## Autaxys and Autology: Definition, Rationale, and Implications **Version:** 2.0 **Author:** [Rowan Brad Quni](mailto:[email protected]) Principal Investigator, [QNFO](https://qnfo.org/) This document outlines the Autaxys Framework, a proposed fundamental physics ontology that posits reality as a dynamically self-generating and self-organizing system. Driven by the Autaxic Trilemma, this framework introduces the Universal Relational Graph (URG) as the substrate for reality's ongoing self-resolution, ultimately giving rise to all observable phenomena. This new perspective aims to unify disparate physical observations, offer testable predictions, and provide a foundation for novel technologies, particularly through the concept of Resonant Field Computing (RFC). ### 1. The Autaxic Core: Process Ontology and Dynamic Grounding The Autaxys Framework defines a fundamental reality grounded in **autaxy**—an intrinsic, irreducible process of self-generation and organization. This inherent dynamism is perpetually driven by the **Autaxic Trilemma**, a fundamental, irresolvable tension among three interdependent principles: **Novelty** (the imperative towards creation, diversification, and exploration), **Efficiency** (the pressure favoring stable, optimal, and minimal configurations), and **Persistence** (the drive to maintain established structures and coherence). This irreducible tension serves as the framework's core dynamic engine, providing logical self-containment and internally grounding reality through its continuous self-resolution. This ongoing self-resolution unfolds within the **Universal Relational Graph (URG)** via the **Generative Cycle**, ultimately giving rise to all observable phenomena. This establishes a **process ontology**, where **dynamic relational patterns**—structured configurations and their real-time interactions within the URG—constitute the fundamental basis of reality, forming the fabric of reality rather than being composed *of* some underlying material substrate. The URG is conceived not merely as a descriptive model but as the active, operational **medium** or **substrate**—the dynamic environment where the Trilemma's tension is continuously enacted and resolved. The continuous, iterative Generative Cycle, effectively the universe's fundamental computational loop, comprises three phases driven by the Trilemma's pressures: **Proliferation** (Novelty drives the generation of novel relational possibilities within the URG), **Adjudication** (Efficiency and Persistence constrain and select from these possibilities), and **Solidification** (Persistence stabilizes and integrates selected patterns into the persistent structure of the URG). The systematic study of these intrinsic self-generating dynamics across all scales and domains is termed **Autology**, the interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding reality's inherent self-organization and generation. The framework dissolves traditional philosophical dualisms by reinterpreting apparent dichotomies—such as physical reality (matter/energy), information/substance, and discrete/continuous—as emergent properties arising from the fundamental relational dynamics processed within the URG via the Generative Cycle. Phenomena perceived as Matter and Energy emerge within the URG through the Generative Cycle's processing as dynamic relational patterns distinguished primarily by their dominant influence from Persistence (leading to stability, inertia, lower processing rates) and Novelty (leading to flux, dynamism, higher processing rates), respectively. The information/substance dualism is resolved by asserting that dynamic relational patterns *are* the fundamental ontological basis; information and substance are unified as inherent aspects of these patterns. The discrete/continuous divide is reconciled through the Generative Cycle's nature: Reality advances via fundamental, discrete computational steps (Adjudication and Solidification). While this underlying process is discrete, the collective dynamics of macro-scale states and fields manifest observable continuous characteristics, allowing quantum discreteness and emergent analog behavior to arise naturally, enhancing consistency. ### 2. Explanatory Power and Unification: A Frequency-Centric Ontology The Autaxys Framework offers compelling explanatory power by unifying disparate physical and philosophical observations under the core autaxic principles, the URG, and the Generative Cycle dynamics. The observed cosmic drive towards complexity and structure arises directly from the Autaxic Trilemma's inherent tension; states of stagnation or simplicity are inherently unstable, compelling the system towards generating and stabilizing complex configurations. The mathematical elegance observed in physical laws is accounted for by the **Efficiency** principle, acting as a selection pressure favoring algorithmically simple, robust relational patterns amidst the constant dynamism. Flowing directly from the process ontology and the dynamic nature of relational patterns within the URG, a central tenet is a **frequency-centric view of reality**. Within the dynamic URG