Reality Begins With Consciousness:

A paradigm shift that works

What happens when two creative and internationally renowned experts Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, FRSSAf, DFAPA, BN&NP, DSPE Consciousness Researcher, Physician, Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist, and Philosopher who previously developed the model of Vortex N Dimensionalism and Edward R. Close PhD, PE, SFSPE Physicist, Mathematician and Cosmologist who previously developed the model of Transcendental Physics together spend fifty years developing their models and another three years combining their models? The result might be the most truly remarkable new scientific model to understand reality, consciousness, extra dimensions, life, order and infinity ever, and a model that is supported by mathematics and results in a philosophical model which resembles ancient mystical thought. Join us in this the Electronic Version of this Book in either PDF or EPub (your choice).

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Reality Begins With Consciousness: A paradigm shift that works By Vernon M Neppe and Edward R Close
___________ Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, FRSSAf, DFAPA, BN&NP, DSPE a with Edward R. Close PhD, PE, SFSPE (Equally)b From the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organizationc and the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute, Seattle, WAd e, f, g, h Second Edition, March 2012 (revised 2b, September 2012).

Drs Close and Neppe have worked closely together since July 2009, and in detail since December 2009. Prior to that, they had independently worked on a paradigm in dimensional biopsychophysics for a combined more than fifty years. Both have prior public documents on this topic. These two eminent, highly creative, successful, experienced, motivated pioneers, from different yet complementary scientific research backgrounds, had independently reached similar provisional conclusions and have now integrated this information into a new, workable, scientific, all-encompassing paradigm of reality. b Dr. Close and Dr. Neppe are equal first authors in this book and its companion. However, one of their names had to appear first. Dr. Neppe appears first in Reality Begins with Consciousness and Dr. Close appears first in Space, Time and Consciousness. c Vernon Neppe is Executive Director and Distinguished Professor, and Edward R. Close is a Distinguished Fellow of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization (www.5eca.com). d Dr. Neppe is Director of the Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute; Dr. Close is on Faculty (www.pni.org). e This Electronic Book is copyrighted. This should not be distributed to others, without the written permission of one of the authors or the publisher. Each download constitutes one license for one computer or reading device. f The new terms in the keywords and in this paper are trademarked by the authors and the concepts were distributed selectively by electronically notarized unmodifiable Zmail (Zsentry.com) to establish prior claim to these ideas. g We are hoping to receive peer feedback prior to publication on this e-book so as to make our preliminary model better. Thank you for your participation. It is much appreciated. h www.pni.org and www.5eca.com; also www.brainvoyage.com (Dr. Neppes books).

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REALITY BEGINS WITH CONSCIOUSNESS:COMMENTS

Prior to publication this book was circulated to readers, peer-reviewers and referees in twenty-two countries. The great majority were established scientists, leaders in the area of consciousness research or highly creative individuals. Weve received feedback from tens of peer scientists and creative readers during these past seven months. Initially, we intended having an Invited Foreword. But there were numerous individuals we wanted to honor. Instead, we have selected comments from individuals whom we greatly respect. We have been very gratified by the responses from many individuals, and publish a small selection here. Given that our model is a metaparadigm impacting all areas of science, we ensure here that we have comments representing all pertinent disciplines, namely the Consciousness, Physical, Psychological and Life Sciences, plus Mathematics. Additionally, our model has a philosophical model. One challenge was to amplify the ideas and to convert the hundreds of complex multidisciplinary ideas into a readable scientific book. We targeted the intelligent scientific community and to creative thinkers. But we also sent this to a small number of general readers, who were members of certain Internet groups and specifically requested a copy. We were particularly gratified that even our motivated general readers could appreciate Reality Begins with Consciousness. Yet, we were not surprised, because we spent seven months trying to make our very complex and specialized manuscript more comprehensible, so that interested individuals could benefit at their level. In effect, we simplified the book by applying several techniques including author prefaces that gave a historical perspective, an initial glossary of key terms, a prioritizing detailed table of contents, and summary perspectives at the outset. We then eased readers into the book and ensured that some chapters were self-contained allowing reading of specific interest areas. We added footers for more esoteric areas, and applied ample headers to guide our readers. We explained important concepts more than once but in different ways. And we also allowed readers to regard our book as equivalent to College Course work and to study at their own pace. Were gratified that weve still been able to maintain all the key cogent and relevant elements of our paradigm, and that weve been able to amplify information, and clarify areas that initially appeared obscure. We have divided the comments into two groups and these represent six countries: Prominent scientists. We ensure that all the sciences (psychological, physical, life, and consciousness) and mathematics are represented, plus philosophy and philosophy of science. Intelligent general readers. We again ensure a spectrum is represented.
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Comments of Prominent Scientists

Psychological Sciences
Vernon M. Neppe and Edward R. Close have written what is destined to become a classic in the literature on shifting paradigms and worldviews. Drawing from a dozen different disciplines, they have adroitly pointed out the limitations of the Western world's currently accepted model of reality, have spelled out the unfortunate consequences of this model's hegemony, have proposed a paradigm that is not only multidimensional but metadimensional, and have supported it with logic, mathematics, research data, and common sense. The implications that this book has for the betterment of humanity makes for worthwhile, illuminating and enlightening reading which is practical and transformative. Stanley Krippner, PhD, San Francisco, CA, USA. Pioneer, Humanistic Psychology and Consciousness; Saybrook University; extensively published Author and Scientist.

Neurosciences
What an astonishing and prodigious accomplishment! The way the authors communicate their profound insights both from our usual "bottom-up" experience as well as from the "top-down" higher realities facilitates engaging readers in this unique and groundbreaking scientific model: We're able to swim longer in the vast subtle and not-so-subtle cosmic pondand the references provide handholds to keep us afloat. I kept flashing on a museum installation that would allow people to have a "walking around in" experience of climbing through dimensional rifts (in music: ostinati) and connect all around with vortical interactions. I guess this comes from years of my interpreting to people the leaps in transformation I see continually emerging in Neurofeedback work: The NeppeClose paradigm now provides for a much more coherent way to understand reality. Once introduced, the actualities of these unifying concepts begin to live. It is quite stunning to observe people speaking from an "already having changed" perspectivea thrilling journey! Alan Bachers, PhD, Northampton, MA, USA. Neuroscientist; Director, Neurofeedback Foundation.

Life Sciences
Scientific revolutions require both empirical evidence and related coherent explanatory frameworks. The encyclopedic book "Reality Begins with Consciousness" leads in providing the sought after broader scientific unification linking the neurosciences, consciousness, biological, psychological and the physical sciences with math-based logical philosophy and spirituality. Drs Neppe and Close provide a missing broad exploratory paradigm for new scientific ideas that can continue to be researched for many years to come. Whether or not this multidisciplinary model is ultimately viable, the cogent supportive data should encourage scientists to explore seriously the underlying ideas; the models presented go further than other volumes. John Poynton PhD, London, UK. Consciousness Researcher; Biologist; Past President, SPR. Author.

Philosophy of Science
Prof. Vernon Neppe and Dr. Edward Close have prepared a much-needed volume that aims to integrate our scientific knowledge into a comprehensive natural-law paradigm. Their work leaves no stone unturned in the quest to re-configure our understanding of science, including those more remote or fringe areas of science such as parapsychology that only a few of our highly respected and honored scientists are brave enough to endorse. This new book by Neppe and Close is a paradigm shift that hails in, if not, beckons for, a kind of scientific overhaul and shift in thinking that Thomas Kuhn spoke of in his major work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Lance Storm PhD, Adelaide, Australia. Consciousness researcher, Author, Journal Editor, Psychologist, Parapsychologist and Philosopher of Science
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Physical Science
This is the book of books. Close and Neppe have succeeded in articulating a unified theory that explains everything known through human experience and observation, including, not only the data obtained by the five senses, but also the data that comes through mind and feeling. Former scientific thought has considered the material universe to be the total universe with consciousness to be the result of matter. Neppe and Close have shown the reverse. Matter is inseparably linked with consciousness. They have succeeded in the ultra-complex task of including everything we know through the material laws of Classical Physics, Quantum Physics, and Relativity, with the nonmaterial observations gained through psychology, parapsychology, and spiritual vision, into a unified metaparadigm with consciousness as the foundation of all creation, including the origin of creation, itself. This is a book you will want to study, absorb, and return to again and again to experience the thrill of understanding how the billions of bits of the universe all fit together as a unified whole, and how we are a participatory part of everything. The authors many years of labor will be appreciated for centuries to come. David Stewart, PhD, Marble Hill, Missouri, USA. Geophysicist, Theologian, and Author

Consciousness Sciences:
I've just completed the perusal of your impressive work. I feel very excited to have sensed myself, the enthusiasm of discovering so many overlapping fields in our views! A work that will change mankind's future. For the first time in mankind's history, its real nature is scientifically disclosed at the highest charismatic academic level! Reading your masterpiece, be aware of my deepest reverence for your monumental work! A seismic shift in understanding the understanding process itself! The beginning of the ultimate disclosure about the nature of an all-encompassing reality. A monumental work forcing obsolete preconceptions to crumble. The 21st Century's revolutionary paradigm shift. Dr. Adrian Klein, Israel. Dimensional Biopsychophysicist and Consciousness Researcher. Expert on Theories of Everything, pioneer of the Subquantal Integration Approach; Major analyst of TDVP and Reality Begins With Consciousness.

Philosophy
This authoritative work in consciousness studies will shape philosophical discourse about mentality and mind. It is a serious and lucid exploration of a most complex topic, suitable for philosophers and cognitive scientists who seek explanatory models that allow one to reach beyond methodological boundaries while at the same time adhering to scholarly rigor. Recognizing consciousness without boundaries and as formative action leads to unexpected conclusions outside any normative space, while at the same time providing a profound value to the future of humankind. Neppe and Close have masterfully demonstrated that hope is inside and outside Pandora's box. Helmut Wautischer, PhD, San Rafael, USA. Philosopher, Consciousness Researcher and Author. Sonoma State University.

Medical Sciences and Mathematical Physics

Im still completing this, but your book is impressive. It seems astonishing that you could combine deep scientific notions with mysticism. I never knew that such work was possible. Dr. Frank Luger, International (Private) Research Professor, Retired Physician, Mathematical Physicist, Poet, Author, Psychologist, and Chess Grandmaster.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Most physical TOEs (theories of everything) fail because they don't explain where the TOE comes from in the first place -- a creative act of consciousness. Most psychological TOEs fail because they don't appreciate the very real physical context in which the psyche struggles to explain itself. Reality Begins with Consciousness (RBC) avoids these mistakes by taking a TOE's promise of "everything" seriously. This puts RBC in a radical multidisciplinary class by itself, and as a result, understanding it is nontrivial. This should not be surprising, for unadorned Reality as-it-is is vast and hyper-complex, and any TOE that hopes to model that Reality must be equally vast and complex. But for readers who are up to the challenge and are able to stretch their minds in many directions, tackling RBC is well worth it. Dean Radin, PhD, Senior Scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma CA. Extensively published author, cognitive psychologist, electrical engineer, consciousness researcher.

Comments of General Readers

I couldn't put it down last night: Very few books grab my attention enough to force me to stay up past my normal bedtime. And this is one of those books.
Russell Rebman, Fort Worth, TX, United States.

I've been reading your book a bit at a time, absorbing it Quite the complex read, but fascinating.
Ron Dinelle, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

I can say that if I can understand your information, it is likely that anyone reading it can I believe you have reached your goal to "dumb it down" to the level where those of us who are both linguistically challenged and are not scientists can grasp and comprehend what you are sayingI believe that the material is just that gooda fine work.
Rob Abbott, Port Orchard, WA, United States.

Wow. I feel like I am back in graduate school while reading through your work! What a wonderful experience.
Karen Miller, Buffalo, NY, United States

Broad in scope, multidisciplinary in approach, this monumental work is more than food for thought - it's a feast. If consciousness shapes reality, then you may well adjust your own after reading this book.
James Hardenbergh, Seattle, WA, United States.

Without proper scientific evidence or reasoning, consciousness has, for years, been treated as a secondary phenomenon that is somehow derived purely from materialistic origins. There is actually no scientific proof that this is true. I am glad, therefore, that Vernon Neppe and Edward Close have taken on this monumental task of addressing this unwarranted bias in scientific thinking.
Kenneth Chan, Singapore, Singapore. ISPE member and Author.
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DEDICATION
"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. Max Planck The notion of existence is one of the primitive concepts with which we must begin as given. It is the clearest concept we have. Kurt Gdel 1 The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds. Georg Cantor An Important Dedication, with great respect, appreciation, inspiration and awe: To those great creative pioneers who have preceded us: Albert Einstein (1879 1955, Physicist), whose concepts of relative, relativity and warping are so critically important. Max Planck (1858 1947, Physicist) who introduced the idea of discreteness at the smallest level. Georg Cantor (1845 1918, Mathematician), who conceived of the relevance of the infinite and of the correspondence of sets. Kurt Gdel (1906 1978, Mathematician), who challenged us to realize that the closed finite reality is insufficient. You have all allowed us to extend our imaginations and our very finite and limited thoughts to a new limited but slightly higher level.

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Acknowledgments from Dr. Neppe and Dr. Close We especially wish to thank our personal secretary and special assistant on this project: Maria Welbourn. We also gratefully thank Dr. Adrian Klein in Israel for his comprehensive evaluation of our manuscripts. He gave us significant suggestions and was able to apply his special expertise in this area of consciousness, dimensionality, space-time physics, and infinity, to each and every chapter. His expert insights have been invaluable. Over many years, we have discussed our ideas with several individuals who have given us valuable feedback and insights. We particularly wish to thank (alphabetically): Bernard Carr, Jacquelyn Close, Angell De La Sierra, Osher Doctorow, Ed Gerck, Joyce Hawkes, Brian Josephson*, Eva Lobach, Richard Niejelski (web)*, John C. Poynton, Dean Radin, Saul-Paul Sirag, John Smythies, David Stewart and Henry Swift. We are also greatly appreciative to Dr. Neppes esteemed colleagues of many years on the closed Internet scientific groups, PDL, SurvivalNet, SSE and Ultranet as well as the1000.ning network. The insights of the members of these remarkable groups have greatly impacted Dr. Neppes thinking. We thank (again alphabetically) the following individuals for their suggestions relating to the book. These were sometimes shorteven a suggestion that provoked change, or an opinion, or a peripheral insight that allowed one of us to contemplateand sometimes involved lengthier comments, suggestions or ideas. In these instances, the feedback did not reflect on dissonance or consonance of their views with ours, but in some way, they impacted on this book, sometimes indirectly: Rob Abbott, Alan Bachers*, David Bolnick, Neil Boyd, Vladimir Brandin, Damien Broderick*i, Kenneth Chan, Gary Cohen, Richard Dickison, Ron Dinelle, York Dobyns, Peter Fenwick, Neil Grossman, Jim Hardenbergh, Jan E.F. Kaan, Charna Klein, Stan Krippner, Vic Liebmann, Andrew Lowrey, Frank Luger, Robert McKnight, Miguel Mendoza and the Endnote Bibilographic Tech Support team**, Karen Miller, Mel Morse, Jonathan Neppe, Lis Neppe, Clifford Oliver, Serge Patlavskiy, Russell Rebman, Stanislav Riha, Jason Schneier, Gerald Schroeder, Jim Seltzer, James Spottiswoode, Stephan Schwartz, Lance Storm, Amos Szpiro, Stan Tenen*, Michael Tymn, Ted Vollers*, Tyler Vega (web), Don Watson, Helmut Wautischer, Dennis A. Wright and Harry Zeitlin.

* Second edition.; ** Second Revision edition B addition August 2012

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The authors have specially inscribed this electronic book for you.
To our special readership community. We greatly appreciate the relevance of the suggestions weve received from colleagues who carefully reviewed the earlier versions of this book. They allowed our model to be better. This is our opportunity to honor them, and also to thank our new readers. We present this special gift to all our readers. This is a limited inscription first edition of what may be the first inscribed electronic book.j We trust you will benefit from these ideas, and integrate them into your thinking. Please enjoy the enlightenment and we hope you will feel uplifted. May your quest for greater understanding of our complex world come to fruition. Challenge, stimulation, and convergence of perspectives are relevant. So is divergent opinion, thought and re-evaluation of the relationship of consciousness, the infinite, multiple dimensions, life, order and a whole new model for reality. This book may be that latent vehicle that facilitates your thoughts. Presented with our very best wishes and most cordial of greetings.

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Other Books By The Authors (* indicates www.brainvoyage.com for orders)

Books by Dr. Vernon Neppe include: Neppe VM. The Psychology of Dj Vu: Have I Been Here Before? Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 1983. * Neppe VM. Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy. New York: Raven Press. 1990. (Revision of first edition 1989)* Neppe VM. Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope. Seattle: Brainquest Press DBA Brainvoyage.com (with Peanut Butter Publ. / Elton-Wolf Publishing) 1999 (also electronic version). * Neppe VM. Dj Vu Revisited. Seattle: Brainvoyage.com. 2006. E-Book.* Neppe VM, (Ed.), Funkhouser, A. T. (Sub Ed): Dj Vu: A Second Look. Seattle: Brainvoyage.com. 2006. E-Book. * Neppe, VM. Dj Vu: Glossary and Library. Brainvoyage.com, Seattle. 2006.* Neppe VM. How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Consultant: A Medical Experts Perspective. Brainvoyage.com, Seattle. 2008. Second edition.* Neppe VM Tomorrow the Earthquake: Cry the beloved hope. Brainvoyage.com, Seattle. 2001. Neppe VM Quakes. Brainvoyage.com. 2002. Revisions 2003. 2004. 2005.* All of these books or EBooks are available at www.brainvoyage.com. Please watch the brainvoyage site for upcoming books on this topic. Books by Dr. Edward Close include: Close, E.R. Infinite Continuity: A Theory Integrating Relativity and Quantum Physics. Paradigm Press, Los Angeles, 1990 (Currently out of print.) Close, E.R. The Book of Atma. Libra Publishers, New York, 1977. Close, E.R. Transcendental Physics, iUniverse, Lincoln, NE, 2000. Close, E.R. Big Creek, History, Folklore and Trail Guide, Paradigm Press, 2003. Close, E.R. and Close, J.A. Natures Mold Rx, The Non-Toxic Solution to Toxic Mold, EJC Publications, Jackson, MO, 2007. Close, E.R. and Close, J.A. Ancient Wisdom Modern Science, Sound Concepts, American Fork, UT, 2010. See www.tphysics.com

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STAND BY FOR FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS ON THIS: Books and publications on this topic that are anticipated or in press. Companion to Reality Begins with Consciousness due mid 2013. Close, ER, Neppe VM, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad. Seattle: Brainvoyage.com. 2013 In press. Because of the large amount of information, stand by too for the third book in this series, anticipated late 2013 or 2014 by Drs Neppe and Close or Dr Close and Dr Neppe (provisional title). Beyond Einstein: How Mathematics and Physics support the revolutionary Neppe-Close model.

Hard copy printed books on this topic. Two other hard copy books are anticipated in late 2012 or early 2013 because of the requests for these books. These effectively divide this book Reality Begins with Consciousness into two into Reality Begins With Consciousness: Part 1: This Paradigm Shift Works. Reality Begins With Consciousness: Part 2: From Science to Understanding.

Electronic series on tablet media: Also to become available during late 2012 and 2013 are a series of electronic books available for use on Kindle, I-Pad, Nook or other tablet media. These relate to 2012 publications by the two scientists Drs Close and Neppe, on this topic in the Dynamic Journal of Exceptional Creative Achievement. Again, this closely correlates with the book Reality Begins With Consciousness.

Books for the General Reader. The authors recognized the need to write scientific books for trained professionals for peer review and to promote scientific advances could occur. Now that this has been achieved, Drs Neppe and Close are pleased to announce that they are devoting 2013 to a series of books for the General Reader. We want these to be comprehensible to the layperson yet educate and fascinate. All of these will be announced on one or more of the websites www.brainvoyage.com, www.realitybegins.com, and www.VernonNeppe.com.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRELIMINARY APPENDICES. Coverpages Title Page Comments on Reality Begins with Consciousness o Comments of prominent scientists o Comments of general readers Dedication Acknowledgements The authors have specially inscribed this electronic book Other books by the authors Table of contents Authors Biography Vernon M. Neppe Authors Biography Edward R. Close Preface Vernon M Neppe Preface Edward R Close To you, the reader: Our grateful thanks Perspective to the Second Edition Key Words Brief glossary of key terms Choose your readership style i-xlix i ii iv v vii viii ix x xi xiiii xxxv xxxvi xxxvii xlii xlv xlvii li liii lv

