Glossary

Reading guide to accompany the Consciousness of the Real (CdR) corpus: concise definitions of the notions, symbols, and terms used in the documents. The glossary facilitates cross-corpus consultation, but does not replace the corpus itself: notions should be understood in the context in which they appear and develop.

CtR Consciousness of the Real

Exploratory framework aimed at questioning the origin and coherence of the Real from the minimal experience of change, by seeking to derive space, time, matter, thought and consciousness from a common dynamic principle, without recourse to pre-established external hypotheses.

Category : Corpus

Change

Fundamental fact according to which something varies or is transformed, independently of any theoretical interpretation, and which constitutes the minimal evidence on which can be anchored an investigation of the Real.

Category : Concepts

Perception of change

Immediate and irreducible observation of an effective transformation of the world, considered as the first point of contact with the Real and as the non-derivable starting point of any approach to understanding.

Category : Perception

Direct experience

Immediate and unmediated relation to the Real as it manifests before any modeling, belief or explanatory construction.

Category : Perception

CELA

Fundamental field from which emerge space, time and matter in CtR cosmology.

Category : Ontology

Substance of the Real

Phenomenological framework designating that which remains through change and ensures the continuity of the Real beyond its apparent forms, without prior dogmatic postulate.

Category : Ontology

Immanence

Principle according to which nothing that exists is external to CELA; the causes, constraints and regulations of the Real reside in its own dynamics.

Category : Ontology

Internal coherence

Validity criterion of a framework according to which the slightest internal contradiction requires its revision or abandonment.

Category : Concepts

Ontological finitude

Condition according to which discernible existence rests on the maintenance of finite internal contrasts, and not on external limits.

Category : Ontology

Emergence

Process by which new structures or properties appear from simpler conditions, without being explicitly contained as separate objects in those initial conditions.

Category : Dynamics

Ontological density ρ

Local intensity of being, expressing the degree of effective presence of a system or region of the Real.

Category : Formalism

Differential complexity C

Degree of internal articulation of a system, describing the way in which its differences are organized and structured.

Category : Formalism

Invariant of immanence kΦ

Internal constant characterizing the maintenance of the local coherence of the Real, defined as the invariant value of the product ρ·C.

Category : Ontology

ρ·C ≈ kΦ constraint

Internal invariant imposing a co-determination between ontological density and organizational complexity, limiting accessible stable configurations when the number of axes is increased.

Category : Formalism

Dimensional axis

Direction of internal organization along which CELA can distinguish, coordinate and stabilize differences, constituting a basis for dimensional deployment.

Category : Structure

Space

Dimension of stabilized extension through the coordination of fundamental spatiotemporal axes; in CtR, space is not a primary container, but an emergent effect of the coherent deployment of CELA.

Category : Physics

Time

Ordinating dimension arising from the spatiotemporal deployment of CELA, allowing one to distinguish before, after, duration and the succession of states.

Category : Physics

Spacetime

Emergent fabric arising from the coordination of fundamental spatiotemporal axes; in CtR, it is not a primary continuum, but a discrete, dynamic and cohesive spationic medium.

Category : Cosmology

Wave

Dynamic pattern propagating in a structure using at least two dimensional axes, resulting from regular interactions.

Category : Physics

Mass

Expression of the stable volumetric cohesion of a portion of CELA, manifesting as inertia.

Category : Physics

Inertia

Resistance to a change of state interpreted as an effect of viscosity and dynamic memory of the spationic medium, rather than as an isolated property of matter.

Category : Physics

Force

Dynamic manifestation of the interaction between coherent masses, expressing the redistribution of cohesion during a variation of motion.

Category : Physics

Energy

Capacity of a system to produce transformations, resulting from the combination of cohesion (ρ) and internal organization (C).

Category : Physics

Axial dimension Dⁿ

Level of organizational amplitude describing how many coherent spatiotemporal axes are used to stabilize a given physical quantity, independently of ordinary units of measurement.

