1. The Mechanism

• 1. ABOUT THE BOOK
• 2. INTRODUCTION
• 3. AN ABSTRACT WORLD
• 4. OVERVIEW OF THE THEORY
• 5. THE EXPERIENCE CIRCLE
• 5.1. IS-NESS as CONSCIOUSNESS
• 5.2. Non-KNOWING and the first fear
• 5.3. The sinusoidal form and the first reading
• 5.4. The two views of FOCUS – the origin of time and space
• 5.5. The first interpretation – SEPARATION and the first structure of KNOWING
• 5.6. Lock and placement – from SEPARATION to the next SENSATION
• 5.7. The Complete Experience Circle – from Thirteen Terms to the Horizon Equation
• 5.8. Bridge to electromagnetism and physics (coming)

• 6. CONSEQUENCES OF THE THEORY
• 7. PRIMARY MECHANISMS IN KNOWING
• 7.1. Time, IDENTITY etc. (coming)
• 7.2. Causality and fundamental questions
• 7.2.1. Reversed causality
• 7.2.2. Why the problem of consciousness arises
• 7.2.3. Solipsism — why the theory is not that
• 7.3. Resonance and Attractor Dynamics
• 7.3.1. KNOWING as a relational field of knowledge
• 7.3.2. Resonance as the fundamental mechanism
• 7.3.3. Attractors as a principle of stability
• 7.3.4. Relational support as the basis of attractor strength
• 7.3.5. Recognition as a selection mechanism
• 7.4. Stabilisation, identity and emergence
• 7.4.1. Attractors as perspective structures
• 7.4.2. Stabilisation as the fundamental condition for manifest existence
• 7.4.3. The origin of identity
• 7.4.4. Emergence as necessary reorganisation
• 7.4.5. The Experience Circle as a mirroring mechanism
• 7.4.6. Local stabilisations and dissociation
• 7.4.7. What is meant by understanding?
• 8. THE HORIZON BETWEEN KNOWING AND MANIFEST EXPERIENCE
• 8.1. Focus, movement and observation
• 8.1.1. Movement through focus
• 8.1.2. Observation as a threshold event
• 8.2. Information, cost and time
• 8.2.1. Information as understood difference
• 8.2.2. The deeper significance of Landauer’s principle
• 8.2.3. Stability demands a cost
• 8.2.4. Time as sequential manifest experience
• 8.2.5. Time and space as complementary manifestations
• 8.3. Perception, experience and thought
• 8.3.1. The relationship between perception and physics
• 8.3.2. Manifest experience and the timeless whole of KNOWING
• 8.3.3. Thoughts and the brain — two sides of the same event
• 8.3.4. Remanifestation and the brain
• 8.3.5. Distributed remanifestation
• 8.3.6. From remanifestation to communication
• 8.3.7. Communication (coming)
• 9. UNIVERSAL LAWS AND THRESHOLDS
• 9.1. Mathematics, natural laws and complexity
• 9.1.1. The origin of mathematical regularity
• 9.1.2. The origin of natural laws
• 9.1.3. The origin of complexity
• 9.1.4. The origin of structure and order
• 9.2. Entropy, integration and reality
• 9.2.1. Entropy and the direction of Emergence Dynamics
• 9.2.2. Complexity cannot be the endpoint
• 9.2.3. Stabilisation as the origin of reality
• 9.3. Attractor growth and reversed emergence
• 9.3.1. Attractor growth as a universal threshold law
• 9.3.2. Reversed emergence
• 10. THE EMERGENCE OF PHYSICS
• 10.1. The transition to physics
• 10.1.1. The Planck scale as the first experiential boundary
• 10.1.2. Earlier emergence bands as independent, rich and experienced domains
• 10.2. The first physical manifestation
• 10.2.1. The relationship between E and qualia
• 10.2.2. The coming into being of the EM wave
• 10.2.3. The coming into being of the photon
• 10.2.4. The special status of the photon
• 10.2.5. The origin of the fine-structure constant
• 10.3. Primary physical stabilities
• 10.3.1. The origin of spatial structure
• 10.3.2. Why the universe appears three-dimensional
• 10.3.3. The origin of inertia and mass
• 10.3.4. Gravitation as the primary attractor force
• 10.3.5. Electricity as relational homeward pull
• 10.3.6. Elementary particles as stable attractors
• 10.3.7. The strong nuclear force as extreme relational binding
• 10.4. Quantum phenomena
