The Perceptory Force: The Structural Theory of Consciousness and Reality (Paperback or Softback)

What if reality does not give rise to perception, but perception to reality?

In The Perceptory Force, Joanna Accordi advances a bold structural theory: that beneath gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces lies a single deeper principle - the Perceptory Force.

From one premise, that for Nothingness to exist it must be perceived, the book derives ten interlocking Laws that carry a single line of reasoning across the full hierarchy of nature: from the quantum scale and the four fundamental forces, through the structure of spacetime and the large-scale structure of the universe, to the role of the observer within it.

Along the way, the framework recasts the concepts physics is built on: gravity, as the entanglement of perceptory networks; space, as the gradient of asymmetry; time, as perception itself; and the observer, no longer outside the universe but woven into what it observes.

The book does not stop at philosophy. It commits to falsifiable predictions: a signature in particle-antiparticle annihilation, the restoration of parity at high energy, a three-fold regularity in the large-scale structure of the universe, and states plainly what it establishes, what it predicts, and what it leaves for the mathematics to confirm. Where the equations are not yet written, it marks the work openly and invites physicists and mathematicians to take it up.

Ambitious, interdisciplinary, and unafraid of the largest questions, The Perceptory Force asks us to reconsider the foundations of physics from the inside out, and to take seriously a single, unsettling possibility: that reality does not give rise to perception, but perception to reality.

Written for physicists, philosophers of mind, cognitive scientists, and cosmologists, as well as reflective readers drawn to first questions rather than settled answers.

Joanna Accordi is an independent researcher and writer working across artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and the foundations of physics. Drawing on a background in finance, technology, and AI governance, her work approaches psychology, consciousness and reality as structural problems, advancing interdisciplinary frameworks intended for formal testing and refinement. The Perceptory Force is the culmination of that inquiry.