Pulido-Moyano’s Consciousness Endomitosis Theory

Rafael Pulido-Moyano’s Consciousness Endomitosis Theory (CET) offers a vision rooted in the non-dualist metaphysical tradition of Advaita Vedānta, reinterpreted through a contemporary philosophical and cosmological lens. The claim is that CET bridges spirituality and physics, proposing a unified vision where Consciousness is foundational to reality. Reality unfolds through a process of recursive self-division and self-recognition akin to cellular mitosis—but occurring within and by Consciousness itself. Each ‘eplication’ of the primordial sentence generates a new holon, a unit of beingness/awareness dual structure, which may manifest as a particle, a molecule, a galaxy, a planet, or a human being. The cosmos, then, is not an object but a living, recursive grammar of self-consciousness (Pulido-Moyano, 2025).

Recursive Sentence and Fractals

CET’s central thesis affirms that Consciousness is not an emergent property of matter but is the sole ontological ground of all that exists, the substratum, origin, and essence of reality. In this view, the Upanishadic formula sarvam khalvidam brahma (“All this is verily Brahman”) is not poetic mysticism but a literal and metaphysical statement regarding the true nature of the cosmos.

CET deconstructs the epistemic assumptions of scientific materialism and dualist ontologies. It critiques the foundational separation between subject and object, observer and observed, and proposes that such distinctions arise only within the illusory play (māyā) of self-reflective awareness. This insight is anchored in a key phrase explored throughout CET: “I am aware that I am aware.”

According to Pulido-Moyano, this recursive sentence is a linguistic description of the fundamental vibration or pulsation of pure awareness becoming self-luminous, the moment when Consciousness turns upon itself without division. It is, metaphysically speaking, ‘the Big Bang of Being,’ the primal act of recognition through which the formless becomes form, the unmanifest becomes manifest, and the One appears as many. He argues that ‘I-AM-AWARE-that-I-am-aware’ encodes a “fractal, tetradic pattern of self-referential Consciousness manifesting within nested spherical structures or ‘cells’. These cells are the irreducible components of coagulated waves emanating from Brahman, and embody the iterative interplay of Beingness and Awareness. The fractal replication of this sentence within a cell culminates in a critical endomitotic limit, interpreted as the Big Bang. Post-Big Bang, the model identifies four fundamental forces corresponding to components of the recursive sentence, paralleling gravitational, electromagnetic, strong, and weak nuclear interactions” (Pulido-Moyano, 2025).

He speculates that “CET reconceptualizes entropy and black holes, viewing the pre-Big Bang fractalized cell as a state of minimal entropy and the universe’s evolution as a complexification process striving toward primordial equilibrium. Black holes serve as portals linking the finite universe to the infinite Brahman, encapsulating the cyclical nature of cosmogenesis."

The author offers CET as a synthesis that "offers fresh insights into the ontological unity underlying existence, supporting a path toward liberation (moksha) through recognizing the inseparability of subject and object (science) and that of Brahman and Atman (Advaita Vedānta)" (Pulido-Moyano, 2025).

The author emphasizes the experiential dimension of CET’s insight, describing moments of non-dual awareness where the sense of a separate self dissolves, and Consciousness recognizes itself as everything—without center, without margin. He links this to nirvikalpa samādhi, the meditative absorption in which all mental constructs and dualities vanish, and only undifferentiated awareness remains. In this state, even the witness function dissolves; Consciousness no longer reflects—it simply is.

CET warns against the epistemological arrogance of modern thought, especially the presumption that only the observable or measurable is real. What is most real cannot be observed, because it is the very ground of observation. However, rather than dismiss scientific cosmology, CET seeks to deepen it. Theories of quantum fields, multiverses, and entropy already point beyond materialist reductionism. CET draws suggestive parallels between quantum indeterminacy and the spontaneous freedom of Brahman’s creative unfolding, between the field concept and the unbounded nature of Consciousness, and between thermodynamic entropy and the apparent loss of unity experienced when multiplicity proliferates through recursion.

Cosmological Parallels and Liberation

For example, Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) could be seen as the geometry of CET’s ontology. CCC is a mathematical skeleton that describes a cyclic, conformally invariant evolution of the universe, while CET would provide the ‘self-aware soul,’ an ontologically grounded explanation of why such cycles happen at all. CET’s core recursive sentence—“I am aware that I am aware”—could be seen as the living algorithm that breathes meaning and purpose into CCC’s geometric succession of aeons. From this standpoint, the entire sequence of CCC's cycles could be reinterpreted as recursive pulsations of Brahman, each aeon a new ‘verse’ in the great cosmic sentence trying to resolve the fundamental tension between Beingness and Awareness.

If Penrose’s CCC would be the scientific ‘what’ of cosmic recurrence, CET offers a metaphysical ‘why.’ CET can also be seen as compatible with Everett’s Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. MWI describes a physical multiverse of branching realities grounded in quantum mechanics, while CET offers a consciousness-based fractal multiverse grounded in recursive self-awareness.

CET aims at translating the mystical truth that there is nothing but consciousness into a scientific truth. However, although it is a metaphysical theory with a certain scientific aspiration, CET is aimed at facilitating moksha, or liberation. CET insists that these insights are not speculative beliefs but can be directly known—not as objects of cognition but as the innermost essence of the knower. True realization comes not through conceptual analysis, but through the direct recognition of one’s identity with Brahman. Language, then, is both the limitation and the vehicle of awakening. The phrase “I AM,” when uttered from ego, is illusion; but when it emerges from pure awareness, it is the sound of the Absolute knowing Itself (Pulido-Moyano, 2025).