Actuality Theory, developed by independent researcher Barkalle Wersha Hajinur, presents an original paradigm that places consciousness and perception as fundamental to reality. The theory introduces three orthogonal states of existence within a unified Hilbert space framework:Internity: Internal, dream-like reality governed by non-Hermitian dynamics.Externity: Shared physical reality distorted by perceptual influence.Eternity: Timeless, spaceless unity beyond measurement and spacetime. Key innovations include Reality Looping (cyclic coupling preventing absolute perception) and the Speed of Sight (awareness propagation exceeding c outside spacetime constraints). The mathematical formalism resolves longstanding issues such as the quantum measurement problem and aspects of the hard problem of consciousness while offering testable predictions.This foundational paper (dated October 25, 2024) is supplemented by a 2025 sequel addressing the limits of materialist physics. The theory bridges empirical science with metaphysical traditions, providing a post-materialist foundation for understanding existence, observation, and human experience.This upload contains the complete manuscript as a working paper / preprint. All rights reserved by the author. Feedback and scholarly discussion are welcome.
Actuality Theory, developed by independent researcher Barkalle Wersha Hajinur, presents an original paradigm that places consciousness and perception as fundamental to reality. The theory introduces three orthogonal states of existence within a unified Hilbert space framework:Internity: Internal, dream-like reality governed by non-Hermitian dynamics.Externity: Shared physical reality distorted by perceptual influence.Eternity: Timeless, spaceless unity beyond measurement and spacetime. Key innovations include Reality Looping (cyclic coupling preventing absolute perception) and the Speed of Sight (awareness propagation exceeding c outside spacetime constraints). The mathematical formalism resolves longstanding issues such as the quantum measurement problem and aspects of the hard problem of consciousness while offering testable predictions.This foundational paper (dated October 25, 2024) is supplemented by a 2025 sequel addressing the limits of materialist physics. The theory bridges empirical science with metaphysical traditions, providing a post-materialist foundation for understanding existence, observation, and human experience.This upload contains the complete manuscript as a working paper / preprint. All rights reserved by the author. Feedback and scholarly discussion are welcome.
We develop a mathematical and philosophical framework in which conscious obser- vation is the fundamental act that brings reality into existence. Before observation, nothing exists in an actualized sense: not space, time, laws, or structures. Reality is purely a manifold of potential universes, each containing possible laws and possible observers. When a conscious observer emerges, the act of observation actualizes the unique minimal universe consistent with its existence. This is not a selection among alternatives but an ontological crystallization that transforms possibility into actuality, retroactively defining the universe’s laws, constants, structure, and history. Within this actualized universe, unobserved properties remain probabilistic un- til collapsed by observation. We formalize sensory collapse, observer priority, multi- observer shared reality, emergent time, retroactive history, and the closed feedback loop between observers and their universe. This framework unifies consciousness, existence, physics, and cosmology into a single observer-centric formalism.
Scientific inquiry has historically operated under a materialist paradigm that treatsconsciousness as a passive biological byproduct. However, foundational developments inquantum mechanics—such as observer-dependent measurement constraints and non-localentanglement—challenge the assumption of an objective reality completely decoupled fromobservation. Concurrently, theoretical cosmology encounters absolute epistemic horizons atblack hole singularities, cosmic boundaries, and the Planck scale, indicating that physicallaws may possess inherent limitations when formulated as entirely self-contained systems.This paper introduces the Kernel Unity Principle (KUP), proposing that the physicaluniverse is embedded within a comprehensive informational network regulated by anexternal, infinite-information consciousness designated as the Kernel (Ψ). Byestablishing the Universal Kernel Parameter (K), we demonstrate that thefundamental equations of physics—from classical mechanics to quantum field theory,general relativity, and cosmology—can be consistently extended by incorporating aninformation-mediated coupling factor. To avoid mathematical singularities, K is formalized via a bounded hyperbolic tangent function dependent on localized informationdensity. We further expand the Consciousness–Universe Infinite Recursion Paradox(CUIRP) to outline the multi-regime spectrum of Kernel intervention, spanning passiveobservation to complete cosmic creation or destruction. Rather than asserting a traditional"Theory of Everything," this framework establishes a mathematically rigorous boundarycondition wherein physical reality is shown to be an open system requiring externalinformational completion, aligned with Gödelian incompleteness metrics. The frameworkgenerates testable predictions for CMB polarization, gravitational wave signatures, andparticle physics observables. This study invites new interdisciplinary pathways acrossquantum foundations, information theory, and cognitive philosophy.
The ``Hard Problem" of consciousness refers to a long-standing enigma about how qualia emerge from physical processes in the brain. Building on insights from the development of non-Euclidean geometry, this paper seeks to present a structured and logically coherent theory of qualia to address this problem. The proposed theory starts with a definition on what it means for an entity to be non-physical. A postulate about awareness is posed and utilized to rigorously prove that qualia are non-physical and thoughts are qualia. Then the paper introduces a key concept: relative reality, meaning that perceptions of reality are relative to the observer and time. The concept is analyzed through a mathematical model grounded in Hilbert space theory. The model also sheds new light on cognitive science and physics. In particular, the Schrödinger equation can be derived easily through this model. Moreover, this model shows that eigenstates also exist for classical energy-conserving systems. Analyses on the G. P. Thomson experiment and the classical harmonic oscillator are made to illustrate this finding. The insight gained sheds new light on the Bohr-Einstein debate concerning the interpretation of quantum mechanics. At last, the paper proposes a postulate about qualia force and demonstrates that it constitutes a fundamental part of absolute reality, much like the four fundamental forces in nature.
