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Publications
New to Trace Logic?
If the formal papers are unfamiliar territory, start with the plain-language guide first. It walks through what Trace Logic is in everyday terms — no equations — before pointing you deeper into the research.
New to Trace Logic? Read the plain-language guide →Articulates the central thesis of the TRACE research program: consciousness, not spacetime, is fundamental. Argues that the hard problem of consciousness, the failure of spacetime as fundamental ontology, and the empirical success of quantum mechanics together motivate a research program that derives physics from the dynamics of networks of conscious agents, rather than the reverse.
Read in-app →Explores how conscious agents can combine to form new agents and how this combination relates to physics beyond spacetime. Develops the combination conjecture and connections to decorated permutations in particle physics.
Read in-app → Original source →Proposes empirical tests of conscious agent theory using scattering data from particle physics. Maps Markov chain dynamics to scattering amplitudes and develops the trace-order formalism as a bridge between agent experience and observable measurements.
Read in-app → Original source →Argues that Interface Theory of Perception (ITP) and the Fitness-Beats-Truth (FBT) theorem together imply that objective spacetime realism is a fitness-conducive fiction: selection shapes perceptions to serve survival, not to report truth, and consciousness is the foundation from which physics is derived.
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