Boundary-Driven Ontology: How Micro-Scale Cross- Sectional Interventions in Semiconductor Systems Reconfigure High-Dimensional Macroscopic State Spaces

Abstract

A persistent philosophical and physical question concerns how human agents—physically bounded within a 3 + 1dimensional spacetime horizon—can manipulate and control extremely complex, high-dimensionalmacro-systems such as artificial intelligence models, global data networks, and phase spaces. This workingpaper introduces a unifying conceptual framework termed Boundary-Driven Ontology (BDO). Drawing an explicit mathematical and physical analogy to the Holographic Principle in quantum gravity—where high-dimensional bulk physics is completely encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary surface—we demonstrate that semiconductor engineering operates on identical geometric principles. By executing sub-nanometercross-sectional interventions—such as trapping subatomic charges in floating gates or inducing structural potential asymmetries across the ultra-thin Base layer of NPN transistors—engineers manipulate the lower-dimensional boundaries of matter. These micro-scale boundary manipulations deterministically dictate the trajectories of complex, high-dimensional state spaces in modern computing. This paper bridgessemiconductor device physics, geometry, and epistemology, asserting that human control over complexrealities is fundamentally mediated through lower-dimensional boundary engineering.