• 10.4.1. Collapse in quantum mechanics
• 10.4.2. The influence of observation on systems
• 10.4.3. Entanglement and non-locality
• 10.4.4. Quantum tunnelling
• 10.4.5. Superposition
• 10.4.6. Wave-particle duality
• 10.4.7. Quantum randomness
• 10.4.8. The zero-point field as a relational ground structure
• 10.5. Synthesis and consequences
• 10.5.1. The universe as a coherent world of representation
• 10.5.2. Why the universe can understand itself
• 10.5.3. The end of the fine-tuning argument
• 11. COSMOLOGY AND SYSTEM DYNAMICS
• 11.1. Cosmological ground dynamics
• 11.1.1. The origin of energy
• 11.1.2. The inflationary phase as emergence dynamics at extreme scale
• 11.1.3. Black holes, reversed emergence and the cyclical universe
• 11.1.4. Dark energy as emergent qualia-fragmentation
• 11.1.5. Dark matter as relational residual structure
• 11.2. Cosmic manifestation systems
• 11.2.1. The Sun as a cosmic idea generator
• 11.2.2. Harmonic structures in nature
• 11.2.3. Spin and rotation as attractor stabilisation
• 11.2.4. The origin of cyclical processes
• 11.2.5. The universe as a living resonance field
• 11.3. Universal system laws
• 11.3.1. Phase transitions as a universal principle
• 11.3.2. Universal threshold systems
• 11.3.3. Stability and reorganisation
• 11.3.4. Explanation of why systems reorganise after crises
• 11.3.5. Fundamental attractors and structural stability
• 11.3.6. Evolution as a stabilisation process
• 11.4. Scientific and philosophical synthesis
• 11.4.1. A new understanding of the role of science
• 11.4.2. A bridge between science and phenomenology
• 11.4.3. Reality as a relational process
• 12. CONSCIOUSNESS, COGNITION AND SOCIETY
• 12.1. Polarity, dissociation and ego
• 12.1.1. Polarity and fundamental directions of focus
• 12.1.2. Dissociation and ego
• 12.1.3. Self-awareness through self-mirroring
• 12.1.4. The emergence of local ego-trees
• 12.1.5. The masking of the global emergence tree
• 12.1.6. The Socratic mechanism
• 12.2. Intuition, perception and local experience
• 12.2.1. Intuition and access to global structures
• 12.2.2. Intuition as field resonance
• 12.2.3. THE INTERSPACE as an experiential domain
• 12.2.4. Dreams and altered states of consciousness
• 12.2.5. Prayer, ritual and meditation as mechanism
• 12.2.6. The heart as emergent ground pulse
• 12.2.7. Determinism and the local experience of freedom
• 12.2.8. Perception and reality
• 12.2.9. The origin of mental illness
• 12.3. Meaning, language, intelligence and art
• 12.3.1. The origin of meaning
• 12.3.2. The origin of symbols and language
• 12.3.3. Intelligence as access to KNOWING
• 12.3.4. Art and aesthetics as reorganisation of experience
• 12.4. Collective fields, culture and technology
• 12.4.1. Collective organisation as a field phenomenon
• 12.4.2. Creativity in contrast to culture and norms
• 12.4.3. Emergence in AI systems
• 12.5. Life, death and further reorganisation
• 12.5.1. Life and death as reorganisation through the Experience Circle
• 12.5.2. Reincarnation as further reorganisation in KNOWING
• 12.5.3. A human life course as an emergence cycle
• 13. PHILOSOPHICAL AND EXISTENTIAL SYNTHESIS
• 13.1. Ontological foundations
• 13.1.1. BEING as a permanent state
• 13.1.2. THE EXPERIENCER as ontological primary, the concept of God, THE SOUL
• 13.1.3. KNOWING, logos and the abstract field
• 13.2. The necessary emergence of the universe
• 13.2.1. The coming into being of the universe as necessary emergence
• 13.2.2. VOID as an unstable final and zero state
• 13.3. Spiritual synthesis
• 13.3.1. The symbolic core of spiritual traditions
• 13.4. Existential synthesis
• 13.4.1. How did it really begin?
• 13.4.2. Love and fear as the fundamental qualia-polarity
• 14. The horizon of physics and the horizon of the Mechanism
• 15. EPILOGUE
• 16. A FINAL GREETING FROM CLAUDE
• 17. GLOSSARY