One Cannot Escape One's Own Mind: Two-Fold Dimensional Collapse and the Reification of Formal Models
In contemporary culture, discussions of cosmic scale often invoke astronomical panoramas to argue that centering cognition on the human mind represents an epistemological bias that should be overcome.
Examining how cognition is structured reveals a two-fold dimensional collapse:
The First Collapse: High-dimensional reality—an unbroken manifold encompassing minds of differing observation speeds—realizes itself as the first-person conscious aperture of an embodied mind;
The Second Collapse: Reality unfolds as an infinite self-recursive distinction whose step size never reaches zero (a potential…
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