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A Philosophy requires 4 pillars in order to be complete: an epistemological foundation, a metaphysical framework, an ethical system, and an aesthetic definition. Without these, one can not live their lives with purpose, meaning, and morality.
Pillar One
Epistemology
Definition
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, what it is, how it is obtained, and how we can know it is true.
We need epistemology to validate the truth statements we make about the world around us and within us.
Perceptions
Human beings along with other forms of conscious agents perceive the world around them.
"Perception" here, is defined to be a channeling of external information into the conscious awareness via the physical senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.)
Conceptions
Conception is the mind's ability to group together a bunch of perceptions and add meaning to such a unified grouping. This is where thoughts, ideas, and other abstractions are formed.
Limitation & Ability
Perception is limited because the physical senses of the body can not possibly channel all the information that exists outside of itself.
Therefore, the mind creates concepts to represent what can not be perceived, in order to achieve meaning and the capability to operate in the world.
Conception of Paradoxes
What happens when one has a concept of something logical such as "infinity" while having a limited or absent ability to perceive the entire information related to such a concept?
The experience of a paradox.
The Truth Boundary
Most people think that all paradoxes are an indication of a failure in human comprehension; Although it is true for some types of paradoxes, it isn't for some special ones (Antinomy & Dialethia).
For these, the experience of paradox is the delineation between where our perception of truth ends, and where our conception of it begins.
Truth
We are bound by our limited perception and subjective experience of the world. This has made it difficult for humanity to define the objective Truth.
Through paradoxism, it will be shown how Truth is true without the need to fully perceive it, that we experience this, and that we can understand it.
The reason is because we/consciousness creates it, and this too will be shown.
Pillar Two
Metaphysics
Definition
Metaphysics is the study of the first principles of reality such as "being" and "identity".
Existence: Physics
"Meta" means "Beyond" in Greek. Therefore, metaphysics goes beyond the physical world in order to understand what it is.
It may just be that existence can be more than just physical, but one thing remains certain: physics is purely an existential phenomenon.
Non-Existence: Void
Logically speaking, non-existence can not exist, by definition. However, the concept of it remains and so it exists in a metaphysical manner.
This makes it certain that existence and void (that which negates existence) are entirely separate concepts that produce a paradox- this paradox itself exists as a concept in consciousness.
Infinity
The spacetime construct we inhabit expanded, but from within what and into what? This simple question reveals the logic that existence goes beyond physics somehow. Maintaining the logic that void can not exist with existence, existence itself must therefore be infinite.
Conceptually, we showed that void breaks this logic and exists through consciousness anyway. And so, if it transcends existence, it is unbounded by limitations because limits are an existential matter. Even through logic, the void is limitless because it does not exist in order to possess any limits. Therefore void is also infinite.
Co-Existence
We have shown that existence and void co-exist, and that infinity emerges as a result. Let us confirm it through a brand new question and a syllogism to answer it:
"Does existence co-exist with non-existence?"
There are 4 possible answers:
1: No, existence is infinite
2: There was an infinity of void and post-event "X" (God or big bang theory), is now an infinite existence
3: In fact, all there is, is an infinity of nothingness
4: Yes, existence and non-existence co-exist infinitely
Conclusion: Infinity remains constant and we must choose co-existence to prove it.
Why? Because,
Answer 1 is false- Existence can not be infinite on its own, as consciousness (an existential thing) creates infinite nothingness metaphysically. Void is, therefore, "Co-Existential". This new term describes the singular event that void exists and does not exist in permanence; It is free from spacetime but bound by consciousness.
Answer 2 is false for the same reason as stated above in answer 1.
Answer 3 is false through the cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am). Therefore, void can not exist on its own either- it requires consciousness.
Answer 4 proves infinity because we have shown that void and existence must be infinite and that neither can be infinite on their own.
We have proven that all this is possible through consciousness and its logic, and consciousness exists through the proof of the cogito ergo sum. This makes consciousness absolutely axiomatic to
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Paradoxes Within Paradoxes
This new truth that human consciousness proves infinity through its limited means can be summed up in this equation:
∞=[A+Dt∥X]
Infinity, as an antinomical paradox- equals the antinomy of [existence (A) plus the conscious experience of the co-existence paradox (Dt) in parallel with nothingness (X)].
