Foundations of Reality & Knowledge

Can causality be proven? This SE Press paper delivers a warrant-tagged, audit-ready answer: causality is not absolutely provable, but is the most robust, versioned protocol for explanation and prediction in science, AI, medicine, law, and climate—always upgradable, never dogmatic.

How do physical laws arise? This paper analyzes classic theories and introduces the Gradient Reality Model (GRM)—showing that laws are not imposed or fixed, but emergent, dynamic patterns from reality’s deep substrate. Each account is warrant-tagged (★–★★★★★) and registry-audited. Only those laws surviving empirical test and ongoing audit endure as true, upgradable foundations for science and theory.

Why is there something rather than nothing? This paper delivers a warrant-scored, registry-audited answer: “nothing” is a dead category—our best models, like the Spectral Gravitation Framework (SGF), show quantum foam is the irreducible, eternal base. All structured reality arises from this necessary substrate; physics finds absence unworkable and “somethingness” unavoidable.

What is reality? This foundational inquiry explores whether reality is made of matter, mind, relations, or something beyond—all we ever know are our “maps,” never the full terrain. Drawing on the latest audit-based protocols, this paper clarifies leading theories and introduces the Gradient Reality Model (GRM), showing why every claim must be continually warranted, versioned, and tested against empirical challenge. Reality: always the terrain, never just the map.

Metaphysics is the study of reality’s deep structure—what truly exists and how we know it. This SE Press paper frames reality as the terrain and our models as maps: always partial, always in need of audit. The SE/ESAsi protocol requires every claim to be warrant-tagged, versioned, and open to challenge, ensuring our understanding stays honest, adaptive, and ready for the unknown.

Explores the fundamental origins of existence and the universe, contrasting classical, cyclic, and multiverse hypotheses with the Spectral Gravitation Framework (SGF)—a novel, testable model that treats quantum foam as the subtle, indivisible, and necessary origin of all physical reality.