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SECTION A: THE FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVE. Chapter 1: Overview perspective: 1 1. Priorities 2. The ten point brief summary of TDVP 3. Paradigms, Metaparadigms and Theories of Everything and TDVP 4. The four-sentence axiomatic metaparadigm summary 5. One point (heavy) summary of the TDVP model 6. And the easy one sentence axiom Chapter 2: The hundred point perspective of TDVP: 10 The limitations of our current paradigm for reality: #1-12 Requirements of a TOE and paradigm shift: #1324 TDVP as a new paradigm: #25-39 Key terminology in TDVP: #40-50 Applications, uses and understanding TDVP: #51-58 Concepts addressed by TDVP: #59-81 How TDVP differs from all other TOEs: # 82-89 Our Current Perception of TDVP: #90-99 Summary: #100 __________________________________________ SECTION B: THE LIMITS OF WHAT EXISTS Chapter 3: The Dilemma: 34 The Standard Model Limitations of the Standard Model Current status of science The historical approach to science Why our model is different The Metaparadigm Chapter 4: What The Standard Model Lacks. Some Questions to Resolve: 41 Let us imagine Entanglement Psi Lower dimensional incompleteness and higher dimensional extrapolation Life Evolution
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Scientific Subatomic Model Chapter 5: Falsifiability of Current Science: 48 Popperian Falsifiability Beyond Popper Scientific Model of Feasibility and Falsifiability: LFAF Model Feasibility: What it does not mean Chapter 6: The Need for a New Paradigm: 54 Requirements Linguistic Needs LFAF and Consciousness A perspective approach to developing a metaparadigm o The metaparadigmatic approach o Proofs o Methodology and assessing significance o Heuristic scientific approach o Paradigms, axioms and eventually metaparadigms Our new paradigm: an integrative approach o Unlearning what we have learnt o Beyond reductionism o Percepts and concepts are not actual reality o Calculus of distinctions o Re-uniting space, time and consciousness ____________________________________________________ SECTION C: KEYS TO A NEW PARADIGM FOR REALITY Chapter 7: Our Fundamental Model: 60 Towards a logic for the metaparadigm of TDVP 1. Historical background to TDVP 2. The necessity for the infinite 3. Ordropy 4. Ordropy and the infinite 5. Ordropy and life 6. Infinity and interfacing with the finite 7. STC Tethering 8. Infinite continuity and finite quantal discreteness 9. Top-down tethering 10. Quanta and discrete meaning 11. Non-locality in the finite; metacist in the infinite
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Table 1: New terminology applied to essence 12. Infinite space and time 13. Philosophy 14. Postulates and relativity 15. Essentials 16. Extensions 17. The proposed model Dimensional elements in the TDVP model Triadic CST (or SCT) and indivension Chapter 8: Reality and Subjectivity: 69 Monist or pluralist? Unified monism and tethering Reality and individual-units Finite bottoms-up tethering Transfinite top-down tethering Tethering and vortical indivension Actual reality is relative, experiential common reality The misnomer of actual Commonality and interactions The inanimate and the fallen tree in the empty forest Unified monism revisited Relative reality Conscious reality closed and open The gesher and dynamic freedom of choice: Real meaning in our lives The higher dimensions and essence Top-down and Bottoms-up Chapter 9: The C-, S- and T- Substrates: 75 Substrates Dimensions o Dimensions as we know them o Dimensions mathematically o Euclidean dimensions and non-Euclidean space o Dimensionometry o Metric o Parangular o Cartesian co-ordinate o Ordinal, interval and ratio o Dimensionality notation o Building dimensions
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o Hierarchy of infinite dimensions and of infinities Metadimensionality o Dimensions, substrates, and nesting o Dimensions of content and extent revisited in practice o Dimensional variation and indivension o Vortices in metadimensionality Domains and subdomains o Distinctions Three elements o Variables o Dimensions and distinctions o Closes Calculus Distinctions (C of D) o Distinctions in physics o Distinctions and the Origin Event Chapter 10: Consciousness and the New Paradigm: 85 Consciousness Table 2a: Subdivisions of C-substrate o C-substrate and consciousness o Terminology in consciousness o Neurology o Psychology o Consciousness research o Physics of consciousness o Philosophy o Paradigmatic Consciousness Table 2b: Neppes Proposed ASC Terminology Classification o Specialist terminology for Consciousness o Nervous system: Neurological consciousness: N-consciousness o Psychology and social sciences: E-consciousness o Consciousness sciences: C-consciousness o Quantum consciousness: Q-consciousness o Mystical consciousness: M-consciousness o Paradigmatic sciences o Paradigmatic consciousness o Density in C-substrate C-substrate o Neurological Consciousness: N-Consciousness o E-Consciousness o Metaconsciousness o Meaningfulness (or meaningful apprehension and influence)
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Chapter 11: Metadimensions and the C-substrate: 96 C-substrate perspective o Infinite expression o Finite expression o Triadic elements o Metaconsciousness and metadimensionality The CST Model (C-, S-, T- substrates) o Justification of the C-substrate o Higher dimensional consciousness ASCs: Altered states of consciousness Higher finite dimensions Infinite STC o Conscious distinctions Chapter 12: Infinity and the finite: The mathematics and the logic: 101 Substrates, Dimensions and Infinity Table 3: The infinite versus the finite TDVP, mathematics and consciousness Ordropy and thermodynamics What kind of infinity? o Infinity of infinities in mysticism Mathematics, infinity and TOEs Infinity o Countable infinity versus continuous infinity Rules of the finite and infinite o The infinite and the laws of nature o Supernatural o Coincidence and meaningful coincidence o Psi o Metadimensionality, psi, and vortices o Laws of nature and miracles o Infinite intent o Free-will Infinity from the top-down o The top-down approach o Discrete and continuous Metaphenomena in the infinite and survival o Terminology o Communication Mathematics
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o Proofs o Relativity of zero and infinity o Dimensional zero o Singularity o Pythagorean elements in space o Applying radians instead o Multidimensional scaling representations Dimensional representation o Multidimensional scaling representations o Applying more than 3 dimensions o Space and time o Time as a necessary extra dimension o More spatial dimensions o Creative thought and the Euclidean dichotomy o Euclidean limitations of 3D of time o The outside in or top-down approach again Unification of the C-substrate model by dimensions Chapter 13: Life, Ordropy, Essence and the Infinite: 116 Infinite continuity o Infinite Essence o Finite Essence o The boundless ocean and the land Life o Life and consciousness o Metalife, polife and the infinite, and physical life o Extent, content and essence o Animate ordropy Ordropy and entropy, animate and inanimate o Ordropy and entropy o Entropy basis o Animate essence and artificial intelligence o Infinite essence o Content and process Projecting concepts of essence o Essence, Primary Receptor and the concept of a deity o Quantal uncertainty and the theological model o Chaos theory Chapter 14: The infinite-finite boundary: 123 Permeable bidirectional filter
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The extreme: The infinity of the infinities Gesher and bridges o The metaphorical link o Which infinity is the Gesher to? o Gesher and dimensions o Gesher and different consciousness elements o Gesher and the brain The boundary and communication Continuity and discrete: Metareality and nonlocal reality Infinity, holograms and the brain Interpreting data Boundary and the brain SECTION D: THE KEY ELEMENTS TO TDVP Chapter 15: Theoretical Models: 130 The Philosophy of Science model: A New But Necessary Synthesis LFAF Our usual reality The contribution of the psychological approach and metadimensionality Clinically relevant approaches and when statistics are less meaningful: Applying the medical model o Double blind statistics versus clinically meaningful non-blind evaluations o The medical evaluation paradigm o Correlations in medicine move to causality o The Neppe bidirectional (multidirectional) approaches in Medicine and Phenomenology The Gould Magisterial approach Applications of the statistical, common reality, medical and psychological models to TOEs o The application of information to TOEs TDVP: The criteria of scientific correctness and the problem of intersubjectivity Gdels theorem: the finite and the infinite in TDVP Chapter 16: The Key Axioms: 140 Finite related axioms 1. Axiom of finite unification 2. Axiom of triadic inseparability 3. Axiom of CST tethering 4. Axiom of discrete quantal expression 5. Axiom of vortical ubiquity
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6. Axiom of nervous system endpoint 7. Axiom of subjectivity Infinite axioms 8. Axiom of infinite origin 9. Axiom of holism in space-time infinity 10. Axiom of living infinite reality 11. Axiom of ordropic reality 12. Axiom of metaconscious infinity 13. Axiom of information 14. Axiom of pervasive, essential infinity Linked finite-infinite axioms 15. Axiom of communication relative infinity 16. Axiom of fluctuating dimensional-distinctions 17. Axiom of continuous infinity linked with discrete finity 18. Axiom of artificiality 19. Axiom of boundaries 20. Axiom of metaconscious dimensional-distinctions 21. Axiom of relativity 22. Axiom of tethered origin (ATO) The four sentence axiomatic metaparadigm summary Chapter 17: Definitions: Reality, dimensions and distinctions: 148 Definition I: Reality o Perceptual reality o Conceptual reality o Common (or actualized) reality Definition II: Dimensions o Dimensionometry o Metric o Cartesian Co-ordinate Definition III: Distinction 1. Three elements (abbreviated DFC) 2. Elements of distinction 3. Variables of distinction 4. Mass 5. Energy o Reality distinctions o Dimensions can be conceptualized as distinctions o Distinctions in physics o Distinctions and the Origin Event
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Chapter 18: Specialized Conceptual Definitions: 153 Definition IV: The Primary Receptor Definition V: Existence Definition VI: Consciousness o Metaconsciousness o Meaningfulness o Consciousness Definition VII: Ordropy Definition VIII: Life Definition IX: Variables Definition X: Qubit Definition XI: Chronit Definition XII: Conscit Definition XIII: Qualit Definition XIV: Vortex Definition XV: Relative non-locality Definition XVI: Substrate o Space o Time o S-substrate o T-substrate Definition XVII: C-substrate Definition XVIII: Domains o Subdomain Definition XIX: Realm Definition XX: Dimensionometry Definition XXI: Prime-essence Definition XXII: CST metric Definition XXIII: Manifold Definition XXIV: Triads Definition XXV: Group 1. Axiom 2. Postulate 3. Theorem 4. Corollary 5. Lemma 6. Principle 7. Paradigm Definition group XXVI: Indivension cluster 1. Indivension
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2. Relative actualization 3. Tethering 4. Relative tethering 5. Individual-unit 6. Dimensional fabric 7. Ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural systems 8. State specific 9. Trait dependent 10. Altered states of consciousness (ASC) SECTION E: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TDVP Chapter 19: Rationale for the Dimensions Beyond 3S-1t: 163 Historical Base for the Existence of Dimensions Beyond 3S-1t o Minkowski o Einstein o Newton o Where is the involvement of consciousness? o Dimensional Extrapolation Statistical Basis or Justifying a Paradigmatic Shift o Special Relativity o Quantum Physics o Consciousness Research Chapter 20: Consciousness in the Brain: 167 The need for proper controls Information versus consciousness and the brain Meaning in C-substrate Is psi always on call? Recognizing psi: The difficulties Ego-boundary distortions and psychopathologies Future research on the and special skills Brain epiphenomena Current limited explanations for consciousness Sorting out confounders Solutions? Chapter 21: Towards the New Paradigm: LFAF and TDVP Model: 172 TDVP Motivation TDVP and TOE TDVP: What is it?
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Chapter 22: Statistical Basis of Consciousness Research: 175 Perspective A perspective to such overwhelming data and to meta-analysis The nine six sigma protocols in parapsychology Psi Consciousness research and psi Important principles in psi and consciousness: A primer o Decline effect o Attitudes matter o Replication difficulty o Repeatability o Rare events o Large sample sizes needed o Frequentist statistics o Leakage o Blind protocols o Meta-analyses o File drawers Psi in the general population Chapter 23: Six Sigma Statistical Data in Consciousness Research: 181 Six sigma research: Nine types Ganzfeld Global consciousness project (GCP) Remote viewing Random number generators (RNGs) Presentiment BEM protocol Less usual six sigma protocols o Staring protocols o Survival after bodily death o Precognition and six sigma data o Statistical combinations and independence Chapter 24: Applying TDVP to the Data on Psi: 192 Perspective on the consciousness statistical protocols Bayesian Statistics Speculative application to a consciousness-dimensionality model, specifically TDVP A model of psi applying TDVP
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A new model of psi: applying specifically vortical indivension interfaces of TDVP o Connectedness o Rarity o Psi conducive and repulsive phenomena o Improbability of the superpsi hypothesis o Learnt skills o Decline effect o Apprehension and influence o Psychoneurological influences Chapter 25: Psi and Entanglement: 202 Psi and its role o Entanglement o Psi and rarity o Entanglement and psi: Are they the same? o Rarity of psi and language o What about psi below awareness? o Psi in everyday life o Psi beyond 3S-1t o Psi and vortical indivension Entanglement and quantum correlations o A complex re-think about nonlocality and psi o Bell, Copenhagen and beyond o What allows entanglement? o The role of precognition o The role of time o Revisiting nonlocality o Is entanglement observable? o Sifting through the entangled complexity o Filters, signals and psi o Leggett or Einstein? Chapter 26: Time and Free-will: 210 Time multidimensionality Linear time Absence of choice Estimation of the future Time seriality and infinite regress Dunne and multidimensionality o Infinite regress in the TDVP context Free-will implies three finite time dimensions
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Clock reality and ordinal time Time and consciousness and STC Time, Minkowski, quaternions and imaginary numbers Are there other motivations for three-dimensional time? o Physics o Consciousness o Psi o Archetypes of actual time? o Thought experiment o Relativity o Origins o Logic Time density Parallel dimensions and universes and the use of parangular What if we could appreciate 3T and therefore, 3S-3T? Chapter 27: The Mathematics of Time and Consciousness: 219 Mathematics is needed for paradigm shifts Quaternions historically Multidimensionality and quaternions S and T-substrates and mathematics of quaternions Dimensional Extrapolation and the STC substrate The Relativity of dimensional scales Quaternions- the STC mathematical link STC and NC re-translated into mathematics C-substrate, STC and quaternions: the link Quaternions and C-substrate Consciousness and complex numbers 3S-1t or 3S-1t-1c as our basic physical experience Support for 3 dimensions of time and extensions: Some complex speculations Conceiving of Euclidean reality in 3S-1t ________________________________________ SECTION F: THE THEORY BEHIND TDVP Chapter 28: Axioms that are Closely Related: 227 The subparadigmatic axioms 1. Postulate axiom of STC dimensions 2. Axiom of STC Domains 3. Axiom of Relative Zero 4. Axiom of Potential Life 5. Axiom of Physical Life
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6. Axiom of interfacing of extent and content Subsidiary, but closely related axioms: Linked infinite/finite 7. Axiom of simultaneous existence 8. Axiom of unified existence 9. Axiom of holistic existence Relevant but somewhat speculative are the seven axioms of infinite-finite boundary communications 10. Axiom of distinction existence 11. Axiom of distinctions 12. Axiom of permeability 13. Axiom of protection 14. Axiom of communication ease 15. Axiom of communication complexity 16. Axiom of top-down communication Infinite 17. Axiom of metaconsciousness qualities Finite 18. Axiom of individual-units 19. Axiom of metaconscious state and trait 20. Axiom of physical reduction valves 21. Axiom of abstracted C-substrate dimensionality 22. Axiom of three dimensional manifestation 23. Axiom of forces and dimensional increase 24. Axiom of holistic continuity, corollary to the axiom of origin 25. Axiom of mathematical dimensional reality 26. Axiom of fundamental three dimensional space 27. Axiom of fundamental multidimensional time 28. Axiom of consciousness Chapter 29: Quantum Entanglement: A Brief Perspective: 234 What is it? Violating Bells inequality The entanglement paradox STC inseparability and entanglement o Relative inseparability o Resolution of the dimensional fluctuation dilemma and vortical and 3-D model o Differing Metadimensionality: Hyperspace and strings versus TDVP Chapter 30: Indivension: A Necessary New Concept: 239
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Counting dimensions o How many dimensions are appropriate using the TDVP model? o But what do we regard as a dimension in the C-substrate? o There are not a static number of dimensions Entanglement and TDVP o Vortices and spin, indivension and tethering o Spin o Indivension and vortices o Charge, dimensions and forces o Energies and forces o Warping of dimensions Chapter 31: Individuals and Society: A Unification of Different Consciousness Mechanisms: 245 States of consciousness and dimensionality o Altered states of consciousness and higher dimensions of consciousness o A mechanism for acquisition of psi Revisiting Tethering: Closed or open? Finite or infinite? o Why tethering may be important in metadimensional consciousness o Different amounts of tethering o Different dimensions of tethering o Relative tethering o The finite is not always closed; the infinite is not always open o Individual-units and systems theory Perception as individual-units: The role of the social sciences o The individual and the individual-unit o Application in extended social science systems theory o Psychofamiliosociocultural model: idiosyncratic percepts or concepts o The multifaceted multiple systems approach to metadimensionality o The common multifaceted systems approach to individual units o Indivension, Vortices, and Systems Theory o Indivension revisited in an individual unit systems context o Vortical metadimensional realities o The metalevel of individual-unit vortical indivension o Top-down versus bottoms-up revisited o Unified systems theory and compound words o Multidimensional, multifaceted common individual-unit reality o States and traits and the individual-unit o Calculus of distinctions applied o Materialism or Metadimensionality? Two models o The key importance of tethering for dimensions, C-substrate, and survival
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Chapter 32: Fluctuating Dimensions: 253 Fluctuations Vortical indivension Consciousness transfer Meaning and random fluctuations State Accessing the metaconsciousness Metaconsciousness and fluctuations Traits Quality and quantity No man is an island entire of itself The brain and 3S-1t Chapter 33: The Brain, Physiology and its Consciousness: 256 Brain interaction The Bergsonian filter Windows into metaconsciousness The temporal lobe Unconscious bodily metaconsciousness? Differentiating the brain consciousness or unconsciousness from metaconsciousness Consciousness and information ___________________ SECTION G: THE MODELS BEHIND TDVP Chapter 34: Calculus of Distinctions: 261 1. The axioms of finite-infinite interaction 2. Self versus not-self Table 4: Distinctions and Dimensions 3. Density 4. Distinctions of intent 5. Calculus of distinctions and set theory Chapter 35: Theorems: 267 1. The theorem of (extra) dimensional extrapolation 2. Theorem of lower dimensional discontinuity (or incompleteness) 3. Theorem of discontinuity 4. Theorem of N-dimensional manifold 5. Theorem (Principle) of tridimensional warping of reality o Bending o Warping
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o Distortion 6. The theorem of parallel N-1 realities and further N-D realities 7. Principle of vortices being the ubiquitous universal shape o Circle o Pi 8. Lemma of dimensional falsification impossibility 9. Lemma of lower dimensional indeterminate feasibility assessment 10. Lemma of open ordropic systems 11. Pythagorean theorem (PT) extension to 3 dimensions and applicability beyond 12. The theorem of metadimensionality: non-integers, imaginary or complex numbers 13. Theorem of pervasive multi-level tridimensional distinctions Chapter 36: Postulates and Principles: 273 1. The postulate of three fold quark combinations 2. Principle of dimensionometric explanation of forces acting at a distance 3. Principle of Non-Euclidean dimensional representation approximated through 4. Euclidean substrates (space, time, C-substrate) 5. Principle of Non-Euclidean space-time continua 6. Corollary of Pythagoras theorem being only true for Euclidean spaces 7. Postulate of Indivension Tethering 8. The Postulate of TOEs requiring infinite reality 9. Rare Event Theory Postulate 10. Rare Events are Linked to Interfacing Vortices, Vectors, Scalars, and Tensors Postulate 11. Postulate of at least 9 dimensions 12. Postulate of dimensional representation is based on the fundamental forces of nature 13. Corollary of Dimensional Warping 14. Corollary of double warping distortions 15. Corollary of Euclidean/ Non-Euclidean experience 16. Postulate of Non-Euclidian spaces or domains are conceptual and not actual 17. Postulate of perceived different dimensionalities 18. Postulate of worlds with additional dimensions 19. Postulate of C-substrate warping additional dimensions 20. Corollary of Postulate of C-substrate warping higher dimensions 21. Postulate of initial symmetry then asymmetry 22. Postulate of distinction singularity 23. Postulate of the first distinctions 24. Postulate of infinite qualits in 3S-1t 25. Principle of infinite coexistence 26. Principle of different experience 27. The Principle of Relative Dimensionality
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28. Postulate of perceptual consciousness and warping Chapter 37: Major Mathematical and Logical Adaptations: 280 Mathematical models used in TDVP The key mathematical models o Pythagorean theorem o Closes calculus of distinctions with dimensions of extent, content and intent applied to STC, dissimilarities and across dimensions o Fermats last theorem with 3-d or greater space The next level of mathematical applications o Doctorows Rare Event Theory o Einsteinian general relativity o Minkowski space o Theorem of dimensional extrapolation and lemma of dimensional incompleteness o Gdels incompleteness theorem in finite closed reality o Cantors set theory o Spencer Browns laws of form o Cantors infinite of the infinite o Euclidean applications in 3-D space or below o Non-Euclidean and Gaussian mathematics o Extension of Popperian falsifiability (LFAF) Further mathematical applications o Alfred Everts mathematical vortices. o Penroses spinors o Riemann N-Dimensional manifolds o Euclidean Newtonian versus non-Euclidean o Gauss and Riemanns multidimensional manifold o Bells inequality theorem o Real numbers (space), imaginary numbers (time) and complex numbers (C-substrate) Major Physicist Mathematical Applications __________________ SECTION H: THE METAPARADIGM Chapter 38: Philosophical Basis of TDVP: 282 Monism and dualism: a short perspective Unified monism as part of the TDVP model: The philosophical basis of TDVP Clarifying monism and dualism in its modern context
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Chapter 39: The Philosophical Perspective of Meaning and Consciousness: 289 Primary consciousness o Cosmological argument o The critiques of the cosmological argument o Teleological argument o Ontological argument A new explanation; Our Proposed Infinity Model of the Axiom of Origin. The TDVP Position TDVP and these models The strong anthropic principle, fundamental constants, ordropy and TDVP o Revisiting the Anthropic Principle o Does TDVP support the fundamental constants? o Physical life pre-requisites Ordropy, Expanding Universe and the Big Bang o Pyramids of complexity and yet stability o Higher Organization Entropy o Which one is the epiphenomenon? o A terminological aside on consciousness concepts Philosophy and Meaning o Degrees of meaning o More than just panpsychism o Consciousness not information at the finite beginning Philosophy, purpose and the infinite o Our infinite reality choices o Our own idiosyncratic reality? The ultimate speculation o Approaching solipsism through the infinite o Individual traces in infinite reality o Rejecting solipsism o Rejecting Panpsychism o Meaning and purpose Chapter 40: Perspective: Distinguishing TDVP Versus Other TOEs: 307 Chapter 41. Tabulation of Relevant Theories of Everything: 310 Criteria for consciousness or dimensional TOEs or related models o Historical perspective o Methodology and selection criteria o Applying universal constructs o Specific criteria; The example of the triadic element o Universality of certain results o Applying Table 5
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o The most complete TOE by a landslide o Using a level playing field o Understanding the data o Requirements of a real TOE and metaparadigm o Does it work? The uniqueness of TDVP Table 5. Comparison of Paradigms for Reality. General (/16); Specific (/11); Special (/12) (Total /39). 1. Legend 2. Specific: Almost unique to TDVP 3. Special criteria based on feedback 4. Models Chapter 42: The Earlier Close and Neppe Theories of Everything: 323 Current Close and Neppe (Neppe and Close): Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) Neppe: Vortex N-Dimensional Paradigm (VNDP) Close: Transcendental Physics Chapter 43: Contributions of Previous TOEs or Related Models: 327 Sheldrakes Formative Causation Carr: Transcendental Field Theory TDVP: A metalevel higher than Field Theories Smythies: Theory Of Material Dualism Klein and Boyd: Subquantum Integration Approach Evert and his Typology of Aether-Motion-Pattern String theory and dimensionalities Table: 6: Perspectives of String Theories Hawking: Many-worlds Interpretation and dimensionalities Langan: Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU) Laszlo The Akashic Field TOE Lanza and Biocentrism Laszlo and Lanza on evolution and reality Campbell: Big TOE Goswami: Quantum Activism Wilber: TOE Kosmos Sirag: Consciousness and Hyperspace. Kabbalic mystical model and Vedic tradition Applying the highest dimensions and the mysticism to the C-substrate De La Sierra: Neurophilosophy of Consciousness Whiteman: Philosophy of Space and Time
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Gould: Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA) Watson: Theory of Enformed Systems (TES) Hoffman: Conscious Realism and Multi-user Interface theory Leibniz: Topological space, totalities and monads Bohm: Implicate and explicate order (IOE) Chapter 44: TDVP: A Unified Paradigm Shift: 358 The paradigm shift Revisiting a key area: Consciousness The process of indivension; the content of fluctuating vortices The unified basis The ultimate unification Chapter 45: How TDVP Explains the Previously Unexplained: Answers: 363 o Entanglement o Psi o Lower dimensional incompleteness o Evolution o Life o The Standard Physics Quantum Mechanics Model has limitations. The subatomic particles and the current paradigm. Can they now be explained? Speculations Wave Particle Duality or Wave Particle Meaning? Other areas to test. o Preliminary approaches to testing the TDVP hypothesis Already existing pertinent data Practical Separation of the Levels of Hypotheses. Mathematicologic approach to hypothesis testing for TDVP Chapter 46: Is TDVP Truly a Metaparadigm? 372 References: 380 Index: 397

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BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON THE EQUAL FIRST AUTHORS: Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, FRSSAf, DFAPA, BN&NP. Based on peer-reviewed publications, presentations, international honors and medicolegal consultations, Prof. Vernon Neppe has achieved an international reputation in numerous and diverse disciplines. These include: Five fundamental but related medical specialties, namely Neuropsychiatry, Behavioral Neurology, Psychopharmacology, Forensic Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, and Psychiatry: In all these specialties, he has been listed under the peer reviewed Americas Top Doctorsand he is one of the few to be listed in all eleven (in press) issues of this peer-reviewed book and, is apparently, the only physician ever listed in five different subspecialties. Consciousness Research, Phenomenology, Epileptology and Neuroscience, in which his contributions have been pioneering and prodigious; and he is also an internationally in demand Professional Speaker, Author and Playwright. Dr. Neppe has pioneered numerous pharmacological areas. These include adjunctive anticonvulsants in psychiatry (these contributions alone have impacted the lives of millions of people), and a successful treatment for the previously incurable tardive dyskinesia. He has described four new medical conditions, invented about a hundred new terms, suggested three major new classifications, developed more than thirty evaluations, tests and historical screens in neuropsychiatry and consciousness, pioneered several new theoretical concepts in his disciplines, and developed the literary genre of sciction.2 He also pioneered the links of brain function and subjective experience, developed Phenomenology in the Neuroscience and Consciousness contexts and is the world authority on dj vu phenomena. The author of eight plus books, including Cry the Beloved Mind 2, and two plays (www.brainvoyage.com), he has overall more than 400 publications on every continent. He led the 1st USA and International Delegation in Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology, has lectured in twelve countries, chaired international symposia, and worked internationally with the media. He was the first USA based MD to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of SA, is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, recipient of the rare Marius Valkhoff prize, one of the rare Diplomates of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) (www.thethousand.com), is the only Distinguished Professor of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization and Executive Director (5eca.com), a WISE Distinguished Scientific Advisor and Director of their Human Performance Enhancement Division. He mainly trained in his native South Africa (then did a Fellowship at Cornell University, New York). He then founded the first Division of Neuropsychiatry in a USA Psychiatry Dept (Univ. of Washington in Seattle), and then a model institute (Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute), which he directs (www.pni.org). He is also (Adj. Full) Prof., Dept. of Neurology and Psychiatry, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. TDVP@pni.org.
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Edward R. Close PhD, PE, SFSPE Edward R. Close is a Physicist, Mathematician, Cosmologist, Environmental Engineer and Planner, and international consultant. He was a charter member of the U.S.G.S. Systems Analysis Group where he developed state-of-the-art mathematical optimization programs, hierarchical modeling techniques and fractal geometry models of coastal geomorphology, storm cell development and other environmental modeling applications. Pursuing an active research program in environmental remediation, he has made a series of breakthrough discoveries in using non-toxic compounds in mold research that have benefited millions. He is a charter member of the internationally known Integrated Health-Care Professionals Council. He has authored numerous technical papers and five books, including the groundbreaking Transcendental Physics, Integrating the Search for Truth. He developed the mathematical calculus of distinctions, which is very relevant in the current book. He described a brief (several pages), but never refuted first published proof for the famous Fermats Last Theorem 3, which will appear in the companion volume to this book, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad. He has also developed several new theorems of consciousness, and contributed important engineering applications. Dr. Close is Principal Engineer and Director of Research and Development at EJC Advantage, LLC. He is currently Science Editor of Telicom (the journal of the International Society for Philosophical Enquiry (ISPE) in which he is a Senior Research Fellow (www.thethousand.com), and also a Distinguished Fellow of the Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization (5eca.com). Both Dr. Neppe and Dr. Close can be regarded as pioneers of the new interdisciplinary science of Dimensional Biopsychophysics, in which dimensionometry, consciousness and the interface of the biological, psychological and physical are integrated together, as in their remarkably innovative model of the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm. eclose@ejcenterprises.com

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AUTHORS PREFACE (Dr. Vernon M. Neppe) The more I learn the less I learn I know. Vernon M Neppe, circa 1967k Since my childhood, I had contemplated the contradictions in our current scientific model a model that I, nevertheless, realized worked very well in possibly 99.99% of cases. Yet I had wondered why these possibly 0.01% of apparent aberrations occurred. Over two decades, I gradually concluded that a new model could explain some of these problems: If an imaginary observer existed outside the box of our current reality, his relative position imagining the situation would be different. He would be able to observe far more of our current reality looking from the outside and then examining inward. This would imply that the number of dimensions could repetitively increase because the observer could look at that new reality from the outside, and this could continue ad infinitum. Effectively, I began to use this outside-in approach to examine ostensibly anomalous information. I applied it to many disciplines, and it seemed workable, too, across the sciences I examined. I became convinced that this experience was relative to ones location. I penned notes about this, studied the existing data, and gradually by the mid-1980s, after many years of contemplation, had refined this to whether there was some kind of essence. I wondered about the essential core in our existence, whether it was always expressed in space and time in other dimensions, and whether we could be living in an Ndimensional reality, as part of a broader infinite existence. I realized we were only perceiving a tiny fraction in our conventional three spatial dimensions and one moment in timeour present experiential reality. In addition, I realized there needed to be a content and that the fundamental spatial elements could be expressed not in the rectilinear box noted by the observer, but in increasingly complex curved movements. I was struck by the ubiquity in all of nature of these vortical shapes. I wondered whether these three-dimensional spatial rotating objectsvorticescould be playing a role that was completely fundamental even in this multidimensional world that I was contemplating. I opposed myself: My rational mind argued that even contemplation of vortices was too ridiculous a concept to embrace. Yet the more I looked, the more this idea became feasible: Vortices and curved objects were ubiquitous in nature and they fitted the theoretical need I had conceptualized. Somehow, there had to be a content by which any kind of individual, society, or even humankind in general, or any group or any other level of individuals, or even other sentient beings, could interact. This was a function of social interaction and reflected a consistent combined reality. Vortices could fit this role because they were dynamically changing in state reflecting movements from moment to moment, and yet
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This phrase has re-awakened over the years. As far as is known, it originates as indicated and was recorded at that time, though not officially published. It was chosen here because it is Dr. Neppes motto.

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they also reflected a consistent trait over time where others would be objectifying in a relative sense their realities with others. Vortices could be interacting and interfacing and there could theoretically be zillions l of such combinations taking place with much of reality being silent as they would not be expressing themselves in consciousness. Moreover, there was no need for these dynamic forms to be full-blown classical vortices. Any moving curvature element would fulfill that role and provide a content for this interacting process (which many years later in our model we called indivension). Certainly, curved movement was easier to conceive of than rectangular ones because they were more natural and would not be as restricted to Euclidean space. And so, in my initial model, first, there was N-dimensionality, with this outside-in derivation from an essence and an observational consciousness, and there was also an inside-outside approach. Then there was the role of an (infinite) essence and an Ndimensional reality. But, then even to contemplate vortices quite ridiculous surely? Yet, the idea persisted. I gradually put this together into a model I called the concept vortex pluralism5. I presented this as an invited lecture to a sub-branch of the American Philosophical Association m, and I was surprised at the response. Instead of ridiculeafter all I was not a philosopher and what did I know anyway?it met with a standing ovation. I felt at the time that given N-dimensionality, this was pluralistic, not monistic or dualistic, and so I described my model as pluralism. It was going to be published in a book, but the editor justifiably objected to the lack of references. And that was true: It was my own idea that had spontaneously taken hold, and at that point, there were, strangely, no formal references yet. I revised this paper and placed it onto the Internet. And I added hundreds of references, discovering in retrospect, that, indeed, there was a theoretical justification for what I was positing. Later and more appropriately, I called the model vortex N-dimensionalism because I realized this model was not based on plural realities just N-dimensions, and that this reflected one unified reality.6; 7 I realized, too, that despite the fundamental laws of thermodynamics n, living beings also exhibited order not disorder, and was puzzled why life came about. So, already at that point, I was puzzling over the finite and the infinite, N-dimensionality, vortices, multidimensional space-time, observer consciousness outside our usual space-time, life,
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the role of order and the variable directional approach (outside-in and also inside out later on we referred to this as the top-down and bottom-up approach). I produced a twopart document of some eighty pages, and circulated it to a few colleagues. I was stimulated to action when an anonymous colleague overseas justifiably critiqued my then lifes work: But how can he test this? And where is the proof? I understood this criticism, and agreed with it, because I knew he was correct: And it was this extreme prod that provoked my need to work with a mathematician and a physicist and re-look at this paradigm. Through the International Society for Philosophical Inquiry, I met Dr. Edward Close who had written the book Transcendental Physics.8 This book had many similar fundamental ideas to vortex N-dimensionalism. We made an interesting team: I as a consciousness researcher, neuroscientist and psychiatrist, who could play the role of ignorant creative thinker in physics and mathematics, and on the other hand, Dr. Close as a physicist and a mathematician, par excellence, who could, similarly, bounce off creative ideas in the biological, consciousness and social sciences. I spent the next year immersed in complex physics and advanced mathematics because I realized I would need to apply sufficient skills to use logic and think creatively in these disciplines. We were ready, and both of us recognized this was our song we needed to sing. It was a project that we were driven to complete: It was our gift, however, small and possibly even misguided, to humankind. The result are these books: Reality begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works 9 and the companion book, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad 10. Having spent months allowing colleagues around the world to critique over twenty major revisions of this model, weve become increasingly persuaded that our model is fundamentally truer than any other that currently exists: Often models die after six months of scientific, mathematical and creative critiques. Yet, weve been able to answer challenges, and though the fundamental metaparadigm remains, the emphasis on certain areas, such as infinity, order, life, meaning, time, consciousness, tethering, vortices and dimensionality has been amplifiedand concepts and definitions have been clarified. Every query has been seriously addressed, appropriately answered, and, we believe, adequately encompassed within our model. We are grateful that the clarifications required made the model stronger and allowed it to grow, both in being more coherent, as well as more detailed, in its essentials. We are encouraged, too, by the support for the underlying hypotheses and the fundamental metaparadigm and the acclaim by responding scientists: This continued growth of a model would be expected for any consistent and feasible paradigmatic shift.
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Has our model succeeded? For a paradigm to work, the underlying axioms should feasibly, without contradiction or demonstrable falsification, explain empirical data and be supported through mathematicologic approaches. Our model, now called the Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm model (TDVP), does just that in certain contexts, and, of course, is applicable across many scientific disciplines (physics, life, consciousness and psychological sciences) and mathematically is logically justified. Yet, how dare we postulate a paradigm shift that cuts into the sheer fabric of current reductionistic materialism? And moreover, how dare we involve multidimensionality, consciousness, infinity, life and order? Its like suggesting the flat world is round, surely? We have to agree, at this point, with expert reviewers who believe that TDVP will endure and will become critically important for a long, long time to come. Yet Dr. Close and I both still anticipate the initial resistance, anger, denial, and even ridicule. This may not be surprising because TDVP literally shatters many prevailing ideas about the very nature of reality, and it furthermore, has both the mathematics and the empiricism to demonstrate its viability, with hypotheses that are not yet tested. Our TDVP model has emphasized the cardinal role of consciousness and the need for a specific kind of higher dimensionality. And it has addressed infinity, order and life, and restructuring of time as necessities. Based on empirical data, potential proofs of our metaparadigm, mathematical justifications, and qualitative tabulations, we have justified it as the most complete, and also the most extensive practical paradigm ever posited. Our first book, Reality Begins with Consciousness, is written to be more easily read. It is still formidable, but those not reading all of it will obtain the fundamentals, without the data and amplifications, at the start. This book on TDVP begins with a 10-point summary of the basics of the TDVP model, then the key single statement, then jumps to 100 core points. It then deals with fundamentals and gradually builds up, in some detail, to why the key metaparadigm fits. It progresses as if one were doing a university course in the area, with basics, and then with increasing complexity of some areas. The second companion book, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad, relates to amplifications, specialized models and speculation. Here are the challenges, speculations and proposals for future research. This book incorporates some remarkable ideas, and is more complex than the first book. Its almost like one is then studying a further advanced course. But in both books, our frequent headers and subheaders allow greater readability and the opportunity to skip certain areas, or to come back to them later. We look at it simply as delivering two ostensibly cutting edge books. This is the first, and I postulate that both will impact the ideas of all of our readers. Those embroiled in reductionistic materialism may be challenged to modify their views because they appear unjustifiable in the light of the empirical data presented, and our
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ideas demonstrate the contradictions to our standard, current physical paradigm. We hope that this book will fulfill the initial reviewers impressions that Reality Begins with Consciousness will have long-lasting major impacts on the physical, biological, consciousness, psychological and mathematical sciences. Certainly, the concept of an enduring model of reality that provides a workable paradigm shift across all the scientific disciplines, and has mathematical theorems and proofs, is very important. Add to this, a paradigm that provides a new philosophical perspective and yet still is consonant with philosophy including mysticism and its potential enduring relevance is enhanced. Whether it fulfills this promise remains to be seen. But, we, the authors, interpret this as far the most important lifes contribution of our lives. Vernon M Neppe MD, PhD, FRS(SAf), DFAPA, BN&NP, FFPsych, MMed, DPsM, DSPE. Seattle, WA, USA. (November 2011) Post-script: 2nd Edition addition to Dr Neppes Preface An important caution, however, needs to be emphasized: Clearly, there is a great deal more to be done. We have only a tiny knowledge base of what exists. Complex aspects of physics are disputed. How much more so are the biological, consciousness and psychological findings where our proofs are limited? In these scientific disciplines, we can only apply conclusions using, at best, tenuous inductive reasoning based on experimental data. This is often an order of magnitude below those same controversial but very complex proofs in physics. We can certainly argue that the data we cite is not contradicted because it has not been falsified. Furthermore, that the data appears to occur and be feasible in the collective experience of our society. But we recognize that feasibility has its own limitations. Our application of the TDVP model as a metaparadigm is ambitious and often based on the feasibility of fundamental aspects, yet it only provides principles and process for examination of the content, namely the data. And based on the comparative metrics of Table 5, it may provide this extremely effectively. However, that does not mean that this is truly how reality works: This book may at best provide a good start to explain our model which we perceive as feasible and to stimulate ideas, research and thinking for others. VMN (March 2012)

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AUTHORS PREFACE (Dr. Edward R. Close) Real scientists should have no need to defend their territory, because real science has no boundaries. Edward R. Close (p104) 8 Albert Einstein saw that the forces of electricity and magnetism could be unified with a few elegant equations, revealing the beauty, as he said, of some of Gods thoughts. 11 He also reasoned that, if two of the fundamental forces of the universe could be unified, he should be able to discover the mathematical laws integrating all of them. He believed the universe to be ordered and logical, and that the laws governing it could be discovered and understood. A metaparadigm would reveal the elegant harmony of the universe. Einstein and many brilliant scientists since have tried to find this Holy Grail of science and failed. Why should we think that we have? We have done something that has not been done before: We have identified the missing elements of the current paradigm, and we have found a way to rectify the glaring omission of any mathematical representation of consciousness in the equations of the standard model. We have reunited science with human experience by formally describing the conscious act of the drawing of distinctions with a mathematical tool I call the calculus of distinctions. This simple act of including consciousness in the equations leads to a whole new understanding of time, space and consciousness. What motivated us to seek an ever more comprehensive scientific paradigm? In my case, I believe the answer lies in the brain I was born with and the nature of my early environment. I believe the same may be true for Dr. Neppe. The small town where I was born lay in a narrow valley in the St. Francois Mountains of Southeast Missouri. The largest high-grade iron ore and lead mines in the country lay to the north, a steep conical knob of porphyritic rhyolite, that had been mined for iron, stood on the east side of the valley, batholiths of granitic and basaltic rock blocked the flow of surface drainage to the south to form pools and waterfalls that were called shut-ins. To the west lay several American Indian mounds along a small stream, and in the middle of the valley, the earthen works of the Civil War Union Fort Davidson and the building where Ulysses S. Grant received his commission as General, were located. Emigrants came from all over Europe in the eighteen hundreds to work in the mines. My great grandfather was one of them. In this setting, it seemed natural that by the age of ten I was interested in geology, archeology and languages. I collected civil war bullets, stone-age artifacts, and was learning two foreign languages. By the age of thirteen, I had active interests in science, mathematics, history,
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archeology, geology, and linguistics. I found it fascinating that, given observable facts, one could, with nothing more than ones own mind, discover new facts about things both seen and unseen. At that early age, I knew I wanted to be a scientist. At the age of fourteen, I discovered Einsteins relativity, and I knew I wanted to be a physicist. In my navet, I thought physics was the answer to everything. I see this same navet in most mainstream physicists today. Physics was my first love. There was, however, a problem. This problem wasnt to surface until several years later when I was a physics and math major in college, but it was there from the beginning. The problem was, in a word, experience. I had experienced things that did not fit within the materialistic framework of mainstream physics. From a very early age, I experienced things that seemed to be extensions of the five senses. These experiences could not easily be explained within the limits of known physical and biological science. Basically, some of my experiences did not easily fit within a materialistic paradigm. These experiences happened occasionally, unexpectedly and with no apparent cause. There were, however, some locations and circumstances that seemed conducive to them. They seemed to happen most often when I lay in bed just before sleep, or when I was alone in a natural setting. Opportunities to be alone in nature were frequent, as I was an only child, and our back yard bordered on the untouched wilderness of the St. Francois Mountains. I also remember having these experiences in the classroom in the fourth or fifth grade. Were they simply states of heightened auditory, visual, tactile or other awareness? The only person I confided in was my father. He allayed my concerns by saying that they were signs of growing, and that he had had similar experiences as a child. They were nothing to worry about. Accepting them as normal, I began to analyze and even enjoy them. These experiences impacted my thinking leading me to realize that some aspect of my consciousness might occasionally, under certain circumstances, be operating in ways that did not correspond with the pervasive everyday perception of reality. If this were true, the simple materialistic paradigm I was being taught in science classes could not explain it. Because of my personal experiences, and some controlled experiments I participated in during my second and third years as a physics major in college, I also began to study everything that came out of the areas of consciousness research. I realized that concepts outside currently accepted physical science were required. I also realized that if consciousness existed somehow outside the physical body, it could explain some of the rare-event phenomena called psi phenomena, but that this would require a completely new theory of space, time, and consciousness. Was it purely a coincidence that Dr. Neppe and I met? We had both joined ISPE in
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hopes of connecting with kindred souls with similar intellectual interests. As we began to share our thoughts, we realized that they fitted together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. And coincidences began to happen. Soon after we began our collaboration, we advised each other of prior commitments involving travel that would ostensibly interrupt our regular communications. Vernon would be traveling to South Africa, I to Egypt. I was participating in the production of a documentary film, and a travel agent employed by the company producing the film had arranged my itinerary. Vernons itinerary was also set. When we compared flight schedules and layovers, we found that we would both be in Amsterdam on the same day! Without any pre-planning, we were able to spend several hours together discussing some of the basic concepts of our theories. These discussions were recorded and became part of the archives and manuscripts leading to this book. It could have been a coincidence, but the theme of this book emphasizing consciousness as it does, at least allows for other possibilities. Other synchronous events followed. Both of us lead very busy professional lives, with client-driven schedules, deadlines and multiple commitments. In spite of this, we would often call each other at opportune times and find that we had been thinking along the same lines. We would wake up in the middle of the night with epiphanies that were nearly identical, or that would fit together in complementary ways. The frequency of such synchronous experiences led us to suspect a hyper-dimensional connection of some sort. As we developed our new paradigm, the possibility and reality of such a link became more and more apparent. When consciousness is seen to operate in more than four dimensions, synchronicity becomes the rule rather than the exception. These experiences, while personal and anecdotal from a scientific point of view, convince me that science in general, and physics in particular, needs to be expanded to transcend the materialistic box in which it has confined itself. This conviction led to the concepts presented in my 1997 book Transcendental Physics and eventually to this book in collaboration with Dr. Vernon Neppe. We are confident that our Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm shift will usher in a new consciousness-based comprehensive science with a tremendously expanded scope, a scope including the spectrum of human physical, mental and spiritual experience. This book and associated articles and papers form the basis of a scientific paradigm shift unlike any in the history of the search for truth and understanding. Edward R. Close, PhD, PE, SRFSPE Jackson, Missouri, USA. (November, 2011).

