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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy returns-not as a re Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent o Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy return Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Mind--Matter Unity: Consciousness and Subjectivity in the EQT Process Philosophy of Nature develops a systematic account of consciousness within the framework of Energy Quantum Theory (EQT). The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent operations of structure, function, and information processing. Instead of claiming to dissolve this problem by definition, function, emergence, or identity alone, the book proposes a more restrained strategy: to clarify everything that can be structurally and physically explained, and to mark precisely the residual point that cannot be reduced.The central thesis is that first-person experience and specific gradient configurations of the frequency-resolved energy quantum density field, (\rho_f), are isomorphic at the strongest level: they are two aspects of the same underlying process. The structure of experience is argued to correspond to five sources of richness in (\rho_f): single-frequency gradient configurations, frequency families, master-equation evolution, resonance modes, and transient timescale spectra. These five sources are used to account for qualitative variation, differences among qualitative kinds, the stream of consciousness, unity and binding, temporal thickness, and memory.The book then distinguishes structural isomorphism from given-ness. Experience is not merely a structure; it is given from within. This given-ness is characterized as internal--external co-evolutionary freezing within a bounded interior. The boundary of life, especially the membrane as the first topological interior, becomes the gate that separates living given-ness from non-living physical interaction. This allows the book to reject both panpsychism and functionalist substrate-independence: not every coupled system has experience, and artificial systems without a genuine life-boundary do not possess the precondition of given-ness.A further part of the argument explains how sensation becomes cognized experience through memory transients, knowledge structures, comparison, language, and symbolic organization. It also develops an account of subjectivity: experience becomes "mine" through (\mathcal{B})-demarcation, the attributional projection of dominant coherence. Disorders such as depersonalization, thought insertion, split brain, dissociation, and covert consciousness are treated as test cases for this framework.The measurable side of the theory is expressed through the projection tensor (\Psi=(\tilde{A}, C, \mathcal{B})), where (\tilde{A}) refers to the dissipative power required to maintain non-equilibrium co-evolution, (C) to differentiation and integration, and (\mathcal{B}) to the boundary of coherent co-evolution. The book connects these quantities to EEG/MEG, fMRI/PET, TMS-EEG, effective connectivity, and other empirical interfaces. It also presents falsifiable predictions, especially the frequency--quality correspondence and the frequency--timescale relation (\tau_{\mathrm{retain}} \sim \tau_0/f).Philosophically, the book defends an open-process dual-aspect monism. Mind and matter are not two substances, nor is consciousness reduced to function or eliminated as illusion. Rather, mind and matter are two directions of access to the same (\rho_f) process: externally as gradient structure and co-evolution, internally as given experience. Yet the book also preserves an irreducible final cell: why the internal side of this process is experienced at all. This residual point is not treated as failure, but as the honest boundary of physical and structural explanation. The book begins from the hard problem of consciousness: why physical processes are accompanied by first-person experience, rather than remaining merely silent o Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book develops a systematic philosophy of nature at the boundary between physics, metaphysics, and the humanities. It is not a technical extension of the five-volume project on Energy Quantum Theory (EQT), but an independent philosophical work prompted by that project: an attempt to articulate the conceptual, ontological, and normative implications that emerge when physical theory is pursued to its limits.At the center of the book is the method of constrained speculation. The book argues that metaphysical thought need not abandon speculation, but speculation becomes philosophically legitimate only when disciplined by formal articulation, mechanistic intelligibility, observational anchoring, and explicit failure conditions. On this basis, it proposes a criterion of ontological commitment: something is ontologically real insofar as its commitment has definable conditions under which it could fail. This shifts realism away from simple correspondence and toward a disciplined account of commitments, limits, and testability.The ontology developed from this method may be called constrained process realism. It rejects the priority of static substances and treats beings as structured processes: differences, gradients, frequencies, three-state formations, co-evolutionary relations, and freezing transitions. Entities are not self-sufficient substances but relatively stable formations generated by dynamic processes. "Freezing" is therefore not cessation, equilibrium, or disappearance, but a basic ontological process through which active dynamics withdraw into