Philosophy as Self-Administered Therapy
Unlike other technologies, using the mental variety requires an individual to cultivate certain knowledge or abilities. To use this mental technology, one must possess the ability to understand and accept cognitively and emotionally challenging information. To facilitate understanding, the five branches of the Philosophical System have been summarized and condensed to provide a glimpse into its power and encompassing nature, and to provide an accessible entry point for the non-philosophically minded. The following summary should not be confused with the actual philosophy, only the comprehensive description is representative of the system.
EPISTEMOLOGY
Theory of Knowledge
This branch establishes the foundation for the system as it addresses the essence and acquisition of knowledge, the importance of skepticism, the iterative nature of understanding, and the balance between subjective and objective realities.
Axioms:
We can know nothing to a certainty except we exist, everything known “in the bulk” is experienced mentally, sensorially, or intuitively, and the thing we can most confidently know is the subjective quality of our experience.
Knowing is defined as the awareness of new, distinct information, with information being matter or energy that is patterned or structured in a way that impacts a system or individual to a perceptible degree.
Knowledge for an absolute skeptic is gained by actively and carefully acquiring, vetting, and testing information, remembering that an understanding is never absolute, only based on increasing degrees of confidence and surety.
Epistemology explores the foundations and mechanisms of human knowledge, and in this philosophy it emphasizes a stance of near Absolute Skepticism. To build a solid intellectual foundation, one must accept near-complete ignorance and reconstruct knowledge based on varying degrees of surety and confidence. The only thing we can say we certainly know is that there is an existing thing, and because that knowledge results from an awareness of an experience, experience becomes the fundamental basis for all knowledge, including explicit knowledge.
Knowing involves receiving intelligible information. For information to be intelligible and capable of becoming knowledge, it must relate to something other than itself and must be capable of causing change or making a difference, even if the effect is only on the mind. Knowledge derives from the usefulness of information, and understanding is the highest form of knowledge due to its capacity to reliably and precisely affect one's condition or environment.
While the senses provide a trustworthy source of secondary information, they are limited, so we must use the mind and instruments/technology to supplement and enhance existential navigation. The mind, while directly knowable, is capable of generating its own information, so it requires scrutiny because its products can be disconnected from a shared reality. We can improve the success or quality of our information and knowledge assessments by using a general form of intelligence available to each cell in the body to qualify things, something we call intuition.
Confidence in what’s known is based on the amount of perspective one has on the contextual reality that contains and defines a being or object of knowledge. The reality of contextual knowledge necessitates that to be truly right, one needs a comprehensive perspective, one needs to be capable of seeing the whole because without an inclusive view something that could alter our entire understanding may be missing. We humans only possess this kind of comprehensive perspective on our subjective experience, and to a much lesser extent on simple physical realities such as simple or solvable games, and the behavior of electrons.
We know we know when our thoughts and actions routinely lead to desired outcomes without betraying our intuition. Whenever we fail or whenever there’s existential discord, we look to our intuitive compass, then our mind, but we never attempt to construct rationalizations from our feelings and emotions. The effort of critically assessing sensory information and the mind's narratives until they align with intuitive understanding may seem arduous , excessive, but if done it ultimately contributes to a richer, more nuanced grasp of our existence.
Theory of Mind
A Non-physical Organ
Tenets:
We are not and cannot be the mind because we have perspective on it and can put it down.
The mind is a mental organ meant to help us navigate the world to an ideal state, but it has limited information, limited abilities, and no perspective on itself.
The mind can act as its own environment and can house informational patterns so complex they’re lifelike enough to parasitically dominate both our mental space and our experience of a physical reality.
The mind is a mental organ that has been neglected and mistreated. The entirety of humanity's suffering stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of what a mind is and how to use one. While it is possible to reliably impact another's mind and theorize about its workings, the best inferences come from understanding our own.
From the movement of electrochemical energy through the brain's neural network, a field like information space is created in which a sensory experience of existence can be known. The flow of energy through the brain's neural connections also generates waves of electrical and electromagnetic energy, which in turn form a complex structural network distinct from the brain’s electrochemical neural network. This sophisticated energetic structure creates an addictional field like information space in which the experience of a mental reality is known.
We, or the "TRUE I", is described as the individual perspective on reality and existence experienced at every moment. We are distinct from the self-concept, which is an object of memory, thought, or a pattern of energy in the mind. The self is a mental concept acting like an avatar within the mind's model of environmental reality. Both the avatar and the modeled environment are sustained mental patterns/objects to keep track of how we’re doing in the world, but if the representative self becomes too far removed from the experience of the true self, attempts to improve our state will be misdirected and misapplied, and we will suffer unresolvable injuries until death.
