnostic overlay that stabilises with symbolic recursion and meta-recursive centring; it has regulatory function but is not the ground of consciousness. Continuity with earlier work This paper extends the quantum-grounding concept note (10.5281/zenodo.17829952) and consolidates the SBT architecture established in earlier publications (10.5281/zenodo.17211873; 10.5281/zenodo.17257839). Terminology has been refined to reduce inherited metaphysical baggage and to keep the exposition explicitly non-theistic and non-agentive. The central distinctions remain: Semepoiesis as one organisational continuity described at different resolutions; Semepoietic consciousness (tormentless) as lived continuity; and Semepoietic-Signal Narration as diagnostic overlay and modulation. Keywords Signal-Bifurcation Theory (SBT); Proto-Actuality; constitution of actuality; constitution of classicality; quantum–classical transition; wavefunction (bookkeeping description); decoherence; redundancy / einselection; stability-selection; stability-inscription; stability-bias; Semepoiesis; process monism; process metaphysics; foundations of quantum mechanics; philosophy of physics; thermodynamics (foundations); cosmogenesis (model-relative boundary); Big Bang (model-relative boundary); consciousness (architectural continuity); Semepoietic consciousness (tormentless); Semepoietic-Signal Narration; narrational overlay; recursive centring; meta-recursive centring