Ontological Cartography of Mind and Cosmos: A Comparative Analysis of Relational Metaphysics, Non-Separability, and Classical Critique in Jamel Bulgaria and Alexis Karpouzos

This paper develops a comparative ontological cartography between two contemporary relational frameworks that challenge classical substance metaphysics, linear temporality, and Cartesian dualism. The first is the Core Emotion Framework (CEF), a ten operator somatic architecture that synthesizes and systematizes the core insights of major emotion theories—including appraisal theory, constructionism, basic emotion models, active inference, and embodied affective neuroscience—into a unified, mathematically transparent structure. The CEF models emotional episodes as high dimensional operator configurations across cognitive, relational, and action oriented somatic centers, formalized in real and complex vector spaces and grounded in predictive interoception, frontoparietal control, LC NE modulation, and NTS PAG autonomic integration. The second framework is Alexis Karpouzos’s post ontological cosmology of Spherical Spacetime and Zero, which reconceives Being as a dynamic, relational field of unfolding and infolding rather than a static substratum. Through systematic comparison, the paper shows that CEF operator dynamics, emotional non separability, and pathological operator fusion parallel Karpouzos’s logic of polarity, omnitemporality, and creative nothingness. Both frameworks reject separability, hierarchical causality, and Aristotelian logic, replacing them with non hierarchical relationality, contextuality, and dynamic unfolding. By bridging metaphysics, phenomenology, mathematical modeling, and systems neuroscience, the paper positions the CEF as a cross theoretical, relational ontology of affect that stands independently while offering a rigorous alternative to classical metaphysical and psychological models. Keywords: Core Emotion Framework (CEF); relational metaphysics; spherical spacetime; non separability; contextuality; embodied affect; predictive interoception; somatic operators; creative nothingness (Zero); polarity logic