Research works

A Field-Theoretic Taxonomy of Emotions

Fear is easy to put into words; saudade is not. This paper proposes that emotions are not fixed categories but paths through a few moving parts of one system: six moving parts that generate about 45 distinct feelings, each with its own substrate-path. Abstract. Existing emotion-t...

Local Uniqueness of the Born Rule on Categories with Complex-Weighted Morphisms

I prove a local uniqueness theorem for the Born rule in the setting of quiver-generated categories equipped with complex morphism weights and path-amplitude probability functionals. Given (i) non-negativity, (ii) polynomiality of bounded total degree, (iii) global U (1) invarianc...

Categorical Refinement Dynamics and a Consistency Relation Among Standard Model Flavor Parameters

I develop a framework in which physical configurations form a category 𝐶Ps - a possibility space of structural configurations - whose morphisms carry complex-valued weights encoding transformation cost and geometric phase. The single realized reality Sr traces a path through this...

Fourteen lonely runners: manuscript, gate certificates, and audit code

Manuscript and complete verification package for the paper "Fourteen lonely runners": a computer-assisted proof of the Lonely Runner Conjecture for fourteen runners (thirteen moving runners, LRC(13)), within the finite-checking framework of Sungkawichai and Trakulthongchai (arXiv...

How Modeling Assumptions Shape Predictions of Convective Mixing of Carbon Dioxide

Abstract We investigate how models of fluid properties and boundary conditions influence predictions of convective mixing in confined porous media, with relevance to subsurface carbon dioxide storage. Using high‐resolution simulations at high Rayleigh‐Darcy numbers (O()), we anal...

The Mechanical Framework of Computational Spacetime: Resolving the CMB, Angular Momentum, and Time Dilation via Rendering Latency

The standard cosmological model (ΛCDM) relies on inflationary parameters and hypothetical dark components to reconcile observations with General Relativity. This paper introduces a deterministic, parameter-free mechanical framework operating on the principles of digital physics a...

The Adaptive Filtering of Reality: Biological Constraints and the Emergence of Conscious Experience

Human beings inhabit the same physical environment, yet they frequently experience different versions of reality. This paper argues that experienced reality should not be understood as a direct or complete representation of the external world. Instead, it emerges from a series of...

Identifiability Limits in Experimental Tests of Quantum Collapse

This record contains version 3 of the preprint “Identifiability Limits in Experimental Tests of Quantum Collapse.” It supersedes version 2 deposited under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22071445. Loss of interference visibility does not by itself identify a collapse mechanism. This preprint...

Grooming Detection Without Content Flags: A Trajectory-Based Method for Detecting Progressive Constraint of Receiver Autonomy in Sequential Communication

This paper introduces the Grooming Loop (GL), a trajectory-based method for detecting progressive constraint of the receiver's capacity for independent evaluation in sequential communication. GL is grounded in the evaluation framework of Transmission Origin Diagnostics v206, whic...

Morphotaxonomic verification of the ‘balunos’ vine used in the artisanal budbud salt of Miag-ao, Iloilo, Philippines

Abstract Vernacular names and folk classifications play a central role in how local communities recognize and transmit plant knowledge. The traditional budbud salt from Miag-ao, Iloilo uniquely uses extract from the balunos vine to enhance color, flavor and crystallization, yet t...

Designing female-specific food delivery electric vehicles: a participatory and data-driven approach

Delivery electric vehicles serve as essential work tools in platform-based food delivery, yet satisfaction-related design requirements for female riders remain insufficiently specified and are rarely translated into explicit design priorities with a traceable evidence chain. This...

Subjective Experience as a Meaning-Closing Interface Evolutionary Pressure, Speed Optimization, and the Role of the Other

Subjective experience is often treated either as a qualitative byproduct of neural processing or as a phenomenon primarily shaped by language and narrative. Such approaches tend to obscure its functional role within adaptive systems. This paper proposes a reframing of subjective...

Time as an Interface of Consciousness: Temporal Labeling, Synchronization, and Finitude Temporal Labeling and Conscious Experience: From Time Compression to Déjà Vu

Subjective time is not experienced as a uniform or stable quantity. Moments of threat, uncertainty, or novelty are often reported as temporally expanded, whereas routine and safe contexts are experienced as compressed or rapidly passing. In addition, phenomena such as déjà vu rev...

When More Payoff Information Hurts: Objective Alignment under Endogenous Feasibility

This paper develops a theory of objective information value when payoff information improves but an agent incompletely represents how current actions change future feasibility. For arbitrary finite decision problems, posterior convexity is the benchmark for objective welfare to r...

When Physical Applicability Fails: A Token-Level Verdict Protocol for Physical Claims

A physical claim can be mathematically well formed, empirically non-trivial, and still leave open whether its asserted physical content is licensed by the commitments that carry it. This paper supplies the token-level verdict layer for an applicability framework developed in two...

Evaluation of a novel multi-purpose ophthalmic block simulator amongst ophthalmology trainees

Abstract Purpose Training to perform ophthalmic blocks is often done on actual patients by trial and error. Higher complication rates and poor patient experience occur from a suboptimal block. We assess the efficacy of a novel ophthalmic block simulator via a pilot study. Design:...

The Subconscious Circuit: A Neural Framework for Execution, Automaticity, and Flow

Three execution systems and one gate whose suppression enables them (the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and locus coeruleus, and the hippocampus) are the subconscious infrastructure for skilled execution, automaticity, and flow. During flow, the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and locus c...

Tobacco industry interference and WHO FCTC Article 5.3 implementation in Aotearoa New Zealand: A qualitative analysis

ABSTRACT Background Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control requires Parties to protect policies from tobacco industry interference, yet implementation remains weak internationally. Aotearoa New Zealand’s (Aotearoa NZ) is seen as a leader in tobacco control...

Projective Dynamic Logo (PDL) — Global Mapping of Structures, Results, and Open Problems — Version 34

Version 34 of the PDL Global Mapping. This is the first version of this document to withdraw a standing claim of unconditional causal closure. Two independent gaps are now recorded on the chain from axioms C1–C4 to Newton's constant G. First, the active surface R_surf = φ·r_val/3...

Dicke-state preparation by collision-model circuits: a noiseless budget-fidelity frontier, its circuit cost, and measured fidelities on IQM Emerald

Measured Dicke-state fidelities for collision-model preparation circuits on the IQM Emerald superconducting processor, with raw per-circuit outcome histograms, the device calibration snapshot used, and the analysis code needed to regenerate every processed result.