Selective Reality Theory (SRT): A Unified Framework for Explicit-Implicit Ontology and Embodied Cognition via Gauge Theoretic Mechanisms

This paper proposes Selective Reality Theory (SRT), a unified metaphysical frame-work addressing the ”Hard Problem” of consciousness and the measurement prob-lem in quantum mechanics. We argue for a strict physical-mathematical isomor-phism between Explicit-Implicit Ontology and Embodied Cognition. The central thesis posits that the ”Faddeev-Popov ghost fields” in quantum gauge field theory are not merely mathematical tools for eliminating redundancy, but constitute the ontological correlate of Agency at the fundamental physical level. By redefining ”embodiment” as a topological Gauge Fixing operation within the Moduli Space, SRT reveals con-sciousness not as an epiphenomenon of neural computation, but as an active opera-tor that ”prunes” deterministic Existence (Explicit Order) from the infinite possibil-ities of Chaos (Implicit Order/Gauge Redundancy). We detail this mechanism across four scales—quantum micro-dynamics, enzymatic biology, neural cognition, and so-cial macro-structures—and propose falsifiable experimental protocols based on the Information-Mass Equivalence Principle and Quantum Biology.