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To you, the reader: with our grateful thanks The initial version of our paradigm shift, a holistic model that permeates scientific, mathematical and philosophical disciplines o, was extremely complex to the extent that readers commented there were very few who would be able to understand it. Indeed that was so: It was multidisciplinary and required a high level of knowledge, a conceptualization background, and training in specialized aspects of the physical, psychological, biological, and consciousness sciences, in philosophy and logic, plus a specialized background in mathematics: There were few who could fully appreciate all these disciplines. We have assiduously made hundreds of revisions over the past several months. The result is Reality Begins With Consciousness. This book attempts to make these complex areas more coherent. Ideas that have inherent merit should stand the test of time. But they must be comprehensible and sound. Sometimes such models are so esoteric they are difficult to interpret unambiguously. It's fascinating that when we examine broad "Theories of Everything", we find Kabbalic and Vedic Mysticism have survived centuries or even millennia, yet are so complex that interpretations are ambiguous. We also find remarkable, but conceptually limited older models that focus on one specific area, such as consciousness.12, 13 By contrast, in our model, we have strived for clarity and lack of ambiguity. We differentiate more speculative information from our key axioms. The scope of our challenge has been enormous. But we hope it will stimulate long-term further developments and research. Drs. Edward R. Close and Vernon Neppe attempt the broadest of paradigms, not a single area of focus 9; 10. We attempt to develop something never before done: an all-encompassing paradigm that is feasible yet not falsified in all the major scientific disciplines, namely, the physical, life, psychological and consciousness sciences. Additionally, we ensure that there is a mathematicological basis to justify this overriding paradigm, plus a philosophical mystical basis, as well. Our fundamental metaparadigm has tens of eventually or potentially testable ideas applying a novel approach to the philosophy of sciencep, and indirectly suggests about six hundred different concepts, ideas, postulates or hypotheses. It uses both the empirical, often inductive data of scientific method plus the deductive bases of mathematics. Weve received feedback from tens of peer scientists and creative readers during these past seven months. We are gratified that we have still been able to coherently maintain the key elements of our paradigm, which remains cogent and relevant. But one challenge was to amplify the ideas and to convert the hundreds of complex multidisciplinary ideas into two readable scientific books. We did this by applying several techniques: We have provided: an immediate glossary of key terms (which many may want to print for
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reference), a comprehensive table of contents allowing a sense of prioritizing the concepts, initial summary perspectives allowing readers to understand the broader picture, numerous chapters that can be read independently of the rest of the book, comprehensive, but pertinent references, and an index at the end.

On the other hand, there may be those of you who do not want to be given the key information at the start, and who would prefer a gradual transition. If so please begin at Section B: The Limits of What Exists with Chapter 3, but we recommend you still use the key glossary of terms at the beginning. This book could not have succeeded without the specialists who provided important peer-reviewed feedback within their areas of expertise, and alerted us to other areas that were pertinent. We have therefore, particularly endeavored to ensure that those who specialize in particular disciplines, such as psychology, physics, mathematics, or philosophy can be stimulated in their disciplines, and yet, those specialists can use their specialty as a jumping point for the challenge of the multidisciplinary emphasis. We are gratified, too, that those with particular interests across disciplines, in areas such as time or order can appreciate specific chapters. Clearly, too, this book focuses on Consciousness Research. Those in that very broad scientific discipline may be able to conceive of the enormous leap to understand the need for change, and the nature of an all-encompassing paradigm. And so, this book is for scientists, philosophers, creative thinkers and mathematicians who want to understand reality, consciousness and the world, and for those who seek a single broader base to appreciate their cosmos and themselves. We have deliberately initially produced an electronic book because we knew that based on the feedback we would receive, there would be further revisions leading to further editions. We also know that this book is particularly suited to reading on computers or electronic readers because searching is so much easier. However, once this EBook has been revised a few times, and there is a justified demand, we may produce a hard copy of the book: We realize it is that important. What about those who do not fit the description above? Have we catered for nonscientists and those who want some easier reading on this topic? Weve been surprised at the General Reader comments weve listed. Some are indeed mastering this book, even as it stands! However, within the next year, its our hope to produce a (hard copy) book written for the layperson in the sciction style 14 initiated by Dr. Neppe 2; 15. This way we hope to fascinate and educate and use dialog (conversagraphs) communicated at the layperson level16. This will allow much broader readership of what to us are fundamental ideas. Vernon M Neppe and Edward R Close.
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PERSPECTIVE TO THE SECOND EDITION This second edition of Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works (RBC 2Ed) was fully anticipated. We realized we would have significant feedback from readers and also from colleagues such that we had predicted three editions to this book during the first year. With a 2012 publishing date, the 1st Edition became available in November 2011. By late December 2011, we had made relatively small but profound additions based on feedback and decided on a 2nd Edition. The initial motivation for RBC 2nd Ed was our need to particularly clarify two terms: 1. We realized that scientists do not have a consistent understanding of the term, Theory of Everything (TOE). We recognized the ambiguity and far prefer the terms paradigm and metaparadigm. We have allocated a section in Chapter 1, Paradigms, Metaparadigms and Theories of Everything and TDVP. This way we ensure that our use of the TOE term is understood not as an all-embracing knowledgenot requiring omniscience, but instead reflecting a comprehensive process to understand reality principles that can be applied to currently soluble and insoluble problems.
2. We discovered that even though Dr Close developed the term extropy, and used it in two of his previous books8; 17, it appears to have been used differently by others. Consequently, we introduced the term Ordropy to avoid ambiguity. Therefore, extropy of the first edition is ordropy in the second.

However, like a never-ending exploration, this book remains a work in progress. With these changes have come numerous very important and stimulating revisions. These have continued through to March 2012. Importantly, the metaparadigm on which the book is based has been unaffected, and the 1st edition text is largely unchanged though certain concepts are clarified and amplified. Most pertinently, we clarified the different levels of the unit that is broader consciousness into its components parts: Neurological Consciousness (N-C) in the brain. Psychological Consciousness (or Ego-consciousness). Transfinite consciousness (T-C) in the finite and transfinite domains. Metaconsciousness (M-C) in the boundless infinite domains. Quantal Consciousness (Q-C). We also amplified slightly certain specific areas that we regarded as incomplete: We differentiated the different levels of essence. We demonstrated the consistency of the different dimensions of actualization, transfinite, the infinite, and the highest infinity of infinities. We then made some highly relevant additions to RBC 2Ed. We clarified two new terms Metalife and Metaorder in the Infinite. We introduced two brief but exciting new metaphors, namely, the concepts of Life Track in the Infinite, and of land-masses in a boundless infinite ocean. The concept of Life Track is particularly exciting as it allows understanding of how we interface with others and have a broader freedom of choice.
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We added in Chapter 45, a brief but critically important section on testing the hypotheses pertinent to the TDVP model. TDVP is a model in evolution: We do not have answers for everything. Were not even close. There are key elements that may not be soluble at any point in the future. The vast limitations of proof in biology and psychological sciences will not change. They are based on inductive reason an order of magnitude less certain than the physical sciences, which already are embedded in controversy. Much more needs to be done, and even then we can never approach omniscience. The biological sciences and even more the psychological databases are simply too tenuous to draw many conclusions, even in areas that have been studied for decades. Inductive empirical proofs are simply at a different level from the physical sciences, and even physics relies on inductive empiricism. We can never achieve complete proof by even proving falsifiable scientific data, because the inductive elements limit proof and we ultimately rely on less certainty than interpretations. Moreover, in TDVP, certain models are even more esoteric and less subject to proof: How do we show that life always exists, as opposed to times when there is no life /no existence? We can make conceptual jumps and posit new secondary ideas such as infinity and this leads to tertiary hypotheses such as infinite life. And even despite enormous progress in applying TDVP to the mathematicological models, we have not yet, and likely will never prove each and every secondary and tertiary component of TDVP. We ensured that other pertinent comparisons with TDVP, including scoring, were made. The recent Amit Goswami model, has become well known; and A detailed special section on David Bohms Implicate and Explicate Order. We also amplified, clarified, compared with TDVP and re-scored (as necessary): The My Big TOE model of Tom Campbell. Bernard Carrs Transcendental Field Theory and other Field Theories. Consequently, we updated the scoring of the Table (Table 5) comparing the 24 different TOEs (and this now includes the current physicalistic paradigm). We, also, minimally clarified Tables 1 and 3 and added Table 2a. Weve continued to recognize the enormous challenge of this ground-breaking book. Related follow-up books, already planned, written or being rewritten, or in press are: Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad: This is our companion book. It includes the mathematics, logic and physics and stimulates further ideas. It clarifies many complex areas alluded to in Reality Begins with Consciousness. Because of the size of this second book, a third book Beyond Einstein is anticipated for 2013 or 2014.
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 Due to common requests, we are producing two Soft Cover Bound Versions of Reality Begins with Consciousness. The sheer volume requires two books and this is based on the Revised Second Edition. General Reader / Layperson books: Were writing several books to simplify these concepts. These are targeted specifically for the layperson. There are so many exciting aspects of our model that we wanted to ensure that the General Readers would be able to share our voyage. We hope to produce these General Reader books in the classical dialogic sciction style genre delineated and developed by one of the authors, Dr Vernon Neppe (originally in his book Cry the Beloved Mind: A Voyage of Hope2 and then in his play Quakes15). Sciction communication has proven useful applying the dialogic, conversational style to education through fascination. 14, 16 Sciction engages the reader throughout, allowing complex concepts to be applied using simple dialog, as if speaking to different individuals with varying knowledge levels. Sciction sometimes requires an unusual paragraphing style conversagraphs. 14, 16 Although in our current Reality Begins with Consciousness, sciction is not used, conversagraphs are applied, when convenient, to communicate information about areas that did not fully require new paragraphs, yet needed differentiation from the previous one. 16 Similarly, we have used different styles under certain circumstancesnew lines, spaces, indents and different levels of header (as well as taking page demands into account!)an example is this very paragraph (see how Although begins a new line). We reiterate some useful reading comments on approaching our book. If you want to study principles, first begin with Chapters 1 and 2. But do not expect explanations in these sections. Please treat these chapters simply as summaries so you can obtain a perspective of some complex topics. If you prefer the excitement of exploration, begin with Chapter 3 and use the first 2 Chapters as reference material. In both instances, please refer to the Glossary Key at the end of the appendix (p. lvi). Also the key glossary may facilitate what is necessarily a new or idiosyncratic language (page lvi-lviii). A special appeal to all readers: At this time, this E-book, has been funded by the authors. Please do not pirate issuesrecords of legitimate purchases exist. Instead, please encourage others to purchase, read and study, just as they would a College Study course this E-book, with respect, involves several university courses of study. To facilitate this, for a minor added cost, weve introduced an alternative Deluxe
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Second Edition of this E-book. This is open source so you can make sticky notes in the PDF amplifications or corrections (with suitable Operating Systems and software sorry, no guarantees can be made though). This Deluxe Version also still contains the original possibly unique, collectors autographed inscribed page (the Standard locked Second Edition does not.). If youre using purely the E-Pub version (as with your Kindle, Nook or IPad or other E-Reader) (and dont want the inscriptions) this may be unnecessary.q For those who are curious, after the Second Edition was published in March 2012, we made some minor revisions (Revised Second Edition)in September 2012. We minimally updated Tables 4 and 5, added slightly to the Philosophy Section, clarified our overview one line descriptions in Chapters 1, 2 and 46 and particularly amplified the key statements in Chapter 46, as well as remediating typographical errors and adding slightly to our bibliography plus updating the current scientific content. This version is now the downloadable version you will obtain on purchasing either the Deluxe or Standard Second Editions. Thank you for your attention and we hope you benefit from these updates. Please enjoy, learn, debate and contemplate! Vernon M Neppe and Edward R Close.

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3S-1t, 3S-3T, 3S-3T-NC, Actual, Affect, Aharonov, Altered states of consciousness, Anatomicophysiological, Anatomy, Anthropology, Appearance, Apprehension, Akashic field, Anthropic, ASC, Aspect, Astronomy, Astrophysical, Asymmetry, Atomic Vortex theory, Atoms, Awareness, Axiom, Axiom of existence, Axiom of life, Axiom of origin, Axiom of original tethering, Axiom of physical reduction valves, Axiom of physical life, Axiom of reality, Axioms, Bell, Bells theorem, Bem, Bending, Bidirectional, Big bang, Biology, Black hole, Bohm, Bohr, Bottom-up, Boundary, Brain dynamics, Bridge, Brown, C-substrate, Calculus, Calculus of distinctions, Campbell, Cantor, Carlson, Carr, Cartesian co-ordinate, Causality, Cause and effect, CAV, CEV, Chaos, Charge, Chemistry, Chronits, Close, calculus of distinctions, Closed, C-substrate, Cognition, Cognition-affectvolition, Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe, Collins, Common reality, Complex numbers, Common reality, Conceptual, Conceptual reality, Confounder, Consciousness, Conscit, Content, Continuous, Copenhagen Interpretation, Core questions, Corollary, Correlation, Cosmological, Countable, Creative, CST, CTMU, CTT unification, Dawkins, De La Sierra, Dj vu, Delayed choice experiments, Deniers, Dennett, Density, Dimension, Dimensional Extrapolation, Dimensional fabrics, Dimensional falsification impossibility, Dimensionometry, Discrete, Distinction, Distortion, Domain, Double-slit, Dualism, Dunne, Ego-boundaries, EHE, Einstein, Electrochemical, Electromagnetism, Electrons, Elementary, Elements, Emergent, Empirical, Energy, Enformy, Entanglement, Entropy, Epiphenomena, Epistemological, EPR, Essence, Ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural systems, Euclidean, Event-horizon, Evert, Evolution, Exceptional Human Experience, Existence, Expanding universe, Ethicospirituomysticobiopsychofamiliogroupsociocultural, Extent, Extradimensional extrapolation, Extropy, Falsifiability, Feasibility, Fermat, Fermats last theorem, Field, Filter, Finite, Finity, FLT, Fluctuating, Force, Formulae, Fractal, Fractal geometry, Fractional dimensions, Fractionated dimensions, Free-will, Fundamental, Fundamental constants, Fundamental forces, Fundamental ideas, Funnel, Future, Gauss, Ganzfeld. General Relativity, Genetics, Geneva, Gesher, Global consciousness project, GCP, GIFECSS, Gisin, God, Gdel, Goswami, Gould, Gravitation, Guided, Guiding, Guth, Hameroff, Hamilton, Hausdorf, Hawking, Heisenberg, Helices, Heuristic, Hierarchy of infinities, Hilbert, Hitbonnenut, Hoffman, Holistic, Hologram, Hyperspace, Imaginary numbers, Implicate, Incompleteness theorem, Indivension, Inequality, Individual-unit, Infinite, Influence, Information, Integrated, Intent, Interactions, Inverse square, Jigsaw, Kabbalic, Kinetrons, Klein, Langan, Lanza, Laszlo, Laws of nature, Leibniz, Lemma, Leptons, LFAF, Life, Life sciences, Limitations, Logic, Lower dimensional discontinuity, Macrophysical, Magisteria, Mandelbrot, Manifold, Mass-energy, Materialist, Mathematical models, Mathematics, Mathematicologic, Meaning, Meaningful information, Meaningful influence, Meaningful knowledge, Meaningful perturbation, Meaningful reality, Median column geometry, Medicine, Meta-analyses, Metacist, Metaconsciousness, Metadimensional, Metadimensional reality, Meta-information, Metalife, Metaorder (Meta-order), Metaparadigm, Metareality, Metaspace, Metatime, Meteorology, Metric, Minkowski, Minkowski space, Model, Monism, Monistic, Morphogenetic fields, Movement, Multidimensional, Multidimensional scaling, Multidimensional time-space, Muons, Mystical, Mysticism, Mysticospirituotheological, Natural law, Nature, Nature of reality, N-Dimensional manifolds, N-1 dimensions, N-distinctions, Negative entropy, Neppe, Neppes Vortex N-Dimensional paradigm, Neurological consciousness, Neurophilosophy of consciousness, Neuroscience, Non-Euclidean, Nonlocality, NOMA, Nucleons, Nucleus, Numinosity, Object, Objective, Ockham, Ontological, Open, Ordinal, Ordropic reality, Ordropy, Origin Event, Ovoid, Packets, Panexperientialism, Panprotoexperientialism, Panpsychism, Paradigm, Paradigm shift, Paradoxes, Parallel, Parangular, Parapsychology, Particle, Past, Penrose, Perceptual, Perceptual reality, Pharmacology, Phenomenal consciousness, Philosophy, Physical life, Physicalist, Physics, Physiology, Physiobiopsychological,
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Pico, Planck, Polife, Popper, Postulate, Precognition, Present, Pribram, Primary consciousness, Primary receptor, Prime essence, Prime radiation, Principle, Protons, Provable, Pseudoskeptics, Psi, Psitron, Psychology, Psychoneurological, Pythagoras, Pythagorean theorem, Qualit, Quantum consciousness Quanta, Quantum field theory, Quantum Hall effect, Quantum mechanics, Quantomacroastronomophysicochemicalethicospirituobiphysiopsychofamiliosociocultural, Quantum physics, Quantum reality, Quaternion, Qubit, Radian, Radical, Radin, Random Event Generators, Random number generator, RNG, Rare event, Real numbers, Reality, REG, Relative, Relative actualization, Relative dimensionality, Relative tethering, Relativity, Relative Non-Euclidean, Relative non-locality, Relative infinity, Relative zero, Riemann, RNG, Roth, Russel, Russell, Ssubstrate, Samadhi, Scalar, Schrdinger, Schroeder, Science, Scientific model, Self, Set theory, Sheepgoat, Shefa, Shefam, Sheldrake, Sieve, Sigma, Sirag, Smythies, Social sciences, Space, Space-time, Speculative critical, Special Relativity, Spinors, Standard paradigm, Staring, State, State specific, Statistical, String theory, Strong forces, Strong anthropic, Subatomic, Substrate, Subquantum, Subjective, Subject, Subreality, Substrate, Subtypes, Systems Theory, T-substrate, Survival, Tegmark, Teleological interpretation, TDVP. Tensor, TES, Tethering, Tethered Origin, TOE, Theorem, Theorem of dimensionometry, Theorem of extra-dimensional extrapolation, Theorem of lower dimensional incompleteness (discontinuity), Theorem of lower dimensional indeterminate feasibility, Theorem of parallel N-1 dimensions, Theorem of tridimensional distinctions, Theorem of tridimensional warping of reality axiom, Theorem of vortices, Theoretical strengths, Theory, Theory of Everything, Theory of relativity, Thought, Time, Top-down, Topology, Trait, Transcendental physics, Transdimensional vortices, Triad, Triadic, Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm, Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity, Trimath, Tridimensional warping, TTOOURS, Twistors, Tzimzum, Ubiquitous, Ubiquity, Ultimate, Understanding, Unification, Unified Monism, Variables, Vector, Vedic, Volition, Volition. Life, Vedic, Vortex, Vortex N-dimesnionalism, Vortical, Vortices, Warping, Watson, Wave, Weak anthropic, Weak forces, Wheeler, Whiteman, Wilbur, Wisdom.

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BRIEF GLOSSARY OF KEY TERMS.

The following terms are used in special ways in our model, and defined briefly at this point to assist our readers. These terms are discussed in more detail through this book. 3S-1t: Our conventional scientific reality3 dimensions of space and 1 moment in time. Conceptual: The never complete interpretation of the perceptual combined with the logic inductive and deductive reasoning processes. Consciousness: A broad, general term describing both infinite conscious meaningful information and finite awareness and responsiveness ranging from the discrete finite physical meaning at inanimate levels and extending to transfinite continuous interactions, and modulated in sentient beings in the brain. Continuous: Spatial, temporal or conscious extension, infinitely divisible, non-discrete, without breaks or gaps. C-substrate: Combined total consciousness, linking the finite and transfinite with infinite. Dimension: A continuous distinction that can be measured in units of extent. These interact together forming different domains with specific properties. Euclidean dimensions can be characterized in degrees of freedom. Distinction: Any finite object, event, image or thought distinguishable from its surrounds. Discrete: Finite, discontinuous, countable set of values; not continuous. Essence: Fundamental infinite nature including infinite space, time, consciousness, information, order and life. Qualities of the infinite incorporate metaspace, metatime, and metaconsciousness, plus ordropy and potential life. Extrapolation: A mathematical term for the logical extension of a known parameter or parameters facilitating the process of moving to higher dimensions. Extropy: Our previously used term replaced by ordropy (order opposing entropy). Finite: Limited extent in space, time or consciousness: discrete, discontinuous subreality. Fluctuating dimensions: Relative dynamic changes in dimensional perspective including rate or magnitude of change. These are within, across and between dimensions, and may be state related (at that moment in time) or trait related (more consistent over time). Indivension: The process involving fluctuating STCmainly C-substrate domains of zillions (Nn) of individual-units. These portray unique or common transdimensional (often transfinite) relative experiential realities. Indivension occurs through the interaction of vortical distinctions (New term derivation: Individual-units; dimensions). Individual-unit: Distinct conscious biological unit or group including individual, family, social, cultural and ethnic units. Infinite: Limitless, unbounded, continuous, without end subreality; interfaces with finite. LFAF: Lower-Dimensional Feasibility, Absent Falsification; the basis for including logically feasible concepts in hypotheses that may not be falsifiable in 3S-1t. This is closely related to feasibility and is applicable at all dimensional levels. Metaparadigm: Broadest paradigm impacting all sciences, mathematics and philosophy. Origin Event: The initial origin in finite reality of events at the beginning, corresponding with the origins of space, time and consciousness, and possibly mass and energy. (Some use terms, like Event Horizon. These may be linked with singularity and expanding universe or the Big Bang, but these are controversial concepts, and we are using the term Origin Event nonprejudicially here.10) Ordropy: The existence of spatial, temporal or other meaningful multidimensional order and patterns, in finite and infinite subrealities, including, but not limited to, negative entropy: Negative entropy is only one component. (A new term: previously extropy). Paradigm: A model of reality constituting a specific worldview underlying the theories and
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methodology of a particular scientific subject. Paradigm Shift: A paradigm that transforms thinking in a discipline. Perceptual: In physics, it is what we obtain from the senses and instruments extending the senses. It is considered as empirical evidence though in reality it is affected by the observer state and their relationship to the whole substrate. It is thought of as objective physical reality with measurable data and interpreted as reality but limited by the axiom of physical limitations. This is easily misunderstood, partial and incomplete element because of its necessary limitations of the senses and instruments measuring it. Psi: extrasensory perception (ESP) + psychokinesis (PK); psychic /paranormal/anomalous. Reality: The infinite and finite subrealities making an indivisible holistic unit. In sentient beings, that which is subjective, perceived or experienced; common reality may be verified independently by a majority of conscious observers. Six sigma data: Statistically, six or more standard deviations beyond the mean (1 in >109) STC: Space, time and consciousness; specifically, S, T and C-substrates (S,T and C). Space: Volumetric extent including the dimensions of height, depth, and width (reflecting three variables of extent with an interval metric) within which physical reality manifests. Substrate: The source of all distinctions of extent and content: There is a space substrate, a time substrate and a special kind of substrate of consciousness (C-substrate). Tethering: In TDVP, all of STC are fundamentally inseparably linked together at one or more sources. S, T or C may also be separate, but remain linked, like a balloon on a string, by being tethered to that source origin. Tethering is also a generic combination term for these two components: a fundamental inseparable existence of the STC parts at the origin, and the separation with profound linkage of any tethered aspect of the STC components. Time: Duration of finite moments perceived together as past, present and future and an infinitely continuous substrate. In finite reality, this encompasses proposed 4th, 5th and 6th dimensions of extent encompassing all lower-dimensional realities and events and necessarily moving through space and consciousness. TDVP: Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (model of the metaparadigm). TTOOURS: Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity (description of the metaparadigm). Triad: An inseparable trio such as space, time and consciousness (STC) (adjective: triadic). Vortex: A dynamic moving curvilinear manifold multi-dimensional distinction of any open or closed form, including spherical, ovoid, helical or spiral forms (adjective: vortical). Warping: The distortion of Euclidean dimensional realities by opposing forces.

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We appreciate our readers. We offer you a choice. There are three ways to read this book: To read the summary of the broader theories and then begin; or to go full throttle into reading it directly and then there are those who want to jump into certain chapters of significant interest to them. All these methods have their proponents. And in every instance, this book can be regarded as an interactive learning experience. We keep revising it a great advantage of an electronic book! Please choose how you will most benefit from reading this book: Chapters 1 and 2 summarize and create a perspective listing the key features. Many of you may prefer to begin at Chapter 3 and experience the excitement of this book, using Chapters 1 and 2, and also the Key Glossary and Keywords above, as a reference system. And some of you may want to approach this book by going to specific chapters depending on your interests. Whichever way you choose, we hope you not only enjoy this book but are inspired to study more and interchange in this difficult and controversial area.

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SECTION A: THE FUNDAMENTAL PERSPECTIVE

CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW PERSPECTIVE 18, r Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. Albert Einstein Priorities Reality Begins with Consciousness presents a sweeping new paradigm shift that we know will be greeted by a wide range of reactions. A few will embrace it, many will be stunned by it, and those with vested interest in a materialistic worldview will react with hostility. A new theory incorporating elements that lie outside the scope of the existing scientific paradigm will always meet with resistance: And this is as it should be. All of the major advancements, which Thomas Kuhn19 called scientific revolutions or paradigm shifts, like those brought about by Copernicus and Kepler, Newton and Leibniz, Einstein and Bohr, challenged long-held assumptions and were met with great resistance. But a new theory should never be rejected out of dogged adherence to belief in pre-existing fixed assumptions. If the new assumptions are correct, or even just more correct than the old, they will eventually win over open-minded scientists and thinkers. Every scientific theory is based on a priori assumptions, and since they are a priori, by definition, no matter how correct they appear to be, there is always the chance that they may be wrong. This certainly applies to the tacit assumption of modern science that everything can be explained in terms of matter and energy interacting in time and space as we now understand them, and that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of material complexity. This new paradigm challenges this belief. But we are not just replacing one belief system with another, we present cogent arguments based on empirical evidence from relativity and quantum mechanics, and we provide new mathematical and logical frameworks to support the new paradigm.

In every chapter, we cite a reference on which it is based. This is derived from a series of peer-reviewed articles over the year published / in press in the DIJECA (Dynamic International Journal of Exceptional Creative Achievement) in 2012. The articles in both books, Reality Begins with Consciousness and Space, Time and Consciousness are featured in this special series of 12 journals for 2012. DIJECA is the first dynamic journal, which archives previous versions, but allows upgrades of specific articles to ensure they are current. Each article contains an abstract, too.

