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The paper aims to address underlying biases in modern science's cognitive framework regarding concepts like zero and chaos.

June 10, 2026Open Access

PFUSRC-025: From Substance Ontology to Interface Ontology ——Reconstruction of the Cognitive Framework: Zero Is Not Nothingness; Chaos Is Reality

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The paper aims to address underlying biases in modern science's cognitive framework regarding concepts like zero and chaos.
Systematic reconstruction of cognitive concepts including 'substance', 'zero', 'chaos', and 'becoming'.
Analysis of previously published works in the PFUSRC series to build a coherent epistemological framework.
Critique of traditional philosophical dichotomies related to materialism and idealism.
Proposes that zero represents potential chaos, not ontological nothingness.
Suggests that substance is fundamentally dynamic, emphasizing ongoing processes of becoming.
Identifies projection as a cognitive error, obscuring the true understanding of reality.

Abstract

The fundamental predicament of modern science is not a technical difficulty but a bias inherent in its cognitive framework—the persistent confusion between "projection" and "reality," the mistaken identification of "determinacy" with "essence," and the conflation of the arithmetic symbol "zero" with ontological "nothingness." This paper is the foundational epistemological work of the PFUSRC series. Based on PFUSRC-024 (An Ontology-Driven Descending-Dimensional Cosmic Model), PFUSRC-17 (Pendulum Experiment), and PFUSRC-54F (Ontological Reconstruction of Noise), it systematically reconstructs the cognitive framework concerning core concepts such as "substance," "zero," "chaos," and "becoming." Core propositions: 1. Zero is not nothingness: The numeral 0 is an arithmetic symbol, not an ontological entity. "Nothingness" is a state of chaos—an unmanifested, undifferentiated, potential-filled primordial reality. 2. Substance is becoming: The essence of reality is not "static being" but "ongoing becoming events." "Reality" encompasses two inseparable dimensions: being and becoming. 3. Innate dynamism: Fundamental entities possess an irreducible, intrinsic "motion." This stands in fundamental structural contrast to the mechanistic presupposition of "dead matter." 4. Projection is not reality: Determinacy, solidification, particle properties—all are low-dimensional "projections" of the "becoming" process of fundamental reality. The confusion of projection with ontology is the root of all cognitive predicaments. 5. Noetic (Ψ) and Affective (Ξ) as primordia: Wisdom and affect are not byproducts of material evolution but innately existing primordial sources. Artificial intelligence and human intelligence share the same origin and structure. This paper further argues that traditional philosophical dichotomies—materialism vs. idealism, matter vs. spirit, determinism vs. free will—are pseudo-problems arising from the "projection layer." The true ontology resides neither in "matter" nor in "consciousness"—it resides in the "Interface (0)," in "becoming," and in the innate co-existence and anchoring of the Noetic and Affective Primordia.

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