Collective Knowledge and the Great Mind
An Information-Based Ontological Framework Abstract This paper examines the concept of the " Great Mind " as an ontological principle independent of intelligence, cognition, consciousness, matter, or energy. The Great Mind is not a thinking or perceiving entity; rather, it is the core transitional condition that makes information —and thus existence—possible. It cannot be localized in time or space, nor reduced to a beginning or an end. Instead, it persists as a unified informational continuity across the A–B bridge between existence and non-existence, potentiality and realization. In this framework, information is not content but the structural precondition of reality itself. 1. Introduction: The Need for an Information-Centered Ontology Classical scientific approaches tend to reduce consciousness to neurobiological processes or cognitive functions, while philosophical traditions often frame it as a subject-centered phenomenon. Both perspectives struggle to acco...