Consciousness Projection Hierarchy: A Unified Cross-Scale Framework Integrating Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, Historiography, Political Economy, and Civilizational Dynamics
Ai Chen, (Anthropic) Claude Sonnet
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) March 20, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19139919 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that a single structural principle—infinite pure consciousness projected through finite neural containers under invariant signal-to-noise constraints—generates quantifiable, predictable, cross-scale regularities, and proposes that diverse phenomena (information-density deficits in Shiji, 15/30/60-year political personality cycles, trivariate population-grain-fiscal collapse across five civilizations, and cross-civilizational contemplative convergence) are manifestations of this same mechanism at different scales. |
Abstract
This paper presents a unified theoretical framework—the Consciousness Projection Hierarchy (CPH)—that integrates eight previously published working papers spanning quantum physics, philosophy of mind, historical political economy, and cliodynamics into a single coherent system. The framework's central claim is that one structural principle—the projection of infinite pure consciousness through finite neural containers, subject to invariant signal-to-noise constraints—generates quantifiable, predictable, cross-scale regularities at the linguistic, historical, political, and civilizational levels. We demonstrate that phenomena as apparently disparate as the information-density deficit in Shiji's literary passages, the 15/30/60-year periodicity of political personality cycles, the trivariate convergence of population-grain-fiscal collapse across five civilizations, and the cross-civilizational convergence of contemplative traditions on a single cognitive operation, are all manifestations of the same underlying mechanism at different scales. The framework makes five novel contributions: (1) a quantitative measure of historiographical honesty based on verifiable proposition density; (2) a mechanism-level explanation for T4 cognitive fixation via quantum Zeno neural locking; (3) a unified account of cross-civilizational contemplative convergence as evidence for broadcast-mode consciousness projection; (4) a neural redundancy activation model of individual stress resilience; and (5) an exit-mechanism variable that modulates T4 collapse severity.