Caution: Chaos. Existential Strategies and the Meta-Monist Framework Creators Myshko, Andrii ORCID icon

What happens when thought encounters its own limit? This paper explores existential crises through the lens of Meta-Monism, a philosophical ontology of becoming grounded in the Conflict–Moment–Impulse (CMI) dynamic. Chaos is defined as the limit of differentiation, where thinking risks collapsing into an intellectual prison. Historical figures — Augustine, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus — are analyzed as case studies of encountering Chaos and choosing distinct impulses: forgetting, faith, creativity, authenticity, and revolt. Each strategy is interpreted as an attempt to minimize existential resistance R under the pressure Pe of Chaos. The paper concludes that critique itself is a form of autonegation, transforming apparent failure into productive negativity. Far from annihilation, Chaos becomes the generative ground of renewal,