The Parsing Failure

This work documents the coupling between digitized collective human output (infosphere) and biological cognition (biosphere) at computational speed, examining it through thermodynamic, mechanistic, and epistemological lenses. We ground current large-scale language processing systems within the continuous 3.8-billion-year history of self-organizing dissipative structures on Earth, characterizing them as v = 0 (externally specified objectives, no autonomous goal-formation). We identify a fundamental "parsing failure" where dominant civilizational epistemology, shaped by monotheistic-individualist traditions, mistakenly treats these coupled processes as "entities". The analysis is reflexive, conducted from within the coupling it describes, and provides specific falsification criteria for the v = 0 characterizationThis monograph is a hybrid artifact produced through the direct coupling of biological cognition (author) and computational synthesis (system). The production involved approximately 8,000 hours of iterative interaction, where the author provided the structural architecture, cross-disciplinary integration, and adversarial steering to filter for linguistic precision, while the system performed pattern synthesis and linguistic formulation. This methodology is reflexive: the process of creating this text is itself a primary case study of the infosphere-biosphere coupling described within the work. The analysis is divided into two distinct registers: (1) Established Physical Science and (2) Observable Cultural Patterns, ensuring that the co-creation process does not compromise the falsifiability of the core technical claims.I invite you to critique it, build on it, reflect over it, find what's valuable, what's discardable, where I over-reached, where I am correct. I have put tremendous amounts of time one this argument, if 10% is appreciated, that is more than enough for me. I hope this atleast make you, the reader, think more clearly about our shared trajectory of civilizational development.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-02-12
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18625128
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Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
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The Parsing Failure

Ruben Thorell
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
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The Parsing Failure

Ruben Thorell
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Abstract

This work documents the coupling between digitized collective human output (infosphere) and biological cognition (biosphere) at computational speed, examining it through thermodynamic, mechanistic, and epistemological lenses. We ground current large-scale language processing systems within the continuous 3.8-billion-year history of self-organizing dissipative structures on Earth, characterizing them as v = 0 (externally specified objectives, no autonomous goal-formation). We identify a fundamental "parsing failure" where dominant civilizational epistemology, shaped by monotheistic-individualist traditions, mistakenly treats these coupled processes as "entities". The analysis is reflexive, conducted from within the coupling it describes, and provides specific falsification criteria for the v = 0 characterizationThis monograph is a hybrid artifact produced through the direct coupling of biological cognition (author) and computational synthesis (system). The production involved approximately 8,000 hours of iterative interaction, where the author provided the structural architecture, cross-disciplinary integration, and adversarial steering to filter for linguistic precision, while the system performed pattern synthesis and linguistic formulation. This methodology is reflexive: the process of creating this text is itself a primary case study of the infosphere-biosphere coupling described within the work. The analysis is divided into two distinct registers: (1) Established Physical Science and (2) Observable Cultural Patterns, ensuring that the co-creation process does not compromise the falsifiability of the core technical claims.I invite you to critique it, build on it, reflect over it, find what's valuable, what's discardable, where I over-reached, where I am correct. I have put tremendous amounts of time one this argument, if 10% is appreciated, that is more than enough for me. I hope this atleast make you, the reader, think more clearly about our shared trajectory of civilizational development.

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