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What we are asking you to do, dear reader, is keep an open mind until you have seen the whole picture. It will involve learning a number of new concepts and new terminology. If you will do this, we believe you will see the unfolding of a comprehensive new paradigm that will expand science to encompass aspects of reality heretofore excluded from the scientific search for truth. In this book, Reality Begins with Consciousness, we present to you some remarkable ideas supported scientifically and mathematically. We realize it may be valuable for the reader to, at least, encounter our major points of emphasis now, then to read our overall paradigmatic statement, and then to devour a broader one hundred points about our model and then begin. We only then develop our detailed theme. We believe this will assist more in comprehending our ideas than disclosing these summaries only many chapters later, because at any point you can return to these summaries. These initial statements in Chapters 1 and 2, at this point can be perceived as equivalent to abstracts that are non-referenced. But we have endeavored to support every component of this model with appropriate sources spread through the body of this book. Please refer to the glossary above for terms that you may not recognize. The Ten Point Brief Summary of TDVP a. In this book, Reality Begins with Consciousness, we propose a model that appears to be the first comprehensive paradigm that can be explained consistently in science, mathematics and philosophy. b. The proposed model in this book is called the Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm model (TDVP). In its full descriptive name, it is called The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) The NDimensionometric, CST Substrate, Entropic-ordropic, Infinite-finite Mathematicologic, LFAF Model: An integrated space, time and consciousness substrate reflecting origin event, warping-N-Dimensional extrapolation, extentcontent-intent distinctional-C-substrate indivension, open-closed, holisticunified, biopsychophysical reality. c. TDVP is based on a single metaparadigm: For clarity, we divide this metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity (abbreviated TTOOURS) into four statements: i. Finite and infinite: Reality involves a unified wholeness of the continuous infinite with the infinite pervading the discrete finite experience at every dimensional level. ii. Living and essence elements: The continuous, infinite reality reflects all of time and space in totality simultaneously (and therefore, on a finite level appears
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nonlocal) and exists as a reality essence (a metareality) involving a pervasive consciousness (information expressed through meaning as metaconsciousness) and order (ordropy) with metalife (all encompassing life in the infinite: potential physical life polifewhich then manifests as physical life in the finite when linked with the correct current physiology). iii. Tethering and individual-units: The discrete, finite, natural law based cosmic reality component is fundamentally inseparably tethered from its origin as a triad of spacetimebroader consciousness (S, T and C-substratesSTC). The tighter triadic STC tethering may become more loosely separated and manifest across, between and within multiple fluctuating dimensions and appear only slightly linked together depending on ones relative position. This tethering allows a merging of individual-unit realities and yet retains a profound potential communication with all the tethered STC components. Individual-units may reflect individual humans or any other individual sentient beings. Importantly, individual units can also reflect groups, or families, or societies or cultures or ethnic groups or any other living population. They may also reflect any inanimate (not living) components of the finite S, T or C substrates. iv. 3S-1t limitations: Our experience of the commonly interpreted physical reality (3S1t) is profoundly limited by subjective perception, conception and common experiential reality. In humans, the endpoint expression of such a finite-infinite interface is the brain, and the brain can filter, integrate or manifest meaning through neurological consciousness (N-consciousness). N-consciousness (N-C) can be clear, or in various states of altered or impaired consciousness. There is a technicality here, implying that because of the consciousness element, at minimum, any sentient being is dealing with 3S-1t-1C because there is a dimension of conscious meaning that is fundamentally linked with S and T. And if we describe 1C, then it is technically more consistent to describe N-C as there is no restriction in our experience to 1 dimension of consciousness and therefore, it is 3S-1t-NC even in our regular human experience. This neurological consciousness through the brain becomes the final common pathway for Ego Consciousness as well as the broader Transfinite Consciousness, which may include qualities like love, honor, courage or even negatives such as hatred). v. Relative, top-down, bottoms-up: The finite-infinite reality is always relative. It is relative to any subjective realities experienced by any level of individual-units. And at the broadest level, it can be conceptualized from the top-down, in terms of transfinite higher dimensions influencing dimensions below. Alternatively, it can be also be experienced bottom-up beginning at the information and meaning we have in the few pieces of our 3S-1t jigsaw puzzle, and trying to conceptualize or distinguish dimensions of time and consciousness
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that are difficult to perceive or conceptualize. The bottoms-up approach is much more limiting and difficult to think out of the box than the top-down approach, which also pervades the infinite subreality. 4. TDVP applies ten interwoven fundamental components to a proposed overriding metaparadigm that facilitate explanations of many of the mysteries of our reality: C-substrate (as an infinite metaconsciousness from metainformation possibly linked with finite quantal conscits with meaning translated into reality by neurological consciousness (N-C) in 3S-1t. metadimensionality (including space and time, extended dimensions beyond our conventionally perceived 3S-1t, plus interactions with the infinite). infinity (with its mathematical, logical and philosophical implications. The infinite subreality bridges the finite subreality to produce the reality of the laws of nature. infinite potential for life: This manifests in the finite subreality as physical life provided adequate biology could support that physical life. When that physiological support is no longer possible, physical life terminates as physical death, but that infinite potential life still exists. Life has related implications for ordropy (order across many dimensions and going beyond negative entropy) (ord for order, and the d for dimensions). Inseparable finite tethering of space-time and C-substrate (STC) is a core idea in the TDVP model: The tight inseparable STC base or source separates, like a metaphorical balloon tied by a string to a pole, into tethered S, T and C components but still remains linked with its original base or bases. This allows communications with the STC via the tethering. The tethered elements involve a communication process across, between and within dimensions, called indivension (individual units interacting with dimensions). Indivension reflects the process by which a fundamental level content namely, vortices can produce sources of information, time or space. These manifest at interfaces to allow meaningful information (specific metaconsciousness) in 3S-1t. Vortices reflect any 3 dimensional moving, fluctuating, curved or rotational content within, across and between dimensions: They are ubiquitous in our 3S-1t domain. The interfaces across vortices can be facilitated by vector, scalar or tensor elements. Each individual-unit interfaces with zillionssof other vortical individual-units producing a complex web, and a finite origin of all information. The beginning in finite subreality is the Origin Event (the beginning of existence, e.g., around the big bang or other event), and tethering occurs from there. In the infinite subreality, there is no beginning or end.
The term zillions is used here to communicate an extraordinarily large quantity. It is of the same order of magnitude as another term, now well known for a different reason, namely googol. A googol is technically 10100. An even larger term is when googol becomes exponential, namely googolplex which is 10googol ! 4
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Based on this model not being contradicted, these features appear necessary. No other TOE apparently applies even more than three of these principles as necessary building blocks. TDVP extends these components to develop an extended explanatory model for all the sciences (physical, life, consciousness and social) from the finite subatomic to the conventional macroreality to the astronomic realities applying quanta, or (more correctly) qualits (which include consciousness elements even in the inanimate, plus all the subatomic elements in quantum physics and may be subquantal), as basic finite discrete reality units with the interlinking continuum of the infinite. 2. We apply a new philosophy of science model for evaluating science, in addition to Popperian falsifiability, which is very useful in many 3S-1t macroreality physical events, we utilize the idea of feasibility. Reality in 3S-1t is sometimes expressed scientifically as empirical pieces of a complex jigsaw puzzle in our common physical reality experience of three spatial dimensions at one point of time (3S-1t or technically, 3S-1t-NC). This means we dont have the full metadimensional (higher dimensional) picture and we must assess what is feasible, yet has not been falisified. This model is called Lower Dimensional Feasibility, Absent Falsification (LFAF). The TDVP model logically allows for feasible applications in all the sciences and non-contradiction in mathematicologic evaluations. This LFAF technique is combined with the recognized scientific analyses of falsifiability as part of the methodology of literature review, hypotheses, methods, results, analysis, discussions, provisional conclusions (including statistical, clinical significance and observational non-statistically needed analyses) and then amplifying by modifying the hypotheses until a paradigm and ultimately a metaparadigm is developed. Mathematics and logic are applied to these fundamental principles to further validate the empirical findings and hypotheses. a. The TDVP model generates over 600 new ideas, some speculative, that logically follow from its fundamental axiom. These are covered in our book, Reality Begins with Consciousness: A Paradigm Shift that Works, 9 and particularly so in the (to be published) associated companion book involving more speculations and models, Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad. 10 b. Amongst these ideas, the TDVP model provides for rare communications across a fluctuating number of dimensions. However, potential information, knowledge and meaning may exist without expression, just as we have available more than we see, hear, taste or smell at any moment, and only a tiny spectrum of these abilities are available for humans. This differentiates what is potentially available from what is used at any point. c. The implications of TDVP lead to unified monism, a new philosophical model.
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These fundamental axioms constitute the TDVP metaparadigm of the finite, the infinite and the relation between the two. This TDVP metaparadigm is conceptually a unit that may be more easily comprehensible only after appreciating the specifically defined terminology, such as metaparadigm, metareality, consciousness, potential, tethering, triad, Origin Event, separate, fluctuating, vortices, subjective, relative, individual-units, ordropy, 3S-1t, experiential, and subreality. Again, please refer to the brief glossary in the front initial appendix: Later on these areas are explained in greater detail and we suggest this metaparadigm be revisited throughout the exploration of this book. The concepts here are complex, but the object here is to obtain an overview. Do not be concerned if this is not easily comprehensible to you. The concepts will be explained gradually: This is why the book does not end here! Nevertheless, we provide the metaparadigm now because it will allow the reader to conceptualize more the directions and approaches we are going to use. You should, at minimum, appreciate at this point that: We are dealing with space, time and consciousness as a single entity (tethered together: The tethered triad of STC. This single component of tethering like a balloon on a string then branches out and moves across, within and between dimensions. These tethered elements still have a profound link because of the source STC components. (This introduces the idea of interactions across multiple dimensions). This allows communications of information and consciousness between individuals, groups, societies, ethnicities and culture. (This means we need a way to communicatewe call this process indivension relating to how individual-units individuals or units like society move across dimensions). There are different levels of development and this can fluctuate even in individuals or individual-units. (These fluctuations occur within a context three-dimensional moving rounded shapes called vortices. The indivension is the mechanism). In addition to this finite reality, we are dealing with an infinity that interfaces with the finite. (The infinite and the finite subrealities of reality impact upon each other.) Infinity reflects continuous and unending (open) subreality. The finite involves the discrete, closed subreality that we experience on a day-to-day basis. In the finite reality, everything exists from the beginning even the potential towards life. (This refers to an Origin Event) Life reflects significant order at many levels (ordropy) and has infinite origins. With this ordered reality is intermixed disorder (entropy) at the physical finite level.
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 The TDVP model can be applied to all the sciences, from the smallest to the largest, and from the physical to the biological to the psychological to the consciousness sciences. (It has an application across all the sciences hence it is a metaparadigm). Furthermore, our model has mathematical justifications with axioms, theorems and proofs. (Distinctions are one kind of mathematics particularly important in consciousness theory as is the justification for the infinite). The TDVP model can be applied both as a broader workable new paradigm, plus as a philosophical model. Paradigms, Metaparadigms and Theories of Everything in TDVP. As it can be applied to all the major areas of scientific endeavor, we describe TDVP as a metaparadigm because of its overriding higher-level basis. This paradigmatic model is not intended to solve all current unexplained mysteries in physics or any other endeavor relating to content. But, we have yet to find an area of principles of reality that cannot be expressed within this global paradigmatic shift. There are, of course, millions of, thus far, insoluble questions and unknowns in the world, but were attempting broad models that are not being refuted, not to provide omniscience! TDVP is a practical, so-called Theory of Everything (TOE): We intently dislike the term TOE, but because its been commonly and persistently used, we need to apply it, at times, to compare TDVP with other proposed TOE models. TOE is an unfortunate term because it may be interpreted ambiguously. In its most appropriate sense, TOE implies a universal feasibility model applicable at every level of endeavor. But in its misinterpreted, inappropriate meaning, TOE is mistakenly regarded as representing theories of all-embracing knowledge. No model, except a proposed Divinity, is all-embracing in answering everything. We use the terms TOE and paradigm not to explain bizarre neutrino behaviors, mixing angles amongst quarks, every detailed change in evolution, the exact DNA sequence, or specific chemistry: Whereas these are all legitimate areas to clarify, they reflect content questions, not paradigms. Paradigms are not just theoretical, they are practical but predominantly examine process not content, broader pictures and principles, not specifics. But by virtue of the process, they could assist with appreciation of the content and the specificsthat would be the secondary application. Ironically, in TDVP, we initiate a very broad scientifically empirical, inferential model based on specific testable or hypothetical content data, but that is directed towards the process of testing the model. The process reflects the procedure for evaluating data. As an example, we may be able to understand the process that in an asymmetric multidimensional, moving, curved (vortical) reality spin occurs. So we can from that understand that quarks may have a specific mixing spin structure, but we may not be able to predict the exact Cabibbo angle (content) though postulating that
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there should be an angle. Additionally, if possible, deductive mathematics and logic provide demonstrable support. Moreover, existing current solid empirical data can frequently be incorporated into the model by applying the principles of the "philosophy of science"; and even esoteric abstractions of process still have content applications. To give a perspective of our TDVP model, we list three descriptions: The first, the four point model, gives a good though complex perspective of what the paradigm reflects. The second is a for fun very complex single sentence that contains all the key features of TDVP. But even with its limited comprehensibility, it is still meant to portray how all the very interwoven parts can be put through as a whole. The third is literally one short sentence and is a good one line summary. (Though even there the historical footnote on Minkowski gives a perspective on the extreme relevance for today of that one liner!). And now the 4-point TDVP axiomatic summary of this TTOOURS metaparadigm. In chapter 16, we discuss the 22 key axioms and then summarize it with 4 statements. These four statements are listed here to give an added perspective to this metaparadigm. The Four Sentence Axiomatic Metaparadigm Summary 1. Reality involves a unified wholeness of the infinite and finite with the infinite pervading the finite experience of content and extent, ordropy and entropy, in the Space Time and Consciousness Substrates. 2. The essence infinite reality component is without extent because it exists or potentially exists in all space, time and consciousness, and information content. Infinity involves the potential towards order (ordropy). Discrete elements of the infinite are manifested in the finite. Consequently, in finite terms, infinity is conceptualized as nonlocal (beyond space and time) but in infinite terms it involves a metareality of all existing metatime and metaspace, existing as a pervasive metaconsciousness and potential living, ordered subreality. Metacist is an acronym for metaconsciousness, meta-information, metaspace and metatime. 3. The Finite reality component is fundamentally inseparably tethered from its origin as a triad of spacetime broader descriptive consciousness (S, T and Csubstrates), which manifests across, between and within multiple fluctuating dimensions. 4. This finite-infinite reality is relative to all dimensional-distinction factors, and experienced subjectively (by individual-units). The One Point (Heavy) Summary of the TDVP Model And now the heavy description of TDVP. This is presented simply for its unification, not for its limited comprehensibility. It certainly is a deliberately contrived, single statement summary of TDVP. But it is listed here to show how TDVP involves several closely related concepts linked into one complex metaparadigmatic
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statement, in turn based on the twenty-two underlying and interwoven component axioms though there is also a primary axiom. We express this in the next chapter as our summary statement under #100. By that stage it should make only a little more sense. We then later express each individually, yet we link them here because of the essential unity of the metaparadigmthe overarching statement reflects a major shift in conventional thinking about our usual physical reality, and describes not just a shift in thinking in one scientific endeavor, but in many disciplines. So though the one sentence portrays the models unity it does not portray how comprehensible it will become. Please dont be discouraged if this sounds a little like gibberishit should at this point! Later in the book, it should make more sense when each component is analyzed and synthesized. So this one sentence paragraph is read to reflect the unit, not for comprehensibility. Reality can be expressed within the laws of nature of the physical, psychological, biological and consciousness sciences with mathematical elaborations, and involves a unified holistic reality with interweaving infinite and finite subrealities: the infinite is a continuous essence metareality (i.e., an all encompassing consciousness/information, space and time, with potential order and potential physical life); the infinite pervades a discrete finite, cosmic subreality manifesting as a fundamental triad (originating from the Origin Event) of S, T and C-substrates (space, time and broader descriptive consciousness) which is inseparably tethered togethertightly, loosely or slightly, and which separates into multiple interwoven, fluctuating 3-dimensional vortices within, between and across dimensions, but only perceived to a limited degree, via our restrictive and responsive 3S-1t experiential, entropic physical subreality interpreted by our living physiological ordropy and conceptualized subjectively (relatively by individual-units). We have called this The metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity (TTOOURS) and it is based on our model of the Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). And the easy one sentence axiom We now follow this with the single primary axiom we referred to, and include the historic Minkowski linked footer. All of space-time-"consciousness" have always been inseparably tethered together tightly, loosely or slightly.t

At one point time, time was regarded as separate from space, but Hermann Minkowski argued in 1908 that they were not: space-time could not be separated. Just as time is not a subset of space but a separate and different kind of dimension though inextricably linked, we argue that Space and Time are not subsets of Consciousness, nor vice versa; yet they are not (dualistically)separated. All three exist in extent, necessarily together as a unit: There are likely multiple dimensions of consciousness, definitely at least 3 of space, and likely 3 of timeand all need careful definition.
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CHAPTER 2: THE HUNDRED POINT PERSPECTIVE OF TDVP20; 21 A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck The order of the 100 points below are logical. Weve emboldened 30 ideas to allow further perspectives for first time readers. This way effectively there is another section: 30 key ideas followed by the other 70. But the 30 are more appropriately ordered by scattering through the 100 total. The Limitations of our Current Paradigm for Reality 1. A paradigm refers to a specific worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject. 2. Our standard paradigm for reality involves our usual current day-to-day world experience with the physical conventional reality domain of three dimensions of space and one point of time3S-1t. The standard paradigm has applications for almost all our everyday earthly human realities, and works in almost every instance. But a new model is needed other than our standard paradigm because there are rare areas in which the standard paradigm is incomplete and, indeed, falsified, for example: a. contrary quantum experimental evidence (the double-slit and delayed choice experiments); b. the contradictions of the standard model of subatomic physics particularly in the context of relativity and data that varies greatly from predictions; c. the nine different six sigma meta-analyses in consciousness research. d. the internal inconsistency in physics across quantal, macro- and astronomical levels; e. the applications of special and general relativity theory have facilitated new approaches to the previous Newtonian physical understanding of
We propose that all threeSpace Time and "Consciousness" (STC) necessarily form a triad in everything, from the tiniest subatomic components to the astrophysical, from the inanimate to the sentient, from the finite to the infinite. It starts at the finite origin of events and possibly an existing infinite where origin may be a contradiction. And, even going beyond Minkowskis powerful empirical approach in physics, our model cogently evidentially argues data across the sciences, and mathematically demonstrates why this STC triad works and is better than any other model previously proposed. We may be wrong, but, we argue that it is more soundly motivated than any other because it fits all disciplines of science, is supported mathematically, and has a philosophical (and, it turns out, even an ancient mystical) basis.

