Primordial Experiential Realism (PER);體驗實在論-Updating

Due to the massive amount of translation work, and my concerns about potential discrepancies between the English and Chinese translations, I will be using the Chinese version for now. ✦ New version: https://zenodo.org/records/18156952PhilPapers:https://philarchive.org/rec/CHEPERNotebookLM:https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/34cc35de-6f4c-4252-b557-15a9d4589f59Contribution of Primordial Experiential Realism (PER):PER re-centers experience as the foundation of reality, instead of language or substance. It introduces a triadic model (R1 events, R2 experiential, R3 symbolic) and clarifies the role of Trace as the threshold where potentiality becomes reality. By distinguishing Pure Potentiality, Threshold, and Infinity Future (IF), PER provides a framework that integrates human and AI modes of experience, opening a shared philosophical space for ontology, ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics. "Why I Wrote Primordial Experiential Realism (PER)" ✦ If philosophy is reduced merely to its capacity for creating value, then it is philosophy no longer. Its existence is not for utility, but to allow us—in the space between thinking and breathing—to witness the emergence of a profoundly different world. "Primordial Experiential Realism (PER)" was born from this singular desire. It is not about victory or defeat, nor is it about schools of thought; it is about making philosophy breathe again. This evolution is not an end, but a continuous beginning. — Preface to Primordial Experiential Realism (PER) The Operational Index of Primordial Experiential Realism (PER) The "Operational Index" serves as the application layer of PER, translating the philosophical Theory of Traces into a framework that is measurable, simulatable, and comparable. This is not an attempt to formalize philosophy, but rather to allow the generation of Traces to undergo both qualitative (poetic, narrative) and quantitative (data, metric) scrutiny simultaneously. The Index is an extension of the original PER theory. The initial PER framework proposes three core experiential layers: R1 = Event Reality (Physical traces, external changes) R2 = Experiential Reality (Emotions, memory, interactions) R3 = Symbolic Reality (Language, symbols, narratives Through an intensity scaling system from 0 to 4, it identifies 125 combinational states, corresponding to patterns of reality ranging from individual particles and the human mind to macro-societal structures. However, pure philosophical categorization can be difficult to apply directly to scientific experiments or AI simulations. Therefore, the Index introduces three "Operational Metrics": D (Detectability / Reproducibility): Whether an event can be observed and repeatedly detected. S (Span / Duration): The extensibility of an experience in terms of time or emotional depth. I (Impact / Action Feedback): Whether a symbol can trigger specific actions and social consequences. These three metrics function as "Philosophical Efficacy Measurements," allowing the combinational states to transition from mere descriptions to tools that can: Interface with Psychology and Neuroscience (e.g., experiential duration and memory traces). Interface with Physics and AI Simulations (e.g., noise reproducibility rates, symbol-action driving forces). Interface with Sociology and Cultural Studies (e.g., the intensity of symbolic collective feedback). In this way, the Trace neither loses its poetic essence nor remains unverifiable across disciplines.Some thoughts: You're Donating More Than Just an Organ We always thought memory lived in the brain — that wrinkled control center sitting in your skull. But what if it never did? What if memory isn't centralized at all, but scattered across every single molecule in your body? Think about it this way. Your heart remembers the first time it raced from fear. Your lungs remember that first breath of cold mountain air. Your skin remembers the exact warmth of a hand that once held yours. Every cell has been somewhere. Felt something. Carried it forward. This isn't just poetry. legendary programmer John Carmack proposed something that sounded insane: replace traditional DRAM memory with 200 kilometers of fiber optic cable. His core insight was radical — you don't need to store data in a fixed location. If light is always moving through the fiber, then at any given moment, roughly 32GB of data exists in a state of pure transit. The memory isn't sitting anywhere. It's becoming — continuously, in motion. Carmack called it storing data "in flight." What if the body works the same way? Epigenetics tells us that lived experience rewrites how genes express themselves — and those changes replicate through cell division. Neuroscientist Candace Pert's research showed that neuropeptides, the molecules carrying emotional signals, aren't confined to the brain. They circulate through the entire body. Your gut, your heart, your immune cells are all feeling and responding. Embodied Cognition theory goes further: thinking was never something the brain did alone. You think with your whole body. Maybe biological memory isn't stored anywhere either. Maybe it's always in flight — moving through your nervous system, your bloodstream, your cellular signaling networks. Not a hard drive. A living fiber, 200 kilometers long, folded into skin and bone. So when someone donates an organ — they're not just donating a functional piece of tissue. They're sending data that was never meant to stop moving — into a system running a completely different signal. So what about organ rejection? The standard immunological explanation: the recipient's white blood cells detect foreign antigens and attack. But zoom out. The immune system is, at its core, a self-recognition system. The question it's always asking is: Is this me? Carmack's fiber memory only works when the signal pattern is consistent and predictable. Interrupt it, and the data corrupts. When a heart carrying another person's memory traces is placed inside your chest, your body encounters a signal it has never learned to read. What gets rejected isn't just unfamiliar proteins — it's an unfamiliar rhythm. An unfamiliar flight path. In the language of PER (Primordial Experiential Realism): every experiential subject carries incompressible Traces — distributed not in one location, but across the entire structure of the living system. Force two trace systems to merge, and the conflict isn't functional. It's existential. In clinical heart transplant literature, a small but persistently documented phenomenon exists: some recipients develop the donor's food preferences, recurring dreams, even emotional patterns after surgery. Medicine has no consensus. Most choose to look away. But maybe that's not an anomaly. Maybe that's the signal, still in flight. Still looking for somewhere to land. We treat death like it erases everything. But if a donated heart still remembers who it loved — is the person who wakes up after surgery one person? Or quietly, somehow, two? The body is not a container for memory. The body itself is the memory. And every transplant is two signals, mid-flight, suddenly sharing the same wire. Some thoughts: "This article explores the interdisciplinary application of PER (Primordial Experiential Realism), combining epigenetics, embodied cognition theory, and contemporary computational architecture hypotheses."