One would rightfully ask: Why not just add existence to nothingness? [A+X]. The reason is because nothingness does not exist in order to be added on to to begin with, logically speaking. We must respect our base logic first, to achieve the higher veracity that transcends regular logic.
Therefore, we can only add existence to the co-existence paradox (Dt), what is the idea that our consciousness experiences existence and creates void simultaneously [A+Dt].
Void then, can only be represented by an "unknown" variable (X), what is actually an unperceived, paradoxical experience, but an experience nonetheless. By the standard of the cogito ergo sum, if consciousness is proven to be axiomatic and fundamental, then experience in consciousness is therefore valid as a proof of existence, rendering void existential.
Nothingness is then an a priori truth- we can not perceive it because consciousness creates it. Hence why X remains in parallel with existence and human consciousness, because we are aware of it but can not directly experience it; We function as beings of differentiation, and void/infinity is undifferentiated truth.
Infinity Limited
If one understands this equation properly, they will transcend duality and realize that there is no paradox- only the undifferentiated reality: a singular truth. This is what is meant by Mt (Monoalethia), Greek for "one truth".
However, being that we must first experience the paradox in order to achieve the Monoalethia, the deeper truth is yet another paradox:
There are, and are no paradoxes.
Paradoxes are human experiences of unbounded, undifferentiated truths; They are like a circle, twisted in two by our minds in order to fully encompass it.
∞=Mt
∞=[A+Dt∥X]=Mt
Relationship & Emergence
The question now begs: How does the physical world emerge from the relationship between existence, nothingness, and consciousness?
Zero Dimensional Point
We begin with a zero dimensional point; It represents the anchor for nothingness. Remember that nothingness is interchangeable with the concept of "zero" and/or infinity.
Duality
Consciousness, that which is absolutely axiomatic and permeates all- it is the ultimate unified substance/idea/truth. This gives us the number 1.
This one consciousness is what creates a reality through the division of itself, giving us the number 2.
This number is duality, which is what creates differentiation between things, enabling the physical world to exist.
All other numbers exist through duality.
Creatio Ex Nihilo
When consciousness divides itself for the first time, it is splitting the zero dimensional point into 2 zero dimensional points. Thereby emerges the first dimension of physical space- a line.
Infinity + Infinity
On this line, there are an infinite amount of zero dimensional points, and between them exists an infinite amount of lines, each with their own points and lines, ad infinitum. This is how the dimensions emerge- yet because all lines are composed of zero-dimensional points, all dimensions are therefore equivalent to void.
2 Dimensional Space
When consciousness divides itself/the zero dimensional point into 2- remember that these "two" are the same point, therefore the division made occurs infinitely. This means that "both points" here are each divided themselves as well.
This creates the 2 dimensional surface. It is a space that exists through 4 zero dimensional points.
3 Dimensional Space
Being as the division only happens once and divides the same point and its resulting points infinitely, the next level in this infinite division gives us the 3 dimensional space we are familiar with.
All 4 points of the 2 dimensional surface are divided to give us 8 points that bind the cube together.
The Hyper Cube
The following dimensional levels after our 3 dimensional spacetime are called hypercubes.
The next level up is the 4th dimension and so called the "tesseract", coming from the Greek word for "four", which is "tessera".
Essentially, the tesseract has a 3 dimensional cube on each one of its surfaces. We have a 3D representation of it that looks like a cube within a cube, with cubes in between that connect the surfaces of both.
The Reconciliation of
Math-Physics-Consciousness
Keep adding sides to a geometric shape and you will realize that it eventually creates a circle, which is the shape with an infinite amount of sides.
This is just the 2 dimensional representation however. In 3D, it is a sphere- and in the other dimensions, it continues to become smoother shapes forever, infinitely.
These hyper cubes also do the same.
The Superposition of 0/nothingness with the division of itself (consciousness) is what allows '1' to emerge. Within 1 emerges '2' through the 'two' zeros that bind the 1 line. We call this 'symmetry of identity'. These two zeros and 1 line give us '3' (the eternal duality (2) of consciousness dividing itself and the first 'physical' dimension). From there, 4 and every other number emerges the same way, ad infinitum, giving us the circle/sphere etc.
