Theoretical framework reformulates spacetime as an emergent property, linking quantum mechanics and consciousness.
This paper proposes a novel framework that reformulates spacetime not as a fundamental differentiable manifold, but as an emergent property of a categorical structure. Instead of quantizing gravity, we "geometrize" quantum mechanics by shifting the description of space to the functional language of Category Theory. We model microscopic reality as an infinite-dimensional category of quantum functions (morphisms), where macro spacetime emerges through the functorial composition of these foundational building blocks. Furthermore, we extend this structural realism to cognitive architecture, hypothesizing that the human brain operates as a localized categorical sub-structure. Under this view, consciousness is defined as the experiential phenomenon of rendering a low-dimensional, isomorphic projection of the universe's global categorical state.
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