Academic Papers

Closes the experiential pathway from phenomenology to essentialist metaphysics: the attractor-reification mechanism shows that the phenomenological sense of essence cannot serve as independent evidence for the existence of essences. Husserl's Wesensschau is taken as the central test case. Read more →

Determinacy needs justification; indeterminacy does not. Three converging arguments — information-theoretic, from the logic of determination, and from the regress structure of metaphysical explanation — establish the asymmetry principle that licences the entire Generative Ontology programme. Read more →

A systematic structural correspondence between the twelve nidānas and predictive processing. Avijjā = a structural failure to recognise priors as priors; vedanā = valenced prediction error; taṇhā / upādāna = precision-weighting and attractor reification. The argument runs in both directions: predictive processing supplies a mechanistic vocabulary for the nidāna chain; the nidāna chain supplies the diachronic developmental logic that synchronic predictive processing leaves unaddressed. Read more →

A predictive-processing reading of Wang Yangming's "this flower" proposition: perceptual content depends on the active generative operation of xin (mind). The paper draws a precise mechanistic correspondence while explicitly delimiting limits — the innate normativity of liangzhi falls outside predictive coding's scope. Read more →

A two-level rebuttal of the Platonic Representation Hypothesis: Platonic ontology is explanatorily redundant (parsimony), and the Platonic intuition is compelling because extremely robust attractors are operationally indistinguishable, from within the closed cognitive loop, from "independently existing objects" (explanatory reduction). Read more →

An early attempt to compress the entire Generative Ontology system into a single paper, later split into the focused papers above. Retained as a reference for the overall structure and the through-line of the core argument. Read more →