ONTOLOGY
Reality and Existence
AXIOMS:
Ontology posits the coexistence of two concepts, infinite awareness (non-thingness) and infinite thingness, that together form a dualistic oneness representing the most fundamental of all realities, and together ensure the existence of nothing is the only impossibility.
Reality is determined by a context or perspective, where the broader or more inclusive contextual perspectives support the existence of narrower and more exclusive ones.
Existence is categorized into things that exist independently of individual perspectives and things that depend on individual perspectives, which necessarily implies that nothing is truly isolated or distinct, because all things and perspectives ultimately depend on the absolute perspective.
From an absolute perspective the universe is block, nothing happens or changes as everything is already perfectly known in the broadest sense, and change/evolution are only perceived by less than absolute perspectives/entities, and in less than absolute contexts.
Perception shapes an individual’s reality, so changing one's perspective, modifying the context of an experience or a knowable, and deepening one’s understanding will alter their experience of existence.
Ontologically we begin with reductionism, which proposes that our understanding of reality simplifies as we delve deeper, and the trend suggests that ultimately everything in existence may derive from a singular fundamental essence. Then, we move to holism, and conclude that an absolute mind or reality would have to contain all other minds and realities. An absolute and undifferentiated reality is the most logical and effective view to hold, not only because it’s the most parsimonious, but also because it addresses the human desire for an explanation for existence. The absolute as a non-religious, non-spiritual God acts as a stabilizing force for the psyche, provides a settled understanding of nature or reality, and enables the mind to tackle more pressing and solvable challenges. Any attempt to ignore the entirety of human experience, any effort to push away aspects of ourselves we deem unevolved or unenlightened will undermine the integrity of everything we touch, so the source, foundation, or cause of existence is a question that must be addressed. This ontological model stabilizes the mind and provides a fundamental frame of reference because a true absolute lacks parts and precedents, requires no mental substantiation, and leaves the mind with little to nothing to pick at or probe. A dualistic approach to existence for non-transcendent minds is strongly encouraged given that oneness without transcendence can lead to egoic delusions of self-as-everything. To be congruent with humanity's reality, which primarily knows the dichotomy of "I" and "not I," an ontology must accommodate this dualistic experience or it will be incapable of serving as a solid existential foundation.
Our ontology delves into the essence of existence by detailing a dualistically unified concept of reality, one composed of "infinite awareness" or "non-thingness”, and "infinite thingness”. Non-thingness is an unbounded information space representing awareness, while thingness encompasses the contents of that awareness or the totality of what there is to be aware of. Together absolute thing and non-thing form a complete and unified reality we can envision as an infinite field of potential with a central point containing every possible and impossible aspect of every possible and impossible universe. From the absolute perspective and the broadest context, a boundary of awareness or an information space that is no-thing envelops a relatively zero dimensional, yet infinitely complex thing. That infinitely complex thing is capable of representing all possible realities, but it is still infinitely less voluminous than the boundary because thingness requires limitation (countably infinite vs uncountably infinite), a description similar to the boundary bulk dynamic or an Ads/CFt model. By attracting the boundary of awareness the bulk converts its potential realities into actual ones, and through this interplay at infinite levels, all realities, things, and beings are substantiated.
Although they are not absolute or truly fundamental, we perceive boundaries and they are essential for the existence of distinction or "thingness”. Without boundaries to distinguish something from its environment, there would be no distinct "thingness” and nothing to perceive, so they are necessary for carving out a subset of reality from a broader, more inclusive one. Subsets of reality are likened to cells in the sense they have distinct internal conditions and form an exclusionary domain or reality, and be they physical or conceptual, cells can be thought of as mini universes or realms. Thingness, cells, and distinction create a duality when juxtaposed with the absolute, but it also creates coordinates for comparison that keep us from being lost in a featureless abyss.
Metaphysics
How reality works
Tenets:
Reality is absolutely static, yet locally/relatively dynamic.
At the most fundamental level, everything in this universe can be thought of as an interplay of informational energy.
All “contextual, limited, and bounded things” are trying to reach an ideal state in the most energetically efficient way possible.
Metaphysically, we view reality as a "boundary-bulk" scenario, where a block universe with no inherent dynamism or complexity appears dynamic and complex from subjective perspectives. This approach aligns with our theory of mind and ontology, and it finds parallels in advanced physical and mathematical theories like string theory and holography. The "bulk" is described as a point of infinite potential, acting as an attractor, while the "boundary" is an infinite information space that condenses around potential, transmuting potentiality into actuality.
In this dynamic, one of a fundamentally absolute and perfected reality, change or movement only exist to relative or limited perspectives, and cannot truly occur because it would negate perfection. While the boundary and bulk mirror each other as static absolutes, we don’t think of it that way because human minds require a causal framework to make sense of reality, especially the perception of change and the flow of time. Metaphysically, free will exists from the subjective perspective, but believing in an existence independent of the absolute is analogous to imagining a refrigerator magnet acting independently from the surrounding magnetic field.
