Computational · Paper · 2026

Realizing Emptiness: Operational Surrogates for No-Self-Evidence, QRF Opacification, and Bayesian Model Reduction

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This project operationalizes the 2026 preprint "There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation" as a source-anchored software artifact. Its central claim is that a finite agent can use a boundary for prediction while never obtaining evidence that the boundary is ontologically real, and the software separates three local artifact roles: formal sanity checks for source equations, positive-control-style finite mechanism checks, and discriminating tests that reject stronger readings when a control is perturbed. The formal layer maps the paper's quantum free-energy principle (qFEP) and quantum reference frame (QRF) equations into finite operational surrogates, bridging each paper equation to a specific software artifact. The computed artifacts are a suite of finite quantum-information and contextuality audits — spanning two-qubit separability and entanglement entropy, Bell and

active inferenceBayesian model reductionquantum reference framesemptinessformal methodspymdp

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Findings / Concepts
  • active inference
  • Bayesian model reduction
  • quantum reference frames
  • emptiness
  • formal methods
Methods / Techniques
  • Not yet summarized.

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2026. Realizing Emptiness: Operational Surrogates for No-Self-Evidence, QRF Opacification, and Bayesian Model Reduction. Zenodo.

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