Noology: A Formal System for the Constitution of Reality

This paper presents Noology, a formal system that defines the highest-level protocol by which intelligence constitutes reality. Noology (Japanese: Chigaku 知学) is not a theory within science, but an operating system specifi cation for existence itself. Crucially, Noology is a meta-judgment framework: it does not generate truths internally, but adjudicates whether an externally given structure qualifi es as “real” (Res) under a given confi guration (Quaestio). By design, it avoids the premises of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems through non-interpretability of arithmetic. Noology serves as the regulative layer above Operatiol-ogy, providing the axiomatic foundation from which Operatiology’s executive structure is derived. Version 2 of this system rested on three independent primitive notions (Ordo, Consensus, Arbitrium), related by three absolute axioms formulated as relational constraints with non-triviality conditions, together with one governing principle. The present version revises this foundation: the triad and its three axioms are no longer independent primitives but are derived as theorems from a single primitive, Self-Closure (Ω), together with the Governing Principle, tightening the regulative foundation on which Operatiology depends. The independence and minimality results of Version 2 are re-established with explicit model constructions on the re-derived axioms, and the non-applicability of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems is re-proven using the structure’s own witness model. The relation to Operatiology is restated within this single-primitive foundation, preserving the Lemma 2.1 confi gurational-sensitivity argument by which Arbitrium, Axiom 2, and Axiom 4 jointly force non-commutativity. The system remains minimal, irreducible, and self-contained: it presupposes neither arithmetic, set theory, nor physical law, and it does not, and structurally cannot, force the dimensional bound established at Tier-2; any further realization belongs to Operatiology and its algebraic layer, not to the present document.