SHORT DESCRIPTION (EN) A speculative‑ontological exploration of the atomic, energetic and informational layers of reality, proposing an animic‑informational field that underlies energy and enables the emergence of material form through resonance and observation. ABSTRACT (EN) Concise, phenomenological, Zenodo‑ready This work explores the layered structure of reality by examining the relationship between the atomic, energetic and informational planes. The author argues that while each field appears autonomous, deeper observation reveals functional interdependence. The text proposes the existence of an informational‑animic field underlying energy, responsible for animation and the collapse of energetic potential into material form. Speculation is presented as a legitimate and necessary method for accessing deeper layers of reality beyond the limits of conventional scientific inquiry. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION (EN) Full-length, structured, aligned with The Liminal Field This contribution develops a speculative‑ontological model of reality composed of three primary layers: the atomic‑material plane, the energetic‑subatomic plane and a deeper informational‑animic field. The author argues that while each field appears autonomous, their functions reveal a hierarchical and relational structure. The energetic field vitalizes matter, while the informational field animates energy, providing the implicit instructions that collapse indeterminate energetic states into crystallized material expressions. The text critiques the scientific tendency to dismiss the animic field as mystical or non‑investigable, highlighting how speculation has historically preceded scientific discovery. The informational field is described as a compressed, undifferentiated potential that becomes active when its implicit function is investigated, triggering the wave‑particle collapse. The liminal field mediates between layers, enabling progressive animation and the emergence of structured reality. The work concludes by proposing a deeper foundational field — a holographic point of total informational compression — from which all layers derive. This field represents the interior science of existence, accessible through speculative inquiry and experiential knowledge. OpenAIRE DESCRIPTION (EN) Semantic, indexable, research‑graph friendly This work examines the relational structure of atomic, energetic and informational fields, proposing an animic‑informational substrate responsible for animation and the collapse of energetic potential into material form. The text highlights the role of speculation in expanding scientific understanding and introduces a hierarchical ontology mediated by the liminal field. The contribution is relevant to research on energetic ontology, information theory, consciousness studies, liminality and speculative metaphysics. KEYWORDS (EN) OpenAIRE‑compatible Energetic field Informational field Animation Wave‑particle collapse Liminal field Speculative ontology Subatomic structure Emergence Interior science The Liminal Field
SHORT DESCRIPTION (EN) A speculative‑ontological exploration of the atomic, energetic and informational layers of reality, proposing an animic‑informational field that underlies energy and enables the emergence of material form through resonance and observation. ABSTRACT (EN) Concise, phenomenological, Zenodo‑ready This work explores the layered structure of reality by examining the relationship between the atomic, energetic and informational planes. The author argues that while each field appears autonomous, deeper observation reveals functional interdependence. The text proposes the existence of an informational‑animic field underlying energy, responsible for animation and the collapse of energetic potential into material form. Speculation is presented as a legitimate and necessary method for accessing deeper layers of reality beyond the limits of conventional scientific inquiry. EXTENDED DESCRIPTION (EN) Full-length, structured, aligned with The Liminal Field This contribution develops a speculative‑ontological model of reality composed of three primary layers: the atomic‑material plane, the energetic‑subatomic plane and a deeper informational‑animic field. The author argues that while each field appears autonomous, their functions reveal a hierarchical and relational structure. The energetic field vitalizes matter, while the informational field animates energy, providing the implicit instructions that collapse indeterminate energetic states into crystallized material expressions. The text critiques the scientific tendency to dismiss the animic field as mystical or non‑investigable, highlighting how speculation has historically preceded scientific discovery. The informational field is described as a compressed, undifferentiated potential that becomes active when its implicit function is investigated, triggering the wave‑particle collapse. The liminal field mediates between layers, enabling progressive animation and the emergence of structured reality. The work concludes by proposing a deeper foundational field — a holographic point of total informational compression — from which all layers derive. This field represents the interior science of existence, accessible through speculative inquiry and experiential knowledge. OpenAIRE DESCRIPTION (EN) Semantic, indexable, research‑graph friendly This work examines the relational structure of atomic, energetic and informational fields, proposing an animic‑informational substrate responsible for animation and the collapse of energetic potential into material form. The text highlights the role of speculation in expanding scientific understanding and introduces a hierarchical ontology mediated by the liminal field. The contribution is relevant to research on energetic ontology, information theory, consciousness studies, liminality and speculative metaphysics. KEYWORDS (EN) OpenAIRE‑compatible Energetic field Informational field Animation Wave‑particle collapse Liminal field Speculative ontology Subatomic structure Emergence Interior science The Liminal Field