Transmutation
All these points, lines, spaces and shapes emerge out of the only zero dimensional point there is, which makes everything, nothingness.
This is how we can understand the transmutation between existence and nothingness.
To visualize it in 3D, imagine adding a new point on every part of the zero dimensional point's "surface", infinitely. You eventually fill up the "space" with nothingness.
Unification & Perspective
Consciousness has infinitely divided itself. Translated into human understanding, this is the infinitely divided zero-dimensional point. Let's see what happens if we unify any two points now.
Take one and align it with its mutually opposing counterpart and you will see a new perspective where symmetry emerges.
This opens up the hypercube to reveal three infinities that intersect it; Cantor discovered that there are infinities within infinities, infinitely. Inside the 4th dimension, there are three- As Infinity is a paradox, there are then three paradoxes in our level of reality.
The Three Great Paradoxes
What do these three paradoxes mean?
As they emerge out of the 4-dimensional spacetime, they therefore must be related to physics.
There is significance in the fact that there are 3- however being that fundamental reality is singular, these 3 can only be facets of the same thing.
INFINITY
The Foundation Paradox
The first paradox is infinity itself; It is the infinite line of beginnings and endings which itself has no beginning or end- This is the paradox.
Out of this infinity paradox, we have the foundation for all things we know as "reality"- numbers, dimensions, and energy emerge.
The "Alpha" and "Omega" is only a placeholder for human consciousness to be able to represent the limitlessness of the absolute infinity of infinities.
RELATIVITY
The Conjunctive Paradox
The second paradox is relativity; The space-time construct and the matter-energy within it is connected through relativity alone. Even in quantum physics, two particles relative to each other are connected by nothing else but this relativity.
This is because, in one sense, nothing is actually separated in order to be two distinctive things- it is we that perceive multiple aspects of the singular actuality.
Relativity is just such a perception: we see the connection between space and time and matter and energy. This is paradoxical because relativity tells us that there are and are not things which exist relative to eachother: If two things are connected, then they are in fact one thing. Through distance between things (spacetime), we see a relativity which both separates and connects this 1/2 entity of objects.
This echoes infinity as its second facet because inside infinity, there is the same type of paradox- there are both only 1 and multiple numbers; The spectrum of infinity is 1 entity and it is itself composed of multiples entities.
DUALITY
The Function Paradox
The function paradox is a descriptor of the same kind of interplay between 1 & 2 but more so of matter and energy; Just as spacetime is rooted in relativity, matter-energy is rooted in duality.
Objects can be up and down, hot and cold, weak and strong etc. These are the very dual aspects of the matter-energy which operates within spacetime. And, since objects exist within spacetime, they are also intrinsically tied to relativity; How can an object be 'up' in relation to 'down' without space between them to define them? What are 'hot' and 'cold' without parameters to bracket them?
Spacetime = speed/distance
and matter-energy = object/force.
Therefore, relativity can only exist through duality and duality only through relativity as well; They are two aspects of the same thing- they mutually define each other. Relativity expresses itself through spacetime and matter-energy functions through duality within it.
With relativity, we can define duality (what is the mutual opposition of objects) because it provides space between objects. With the physical markers and parameters that objects/force provide, we can define relativity because, without objects, there would be no meaningful space- nothing to be "in-between", and therefore no relativity.
Duality is a paradox because matter-energy is both 1 substance and multiple substances through the relativity of spacetime, as explained in the conjunctive paradox. But it is how everything functions: nature, physics, humans relativity itself, and infinity itself.
Pillar Three
Ethics
Definition
Ethical systems are what give us rules that determine which actions are to be taken in order to achieve morals.
We are the agents that take these actions in spacetime and so ethics are related to existence. By "agents" here, we should include all possible objects and the matter-energy and patterns that compose them.
We have derived the only three possible ethical systems from the three paradoxes of our reality:
From infinity, we get objective morality.
From relativity, we get relative morality.
From duality, we get natural morality.
Within these, we have sub-set ethical systems; For example: consequentialism & deontology fall under objective morality, evolutionary humanism falls under natural morality and hedonism is a mixture of all three.