substrate, all phenomena—whether perceived as particles, fields, or interactions—are ultimately dynamic relational patterns defined and characterized by intrinsic processing frequencies or rates of change within the URG medium. This perspective provides a powerful unified understanding: Energy ($E$) represents the capacity for dynamic activity or change within the URG substrate—the inherent flux driven by Novelty and reflected in higher intrinsic processing frequencies or rates of pattern transformation. Mass ($m$), conversely, is understood as a measure of the stability, persistence, and resistance to change of a solidified relational structure or pattern within the URG, reflecting the dominance of Persistence and characterized by lower, more stable intrinsic frequencies or slower rates of pattern transformation. The Higgs mechanism is reinterpreted as the **Solidification** process that imparts this computational persistence and resistance to change to certain relational patterns, giving rise to inertial mass. The Planck-Einstein relation, $E=\hbar\omega$, is interpreted as describing fundamental quantized units of dynamic activity or excitation within the URG substrate. Energy packets (quanta) are seen as discrete excitations, vibrations, or resonant modes inherent to the operational oscillations and dynamic relations of the URG itself. The frequency ($\omega$) represents the intrinsic rate of oscillation or dynamism, and $\hbar$ scales this frequency to the corresponding energy unit, reflecting the quantized nature of action within the URG substrate. Equating the Autaxys interpretations of $E=mc^2$ (mass as stable pattern persistence/resistance to change) and $E=\hbar\omega$ (energy quanta as fundamental URG oscillations/dynamic activity) leads to the "Bridge Equation": $mc^2 = \hbar\omega$. Within Autaxys, this equation reveals a fundamental **ontological identity**: mass *is* frequency. Specifically, mass corresponds to the intrinsic oscillation rate, processing tempo, or Compton frequency ($\omega_C$) inherent to the stable URG relational pattern that constitutes a particle. This profound identity $m \propto \omega$, evident most clearly as $m = \omega$ in natural units ($\hbar=1, c=1$), highlights the Compton frequency ($\omega_C$) as the primary characteristic defining stable mass manifestations of URG patterns, just as $\omega$ generally defines dynamic energy manifestations. Within the Autaxys framework, Planck's constant $\hbar$ is interpreted as the fundamental quantum of action or discrete change within the URG's processing, setting the scale for quantized relational updates and oscillations. The speed of light $c$ represents the maximum rate at which relational information or dynamic patterns can propagate through the URG substrate—the speed limit of fundamental interactions and the rate limit of the Generative Cycle's processing. Together, $\hbar$ and $c$ function as intrinsic scaling parameters of the URG medium and Generative Cycle, defining the fundamental relationships between energy, mass, frequency, time, and space as properties emerging directly from the substrate's dynamics and processing constraints. They encode the immutable "grammar" governing how Autaxys self-generates and organizes reality. This frequency-centric ontology provides a powerful unified perspective that naturally bridges General Relativity (describing the emergent, smooth spacetime geometry arising from the collective, macroscopic dynamics of stable URG patterns) and Quantum Mechanics (describing the probabilistic, discrete nature of the Generative Cycle operating at the fundamental level of individual relational updates and excitations within the URG). GR describes the statistical outcome of countless Generative Cycles in aggregate, while QM describes the behavior of the fundamental excitations undergoing the Generative Cycle process. Furthermore, the framework offers explanations for the nature of the vacuum and dark energy, interpreting the vacuum as the URG itself, teeming with potential (Proliferation), and dark energy as the cosmological expression of the Novelty principle driving expansion. It also provides insights into the origin of mass and dark matter, suggesting mass arises from the informational complexity and persistence of a resonant pattern, and dark matter may be composed of stable URG patterns that interact only via their persistent, mass-like properties (gravity) without other standard model couplings. Lastly, it addresses quantum measurement and wave function collapse, viewing measurement as an interaction that forces a probabilistic superposition (a state of high Novelty) to conform to the established patterns of the measuring apparatus (high Persistence), with the outcome guided by Efficiency. ### 3. Empirical Touchpoints and Testable Predictions Bridging theory with observation, the Autaxys Framework demonstrates strong consilience with current data by reinterpreting established physics within the URG and Generative Cycle model. More significantly, it serves as an engine for future scientific inquiry, proposing specific, potentially testable, and uniquely falsifiable