Stratification of Reality at Points of Matter Bifurcation

Abstract: The work develops a philosophical framework intended to formally reveal the ontological and epistemological limits of cognition. Through a model-theoretic and formal-epistemic analysis of purely material universes, it demonstrates that behavioural and computational models of consciousness are internally incomplete, and that the scientific method is limited by the formal conditions of its own applicability. It establishes that no regularity within the structure of a signal can justify the attribution of consciousness to its source without introducing additional ontological presuppositions. The critique of reductionism is complemented by a demonstration of the internal incompleteness of symbolic and theoretical systems. On the basis of these limits, a constructive metarational framework is proposed that integrates diverse theories of truth, reconceptualizes the criteria of scientific adequacy, and posits consciousness as the ontological condition for the possibility of knowledge and objectivity.