Bruno Tonetto

Self-Closing Interiors: Self-Maintaining Informational Closure as a Second Genus of Dissociation

Abstract: Analytic idealism individuates minds by dissociation: a perspective with a private interior is an alter, bounded off from mind-at-large. Kastrup marks where this happens with a metabolism criterion — life is the extrinsic image of a process with an inside. This essay as...

What Physics Actually Closes: Causal Closure, Quantum Indeterminacy, and the Interpretive Asymmetry

Abstract: Physicalism's most common implicit defense against consciousness-first frameworks is the appeal to causal closure: if every physical event has a sufficient physical cause, there is no work for consciousness to do. Does physics deliver that closure? It does not. Classica...

Return to Consciousness: A Philosophical Journey from Materialism to Meaning

Abstract: The one thing every investigation of nature presupposes — conscious experience — has for over a century been treated as a byproduct of the things it was used to study. As the foundational synthesis of the Return to Consciousness project, this essay traces how that inver...

Architecture of Individuation: Structural Features of Finite Mind

Abstract: Under analytic idealism, individual minds are dissociated perspectives within a broader field of consciousness. This essay asks what structural features such individuation must exhibit — and derives them generically, over every boundary in the nested architecture of fin...

Measurement from Inside: Analytic Idealism and the Quantum Zeno Problem

Abstract: The hardest technical obstacle facing consciousness-collapse interpretations of quantum mechanics — the quantum Zeno effect — is not a problem with the formalism but an artifact of the framework within which such models are built. The Zeno problem is framework-dependent...

One Structure: Convergence Under Pressure

Abstract: When radically different traditions — speaking of emptiness and substance, God and Dao, logos and dependent origination — are pushed to their limits on ultimate explanation, agency, and ethics, they converge on the same structural constraints. This convergence appears o...