The mind is an emergent reality that depends on the more fundamental brain and body systems, but we or the true “I” is a localized portion of the broader boundary or awareness field. Although human beings are described as condensed points of awareness ("knowers"), they have the capacity to direct energy within this interconnected system, influencing both mental and physical states through a process called willing or attending. Life is defined as any system, pattern of energy, or relational network that is self-sustaining. Death is broadly described as the end of a system's ability to sustain itself, resulting in the cessation of its functioning and a loss of consciousness as the system ceases to attract the boundary like awareness field.
ETHICS
What is right
Axioms:
A cell, thing, or context must be defined before the concepts of right and true can exist.
Knowing the truest and most ideal state requires absolute perspective on the available states a cell can occupy, and we know very few things absolutely.
The most important cells, contexts, or things from our perspective are the ones capable of directly qualifying experience.
Doing what’s right and looking for what’s true is required for ethical action, even if pain and loss have to be incurred to do so.
True is a static and perfected/ideal state, while right is akin to a direction leading to truth.
Meaning is defined as pursuing a right state/condition and Purpose is the best way for particular individual to realize a right state/condition.
We have a moral imperative to pursue an ideal experience of existence.
In a shared environment we must consider our impact on others because not doing so can limit our ability to realize and sustain a subjectively ideal state.
For civilizations, the key metric that determines their success is how close the inhabitants are to realizing a subjectively desired or ideal experience.
An advanced civilization is one that operates from a place of absolute freedom, where constraints are voluntarily accepted and can be freely discarded.
ETHICS discusses the principles that inform and guide actions with the intent of realizing an ideal state of existence, and it has a moral maximum that necessitates that we strive for the most right life. We call the state where a person needs to stop nothing, and needs to do nothing to experience the apex of existence, homeostasis. Existential homeostasis is defined as efficiently sustained rightness or equilibrium, where the goal of intelligent action is to bring oneself to a state of rest or balance, mirroring the absolute's perfection and motionlessness. Remembering that we are in an encompassing, potentially absolute cell, it is recommended that we align with the broader environmental flow moving towards order and stillness. Although we have the option of resisting this trend toward equilibrium, it is ethically justifiable only to the extent necessary to fulfill subjective needs.
For beings in shared environments/universes, there’s a moral imperative to seek a sustainable ideal condition because it ensures the individual is good and has no need to use excess resources to compensate for an improvable lack. In this ethical view, the ultimate aim of everything, including inorganic matter, is to reach a state of homeostasis where minimal effort is required to maintain an ideal condition, and for humans, this state is characterized as bliss, the apex of sustainable experience. Because the universe is dynamic, maintaining a perfect state is not always possible, and thus ethical actions are those that contribute to the efficient pursuit and maintenance of an ideal.
True is a state synonymous with a thing or a cell’s ideal or rightest state. When discussing cells containing subjective experiences we must be careful to not interfere unnecessarily or to only do so with intent and effort to be right. When operating in environments occupied by other cells we must consider their movement and desires, even if it puts us on a longer path to our ideal state because others can impact us and make the ideal unreachable.
Right action is subjectively determined by what is desired and what moves a cell closer to the sustainable apex of desirable and achievable states, or what we call homeostasis. When considering what's right we look to the ideal state of a cell or the direction a cell is trying to move or needs to be moved toward. The cell and its boundaries create a universe with different rules which means what's right for one cell may not be right for another.
Because knowledge is context dependent and the subjective experience of existence is exclusive, we can never be certain of what’s right for another, so we accept the confines of the context we’re operating in in unless it will be an intolerable diminishment to our experience not to deviate. We act to enhance our state while ensuring we’re right about what’s best or correct, and only act to affect others when we believe it to be a diminishment to our experience not to, and we only do so to improve their experience unless we believe another concern to be more impactful. If we must interfere with another, we only do so as much as needed to bring conditions to an ideal, always with the intent of ending our imposition as soon as we’re able.
Ethically, an ideal societal state is one where individual freedom is unrestricted, everyone is allowed to find their path to a homeostatic existence, and the shared environment reliably supports these pursuits. Any system of imposed external control is the result of ignorance or inability, so we advocate for an absolute and ethical form of anarchy. True evolution/enlightenment is reached when authority becomes unnecessary and an advanced civilization is formed through absolutely free agreement. The point of life isn’t to serve mental constructs called civilization, society, culture, or the economy because doing so doesn’t lead to an apexed experience, the point is to mold these constructs and our lives into a symphonic wave that carries all affected life toward a blissful condition. Considering the current societal structure, capitalism could be workable if restructured to prioritize our subjective experience of existence, and realigned to support individual attainment of homeostasis.
