A Five-Dimensional Cognitive-Geometric Topological Field Theory
Mark Goward
ScienceOpen Preprints October 14, 2026 preprint DOI: 10.14293/pr2199.004556.v1 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Proposes that reality is one atemporal, conscious, five-dimensional geometric whole built from an infinite mesh of "vortons" that act as coupled oscillators and resonators. Argues that the mesh's handedness is fixed by a consciousness–information condensate and that consciousness in organisms arises from interactions between topological solitons, standing electromagnetic waves, and this fifth-dimensional structure, with time as the experiential rendering of a timeless geometry. |
Abstract
Reality is hypothesised to be one atemporal, conscious, five-dimensional geometric whole. The model admits a vertically stacked, central-axis-aligned, counter-rotating double-toroidal configuration with an asymmetric figure-eight field as a large-scale 5D ansatz. Its divine geometric structure consists of an infinite mesh of vortons . Vortons are topology-dependent and behave like coupled oscillators, resonators, capacitors and inductors. Vortons would be a Topological Energy-Information Resonator (TEIR) — a dynamically stable field configuration whose topology constrains its available states and whose oscillatory modes can store or transfer energy and encode information. Handedness of the mesh is selected by a global foliation fixed by the phase of a consciousness–information condensate. Consciousness is localised in biological organisms via interaction between topological solitons, standing electromagnetic waves, and this fifth-dimensional structure. Time is stratified: it is the experiential rendering of a timeless underlying geometry.