The Topology of Absence: Information Reconfiguration, Specters, and Free Parameters of Existence in the TSR Medium

This paper formalizes the "Physics of Absence" within the Autonomous Self-Referential (ASR) Framework and the Theory of Reconfiguring Space (TSR), establishing a rigorous boundary between thermodynamic-informational conservation and speculative cognitive hypotheses. The work is structured into separate epistemic levels to preserve scientific integrity. Part I introduces the Paradox of the Psi-Couch, demonstrating through Landauer's Principle that the physical removal of a complex macroscopic entity does not zero out its relational information; instead, nature resists thermodynamic oblivion by storing the residual trace as a passive reconfiguration of the spatial metric (Delta S), acting analogously to cosmological free parameters (Lambda). This core is grounded in the dimensional weight function phi(n) = 1 / (n^k*) with k* = 1.47, which dictates that while stable spacetime dimensions emerge at n <= 4, higher dimensions (n >= 5) act as a sub-threshold sector of the non-baryonic dark medium where dissolved configurations are re-encoded. Part II develops a speculative extension. It hypothesizes that a deceased consciousness persists as a non-local configuration in the dark medium ("specter"). Under the Causal Disconnection Postulate (P-TSR-1), while such configurations are normally isolated by structural temporal distances (D_t much greater than t_P), a highly coherent interaction by a living observer (P and Os) can collapse D_t below the Planck threshold (D_t <= t_P), inducing transient macroscopic quantum interference. This coupling is described via the Embodied Cognitive Oscillation (OCI) principle, framing somatic variations in survivors as temporary biological heat dissipation. Part III proposes a concrete, currently executable experimental test using superconducting transmon qubits. The TSR predicts systematic, non-exponential anomalies in coherence tails, specifically secondary peaks at 2.77 * T_2 and 5.12 * T_2. The paper concludes by clarifying that while a successful test would confirm the dimensional geometry of the TSR, it does not validate the speculative claims of Part II, maintaining a strict distinction between verifiable physics and philosophical inquiry.