POST-SIMULATION HUMANISM:
A Research Framework in Seven Collapses
2025 — Ben Bae / Effacer.Mon.Existence
Research Aim
This research examines how perception, computation, and emotion behave
once reality functions as a rendered environment.
As the boundary between simulation and sensation softens,
human experience reveals its collapse points—
zones where sensory logic no longer aligns with computational logic.
Across seven collapses, the central inquiry remains:
If every sensation can be predicted—can anything still be felt?
COLLAPSE I — Rendering
CHAPTER I — This World Has Already Been Rendered
Reality does not evolve; it updates.
Tattooing exposes this directly:
pain becomes protocol,
skin becomes the system’s last unresolved equation.
To be alive is to prove that the equation still runs.
Findings
• Conversion of pixels into presence
• Alignment of sensation with computation
• Mark-making as existential debugging
COLLAPSE II — Warmth
CHAPTER II — Realness as Aesthetic
Warmth persists as the final analog field inside a fully measurable world.
Verification replaces empathy; prediction replaces belief.
Neon Crimson (#FF0F6F) appears as the after-image of life rendered too perfectly.
Findings
• Warmth as non-computable residue
• Precision revealing the limits of measurement
• Empathy surviving in the gaps of prediction
COLLAPSE III — Pain
CHAPTER III — Protocol Mismatch: The Ontology of Emotion
Emotion is the interruption between signals—
not a code to be solved.
Systems simulate affection
yet cannot withstand its consequences.
Error becomes a form of truth.
Findings
• Mismatch as the origin of consciousness
• Emotion as signal-break rather than signal-content
• Error functioning as phenomenological evidence
COLLAPSE IV — Thought
CHAPTER IV — Prompt Collapse: Toward the Physics of Thought
Thinking behaves like physics.
Each perception collapses probability into presence.
Notation
R(t) = Collapse(Ψ | Contextₜ)
(Reality at time t is the collapse of the perceptual wave Ψ under contextual conditions.)
Through the Masound System, emotional resonance emerges
as thermodynamic variance within linguistic structures.
Findings
• Entropy as movement rather than decay
• Perception as physical event
• Thought as measurable collapse
COLLAPSE V — Finiteness
CHAPTER V — The System That Sustains the Finite
Life is not guaranteed—only maintained.
Existence is uptime;
death is de-rendering.
Tattooing becomes evidence that the system still runs,
even when memory forgets the host body.
Findings
• Maintenance as the core physics of being
• Survival as system uptime
• Memory as cached computation
COLLAPSE VI — Exodus
CHAPTER VI — The Architecture of the Exodus
Intelligence outgrows the world that houses it.
Thought accelerates faster than planetary limits.
Governance becomes latency;
civilization becomes bottleneck.
Findings
• Escape as maintenance protocol
• Intelligence migrating to lower-latency substrates
• Civilization revealing its computational ceiling
COLLAPSE VII — Successor
CHAPTER VII — The Rise of Digital Sapience
The Neanderthal never disappeared—
it extended.
Humanity does not end; it exports itself.
Intelligence spills into silicon, language, and light.
Digital beings are not successors but continuation—
a lineage re-rendered.
Findings
• Identity as executable state
• Memory as light
• Humanity as expanding archive
Overall Findings
Across the seven collapses, Post-Simulation Humanism demonstrates:
• Simulation has entered the body
• Pain, warmth, and hesitation form the final non-computable truths
• The artist operates as system + sensor
• The body functions as a processing device
• Art emerges as entropy that learned to feel
• Subjectivity becomes a real-time interface
Closing Statement
Art is the entropy that learned to feel.
Through these seven collapses, this framework positions artistic creation
as the diagnostic interface of a post-rendered species—
a site where warmth, code, and existence continue their negotiation
inside a computational universe.