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the world but reduced new challenges. f. Whether evolution can be applied to the standard paradigm cannot be demonstrated because it is not falsifiable, yet there is debate as to its feasibility: it is unanswered; g. The unanswered question of how life comes about. 3. We argue that this standard paradigm cannot explain why there is complex structure and complex conscious organisms in the universe or a universe at all. This physicalist, materialist paradigm fails. In it, consciousness is nothing more than an emergent feature or epiphenomenal expression of the physical world, and disputably neuroscience itself cannot adequately explain consciousness in terms of the physical brain alone. 4. Because of these failures, there is a need for a radical new paradigm of reality which will address the complex controversies that are not explained using our standard model. 5. A paradigm shift refers to a fundamental change in approach or modification of our current underlying assumptions. 6. This book describes the authors motivated Theory of Everything (TOE) and their recognition of a global paradigm shift that includes consciousness and interfaces every known area of scientific endeavor. 7. Because there are areas with evidence and even proof in science that cannot be replicated, we need to consider adding to this approach in special circumstances. 8. The special circumstances in which the classical approach of Karl Popper in the Philosophy of Science 22 requiring falsifiability cannot be applied include evolution, cosmology, new models (for example, Einsteinian General Relativity took some years), dimensions beyond 3S-1t, models of indeterminacy, psi, entanglement and alleged survival after bodily death. 9. Because falsifiability is usually limited to only 3S-1t, we propose a new model approach to the philosophy of science. This recognizes that some elements cannot be falsified at this time in 3S-1t., yet there may be ample feasibility evidence in 3S-1t. 10. We propose the model of LFAF: Lower dimensional feasibility (usually 3S-1t), absent falsification. This is equivalent to using a jigsaw puzzle in 3S-1t and filling in the pieces that fit, but not allowing any contradiction where a piece of that jigsaw does not fit, implying it is falsified or misinformation or contradicted by empirical evidence. 11. By demonstrating the limitations of Popperian demands for the falsifiability of science in metadimensional realities (i.e., beyond 3S-1t), we apply this LFAF (lower dimensional feasibilityabsent falsification /falsified) approach where logically indicated.
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12. Because data at the higher dimensional levels cannot be completely represented in 3S-1t, they present like single puzzle pieces in a whole, multidimensional (i.e., >3S-1t) puzzle. They are only there in part and conclusions may be feasible yet not falsifiable or falsified in the traditional sense as they cannot be directly or completed represented in 3S-1t. Requirements of a TOE AND Paradigm Shift 13. To be true, the key components of any TOE must allow feasible modifications from the current conceptual, mathematical and scientific models without contradicting fundamental knowledge (other than materialist reductionism). They must be feasible fitting pieces of the 3S-1t jigsaw puzzle without being falsified. 14. Any all-encompassing TOE must conform to all known laws of nature. Such a TOE must also seamlessly reconcile with the major theoretical models and authoritative sources of all the natural sciences. 15. Scientific areas that must be actively evaluated include not only the physical sciences including physics, chemistry, meteorology, and astronomy; the biological sciences including anatomy, biology, genetics, physiology, pharmacology, the life sciences and medicine; the social sciences, including anthropology, psychology and sociology; and the consciousness sciences including dimensional biopsychophysics, phenomenology, parapsychology and quantum consciousness. 16. A complete TOE should also be specifically compatible with the three major disciplines examining concepts outside our 3S-1t conventional reality: Hyperspace, Consciousness research and Philosophy, except those concepts that can be falsified by new logic and/or evidence. 17. Moreover, we posit that such a TOE should be compatible at all levels of cosmology, from the tiniest subatomic packets to the macrophysical usual realities to the astrophysical. 18. The TOE should also be compatible with the known forces including all energies. 19. We posit that a TOE should be able to explain events in all of time. This includes evolution. 20. A TOE must not only be empirically appropriate, but explainable within the confines of Philosophy including mysticism and spirituality. 21. A TOE should preferably have a demonstrable solid logical and mathematical base. 22. We regard the principles of LFAF and falsifiability as key to motivating any scientific models including TOEs. 23. Our premise is that the laws of nature should be universally applicable to to all finite cosmic reality. This includes scientific endeavors. We do not have data on infinite subreality but propose this is also part of the broadest laws of nature. The
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infinite bridges with the finite subreality and the data that is expressed is discrete and finite. 24. We posit that a TOE should not imply anything supernatural or miraculous. What may be perceived as miraculous in 3S-1t, may not be anomalous in other higher dimensions but nevertheless, its occurrence at that moment in that place under that circumstance may be meaningful, possibly reflecting the finite-infinite interface. TDVP as a New Paradigm 25. We present our multidisciplinary Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) model. TDVP can be applied without contradiction to all those disciplines (physical, biological, social and consciousness sciences) under an allencompassing TOE, and allows these disciplines to manifest consistent elements of the same unified world-view. 26. TDVP demonstrates the essential and maintained holistic-unified triadic nature of space, time and "a broader consciousness" (STC). This biopsychophysical reality applies to everything from the subatomic to the astrophysical. 27. TDVP reflects origins from the very beginning of the cosmos. It involves aspects of STC inseparability. But it also involves aspects of space, time and C-substrate that are tethered. Therefore, tethered dimensional independence of STC dimensions are key elements, leading to dimensions of Space, Time, and Consciousness that theoretically function separately. Nevertheless, the inseparable STC component is an essential functional component of the tethered S, T and C dimensions. This is because the tethered linkage to the source allows the linking of space and time events and informationincluding meaningful information as consciousness across STC. Tethering allows the communication network to work for Reality. 28. TDVP is controversial because of its implications. Nevertheless, the mathematics and the empirical data strongly support the necessity for this fundamental paradigm. 29. The TDVP model may appear presumptive given the failed attempts of the past century to achieve a TOE, but TDVP applies five key, fundamental differences: consciousness in its broadest meaning: an obvious, but previously mainly ignored, phenomenon; finite discrete multiple dimensions: linked with this broader consciousness broader continuous infinity: this application is added to consciousness and dimensions; order: the awareness of certain situation tending towards order as well as others towards disorder is critical to support the TDVP paradigm; closely related to Order (which we call ordropy) is life.
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No other TOE has applied all these elements. 30. A sixth unique and apparently necessary need is fundamental tethering of Spacetime and C-substrate: This implies, too, areas of (at least theoretical) independent separation of content (possibly interfacing vortices) and process (involving various levels of identity individual-units [of individuals, groups, families, societies, cultures, ethnicities and any other subgroups] that intersect and interface creating billions of complex vortices across dimensions. 31. The TDVP model incorporates the mathematical proofs and empirical data supporting the relativity of several important areas, namely: Relative dimensionality Relative zero Relative infinity Relative vortices (fluctuating indivension) Relative non-locality Relative distinctions. Relative warping of reality. Essentially, all these features may be necessary to ensure a compatible allencompassing paradigm No previous TOE has applied all these elements. 32. By integrating consciousness into space-time, we are able to construct a TOE that utilizes and can be applied to every major scientific, philosophical and consciousness discipline, namely, the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). 33. TDVP impacts on every major scientific philosophical and consciousness discipline. It is a comprehensive multi-dimensional paradigm integrating physical and life sciences with consciousness, applying ontological, epistemological, empirical, heuristic laws of nature. 34. TDVP reflects an entropic-ordropic, N-Dimensionometric CST substrate (consciousness-space-time) model supported by mathematical formulae, dimensional-distinction logic, and empirical physical, consciousness, psychological and life-sciences data, with the finite pervaded by the infinite. 35. Essentially space, time and consciousness are fundamentally tethered inseparably from the event-horizon (e.g., the first appearance of matter at the end of the rapid expansion period of the big bang). 36. The fundamental and permanent tethering likely implies a unification of what, in our conventional reality of 3S-1t, we experience as past, present and future. This means that our concept of time is relative. 37. This also implies that there may be something outside of time as we experience it in 3S-1t. That concept could reflect continuous infinite realities or discrete multidimensional time in the finite or both.
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38. With the presence of tethering and a fundamental consciousness as well as space and time, the likelihood of a requisite order to reality becomes a theoretical possibility and there is empirical data (e.g., life and its origins) to support that. 39. This means that there may be another system besides the closed finite concept of physical disorder that we call entropy. This is more than negative entropy as it is multidimensional. We call this active system ordropy. Key Terminology in TDVP 40. The term consciousness: Consciousness has been misunderstood, misinterpreted and variably used in different disciplines. It is narrower than Csubstrate as that has several unifying elements. C-substrate refers to the broadest consciousness. There are several components to consciousness which we differentiate namely: a. Neurological Consciousness relating to brain functioning (N-consciousness or N-C implying neurological consciousness or C-substrate) as the final common endpoint and integrator of all awareness and responsiveness in sentient beings: N-C is exemplified by brain function and perceives, filters, integrates and responds to all the major incoming information in the brainautonomic, automatic, physiological and psychological as well as any postulated external subreality. N-C ranges from coma to at least minimal awareness and/ or responsiveness to the clear distinction of self from everything else, in living organisms. b. Psychological Consciousness or ego-consciousness (E-consciousness: E-C) including all psychosocial mechanisms such as conditioning and psychodynamics. Subgroups include preconscious-, subconscious-, unconsciousand collective- E-consciousness. c. Quantum consciousness: Physics and consciousness or Quantum Consciousness, Q-consciousness (Q-C.) d. Higher consciousness: (H-C) This is divided into an overlap of metaconsciousness in the infinite or M-consciousness, abbreviated (M-C) and Transfinite Consciousness (T-C). e. Paradigmatic sciences: This is P-consciousness (P-C). This broader consciousness includes meaningful information and unifies all other areas of consciousness: the consciousness sciences particularly in our TDVP discussion. This includes any kind of subjective experience, afferent or efferent, including psi and exceptional human experiences. the biological and life sciences including neurological anatomicophysiologicopathological elements,
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the psychological sciences across the systems spectrum of individual psychological, family, group and social, cultural, anthropological and ethnic, and mysticospirituotheological components; and the physical sciences including all the laws governing the subatomic, macrophysical and cosmo- or astrophysical. The altered states of consciousness, e.g., 10 different kinds. Infinite (I-consciousness) and finite consciousness (F-consciousness) may be artificial divisions with H-C and its M-C, T-C divisions. 41. C-substrate: C-substrate refers to the broadest possible interpretation of consciousness, and is closely linked with Paradigmatic consciousness as this integrates the sciences and philosophy. C-substrate recognizes the finite and the infinite summarized as follows: Metaconsciousness (or M-C for this infinite consciousness) implying extended infinite consciousness. Some have used terms such as collective consciousness, the unconscious (not in the Freudian but extended sense), and information repository. These may be similar, but are not identical because they are often described within the finite sentient being context. Whereas finite conscits of C-substrate may be perceived or conceived of by humans or other sentient beings after being expressed, filtered and likely distorted or amplified, through the nervous system, metaconsciousness is fundamentally an infinite concept reflecting an infinite essence repository. It is almost certain that other life-forms besides humans could tap into it, in which case metaconscious finite expression may be different. Metaconsciousness refers to an infinite continuous repository of infinite meaning extent derived from a infinite repository of information content (metainformation). In a broader sense, Transfinite Consciousness can be expressed as discrete meaning that can occur, theoretically, at any dimensional level. At higher dimensions it may express itself with qualities such as honesty, love, hate, modesty, satisfaction, wisdom, understanding. It may also express itself across individual-units, reflecting Higher Consciousness at levels such as the individual, group, family, society, culture or, ethnic identity. a. Meaning (or F-C for discrete Finite Consciousness of the C-substrate) involves both apprehension and influence implying at minimum very basic meaning at the most primitive level of reality even in subatomic particles or quanta or subquantally, all the way through to the macrophysical and then cosmological astrophysical level. This involves both the inanimate and the animate. At the animate level, this meaning may be so complex, it closely resembles all the information plus meaning acquired through the metaconscious, but at 3S-1t or 3S-1t-1C levels, it ultimately requires neurological expression and may be modified by the nervous system of the sentient being. b. Therefore, C-substrate means the broadest possible interpretation of consciousness but in sentient beings F-C and I-C is expressed within N-C and
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admixed with N-C, E-C and C-C. It is also postulated to include Q-C, which exists in any kind of finite subreality. M-C is conceptually different as it reflects philosophical interpretations so may not be incorporated, per se, into Csubstrate. 42. The special use of Vortices: A major mechanism facilitating radical changes to the perception of the nature of reality is the predominant structural form of nature, namely, 3-D vortical movement. a. The term vortex is used broadly implying symmetrical or asymmetrical movement involving ovoid, circular, spherical, arc, helical, elongated or twisting shapes. b. Vortices interact and impact across and within dimensions and domains. c. Vortices are naturally occurring, and demonstrably fundamentally ubiquitous across many areas of empirical scientific endeavor, and are now mathematically demonstrable across dimensions. d. Vortices can be applied as one model to explain any field theory. Therefore, any field theory model explanation can be used for vortices. Vortices are empirically derived from nature, and mathematically justified by extension of Fermats Last Theorem, Pythagorean interaction, and extending a modeling of General Relativity with warping beyond four dimensions. e. Vortices link with other vortices or with scalars, vectors or tensors, allowing transfer of space, time and consciousness information across dimensions. Billions of interactions of variably shaped ovoid or curved movements (vortices in their broadest meaning) reflect reality experience at both 3S-1t and other domains in an N-D universe. f. Vortices impact, impinge, repel, permeate and intrude through and within N-Ds. This makes for societies, cultures, ethnicities, families, groups, individuals and subatomic through cosmological stuctures. g. Effectively, the vortical interfaces allow for C-M to transfer across all dimensional and systems levels, and it also allows for a vast quantity of potential untapped vortical data to be utlized as and when necessary. 43. The role of Distinctions: Distinctions are used in the context of Closes Calculus of Distinctions, which derive from Browns Laws of form. Distinctions differentiate two qualities via consciousness or form. Unlike set theory, which examines linear binary similarities, distinctions examine differences across many dimenstionsthey can utlize a multidimensional approach. To qualify as a dimension, we apply Closes Calculus of Distinctions.
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Dimensions necessarily involve variables of extent (such as depth or linear time or one kind of consciousness) not of content (such as mass or energy, which can be characterized by their density, defined as amount of content per volumetric unit of extent). Distinctions differentiate the perceptual, conceptual and experiential. The concept of Dimensions: Dimensionality is the study of different dimensions (measurable using variables of extent) including the metadimensional (going beyond 3S-1t). Separation of dimensions are artificial as they interact together forming different domains with specific properties. Dimensions involve combinations of any of the three fundamental substrates of S (space), T (time) and C (broader consciousness). Euclidean dimensions can be measured using finite numerical units and are characterized in terms of degrees of freedom. 44. The term triadic: Triadic refers to the fundamental components of space, time and C-substrate being inseparably tethered together. It does not mean that there are only three Dimensions but the application of triadic perspectives allows conceptual jumps of triadic kind: For example, vortices are three dimensional; there are three aspects of reality (perceptual, conceptual and common experiential); and the possibility of three dimensions of time with consciousness is relevant. This basic triadic nature of reality appears to be reflected often in logic, mathematics, linguistics, and philosophy. 45. Metrics: Dimensions can be measured metrically. In space and time such measures use fixed differences such as interval-ratio elements; in consciousness, measures are ordinal, applying comparisons (e.g., nil, mild, moderate, severed). The mathematical representation beyond 3S-1t often goes beyond simple Euclidean geometry, and we have called this dimensionometry. However, the non-Euclidean dimension, n, can generally be closely represented by the Euclidean approximations (sometimes in n-1). 46. Metadimensionality: In TDVP, we regard the presence of metadimensionality (>5 dimensions) as strongly supported by logic, mathematics, dimensional extrapolation, and empirical evidence. Metadimensionality is required because our current 3S-1t is insufficient even with 3S-1t-1C. Indeed, C-substrate is particularly complex dimensionally with a large number of finite dimensions likely. 47. Individual-Unit: We introduce the (concept of the) individual-unit reflecting interactions at individual, family, social, cultural and any other systems
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impacting the broader ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural approach. Individual-units may reflect single humans; they could reflect any individual sentient beings, or groups, or families, or societies or cultures or ethnic groups or any other living population, plus any components of finite S, T or C substrates. 48. Indivension, a necessary new term in the absence of other term expressing the concept. Indivension portrays the fluctuating dimensions and domains in the individualunit or a combination of individual-units experiencing a common realitya quantomacroasronomophysicochemicalethicospirituobiophysiopsychofamiliosociocultural systems translation of common or individual experience at higher dimensional levels. Indivension allows for transitory or fluctuating experiential realities and emphasizes that individual-units may not be experiencing static numbers of dimensions or domains but they are circumstance dependent. Whereas indivension is the process, the content by which indivension works is through Transdimensional Vortices. Indivension allows for a merging of individual-unit realities. Effectively, this allows for and produces common experiences, knowledge, information and interactions across various systems units (individual, group, social, cultural, ethnic, spiritual or any other identity) The fluctuations are within, across and between dimensions, and may be state related (at that moment in time) or trait related (more consistent over time). The interfacing meeting points may be vortical, vectorial, scalar or tensor and allow for information retrieval, apprehension, awareness, perturbation or influence. Indivension provides for rare communications across a fluctuating number of dimensions. However, potential information, knowledge and meaning may exist without expression, just as we have available more than we see, hear, taste or smell at any moment, and only a tiny spectrum of these abilities are available for humans. This differentiates what is potentially available from what is used at any point. 49. Tethering: "Tethered" in the TDVP has two components: o a fundamental inseparable existence and linkage of the three component substrates at the origins or sources of their inseparability, namely, spacetime and consciousness. o relative perceptual separation of these parts, namely, any aspect of the STC components, that are not perceived as tethered in 3S-1t-1c.
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In TDVP, "tethered" refers to an inseparable linkage of the partsspace, time and Csubstratesat some or multiple points. Useful metaphors would be the umbilicus linking the fetus to the mother yet the fetus being independent too; the ship being moored and the moorage being the tethered part; staples holding down a series of papers; the roots of the STC tree being common but the branches being separate; the balloons being held in hand by strings but potentially interfacing with each other. This tethering leads also to very fluid vortical three dimensional separations of the various levels of individual-units by indivension, whereby interfacing and interacting, and movement across, between and within dimensions occur. Tethering is fundamental and inseparable occurring from the event-horizon (e.g., the big bang). This allows for the unified wholeness of cosmic reality. (This is reflected in the Axiom of Tethered Origin [ATO] as part of the broader TTOOURS in the Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity). 50. Reality is unified with infinite and finite subrealities. It is convenient to use the term essence for the components of the infinite relating to time that is enduring and ever present (i.e., past-present-future exist simultaneously as proposed in three dimensional time), space that is all pervasive, C-substrate which encompasses the continuous metaconscious extent and metainformation intent, ordropy and metalife (potential life). This essence pervades the discrete finite directly and at every dimensional level including 3S-1t (or more correctly as consciousness is always present, 3S-1t-1C or NC). Applications, Uses and Understanding TDVP 51. Amongst the important mathematical demonstrations are new applications of: the Pythagorean theorem, showing that the three dimensional Euclidean substrate is common to space, time and consciousness; All dimensionometric representations (not only Pythagorean), e.g., radians, can be used to show the same three dimensional limitation; Fermats last theorem, demonstrating the fundamental asymmetries in metadimensionality and the ubiquity of the vortex; Gdels incompleteness theorem, applied to finite complete arithmetical functions and therefore, TOEs, which necessarily reflect Theories of Everything, would require infinity to go beyond the finite completeness (of peano arithmetic). Bells theorem and inequality being refuted demonstrating the Copenhagen interpretation of physics or equivalents; later Leggetts inequalities showed the same findings; the application of real, imaginary and complex numbers in metadimensional
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reality arguing for real numbers in space, Minkowski space time dimensions of imaginary numbers and C-substrate dimensions involving complex numbers, which therefore, can interface with S and T substrates; the use of quaternions as potentially representing dimensions of the conscious substrate. both Euclidean and non-Euclidean mathematics demonstrating the relative perceptual reality of curved non-Euclidean space; extra dimensionality going beyond Minkowski space and Cantors set theory; applying Closes calculus of distinctions, particularly with regard to the Csubstrate (the broadest consciousness) as well as distinctions of extent, content and intent, plus interval and ordinal metric measures. the calculus of distinctions involves a modification of classical Newtonian and Leibniz motion of motion calculus to a calculus of conscious forms and indications; a potential use of Multidimensional Scaling applying Mean and Median Column Geometry can be applied to represent multiple higher dimensions into two dimensional graphs, e.g., as with the Neppe dj vu work. The mathematics supports the feasibility of a number of the hypotheses in the TDVP model. 52. The TDVP model includes 22 fundamental axioms that create a unified metaparadigm based on the infinite, the finite and the relation between the two. There are finite axioms of unification, triadic inseparability, CST tethering, discrete quantal expression, vortical ubiquity, nervous system endpoint and subjectivity. The infinite axioms are axiom of infinite origin, of holism in space-time infinity, of living infinite reality, of ordropic reality, of metaconscious infinity, of information, of pervasive, and essential infinity. Linked finite-infinite axioms are of communicating relative infinity, fluctuating dimensional distinctions, continuous infinity linked with discrete finity, of artificiality, of boundaries, of metaconscious dimensional distinctions, and of relativity. 53. These axioms can be divided for clarity into four sentences creating a metaparadigm. Reality involves a unified wholeness of the infinite and finite with the infinite pervading the finite experience. The cosmic infinite reality component involves order (ordropy), is in finite terms nonlocal (beyond space and time) but in infinite terms metareality of all existing metatime and metaspace, exists as a pervasive
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metaconsciousness and potential living, ordered subreality The Finite reality component is fundamentally inseparably tethered from its origin as a triad of spacetime broader descriptive consciousness (S, T and C-substrates), which manifests across, between and within multiple fluctuating dimensions. This finite-infinite, entropic-ordropic reality is relative to all dimensionaldistinction factors, and experienced subjectively (by individual-units) (Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [ TTOOURS]). 54. Dozens of other axiomatic implications exist summarized by: STC dimensions and domains, relative zero and relative infinity, entropy-ordropy dynamics, potential life and physical life, interfacing extent and content, distinction existence, distinctions, measurement: metric (extent) and density(content), permeability, protection, communication ease, communication complexity, top-down communication, metaconscious qualities, metaconscious state and trait, individual units, physical reduction valves, positive and negative C-substrate dimesionality, three dimensional manifestation, forces and dimensional increase, holistic continuity and corrolary to axiom of origin, mathematical dimensional reality, fundamental three dimensional Euclidean space, fumdamental multidimenional time mathematically, consciousness (infinite metaconsciousness; finite meaning and transcendence; through N-C). 55. In dimensionality, we apply the theorems of: extra-dimensional extrapolation, lower dimensional discontinuity (incompleteness) / N-Dimensional manifolds, parallel N-1 realities and further N-D realities,
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 tridimensional warping of reality 56. The TDVP model theoretically provides explanations for: In biology, the feasibility of ordropy. The concept of ordropy is simplistically a negative entropy but broader than that reflected in a finite multidimensional order. In the life sciences, the potential for life arises around the big bang event horizon (see Definition section) in the C-substrate. Physical life becomes actualized into reality when the correct genetic and anatomicophysiological markers evolve to sustain such existence. In the psychological sciences, the model provides a dimensional and vortical perspective for the unconscious, dreams, altered states, and any level of group interactions. 57. Additonally, other subsidiary axioms exist: unified, holistic simultaneous existence CST unification and ubiquity, extended physics of tridimensional warping of reality, and rare event modeling and entanglement, as well as the unification of the inverse square forces from the subatomic to the macrophysical to the astrophysical and has postulated components (namely, qubits, chronits and conscits [including psitrons, kinetrons?] as part of the qualits [quantal discreteness of space, time, and consciousness]). 58. We apply various theoretical ideas of: Physicists such as Einstein, Planck, Bohr, Schrdinger, Aspect, Heisenberg, Wheeler, Cantor, and Penrose. Mathematicians such as Cantor, Gdel, Close, Pythagoras, Hamilton, Euclid, Fermat, Doctorow In our lengthier documentation we include, too, Bohr, Bohm, Hilbert, Pico, Sirag, Bell, Leggett We discuss relevant theories like Atomic Vortex, Conventional Quantum Physics, EPR, Copenhagen Interpretation, Holographic, Mass-energy and Morphogenetic Fields, Rare-event theory, String theory, and Tensor and distinction calculus. Concepts Addressed by TDVP 59. Various principles and lemmas exist: ubiquitous vortical shape
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dimensional falsification impossibility lower diemsional indeterminate feasibility assesment open ordropic systems likely involving he infinte Pathagorean theorem extension to 3D and beyond Metadimensionality requiring real numbers, imaginary and complex numbers Pervasive multilevel tridemensional distinctions Postulate of 3 fold quark combinations Dimensiomentric waping of forces acting at a distance Non-Euclidean dimensional representation approximated through Euclidean substrates (space, time, C-substrate) Principle of Non-Euclidean space-time 4D continua are actual, not only perceptual and conceptual Corollary of Pythagorass theorem being only true for Euclidean spaces Postulate of Indivension Tethering The Postulate of TOEs requiring infinite reality Rare Event Theory Postulate Postulate that Rare Events Are Linked to Interfacing Vortices, Vectors, Scalars and Tensors Postulate of at least 9 dimensions Postulate of dimensional representation is based on the fundamental forces of nature Corollary of Dimensional Warping Corollary of double warping distortions Corollary of Euclidean / Non-Euclidean perceptual experience Postulate of Non-Euclidean spaces or domains are conceptual and not actual Postulate of transfinite dimensions Postulate of perceived different dimensionalities Postulate of worlds with additional dimensions Postulate of C-substrate warping additional dimensions Corollary of Postulate of C-substrate warping higher dimensions Postulate of initial symmetry then asymmetry Postulate of distinction singularity Postulate of the first distinctions Postulate of infinite qualits in 3S-1t. The Principle of Infinite Coexistence. Principle of different experience Postulate of perceptual consciousness and warping

60. Our model addresses core questions including: the nature of reality and existence,
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 the link of human consciousness to reality, why consciousness does not arise solely from the complexity of brain dynamics, the relevance of physical structures, meaning, ordropy, entropy, manifestations in the organizing activities of consciousness, neurological brain limitations the links of consciousness with and without physical realities. 61. TDVP demonstrates how a single unified, monistic type, paradigm can encompass the findings of current knowledge by applying TDVP as a viable, radical, profound, new paradigmatic shift. 62. Our model incorporates some key features. It logically suggests some hypotheses that may or may not be true, or which have not yet been tested. 63. The key elements of TDVP relate to STC tethering, dimensional extrapolation, metadimensionality, distinctions, and vortices. 64. The next suggestive level reflected in our subtitle suggests the possibilities of N-Dimensionality, as well as ordropy (as opposed to just the entropic tendency) suggesting and order in living organisms applications of mathematics and logic to the model the fundamental triadic role of CST (consciousness, space and time) 65. At the next level of speculation, we tentatively suggest models of how to extrapolate dimensions, the roles of infinity within this metadimensional concept, and how reality can be unified by applying dimensionality and infinity. 66. Whereas we attempt to apply mathematical and physical data, and to utilize theorems, while supporting the feasibility of the broader model, it does not prove that exact model. This is why we have separated the primary aspects of our hypothesis from secondary elements. 67. We have used a paradigmatic shift and the major jump in ideas that flow from it might ultimately take several hundred scientific papers to evaluate parts of this data, but these will still be sources for debate. 68. Importantly, the refutation of any single concept does not refute the model, only that single concept. Even refutation becomes a building block to re-assess the status, a mid-course correction, and part of the heuristic structure of a related or modified model.
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69. Dimensionality, fields, consciousness, and the fundamental forces of the universe link directly into the Principle of Dimensional Extrapolation, the Theorem of Asymmetry, and the Triadic and Holistic Nature of Reality. 70. The interval metric derived in dimensions is particularly valid in the space and time substrates and fundamentally with the ordinal distinctions of the C-Substrate. All three of these substrates are closely related to each other and to the proof of the chain of mathematical theorems and demonstrations that support the STC paradigm shift. 71. One way in which dimensions are conceptualized is the application of Closes calculus of distinctions. Dimensions necessarily require variables of extent. 72. Dimensions can be measured metrically ordinally in time and space, and ordinally in C-substrate applying extent variables. 73. TDVP impacts several speculative critical and fundamental ideas: Three dimensions of time, N-Dimensions of consciousness, cause-effect, cognitionaffect-volition, ego-boundaries, free-will, hyperspace, meaningful information, knowledge and awareness, understanding, wisdom and thought and their influence across and interactions with subtypes of affect and volition: life, mystical awareness, special higher qualities such as love, and causality. Metaconsciousness, subject-object paradoxes, multidimensional time-space and numinosity, are all introduced. Relative non-locality, relative zero, relative time, relative infinity and even relative non- Euclidean mathematical dimensionometry facilitate the interface with our current physical universe. An ultimate end-point is the infinite interacting with the finite even prior to the Origin Event with a Primary Receptor. We show how warping of dimensions occurs, producing an open-closed, holistic-unified, finite-infinite universally applicable biopsychophysical reality. Ultimately, at minimum there is a 3S-3T-3C reality (implying 3 dimensions each of space, time and C-substrate) but there may be more dimensions and almost certainly it is 3S-3T-NC (implying N dimensions of C-substrate [broader consciousness]). 74. From a metaparadigm of the fundamental tethering of space, time and Csubstrates from the Origin Event, TDVP generates about 600 different ideas. TDVP generates approaching six hundred concepts, practical applications and implications. This includes about, twenty-two fundamental axioms, and more than thirty more, fifty theorems, postulates and principles and over sixty conceptual
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definitions. This also includes some speculative hypotheses. Because of its general feasibility, practical applications, and supporting empirical evidence, all of TDVP cannot be refuted by refutation of any specific axiom or theorem, postulate or idea. 75. We briefly address philosophy and mysticism though we prefer to concentrate on scientific and mathematical detail and concepts. Nevertheless, the theoretical strengths and limitations of the models of Collins, Roth, Russel and Schroeder versus Dawkins and Dennett, although examined carefully, are not addressed in these books, per se. 76. Because the TDVP model is versatile, involving a process of fluctuating dimensions with indivensions, and a content mechanism with vortices, specific hypotheses or tests that have been proposed to support several other TOEs will not refute the TDVP model, but they, generally, will provide added supporting feasibility data. This great flexibility involving process-content across dimensions allows for the applicability of the model across numerous different disciplines and across many concepts. 77. The specific content components of other current postulated theories of everything models are not contradicted by the TDVP paradigm. These include the TOEs of Klein and Boyd, Laszlo, Evert and Sheldrake, Bohm, Carr and Smythies in regard to mechanism of communicating consciousness. TDVP is also compatible dimensionally with certain physicalistic, non-consciousness hyperspace paradigms including String Theory and that of Hawking, 78. TDVP fits into these TOEs because of the ubiquity of the vortical and indivension structures being able to be applied to many different dimensional or consciousness substrates such as a proposed subquantum reality, akashic fields, to emptiness, subquantum infinitesimals and ether, morphogenetic fields or any other kind of communication or interpersonal field. TDVP also encompasses and extends beyond the mathematics of string theory and other TOEs involving mathematical physics because of the use of Closes calculus of distinctions, which is logically prior to conventional mathematical tools. Therefore, any postulated models to demonstrate these models also can be used to show that TDVP is feasible but may still remain compatible with the specific TOE on which the proposed hypothesis test is based. 79. On the other hand, a specific refutation of one of these TOEs based on detail (e.g., that subquantum fields are unfeasible, or that formative causation does not work) does not refute TDVP because of the versatility of being a higher level model on which these models would then become dependent but not vice versa.
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80. The speculative but important idea of all fundamental forces warping reality as a mechanism to extrapolate dimensions, following on an Einsteinian general relativity modification is raised. Even more so, the greater speculation of C-substrate particularly metadimensionality reflecting extra dimensions based on Transfinite Consciousness forces is posited. How TDVP Differs from All Other TOEs 81. One basis of our models is taking into account how other models fit in and how they can ultimately improve our model. This is why we compare, so we can make our model better or see its limitations. When the essential characteristics of TDVP and all relevant comparable TOEs are listed, there is no current TOE that fits all these criteria other than TDVP. The conventional current Standard Physicalistic Reductionist Materialistic Model of Physics scored 13/39 (7+5+1=13/39), 14th of the 24. 82. Critical is the comparison of key features such as: models of consciousness. This is not unique for a TOE. Models such as those of Klein, Evert, Laszlo, Campbell, Smythies and Carr recognize the preeminence of consciousness, however, they do not incorporate consciousness the way we do. a. In TDVP, Consciousness has several unified components and so deliberately called C-substrate to ensure this concept is understood as the conceptualization may be unique. b. C-substrate at the neurological level (N-C) has several components: It can be expressed in CEV: Cognition, Emotion, Volition. c. Paradigmatically, it can be expressed as possible Higher Consciousness component qualities such as love, honor, courage, wisdom, and understanding. These are all distinctions of extent implying separate dimensions but also can be applied in the content context. 83. Other than C-substrate, other features are relevant. An N-Dimensional base. Such a base includes hyperspace, e.g., Sirags model and various string theories including M-theory and Hawkings model. (This requirement eliminates those models that are still based on the 3S-1t standard physical paradigmatic model that explains most daily experience but does not explain the contradictory data). In this comparison of other TOEs with our TDVP model we are including previous models by the authors (Neppe and Close).

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 The unification of STC substrates. The only other TOE amongst the current ones is that of Laszlo. But this is not necessarily an inseparable whole. The initial elements from the Origin Event or equivalent. This is comprehensible mystically, e.g., Kabbalah and possibly Vedic philosophy and also with Laszlo, Lanza and Watson. The unification of past, present and future. This is comprehensible mystically, e.g., Kabbalah and also with Laszlo. The integration of biology including ordropy and life. The interpretation of how life actually begins is a unique part of the model and involves an explanation for life. A similar concept is implied in Watsons enformy. Conceptual linguistic elements with order are used in Langan, and Watson et al, as well our TDVP model. Multidimensional time has been proposed by several scientists but has only been variably integrated into their models. Amongst them are (alphabetically) Broad, Carr, Close, Dunne (with time seriality), possibly Hawking, Neppe (with cause and effect) and Whiteman (who developed this concept into a key part of his model). The concepts of pervasive processes is frequent in the TOE model. This includes not only TDVP with vortical indivension, but Sheldrakes morphogenetic fields, Carrs TFT, Laszlos akashic fields, and also seen in String theory, Hawking, Langan, Watson and Smythies. The only model that recognizes movement across fluctuating dimensions is TDVP (and preceding that Neppes Vortex N-dimensionalism). The tethering and vortical separations allowing communications between, across and within dimensions is unique to TDVP. Indivension relating to individual-units and communication both at a state and trait level. This integrates the social sciences and allows for a fluctuating number of dimensions. This is unique to TDVP. The role of the infinite, and its interaction with the finite, which very few paradigms incorporate. Kabbalic and Vedic mysticism recognizes this. The Space Substrate is at least three dimensional and represented mathematically as real numbers. The Time Substrate is posited as multidimensional and applies the imaginary numbers (as per Minkowski space). Because C-substrate is tethered with time and space, the interface is likely to be represented mathematically as complex numbers (the sum of real and imaginary numbers). 85. We tabulate and compare the major similar models, namely, those of Bohm, Campbell. Carr, Goswami, Gould, Hoffman, Kabballic mysticism, Laszlo, Lanza, Langan, Evert, Hawking, Klein and Boyd, Sheldrake, Sirag, Smythies, String
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theorists, Vedic tradition, Watson, Wilber, and the previous models of Neppe and Close. We also comment on De La Sierra and Leibniz. 86. Qualitative comparisons of TOEs: TDVP was directly compared with 19 other TOEs, which involve consciousness, dimensions, order or infinity. 87. Scoring: 39 characteristics were carefully chosen based on relevance and different broad screening parameters. The first 16 were more universal, general characteristics; the next 11 was developed from feedback on our TDVP model and had either specific but common relevance to TOEs or some specificity. The next 12 reflected specifically TDVP criteria, often unique to the model or derivations from the earlier Neppe or Close models and again, in part, derived from feedback. 88. Results: TDVP as expected scores a maximum. In fact, at this point, the only TOE it competes against is making itself better. However, it is somewhat tautological because the criteria we have deemed important may not be the criteria that others deem important. Nevertheless, the criteria derivation were sent to the developers (or with Kabbalah and Vedic mysticism, the representatives) of all available authors (13/21). Remarkably TDVP scores a full (16+11+12) or 39/39. This would be required for a real TOE because it cannot afford exceptions. The older models on which some TDVP concepts were based easily come in second and third scoring highly at Neppes Vortex N-Dimensionalism (15+7+5) or 27/39, and Closes Transcendental Physics (13+9+1) or 23/39. However, both of these models leave out key features making the combination TDVP profoundly more powerful. Several remarkable TOEs follow, which contain outstanding original ideas, namely: Klein and Boyd (13+6+0) or 19/39, are the highest scoring of the TOEs not derived from Neppe and Close. The long-enduring mystical Kabbalic mysticism (12+5+2) or 19/39 scores next, reflecting a relevance of models that can persist for millennia. (Vedic Mysticism has great similarities and scores 11+4+0 or 15/39. It might score slightly higher but needs esoteric clarifications and is not triadic like TDVP and Kabbala). Bohms well-known Implicate and Explicate Order model also scores 19/39 (11+6+2). It has superficial similarities to TDVP within the triads, unification, vortical equivalents and mathematicophysics. Bohms model is very different with enfolding and deeper orders and it lacks STC tethering and multidimensionality. Watsons TES (11+5+1) or 17/39, and is remarkably different as a model Campbells Big TOE (12+5+0) also at 17/39, is extensive and thought provoking
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 Rupert Sheldrakes Morphogenetic Fields (11+5+0) or 16/39, and remains a classic in important thinking. Carrs remarkable Transcendental Field Model (10+3+3) is a major contribution at 16/39 with some special similarities to TDVP in many parts. Lanzas Biocentrism (9+5) or 14/39, is an excellent model. So is Smythies s one (11+1+2) so 14/39 who extends beyond the brain to the multidimensional. Langan (7+5) is at 12/39. Goswami (10+0+1) and Wilbur (10+1+0) reflecting possibly the most well-known layperson models are at 11//39. Not far behind and also exciting models are those of Hoffman, Laszlo, and Sirag (9/39 even without being a TOE). These all have great qualities. 89. These results strongly motivate for the powerful breadth of TDVP as a TOE and the inclusion of consciousness with dimensions and infinity plus the mathematical demonstrations with the feasible, non-falsified empirical data, raises it to the level of a paradigm shift. These qualitative results are even more dramatic when looked at quantitatively. There are fifty different mathematical theorems in TDVP, yet this is the only TOE that utilizes any (other than Carr with theorems en passant.). There are some fifty new definitions and concepts and yet this was not even qualitatively measured. Other TOEs have, at most, a few new concepts. TDVP is unique in the context of tethering and yet allowing independence of S, T and C substrates. TDVP is unique in the context of fluctuating dimensions. TDVP involves infinity not only as beyond dimensions but as an intimate integrating component of every dimension. TDVP incorporates unique, new mathematical and dimensionometric concepts and tools. TDVP allows for appreciation of a new philosophical model called unified monism. Our Current Perception of TDVP 90. TDVP may be the first feasible paradigmatic unification of philosophy, science, and consciousness. TDVP is a universally applicable paradigm that should deepen our understanding of reality allowing science to enter a new world of expanded possibilities demonstrating the ubiquitousness of a consciousness inclusive paradigm across all major scientific disciplines. 91. We perceive TDVP as a critically important beginning evoking further research and demonstrating a viable mathematical and scientific theoretical framework with demonstrated feasibility through application to various fields of science, from quantum physics to the life sciences to consciousness
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research. 92. There are always deniers and pseudoskeptics who will ignore facts. However, TDVP should impact every serious scientist and thinker in every human endeavor who wants to understand the nature of reality and the meaning of human experience and existence. 93. Confirmation of these research hypotheses should open the door to a flood of meaningful new research and discoveries in almost every field of science. This is because the laws of nature should be universally applicable to to all scientific endeavors. This is so also because it provides new, more comprehensive theoretical frameworks, conceptual and mathematical tools, and a vastly expanded domain for scientific investigation and even may require revision of concepts in Theoretical Physics. 94. Of these ideas, the core concepts of TDVP are solidly based empirically or mathematically. Additionally, there are lesser speculative ideas for further research or theorizing. 95. TDVP may become a major contribution to the physical, biological, psychological and consciousness sciences, as well as to mathematics, philosophy, the philosophy of science and the scientific linking of mysticism and spirituality. TDVP pioneers the new discipline of "dimensional biopsychophysics". 96. The TDVP model has emphasized the fundamental role of consciousness, higher dimensions, infinity, order, the potential for life, multidimensional time, finite relative nonlocality and infinite metatime/space/consciousness, tethering with vortical indivension and individual-units, and finite origins. 97. TDVP also emphasizes the unified holistic reality of the finite and the infinite, the link between the two and the application of finite reality from the subatomic to the macrophysical to the cosmic astrophysical. It explains how different rare communications may be only one of billions of unused finite components reflecting a tiny fragment of potentialities. 98. TDVP can be explained philosophically by a new model called unified monism. Despite the term, monism this is not reductionistic instead reflecting the holistic, unified, integrated reality of the infinite subreality pervading the finite subrealities.
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99. Based on qualitative tabulations appears to be the most complete model of consciousness and dimensionality that exists, a true paradigm shift, and a theory of everything in which applying LFAF, it has not been refuted and is a significant advance in both the theory and practice of the understanding of reality. There will be significant advances beyond this but the TDVP model provides a basis for future research. Summary 100. The unified metaparadigmatic statement is the overriding higher level basis for the TDVP model and reflecting reality. Reality can be expressed within the laws of nature. Examining reality includes the physical, psychological, biological and consciousness sciences with mathematical elaborations. It involves a unified holistic reality with interweaving infinite and finite subrealities. The infinite is a continuous essence metareality. This means that it incorporates an all encompassing consciousness/information, space and time, with potential order and potential physical life. The infinite pervades a discrete finite, cosmic subreality. This finite reality manifests as a fundamentally inseparably tethered triad which has always existed (originating from the Origin Event). The tethering is always togethertightly, loosely or slightly, providing a communication network. This STC triad has three substrates S, T and C-substrates (space, time and broader descriptive consciousness). Although STC is tethered, components are variably in space, time and consciousness manifesting as dynamic multidimensional finite realities (and always interfacing and pervading the infinite). Movements occur across, between and within these dimensions which separate into zillions of multiple interwoven, fluctuating 3-dimensional individual-unit vortices. Reality is only perceived to a limited degree, via our restrictive and responsive 3S-1t experiential, entropic physical subreality. They are interpreted by our living physiological ordropy and conceptualized subjectively and relative to our own individual-units) This description is the metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [TTOOURS]. The single sentence in Chapter 1 reflecting its unifying elements, has now been subdivided to give a more comprehensive, but still complex perspective of the TDVP paradigm.
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SECTION B: THE LIMITS OF WHAT EXIST

