The Holographic Meaning Field: Enactment as the Universal Boundary Between Meaning Superposition and Physical Reality

Abstract This paper attempts to bridge the gap between fundamental physics and the psychology of meaning-making. We explore the proposition that the most persistent impasse in physics— the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity—is not a purely mathematical issue, but a structural consequence of both frameworks beginning after Enactment: the universal boundary where information and matter emerge from superposition. We define Meaning as a 2D Gauge Field possessing global symmetry. Enactment is identified as the discrete phase transition—a local gauge transformation—from a state of Meaning Superposition to a specific Meaning Configuration. This substrate-independent mechanism is formalized through the EOCME cycle, which we propose as the operational dynamics of an SU (7) gauge symmetry. Each of the seven stages in the cycle represents a transformation within the 7-dimensional fundamental representation of the SU (7) group. This process of Symmetry Breaking is treated as a universal constant: the cognitive mechanism allowing a child to perceive a ‘bear’ in a shadow (psychological enactment) is shown to be mathematically isomorphic to the processes generating physical constants and mass in the early universe. Four consequences follow: 1. Axioms are Enactments that fix the gauge, freezing global symmetry into local geometry. 2. The incompatibility between Einstein and Schrödinger is a property of their respective axiomatic Enactments, not of reality itself. 3. Wave function collapse is relative to the enactor. 4. Time is emergent from Enactment rather than fundamental. This work is grounded in forty years of clinical observation, N=1, 211 psychological datasets, and a deterministic analysis of the Planck 2018 CMB map identifying 2, 703 meaning traces. Ultimately, this work offers a unifying framework that treats meaning as a conserved field quantity, linking human cognition directly to cosmological structure. Keywords: Cosmic Microwave Background · Conservation laws · Enactment · Gauge symmetry · Higgs metastability · Meaning field · Quantum measurement problem · Symmetry breaking