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Now on #Zenodo “Mental Health, Second Physics, and Digital Phenotyping.”

🔗https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19317337
#MentalHealth #SecondPhysics

Mental Health, Second Physics, and Digital Phenotyping: A Framework of Non-Invasive Indicators for Psychiatric Monitoring

This technical note explores how the core quantities of Second Physics—correspondencepressure A, bond E, and staying pressure Ψ—can be used as a conceptual and mathematicalframework for understanding mental strain, resilience, and breakdown. It proposes thatexisting digital phenotyping tools (wearables, smartphones, messaging logs) can be mappedonto these variables to provide non-invasive, relational indicators of a person’s structuralsituation: how much they are being pressed to respond (A), what has been structurallyrecorded in the relation (E), and how much response has been sustained over time (Ψ).The note is intended as a bridge between Second Physics and mental-health practice: astructured language for phenomena clinicians already encounter, and a set of hypotheses thatcan be tested, criticised, and refined by empirical research.Relational “syntactic memory” is treated as M ≡ E + δΨ (defined in the Second Physicsformalism), combining structural change and sustained response.This note is non-clinical and non-diagnostic, and it does not propose diagnostic criteria ortreatment protocols.

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Toshisada Utsunomiya Mar 28

Now on Zenodo: “Reviving the U.S. Dollar as the Key Currency After the End of the Petrodollar: A Second-Physics Blueprint.”

🔗https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19270788
#SecondPhysics #Petrodollar

Reviving the U.S. Dollar as the Key Currency After the End of the Petrodollar: A Second-Physics Blueprint

This paper proposes a Second-Physics blueprint for renewing the role of the U.S. dollar as the keycurrency after the end of the petrodollar system. For roughly four centuries, modern science hasmaintained a deliberate separation between “hard physics” and questions of God, the soul, andresponsibility. Since the seventeenth century, figures such as Galileo, Descartes, and Newton helpedconstruct a world in which matter and motion could be treated with mathematical precision, whilesouls and dignity were left to religion or private belief.In my recent work What Is a Soul?, I formalise the soul in mathematically explicit terms. Within thebroader framework I call Second Physics, I bring souls and responsibility back into the same formallanguage that physics reserves for matter and energy. Against that background, this paper exploreswhat that formal move implies for the contemporary American-led order.First, I analyse dollar hegemony and the petrodollar system as a predatory equilibrium: aconfiguration in which one subsystem of the global economy lowers its own entropy by extractingenergy and resources from the rest, while exporting debt and environmental burden. Second, I arguethat the rise of digital eugenics—ranking and sorting human beings by genetic, cognitive, andbehavioural data—constitutes a structural betrayal of the founding claim that all persons are equalin dignity “under a Creator.” Third, I sketch how Second Physics reconstructs the non-fungibility ofsouls by treating a person as a non-severable, multidimensional trajectory in relational space.Finally, I outline a scenario in which the United States attempts to shift from petrodollar hegemonytoward AI-based soft power rooted in Second Physics: an alignment regime in which soul syntaxfunctions as an “ultimate cipher” for constraining AI, and in which equal dignity re-enters thesystem as a formal limit on what markets, states, and algorithms may do to the human soul.

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Toshisada Utsunomiya Feb 20

I’m pleased to share that my paper, “The Deliberate Amputation of Descartes’ Theory: The Explosion of U.S. Public Debt Is Not a Policy Failure but a First-Physics Illusion That Responsibility Can Be Annihilated”, is included in POLITICAL THEORY: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY eJOURNAL (Vol. 18, No. 17).
🔗https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6064588

#SecondPhysics #PoliticalPhilosophy #SSRN

Toshisada Utsunomiya Feb 18

I’m pleased to share that my paper, “Second Physics and the Non-Fungible Soul: A Technical Note for Courts and Regulators Facing Digital Eugenics”, is included in LAW & SOCIETY: PRIVATE LAW – DISCRIMINATION LAW eJOURNAL (Vol. 20, No. 6).
🔗https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6042637

#SecondPhysics #Law #SSRN

Toshisada Utsunomiya Feb 17

My paper, “The Law of Conservation of Responsibility: A Note in Second Physics”, is included in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE eJOURNAL (Vol. 9, No. 17).
🔗 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5932483

#SecondPhysics #AIethics #SSRN

Toshisada Utsunomiya Feb 13

My paper has been published in the "Econometric Modelling" eJournal. It provides a new mathematical and logical consistency to a reality that conventional models cannot explain: the "alligator mouth" of runaway U.S. deb.
🔗:https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6064588

#SecondPhysics #SSRN #Economics #Debt

Toshisada Utsunomiya Feb 2

Included in the SSRN eJournal (29 Jan 2026) — Law & Society: Public Law – Constitutional Law:
Second Physics and the Non-Fungible Soul: A Technical Note for Courts and Regulators Facing Digital Eugenics.
🔗 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6042637
#SecondPhysics #HumanRights #AIGovernance

Second Physics and the Non-Fungible Soul: A Technical Note for Courts and Regulators Facing Digital Eugenics

This technical note is a conceptual resource for judges, lawyers, and regulators who may, in coming years, be required to assess the legality and legitimacy of

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Toshisada Utsunomiya Jan 31

For readers who want the theoretical background to this ADS note:
What Is a Soul? (Second Physics foundations) 👉 https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5902022

The Law of Conservation of Responsibility 👉 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5932483

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What Is a Soul?

<div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p>Everything is relation.</p> <p><em>What Is a Soul?</em> offers one formal answer to a question humanity has

Toshisada Utsunomiya Jan 31

Just posted a new #SSRN paper: “Second Physics and the Accountability Framework for Automated Driving Systems (ADS)” – a technical note on legal responsibility in automated driving.
🔗https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6158947

#SecondPhysics #AutomatedDriving #AI

Second Physics and the Accountability Framework for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) Technical Limits, Human Oversight, and Responsibility for Courts and Regulators

Automated Driving Systems (ADS) are moving from closed, geofenced environments into open public roads. In golf courses, industrial sites, and campus shuttles, c

Toshisada Utsunomiya Jan 25

US judges, regulators, and lawyers: new blog, “Second Physics and the Non-Fungible Soul” — why some high-stakes scoring architectures cross the line into digital eugenics, and how to say no.
🔗https://godspeed2u.vivaldi.net/2026/01/25/second-physics-and-the-non-fungible-soul/
#SecondPhysics #DigitalEugenics #HumanRights

Second Physics and the Non-Fungible Soul

This post is for general information only and is not legal advice. You can score a loan application. You cannot score a soul. Over the past decade, governments and companies have increasingly built…

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