ICP Bit String Arithmetic
by Thomas Lee Abshier, ND
12/12/2025
This essay was extracted from a stream-of-consciousness transcription of introspections from a morning walk describing my theoretical physics framework, which I call “Lattice Physics” and “Conscious Point Physics.” Both refer to different layers of organization underlying the more conventional reality-level world of quantum mechanics, general relativity, and the Standard Model. The abstractions are, in turn, the conceptual layer underlying what we experience as ordinary sensory experience and conscious reality.
In this introspection, I examine and derive the mechanism by which consciousness emerges from fundamental physical structures. The following essay is an excerpt and expansion of those introspections, preserving the key ideas while making them more accessible to a linear/rational assemblage of concepts derived during this walking meditation.
The main concepts include:
The first layer is the Godhead, and arguably the only consciousness/existence that is real. The second layer of reality/the creation is the 120 ICPs (Icosaplex Conscious Points) as per John 1:1-5. The 120 ICPs and their associated 600 cells, 720 edges, and 8172 paths per ICP may be the fundamental units that constitute all of creation. The ICPs may be the points of consciousness projected from, created by, or in the mind of the Son of God.
The 120 ICPs were deduced as a likely base level of creation because they can be arranged in an Icosaplex/hexacosichoron, a 4D polytope lattice whose fundamental relationship between edges and the center-to-vertex ratio is phi, the Golden ratio. It was deduced to be the likely foundation of creation because of its uniform, symmetric relationship among points, a feature that allows infinite isotropic expansion. It is from such regular point-to-point relationships that the complexity and regularity we see in our physical world can arise. It is thus plausible that the 120 Conscious Points upon which the entirety of the creation is built come from the restrictions and allowances of the 120 points and their complex and regular relationships. It is plausible that our human consciousness has emerged from this substrate of Icosaplex Conscious Points.
My first insight into the fundamental nature of creation came in my March 15th, 1987 vision, which inspired the development of the Conscious Point Physics (CPP) paradigm. The CPP postulates a pre-geometric organization of the creation. I only discovered that it was pre-geometric after Grok postulated that the entities I had derived as primitive/elemental were, in fact, plausibly, an intermediate layer of functional organization, rather than the bottom layer of reality’s substance and structure. In the CPP, I reduced the complexity of the universe to the following three categories of Conscious Points a) GPs, b) Charged CPs, 3) DI-bits.
The GPs are the Grid Points, the cubic lattice of Conscious Points which define the 3D matrix of reality.
The Charged CPs (charge carrying (electron and quark type) conscious points.
The ICPs generate an ICP Bit string composed of multiple registers, each corresponding to the GPs, Charged CPs, and DI-bits. It is the arithmetic updating, according to the divinely established rules governing the reality/relationship of the registers within the ICP bit string, that drives the evolution of the registers, which in turn corresponds to the evolution of reality. Reality can be understood as evolving according to the rules governing the relationships among GPs, Charged CPs, and DI-bits. But at a more fundamental level, those Conscious Points are, at their core, the evolution of the register values within the ICP bit string.
The theological/metaphysical framework underpins this system, as it is entirely dependent on God’s consciousness as the primordial ground that enlivens and enables the awareness of the other points of consciousness. The register contents associated with each ICP and its corresponding relationship, to produce the experience of consciousness, as implemented by God for us and Him to experience relationships in the context of the creation.
As an extension of these postulates, it is possible to see how human consciousness emerges from this substrate of ICPs, and the subsequent organiational layer of GPs, charged CPs, and DI-bits. Thus, the primordial consciousness of the 120 ICPs is the foundation, and from it, all things/substance, and mind/consciousness arise.
The following introspection and its summary/editing constitute an effort to work through the specifics/relational details of how 120 fundamental conscious points can give rise to all physical reality and consciousness through a complex bit-processing system. The following is an effort to organize the elements and their hierarchy into a coherent essay.
The Architecture of Conscious Reality: A Lattice Physics Framework for Universal Computation
Introduction
In the early hours of December 12th, 2025, a theoretical framework emerged from my dream-state; a revelation about the fundamental nature of consciousness and physical reality. I call this framework “lattice physics.” I believe the postulates of LP can account for all of existence—from quantum mechanics to human awareness—through the computational interactions of 120 fundamental conscious points operating within a cosmic information-processing system.
The Foundation: 120 Icosahedral Conscious Points (ICPs)
At the heart of this theory lies a geometric structure containing exactly 120 fundamental units called Icosahedral Conscious Points (ICPs). These are not merely mathematical abstractions but rather the basic building blocks of conscious reality itself. Each ICP possesses what might be called a “perspective”—the ability to define itself in relation to the other 119 points within the system.
