THE PAN-ONTOLOGICAL QUANTUM-EXISTENTIAL PARADIGM AND THE AESTHETIC-ANTHROPOLOGICAL ISOMORPHISM OF J.S. BACH'S THE ART OF FUGUE: Decoding Quantum Entanglement and Subjective Qualia Through Transphenomenal Hermeneutics
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This working paper establishes a unified Pan-Ontological Quantum-Existential Paradigm designed to dissolve David Chalmers’s "Hard Problem of Consciousness" by bridging quantum mechanics, fundamental ontology, psychoanalysis, and aesthetic anthropology. Moving beyond Cartesian substance dualism and reductive physicalism, this research demonstrates a strict structural isomorphism between the mathematical formalism of quantum states (superposition, unitary Schrödinger evolution, wave-function collapse, and entanglement) and the contrapuntal architecture of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Art of Fugue (BWV 1080). Within this framework, the pre-Socratic Physis (Anaximander, Parmenides, Heraclitus) and the existential abyssality of Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Jean-Paul Sartre are mapped onto the latent quantum potential state. The subjective emergence of qualia is decoded through Transphenomenal Hermeneutics—an epistemic operator analogous to the musical cadence, the Augustinian-Heraclitean Homologein, and the Lacanian-Freudian structuring of the unconscious. Furthermore, the aesthetic dynamics of autopoíesis and ontological sculpere in modern art (Jackson Pollock’s Action Painting, Cy Twombly’s Leda and the Swan, and Franz Kafka’s existential indeterminacy) illustrate how consciousness actualizes irreversible local events from a non-local relational matrix. Ultimately, consciousness is posited not as an epiphenomenon of neural computation, but as the fundamental, irreducible, and relational ground of being itself.
Author: MARIANO DA ROSA, LUIZ CARLOS
Institutions: Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Universidade Fundação Mineira de Educação e Cultura, Universidade de Taubaté, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Universidade Católica de Santos, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Universidade Paranaense, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Universidade Federal do Piauí, Southwest Bahia State University, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina, Methodist University of Piracicaba, Instituto Metodista Izabela Hendrix, Political Observatory, Secretaria da Educação, Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste, Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Universidade Federal do Pará, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225590475