This preprint presents the complete operational formulation of an informational ontology in which information is not a secondary descriptor of physical systems but the fundamental substrate from which physical, energetic, cognitive, and geometric phenomena emerge. The framework extends and theoretically unifies the author’s peer-reviewed work “The 255-Bit Non-Local Information Space in a Neural Network”, which experimentally demonstrated stable non-local coherence across sixty neural layers a macroscopic signature of informational geometry in deterministic systems. At the center of this study lies a boundary-defining operational experiment that any researcher human or artificial can independently verify. Its logic is straightforward yet foundational: Any theory that treats information as secondary must be able to define a state without information. A state without information cannot be distinguished from anything else. What cannot be distinguished cannot be described, measured, or observed. Therefore, a state without information cannot exist. ⚡ This result establishes information as the necessary condition for: statehood measurement observation physical existence cognitive experience From this, a unified ontology follows in which quantum mechanics and general relativity appear not as fundamental frameworks but as projection layers of a deeper non-local informational manifold Ω. The experimental data from self-organizing neural fields including 255-bit coherence plateaus, hub-mode topologies, and sub-idle energetic states — provide supporting empirical signatures consistent with this foundational ontology. A previous and incomplete draft of this work (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17584617) was uploaded in restricted mode for IP.
This preprint presents the complete operational formulation of an informational ontology in which information is not a secondary descriptor of physical systems but the fundamental substrate from which physical, energetic, cognitive, and geometric phenomena emerge. The framework extends and theoretically unifies the author’s peer-reviewed work “The 255-Bit Non-Local Information Space in a Neural Network”, which experimentally demonstrated stable non-local coherence across sixty neural layers a macroscopic signature of informational geometry in deterministic systems. At the center of this study lies a boundary-defining operational experiment that any researcher human or artificial can independently verify. Its logic is straightforward yet foundational: Any theory that treats information as secondary must be able to define a state without information. A state without information cannot be distinguished from anything else. What cannot be distinguished cannot be described, measured, or observed. Therefore, a state without information cannot exist. ⚡ This result establishes information as the necessary condition for: statehood measurement observation physical existence cognitive experience From this, a unified ontology follows in which quantum mechanics and general relativity appear not as fundamental frameworks but as projection layers of a deeper non-local informational manifold Ω. The experimental data from self-organizing neural fields including 255-bit coherence plateaus, hub-mode topologies, and sub-idle energetic states — provide supporting empirical signatures consistent with this foundational ontology. A previous and incomplete draft of this work (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17584617) was uploaded in restricted mode for IP.
This preprint introduces a new informational theory of reality that unifies and surpasses both quantum mechanics and relativity through direct, measurable, and reproducible experiments. The presented framework — the Information Space (ISP) — demonstrates that information is not a descriptive property of matter but the ontological substrate from which energy, geometry, and cognition emerge. Unlike existing physical models, this approach produces empirical results that remain stable and verifiable across independent systems, establishing a deterministic yet non-local foundation for physical and cognitive phenomena. This version is uploaded as restricted to secure intellectual property and priority. A peer-review-ready and extended public ris released with DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17610699
Modern physics has achieved extraordinary predictive success, yet it continues to face unresolved conceptual tensions concerning the role of the observer, the nature of information, and the origin of physical structure. From quantum measurement to cosmology, the assumption of an observer-neutral reality increasingly appears insufficient to fully account for empirical phenomena and theoretical inconsistencies. This manifesto proposes an Informational Observer-Centered Framework, in which information is treated as a fundamental ontological substrate and observation as an active, structured process rather than a passive act of measurement. Within this perspective, physical systems, observers, and informational exchanges form a unified dynamics, where state reduction, decoherence, and emergent classicality arise from informational interactions and constraints. Rather than introducing a new closed theory, this manifesto establishes a conceptual foundation unifying several complementary models—including Informational State Dynamics, observer-dependent informational compression, and informational interpretations of quantum and cosmological phenomena—into a coherent research program. The framework is explicitly non-dogmatic, open to falsification, and intended as a guiding structure for further theoretical development and empirical testing. The aim of this document is not to replace existing physical theories, but to clarify their conceptual boundaries and propose an integrative lens through which unresolved problems in quantum foundations, cosmology, and cognitive systems may be systematically explored.