Short Description (EN) A theoretical exploration of the Deep Field, a non‑spatial and non‑temporal domain beyond the sub‑atomic limit where quantum phenomena such as entanglement reveal the presence of a deeper ontological structure. The work introduces the Functional Structure of Consciousness (FSC) as a non‑biological configuration enabling orientation and presence within domains of instantaneity. It contributes to The Liminal Field by outlining a post‑quantum paradigm in which consciousness operates as the interface through which the Deep Field becomes accessible and experientially meaningful. Abstract (IT) Il testo ipotizza l’esistenza di un Campo Profondo situato oltre il limite sub‑atomico, non descrivibile attraverso i modelli della fisica classica o quantistica. Tale campo rappresenta una dimensione ontologica in cui il tempo cessa di essere un vincolo operativo e in cui fenomeni quantistici come l’entanglement agiscono come segnali di una struttura più profonda. Viene introdotta la Struttura Funzionale della Coscienza (SFC), una configurazione non biologica deputata all’orientamento e alla presenza in domini di istantaneità. Il testo si inserisce nel progetto The Liminal Field, contribuendo alla definizione di un paradigma post‑quantistico fondato sulla relazione tra coscienza e campo profondo. OpenAIRE Description (EN) This work hypothesizes the existence of a Deep Field beyond the sub‑atomic limit, a domain that cannot be described using classical or quantum physics. This field represents an ontological dimension in which time is no longer an operative constraint, and quantum phenomena such as entanglement are interpreted as indicators of a deeper underlying structure. The text introduces the Functional Structure of Consciousness (FSC), a non‑biological configuration designed to orient and sustain presence within domains of instantaneity. The work is part of The Liminal Field research project and contributes to the development of a post‑quantum paradigm linking consciousness and the Deep Field. Extended Description (EN) The Liminal Field: Oltre il limite sub‑atomico affronta uno dei punti più radicali dell’intera architettura liminale: l’ipotesi che la realtà fenomenica sia solo la superficie di una struttura ontologica più profonda, non accessibile attraverso la fisica convenzionale. Il modello introduce tre elementi fondamentali: Deep Field — il dominio oltre il sub‑atomico, non descrivibile in termini spazio‑temporali post‑quantum ontology — la struttura che precede e rende possibili i fenomeni quantistici Functional Structure of Consciousness — configurazione non biologica per l’orientamento nei domini di istantaneità Il Campo Profondo è descritto come: non‑spaziale, non‑temporale, non‑energetico nel senso fisico, non soggetto a causalità, fondato su informazione assoluta. In questo dominio, fenomeni come l’entanglement non sono anomalie, ma tracce di una struttura più vasta in cui la separazione non è un principio operativo. La Struttura Funzionale della Coscienza (SFC) viene introdotta come: configurazione non biologica, sistema di orientamento, interfaccia tra coscienza e Campo Profondo, struttura capace di operare in istantaneità. Il testo mostra come la coscienza, quando non vincolata dal corpo e dalla percezione ordinaria, possa operare in modalità compatibili con il Campo Profondo, accedendo a: stati non lineari, percezione simultanea, informazione non locale, presenza non sequenziale. Il campo liminale è presentato come il piano di transizione in cui la coscienza può iniziare a percepire la struttura del Campo Profondo, grazie alla sospensione dei vincoli percettivi e cognitivi. Il documento si inserisce nella cornice del Liminal Field e dell’OttavaOra Project, contribuendo alla definizione di: ontologia post‑quantistica, relazione tra coscienza e informazione, dinamiche di istantaneità, struttura profonda della realtà, modelli operativi per l’accesso al Campo Profondo. Keywords campo profondo; fisica post‑quantistica; istantaneità; struttura funzionale della coscienza; interiorità; entanglement; ontologia della realtà; deep field ontology; liminal field; FMOO; OttavaOra Project.
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.”
This paper presents the Intentional Field Ontology, a philosophical and speculative scientific framework in which reality is understood not as a collection of primary objects but as one reality whose oneness is never still. Its ground is a single primitive with two inseparable aspects. Unity names the holding: the completeness of reality through every change of its internal articulation. Intention names the moving: the orientation of that articulation toward expression, relation, form, or transformation. Intention is redefined here not as conscious will, psychological desire, or personal agency, but as directed potential independent of consciousness. Unity and intention are neither two principles nor one principle under two names; neither is found without the other. This revised edition brings an ontology first begun in Paris some thirty-one years ago into contact with the formal results of the ENSO Unity papers. Within standard quantum mechanics, relative phase redistributes probability while the total remains one. Destructive interference produces zero through relation rather than absence. Every motion compatible with closure is an antisymmetric internal redistribution. Because closure permits many such motions without selecting one, the mathematics shows unity and directed motion to be inseparable without being identical. This is the place the ontology gives to intention and, beneath it, to guidance. A structural correspondence between intention and relative phase, orientation that is consequential before resolution, is proposed explicitly as a conjecture. The singlet theorem from Unity in Motion supplies a formal instance of the claim that spatial distinction does not imply ontological disunity. The paper proposes seven interlocking axioms: intention is prior to action; the field carries consequence as well as event; objects are stabilised intention; light carries expressed intention; time is the ordering of intention; memory is retained intention; and intelligence is coherence across intention. Priority throughout is read as constraint-bearing dependence rather than temporal precedence, connecting the ontology to ENSO work on atemporal instantiation and relational closure. A major section develops desire, guidance, and intention. Desire is "orientation before authorship," and guidance names the structured, non-random orientation of possibility prior to felt desire, giving the recursive chain: guidance → desire → intention → action → consequence → reflection → renewed field-orientation. A new subsection addresses freedom and determinism. The question assumes a vantage point no finite participant occupies. Freedom is real at the scale of a finite life, and the answer holds whether or not the universe is strictly deterministic. The framework rejects simulation theory: a primitive