Category : Formalism

Consciousness

Higher-level perceptual form resulting from complete reflexivity of feeling, where perception becomes perceived.

Category : Perception

Psychophysics

Domain describing the simultaneous manifestation of the Real as material organization and as lived organization, without separation or hierarchy, from the same ontological process.

Category : Concepts

Spation

Discrete elementary cell of CtR spacetime, non-particle fundamental unit simultaneously carrying space, time, mass and energy, defined as a minimal stable volume under the constraint of immanence.

Category : Structure

Granularity of spacetime

Structural property according to which spacetime possesses a minimal indivisible unit, imposed by the stability of the invariant of immanence.

Category : Structure

Spationic medium

Extremely dense cohesive network made of spations, forming the dynamic substrate of quantum spacetime and the support of fundamental mechanical phenomena.

Category : Structure

Quantum spacetime

Non-continuous spacetime regime, made of discrete cells (spations), in which the classical notions of space and time cease to be valid in isolation.

Category : Cosmology

Matter

Stabilized regime of CELA in which spationic configurations, vortices and internal structures maintain durable cohesion, manifesting as mass, charge, inertia and particle organization.

Category : Physics

Particle

Stabilized dynamic configuration of the spationic field, often a vortex or stationary mode, appearing as a localized entity without being a fundamental point-object.

Category : Physics

Field Φ

Coherence field of the Real in which are formulated the constraints of immanence, spationic organizations and modes of stabilization.

Category : Ontology

Φ vortex

Stable vortical organization of the spationic field around a transion or center of constraint, serving as a possible basis for particles and stationary modes.

Category : Physics

Spin

Quantized mode of internal rotation of a Φ vortex or double-vortex; in CtR, it expresses phase stability and internal orientation rather than simple classical mechanical rotation.

Category : Physics

Charge

Structured imbalance of the spationic field producing attraction, repulsion or coupling; in CtR, charge is a geometrico-dynamic polarization of the medium rather than a property added to a particle.

Category : Physics

Atom

Material system composed of a stable nucleus and a peripheral electronic organization; in CtR, the atom becomes chemically active when its stationary electronic modes can enter into interaction.

Category : Chemistry

Molecule

Stable chemical system formed from bonded atoms, whose form, polarity and reactivity depend on the organization of shared electronic modes.

Category : Chemistry

Life

Regime of organization of CELA in which material structures maintain their coherence through metabolism, membrane, reproduction, adaptation and internal self-regulation.

Category : Biology

Cell

Biological unit organized by a boundary, flows, metabolism, maintenance loops and continuity of functioning.

Category : Biology

Metabolism

Network of transformations through which a living system converts matter and energy to maintain its organization.

Category : Biology

ADN

Major molecular support of genetic information in known living systems, ensuring conservation, replication and transmission of organizing forms.

Category : Biology

Nervous system

Biological organization specialized in the rapid integration of signals, coordination of responses and formation of complex perceptual loops.

Category : Biology

Brain

Higher biological organ of integration that centralizes without controlling everything: it coordinates perception, action, memory, bodily regulation and preparation of responses in a living system.

Category : Neurology

Neuron

Excitable cell specialized in the transmission and modulation of signals, understood in CtR as a near-threshold system, capable of stabilizing differentiated responses in a network.

Category : Neurology

Neural network

Organized set of neurons whose synchronizations, oscillations and plasticities produce higher forms of integration than the activity of each isolated cell.

Category : Neurology

Conscious attention

Reflexive form of attention where biological selection becomes available in an organized lived field, reportable or phenomenologically identifiable.

Category : Neurology

Phenomenological richness

Degree of content, clarity, coherence and internal organization of a lived field, distinct from its mere intensity or reportability.

Category : Perception

Lived field

Phenomenological horizon in which contents, forms, presence, totality or imaginality appear, according to regimes of perceptual organization.

Category : Perception

Artificial complexity

Degree of organization of an artificial system measured by its maintenance density, its internal stability and its capacity to preserve a constraint \((\rho, C)\).

Category : Artificial intelligence