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This paper 34 is explores reality as an ongoing process rather than a fixed or finished condition. It considers how experience, information, consciousness, possibility, action, and transformation may participate in the continuous development of what becomes real. Within Natural Possibility, reality is understood as something that unfolds through time, where past conditions influence the present w…

The relation between interiority and exteriority over time can generate an aptitude to well know our place in a social group and the cosmos.

Abstract: Traditional metaphysical investigations into ultimate grounding inevitably confront the Münchhausen Trilemma, leaving inquiry to choose among infinite ontological regress, circular explanation, or brute contingency. This paper presents a foundational rationalist ontology—Stability-Filtered Plenitude—designed to establish an ungrounded, non-dependent, atemporal terminus without relying o…

Margaret “Maggie” Boden was a pioneer in the study not only of creativity, but generally in computing, artificial intelligence and artificial life research. She championed the importance of computational concepts and artificial intelligence research to understanding human creativity. In spite of that enthusiasm, however, Boden was consistently sceptical about even the possibility of genuine AI cr…

Public demonstrations of fruit-fly connectomes controlling virtual bodies and video games have made the passage from anatomical reconstruction to executable behaviour unusually visible. This article examines that passage within the source-first architecture of \TCGS: complete non-temporal Counterspace, physically real three-dimensional Shadow carriers, gauge-equivalent ordering labels, and a sour…

This paper develops ICDP Network Cosmology, a theoretical framework in which the multiverse is modeled as a structured communication network governed by the Invariant Causal Decomposition Principles. In this approach, every spacetime manifold carries an ICDP invariant tensor whose conservation law and associated gradient field determine the causal structure and physical constants of each universe…

Advocates of modern decision theory advocate for making decision- making explicit and quantifiable. The core prescription is that we should introspect our intuitions, assign numbers to our beliefs, and subject these to formal analysis. This approach promises clarity, reduced bias, and improved decision outcomes. Yet I argue that this prescription rests on a hidden and problematic assumption: that…

_Philosophy of the Social Sciences_. forthcomingCan measurement provide an independent source of evidence in the human sciences? Recent philosophy of measurement often suggests that it cannot. This essay argues that this conclusion is too strong: even in the human sciences, instruments can sometimes be developed so that the evidence they provide is independent of the substantive theories they in …

Paper 33 of the Natural Possibility series examines the relationship between time, information, and consciousness in shaping reality. Rather than viewing reality as a fixed structure or passive observation, this paper presents reality as an ongoing process of continuous becoming. Time provides essential continuity, allowing past experiences, structural developments, and environmental consequences…

This paper proposes a philosophical framework for analyzing the arrow of time within the Key-Value-Information-Model framework. The concept of time is split into two levels: time marking rules at the value level, which are core natural rules determining causality within a framework; and time sequences at the key level, which are records produced by observers marking causal change sequences accord…

The simulation hypothesis asks whether the reality we experience could be an artificial construction produced by an external intelligence or system. Natural Possibility approaches this question from a different starting point: what if the complexity and depth of reality can, at least in part, arise from nature itself? This paper explores reality as something that may be layered, interconnected, a…

_Everyday Lifestyles, Apa Blog_. 2026You’ve had a long day at work and come home wanting to unwind. You decide to scroll through your social media just to pass some time. It’s not long until you see a post from a friendly acquaintance from your college days: “If you’re not fucking furious about [recent tragedy], then you’re part of the problem.” You can’t help but compare yourself with them and a…

_Synthesis Point of Reality (Spr) Theory: Resolving the Absolute-Relative Paradoxical Loop and the Emergence of Actualized Reality_. 2026Abstract The Synthesis Point of Reality (SPR) Theory presents a formal mathematical and epistemological framework detailing the emergence, dynamic interaction, and empirical realization of Actualized Reality ($R_e$). Addressing the fundamental paradoxes of physi…

In Positive Epistemology. Routledge. forthcomingThis volume is about _positive epistemology_, understood as the investigation into normative considerations that _commend_ belief, rather than merely warn against error. The editor's Introduction introduces the distinction between positive and negative norms, discusses putative instances of obligations to believe, and introduces reasons why some sch…

_Jurisprudence_. forthcomingA normative power is the authority to effect a normative change through a declaration of will. This paper uncovers a fundamental asymmetry between potestative concepts (related to normative powers) and deontic concepts (related to duties). The deontic conceptual network consists of three mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive positions: obligatory, forbidden, and op…

Two readings press on any statement of the differentia of the who-category: ownness can be heard either as a transcendental condition of appearing or as a depth beyond predication. This study argues against both readings through Kant’s muß … begleiten können at B131–132. It interprets the relation between the Ich denke and the phenomenon as title-holding rather than causal or constitutive, and te…

In Consenting Children: Autonomy, Responsibility, Well-Being. London: Proceedings of the British Academy. 2025Children occupy a curious place in our moral and legal practices, including in our consent practices. It is widely believed that differential treatment of children, often in the form of paternalistic non- consensual interference, is permitted in many cases, including in cases where childr…

At each fixed Hamiltonian, P, Q, and Weyl coherent-state path-integral constructions represent one exact propagator under the relevant ordering and limiting conditions, while generating different Hamiltonian symbols, stationary structures, correction phases, and fluctuation prefactors at the semiclassical level. This paper asks what explanatory significance should be assigned to those representat…

_Dia-Noesis: A Journal of Philosophy_ 18 (2):271-286. 2025The displacement of the bodily subject under conditions of forced migration, particularly in the context of climate-induced exile, invites a phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of dislocation. Phenomenology foregrounds the body as the primary site of being-in-the-world; yet, when uprooted, the embodied subject undergoes a ra…

WHAT MAP is a structured decision protocol for consequential choices under uncertainty. It replaces earlier objective/subjective splits with a single options-based grammar: WHAT → OPTIONS → LENSES → VOI → COMMIT → LOG. Each option is examined through Evidence, Consequences, and Uncertainty; uncertainty is filtered by decision-relevance rather than vocabulary; value of information is assessed befo…