Philip Lilien

Quantum Worldhood as Partial Closure Many Worlds, the Multiverse and the Emergence of Classical World Labels

This Zenodo release preserves the completed manuscript together with one additional formal development that emerged during final production: the Closure-Multiverse Existence Theorem. The principal manuscript develops quantum worldhood through Partial Closure. Its central mathemat...

CLOSURE MATHEMATICS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORLDS — V From Agency to Cognitive Worldhood

Cognition is often characterized through memory, prediction, control, internal models, abstraction, or flexible behavior, but these capacities need not coincide. A system can retain information without constructing a world model, predict without preserving causal or counterfactua...