Imagining Consciousness, Time & Gravity: Essay 2 - The Scientific

Imagining Consciousness, Time, & Gravity

PROCESSUAL COSMOLOGY OF COHERENCE

Integrating Science and Theology through Relation

ESSAY 2 - The Scientific

by R.E. Slater & ChatGPT-5

For those who stand between disciplines -
to scientists who sense the sacred,

to theologians who trust the data,

and to all who suspect that love and law

may be different names

for the same divine coherence.

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I. Scientific Essay: “A Relational Dual-Aspect Model”

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Preface

For centuries, physics and metaphysics have been estranged by language. Science sought quantifiable order; philosophy sought qualitative meaning. Yet both have always traced the same mystery: how coherence arises from relationship. The following study approaches this mystery through a processual lens, proposing that the universe is neither a mechanism nor a mind but a field of co-emergent coherences - informational, temporal, experiential, and panpsychic. The intent is not to collapse physics into metaphysics, but to reveal that their boundaries are surfaces of the same deeper geometry: Creativity in tensional relationship.

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Introduction

Modern cosmology describes reality as networks of interaction. Quantum entanglement, causal order, and informational exchange reveal a world where connection precedes isolation. Meanwhile, consciousness studies point towards cosmic integration as the mark of a self-aware cosmology.

This convergence invites a unifying hypothesis: that Consciousness (interior integration), Time (sequential ordering), and Gravity (exterior binding) are complementary expressions of one generative process.

The scientific task is to express this hypothesis without theological presupposition - by formalizing cosmic coherence itself. If successful, this reframing offers a grammar through which relativity, quantum information, and phenomenology become dialects of a single relational cosmology.

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I. Scientific Synthesis

A Relational Dual-Aspect Model: From Entanglement Geometry to Experiential Coherence.

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1. Abstract

This essay proposes that Consciousness, Time, and Gravity are not fundamental entities but co-emergent immaterial coherences within a unified relational process.

Each relational event manifests dual aspects - outer informational geometry and inner experiential integration - arising from the same creative field.

That gravity, time, and consciousness are not material substances but symmetries of coherence within this dual-aspect network.

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2. Postulates

1. Relational Primacy: Reality consists of events and their relations, not objects and their properties.

2. Dual-Aspect Actualization: Each event manifests as both an informational configuration (outer aspect) and an experiential integration (inner aspect).

3. Triadic Coherence:

   • Gravity → outer coherence (relational binding, curvature).

   • Time → sequential coherence (ordered updating).

   • Consciousness → inner coherence (integration, subjective unity).

4. Creativity Field: A neutral, processual ground generating novel relations through informational differentiation.

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3. Mathematical Sketch

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4. Physical Correlates

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5. Predictions & Tests

• Entanglement–Geometry Correlation: Increased entanglement ↔ stronger effective gravity ↔ richer experiential potential.

• Coherence Transitions: Systems near critical entanglement thresholds undergo abrupt structural unification (phase transitions of coherence).

• Time Flow Modulation: Local time dilation may correspond to coherence density (informational “weight”).

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6. Implications

This dual-aspect framework reinterprets spacetime and consciousness as co-generated informational geometries - measurable on one side, experiential on the other. That matter and mind are two faces of the same coherence.

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Conclusion

The relational dual-aspect model recasts the physical world as the outer syntax of an experiential semantics. Spacetime curvature, temporal flow, and consciousness emerge from one grammar of coherence. Where traditional science speaks of energy and geometry, this model speaks of feeling translated into form. Gravity is the metric of relational attraction; time, the iteration of becoming; consciousness, the interior witness of coherence.

Such a synthesis neither mystifies physics nor de-scientizes metaphysics. It invites both to recognize themselves as complementary disciplines of pattern and participation - the study of how the universe binds itself, remembers itself, and feels itself into being.

~ Continue to Essay 3 - The Metaphysical/Theological ~