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The Buddhist understanding of emptiness (lack of svabhava) is the same structural feature as quantum contextuality: the impossibility of assigning context-independent properties to a boundary

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There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation

(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1

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Quantum-information-theoretic concept identified with emptiness: impossibility of assigning context-independent properties to a boundary

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Such priors suppress the inherent contextuality of the boundary and that their removal constitutes a formal counterpart to the Buddhist notion of emptiness realisation.claim0.813
Equivalence claim between prior removal and emptiness.
The Buddhist notion of awakening, as stable realisation of emptiness, can be understood as the embodied recognition of this impossibility.claim0.809
Core bridging claim between physics and contemplative traditions.
Buddhist awakening, in the sense of stable realisation of emptiness, can be understood as the embodied recognition of this impossibility.hypothesis0.808
The paper's core proposal linking physics to Buddhist philosophy.
The removal of such priors constitutes a formal counterpart to the Buddhist notion of emptiness realisation.claim0.804
Direct equivalence claim between model reduction and enlightenment.
The Void—silence and restraint—is a structural positive aligned with Buddhist phenomenology of consciousness.claim0.788
Emptiness is resonant with the predictive processing approach where perceptions are constructed models rather than direct apprehensions of realityclaim0.785
Key theoretical bridge connecting Buddhist emptiness doctrine to computational neuroscience
Emptiness realisation does not imply irrealism or solipsism; the subjective unevidenceability of boundaries does not entail the absence of structureclaim0.783
Pre-empts the objection that emptiness realisation dissolves the agent's ability to model reality
Emptiness (Buddhist framework)framework0.783
Buddhist philosophical framework in which emptiness (śūnyatā) refers to the lack of inherent self-nature; here linked to the non-evidenceability of a bounded self.