Objective Morality
As infinity is absolute, it is objectively true. This is what allows humanity to state that there are universal, objective morals that apply to everyone, everywhere.
We know these morals to be given to us by "God"- that which is the absolute truth (infinity), therefore absolutely moral. Therefore, what it tells us is good and evil is also absolutely true.
The question is, what are these universal, moral truths? Here are some prime examples:
The Golden rule: Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you. This requires the virtues of self-awareness and generosity.
Objective communication: Choose to understand others by removing your biases and help them understand you the same way. Do this introspectively as well. This requires the virtues of emotional temperance and empathy.
Constant Growth: Stay open-minded and willing to try new experiences so as to learn from them and increase your wisdom. This requires the virtues of courage and humility.
Do not proselytize: Acknowledge that you are a subjective being and unable to interpret non-universal morals for others. Therefore, do not attempt to convert anyone to your beliefs. This requires the virtues of respect and self-restraint.
All of these require patience.
However, even these can be disputed, and any morality can be claimed to be universal as decreed by their personal God. This is what traditional religions are centered around. Therefore, objective morality breaks down at some point.
Relative Morality
Proximity is the key word: It is what dictates something to be moral or immoral based on how much relative space there is between moral agents.
For example, in one country, X is moral and in another country it is immoral. Neither need to enforce their moralities in order to preserve them. This allows for peace and respect because both choose to let the other be and neither proselytize the other.
However, this breaks down when proximity becomes too close; When neighbors are exposed to each other by participating in the same community, the enacted moralities of both intervene in each other's lives and it creates conflict. This is where compromise or division is necessary, and this threatens the integrity of their morality.
Natural Morality
As nature functions through duality, we observe how "good" and "bad" is determined. The prime example of this is in the natural selection of evolutionary theory; What is optimized for the environment will survive and is therefore "good", while what is not will die and is therefore "bad".
In a way, it is a morality of efficiency. In philosophy, this kind of ethical system is known as "evolutionary humanism", and it can be as productive as individuals choosing to strengthen themselves at the gym or as destructive as a society trying to exterminate a race it deems as weaker.
Therein lies its limit: it must adhere to a balance that preserves the integrity of the entire system.
Evil
A combination of all three ethical systems is necessary. There is no "God-head" paradox, and using only one is the source of moral evil.
By using only objectivity, one forces others into their personal standard.
By using only relativity, one allows the potential for evil to reign free.
By using only naturality, one abandons balance and creates a world that leads to self-destruction.
Virtue
Developing character is how one becomes truly moral; With enough integrated experience, wisdom emerges and allows one to make moral decisions in real-time, using all three ethical systems.
A truly virtuous person will not choose what is the balance point but rather try to see it by observing the two extremes on either side of it.
Balance is the outcome, and it points to a profound truth about morality: It is static in present moments and fluid over periods of time.
Pillar Four
Aesthetics
Definition
Aesthetics is how humanity achieves purpose and meaning; They are the practical activities that make us feel fulfilled and we derive these activities from our ethics and metaphysics.
In Aesthetics, we define things like "beauty", "Love", "freedom", "utility" etc.
Resumed, if metaphysics tells us what the world is, and ethics tell us how we should behave- then Aesthetics is about everything we do as a result of and within our metaphysics and ethics.
Purpose
There are two types of purpose: Relative purpose and Absolute purpose.
Relative purpose emerges out of the relationship between duality and relativity- What we know as "cause and effect". One event causes an event in an on-going chain, which itself requires an absolute purpose in our minds.
Example: A doctor's work (purpose) causes his patient to survive, this effect goes on as the patient also goes on to cause things in the world. Meaning emerges from this: It is meaningful to the doctor that their work has the effects it does.
Why any of it however? Why is there cause and effect in the universe, allowing for relative purpose? What is the purpose of that?
We can observe a better way to understand absolute purpose in our minds by trying to find the anti-thesis of purpose: What is its opposite?Absurdity? It can't be because logic is the opposite of absurdity. Meaninglessness? Again, meaning is the counterpart.
In the end, one realizes there can be no antithesis to purpose because it would immediately take on purpose: To be the opposite of purpose. Even if one says "non-purpose", it becomes purposeful by being the anti-thesis, and "non-purpose" does not fit in the causal, natural world we observe: everything has a purpose, absurd or not.