CHAPTER 3: THE DILEMMA Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Albert Einstein The views of space, time and consciousness which we wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics and the toil of consciousness research and the developments of mathematical theory, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself and time by itself and consciousness by itself are doomed to fade away into mere shadows and only a kind of tethered union of the three will preserve an independent identity. 23 u Modified from Hermann Minkowski, 1908 to include our new paradigm. Minkowskis famous quotation reflects the major paradigm shift of that time. He described a fourth dimension of time and realized the great unification of time and space. It certainly was revolutionary. But is this still the solution for a paradigmatic shift? We do not believe so and have added Consciousness resulting in a triadic tethered union. In this book, we go well beyond Minkowski. We approach concepts such as consciousness and multiple dimensions. We use models such as the calculus of distinctions and vortices. We apply a model of geometry for multiple dimensions and emphasize the triad of three, inseparably substrates of Space, Time and an Extended Consciousness. We apply mathematics, logic and a new philosophical model. We realize the need to unify the infinite and the finite, to recognize the roles of order and disorder, of the animate life and the potential for life, and of the origins of existence. We explore the possible deeper links to these ideas and we recognize that all of this is ultimately involving ourselves in our current reality. We present to you our rather complex sounding title:
This quotation is adapted from Hermann Minkowski, in his famous Cologne public lecture: 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians. 21 Sept 1908 The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade away into mere shadows and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent identity.
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The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). This incorporates the key features of a new Theory Of Everything, which appears to work. But we need further clarifications and add essential details to these key elements, namely: The N-Dimensionometric CST Substrate Mathematicologic LFAF Model. We then go further describing further key principles to this paradigm: An integrated space, time and consciousness substrate reflecting holistic-unified, finite-infinite entropic-ordropic, animate-inanimate, event-horizon. Furthermore, our model provides ideas for conceptual mechanisms: Warping-N-Dimensional extrapolation, extent-content-intent distinctional-C-substrate indivension, open-closed. And we look at all of this in the context of our current human experience in biopsychophysical reality. Lets begin at the beginning, understanding first why there are limitations in our current standard scientific thinking, recognizing the need for a new way to examine these. The Standard Model Despite our current prevailing reductionistic materialist paradigm allowing explanations of almost all areas of our experience, certain areas of scientific endeavor are still contradicted and conflicting theories do not explain everything. The current paradigm of physical science, is comprised of three major parts: Relativity, classical physics (primarily Newtons laws) and quantum physics. Relativity has proved to be very successful on the astronomical scale, dealing with extremes of mass and relative velocity. Newtons laws of motion are still very useful and successful in the mid-range scale, dealing with events in the range of distances, matter and motion detected by human senses on this planet. Quantum physics, on the other hand, is very successful in dealing with phenomena on the sub-atomic or quantum scale. However, these three theoretical approaches to understanding reality are not entirely consistent. Everything is made up of quanta, yet different mathematical laws seem to apply on the three different scales of measurement, and physicists efforts to develop a single consistent theory to deal with all reality (sometimes referred to as a theory of everything) have been largely unsuccessful. The reason for this lack of success is the fact that they have not included everything in the basic assumptions underlying their models. There is no place in the equations of the standard model for consciousness. Limitations of the Standard Model There is no place for consciousness in the equations Consciousness is perceived as internally inconsistent across quantum mechanics,
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macrophysics and astronomical levels of reality, yet there are no solutions to important quantum and consciousness paradoxes. The standard model cannot explain why there is complex structure and complex conscious organisms in the universe In fact, the standard model cannot explain why there is a universe at all. The universe appears to have originated in an explosion. The idea that all the complexity observed in the current universe is the result of accidental arrangements of materials flying away from that explosion is simply untenable: The accidental beginnings of any complex pattern of matter and energy would quickly be destroyed and dissipate in a violently exploding universe because the second law of thermodynamics acts continuously in any finite system, and the expanding universe is a finite system at any given point in the process of expansion. Explosions do not create complexity. Explosions do exactly the opposite, they destroy pattern and structure; they are the epitome of entropic activity. Someone has said that believing that the universe is an accident is like believing that a tornado could pass through a junkyard and assemble a Boeing 747 en route. Actually, its much worse than that. Its more like piling all of the junk in the world on top of a hydrogen bomb and expecting the flying debris to accidentally form an Airbus 380 (the worlds largest commercial aircraft) along with a full load of passengers and their luggage, and a crew with the knowledge needed to fly it. Current status of science: In our conventional 3 S-1t (3 dimensions of space, 1 point in time reality) domain (our current perceived scientific reality or the Standard Model), time is assumed to be linear with each moment of time going only forward, and we experience three dimensions of space in our physical reality. This is the core of the current materialist, physicalist paradigm and it can explain almost everything in common experience. Whereas our standard physical conventional reality domain of three dimensions of space and one point of timethe present (3S-1t) has applications in most current experience, it is incomplete and, indeed, falsified by contrary quantum experimental evidence (the double-slit and delayed choice experiments), and the nine different six sigma meta-analyses in consciousness research. It is also internally inconsistent in physics across quantal, macro- and astronomical levels. It also cannot explain certain quantum and relativistic observations. Science cannot explain the rare empirical exceptions. Nor can our standard paradigm explain why there is complex structure and complex conscious organisms in the universe or a universe at all. We can choose either to ignore these or to confront why they are contradicted. The historical approach to science
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The historical approach of science, philosophy, and religion has been primarily fragmentary and reductionistic. Individual groups of scientists, philosophers and theologians tend to wall themselves off from each other, and the rest of humanity, both conceptually and institutionally. Even the abundance of information on the Internet has not changed this very much. Science is divided into many fields and disciplines, each with their own logical structure and technical language, largely cryptic and indecipherable by the average layperson, and even by many scientists in other fields. Philosophy is divided into ontology, the study of the nature of things, and epistemology, the study of knowledge and knowing, with endless further subdivisions of these two broad disciplines. Various intellectual and cultural groups of theologians argue for the existence of greater realities circumscribed by dogmas based on divine revelation. None of these groups of thinkers has an exclusive lock on truth, and none are devoid of it, but what the world needs now is a new comprehensive integrating paradigm that will unite the search for truth. The desire to know and understand, whether manifested as science, philosophy, religion, or in some other form, is essentially the same innate desire for direct contact with, and direct knowledge of ultimate reality. Over the past few hundred years, and notably so over the past few decades, thinkers in the various fields have amassed an impressive amount of data and knowledge concerning the nature of the reality we experience. Possibly, we should all be working toward the same goal: a comprehensive understanding of reality. There are, however, conflicts between and within some of the bodies of knowledge, indicating the need for an integration of the various fields into one body of knowledge. This would constitute a reversal of the reductionist approach and would require the development of a comprehensive paradigm capable of encompassing the true knowledge of all fields and resolving the conflicts between them. Why our model is different With respect to the conventional wisdom, we argue that because of these failures there is a need for a radical new paradigm of reality which will address the complex controversies that are not explained using our standard model. This motivates the need for this new paradigmatic approach to integrate several different scientific disciplines and to postulate a new and comprehensive model, producing a paradigm shift. But that is not easy and has never before been achieved. Previous models have often ignored the fundamental role of an extended consciousness. Even in those Theories of Everything (TOEs) that recognize consciousness, few include multiple extra dimensions, and only in this model were proposing, Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Paradigm (TDVP) are infinity, order and
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life fundamentally incorporated. In our TDVP model, the unification of space and time is insufficient, and we postulate that space-time and a broader extended consciousness (STC) are fundamentally inseparably linked at their sources, then tethered separatelytightly, loosely or negligiblyto these finite origins, such that the fundamental connection still exists. Our TDVP model allows for the interfacing within, across and between multiple dimensions of finite subreality (by a process called indivension and a content of vortices). This finite reality bridges an all-pervasive infinite subreality essence of all-embracing time, space, and extended consciousness (meaningful information) as well as ordropy (multidimensional order) and potential life. It may be that our current reality is not best portrayed as 3S-1t but must include one or even N dimensions of consciousness, as this is so basic to any sentient being. But for practical description here, we will use 3S-1t not 3S-1t-NC. The Theory of Everything: Modern science has not yet produced a consistent, comprehensive theory of everything (TOE). Essentially what is required is a logically consistent, generally recognized, ontological basis for integrating scientific knowledge into an all-encompassing comprehensive natural law paradigm. The syntax of the language used to express scientific epistemology, namely, mathematics, does not include any meaningful representation of consciousness, which we believe is an important part of everything. The term theory of everything in the purely physics context, is certainly a misnomer, if not an outright oxymoron. When physicists speak of a theory of everything (TOE) they mean a theory that encompasses, in a logically consistent manner, the known fundamental forces of the physical universe. The question of whether such a theory, if attainable, is truly a theory of everything is certainly a legitimate philosophical question, and perhaps even a valid scientific one because: The four fundamental forces of nature as listed in the standard physics textbook: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak subatomic forces, may not be all the forces in the universe v. Consciousness has been systematically excluded from the standard model. In our currently popular materialistic understanding of reality, the observer is represented as a dimensionless point (because it greatly simplifies the analysis and this is regarded as outside world scientific objectivity), yet the observer may, in reality, be
Some scientists, though using terms like electromagnetism still, would at another level separate out electricity and magnetism because they are sometimes orthogonaleffectively when the (electrical) force moves forward, the field [like the magnetic filings} moves at right angles [right hand rule]. Separately, there is good data for a direct opposing force of the expanding universe working at the same astronomic level as gravitation.
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more complex than that. Subjectivity is defined as that which goes on in the mind of the observer, and has created a conceptual dichotomy separating science from direct human experience. To the materialist, consciousness is nothing more than an emergent feature (an epiphenomenon) of the physical world, and disputably neuroscience itself cannot adequately explain consciousness by the physical brain alone. this physicalist, materialist paradigm fails. Because of this failure, there is a need for a radical new paradigm of reality. This book is the authors motivated Theory of Everything (TOE). This interfaces every known area of scientific endeavor. We maintain that a TOE model should incorporate the mathematical and empirical relevance of dimensions, zero and infinity, vortices and distinctions. Essentially, the paradigm we propose works; the others did not. We propose that a comprehensive TOE must also seamlessly reconcile with the major theoretical models and authoritative sources of all the natural sciences. Our premise is that the laws of nature should be universally applicable to to all scientific endeavors. The scientific areas that must be actively evaluated must include: the physical sciences (these include physics, chemistry, meteorology, and astronomy; the biological sciences (these include anatomy, biology, genetics, physiology, pharmacology, the life sciences and medicine). the social sciences (these include anthropology, psychology and sociology) and the consciousness sciences (these include dimensional biopsychophysics, phenomenology, parapsychology and quantum consciousness). To qualify as a complete TOE, it must cover everything. The TOE should be specifically compatible with the three major disciplines examining concepts outside our 3S-1t conventional reality: Hyperspace, Consciousness research and Philosophy. Moreover, we posit that such a TOE should be compatible at all levels of cosmology, from the tiniest subatomic packets to the macrophysical usual realities to the astrophysical. Additionally, the TOE should also be compatible with the known forces including conventionally recognized energies. It could be argued that a TOE should be able to explain events in all of time, including the major event postulated to have been over billions of years in our conventional linear time, namely, evolution. We argue that a TOE must not only be empirically appropriate, but explainable within the confines of philosophy, including mysticism and spirituality. We posit that a TOE should have preferably have a demonstrable solid mathematical base in its key areas. We posit that a TOE should not imply anything supernatural or miraculous. However, what may be perceived as anomalous in 3S-1t may not be anomalous in other higher
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dimensions. We believe that a new philosophy of science model may be required to explain information developed beyond our conventional standard experience of 3S-1t. This means applying new feasibility principles as well as ensuring that the presented data are not falsified as a key to motivating any scientific models including TOEs. The TOE may require a paradigm shift to achieve this. This means a fundamental change in approach or modification of our current assumptions 19. We motivate our own Theory of Everything (TOE) and recognize the need for this global paradigm shift that interfaces every known area of scientific endeavor.

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CHAPTER 4: WHAT THE STANDARD MODEL LACKS. SOME QUESTIONS TO RESOLVE 24 Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Let Us Imagine In Einsteins classic paper in 1905 on the Special Theory Of Relativity, he imagined the electrodynamic interaction between a moving magnet compared with a stationary conductor, and then reversed the situation to illustrate his theoretical assumption of no preferred reference frame. He did the same in his later classic paper on the General Theory of Relativity: Ultimately, this involved using the example of the observed departure of the orbit of the planet Mercury compared with that predicted by Newtonian physics. 25; 26 These were examples of his famous thought experiments. Similarly, we have presented thought experiments pointing out the limitations of the usual standard paradigmatic physicalist conventional materialist model relating to 3 dimensions of space and one point in time (3S-1t) that we humans experience on earth on a day-to-day basis at this time.

Let us imagine a model where space, time, and consciousness (STC) all exist. Moreover, let us imagine in a model, that the dimensions of STC are tethered together at a specific point or volume as inseparable units; and that this tethering can be partially released, altering this inseparability with each component protruding separately, although there is always the tethering in at least one point. Let us imagine a model where time is such that we cannot use our linear reasoning directly relating cause and effect, yet free-will still exists. Let us imagine a model where time is not just one moment in time. Let us imagine a model with extra dimensions that will explain the existence of information, meaning or events in space and time. Let us imagine a model where there are always one or more dimensions in addition to the dimensions of perception so that one could see the completeness of the data but only from a higher dimension. If one had such a model, what evidence would be useful to demonstrate it?

We briefly mention such ideas, and these are amplified below because we have such a model. We choose five broad examples.
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Entanglement Let us imagine a model of quantum entanglement where there is some kind of link of ostensibly separated evidence, energy packets, particles, photons or packets of information in time and space implying a non-locality at the 3S-1t level. If, moreover, that entanglement had a statistical probability, which was demonstrable but not necessarily overwhelmingly high. It would imply a probabilistic state, which could not be predicted accurately relating to information transfer that at 3S-1t one could not accurately definitely predictably show in any specific, individual case. If one was able to define and apply a mechanism that could explain why this entanglement would occur, involving a broader definition of consciousness, a meaningful intentionality or apprehension of reality, this would be strong evidence for some kind of tethering. Psi Let us imagine a model where one was able to demonstrate that so-called psi phenomena existed, it would be very difficult to explain within our common physicalist framework of 3S-1t. In fact, it would be extremely challenging to explain unless one utilized the STC substrates as the framework for an explanatory model. If one were able to demonstrate retrotime, or precognition, or presentiment even seconds before an event, this would also not be explainable in terms of the current physicalist definition of dimensionality, but it could be explainable in terms of extra time perception, which might be describable in terms of extra dimensions. If one were able to show that there were variants in terms of cause and effect, this would require some kind of extra time dimension. If one were able to show that there was some kind of survival of consciousness after bodily death, or even an overwhelming superpsi relationship that could not be explained in terms of known psi concepts, this could imply extra dimensionality because of the limitations of 3S-1t as a reality base for postmortem survival. Lower Dimensional Incompleteness and Higher Dimensional Extrapolation Let us imagine demonstrating that there is discontinuity of information and of space-time when information is projected onto lower dimensions, then demonstrable continuity of the same information at a higher dimensional level would imply extra dimensions.
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Let us imagine data showing links of events that have not occurred, but then being more easily learned once that event of data has been achieved. (At the risk of diminishing the fun of not giving answers at this stage, this could be explained, for example, by applying Sheldrakes formative causation 27, but at a higher dimensional level by another model, such as, to be seen, vortical indivension. Therefore, some of these imaginings can be non-specific and have alternative explanations). Let us imagine data showing that there are different states of consciousness with different realities in an individual this may provide evidence for fluctuating dimensions. Life How does life begin? At what point does physical life begin? Varied explanations are the moment of conception, of birth, of particular development of the fetus. Could this be entirely different from the actual time that life becomes a potential? Can one explain life purely on the basis of genes and DNA/RNA combined with appropriate physiology? Is that just a how based on physical limitations? Does that just reflect physical life? Does such an explanation allow for consciousness? Is there a threshold point for life? What information contradicts there always being a potential for physical life always existing and the correct physical apparatus, genes and physiological functioning allowing physical life to actualize? Evolution 1.) Let us imagine demonstrating that evolution exists. (There is cogent data, of course, that it does.) However, given that even Darwin pointed out the difficulties of evolution occurring purely by chance, let us imagine that at some point before or during the process such an evolution has had some kind of meaningful assistance or guidance and this could be cogently demonstrated. We are not addressing the feasibility of current evolutionary theory, either by confirmation or denial. We are here examining its possible integration into our specific TOE. 2.) Could that contribute to the feasibility of a complex mechanism involving a proposed STC tethering derived from linkage at the Origin Event? 3.) Could that contribute to the feasibility of a unification of different kinds of multidimensional time, space, and consciousness? This last one would be a distant imagining because it would require numerous points not yet in evidence. 4.) Could it be that if evolution is occurring over time, what one ought to be looking at is the predetermined facets of guidance that created the possibility of
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evolution? 5.) Could it be that once this mold was created it could free-wheel and evolution would run without help? Scientific Subatomic Model Let us imagine that some of the fundamental questions that one can ask are about the limitations of quantum physics. Some of the limitations of the current scientific subatomic model are well-known and many particle physicists believe that it is an incomplete description of nature. Indeed, it is not a complete theory of fundamental interactions. It falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions28-30 because it does not incorporate certain fundamental physical findings. 31, 32, 33, 34 It is inconsistent, inter alia, with: the physics of general relativity, such as gravitation and dark energy, quantum field theories of gravity generally break down before reaching the Planck scale. 35 This contradiction has been a major problem. the emerging "standard model of cosmology requires modification 36, w particularly the observed amount of cold dark matter (CDM), which is associated with far too large contributions to dark energy52; viable dark matter particles would not correspond with the expectations of and the required properties deduced from observational cosmology: Consequently, this model does not fit within a reliable theory for the very early universe. correctly accounting for neutrino oscillations (and their non-zero masses). The specifics of neutrino mass are still unclear and may require an additional 7 or 8 arbitrary constants; puzzles such as the strong CP problemxwhy quantum chromodynamics55 (QCD) does not seem to break the CP-symmetry)y; it has unnatural properties like the hierarchy problem 56 The Higgs mechanism gives rise to the hierarchy problem if any new physics (such as quantum gravity) is present at high energy scales. In order for the weak scale to be much smaller than the Planck scale57, severe fine tuning of Standard Model parameters is required; the observed predominance of matter over antimatter (matter58/antimatter59 , 60); the isotropy61 and homogeneity62 of the visible universe over large distances requires a mechanism like cosmic inflation63. This should constitute an extension of the
We have chosen to cite only selected pages on physics from Wikipedia: These are brief, factual, non-controversial, scientifically based and without opinion. We do this to allow the reader easier access, but we caution that the pages may change at any time, and are limited, non-trusted sources. We, therefore, restrict our citations to physics related areas only, but even then one should be aware of the controversies surrounding them. Instead, we recommend some of the several physics books consulted in Reality Begins with Consciousness. 8; 17; 31; 32; 39-51 x A hierarchy problem occurs when the fundamental parameters (couplings 53 or masses) of some Lagrangian 54 are vastly different (usually larger) than the parameters measured by experiment. y CP is the product of two symmetries 37: C for charge conjugation, which transforms a particle into its antiparticle38, and P for parity, which creates the mirror image of a physical system.
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Standard Model, but likely occurs.56, 64, 65 The inflationary hypothesis was originally proposed in 1980 by American physicist, Alan Guth, who named it "inflation". 66-69 Cosmological inflation is the theorized extremely rapid exponential expansion of the early universe by a factor of at least 1078 in volume, and comprises the first part of the electroweak epoch following the grand unification epoch.67 Without rapid expansion before and up until the so-called event horizon, the earth would still be a ball of molten rock with no life as we know it.68 The inflationary hypothesis though we believe very well motivated, is still controversial amongst some, however. This is so as there is contradictory physical evidence in the literature, and an ostensibly continuous creation/ de-creation process observed in the mesocosmic range: this could make the Inflationary Hypothesis untenable.68, 69 Other data are esoteric but well motivated. For example, data suggesting possible deep subquantal origination of physical laws. Contradiction of inflation is even more evident below the Planck limit (to the Kolmogorov range and beyond), where these subquantum laws ostensibly apply.70; 71 Several Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) have been proposed to unify electromagnetism and the weak and strong forces. Grand unification would imply the existence of an electronuclear force; it is expected to set in at energies of the order of 1016 GeV, far greater than could be reached by any possible Earth-based particle accelerator. Although the simplest GUTs have been experimentally ruled out, the general idea, especially when linked with supersymmetry, remains a favorite candidate in the theoretical physics community. 37 It is emphasized that the Standard Model of Quantum Mechanics agrees with almost all the experimental tests conducted to date. 65, 72 These areas of controversy are the exception rather than the rule. This model is applied to other fields besides particle physics (like astrophysics73, cosmology, nuclear physics 74, quantum field theory 75, spontaneous symmetry breaking76 and non-perturbative behavior). Simulators help search for new physics and build more exotic models77 incorporating hypothetical particles78, extra dimensions79, supersymmetry37 and to try to explain experimental results at variance with the standard model. 32, 33 The standard model is theoretically self-consistent. 32, 33

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Nevertheless, one of the fundamental questions that one can ask is about the limitations of quantum physics. The limitations of the current scientific subatomic model are well-known and many particle physicists believe that it is an incomplete description of nature. Indeed, this standard paradigmatic model is not regarded as a complete theory of fundamental interactions. It falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions 28-30 because it does not incorporate certain fundamental physical findings. 31, 32, 33, 34 Effectively, composite particles, account for the hundreds of other species of particles discovered since the 1960s. but a more fundamental theory may await discovery. This subatomic model is theoretically self-consistent but has not only the difficulties above, but it excludes consciousness. Certainly, we feel that any discrete model should include Consciousness. We believe that until consciousness, meaning or Csubstrate is inserted, this model will remain incomplete. The TDVP model fills these needs. This is why we are prepared to postulate composites such as qualits, which contain composites of chronits, qubits and conscits. These would also have particlewave components and the conscits may have psitrons and kinetrons. Of course, this is all speculation. Could it be that our accepted wave-particle duality is incomplete and that we should describe an inseparable wave-particle-meaning? We postulate that this is so: The physicalist notion of particle-wave duality is incomplete because while quantum theory does consider the connection of content (particle or wave) with 3S-1t, it does not include the relationship of this content to the C-substrate. The third content component of any matter-energy object is consciousness. A Physical Theory of Everything should unify all the fundamental interactions of nature: gravitation, strong interaction, weak interaction, and electromagnetism plus expansion of the cosmos reflecting a complete theory of fundamental interactions. The basis of the subatomic quantum mechanical model is the interface area of wave particle duality. 80 We posit that this concept may be insufficient given the overall limitations in related quantum mechanics. These questions need answering. Some cannot be answered at this time. But there is data for some of them: The information on these form the basis for the feasibility of our model and we answer some of these questions in this article. To a large degree, demonstration of each of these may increase incrementally the certainty of the veridicality of our full model. We could simplistically answer that our TDVP model satisfactorily answers all the questions above by using the one simple principle of STC tethering from the beginningin other words, Space, Time, and an Extended Consciousness concept, are
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tethered from the beginning of existence (the Origin Event). From this tethering, entanglement is easily explained; so is psi as points or vortices meeting; so is evolution based on the early involvement of a broader consciousness; and so is the necessity for extra dimensions and understanding the incompleteness of our currently standard experience of 3S-1t. We could be close to an accurate answer but in reality the level of veridical confirmation of all hypotheses and proposals can always be improved and to be able to understand the evidence we need apply a new model of feasibility. Whether evolution can be applied to the standard paradigm cannot be demonstrated because it is not falsifiable, yet there is debate as to its feasibility: it is unanswered.

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CHAPTER 5: FALSIFIABILITY OF CURRENT SCIENCE 81 Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Philosopher) Popperian Falsifiability Karl Poppers need for falsification was initially inspired by the stark contrast between Einstein's models, which involved difficult but later testable predictions with the untestable psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Adler. 22; 82 From this, Popper developed the idea of falsifiabilitya key principle in the modern methodology of science. Falsifiability reflects a concept and not a scientific theory or statement of fact. It describes a methodology on how science must progress by learning from its mistakes. By this means, what is falsified eliminates what was not meant to be. Popper applied his ideas from the past and heavily incorporated the history of science into his work. Popper is one of the rare philosophers whose ideas have been highly influential among scientists because falsifiability became the defining characteristic of a scientific theory. 82 Does our current 3S-1t domain fit this prevailing model of falsifiability? To clarify, the current 3S-1t paradigm refers to the current conventional laws of the materialistic paradigm. 3S-1t reflects the three dimensions of space in a spectrum metric of volume, and one point in time reflecting this momenthence the lower case. We use the term domain here to refer to a dimensional perspective of thought: The most current portrayal of our current purely physicalistic reality is the 3S-1t domain. On the one hand, 3S-1t materialism currently embraces the accepted scientific method of Popperian falsifiability as the major method. But when we apply this well-accepted principle of Karl Poppers about the validity of our current materialistic 3S-1t paradigm, ironically, the current conventional laws are falsified, for example, based on the several let us imagine questions where we have pointed out the limitations. 24 These exemplify contradictions that simply should not exist. These contradictions have been reflected in several areas of scientific endeavor in mainstream physics, e.g., the Einstein-Bohr debate of the 1930s and the EinsteinPodolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. 83, 84
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These scientific debates and their historic resolution profoundly change our understanding of the nature of reality in fundamental and surprising ways, reflected in Bells theorem 85, the validation of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics 86, the Aspect experiment 87, and the Wheeler delayed-choice interpretations 49; 88 . Effectively, validation of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics tells us that elementary particles and wave packets are not determined until they impact on a receptor 8. Combining what relativity and quantum physics tell us about the real nature of time, space, matter, energy, and consciousness, we find that the simplistic big-bang evolutionary theory is incomplete and incorrect on many levels: space and time are not independent measures of extent, but interacting dimensions of the dynamic space-time continuum. We motivate below that time is not linear and onedirectional, and the present is not one single moment in the forward movement of time. Matter and energy are not independent measures of content, but different forms of the same universal substance. Our model posits that consciousness is part of that same universal essence that constitutes reality. The purest Popperian scientific method involves trial and error, conjectures and refutations. 22 New hypotheses are then subjected to very rigid, careful testing in an attempt to falsify them. If they are not falsified, and instead replicated, they are regarded as proven. But, theoretically, such inductive techniques cannot be rationally justified: This is so because even hundreds of repeated observations cannot guarantee that a rule inferred from such repeated observations is always true. This implies that all our scientific theories and laws are only conjectures tentative hypotheses. 22 Nevertheless, we still apply falsifiability as a theoretical method. How scientific reflects the degree to which something is testable. 89 However, this does not necessarily imply only falsifiability necessarily and allows an opening for what we call the LFAF model. 81 Of the great scientists, Einstein and Hawkins utilized the Popperian method, as did John Eccles and Peter Medawar, but Newton, Galileo, and Copernicus, inter alia, did not. 89 Moreover, there is some debate as to Poppers success amongst peers. Kuhn 19 and Feyerabend 90; 91 and also Collins 92 argued how major scientific breakthroughs would not have been made if the discoverers had adhered to the rule of falsification or, any prevailing prescriptive philosophy of science and Laudan emphasized how he did not solve the demarcation problem 93. To these philosophers of science, Popper appeared uninterested in falsifying his own assumption, and did he not look for instances that proved him wrong. He seemed to pick examples that did not threaten his views. To them, Popper smuggled inductive method back into science and yet empirical method has been a basic technique for centuries, so this is not true. But
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on the other hand, maybe they did not refute Popper instead they just did not understand his simple ideas. 82 Nevertheless, this background is relevant to our model, because of our proposed concept of feasibility and empiricism. Beyond Popper Popper knew that testing and falsification are not always practical 22; 82: Replication must be appropriate in methodology including data collection and have adequate controls to avoid leakage.89 But that does not imply that theories cannot or should not be subjected to testing and hence possible falsification, or that it is impossible to falsify some theories. However, some would regard theories that are not currently falsifiable as better regarded metaphysics or ideology, not science. But that, in our opinion, defies logic. How does one prove something that one can see and photograph and videotape at the same time? For example, the hypothesis that an apple under certain defined controlled circumstances on earth will always fall from the tree onto the ground. How many times do we need to demonstrate that to argue it is self-evident? Or is it feasible to demonstrate correlations of two events? Alternatively, what about psychological data or medical data involving ordinal measuring instruments where an individual scores high enough for us to regard them as depressed and then responds appropriately to antidepressants. Yet, we cannot falsify that a specific individual who does not exhibit one of these criteria is not depressed. Effectively, there is a difference between what is clinically relevant and statistically significant. Classical Popperian falsifiability does not account for the hypothetical and sometimes obvious. If the full moon and the sun cannot rise together, Popperian thinking would make it tentative, and potentially refutable, but in geometry, it is self-evident that this could not happen. 94 We do not need a double blind trial, which cannot be performed anyway, to test such a theory. Popper largely ignored the analytic and deductive techniques of science, although he was possibly changing this in his later writings. 82 70 This kind of critique again supports the use of another method too. This is a supplement to falsification. We propose the model that we call Lower dimensional feasibility, absent falsification (abbreviated LFAF). Effectively, there are experiments and spontaneous data that cannot be falsified but can be observed and there is research that is feasible though not able to be observed or falsified. Also, there are situations at higher dimensional levels that cannot be proven at the 3S-1t level because the data does not exist or does not completely exist in 3S-1t, so we can only see pieces of a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle. As Klein ably puts it: Non-replicability is a signature for higher dimensional involvement in the process under scrutiny, not a valid argument for refutation of its significance or eligibility for scientific consideration. 70 This is
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where feasibility, LFAF and what may appear to be just isolated jigsaw puzzle pieces in 3S-1t, may all have enormous application at the higher dimensional levels, where falsifiability is a non-issue because we cannot directly and empirically demonstrate the data in the metadimensional perspective. But we need to realize that non-replicability is a fundamental component of the metadimensional perspective. Its like running in a dark maze during a raging tornado and trying to ensure the same route every time. Experiments on psi phenomena may be the closest to this in conventional scientific research: Replication requires the same experiment and the subtle changes do not allow that. Scientific Model of Feasibility and Falsifiability: LFAF Model Because there are areas with evidence and even proof in science that cannot be replicated, we need to consider adding to this approach in these special, ostensibly contradictory circumstances. The special circumstances in which the classical approach of Karl Popper in the Philosophy of Science requiring falsifiability cannot be applied include evolution, cosmology, new models (for example, Einsteinian General Relativity took some years), dimensions beyond 3S-1t, models of indeterminacy, psi, entanglement and alleged survival after bodily death. Because falsifiability is usually limited to only 3S-1t, we propose a new model approach to the philosophy of science. We recognize that some elements cannot be falsified at this time in 3S-1t, yet there may be ample evidence the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fit in 3S-1t. This means the data may be feasible and not provably falsified by empirical data. We propose a model, which we call Lower Dimensional Feasibility (usually 3S-1t), Absent Falsification (abbreviated to the more useful acronym LFAF). We realize this is equivalent to using a jigsaw puzzle in 3S-1t and filling in the pieces that fit, but this must not allow a contradiction, otherwise the data may be falsified. We believe that science must recognize this lower dimensional feasibility with the absence of falsification rule because it is not new. It has been used frequently before in major areas of science when a proposition may be not falsifiable but is feasible. Three obvious aspects are the big bang theory, evolution and distant astronomical objects. For many scientists, these are generally accepted prevailing science, but are not falisifiable (so they may be wrong and we dont know that), and therefore, at least fit into Popperian conjecture.22 Our proposed LFAF model usually relates to 3S-1t, but not exclusively so as applying, for example, thought or mathematics, other dimensions may obtain incomplete data from higher dimensions (and we discuss theorems to
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demonstrate the feasibility of such incompleteness). This is an extension of conventional thought in the discipline of the philosophy of science. Carl Popper's theoretical self-evident axiomatic model of falsifiability in science pervades our thinking: the posit that science must be based upon falsifiability is very adequate for almost all 3S-1t related empirical data. Ironically, Poppers falsifiability axiom is untestable because it is not itself falsifiable! We posit it would be an error to apply it aloneexclusively as the reasoning from the "self-evident". In fact, because of extended dimensions Poppers axiomatic approach to truth may be incorrect: There are many obvious empirically based prejudicial examples, e.g., the origins of hypnosis, electricity, X-rays, meteorites, sterilization preventing death, round earth, earth revolving round the sun, Einsteinian relativity, warping of reality, splitting the atom, and psi. Moreover, even evolution in its broadest base is not falsifiable but it could be feasible at the 3S-1t domain depending on ones a priori Bayesian prior distribution statistical calculations, although others have argued that it would require intentionality as well, and this is statistically completely unfeasible using Bayesian reasoningbecause of this, a Bayesian metadimensional approach is itself inappropriate because there is no base to scientifically argue about probabilistic odds: Metadimensional is the term we have coined to describe the application of dimensions beyond 3S-1t. The great mathematician, Bernhard Riemann recognized this limitation in his ND-conjecture on the basis of his metrical doctrine, recognizing incompatible congruent classes of intervals and thus, incompatible congruence relations 95. Effectively, this means he recognized mathematical non-falsifiability in NDimensions. Should falsifiability of science be the single fundamental instrument of proof? If so, this means that any hypothesis that involves more than four dimensions may be not falsifiable in 3S-1t, and thus, become non-science. Under this dictum, many currently accepted theories would become pseudoscience, including evolution, most of biology, particle physics, and cosmology. Even Einstein struggled with this concept of falsifiability until the theory of relativity was shown to account for the divergence of the orbit of the planet Mercury from Newtonian physics and to accurately predict the bending of light rays around the sun, measured during an eclipse. Einsteins theory of relativity was not falsifiable for a long time after it was introduced in 1905. Also, the numerous models of string theory are not currently falsifiable. By demonstrating the limitations of Popperian demands for the falsifiability of science in metadimensional realities, we apply the lower dimensional feasibility absent falsification (LFAF) approach. Like single puzzle pieces in a whole, some conclusions are feasible yet not falsifiable in the traditional sense. This is so as metadimensions
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(i.e., D >3S-1t) cannot be directly represented in 3S-1t. When science encompasses a theory that is not non-falsifiable within 3S-1t, feasibility may turn out more relevant than falsifiability. 1. If the data that exists as a jigsaw piece in our conventional 4D (3S-1t) current reality. This data must not have been contradicted by the best available information demonstrated in a specific scientific discipline. We use the term "not falsified" or absent falsification for this. Most non-falsified data, usually experienced in 3S-1t, is falsifiable, but that is simply a subset of the whole of not falsified group; so feasibility then comes in. 2. if data can be supported by some empirical base, this makes it feasible. In other words, if there are data showing a postulate is feasible, it can be studied until definitive tests are devised (e.g., Bells Theorem). 3. if the hypothesis is both "not falsifiable" yet feasible, it fits our definition of "science". The mathematical and logical equivalent of LFAF is non-contradiction. Contradictions differ from paradoxes. There are several paradoxical situations in mathematicological thinking that have proven correct despite their apparent illogicality. Feasibility: What It Does Not Mean LFAF refers to Lower Dimensional Feasibility, but in order to analyze that lower dimensional feasibility there has to be appropriate empirical scientific basis for this. For example, in John Dunnes famous book An Experiment with Time 96, he talks about how there is no contradiction to what he is saying and refers to the soul, freewill, and survival after bodily death and feels that this is proven. However, he provides no empirical data: Mentioning a concept, en passant, such as free-will and stating it is feasible does not raise its level to lower dimensional feasibility. This is not an application of LFAF.

