Reality Without Passing Through Intelligence: Operational Shapes of Intelligence, Knowledge, Memory, and Data—Deep Functionalism, Autonomous Robotics, and Xeno-Operational Reality: An Inquiry from the Sensor-Operational Perspective of Autonomous Robots

This paper develops an experimental-philosophical investigation of reality, intelligence, knowledge, memory, and data from the sensor-operational perspective of autonomous machines. It critically reconstructs selected propositions from Wilfrid Sellars, Ray Brassier, Robert Brandom, Peter Wolfendale, and Reza Negarestani, and brings them into experimental contact with Operational-Shape Realism and Xeno-Operational Reality. The investigation examines how sensor correspondences, reporting, inferential attribution, contestation, historical records, communication, and resource transfers alter subsequent operations under specified material and computational conditions. Its central concern is the formation, coupling, persistence, transformation, and failure of operational relations, including processes that continue without passing through an established attribution of intelligence. The computational experiments investigate sensor disagreement, correction, contact dynamics, attribution-dependent action permissions, communication-dependent task selection, resource exchange, and the temporal ordering of historical events. Positive and negative results are retained, including failures of correction mechanisms, limitations of attribution-based control, and cases in which historical information does not improve subsequent performance. These experiments establish reproducible consequences within explicitly constructed numerical models. They do not establish the full normative, inferential, or historical claims of the philosophers under examination. The paper therefore distinguishes philosophical propositions, operational implementations, experimental observations, and the conditions under which particular interpretations must be restricted or withdrawn. The resulting framework contributes to the experimental reconstruction of philosophical claims by tracing how local operations modify downstream possibilities, while identifying the limits of existing machine analogues and the further conditions required for stronger forms of autonomous scientific inquiry.