The Card Universe: Experiential Empiricism's Anti-Cosmology

This paper presents an anti-cosmology: the dissolution of cosmological inquiry through rigorous application of Experiential Empiricism. Starting from two self-proving axioms (valenced experience and logic), we demonstrate that each moment of consciousness functions as a complete, self-contained card. There is no deck structure, no ordering, no temporal container connecting cards. Just cards. Each card contains all phenomenological content including memory, anticipation, temporal flow, identity, and agency as present experiential structures rather than as evidence of external metaphysical entities. Traditional cosmology asks questions about universe-structure independent of experience: How did it begin? What is its timeline? How do moments connect? These questions commit the same error quantum interpretation does: assuming the formalism describes mind-independent reality between observations. Remove that assumption and cosmology dissolves. What remains is not a cosmological model but recognition that cosmological questions violate burden of proof. This framework shows why continuity, causation, and change are experiential content within cards rather than relationships between cards, why classical philosophical problems dissolve under this analysis, and why materialism's apparent explanatory power derives from hiding its mysteries behind temporally inaccessible singularities. The Card Universe represents the maximally parsimonious anti-cosmology consistent with treating experience as foundational.