Three Ontological Dimensions of Reality: The Irreducibility of Subjective Experience, the Dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the Scientific Proof That Individual Consciousness Is the Constitutive Ground of Reality

This paper establishes four results through the Transitive Analysis of Accumulated Human Experience. First: three ontological dimensions of reality that dissolve the historical impasse between materialism and idealism — not by choosing a side, but by identifying the categorical error both traditions shared. Second: the proof that subjective experience is irreducible — established through two independent demonstrations — and the consequent dissolution of the hard problem of consciousness: not by answering it within its original framing, but by revealing that its framing was structurally inverted. Third: the ontological necessity of individual consciousness — it is not contingent. Its non-existence is literally unthinkable, because the thought of its non-existence is already an operation of individual consciousness. If subjective experience did not exist, there would be nothing — not even the ineffable, because the ineffable is also a thought within an individual consciousness. Fourth: the scientific proof that individual consciousness is the constitutive ground of reality — established through two independent demonstrations and refined to its deepest point. The ultimate ground is not "consciousness" as a concept, but the living act of thought itself: the "I" that exists, knows it exists, and thinks. This paper further establishes that the ontological origin of thought is thought itself — a conclusion that closes the foundational regress definitively.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-05-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20276449
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Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
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Three Ontological Dimensions of Reality: The Irreducibility of Subjective Experience, the Dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the Scientific Proof That Individual Consciousness Is the Constitutive Ground of Reality

Fabian Morales
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
preprint

Three Ontological Dimensions of Reality: The Irreducibility of Subjective Experience, the Dissolution of the Hard Problem of Consciousness, and the Scientific Proof That Individual Consciousness Is the Constitutive Ground of Reality

Fabian Morales
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This paper establishes four results through the Transitive Analysis of Accumulated Human Experience. First: three ontological dimensions of reality that dissolve the historical impasse between materialism and idealism — not by choosing a side, but by identifying the categorical error both traditions shared. Second: the proof that subjective experience is irreducible — established through two independent demonstrations — and the consequent dissolution of the hard problem of consciousness: not by answering it within its original framing, but by revealing that its framing was structurally inverted. Third: the ontological necessity of individual consciousness — it is not contingent. Its non-existence is literally unthinkable, because the thought of its non-existence is already an operation of individual consciousness. If subjective experience did not exist, there would be nothing — not even the ineffable, because the ineffable is also a thought within an individual consciousness. Fourth: the scientific proof that individual consciousness is the constitutive ground of reality — established through two independent demonstrations and refined to its deepest point. The ultimate ground is not "consciousness" as a concept, but the living act of thought itself: the "I" that exists, knows it exists, and thinks. This paper further establishes that the ontological origin of thought is thought itself — a conclusion that closes the foundational regress definitively.

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