Timothy Speed (2025)
This paper introduces the All–Nothing Paradox (ANP) as a fundamental ontological constraint on world-formation. It argues that neither complete determinacy nor absolute indeterminacy can give rise to world-stable structures, and that worldhood emerges only under conditions of ontological openness that resist full closure.
Against prevailing assumptions in physics, artificial intelligence, and complexity theory, the paper demonstrates that increasing computational complexity does not overcome the structural limits imposed by formal closure. Instead, closure itself marks the decisive boundary beyond which artificial systems cannot generate or sustain world-relations.
The argument reframes debates on intelligence, emergence, and simulation by distinguishing between internally consistent systems and world-fundational processes. Artificial systems may be functionally powerful and empirically successful, yet remain ontologically non-world-capable.
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.18000820
Keywords: all–nothing paradox, ontological openness, world-formation, formal closure, artificial systems, complexity limits, non-representational ontology, operator-based epistemology
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