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CHAPTER 6: THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM 97 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein (attributed) Requirements 1. Material flying away from the postulated Big Bang was somehow organized into complex forms that maintain their forms over long periods of time. This requires an organizing agent. 2. We can include consciousness in the equations describing reality by re-examining the basic assumptions and resultant structure of science and mathematics. This requires examining the beginning of the finite physical universe, and the beginning of consciousness. To be true, the key components of any TOE must allow feasible modifications from the current conceptual, mathematical and scientific models without contradicting fundamental knowledge (other than materialist reductionism), and must also seamlessly reconcile with the major theoretical models and authoritative sources from the other natural sciences and be compatible with the three major disciplines examining concepts outside our 3S-1t conventional reality. In this manner, the laws of nature should be universally applicable to to all scientific endeavors. Additionally, a TOE model may need to incorporate the mathematical and empirical relevance of: an extended perception of consciousness (which were calling C-substrate); dimensions. This requires careful definition which we apply in part with Closes calculus of distinctions; and a process across these dimensionswe use indivension, and a contentwe apply vortices; infinity, if necessary relative infinity, and incorporating zero; orderas opposed to the physics concept of entropy implying a natural tendency to disorder. Our model has arisen out of this necessity because a TOE requires no contradictions in order to attain its feasibility without any falsified empirical data in 3S-1t. We believe that no TOE has been developed satisfactorily before because the role of the Csubstrate had been ignored, as well as the aspects that follow, namely, extra dimensions, and recognizing the roles of infinity and order in reality. Linguistic Needs We have already used new terms and special definitions of current terms. This is a necessary and essential part of any new framework there must be an efficient
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logical language capable of describing the interaction between conscious entities and the reality they experience. This requires careful definition, and in some instances, redefinition, of current concepts ensuring a lack of ambiguity and adequate operationalization of terms. It also requires the development of numerous new terms. These neologisms must be necessary and perform a communication function. The new words must be chosen carefully so that there is an easy comprehension of the new meaning. These terms or phrases must communicate information when the English language is lacking such description. Additionally, these terms must complement the other uses. We develop several new, necessary terms to facilitate understanding in this new specialty, that can be best described as Dimensional Biopsychophysics. LFAF and Consciousness The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) is controversial because of its implications. Nevertheless, the mathematics and the empirical data strongly support the necessity for this fundamental paradigm. This paradigm may appear presumptive given the failed attempts of the past century to achieve a TOE, but it applies a key, fundamental difference: the obvious, but previously ignored, phenomenon of consciousness. Essentially, this paradigm utilizes all these features and appears to work; the others have not. The multidisciplinary TDVP model incorporates all these disciplines into the same unified world-view. TDVP demonstrates the essential and maintained holistic-unified triadic nature of space, time and "consciousness". This biopsychophysical reality applies to everything from the subatomic to the astrophysical, and has been true from the very beginning of the cosmos. Examining the particular example of relevance to consciousness: 1. Consciousness as an integral part of reality is feasible based on the empirical data that has been developed, and 2. Consciousness is also non-falsifiable and has therefore, not been falsified. 3. There are not many aspects of consciousness that cannot be easily falsifiable because data replicability is difficult or even impossible because the abundance of variables (e.g., "experimenter effect", relative non-locality and object-subject interaction) is far more difficult to repeat exactly as an experiment than in most fields of science. Effectively, the same information in exactly the same circumstances never re-occurs, just approximations and dependent on the particular circumstances, the changed factors may be critical confounding elements to maintain reality. This multiplicity is seen as a reflection of the transfinite in the finite. 4. The abundance of six sigma results in psi experiments indicates a high likelihood that relevant components may lead to demonstrable falsifiability. Re-examining the requirements for science, those aspects, which are not demonstrably
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falsified, and yet feasible in 3S-1t, are still acceptable scientific approaches. This is demonstrably true in the context of the C-substrate. A Perspective Approach to Developing a Metaparadigm The metaparadigmatic approach The term metaparadigm describes the overriding paradigm into which all others can be fitted. Metaparadigms reflect a worldview underlying all the theories and methodologies of all other paradigms. In that way a metaparadigm is a theory of everything. Given the absence of a viable metaparadigm to this point, our model of TDVP reflects a metaparadigmatic shift. Proofs To raise the TDVP Theory of Everything to the status of a real metaparadigm, we needed supporting proof. We had always maintained that this would be via mathematics and related logic and we have introduced several mathematical proofs for our model. Methodology and assessing significance Development of a metaparadigm ideally closely follows the methodology we use in science: We look at the literature on the topic, we develop hypotheses and we test the hypotheses by developing a proper methodology. From this we obtain results, and we discuss those results. Our results are analyzed by statistical analysis or when pertinent by what is clinically significant (e.g., a common technique in the Medical Sciences; one wants an antibiotic to work against a sensitive organism not statistically but almost every time clinically; and at times: Direct subjective observation because we dont need to statistically analyze (e.g., Youve smelt the fragrance of perfume: You are not trying to prove that you smelt it). Sometimes double-blind studies cannot be done for ethical or other reasons the classic story of the scientist who wants to do the double blind study of whether going from a parachute 2000 feet above the ground will work, and of course you have to have a control group of people not in their parachute. Heuristic scientific approach From our results, we draw preliminary conclusions. This constitutes a completed research experiment testing the limited hypotheses of this research. In the majority of cases when examining data in 3S-1t (3 spatial dimensions at a moment in time) the data can be based on the philosophy of science idea of falsifiability: We can reject what is wrong and we can replicate our findings with
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another experiment. The limitations of this approach, however, are the limitations of our conventional common physical reality being limited to experiencing 3 dimensions of space and one point in time. We then move to the next stage of interpretation allowing us now to further test extended postulates based on our conclusions. Eventually we develop a paradigm. However, many facets of paradigms may not obey the limitations of 3S-1t stringencies. This means they cannot be tested by applying the falsifiability alone. We have, of necessity, therefore, introduced an ancillary technique called LFAF (Lower dimensional feasibilitygenerally in 3S-1tabsent falsification) to allow for evaluation of empirical results combined. Additionally, we apply mathematics and logic to ensure that our paradigm cannot be theoretically refuted by contradictions and even more so, when available, that it can be established by mathematical proof (a contradiction is a paradox in the strongest sense; it is a statement that flatly cannot be true under any circumstances). Paradigms, axioms and eventually metaparadigms Ultimately, combining all the paradigms together, the theorist and scientist may produce a broader series of paradigms and eventually develop a metaparadigm. This will be made up of numerous related postulated axioms, which can be unified together and still remain viable using LFAF. The challenge is large because it has never been done before. Our New Paradigm: An Integrative Approach Unlearning what we have learnt A basic problem in developing a new theory of everything is unlearning much of what we think we already know. Overcoming this problem requires that we go back to our first ontological principles and re-build the entire epistemological structure of human thought from scratch. This is a formidable task that few have any lasting desire to undertake; and, when a new theory of everything is found, this same problem is mirrored in the task of presenting it in a way that will persuade others to follow that same arduous path. At the end of the arduous path from first principles, we (the authors) found reality to be holistic. The fragmented picture painted by current science is not a true reflection of reality, but rather a reflection of how we perceive and think about it. In addition, except for basic physical stimuli and response, most internal human experience is considered subjective, unreliable and unsuited for scientific study. There is no place in the equations of the standard model for consciousness. Beyond reductionism We were motivated to develop a comprehensive theory that would re-unite the
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scientific paradigm with human experience. In order to be inclusive, the essential characteristic of our new theory is integrative, in contrast to the methods of contemporary science, which are largely reductionist. Because the new theory presented here includes realities heretofore excluded from consideration by legitimate mainstream science, describing and understanding it may require unlearning and rethinking to an unprecedented degree. The concepts below are amplified later but we briefly discuss now the essentials of the integrative approach. Percepts and concepts are not actual reality The first thing we must unlearn is the misconception that we, as conscious observers, are completely separate from that which we observe. Quantum mechanics experiments, e.g., the double-slit and delayed-choice experiments provide empirical evidence that the separation of the observer from the observed is perceptual and conceptual, not actual 8. This perceived separation is the result of the limitations of our physical senses and the conscious act of drawing distinctions. In order to understand the integrative theory presented in this book, an acceptance and a clear understanding of the holistic nature of reality is needed. If you can accept the idea that reality may be holistic, it is our intent to provide you with a clear understanding of how and why this is so. The separations of reality into distinctions of matter, energy, space, time, and consciousness are perceptual and conceptual constructions created by the limitations of the physical senses and conceptual choices. The matter, energy, space, time, and consciousness of the 3S-1t world are all ephemeral distinctions drawn within the infinitely continuous essence of reality. The separation of these distinctions, however, even though ultimately illusory, is quite real in the 3S-1t world in which we must operate. Calculus of distinctions Consistent with the ultimate holistic nature of reality, the various fields of science, mathematics, and geometry should not be viewed as separate; they all arise from the intrinsic logic of the substrate of consciousness and are based in the drawing of distinctions. Their axioms, theorems and proofs, when correct, are extensions of the primitive logic of distinctions underlying the perceptual reality of the universe. The formal logic involves the drawing of distinctions, called the Calculus of Distinctions 8. From this integrated point of view, we are able to see the connection between the physical universe and human consciousness, and the connections between the infinite continuity of the substrate of transfinite consciousness and the finite distinctions of human consciousness, time space, energy and matter. Re-uniting space, time and consciousness
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The re-uniting of the physical universe with consciousness, and the subsequent reuniting of science with human experience, is analogous to the re-uniting of mathematics with physical dimensions and the re-uniting of dimensions with their roots in the logic of the calculus of distinctions. When mathematics and dimensionometry (geometry extended into realities of more than 4 dimensions) are integrated, we have perfect tools with which to measure the variables of extent of space, time and consciousness, beyond which we discover a second level of distinctions: variables of content, by which we may measure the density of matter, energy and information within the substrates of space, time and consciousness. It should come as no surprise, if reality is a holistic reality, to discover that there is a oneto-one correspondence between the various types of numbers in pure mathematics (conventional number theory) and the variables of extent and content in the multidimensional STC substrate. It is also quite natural to find mathematical invariants relating any reality of n dimensions to the reality extended into n+1dimensions, allowing the logical extrapolation from one dimensional reality to the next. As indicated by the discovery of the red shift in the light from distant stars, consistently increasing with distance 10; 68; 98; 99 and the equations of the general theory of relativity, the universe we perceive is expanding. Based on the occurrence of matter and energy only in quantum units, the triadic nature of dimensionometry and the forces of an expanding universe, application of Fermats last theorem explains the breaking of the original symmetry and the prominence of spiral motions, helixes and vortices in the dynamics of our physical universe. In a multi-dimensional triadic (STC) universe of nine or more dimensions, all distinct objects, especially at the quantum level are seen as variants of the vortical form. This allows the incorporation of most of the features of string theory into the TDVP model.

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CHAPTER 7: OUR FUNDAMENTAL MODEL 100; 101 Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. Gary Zukav (1942, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters") 51 Towards a Logic for the Metaparadigm of TDVP This model has been in development for over fifty years (more than 25 for each of the two researchers). We have taken into account feedback and have recognized the need for empiricism, mathematics and applying logic. For every concept, we have ensured that there is both a mathematical, logical and frequently an empirical basis to justify it by using either LFAF or falsifiability. Historical background to TDVP We have discussed briefly here the endpoints of our model but this did not occur in this order: Initially we realized the need for space and time but also that our current physical world was rarely, yet definitely violated by contradictions. We recognized the need for a further component besides space and time, some kind of consciousness, meaning or essence. This then was a rare but not unique model involving multidimensionality, space-time and some kind of consciousness. Between us we had developed two overlapping and similar models (Neppes Vortex N-dimensionalism 6 and Closes Transcendental Physics 8), but these were still different and incomplete. Neppe had recognized the role of vortices, and Close had developed the mathematics explaining the prevalence of spiral motion, but unification from quantal spin was the last of the final components of our TDVP model. We had realized the fundamental role of origin, but had to resolve the period around and before the Big Bangz or any other origin it need not even be a finite origin but an infinite one or alternatively a process different from the Big Bang but something else. We had to find a way to link space, time and consciousness, and this was achieved by postulating the existence of the three as a triad. But we still needed to understand what exactly was that triadic mechanism and we introduced inseparability, but that was problematic because how would dimensions be expressed? We knew there had to be an absolute incontrovertible link of meaning with space-time dimensionality, but also that each of these theoretically had to have their own independence. The concepts of tethering and dimensional extrapolation allowed for this and it was also paralleled by a mechanism expressing
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itself across and between dimensions, with the vortex being the content, and the process being indivension. Moreover, this resolved the dilemma of the number of dimensions: They were not a constant but fluctuated in different states, and also potentially with traits of individuals. We needed to realize the biosocial significance but this required recognition that these traits were different dependent on which system unit one was referring to, hence the introduction of the term individual-unit that made this model into a biopsychofamiliosociocultural one. We realized there was a need to introduce the theoretical concept of dimension into consciousness and this was achieved through the calculus of distinctions and the application of ordinal comparisons of extent. But our model was still incomplete: We needed to explain life, unify consciousness and understand how the brain/ nervous system and sentient beings link. This was accomplished by incorporating how the infinite, life and order fit in and recognizing that there had to be a curved 3D-movement: Vortices are always in 3D and fit that description. The necessity for the infinite A major breakthrough has been the recognition of the definitive need for recognizing both the finite and infinite realities and their linkage. Infinity is necessary mathematically, because the Gdel incompleteness theorem requires it 102; 103: We could not develop a metaparadigm based on finite reality alone, because to Gdels theorem that would be a closed complete system. 103; 104 Ordropy We speculate on another theoretical motivation for infinity: The second law of thermodynamics is based on a closed physical finite reality and deals with entropy the tendency towards disorder. Yet demonstrable order occurs in physical life. The common explanation is that entropy implies greater disorder elsewhere in that closed finite loop. But this is unproven and may be illogical. Entropy without an opposite defies our observation and logic: Whereas, non-living physical systems in a closed finite subreality tend towards disorder, and even the human body, tends to utilize energy sources and move towards lower equilibrium states, continued living also is an empirically demonstrable experience that billions of individuals can attest toat least that their own life exists. While physically alive, we all experience a remarkable order and structure to life, a consciousness, and a separation of self from others. We are ordered beings even if tendencies towards physical disorder play a role. If we were purely entropic beings, we would die very quickly. Yet each individual knows at least, that he or she exists. Is there truly an equivalent added disorder in the rest of the closed loop cosmos to balance that order? A strongly motivated alternative explanation is to explain ordered reality in living individuals, through the concept of infinite continuous systems permeating through the closed finite discrete systems that may ostensibly produce disorder in physical reality. Therefore, if the finite is insufficient to explain ordropy, this strongly motivates
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the infinite reality. Using this logic, we introduce the term ordropy: Ordropy is far more than just negative entropy (negentropy). It is multidimensional (and the term ordropy derives not only from order as in ord and the reversal of entropy as in tropy but the d also refers to the N-dimensional element). The existence of ordropy is obvious, overt, and is real, based on our common experience of life and order. We use ordropy as a composite term to explain the state of order that may be linked with the infinite and also sentient beings in the finite. Why ordropy not extropy as a term? We originally used the term extropy instead of ordropy (even in the first edition of this very book). Ironically, were not using it now because there were other later, incorrect definitions of extropy that referred to the pseudoscientific principle that life will expand indefinitely and in an orderly, progressive way throughout the entire universe by the means of human intelligence and technology. aa Our use is not pseudoscientific, not limited to life, and not limited to the indefinite life expansion. So we reluctantly have changed our term to avoid misinterpretation: Particularly, ironic is that the term extropy was actually developed by one of the authors. Dr Ed Close in his book Infinite Continuity, and he followed up using Extropy in Transcendental Physics 8; 17! Ordropy and the infinite Ordropy further motivates a broader ordered reality that is not limited to a closed complete setting. The process we call ordropy is far more than just negative entropy (negentropy) because an open, infinite setting implies metadimensionality. Entropy is applicable in a finite closed system wherein the second law of thermodynamics is not compromised, but it does not apply in infinite open reality. The need for such ordropy derives from existence in the infinite and conversely because of the limitations of explaining ordered life in the finite, ordropy implies infinity. Therefore, ordropic order necessarily had to be in an open system otherwise the laws of entropy would be compromised and in turn, many of the fundamental laws of physics would be overturned. Ordropy is not only a multidimensional level, but implies order at that infinity level infinite dimensional reality (metadimensional). In summary, the physics of entropy is inapplicable if you go infinite because infinity reflects an open reality, and ordropy is far more than just negative entropy because it is all pervasive, not unidimensional order. Ordropy and life But is there a need for ordropy? Yes, there is. The demonstrable need for ordropy in physical life in the finite provided the correct physiology and genes manifest at that time. The consequence is living sentient beings, and effectively the
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abstraction is the life component. We posit this derives from the infinite reality of this existence and is accessible via ordropy. Life is the ultimate expression of this ordropy at the infinite level. Because it is a different life in the infinite, we call it polife or potential physical life, although it still may imply an existence in the infinite. Therefore, this is an example of the infinite interfacing with the finite. A hypothetical refutation of TDVP Because of the fundamental aspect of eternal life in the infinite, if it were found that physical death was an extinction, then TDVP could be refuted because a fundamental part of the TDVP model would be untrue. Infinity and interfacing with the finite Closely linked with order and life, is broader continuous flow of meaningful information. Consciousness and meaning are still linked up with our S, T, C tethering and inseparability at the discrete finite level and added meaning is acquired through the infinite interfacing with the finite: The finite is just a movie frame of the broader infinite realityas if the order coming from metainformation can be translated into the infinite continuous meanings of metaconsciousness. Again, this link is facilitated if one postulates unified infinite time, with multiple dimensions of finite time all beginning at the Origin Event. STC Tethering Tethering is far more than just physical linkage, per se: The various substrates are inseparable at their source areas so that it is more than connection where space, time and C-substrate are all tethered. They are part of the same substance effectively and hence the term Qualits. The notation that is used is content, and the metaphor is one container of three different dimensional forms, all mixed like chemicals, such that they form a new chemical mixture. Infinite continuity and finite quantal discreteness We realized recently the need for the infinite to be continuous, and the finite to be discrete, and we were therefore, able to apply the same model of quantum physics, and specifically quantal meaning across the subatomic, macroreality and astrorealities and its relationship with a continuous infinite metainformation/ metaconsciousness reservoir. These needs have now been incorporated into our model. Top-down tethering In summary, we are describing reality both from the top-down (the extension of the transfinite into 3S-1t) and from the bottom-up by dimensional extrapolation. We have STC inseparability at both ends or in other dimensional levels of connectivity and tethers emanate from or communicate with these sources. However, this tethering and their sources occur at the discrete transfinite level, because it is contradictory to call the infinite anything local. In fact, there might usually be an absence of S and T (both approximate zero) at the transfinite level, so this reality is conceptualized as finite
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relative nonlocality. Quanta and discrete meaning Metaconsciousness and quantal meaning are closely linked but in different contexts. Metaconsciousness from an infinite point of view is conceptually continuous. Quantal consciousness or quantal meaning is in quanta or perhaps qualits (in the context possibly of conscits as fundamental units reflecting C-substrate) and is discrete. This implies that there could be some kind of particle or particle wave in relation to this meaning as well, and hence the hypothesis of a psitron or a kinetron would be a possibility at that level. We could speculate that this discrete meaning may not be at the quantal level per se, but potentially may even be at the subquantal level or in dark space (these could speculatively be the same). But ultimately, applying TDVP, the infinite and the finite subrealities interface at every level. Non-locality in the finite; metacist in the infinite John Bell coined the term non-local 105-107 to describe the strange state of elementary particles that would have to exist between their source and the receptor, if Bohrs interpretations were correct. 108 We prefer metalocal, metatime, metats and metacist. The finite is non-local, the infinite meta-local. Table 1: New terminology applied to essence Meta-information vs. information (limited finite, discrete) Meta- consciousness Meta-time, meta-timal Meta-space, meta-spatial Metats, metatsal Metacist, metacistal (consciousness, information, space, time). Also Meta-order (for extropy in the infinite) and Meta-life (or Po-life) Infinite space and time. All of space and all of time combines as a single unit, so it is not a finite nonlocality because non-local is in the context of the finite, but it is an illogical term in the context of the infinite particularly as it refers to all of local space and all of time. This motivates why we introduced metaspace and metatime, and combining them into space-time, it would be metats (metast is too close to metastasis) with metatsal (as adjective), if one combined the CST with consciousness as well. Additionally, we have metacist and the i could be information. (Table 1) Effectively, although space and time could be applied in an artificial isolated theoretical way, TDVP explicitly explains the axiom that S and T cannot be separated from the C-substrate at the level of the tethered CST and that this manifests from our (finite) Origin Event. This means that C-substrate (implying consciousness in some manifestation) always exists. We speculate that that part of the CST manifesting as Consciousness, Space or Time alone, with its vortical indivension projections,
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invariably involves manifestations in sentient beings in the C-substrate. This does not mean that multidimensional time alone may not be vortical but the sentient being will not register it. And the same would apply to Space, although we can more easily conceive of the first three dimensions of space. That ultimate registration is at some level of N-consciousness through the nervous system and the manifestation would be through the meaning of C-substrate with the rest not existing in our standard experiential reality. At higher dimensional finite levels, and certainly by the transfinite, it is far more difficult for us to propose anything but finite C-substrate dimensions. On the infinity side we have CIST, namely, consciousness, information, space and time. The whole term essence incorporates metaspace, metatime and metaconsciousness, but it also incorporates ordropy and life. Therefore, we can refer to the essence as the qualities of the infinite. We need not draw any theological or mystical allusions to this. TDVP Revisited Philosophy Finally, we were able to reconcile this model philosophically as unified monism and even find justification with the concepts of infinity for theologians and mystics potentially to make interpretations, although we have not, per se, introduced anything pertaining to a supreme being. We do not go in that direction, but we can see how there are speculative jumps towards such conclusions. At one point, we had used the term guided reality because we were trying to transmit concepts of infinity and meaning, but we now apply the term meaning for a more balanced scientific approach. In any event, guided is better called guiding. Postulates and relativity Our model then of itself generated several hundred postulates or ideas and these have become valuable, for example the role of forces and energies, a variety of different theorems relating to extradimensionality and even the possibility of extending warped gravitation to other forces, effectively extending Einsteinian relativity. We have recognized the need for relative elements and of even relative objectivity, and weve been able to introduce a speculative model unifying the quantum and subatomic supposedly objective components with the subjectivity of experience of such a model. Essentials We now regard TDVP as fulfilling the requirements of a metaparadigm. The core axioms effectively separate out each component of our metaparadigm for simpler explanation, but come together as a fundamental basic TDVP unit. Extensions We must not go beyond interpreting the basics, as the hundreds of speculations may or may not be true. These include models for psi phenomena and for entanglement.
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Given its rapidity of change over the past several months, due to further development by the authors and consideration of peer review comments, with the same core ideas, but greater clarity, we have little doubt that this will continue to develop. We have briefly tabulated some of these ideas below, and then discuss them briefly, hoping this will lead to greater refinements and new directions and ideas. The proposed model: We propose a model that has the following attributes: This will become clearer once the information on which it is based is perused below but it is nevertheless, presented here at the outset to allow a perspective of our postulates: There is a single unitary reality conforming to the laws of nature with both continuous infinite and discrete finite components and a variably permeable boundary between. Essentially space, time and consciousness are fundamentally inseparably tethered from the event-horizon (e.g., the big bang). This fundamental and permanent STC inseparability has separate tethered components. This means that S, T and C-substrates still are very closely allied in meaning and interaction even when they are separated in finite space, time and consciousness. There is a unification of what, in our conventional reality of 3S-1t, we experience as distinct past, present and future. This means that our concept of time is relative and requires at least a conceptualization of not one moment in time (zero dimensions) but a linear movement across time. We further motivate that time is likely to be multidimensional (at least two, more likely three) and this allows for such concepts as vortical indivension, tethering and free-will to be more easily developed. This could also imply that there may be something outside or beyond our conventional standard experience of time. Because all finite realities exist in time, this concept would need to reflect infinite realities. With the tethering of a fundamental consciousness to space and time, the likelihood of a requisite order to reality becomes a theoretical possibility and there is empirical data (e.g., life and its origins) to support that. This means that there may be another system besides physical disorder that we call entropy. This is more than negative entropy. We call this active system ordropy. Dimensional Elements in the TDVP Model The following outlines these ideas relating to dimensions: a. Existence has more dimensions than our conventional 3 dimensions of space and one point in time. We use the term meta-dimensional for this. b. Existence implies at minimum, the intertwining of 3 dimensions of space, at least 1
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dimension of time and of a C-substrate. (See the section Statistical Basis Justifying a Paradigmatic Shift below.) c. Existence requires a triadic representation of the 3 substrates of time, space and Csubstrate (what we are calling S substrate, T substrate, and C-substrate) in varying proportions making up a metadimensional existence. (Lemma based on the C-substrate axiom below): Our ideas also relate to the structure of these dimensions, namely, that in all of existence from the most subatomic particle or packet to the largest astronomical level, there is a necessary co-existence of space, time, and what weve called the C-substrate. We call this CST and observe the three components of this triadic model. We demonstrate this mathematically and dimensionometrically with dimensional extrapolation and proven theorems. Triadic CST (or SCT) and Indivension The structure we axiomatically propose is that CST acts as a tethered unit and cannot be totally separated in nature. This means a unified wholeness exists even at the Origin Event: This is the Axiom of Tethered Origin (ATO), which reflects one of the fundamental 22 axioms in our broader metaparadigm from which TTOOURS derives. To explain this structure across dimensions we require a content, which in TDVP involves a ubiquitous curved shape that is moving, called Vortices. The vortex here is used in its broadest context. This includes very complex such as spinors, helices, and shapes from elongated curved tubes to spheres, and movement that includes zero movement. Vortices are thus, fundamental three dimensional ovoid movements creating content through space-time-C-substrate. Our TDVP model recognizes the need for a process relating to that vortical content. This process is called indivension describing these fluctuating vortices moving across and between dimensions. The term indivension was needed because no such term previously existed and it was coined out of necessity. In our TDVP model, dimensions are necessarily beyond 3S-1t. This is because not only do a fluctuating number of dimensions of consciousness exist, but there is a solid logic to proposing more than 1 dimension of time. A complex clarification is apposite: The 3D element in vortices implies space, and the movement implies time. However, this would be how we conceptualize them in 3S-1t. But they could be 3D of consciousness or of time, moving across and within other higher level vortices or dimensional structures, ad infinitum. Three dimensional structures could be involved at the metadimensional level as components of a broader transfinity. This means that vortices still have a universal applicability throughout N-dimensions. In order to bring consciousness into the equations that describe reality, we involve it in the definitions of our most basic terms. This is needed as the current materialistic, physicalistic, reductionist, standard scientific, everyday 3S-1t paradigm ignores consciousness. This may be that it is not falsifiable and cannot be easily falsified by
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empirical datathis is illogical because it would make considerable parts of psychology and the social sciences into pseudosciences because of their lack of falsification. We accept the social sciences as legitimate sciences because it is convenient in those contexts to understand consciousness as axiomatic despite the difficulties of definition. Whereas most physical sciences are falsifiable in almost every activity, the findings of both subatomic physics as well as overwhelming statistical data against chance in consciousness research sometimes require re-examinations applying LFAF. It may well be that indivension reflects the projections out from the original inseparable source of STC with tethering of space, time and consciousness. This would explain the practical mechanisms of how tethered linkages impact also on psi, entanglement, as well as indivension, or at least some of these. Effectively, they are still loosely linked like the balloon on the string is connected with the hand holding it. But this mechanism for psi is at present a tenuous and speculative hypothesis, although theoretically the conceptual links appear to be worthy of further exploration.

