Timothy Speed (2025)
This paper develops a non-representational account of perception by reclassifying the observer as a constructed structural position within processes of world-formation. Perception is not understood as the internal representation of an external world, but as the stabilization of world-relations under conditions of ontological openness. Within this framework, the observer does not pre-exist perception, but emerges as a functional consequence of structural integration.
Drawing on the MNO framework, the paper argues that representational theories systematically mislocate the source of perceptual coherence by assuming a pre-given world and a pre-given subject. Instead, perception is shown to be a structural achievement that arises where open, non-integrable dynamics are forced into locally stable relations. The observer is thus neither a passive receiver nor an internal model-builder, but a boundary effect of world-formation itself.
This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18006170
Keywords: constructed observer, world-formation, non-representational perception, structural achievement, ontology of perception, observer theory
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