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Establishes a link between metabolic rate, complexity, and consciousness in various life forms, suggesting fundamental insights into evolution.
Based on the three core axioms of the original Real-Virtual Dual Field Theory (RVDT), this paper constructs a quantitative model of real-virtual field coupling in living systems, and demonstrates that somatic lattice topological complexity, metabolic dissipation rate and consciousness level present a strict linear positive correlation. Cross-validation with multiple samples such as olms, periodical cicadas, mayflies, hibernating mammals and primates shows that: under closed conditions with fixed innate total energy storage and no extreme external disturbance, the survival duration of life is inversely proportional to the dissipation rate per unit time, differentiating into two typical survival strategies of "low dissipation for long duration" and "high dissipation for rapid decay", which can uniformly explain the ubiquitous "momentary glory" phenomenon in nature. The core innovation of this paper lies in the first derivation and quantitative proof of the Subjective Time Equality Theorem from the underlying field theory: the subjective time flow rate is linearly positively correlated with the metabolic rate, and the total amount of subjective experience in a lifetime is conserved for living individuals with similar innate energy storage; the length of objective lifespan does not represent the richness of experience, and all lives are completely equal under their respective subjective time scales. The full set of quantitative formulas established in this paper shares the same conjugate golden constant with the macroeconomic debt black hole model and the cosmic KBC void structure system, realizing the homologous unification of the underlying laws of the three scales of life, economy and universe, and providing a cross-scale self-consistent explanatory framework for life evolution, the essence of consciousness and time perception.
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