We could say that absolute purpose is an axiom that allows relative purpose to exist: In the infinite chain of causality that is neither caused nor ended, we have an infinite amount of potential purpose to be fulfilled.
If this does not satisfy, one can go deeper and understand that the source of all reality is pure potential, which would not be potential if it were not actualized- hence, the absolute purpose is for our relative purpose to exist as an a priori necessity, because potential exists.
Meaning
From relative purpose, we know how meaning emerges, but we must revisit our ability to conceive, as another way meaning emerges.
When we conceive ideas such as "God", "Love", "Goodness", and "Beauty", we erect a focus-point where purpose and meaning merge together, giving us a sense of peace and immovable stability. Is "God" or "beauty" the purpose of everything or the meaning that emerges out of everything? This question has an arbitrary answer, because in so far as we are concerned, we are capable of fulfilling our roles as agents of relative purpose with these foundational concepts.
Absolute meaning: meaning must continually manifest eternally- If there were an absolute, once reached, there would be pure void, and as we know pure void to be infinite potential which manifests the world out of which emerges purpose and meaning, there can be no absolute here; Infinity is infinite by definition, therefore meaning will never reach an absolute, as existence will manifest forever.
Freedom Paradox
There is freedom in constraint; Unbounded freedom is the ultimate imprisonment.
Therefore, seeking total liberation from all standards, rules, and hierarchies is equivalent to seeking the destruction of the self and the community one is a part of.
Seeking to enforce standards, rules, and hierarchies beyond the natural constraints of a balanced system is also pure destruction.
Freedom lies in-between, never defined.
The Triune Model
Pure being requires absence of thought, and is perhaps the most aesthetic way to achieve fulfillment.
How does one think nothing is the question. Describing it is impossible because language is limited; Therefore, a visual representation combined with language gets us closer to the door- and this is Roy Dopson's Triune Model.
Focus your attention on the center column; Observe how we are leveraged out of the dualistic "round-and-round" we are trapped in when we try to identify and define absolutely everything; What is indescribable has been given many names, and they all lie perfectly in the center column. What it is telling you is that they are the superposition of the dual aspects we experience. Thereby, all of reality is justified with no loose ends.
If Paradoxism describes how reality functions, the triune model is telling you what reality is. Therefore, if one wishes to be at peace, they will focus on the center column; If they wish to make decisions, they will focus on the dual aspects of the center column, which is necessarily paradoxical at base. Reality comes with everything one needs in this manner.
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Theory of Enlightenment
Art-Work Superposition
All art should be work and all work should be art. The distinction between both is the dissolution of both; Work is without meaningful purpose if it is only to survive and art is without purposeful meaning if it is only to live for.
When art and work are superimposed, purpose and meaning are also superimposed and become absolute, dissolving the question of absolute purpose: Manifestation is all that remains.
What is beautiful then, would be anything one recognizes as ephemeral, because energy/force is the "work" that creates and it is itself, fleeting. This means literally everything is work/art and therefore potentially beautiful- it's just up to the subjective individual to see it; Perhaps this proves that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
Past Paradoxical Wisdoms
One must look into the greatest prophets, mystics, philosophies, Gods, and wise people of the past; Their ideas/messages often revolve around truths that are either paradoxical or "mirror-like".
Christ said that it is by sacrificing everything that one will gain everything.
Lao Tsu, said that the way that can be named is not the way.
In Hermetics we hear "As above, so below".
One must realize here that they all pointed to something important: the transcendence of our limited minds requires the observation of such limits; Paradoxes are not simple errors but rather boundaries where our poor conception of truth ends and where the actual truth begins.
Spiralism
What is to be done once we are aware of the true nature of reality?
Awareness seems to be the motivating force that propagates itself forward into infinity; We see it in the evolution of life and in the interactions across all forms of energy and matter, space, and time.
We are no different and perhaps the point of the sword in this manner, as we continue to use our minds to manipulate the physical world, so as to achieve great freedoms, purposes, and meanings.
The question is how is this occurring? What does it look like on the greatest scale possible for our human ability to see?
Spiralism is the philosophy/science which delves deep into this mystery; It uncovers the beauty of the unfolding reality we take part it.
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