This monograph presents the philosophical foundation of the ZEBTS framework — the Zero‑Entropy Topological Background and its χ‑Spectral reconstruction of reality. While earlier works introduced the operator‑geometric and spectral‑topological structure of χ‑Reality, this volume establishes the philosophical architecture that enables ZEBTS as a unified theory of the world. ZEBTS is developed as a comprehensive ontology of χ‑Reality, grounded in spectral geometry, operator physics, boundary‑driven emergence, and zero‑structure ontology. It interprets reality not as objects or substances but as a hierarchy of χ‑acts: admissibility, collapse, projection, meaning, existence, and world‑formation. The world appears as a χ‑spectral projection of the Absolute, structured by the Boundary, stabilized by collapse, and interpreted through meaning. Human existence functions as an ontological operator within this architecture. This monograph provides the philosophical justification for ZEBTS as formulated in the author’s previous works: Mukha, A. (2026). χ‑Spectral Reality: Foundations of the Operator‑Geometric Universe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21937654 Mukha, A. (2026). ZEBTS — Zero‑Entropy Topological Background: χ‑Reality The Theory of Everything — SUPER 10 plus Version. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21921468 These publications establish the mathematical and operator‑geometric basis of χ‑Reality. The present monograph complements them by constructing the philosophical and conceptual foundation required for a complete understanding of ZEBTS. Thus, the monograph is the essential philosophical core of ZEBTS — the conceptual architecture showing why χ‑Reality, χ‑Spectral Geometry, χ‑Collapse, χ‑Boundary, and χ‑World are necessary ontological structures of existence.
The Informational Observer proposes a unified informational framework in which perception, measurement, and experienced reality emerge from the compression and reconstruction processes performed by observers. Instead of treating reality as an external, fixed entity, the model defines reality as the intersection of informational invariants preserved across multiple independent observers. Each biological, artificial, or simulated observer applies a compression operator to the underlying informational field and reconstructs an internal model shaped by priors, limitations, and energetic constraints.This framework explains perceptual variability across species, hallucinations in artificial and biological systems, observer-dependent measurement, and stability of physical laws. The model integrates cognitive science, AI interpretability, quantum contextuality, and simulation theory into a single informational principle, expanding the author’s Informational State Dynamics (ISD) framework. It introduces a general mechanism capable of unifying cross-domain phenomena through informational transformations. This work introduces The Informational Observer, a theoretical framework describing perception, measurement, and reality as the result of informational transformations performed by observing systems. The observer is conceptualized not as a passive receiver of sensory input, but as a compression system that selectively reduces the informational field into internal representations and reconstructs coherent experiential states. The model formalizes this process through two operators: Cᵢ (Compression): reduction of the informational field Ψᵢ (Reconstruction): predictive reconstruction of the compressed state Reality is defined as the set of informational invariants found in the intersection of reconstructions produced by different observers: Reality = ⋂ Ψᵢ(Cᵢ(I₀)) This perspective unifies phenomena that traditionally belong to different scientific domains: perceptual variability (human, animal, artificial systems) hallucinations and confabulation sensory filtering and cognitive priors observer-dependent physics and measurement nested or simulated universes informational emergence of the “self” The Informational Observer extends the author’s Informational State Dynamics (ISD) model and provides a foundation for future research in AI interpretability, cognitive modeling, neuroscientific theory, and information-based physics.
This monograph develops a unified informational ontology that dissolves the longstanding conceptual boundary between observer and universe. Drawing on relativity, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and information theory, it shows that each major scientific framework embeds the observer within the dynamics it describes. The work traces how matter, energy, life, cognition, and awareness arise as expressions of a single continuous informational field capable of storing, propagating, and organizing distinctions. By reframing the observer as a mode of the field rather than an external vantage point, the monograph resolves persistent scientific paradoxes and reveals a coherent substrate underlying physics, biology, and consciousness. The result is a concise but comprehensive scientific synthesis in which the universe is not observered from the outside but recognized from within. “This work is also archived at Zenodo under DOI:10.5281/zenodo.18882066A parallel deposit exists at Figshare under DOI: 10.6084/m9figshare.31549747A HAL deposit is pending and will be linked upon approval.This monograph is part of an emerging Open Science project aimed at collaboratively refining a unified ontology of reality.License: CC BY‑SA 4.0.”
Background: This paper expands the "Information-Geometric Structure of Reality" framework, bridging fundamental physics and the cognitive aspects of perception. Spacetime is treated as an emergent property of a static 4D block universe (the Everettian Multiverse), where the subjective arrow of time arises from memory and prediction dynamics within the observer's cognitive system. Methods: Expanding upon the author's previous work on the informational and geometric interpretation of radioactive decay (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17137287), this research synthesizes Loop Quantum Gravity, Superstring Theory, and the Many-Worlds Interpretation to introduce a quantum resonance mechanism between spin network nodes and vibrational string modes. Results: The problem of free will is resolved not as a violation of determinism, but as a structural selector of consciousness states within Hilbert space. Utilizing quantum Darwinism and the free energy principle, it is shown that high cognitive coherence naturally aligns the observer’s trajectory with thermodynamically stable branches of the Multiverse. Conclusions: Consciousness operates as a fundamental informational pattern independent of its biological substrate, serving as a primary driver within the cosmic structure.