At SO(6), the Inside IS the Outside: The One-Step-Out Shadow Principle and the Geometric Resolution of the Mind-Body Problem
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 26, 2026 Caitlin McKoy
The paper argues that Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia's 1643 question to Descartes—how an unextended thinking substance could move an extended material body—cannot be answered from within the 3D baryonic projection because it assumes a gap that is itself a product of that projection. Within the One-Object Universe (OOU) framework, at the SO(6) fixed point the inside and outside are identical: the map is the territory, the knower and the known are one winding configuration, and the cogito and res extensa are one object.