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The Information Manifold Model: A Book of Structural Preconditions

Travis Bergen

Published Apr 22, 2026• 1 citation
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This is not a theory about the world. It is the structure the world must have for a theory about it to be possible. The Information Manifold Model derives the necessary structural preconditions of observability itself. From three unavoidable preconditions (Incompleteness of Access, Non-Trivial Dynamics, Observation as Projection) the entire framework follows by necessity: the Informational Manifold, the Spectral Gap Field, the structural arrow of time, grounded quantum mechanics (including a minimal, testable deviation from the Born rule), emergent spacetime, cosmology, receiver architecture, neurotype attractors, and more. Every claim is explicitly labeled with its exact epistemic status (Structural Precondition, Axiom, Theorem, Proposition, Prediction, etc.). No overclaims. No hidden assumptions. Revised Edition (April 2026) — tightened epistemic distinctions, sharpened claim hierarchy, and full structural correspondence across scales.

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10.5281/zenodo.19697791

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