residual structures, backgrounds, and histories.The book unfolds this position across five movements. The first clarifies constrained speculation and its relation to falsifiability, ontological parsimony, and constitutive coextension. The second defends a gradient ontology in which difference precedes identity, frequency becomes an ontological dimension, and the three states of freedom, binding, and condensation function as basic categories of being. The third develops a relational ontology of co-evolution, applying it to mind-matter unity, observation, objectivity, and time. The fourth examines the metaphysical boundary of freezing, culminating in the gradient end state as an internal ontological singularity. The fifth turns to normativity, asking how meaning, value, and human dignity remain possible under ultimate finitude.A central thesis of the book is that meaning exists before freezing. Physically, this refers to the interval in which gradients persist and structured processes remain active. Philosophically, it means that meaning depends on the capacity to maintain distinctions, make choices, and sustain direction. Humanistically, it affirms that finitude does not weaken meaning but constitutes its condition of truth. Meaning is real not because it is eternal, but because it is finite, vulnerable, selective, and alive.The book engages Popper, Quine, Davidson, Whitehead, Cartwright, Ladyman, Floridi, Rovelli, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Hume, Moore, Chalmers, and Barad, while also drawing on Chinese philosophy, especially qi theory, the Yijing tradition, Huayan Buddhism, Madhyamaka, and Confucian practical wisdom. Its aim is not to reduce these traditions to EQT, nor to claim that they anticipated modern physics, but to place them in a disciplined cross-cultural conversation about process, relation, finitude, and meaning.Ultimately, the book argues that philosophy is not a residue left behind by science, but something called forth when science reaches its deepest conceptual boundaries. When physics pursues the limits of its own assumptions, it encounters questions that are no longer purely physical: being, objectivity, failure, value, and the dignity of finite existence. At that boundary, natural philosophy return Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This book develops a generative ontology of physical existence. Its central claim is that the universe should not be understood as a collection of pre-existing objects moving through a pre-given spacetime, but as a process in which events become facts only when they satisfy strict conditions of closure, freezing, and readout. Against the familiar assumptions of continuous time, spatial containers, ontic probability, and self-sufficient entities, the book proposes a layered framework: at the generation layer, there are only events, rhythmic structures, relational differences, closure conditions, and freezing; at the readout layer, the familiar world of time, space, causality, particles, mass, interaction, and probability appears as a finite and lossy reconstruction of already settled generative facts.The argument proceeds by first suspending the traditional background concepts of spacetime, continuity, and probability, and then rebuilding physical intelligibility from more primitive notions: event, relation, rhythm, phase, direction, difference, closure, and freezing. Closure is treated as the criterion by which a generative process becomes complete; freezing is the mechanism by which such completion becomes persistent and irreversible; readout is the finite interface through which frozen structures are sampled, truncated, and organized into the empirical world. In this sense, probability is not taken as an intrinsic feature of nature, but as the afterimage of readout truncation; interaction is not force, but the mutual prehension of generative constraints; and mass is not an inherent attribute of an entity, but a readout of the freezing budget required to sustain a stable structure.The book also develops a minimal model-the four-event Y-type condensate-to show how the abstract criteria of generation, closure, and freezing can be implemented in a concrete structure capable of numerical analysis and failure. The model is not presented as a final theory of particles, but as a disciplined test case for the framework. Its treatment of baryon-like structures emphasizes differential robustness rather than absolute fitting: absolute mass is treated as calibration, while mass differences are treated as the meaningful and falsifiable outputs.Throughout, the book insists that a physical framework must be capable of failure. It therefore marks not only what the theory claims to explain, but also where it remains incomplete: the recovery of Lorentz invariance, the emergence of gauge symmetries, the regularization of ultraviolet behavior, and the full reproduction of Bell/CHSH correlations are treated as open constructive tasks rather than concealed as solved problems. The result is a restrained but ambitious proposal: existence is not a primitive given, but the completed and frozen outcome of generative processes; the empirical world is not the ontological ground, but the readout appearance of such processes under finite conditions. The universe should not be understood as a collection of pre-existing objects moving through a pre-given spacetime, but as a process in which events become facts only when they satisfy strict conditions of closure, freezing, and readout. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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