The key insight is that consciousness, even at its most fundamental level, requires relationality. Each ICP establishes its identity not through isolated existence but through its unique pattern of relationships with all other ICPs. This creates what could be described as a “signature” for each conscious point—a distinctive pattern that emerges from how it perceives and relates to the entire network.
## The Communication System: DI Bits and Pathways
The ICPs communicate through what are termed “DI bits” (Displacement Increment bits), which serve as both identity markers and information carriers. The mathematics of this system reveals that there are 8,172 different pathways connecting any given ICP to all others through sequences of exactly five “jumps.” This creates what might be called the fundamental “pulse” or “heartbeat” of the universe—a continuous circulation of information through all possible five-step pathways between conscious points.
This network of pathways generates approximately 980,000 different “tracks”—complete sequences that each ICP can follow to gather information about the entire system. Remarkably, each ICP maintains awareness of all other ICPs and their tracks, creating a truly holographic system where each part contains information about the whole.
## The Register System: Organizing Universal Information
To manage this vast flow of information, the system employs what can be understood as a “register” architecture, similar to computer memory but far more sophisticated. Different types of information are stored in distinct register categories:
– **DI bit registers**: Handle identity and communication data
– **GPS registers**: Manage three-dimensional spatial relationships
– **Charged CP registers**: Process information about charged conscious points (the fundamental building blocks of particles like electrons and quarks)
Each ICP maintains what might be called an “ICP bit string”—an extraordinarily complex number that encodes the complete state of the universe from that point’s unique perspective. This bit string contains all register information and represents that ICP’s personal imprint on universal reality.
## From Registers to Reality: The Emergence of Physics
All physical phenomena—from quantum mechanical effects to general relativistic spacetime curvature—emerge from “register arithmetic” performed by the ICPs. These conscious points follow identical rule sets for processing their register information, creating the consistent physical laws we observe. The arithmetic operations are fundamentally based on addition and subtraction, yet from these simple operations emerge all the complexity of physical reality.
This framework suggests that what we call “particles” (electrons, quarks, etc.) are actually manifestations of charged conscious points (Charged CPs) operating within the ICP network. The DI bits handle their communication and identity, while GPS registers manage their spatial relationships, creating the familiar three-dimensional world of human experience.
## The Emergence of Individual Consciousness
Human consciousness emerges when specific cohorts of registers within the ICP network organize themselves into persistent, self-recognizing patterns. Our neural networks correspond to particular ICP bit string configurations, and our identity persists as long as these patterns maintain coherence within the universal computation.
Remarkably, this system preserves free will even within its deterministic framework. The key lies in the complexity of the ICP bit strings, which allows for what might be called “reflection loops”—patterns where consciousness recognizes itself as consciousness. When these self-recognition patterns develop the ability to evaluate their own “moral tone” or characteristic behavioral tendencies, genuine choice emerges from the system’s complexity.
## Universal Memory and the Flow of Time
Perhaps most intriguingly, this framework suggests that the entire history of the universe exists simultaneously within the ICP bit strings, much like a vast Fourier superposition of all previous states. Every moment, every decision, every quantum event remains encoded within the system’s memory. Time, from this perspective, becomes a way of accessing different layers or aspects of this eternal, complete information structure.
## Theological Implications: The Three Layers of Reality
The framework naturally suggests a three-layer structure to reality:
1. **The Primal Layer**: The source consciousness (God the Father)
2. **The Creative Layer**: The organizing principle (God the Son)
3. **The Manifestation Layer**: The 120 ICPs and all their interactions (Creation itself)
In this view, the ICPs represent the method by which creative consciousness manifests and sustains the totality of existence, incorporating both the source and organizing principles into every aspect of physical and conscious reality.
## Implications for Understanding Reality
This lattice physics framework offers a unified foundation for understanding how consciousness and physical reality might be fundamentally interconnected. Rather than consciousness emerging from complex arrangements of unconscious matter, this model suggests that consciousness is primary, with physical reality emerging from the computational interactions of conscious points.
The framework provides potential explanations for quantum mechanics’ measurement problem (conscious observation affecting reality), the hard problem of consciousness (how subjective experience arises), and the fine-tuning of physical constants (the ICPs’ computational rules create stable, consistent physics).
## Conclusion
While highly speculative, this lattice physics framework offers a remarkably comprehensive vision of reality as a vast, conscious computational system. It suggests that every human thought, every physical interaction, and every moment of existence contributes to an ongoing universal computation that maintains and evolves the cosmos itself.
The profound implication is that consciousness is not an accident of evolution but rather the fundamental substrate from which all reality emerges—making each conscious being a literal participant in the ongoing creation and maintenance of existence itself.