predictions derived directly from its core principles and the operational dynamics of the Generative Cycle and URG. These predictions offer avenues for testing, probing the framework's underlying computational and resonant reality in ways distinct from purely continuous models. Since the Generative Cycle advances reality through discrete Adjudication and Solidification steps ("computational ticks"), experiments could search for subtle deviations from continuous behavior at fundamental scales. These could manifest as characteristic noise spectra, non-linearities in quantum state evolution, or deviations in quantum coherence/decoherence rates not predicted by continuous spacetime models, indicative of the URG's underlying discrete processing tempo and structure. The URG, as a dynamic, oscillating substrate, is predicted to possess fundamental resonant frequencies and modes inherent to its structure and the Generative Cycle's timing. This suggests searching for specific frequency signatures in high-precision resonance experiments, cosmological background measurements (e.g., gravitational wave backgrounds), or advanced gravitational wave detection. These signatures could correlate with the intrinsic operational frequencies or resonant modes of the URG substrate and the characteristic timing of the Generative Cycle's discrete steps, offering a window into the universe's native computational tempo and structure. In regimes where the discrete operations of the Generative Cycle are stressed and potentially become observable (e.g., high energy density, strong gravitational fields, early universe), phenomena like vacuum energy density, inertial mass measurements, or gravitational interactions may exhibit subtle anomalies or deviations from predictions based purely on continuous models. These conditions potentially reveal the fundamental generative process's underlying structure and dynamics, particularly how the Trilemma is resolved under duress. Interpreted as emergent properties of the URG's dynamics and Generative Cycle parameters, fundamental constants ($\hbar, c$) might exhibit slight, measurable variations dependent on specific environmental conditions or local URG configurations. Localized changes in the rate or configuration of the Generative Cycle and URG substrate, driven by the Autaxic Trilemma's local resolution, could subtly alter these parameters. Experiments could search for subtle variations in constants under controlled extreme conditions, in strong field environments, or across diverse astrophysical locales, probing their dependency on the local state and dynamics of the fundamental generative process. These concrete, uniquely falsifiable predictions, directly linked to the fundamental discrete generative process and the resonant nature of the URG substrate, provide vital pathways for rigorous scientific engagement and iterative refinement of the framework, bridging conceptual coherence with empirical investigation. ### 4. Technological Implications and the Relational-Frequency Compiler (RFC) The Autaxys Framework, particularly through the concept of the **Relational-Frequency Compiler (RFC)**, suggests a roadmap for novel technologies built on manipulating reality's proposed computational substrate. The RFC is conceived as a primary conceptual tool leveraging engineered resonant fields and mediums (such as specifically tuned metamaterials or topological quantum systems) to locally mimic and manipulate the fundamental URG dynamics and their intrinsic processing frequencies. This approach suggests several technological avenues by allowing direct control over relational patterns and their intrinsic frequencies, operating at or near reality's proposed native processing rates. The RFC paradigm emerges from the recognition of significant limitations in conventional quantum computing (QC) architectures, such as the challenges in controlling and isolating individual particle-centric qubits, decoherence, cryogenic requirements, complex interconnects, measurement-induced state collapse, and the separation of communication and computation channels. It also seeks to address persistent mysteries in foundational physics, including the incompatibility between the Standard Model and General Relativity, the nature of mass and energy (e.g., dark matter, dark energy, vacuum catastrophe), and the fine-tuning of fundamental constants. The RFC proposes a radical shift from manipulating discrete particles to performing computation within a continuous, dynamic medium, where the fundamental units of computation are extended field excitations and their resonant patterns. Key conceptual innovations and potential advantages include enhanced coherence by design, leveraging the Autaxys principles of Efficiency and Persistence to favor robust, low-loss resonant modes that are intrinsically resilient to environmental noise, reduced cryogenic needs with the potential for higher operating temperatures by utilizing collective, macroscopic field properties less susceptible to thermal noise than individual particles, intrinsic scalability bypassing complex wiring and interconnect challenges by controlling