Charge Neutralization Process (CNP) as a Unified Mechanism: From Quantum-Geometric Vacuum Dynamics to Free Energy Minimization and Consciousness
Pavle Vesic
Determinations in nanomedicine & nanotechnology. October 6, 2026 DOI: 10.31031/dnn.2026.03.000572 (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 | Proposes the Charge Neutralization Process (CNP) as a unified generative principle linking quantum field physics, biophysics, and consciousness. Argues that CNP explains mass and spin as trapped vacuum stress, describes biological boundary neutralization via the Free Energy Principle, and contends that within a panpsychist framework it offers a solution to the Hard Problem of consciousness by equating subjective experience with the presence and neutralization of a potential gradient. |
Abstract
Modern science faces a profound ontological and formal fragmentation between quantum field physics, the biophysics of self-organizing systems, and theories of consciousness.This paper proposes the Charge Neutralization Process (CNP) as a unified, fundamental generative principle that bridges these domains.Framed through Hestenes' Spacetime Algebra (Cl 1,3 ) and the Zitterbewegung (ZBW) model, CNP primarily defines a mechanism by which unresolved rotational and geometric vacuum stress is locally trapped into coherent rotors, providing a physical origin for mass and spin.In the biological domain, viewed through Friston's Free Energy Principle (FEP) and the concept of Markov blankets, CNP manifests as the active and perceptual neutralization of informational charge at the system's boundary, thereby explaining ultra-fast, coherent resynchronization in the synaptic cleft.Finally, within a panpsychist framework, CNP offers a natural solution to the Hard Problem of consciousness by treating subjective experience as the immediate phenomenological equivalent of the presence and neutralization of a potential gradient.CNP, therefore, does not represent a new fundamental force, but rather a cosmic algorithm of dynamic compensation through which the spacetime continuum self-organizes into matter, life, and consciousness.