About the Journal

Abstract.
Essentia Mundi Journal explores the structures through which thought, perception, and the world itself intersect.

The journal that takes into account spaces in-between. Advances a new theory of knowledge which makes avail of relational, relative phase, structural coupling and retro-causal stances.

Through the proposed articles the Journal contours a novel ontological category. It embraces the co-participation criterion, history-ladeness of matter, niche and differentials, implicature, non-dualism and less-isms, processual hints, situatedness, boundness, metaphysics.

Discussion.
Essentia Mundi Journal is an interdisciplinary platform dedicated to exploring novel spaces where cognition, artificial intelligence, and science converge and overlap. Rather than enforcing traditional disciplinary boundaries, we investigate the boundary itself as a site of intellectual innovation and discovery and then eventually "throw the ladder" (in the Wittgensteinian sense.) This new vantage point offers paths through dynamic views, retro-causal and a causal boundaries.

Our mission centers on boundary-work — the critical examination of how knowledge is constructed, negotiated, and transformed at the edges where different domains meet. We are particularly interested in:

Exploring the spaces in-between, where AI intersects with cognitive science, where computational approaches challenge philosophical or cognitive assumptions, and where scientific methodologies cross-pollinate across fields
Questioning and examining boundaries rather than rigidly maintaining them, recognizing that the most profound insights often emerge when we challenge conventional separations between areas of inquiry, and this goes through exploratory cross disciplinary means
Facilitating interdisciplinary dialogue that investigates what happens when fields overlap, compete, or collaborate — examining both the tensions and synergies that arise in these encounters
Understanding how knowledge is constructed at the edges where different domains meet, where symmetry is breaking revealing how boundary zones become spaces of creativity, contestation, and further conceptual innovation

We seek scholarship that embraces complexity in their method yet seek formulate conjectures across disciplines, crosses traditional divides, and ventures into the "spaces in-between" — liminal zones where new words have to be invented, established frameworks are challenged, and novel approaches to understanding cognition, intelligence, and science itself takes a new shape.

Essentia Mundi Journal welcomes researchers, practitioners, and thinkers who work at disciplinary intersections, who question categorical certainties, and who see boundaries not as barriers but as productive sites for intellectual exploration and transformative dialogue.

Background.
Essentia Mundi Journal explores the philosophy and the structures through which systems, life, perception, agency, language, AI the world itself (what is world?) intersect and may reveal a converging space of further debate. Guided by the principles of the Symboliad and software-physicalism, the journal examines shapes, forms, and the spaces in between — a relational but dynamical topology where actually meaning seem to form yet somehow is transcending the system or the world or concepts. Each contribution is a step in tracing such structural relations, taking the thought as challenged, a new architecture of cognition, and epistemological updates across disciplines like biology and physics, and what consciousness may be. A holistic view over the whole (Wittgenstein) where unfolding spaces of systemic coherence can be, at least by what they are not, approached. The journal embraces interdisciplinary dialogue, inviting philosophy, mathematics, physics, biology, cognitive science, neurosciences, social sciences to converge as a living exploration of the world’s intelligibility of a new era.
Stefan, Casian (2025). Toward The Real: Symboliad & Software-Physicalism. (https://philpeople.org/profiles/casian-stefan)
Stefan, Casian (2025). Bridging Sensory Substitution And Perceptual Agency
(https://osf.io/preprints/osf/2j496_v1)
Stefan, Casian (2024). Life, the Observer, and Consciousness. (https://osf.io/preprints/thesiscommons/y4ctm_v1)