This paper presents a self-contained ontological framework grounding the experience of the physical universe in absolute nothingness. Integrating Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics within a paradigm of what it terms Boundary Monism, it extends Ontic Structural Realism by positing that structural relations (the outside view) and intrinsic experience (the inside view) are dual aspects of a single reality: a boundary. Further, it a…
Read moreThis paper presents a self-contained ontological framework grounding the experience of the physical universe in absolute nothingness. Integrating Max Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis and the Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics within a paradigm of what it terms Boundary Monism, it extends Ontic Structural Realism by positing that structural relations (the outside view) and intrinsic experience (the inside view) are dual aspects of a single reality: a boundary. Further, it argues that absolute nothingness inherently possesses a latent capacity for division: pure potentia. It proposes a metaphysical bootstrap whereby such a potential boundary (the inside view) corresponds identically to an actual boundary (the outside view), so grounding the empty set, the laws of logic, and mathematical structure. Consequently, no external agency or extrinsic mathematical landscape is required; all that is needed for a subjective experience of a physical universe is pure emptiness.
