A philosophical treatise on information, consciousness, and the architecture of perceived reality.
Front Psychol June 9, 2026 Phillip A. Martin
Reality may be a constructed model generated by a biological prediction engine operating on delayed information, and the substrate of that information could be a pervasive field of topological information states whose defining characteristic is intrinsic expansion. This framework synthesizes physics, neuroscience, and information theory, offering a candidate mechanism rather than an established finding. It presents a reaction–diffusion formalism where the golden ratio φ acts as a dynamical attractor, a layered topological field construction permitting anyon-like behavior at physiological temperatures, a SHEPHERD filtration sequence connecting field dynamics to perception, and four falsifiable predictions. Speculative extensions are distinguished from empirically grounded claims.