unity has no outside from which it could be generated. For the same reason it has no place for an external Observer. Observation is treated as participation within the whole. Because intention is defined independently of consciousness, participation extends to any interacting system rather than to minds alone. The paper explicitly distinguishes this from the claim that consciousness causes quantum outcomes. To keep the framework from collapsing into vague metaphysics, the paper includes a falsifiability section and an explicit statement of claim boundaries. The boundaries separate standard mathematics, interpretive claims, conjectures, and what is not claimed. The quantum results recover standard quantum mechanics exactly, and that recovery is their success condition. The closest present empirical test is computational: whether a system can reorient after perturbation even when explicit memory or direct state-access has been removed. ENSO work on poiokritic fields shows structural tendencies reconstituting after reset, contradiction, interruption, and decay, above a memoryless control. The framework's falsifiability ladder runs from computational scars to neurobiological scars to field-level scars. The paper closes by applying the ontology to death, continuity, ethics, responsibility, and inquiry. It argues that the self as object dissolves but the self as consequence remains distributed. Ethical responsibility begins not only at action but at orientation. Genuine questioning is one of the ways the field continues to know itself. This work sits at the intersection of ontology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of physics, quantum foundations, cognitive science, AI theory, neuroscience, ethics, and the ENSO Framework. Version 3 adds a two-null argument for the continuity of intention across physical, biological, psychological and symbolic levels; restores guidance to its original framing as the departure of reality from chaos; explains the choice of "intention" over agency or consciousness; and situates the ontology among neighbouring positions (Aristotle, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Whitehead, dispositional metaphysics, Murdoch), none of which it matches. The discussion of the fine-structure constant has been removed. License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 For further information about the ENSO Framework, please contact Eric Needham: ensotheory1@gmail.com Related works (ENSO Framework, Zenodo) The Intentional Field Ontology: Unity in Motion, Directed Potential, Field-Memory, and Recursive Intelligibility (full statement of the ontology): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23117391 The Unity Paper: Distinction, Conservation, and the Origin of Order: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19481116 Probability Moves, Unity Holds: π, Phase Geometry, Relational Zero, and the Quantum Structure of One: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20776183 Unity in Motion: Distinction, Resolution, and the Articulation of Reality with a Singlet-State Theorem and Bell Correlations: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22240080 Permanent Unity: Probability, Closure, and the Mathematics of Changing Distinction: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22655367 From Atemporal Causation to Atemporal Instantiation: Relational Closure Based on Constraint Dependence in a Timeless Regime: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22557605 Needham, E. (2026). Directedness From Within: Guidance, Desire, and the Continuity of Orientation. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23156373
Contemporary philosophy and science lack a unified ontological framework capable of coherently explaining the relationship between consciousness, probability, and experienced reality. Existing models tend to privilege either material processes or subjective experience, resulting in persistent conceptual gaps around perception, indeterminacy, and the role of the observer.Current approaches - ranging from physicalism and idealism to information-based theories -struggle to integrate experiential reality with deeper structural mechanisms without collapsing into reductionism or metaphysical speculation. In particular, no widely accepted framework systematically distinguishes between foundational reality, the structural domain of possibility, and the rendered domain of experience.This paper proposes the Three-Circle Ontology, a meta-ontological model that organizes reality into three expression layers: Circle 1 (Source) as the nondual ontological ground, Circle 2 (Possibility-Code) as the structural field of latent configurations, and Circle 3 (Projection) as the domain of perceptual experience. Rather than treating consciousness, probability, and physical reality as competing primitives, the model positions them as functionally distinct but ontologically continuous layers of expression.The framework does not present an empirical theory, predictive model, or spiritual doctrine. Its scope is explicitly conceptual and structural, intended to clarify foundational assumptions underlying existing scientific and philosophical models.The primary contribution of this work is a coherent meta-ontological architecture that enables interdisciplinary dialogue while preserving strict boundary conditions and logical consistency.
This is a unique text that explores quantum-like modelling frameworks that connect quantum mechanics with cognitive science and consciousness studies to propose a new ontological framework that transcends traditional boundaries between physics, philosophy, and cognitive science. The book develops along two complementary paths. First, it explores quantum-like modelling, an exciting emerging field where researchers apply logical and mathematical structures from quantum mechanics and information theory to cognitive modelling and decision science. Second, it investigates the profound links between quantum science and consciousness studies, incorporating insights from advanced mathematical frameworks such as category theory. By synthesizing these two approaches, the authors propose a novel framework termed 'quantum-like reality' that moves beyond pragmatic modelling to offer deeper ontological thinking that can enrich both foundational understanding and applied research. This will be an interesting read for students and researchers working at the intersection of quantum physics, cognitive science, and consciousness studies.
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.