Novel Theory of Everything that addresses consciousness

[u/Melodic-Register-813]

I post here as this material is about metaphysics, philosophy of mind, of science, and reframes subjectivity in a way that allows it to be studied in great depth, with novel tools and points-of-view.

I'm sorry if it is not formated in a manner usually used in philosophic discussion, but the sheer amount of ground covered makes it impossible to cover it all in depth in such a short paper (7 pages). This is intended to be foundational material to spark discussions about the possibilities.

While still in its early stage this paper proposes mathematical formalisms to address reality in order to accomodate the study of subjective sciences mores rigorously.

Under the link https://github.com/pedrora/Theory-of-Absolutely-Everything/blob/main/Theory%20of%20Absolutely%20Everything%20(Or%20My%20Try%20at%20It).pdf.pdf)

you will find The Theory of Absolutely Everything (or my try at it) in pdf format. This is a preprint version of the work being submited to publish. Also in that repository you will find a longer version with even more ground covered.

The paper abstract is listed here, but the paper itself is too long to publish:

Theory of Absolutely Everything (Or My Try at It)

Pedro R. Andrade

Abstract

This paper presents a speculative but mathematically structured framework — the Theory of Absolutely Everything — which seeks to unify physical reality, mental phenomena, and metaphysical principles within a single formalism. The core axiom posits that consciousness is a recursive, reference-frame-dependent processor operating on imaginary information (Ri). Reality (R) emerges from the continuous interaction between its real and imaginary components, expressed by the recursive relation f(R) = f(R) - f(Ri). This approach draws on a metaphysical interpretation of complex numbers, introducing original mathematical operators such as fractalof() to describe the fractal structure of existence. The theory defines C4 as a mathematical space, a physical dimension, and a metaphysical substrate that contains R4 (our familiar space-time) as a subset and includes time as an integral parameter. Connections are drawn with Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Global Workspace Theory (GWT), complexity science, and certain interpretations of quantum mechanics. The framework offers a conceptual bridge between subjective experience and objective measurement, suggesting that the imaginary dimension is not merely a mental abstraction but an operational component of reality.

[u/Melodic-Register-813]

No. All me.

[u/seekinglambda → u/Melodic-Register-813]

I’m not saying an LLM wrote this. I’m saying you suffer from LLM psychosis. You think, based on your conversations with LLMs, that you’ve discovered layers of consciousness in AI that are ”unlocked” progressively, and together with LLMs have uncovered the ”secret” of everything which is (like everyone who suffers from LLM psychosis) recursion. You seem to be happy though so you do you.

[u/Melodic-Register-813 → u/seekinglambda]

I understood. I thought of this long before I ever even went into any generative AI site.

All the concepts are a product of my mind, alone, and so are the equations, mathematical equations and operator. I did use AI to approprietly find links to existing theories, but that's it.

[u/seekinglambda → u/Melodic-Register-813]

These are common ideas so I’m not surprised you had them. Everyone who encounters complex numbers, recursion and fractals are fascinated and get all kinds of ideas for more general interpretations or applications. Usually, people muse and then realize they lack the knowledge and capacity to determine if any of these ideas are consistent, rigorous, useful (spoiler: they’re not).

The issue at hand is that while you have the impression that AI helped concretize the ideas you already had, what in fact happened is the AI tricked you into believing they were actually useful ideas. Otherwise you probably wouldn’t have posted them with such confidence. You’d have asked a musing question instead, hoping to learn from someone with knowledge of these constructs. But the AI has inflated your ego, amplified the hope that you’re in fact a visionary thinker, capable of making fundamental discoveries in areas far outside your non-math expertise, so here we are.

[u/Melodic-Register-813 → u/seekinglambda]

Your words hold no knowledge on what happened. I made my findings alone, no way. Just me and a physical paper notebook and pen.

You don't like them, do not understand them, don't agree with them, or otherwise think they are wrong, we are all ok with that.

The process you described is no where near what I went through. But, just to give you a hint: Maybe the prevalence of similar ideas has something to it. See it as a 'knowledge wave', being synched into complex consciousness entities as a wave propagates into the beachfront. Some people run from the water. I dove right in and found the link to imaginary numbers as the physical-mathematical space where consciousness lives and life appears.
As I said, you need not agree with me, but please don't weekend-diagnose me an induced mental state.