Publications

Matthias Gruber

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Consciousness & Cosmology

Front cover of The Simulation You Call “I” Book The Simulation You Call “I” The Architecture of Consciousness, Computation, and the Cosmos Gruber, 2026 · English & German (Die Simulation namens Ich) Front cover of No Outside Book No Outside The Limits of Mathematics and Logic From Any First-Person Perspective Gruber, 2026 · Paperback, Hardcover & Kindle · Available on Amazon
Front cover of Die Emergenz des Bewusstseins (2015) Book Emergenz des Bewusstseins Gruber · German · Hardcover · Amazon · Lulu
Preprint The Four-Model Theory of Consciousness A Simulation-Based Framework Unifying the Hard Problem, Binding, and Altered States Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18669891 Preprint Why the Hard Problem Looks Unbridgeable from Inside Virtual Qualia and Self-Referential Closure Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23480985 Preprint In-Silico Tests of the Four-Model Architecture Self-Referential Closure, Self-Modelling and Criticality in Model Systems Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21610993 Preprint Toward a Mathematical Formalization of the Four-Model Theory A Recommended Approach Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843693 Commentary Self-Referential Simulation as a Candidate Causal Specification A Commentary on Seth (2025) Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20626674 Preprint The Worm on the Disk Stored Trajectories and the Triviality Problem Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23474833 Commentary What the Loop Carries Comment on “Loops all the way up” by Zefan Zheng et al. Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23478413 Blog post What the Loop Carries: A Comment on Zheng et al. (2026) The argument of the commentary above, for general readers Gruber, 2026 · matthiasgruber.com/blog Preprint Where the Theories Sit An Architectural Coordinate System for Comparing Theories of Consciousness, with the Four-Model Theory as Reference Frame Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23496102 Perspective Silent Suffering A Plea to Consciousness Science and Robotics Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23479963 Preprint What a Rejection Cost Conversion Cost and the Reversibility of Scientific Falsity Rulings Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23478568 Preprint Limits Without an Outside Why the Limits of Embedded Description Travel as Refutations Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23494694 Preprint Too Late to Report Why First-Person Methods Cannot Reach the Minimal Self Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23495402 Preprint Does Near-Criticality Set the Level of Consciousness? An Architectural Prediction, and How to Falsify It Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23594247 Preprint Emergent Spacetime from Self-Referential Computation A Hierarchical Cellular Automaton Framework Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18698605 Preprint Toward a Mathematical Formalization of the SB-HC4A Cosmological Model A Recommended Approach Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22133504 Preprint Scale-Dependent Multifractal Structure in the Planck 2018 CMB Evidence from Needlet-Based Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20306784 Preprint Motivation as Allocation Policy and the Mis-Typed Components of Intelligence The Recursive Intelligence Model (RIM) Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20125095 Preprint Toward a Mathematical Formalization of the Recursive Intelligence Model A Recommended Approach Gruber, 2026 · Zenodo · doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22133501

Simulation, Optimization & Computer Science

Thesis A Generic Framework for Discrete Simulation-Based Optimization Gruber · 2026
Conference Paper Practical Token Retrieval and Indexing from Binary Data: An Application in Computer-Aided Design Project ProDSS — COMET K-Project, Integrated Decision Support Systems for Industrial Processes Gruber, Geschray & Hillbrand · 2026
Book Modulare Delta-Algorithmen für das praktische Versionsmanagement Sichere Hashfunktionen bei Concurrent Versioning Systems (CVS) und Online-Update-Systemen Gruber · German
Conference Paper Evaluierung und Analyse integrationsfähiger Simulations-Engines für die Entwicklung komplexer und detaillierter Simulationsmodelle Speckle, Gruber & Saler · ASIM 2009
Article Vorausschauende Produktionsregelung durch simulationsbasierte heuristische Optimierung Gruber, Rinner, Löscher, Katzensteiner et al. · 2011
Conference Paper Using Wearable Sensors for Real-Time Recognition Tasks in Games of Martial Arts An Initial Experiment Heinz, Kunze, Gruber, Lukowicz et al. · IEEE CIG 2006
Article Evaluation der Usability von Software für niedergelassene Ärzte am Beispiel von „orbImmun“ Gruber

Fiction

Front cover of The History of the X Novel · Rings of Life I The History of the X German: Die Geschichte der X (Ringe des Lebens I) Gruber · science fiction · English & German Front cover of The Legacy of the X Novel · Rings of Life II The Legacy of the X German: Das Erbe der X (Ringe des Lebens II) Gruber · science fiction · English & German Front cover of The Future of the X Novel · Rings of Life III The Future of the X German: Die Zukunft der X (Ringe des Lebens III) Gruber · science fiction · English & German Front cover of The Billion Year Countdown Novel · Rings of Life IV The Billion Year Countdown German: Countdown der Äonen (Ringe des Lebens IV) Gruber · science fiction · English & German

Wing Chun

Front cover of Eight Pattern Wing Chun Kuen Book Eight Pattern Wing Chun Kuen The complete formal curriculum, mottoes, theory and strategy Gruber · English, German (Acht Pattern Wing Chun Kung Fu) & Spanish editions Front cover of Schlüsselprinzipien des Acht Pattern Wing Chun Book Schlüsselprinzipien des Acht Pattern Wing Chun Key principles of the Eight Pattern Wing Chun system Gruber · German & Spanish (Principios clave del Wing Chun de ocho modelos) Front cover of Die Geheimnisse der Großmeister Book · in preparation Die Geheimnisse der Großmeister Wing Chun im Überlebenskampf Gruber · German · third book of the series