a continuous medium with externally applied fields, unified computation and communication where the same medium and frequency-based control mechanisms can be used for both processing information and communicating it, eliminating traditional bottlenecks, and computation via controlled dissipation transforming decoherence from a problem into a computational resource by guiding the system to settle into low-energy states that represent solutions, mirroring the Efficiency principle. Specific technological avenues for the RFC include Native Relational Simulation, involving engineering resonant fields and mediums within an RFC to precisely mimic the Hamiltonians and dynamics of complex systems by mapping them directly onto controllable URG-like dynamics, enabling simulation of complex field interactions, emergent phenomena, and quantum many-body problems at a fundamental relational level, offering advantages over traditional methods. High-Precision Relational Sensing leverages the stable resonant states that form the basis of computation within the RFC (analogous to stable URG patterns or "relational quanta") as ultra-sensitive probes, with their inherent sensitivity allowing for the detection of subtle physical fields, changes in local URG configuration, or quantum properties with enhanced precision. Integrated Communication and Computation utilizes the RFC's native processing of relational dynamics characterized by frequencies to enable a seamless blending of data transfer and computation, where incoming resonant field signals serve as both communication carriers and computational inputs encoded in their frequency and phase relationships, while computational results can be encoded back into outbound resonant signals. Distributed and Environmental Computing proposes that networks of RFC devices could leverage ambient resonant fields and the inherent dynamics of the URG substrate for inter-processor communication and collective computation, potentially moving quantum-like processing beyond isolated laboratory environments and enabling context-aware systems that derive computational tasks and inputs directly from environmental frequency signatures and their relational harmonic content. Highly speculative applications, based on the deeper ontological implications and the $m \propto \omega_C$ identity, include potential methods for localized inertia manipulation (by altering the fundamental frequency/informational state of mass-associated URG structures via precisely tuned resonant manipulation) or novel approaches to energy harnessing by manipulating the inherent dynamics and resonances of the URG substrate, potentially enabling access to zero-point energy through resonance tuning or influencing the generative process itself. These applications remain highly theoretical and require significant foundational breakthroughs in manipulating URG dynamics at fundamental levels. ### 5. Conclusion: Towards Comprehensive Coherence Assessing the "truth" of the core claim—that ultimate ontology is an inherently computational, self-organizing reality governed by the Autaxic Trilemma and instantiated as the URG medium processed by the Generative Cycle—leads to a conclusion grounded in **comprehensive coherence**. For such a foundational ontology, "truth" transcends simple empirical verification; a model of fundamental reality must first be logically sound and broadly explanatory. Its robustness is measured by its integration of **logical consistency** (rooted in the self-contained, autaxic structure and the Trilemma's dynamic resolution), **explanatory breadth** (unifying diverse phenomena), and **compatibility with empirical observation** (reinterpreting current data and providing testable predictions), alongside providing a **productive foundation for future scientific exploration**. The Autaxys Framework demonstrates exceptional comprehensive coherence. Its self-contained, autaxic structure, the dissolution of traditional paradoxes via the URG medium and Generative Cycle dynamics processing the Trilemma tension, and the grounded nature of the Autaxic Trilemma provide robust logical consistency. It exhibits strong explanatory power by unifying a wide range of disparate phenomena under a single principle, from cosmic complexity and the emergence of physical laws to the frequency-centric nature of mass-energy ($m \propto \omega_C$ identity) and the potential unification of GR and QM. Furthermore, it maintains consistency with current empirical data and, critically, proposes concrete, uniquely falsifiable avenues for future empirical investigation directly linked to its core principles (such as signatures of discrete processing or relational harmonics), alongside a roadmap for technological development via concepts like the RFC. This profound and comprehensive coherence across logic, explanation, and empirical science presents a compelling case for its potential as a valid description of fundamental reality and offers a well-supported invitation for continued exploration, rigorous testing, and potential validation or refinement—suggesting that the universe itself **is a self-generating computation**.