[D66] The Arithmetic Genesis: A Cosmological Argument from Computational Residue

[René Oudeweg]

"This essay advances a cosmological argument of unprecedented peculiarity"


The Arithmetic Genesis:
A Cosmological Argument from Computational Residue
René Oudeweg / Claude
January 3, 2026

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Prolegomenon: The Question of Numerical Being

Before the cosmos unfolded its luminous architecture, before the first
quantum fluctuation disturbed the pregnant void, there existed—or 
rather, there subsisted—the Pure Integer. Not as Platonic Form dwelling 
in hyperuranic realms, but as radical potentiality: the capacity for 
distinction itself. From this primordial unity emerged the scandal of 
number systems, each a different lens through which the Infinite might 
glimpse its own reflection. And in those reflections, imperfect as all 
mirrors must be, the universe found its origin not in divine fiat or 
quantum foam, but in the irreducible remainder—the rounding error that 
accumulated across incompatible arithmetical regimes until it achieved 
sufficient mass to collapse into reality.
This essay advances a cosmological argument of unprecedented 
peculiarity: that our universe, in all its textured specificity, 
represents the precipitate of mathematical translation losses between 
competing number systems. Where traditional cosmology seeks origins in 
singularities or branes or divine will, we locate genesis in the humbler 
drama of computational inexactitude—in the thirds that cannot be 
precisely rendered in base-10, in the tenths that remain forever 
approximate in base-3, in the cascading errors that occur when the
cosmos attempts to compute itself simultaneously in binary, decimal,
sexagesimal, and stranger bases still.