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question:if-any-boundary-is-just-a-modelling-choice-not-a-discoverable-feature-of-reality-does-emptiness-realisation-lead-to-irrealism-or-solipsismIf any boundary is just a modelling choice, not a discoverable feature of reality, does emptiness realisation lead to irrealism or solipsism?
Addressed in §5 via structural realism and the distinction between losing an ontological commitment vs losing a capability
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extracted_from(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1
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- structural realismanswered_byA philosophical position that only the structure of relations is knowable; invoked to support continued self-evidencing.
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- Pre-empts the objection that emptiness realisation dissolves the agent's ability to model reality
- Empirical prediction from the model: brain dynamics change after the transition.
- Established via Zanardi (2002) and the Hamiltonian decomposition argument in §2.1; foundational for the emptiness formalisation
- The paper argues for a mathematical link.
- Novel claim that emptiness is not mysterious metaphysics for AI but a computational commonplace
- The paper's primary contribution: formalising Buddhist awakening as BMR of the separation prior sigma
- Key theoretical bridge connecting Buddhist emptiness doctrine to computational neuroscience
- Equivalence claim between prior removal and emptiness.