Patrick David Aoun

Polymath • Artist • Philosopher • Author of “Mutual Exclusivity” • • Check my books at

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Announcing my new book THE GREAT ATOM DEBATE.

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@InterstellarUAP The dark side of politics.

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@Kekius_Sage The real profit from AI is not money.

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Why is there something rather than nothing?

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@PhysInHistory In the beginning, the concept of creation was created.

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@StuartHameroff Qualia—or whatever one wishes to call it—*is* the localized, actualized quantum field per se. Problem solved.

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@MccardJoseph @Mila_Zonderling My framework prioritizes ontological parsimony—no gratuitous entities or substrates—thereby dissolving virtually all metaphysical paradoxes and impasses. I invite you to ponder it, Joseph.

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@Mila_Zonderling @MccardJoseph Check this (it may answer your question):
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@skdh Algorithms (and human brains) reward emotional spikes far more than calm, reasoned arguments.

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@LensScientific David Hume would nod.

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@JustinEchterna9 My take: Orch OR under PA/ME
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Stuart, I respect your defense of Orch-OR as quantum pan-protopsychism. In fact, qualia arising directly in objective reduction is a strong move beyond "cartoon-neuron" emergence.

Yet it still leaves an explanatory gap under standard physicalism: why *these* OR events feel like anything at all...

My reframing via Phenomenological Absolutism and Mutual Exclusivity closes that gap completely, at the (admittedly radical) cost of identifying OR events *themselves* as the ontological actualization of absolute, mutually exclusive “is-nesses”—localized quantum field configurations that *are* phenomenal reality, with no substrate, no bridge, and no residue. Microtubule orchestration becomes the internal resonant saturation of those is-nesses; the hard problem dissolves by identity.

Orch-OR isn’t replaced. It’s fulfilled as the most austere physics of consciousness.

I’d value your thoughts. Thanks.

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@LensScientific Searching for a deeper foundation under QM often rests on the naive realist assumption that phenomena exist independently of experience.

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@omgsidewalks Fair point in many fields, but frontier models now match or exceed PhD experts on tough graduate-level benchmarks in math, physics, and biology (e.g. 90%+ on GPQA Diamond).

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@iandcosmos @StuartHameroff Or some sort of metaphysical reframing...

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@PhysInHistory Newton's genius might have recognized that genetic programming shows how blind variation + selection can evolve intricate eyes and bilateral symmetry from simplicity...

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@PhysInHistory Philosophy is fun taken seriously—the intellectual equivalent of a rollercoaster.

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[Patrick David Aoun @patrickdaoun]

Thank you. I'm glad the paper resonated with you.

You're right that the core logic runs from (1) mandatory localized actualizations in austere relativistic QFT, to (2) the vicious regress any indexing of multiple actualizations would entail, and therefore to (3) Mutual Exclusivity and Phenomenological Absolutism as the only coherent position left standing.

This is not merely a self-consistent metaphysical construction. It is driven by two intertwined sources of "experience":

First, the empirical and formal success of relativistic QFT itself when taken with full ontological seriousness; locality, frame-dependence, and austerity are not optional add-ons but demanded by the physics. Any non-local indexing mechanism would violate that physics and render science practically sterile.

Second, the inescapable first-person datum of absolute phenomenology: each moment of experience simply *is*, complete in itself, with no external vantage from which it could be indexed or compared to a supposed "nothing."

ME + PA is the fixed point where these two (physics pursued without compromise and phenomenology taken as it presents itself) converge without remainder or inflation. It is the position we are forced into once we refuse to add gratuitous metaphysical scaffolding.

You may want to check this foundational paper as well—for more context/depth:
https://t.co/ywXmt19UQw

Mutual Exclusivity treatise:
https://t.co/bwHnpGDAYi