Kiichi Yamada

This position paper introduces Onversology as a new interdisciplinary framework for reconnecting fragmented domains of knowledge. Through its core concept, the Onverse—an ontological network universe—it outlines a structure in which distinction, observation, selection, and knowledge formation unfold as interconnected aspects of an ongoing reality-generating process. In the face of the information explosion and the rise of the AI era, traditional approaches to knowledge are reaching new limits. This paper proposes a framework for the expansion and reconnection of intelligence, positioning AI not as a substitute for humans, but as a collaborator in the co-weaving of knowledge networks. It also introduces Onversity as an educational vision for implementing this framework in society and for rethinking the nature of learning. Onversology is not presented as a finalized theory, but as an open and versioned research program premised on ongoing critique, revision, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

This paper proposes an ontological extension of Cosmological Update Dynamics (CUD) based on distinguishability, network structure, and reality selection dynamics. In previous versions of CUD, cosmological evolution was described through structural accumulation, instability formation, and probabilistic phase transitions. In this work, the framework is extended toward a more general ontological structure in which reality is interpreted as a recognizable realization emerging through evolving ψ-network structures arising from accumulated distinguishability and structural fields. The central claim of this paper is that existence is not fundamentally composed of fixed objects, but rather emerges from continuously maintained and updated relational structures. Within this framework: • distinguishability (ρ) generates relational differentiation, • relational differentiation accumulates into accumulated distinguishability (A), • accumulated distinguishability (A) forms structural fields (u), • structural fields give rise to realizable states (ψ), • and evolving ψ-networks enable recognizable reality. Consciousness is interpreted not as a separate metaphysical substance, but as a local ψ-network updating process participating in reality selection dynamics. This work presents a preliminary conceptual framework for what may be called an Ontological Network Universe (Onverse).

This work develops an ontological foundation for Cosmological Update Dynamics (CUD) based on distinguishability rather than nothingness. Traditional cosmological models often assume that the universe emerged from nothingness. However, absolute nothingness cannot be defined, observed, or described. Instead, this work proposes distinguishability as the minimal ontological condition for existence. From this starting point, we introduce: - ρ₁ : Minimal distinguishability unit - ρ field : Uniform ontological substrate - u : Accumulated structure - φ : Structural instability - Phase transitions : Emergent cosmological restructuring This framework extends Cosmological Update Dynamics beyond observable cosmology and provides a conceptual foundation for CUD v3.

This paper proposes a minimal ontological interpretation of Cosmological Update Dynamics (CUD), a framework describing the universe as a process of probabilistic structural updates. While CUD v2.5 provides a dynamical account of structure formation, the ontological status of its fundamental variable, the update flux rho, remains unclear. In this work, rho is interpreted as a distribution of distinguishability, defined as the minimal condition under which differences can be established. On this basis, structure is understood as accumulated distinguishability, and flow emerges from structural gradients rather than from rho itself. This interpretation does not modify the mathematical formulation of CUD, but instead clarifies its conceptual foundation and situates it within a broader ontological framework.