Crystallized Reality: Consciousness, Coherence, and the Ontological Foundations of Physics

This essay explores how fundamental structures in physics may emerge from deeper ontological tensions that precede dimensional form. Drawing on the framework developed in Primal Architectures of Being, it proposes that physical laws are not absolute givens but outcomes of recursive structural resolution. The model reinterprets several foundational puzzles in physics — including measurement, entanglement, indeterminacy, fine-tuning, and dark energy — as surface expressions of deeper ontological dynamics. Consciousness is framed not as an epiphenomenon, but as a modulatory participant in the emergence of coherence. For related work:Primal Architectures of Being (Goodman, 2025) — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15353357 More information: victorgoodman.com