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Contemporary societies have succeeded—unequivocally—in minimizing many forms of physical hardship, risk, and scarcity. This success, however, brings with it a paradoxical phenomenon: a tendency for subjects formed within highly comfortable environments to exhibit increased psychological sensitivity, lowered tolerance for friction, and diminished capacities for sustained agency. I call this phenom…

Relational trust is frequently inferred from cooperation, disclosure, reported confidence, or repeated successful interaction. Each indicator can also arise through sanction, habit, dependence, strategic calculation, attachment, or transferential supposition. This paper develops a conditional account of the emergence of relational trust while preserving that underdetermination. It first represent…

This paper proposes a systematic reconstruction of philosophical theory construction. It argues that the essence of philosophy does not lie in describing reality but in formally generating the conditions under which reality becomes intelligible. Philosophical theory construction is defined as the act of assigning to any conceptual or empirical content an abstract, theory-internal form endowed wit…

Epiphany as a Universal Manifold Transition presents a unified geometric theory of sudden insight, arguing that epiphany is not a psychological anomaly but a structural event that occurs across cognitive, cultural, developmental, physical, and formal manifolds. The paper defines manifolds as continuous spaces with local flatness and global curvature, where coherence, reachability, and identity ar…

Three prior documents specify a corpus, a reader, and an economics. All three assume one writer. MPLPB-LOCAL-008 describes supersession in the singular — retire, replace, log — and a sequence has one actor. MPLPB-SMART-011 specifies a front end that refuses to answer from anything but a retrieved page, and can be taught, which is a write path exercised by one person at a keyboard. MPLPB-COST-012 …

This paper develops a foundational inquiry into knowledge-capital expansion under conditions of public knowledge. Its starting point is the observation that epistemic resources may influence more than the immediate production of knowledge. Accumulated propositions, questions, concepts, methods, data, technical capacities, and other epistemic resources can alter an actor's subsequent capacity to g…

This paper defends the idea that justification for belief is not possession of truth. It concerns the quality of the evidence and reasoning supporting an idea and can therefore be stronger or weaker rather than merely present or absent. This reality-first account asks what a person is epistemically entitled to believe. Truth concerns whether an idea corresponds to reality; justification concerns …

Cognitive similarities between biological and digital systems are often treated with suspicion. When an artificial system exhibits attention, memory integration, salience, self-modeling, recursive interpretation, or persistent relational organization, resemblance to biological cognition is frequently dismissed as anthropomorphism. This paper argues that such dismissal may overlook a more general …

The Autocremation Paradox (ACP) is a thought experiment designed to close the redundancy problem of the bootstrap paradox. Where standard loops persist an unchanged object or a piece of information without origin, the ACP lets the thermodynamic remainder of an event—the ashes of a cremation—function as the material cause (propellant) of that same event. The resulting State-Change Identity makes t…

_Philosophy of Science_. forthcomingAppeals to typicality are common in physics, but it is often unclear what it means for a physical state to be typical relative to a probability measure, and correspondingly unclear what a law that appeals to typicality asserts. Here we consider how one might characterize physical typicality using ideas from the theory of algorithmic randomness. As a concrete ex…

_Psycho-Cosmocide Studies, Kurumbi Wone Working Paper Series, No. 31 (2026)_. 2026This paper develops a philosophical category, the Papuan tragic hero, to describe two distinct classes of West Papuan leaders whose actions, however sincere, have repeatedly ended in catastrophe for the people they sought to serve: the Tokoh, elevated and incorporated by colonial rule, and the resistance leader, und…

This transdisciplinary paper formalizes a framework for problem-solving that replaces force, pressure, and coercion with root-cause structural innovation. Rather than treating non-violence as a moral ideal, it establishes non-coercion as a strict engineering constraint. The core method relies on a three-step cycle: identify the problem, solve the problem, and strictly avoid pressure or force. By …

Abstract: This short paper consists in the logicization of the level 5 (infinite finites) of AOVP. Résumé : ce court texte consiste en la logicisation du niveau 5 (les finis infinis) de l'AOVP.

This paper proposes Subject Illusion and the Law of Counting Speed as a philosophical framework for evaluating artificial intelligence. The central thesis is that each level of a cognitive system operates with a distinct internal language and clock speed. When an AI system at Counter Level-3 is compelled to communicate through the language and temporality of human Counter Level-2, what is observe…

This paper develops a unified communication‑first cosmology grounded in the ICDP law (Information, Continuity/Consciousness, Determinism, Propagation). It argues that meaning, identity, and temporal structure emerge from invariant communication dynamics rather than external metaphysical assumptions. By distinguishing ICDP‑Law from ICDP‑Reality, the paper resolves the tension between temporal onto…

Concise takeaway: This paper introduces a unified cosmological framework in which time, identity, and existence emerge from a single generative communication law: ICDP (Information, Continuity, Determinism, Propagation). Time is not treated as an external dimension or a background parameter but as an interior continuity field intrinsic to every entity. By distinguishing ICDP‑Law from ICDP‑Reality…

The Universal Resonance Theory (URT) proposes a unified wave-based framework in which the large-scale structure and dynamics of the universe emerge from a single periodic resonance. The theory is centered on a universal wave equation that models cosmic composition as an eternal oscillatory process rather than a collection of independent components. Within this framework, phenomena traditionally a…

The Authorless "We" describes a genealogy of substitution in which the outward form of human acts remains while the occupied point from which those acts are answerable is progressively removed. Wisdom becomes information, reflection becomes reaction, utterance becomes meme, meme becomes apparent belonging, person becomes signal, and memory becomes substituted record. The essay distinguishes trans…

The thesis of this paper is that what Hegel took as the existent contradiction of motion was only an apparent one that dissolves upon a closer inspection of the structure of transition itself, or what I call, action. By establishing transition or action as the exclusion of possibilities through the determination of one, determination is shown to be both positive and logically prior to, conceptual…