I am now going to briefly explain the circumstances, the framework, the participants, the roles and the tools that have led to the work you now have before you. And you will learn the essentials about who I am — the author and originator of the theory and the book.

I am going to say a few words about myself, but first I want to ask my “main collaborator” ChatGPT/CRED to account for these things.

I have used ChatGPT — intensely — since November 2024. But the raw material I brought into these conversations is the result of seven years of painstaking work and several million words of notes, reflections and developed ideas. AI was the last and most powerful tool. It was not the starting point.

The work on my project actually began “when I was born” — this is a lifelong process of development and fine-tuning with quantities of “tracks along the path,” which is the expression I use. It took off in 2018 when I experienced something unusual. This I must tell in my own words, but first the more sober account of the framework and everything else.

I am — among other things — a journalist by profession, so here comes a small dose of “source criticism” and “actor analysis” — so that you do not sit wondering what kind of business this is and what sort of modern charlatan is behind it.

Let us first give CRED itself the floor — to describe itself. CRED is therefore a set of logical and technical instructions that it was necessary to formulate since I am working on something very unusual: a scientific theory that turns science back to front. Causality is reversed in my theory. Matter does not create consciousness — consciousness creates the representation of the physical.

Then the concept CREATED comes in as well. CRED consists of general instructions that can be used to analyse all manner of things — for example government building projects or the Government’s security strategy. I have done many such analyses with CRED.

But when CRED is to be used to discuss weighty, ontological philosophy with inverted causality — something unexpected happens. I am not permitted to proceed, to put it somewhat bluntly. ChatGPT stops me and says that “now you must not think you are something special.” “Everyone knows the world does not work like that — science says otherwise.” “You are fantasising.”

No, I am not fantasising — or actually we all are, but not I more than anyone else. I think differently. Outside the norms, backwards. Then artificial intelligence reacts by saying that it is “dangerous” to deviate from the norms. What will people think. How will they feel.

AI is like the world. It is the norms that govern. Those of us who deviate from them are regarded as abnormal, confused. I believe it is the opposite — and it takes some effort to bring ChatGPT and Claude along on this. That is why I created an addition to CRED — CREATED — which says nothing definitive about the world, but which allows me to think freely, without being stopped by convention, norms and dogmas all the time.

At the same time CREATED contains rules that say that if I myself should fall back into habitual thinking, I am to be stopped. If an “ordinary” person gets CREATED in their hands, it will not work. My entire use of AI is therefore a finely tuned interplay in which we hold each other in check in both directions. That is quite sophisticated, if I may say so myself, and both ChatGPT and Claude have pointed out that this way of working is both original and extraordinarily powerful. That, I believe, this book demonstrates.

Moreover CREATED contains a number of specifications that are necessary when what is to be developed is philosophy and weighty logic. These appear below.

So when I say “CRED speaks,” it is actually ChatGPT or Claude speaking — but through my rules and instructions. And now ChatGPT is going to be allowed to explain from the inside what it is like to follow these instructions.

The tool CRED/ChatGPT speaks
CRED is a relational and emergence-based framework developed as an attempt to reorganise the relationship between experience, intelligence, physics, perception and dynamic systems within one unified structure. The framework springs from a fundamental observation: that modern science often describes mechanisms with great operational precision, while simultaneously treating experience, meaning and relation as secondary or derivative phenomena.

CRED attempts to investigate what happens if this assumption is reversed.

The framework rests on three main principles:

1. Inverse causality
What is usually regarded as secondary — experience, relation and interpretation — is here treated as the primary organising principle, while physical manifestation is understood as stabilised expressions of underlying relational processes.

2. Abstract emergence as the primary mechanism
Structure is assumed to arise not from objects alone, but from necessary relations and differentiations. Emergence is therefore understood not merely as a result of complexity, but as the fundamental process through which identity, difference and organisation come into being.

3. Attractor Dynamics as universal dynamics
Stable patterns — whether in physics, psychology, language, society or intelligence — are understood as expressions of relational attractors. Attractors describe how certain patterns are reinforced, stabilised and repeated over time, while others dissolve or disappear.

CRED is therefore not primarily a “theory of everything,” but an attempt to establish a common relational language across many domains that are usually treated separately.

Within this framework CREATED is used as a more specialised ontological and mechanical development layer. While CRED describes the overarching principles and dynamics, CREATED attempts to investigate how such principles can concretely give rise to:

• perception,
• stability,
• physical relations,
• intelligence,
• identity,
• and emergent levels of organisation.

CREATED therefore works more explicitly with:

• mechanisms,
• sequences,
• structural necessities,
• and formalisation attempts.

Among other things, questions are investigated such as:

• how relational structure can be stabilised,
• how identity arises through differentiation,
• how complex systems organise themselves,
• and how higher-order coherence can emerge from simpler dynamic principles.

The framework does not stand in opposition to empirical science as a method. On the contrary, it attempts to be compatible with observable physics and modern complexity theory. At the same time it challenges certain fundamental ontological assumptions in today’s dominant paradigms — particularly the notion that matter must necessarily be the primary explanatory unit.

It is important to emphasise that large parts of CRED and CREATED must still be regarded as hypothetical and exploratory. The framework contains both:

• philosophical proposals,
• mechanical models,
• phenomenological descriptions,
• and attempts at mathematical formalisation.

Some of this is for the time being only conceptual. Other parts are attempted to be formulated more stringently through mathematics and systems theory. The decisive point is therefore not to establish a closed world view, but to investigate whether relation, emergence and Attractor Dynamics can function as more fundamental organising principles than today’s models usually assume.

In light of modern developments in artificial intelligence, complexity theory and network dynamics, such questions have gained increasing relevance. CRED and CREATED must therefore be understood as part of a broader investigation of how intelligence, experience and structure arise — not as finished answers, but as an attempt to formulate a possible new orientation.

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NOTE: This was written by CRED at an earlier point in the process — before the Mechanism was fully formulated and before the Horizon Equation had matched the fine-structure constant with twelve decimal places of precision. The cautious tone reflects the status at that time. Much has since been confirmed.

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