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Ruben Eero Laukkonen

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  • There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation2026

    No finite agent can measure the entanglement entropy across its own boundary — this is the load-bearing result, proven by Fields and Glazebrook (2023, Corollary 3.1), from which the paper derives a formal account of Buddhist emptiness realisation. Because all of an agent's measurement operators act exclusively on the N-bit holographic screen B and have no access to the bulk state |B⟩, the agent cannot determine whether entanglement entropy S(|AB⟩) is zero (separable) or nonzero, rendering the self/environment partition permanently unevidenceable from the inside. The paper introduces the construct of the separation prior σ — a structural prior over the agent's quantum reference frame (QRF) deployments that constrains every measurement frame to respect a fixed B_self ∪ B_env sectorisation — and formalises it within the quantum free energy principle (qFEP) of Fields et al. (2022). Contemplative practice is modelled as progressive opacification of σ: as the practitioner builds a metacognitive model of their own QRF dynamics (formalised via the parametric-depth architecture of Sandved-Smith et al., 2021), σ transitions from transparent architectural constraint to explicit state-space variable, at which point Bayesian model reduction prunes it because ΔComplexity < 0 while ΔAccuracy ≈ 0. The post-dual agent optimises over the full QRF space Q rather than the restricted subspace Q_σ, yielding strictly lower variational free energy. The paper argues this implies that Buddhist awakening is neither the acquisition of a new metaphysical belief nor the dissolution of selfhood, but the embodied removal of an unevidenced constraint on inference — one whose removal simultaneously grounds a formal account of compassion as unbounded VFE minimisation and predicts a measurable shift toward critical neural dynamics in agents with stable emptiness realisation.

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