This paper develops an extension of Existential Realism, a philosophical framework that distinguishes existence (what concretely is in the present moment) from reality (the broader causal–structural domain that includes past events, causal relations, informational traces, and structured future possibilities that are real but not presently existent). We synthesize core ideas from the original Existential Realism framework—ontological emergence, entanglement, temporal asymmetry, dimensional collapse, and the notion of a “dimensionless source”—and push them into new conceptual terrain. Time is placed at the heart of ontology: the present moment is the locus of existence, continually generating new actuality from prior reality. Past and future are real (with causal efficacy and structure) yet lack present existence. We explore how this two-tiered temporal ontology can accommodate key features of modern physics and metaphysics. In particular, we argue that ontological emergence at each moment provides a genuine arrow of time and a solution to the puzzle of how determinate events arise from an indeterminate backdrop. Quantum entanglement and nonlocal correlations, far from undermining a temporally oriented realism, instead hint at a deeper layer of unity “beneath” spacetime—a layer we articulate as a dimensionless source of reality. The dimensionless source is defined as a non-spatiotemporal relational structure encoding the informational constraints under which spatiotemporal events emerge through sequential actualization. It contains the informational constraints and lawful relations governing the generation of successive present states of the universe. We propose that spacetime and its separations emerge from this atemporal, aspatial ground, such that phenomena like entanglement and wavefunction collapse reveal the traces of a more fundamental order where spatial distance and temporal succession are secondary. Throughout, we connect these ideas to contemporary debates in quantum foundations (e.g. the measurement problem and objective collapse theories), philosophy of time (presentism, eternalism, and the reality of becoming), and speculative metaphysics (structural realism and process ontology). The result is a comprehensive, present-centered realist ontology that aims to reconcile the lived reality of time’s flow with the insights of modern physics, suggesting new avenues for understanding causality, identity, and agency in a dynamic universe.
What quantum theory has revealed about the nature of reality has remained hidden in plain sight for almost one-hundred years because what quantum theory has revealed about the nature of reality cannot be comprehended in the context of the materialist model and conception of reality in which science presently operates, which materialist model places physical reality at the center of reality and Consciousness at the periphery, as a secondary or derivative reality. What this work will demonstrate, by explaining the heretofore inexplicable basis of the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory, is that it is Consciousness rather than physical reality that lies at the center of reality, and that it is physical reality rather than Consciousness that is a secondary or derivative reality. Specifically, wave-particle duality, quantum uncertainty, quantum non-locality, the probabilistic nature of the wavefunction, and the collapse of the wavefunction, will all be shown to be phenomena that have as their basis the way in which the fundamental Reality of Consciousness, through relation to Itself, creates what it apprehends as physical reality.One of the most important things the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory will be shown to reveal about the nature of reality is that the nature of physical reality is like that of a reflection, and like a reflection, physical reality is able to obscure from view what is actually there, as long as it is mistaken for what is actually there. Thus, in revealing the reflection-like nature of physical reality, the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory indirectly reveal that what is actually there, underlying the reflection that is physical reality, is the non-physical, non-experiential Reality of Consciousness that is, through relation to Itself, both creating and apprehending experiential reality in general and physical reality in particular. Ultimately, understanding the reflection-like nature of physical reality should make it possible for Individuals to understand that what actually Exists directly where they are, where their physical bodies appear to be, is not different in Nature than what actually Exists everywhere else as well, where the rest of physical reality appears to be, thereby disabusing them of the notion that what they are is a physical reality, while at the same time revealing to them their true Nature as Consciousness, which, through relation to that which is also Consciousness, creates what they, as Individual points of Consciousness, apprehend as experiential reality in general and physical reality in particular.Part III of this series of three articles includes: 3. The nature of the wavefunction; 4. There is no spoon; and 5. The connection between quantum physics and eastern philosophy.
What quantum theory has revealed about the nature of reality has remained hidden in plain sight for almost one-hundred years because what quantum theory has revealed about the nature of reality cannot be comprehended in the context of the materialist model and conception of reality in which science presently operates, which materialist model places physical reality at the center of reality and Consciousness at the periphery, as a secondary or derivative reality. What this work will demonstrate, by explaining the heretofore inexplicable basis of the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory, is that it is Consciousness rather than physical reality that lies at the center of reality, and that it is physical reality rather than Consciousness that is a secondary or derivative reality. Specifically, wave-particle duality, quantum uncertainty, quantum non-locality, the probabilistic nature of the wavefunction, and the collapse of the wavefunction, will all be shown to be phenomena that have as their basis the way in which the fundamental Reality of Consciousness, through relation to Itself, creates what it apprehends as physical reality.One of the most important things the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory will be shown to reveal about the nature of reality is that the nature of physical reality is like that of a reflection, and like a reflection, physical reality is able to obscure from view what is actually there, as long as it is mistaken for what is actually there. Thus, in revealing the reflection-like nature of physical reality, the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum theory indirectly reveal that what is actually there, underlying the reflection that is physical reality, is the non-physical, non-experiential Reality of Consciousness that is, through relation to Itself, both creating and apprehending experiential reality in general and physical reality in particular. Ultimately, understanding the reflection-like nature of physical reality should make it possible for Individuals to understand that what actually Exists directly where they are, where their physical bodies appear to be, is not different in Nature than what actually Exists everywhere else as well, where the rest of physical reality appears to be, thereby disabusing them of the notion that what they are is a physical reality, while at the same time revealing to them their true Nature as Consciousness, which, through relation to that which is also Consciousness, creates what they, as Individual points of Consciousness, apprehend as experiential reality in general and physical reality in particular.Part II of this series of three articles includes: 2. The nature of quantum reality.