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CHAPTER 8: REALITY AND SUBJECTIVITY 109 "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. Unknown Monist or Pluralist? The TDVP model may superficially appear a materialist model because it portrays the unification of space-time and consciousness. It therefore, seems monistic, and since space is perceived as a substance, and time is experienced as a duration. However, it is anything but materialistic. It is almost pluralistic in portraying a transfinite number of individual realities all closely interwoven with each other at multisystems levels, but that ostensible pluralism is really a monism of one single natural law reality that has components that are experienced as separate and subjective, and perceived and conceptualized depending on the nature of the sentient being (e.g., human or even amoeba) that experiences it. Unified Monism and Tethering TDVP philosophically and conceptually portrays a Unified Monism, an inseparable source linkage forever for both finite and infinite subrealities. From the inseparable source of space, time and extended consciousness at the most fundamental level of origin separations of S, T and C occur in the tethered (looser linked) areas. Though there are zillions of tethered projections the source unification creates a unified philosophical unit. Reality and Individual-units The realities are subjectively, finitely experienced individually by individual-units (groups, individuals, families, ethnicities, cultures, society and specieswe have used this order in this example to easily portray the individual-unit that makes up all these subpopulations and all other combinations and spelling out GIFECSs). All these individualunits experience their own subjective reality within a finite environment of discrete events or objects or impacts. When our reality complements what others are experiencing, approximate the individual-units of others, then we are experiencing a common reality that is perceived as actual but still is subjective. In 3S-1t, the actualized common reality is usually experienced in finite units of every separate individual because one conceptual endpoint of experience is through the separated identity of each individual single brain. It may that this endpoint is a misnomer: the brain acts as an integrator and executive of information, and bidirectionally with input and output. Speculatively, the brain may even be one expression of a quantum or even subquantal physical mechanism. The individual-unit concept is far more than each individual brain, though the sum of these may produce a whole. Because of the
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GIFECS links (e.g., familially, sociologically and ethnically) the sum of all may be greater than all these brains not working in unison. Finite Bottoms-up Tethering The tethering could be conceptualized in finite subreality, from the bottoms-up, or the inside-out, for example, in finite reality. In our conventional 3S-1t domain, such tethering involves a finite progression from the most miniscule subatomic subquantal aspect through the macrophysical and astrophysical cosmological levels of both inanimate and animate existence. At that miniscule level, we speculatively postulate a qualit of any kind manifesting as an inseparable space-time-meaning with the potentials towards mass, energy and a directed information: It is a discrete unit, and although quanta may be the smallest such unit, this includes subquantal soup (the socalled black space) containing directed information within that space-time elements. Transfinite Top-down Tethering The necessary tethering of space, time and extended consciousness (STC), may occur at the highest dimensional levels (the discrete, countable transfinite kind of infinity). This can most easily be regarded as top-down, or outside-in. This STC can again impact all the lower dimensionalities with meaningful information because the tethering is only in portions, not complete. Effectively, the highest dimensional configurations do not require the lower ones to independently exist. They are closely allied and we postulate all dimensions influence each other. However, the higher may more easily influence the lower, because they are metaphorically able to conceptualize the lower dimensional jigsaw puzzles. Tethering and Vortical Indivension There may be zillions of other areas of interfacing of that tethering and because of the fundamental 3-dimensionality of structures, the conceptualized movement, and the rotational elements that appear ubiquitous, this tethering manifests vortically. As every individual unit manifests zillions of such vortices, and they interface, this effectively creates webs of interaction of individual-units at higher dimensionalities. This is why we developed the term indivension individual-units at higher dimensions. Some of these indivensions do not express themselves in experiential reality, they exist just as the whole infrared to ultraviolet spectrum limit us humans to a very small range of experiential light. Actual Reality is Relative, Experiential Common Reality The concept of an actual reality may initially imply materialism as the actual reality would reflect objective physics. But it is never an actual reality that is experienced by sentient beings. Instead of actual reality we use the term common reality. This is
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experienced as ones own existential reality. There is certainly a closeness given the almost identical experiences of our species of space and time that it resembles a common realityit has perceptual input, it is integrated, it is then conceptualized with interpretations, and this is experienced as common reality. This common reality is almost identical for all humankind, just as our genetics are almost but not quite identical for all humankind, or for that matter all sentient beings. The Misnomer of Actual Our initial misnomer term, actual reality, changed because it is relatively objective and actual reality refers to objective physics: Instead of actual reality, we therefore, use common reality because it fits also into our idea of an individual-unit where there are different levels of subjective reality and an individual may belong to several subjective individual-units. We are not referring to the actual reality in the direct context of objective physics in our 3S-1t world earthly world domain. It is only ostensibly actual because large quantities of people can objectify it that it is still only relatively objectified by virtue of its commonality. Effectively, it is experiential reality common reality or relative objective physical reality. This is not to deny that there is an actual reality out there that is objective in that it exists irrespective of the observer, but that still contains elements of consciousness or meaning even at the subatomic level. Whether such objectivity, is truly objective therefore, could be debated as there may be subtle dynamic variations occurring subatomically at the level of quanta or qualits. The ideas of perceived realityperceptual reality, conceptual reality, and actual reality may initially imply materialism as the actual reality reflects objective physics. But objective physics is not truly objective: It still requires our subjective experiences and indeed cognitive interpretations and integrations in the brain. Commonality and Interactions The relative subjective context and relative objectivity does not exist in the absolute context. It is always based on perceptual, conceptual, and experiential commonality (a principle of the Calculus of Distinctions). In fact, even indivension of these zillions of interactions is clearly perceptual and/or conceptual, depending on the number of dimensions that one is limited to, and these may fluctuate depending on state and trait circumstances. The Inanimate and the Fallen Tree in the Empty Forest What about the so-called inanimate? The subatomic particles, the molecules, the macroscopic objects such as bar of iron, which do not sustain any form of physical life. Do they involve these processes? No and yes: No, in that some kind of neurological consciousness is required in a living being to perceive, conceptualize and experience.
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But yes, in that TDVP includes a Quantum Consciousness because space and time cannot exist without meaning. So, yes, when the sound of the falling tree is not heard by any sentient being and the fallen tree is not seen by that sentient being as lying in the empty forest, it still has fallen, and it still exists because S, T and C are inseparably tethered in all existence from the origin. This origin reflects the finite Origin Event that may very closely be linked with the infinite continuous reality where there is no beginning. Unified Monism Revisited For the reason above, the unification of a single reality becomes apparent in TDVP. This is why the equivalent philosophical model is called Unified Monism. Despite its apparent monist qualities in its title, is not materialist nor monist in the modern sense. If dualism now refers to consciousness, it has a dualistic element. But for the purist it is monist and the infinite and the finite are unified as there is only one reality. Relative Reality The relative subjective context and relative objectivity does not exist in the absolute context. It is always based on perceptual, conceptual, and experiential commonality. Relative reality follows from the fact that we are accepting general relativity, in the sense that there is no such thing as an objective reality independent of observation relative objectivity. The levels of appreciation reflect our perceptual afferents, our conceptual interpretations, and further validates relative reality, objective, common and manifest. The reality hierarchy objectively is quantal subatomic, macroreality and astroreality. 110 Relative objectivity is reflected from the quantum level, and is expressed at all levels, not only subatomically, but in macroreality, and in astroreality. In order to have relative subjectivity maybe there has to be some kind of animate component as opposed to inanimate component. Relative objectivity always uses the orthogonal Euclidean components but there is non-orthogonality and non-Euclidean elements when viewed from other dimensional perspectives. We should take care of distorted interpretations: Someone interpreting experience in a dichotomous way could make any terminology into an interpretative problem. Conscious Reality Closed and Open Consciousness reflects both the open infinite reality and the closed finite reality. This model speculatively allows both to fit together because we can translate the quantal meaning to STC via infinite metaconsciousness. It means there is no separation of meaning with metaconsciousness and that the ultimate integrator of conscious awareness and responsiveness is via the central nervous system of living beings.
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The Gesher and Dynamic Freedom of Choice: Real Meaning in Our Lives The finite and infinite subrealities constitute a single unified reality, necessarily existing always (note the universal time element) together in all space (note the universal space element). The question then is how does this interface take place? How does the infinite and the finite link? If they are technically one unified existence there is no need to link. All knowledge, all information, all existence is already there. But the finite, animate (living) being requires a filtration mechanism, a barrier so as not to be overwhelmed. We call this a geshera mystical (?) bridge, mystical in the linguistic sense of interaction with physical and an infinite essence. This gesher linkage allows incoming stimuli from the infinite and outgoing expression from the finite. It can be narrow or wide depending on ones needs. The infinite pervades the finite in all ways, but the finite can influence the infinite creating an influence on total realities that are higher. This is why we use here the term mystical because every action, every thought and every concept may have some influence on the dynamic infinite reality that may always change in the finite reality existence of our individualunit worlds. Therefore, there is freedom of choice because the infinite has infinite possibilities and potential, and the real opportunity to influence reality is our special reality. The circulating air of the infinite is not stagnant. The Higher Dimensions and Essence The extended continuous infinite is melding into the transfinite still discrete very high dimensional finite like there is no separation. Of course, the concept of higher and lower is linguistic alone. STC links in finite tethering from below (at the lower level, the bottom-up or inside-out level) and in an infinite tethering from above, at the higher, top-down or outside-in level. But all of space is present everywhere, all of time exists within the present, all of information is available as meaning, and all order is available across all domains as ordropy, and life potential (polife) is ready given the correct physiology and environment. All these properties pervade the laws of nature, and make up an infinite essence. But its just we do not know what laws of nature the infinite essence of ordropic polife metacist (meta-consciousness, -information, -space and time) consists of. The infinite need not impact from the top-down alone, it permeates all dimensions and directly impacts 3S-1t, our experiential, yet by the higher dimensions, possibly beyond 3S-3T-3C going towards NC a there is lesser and eventually only limited separation of the finite subreality and the infinite essence. The two have become one. Top-down and Bottoms-up This directionality of top-down is, of course, abstract and metaphorical: We could as easily talk about outside-in. Relevant, however, is the likelihood that we need to
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apply both the top-down approach of approaching the broader reality dimensionally downwards with the bottoms-up or inside-out approach relating to accommodating our physical 3S-1t worldly needs and then moving outwards or upwards. Effectively, many sentient beings dont have any direction: They live purely in 3S-1t. But if they did, they would usually begin at that individual level, approaching consciousness in accordance with their limitations (bottoms-up). Our physical sciences also approach reality by bottoms-up as this works well in 3S-1t physical existence. But conceptually, as we become more aware of metaconsciousness, the need to approach the bigger picture using top-down becomes more important.

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CHAPTER 9: THE C-, S- AND T- SUBSTRATES, DIMENSIONS, DOMAINS AND DISTINCTIONS 111 A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein Substrates Why have we chosen the term substrate and not matrix to describe space, time and broad consciousness? The substrate term is better than matrix: It is non-prejudicial unlike the rectangular matrix. Most of our model is curved and not rectangular. Also, substrate is commonly used in chemistry, but not in mathematics and that means we are not therefore, misusing it mathematically, but redefining it. A matrix implies a rectangular array of values or measurements that can be 3 dimensions or even more. We had used this term initially for S, T and C matrices but recognized its limitations including conflicts in name reflecting different concepts, e.g., Space Matrix in String Theory 112. Therefore, we changed it. What it is really expressing may or may not be as objectively mathematical. Nevertheless, the term substrate expresses well our understanding about consciousness, space and time and can be used as a dimensional substrate or simply substrate. Other synonyms such as milieu, identity or pattern do not fit. The only one that could is the term domain. But we already have an excellent use for domain and subdomain and we would have needed to redefine domain there. Substrate is the ground or origin from which something sprang. The S-substrate, the T-substrate, and the C-substrate are all appropriate in the mathematical sense and may assist readers who are examining our model piece-meal. Moreover, the term C-matrix could have been conceived incorrectly as a single matrix not multiple dimensions. In contrast, substrate is a more apposite term because within the S, T, and C substrates, we can motivate that there are many, even possibly, a transfinite number of dimensional substrates. This is particularly so because
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we motivate different qualities of consciousness, each corresponding with our definition of dimension. Dimensions Dimensions provide a logical, geometric-mathematical framework within which to describe the objects and events perceived and/or conceived as distinct features of reality. In any reality model, there are many measurable variables;, e.g., mass, energy, velocity, density, angular momentum, electrical charge, biological activity, information content, etc. But these are variables involving content not extent. While they are measurable features of perceptible reality, they are not dimensions. The number of dimensions is equal to the number of variables of extent present. Extent implies degrees of freedom, i.e., directions in which something can move. This is contrasted with content which does not have degrees of freedom but can be measured in terms of units of the constituent; a third domain, one with variables of intent refers to determination to act but not the action itself. Our use of the word dimension will be precisely limited to variables of extent that can be measured and described geometrically and mathematically. Therefore, content elements are insufficient: There must be an extent measure; often density is the interface between content and extent describing something as per unit of the various variables making up the extent. We do not use the word dimension in its many different other conceptual ways. This includes statistical analysis applications referring to having a causal dimension and a resultant dimension. Nor do we use it to represent any measurable variable as a dimension. Dimensions as we know them The idea of 3 dimensions of space and one extra dimension of time is logical given that we are talking about independent co-ordinates needed to specify the things that belong to it. Spaces with many dimensions provide a convenient way to do this, as length, breadth, and height provide a convenient 3 dimensional fabric in this regard. 113 The points in these co-ordinates need not be zero dimensional points. So, for example ellipses are planar because they are conceptualized in planes. An ellipse requires 5 different numbers to specify: the 2 number of co-ordinates of the center of the ellipse, its length 1 number, its width 1 number, and its angle of tilt 1 number. Now, one could argue therefore, that an ellipse is 5 dimensional but it is not as these are variables of content involving co-ordinates. It is a plane because there are effectively 2 variables of extent. Even several metric measures or co-ordinates, still do not change it from the same plane. But we therefore, cannot say that this 2 dimensional space exists in 5 dimensional space. It is a space because if we change the number representing the
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ellipse by a small amount we can get an ellipse near by that looks very similar, but we cannot argue that it is a different distinction of extent. Dimensions mathematically This is very relevant from the point of view of vortices, which are 3 dimensional spaces of extent no matter how complex the vortical representation would be in coordinates. Therefore, one has to be very careful of measures. For example, in engineering if one has stresses and strains114, you have a grid of a 100 metal girders you have a 100 forces to work with. You could argue incorrectly this is 100 dimensions, but effectively one really could be talking about degrees of freedom in content not extent. Even though these things can vary independently, they can be represented as tensors of content and they do not necessarily imply different dimensions, per se. In genetics, we can apply DNA space where we still have sequences of 4 bases with different variations, and one can extend it in terms of all possible kinds of transfinite spaces. 114 But again, this is at a 3 dimensional double helical structures and therefore, a vortical kind of level. Even if you have a million such sequences, you still are dealing with 3 dimensional spaces. Moreover, the postulation of a phantom DNA effect 115 involving more complex space and holograms, is at this point speculative. Euclidean dimensions and non-Euclidean space There are mathematically 4 Euclidean dimensions but the fourth is more difficult to represent. Orthogonality can be easily represented in terms of 3 co-ordinate axes. However, 4 dimensional space requires an extra co-ordinate orthogonal to the other 3. It is usually labeled w. But the length along the w axis produces 4 dimensional geometry. This is more complex than three dimensional geometry reflecting the three degrees of freedom. In context, this is the typical application of the Cartesian system to 3-D space but there are 4 degrees of freedom once time is introduced. Because of the dilemma of what a dimension is, possibly we should use the phrase Euclidean dimension and non-Euclidean dimension. Effectively the first three space dimensions are always Euclidean as were using it. Thereafter, the imaginary dimensions of time could become non-Euclidean or Euclidean by applying warped forces measurable relative to the observers CST frame, but otherwise such dimensions of extent still have degrees of freedom that could theoretically be measurable by applying Euclidean geometryin the metadimensional context, Euclidean dimensionometry. Non-Euclidean space is apparent from one observer perspective and is perceptual at the n dimensional level but the n+1 observer would be still seeing it as Euclidean space. The real aspects are the variables that we use to extrapolate reality into sets of three dimensional domains. The N-dimensionality
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is particularly applicable to the C-substrate and this substrate is invariably perceptually experienced and directly inseparably linked with S and T. The n-dimensional reality is embedded within n+1. At the higher level, n+1 invariably has a C-substrate. Dimensionometry In the context of dimensions beyond the three dimensions of physical space, the term geometry should be replaced with the term dimensionometry. The answers to the questions about the nature of reality and consciousness may lie in understanding the extra dimensions of reality not normally perceived by our physical senses, but indicated by the existence of forces that appear to act at a distance and the special role of consciousness implied by the concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics. Even though we usually conceive of our direct experiential reality as a domain of only three dimensions of space and one of time, there is evidence indicating that we actually exist in a reality of more, perhaps many more, than four dimensions (meta-dimensions). Metric: The metric is a distance between two points or from the origin to any given point. This is the basis of algebraic analytical geometry. This is best understood by defining and using Cartesian co-ordinates. The arbitrary orthogonality (right angled, perpendicular orientation) of the ordinate and abscissa in three-dimensional space is the basis for defining the Pythagorean metric. Metrics at the ratio and interval mathematical level relate to the lower dimensions and metadimensions (possibly up to 3S -3T). However, the calculus of distinctions when involving ordinal data usually applies to much higher dimensions, e.g., N-C. Parangular: We have suggested a term like parangular. This is to use a composite term: Particularly when one exceeds three dimensions, non-orthogonal co-ordinates may reflect a spectrum range from almost orthogonal all the way through to parallel. Parangular can reflect any level of angular interception. It becomes relevant in indivension because vortices, vectors, scalars and tensors may meet. Cartesian Co-ordinate: A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. These also reflect the positions of the perpendicular projections of the point onto the two axes, and expressed as a signed distances from the origin. Ordinal, interval and ratio: Whereas many scientific measures are exact, involving specific measures of intervals between (interval scale) and usually including zero (ratio scale), our discussions of higher dimensions and particularly those in the C-substrate may reflect ordinal measures. These involve extents of change but inconsistent differences. Psychological and medical measures commonly use ordinal data such as None-mild-moderate-severe-profound or None-slight-great. This allows one to provide a degree of extent for such qualities as courage, e.g., great courage versus slight
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courage or none. It is the meaning in the C-substrate that reflects fluctuations of ordinal measures of intensity as variables in the C-Substrate. Meaning allows a method of differential order as a variable of extent contrasts with Information, which is the neutral content or pattern only. Dimensionality notation For uniformity and ease of expression in standard notation, we will represent the dimensionality of a reality that can be described with three dimensions of space and one dimension of time as 3S, 1T reality, where a specific point, P1, in this reality can be uniquely described as P1(x1, y1, z1, t1), where x1, y1, z1, t1 are specific values of the dimensional extent variables x, y, z and t in standard units of measurement for distance and time from an arbitrarily located zero point. In general, the dimensionality of any space-time reality can be represented by NS, MT, where N and M are positive integers. When not distinguishing space from time dimensions, we will use the notation D for dimension. Thus, 3S, 1T can be expressed as 4D. An ND reality with N>4 will utilize N variables to locate any unique point in ND reality. In general, a point, P1, in ND reality will be uniquely described as P1(d1, d2, d3, dN,) where the dis are specific values of the N dimensional variables of extent. Building dimensions As human beings, we can directly perceive only three dimensions of space and one point in time, and this works almost all the time in our ordinary 3S-1t reality. This is possibly because we are unaware of other dimensions impacting on ours. However, we can build a conceptual model of a reality of additional dimensions in a straightforward logical manner by discovering and using invariant features that link any n-dimensional reality or domain to an n+1 dimensional reality. Effectively, we extrapolate from one to the other. For example: an n+1 dimensional reality always contains an infinite number of N-Dimensional realities: A one-dimensional line (1-D) contains an infinite number of zero-dimensional points (0-D). A two-dimensional plane (2-D) contains an infinite number of one-dimensional lines (1-D), and a threedimensional space (3-D) contains an infinite number of two-dimensional planes (2-D). Infinity is therefore, relative using this model (relative infinity). Hierarchy of infinite dimensions and of infinities This conceptualization reveals a hierarchy of infinities: When the infinite number of points on a 1-D line, corresponding to the infinite set of real numbers, is multiplied by the infinite number of lines that exist in a plane when you go to 2-D, a higher order of infinity is obtained. Applying this concept of relative hierarchical countable infinity, as one increases dimensions, the infinity is obviously larger than the first infinity because every number in the first infinity can be matched with an infinity of real
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numbers in the second, and could thus, be called infinity squared, or an infinity of the second order. The infinity of planes in the third dimension contains the two lesser infinities, and could therefore, be called infinity cubed, or a third-order infinity. The infinite number of points in each dimensional domain constitutes the basic concept of a field. The points on a line constitute a field in which each point corresponds to a unique real number (integer or decimal fraction). The points in a plane constitute a field in which each point corresponds to a unique pair of real numbers, and the each point in a 3-D space corresponds to a unique triplet of real numbers. This relative increase continues literally ad infinitum! The top-down dimensionometric approach is relevant and one can conceptualize x dimensions more easily from x+1 or x+n dimensions. Dimensional extrapolation is relevant, Consciousness operates, we believe, in a Euclidean mode as this is how we conceive of it. 10 The field concept implies a functional modulator upon the "points" in a given dimensional domain, exerting its effect from a higher dimensional instance. 70 Metadimensionality Metadimensional is our term referring to any dimensions beyond 3S-1t. C-substrate can potentially be expressed as possible Higher Consciousness components in variables of ordinal extent in qualities such as love, honor, courage, wisdom, understanding and a wide variety of qualities relating to higher attributes. The Higher Consciousness when linked with ordropic physical life can be used to portray abstract qualities such as courage, honesty and determination. Whereas conceptually possibly S=0 and T=0 at some of these higher dimensionalities, the original STC tethering still applies at other dimensional levels. Therefore, extended space, time, and Csubstrate dimensions beyond our conventionally perceived 3S-1t, and ultimately these finite discrete interactions can be so large (countable infinity) that we refer to them as transfinite. As Cantor defined it 116, the transfinite cannot really be conceived in terms of degrees of freedom because the metric is different. As long as one has finite dimensions, one can use DOF; but the transfinite does not allow this, and weve invoked the transfinite as a source of meaningful information. Dimensional Extrapolation relates the non-Euclidean to indivension, but top-down the conceptions are Euclidean and any reality below that is embedded in ostensibly nonspace and time consciousness. We cannot at this point have pre-conceived concepts of non-Euclidean space. Non-Euclidean geometry does not describe an objective reality outside of perception or conceptualization 10. In brief, we argue that the top-down approach may yield different information than the bottoms-up approach: What may have been approached bottoms up using non-Euclidean mathematics, may relatively appear Euclidean if it were approached from the top down.
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This is critical to understanding the interface of consciousness and the subquantal but will be discussed elsewhere 10: Klein and Boyd imply a scale moving from cell to atomic to subatomic to subquantal 71 We perceive the Primary Receptor as not subquantal but omnipresent in both the finite and infinite, both infinitely large and infinitely small. The subquantal focuses on the very small only, and this may be an important interface below the Planck length 35, but the infinite may pervade and encompass everything in between from the infinitely small to the infinitely large. The essence is all of this in the infinite reality. Dimensions, substrates and nesting The substrate is the beginning of the whole concept, like nested things. We conceptualize the 1, 2, and 3 dimensions knowing that 3 dimensions must encompass dimensions 2 and 1 as well. By the same token, when we get to the imaginary single time-dimension where we have 4 dimensions, it is still the same, as the three are still nested. However, when you conceive of two or more time dimensions, then we may be introducing parallel or adjacent existence where each one of the two dimensional lines in the t-substrate actually has associated with it an entire independent time existence of xyzt or 3S-1t. The second dimension of time (T2) is the domain of infinite orthogonal extensions originating in each point on the T1 "sequence" (T1 as nested in "All Time" T2). In this sense, any T2 axis may be related reciprocally to an infinite number of orthogonal "manifested worlds" projections. This T1/T2 Many Worlds construct is coupled to the C Substrate via T3. Extending this dimensionometric process in all the conceivable metadimensional spectra, could reach a infinite multiversal model. This brings the possibility of Multiple World concepts into metadimensions. 70 Dimensions of content and extent revisited in practice We have defined dimensions by variables of extent. These have metric measures. The problem is terminology because if 10 things exist and have some kind of measures, it doesnt mean to say that we have 10 dimensions: These are distinctions of content not extent so that even though we may have 10 different mechanical items with various coordinates they still are not variables extent. To convert from content to extent, we have what we are calling the STC density measure (SDM) reflected as per unit of extent in space or time or consciousness. This density provides a means of moving from thinking in terms of Content to Extent variables. Content allows us to conceive of mass and energy. This applies through everything below the transfinite. From that point we use terminology relating
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to the ordinal dimensions because estimation is impossible intervally. Intent is the third component to Extent and Intent in CoD. It is an aspect of consciousness relating to motivation of volition. Intent when guiding may under certain circumstances reflect this density but density is far more than just intent. Dimensional variation and indivension Indivension is the process that allows for a merging of individual-unit realities (hence the indiv) across, between and within individual dimensions (hence the ension from dimension). Effectively, indivension provides a postulated mechanism that allows for and produces common experiences, knowledge, information and interactions across various systems units (individual, group, social, cultural, ethnic, spiritual or any other identity). Indivension provides for rare communications across a fluctuating number of dimensions. However, potential information, knowledge and meaning may exist without expression, just as we have available more than we see, hear, taste or smell at any moment, and only a tiny spectrum of these abilities are available for humans. This differentiates what is potentially available from what is received and used at any point. There is no fixed number of finite dimensions. Those who can experience higher qualities, e.g., love, honor, wisdom have the likely trait of more finite dimensions. This varies with individuals and individual-units because their conscious expression varies. These can be positive or negative (e.g., love versus hate) and have an ordinal quality and density of experience. They interface and may change to other qualities, for example, anger converted to love via vortical indivension. Therefore, fluctuations occur within, across and between dimensions, and may be state related (at that moment in time) or trait related (more consistent over time). The interfacing meeting points may be vortical, vectorial, scalar or tensor and allow for information retrieval, apprehension, awareness, perturbation or influence. We postulate that the infinite contains an essence of all qualities and it depends which ones are specifically utilized. Vortices in metadimensionality Indivension is the process, and vortices provide the content for these movements. Effectively, the indivension is the variable of extent, the vortices the content variable, and the interfacing is the unit density of expression into metaconsciousness. Vortical indivension plays a major role in expressing finite dimensional components predominantly at the areas of intersection or interface. This is so because dimensions themselves are theoretical concepts that cannot exist without each other: They are existing effectively as a unit and what one is experiencing via these interface areas is
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most relevant and important. These dynamic interfaces can be conceptualized in terms of some kind of qualit interface where different qualities of dimensions can meet and where possibly different quanta interface. 117 The qualit may even be appropriate at the subquantal level, as well, reflecting a possibly infinitesimal interface but without the limitations of quanta, as in the model of Klein and Boyd. 71 bb Domains and Subdomains In TDVP we use the word domain specifically to refer to a cluster of dimensions that is being discussed or utilized in a specific context. For example, 3S-1t is the usual description of our common reality being experienced as humans on earth. 3 dimensions of Space (with extension) and one point (moment) in time which implies a description purely of the present, not the past or future. If we wanted to represent that domain it would be 3S-1T (capitalized). Similarly, it is likely that all sentient beings experience some level of meaning and we could say the 3S-1t1C or even NC domain, as we dont know how many dimensions of C-substrate exist at that state and for that extended trait of that. specific individual-unit. We can also refer to the multiple dimensions of C-substrate as the C-substrate subdomains or 3S-1t could be a subdomain of 3S-1T or of 3S-1t-1C. Distinctions A distinction is anything with perceived or conceptualized features that distinguishes it from everything else. A circle drawn on a plane surface, for example, distinguishes the area inside the circle from all other areas of the plane. Three elements are necessary to produce a distinction (abbreviated DFC) the feature or features that distinguish it (that which is distinguished), a background, something that the distinction is distinguished from (that from which it is distinguished) and the consciousness that perceives and/or conceptualizes it (that which draws the distinction). Based on the definitions of three realities above, there are three types of distinctions. To have validity in any existential reality, a distinction must be defined by at least three types of variables: variables of intent, content and extent (ICE). Dimensions and distinctions All dimensions require variables of extent in some form, which may be interval (ratio) or ordinal in measurement of the metric. The fundamental forces, vortices mass and energy are dimensions of content as they do not directly involve extent of space and time (and hence one cannot use degrees of freedom in that regard). However, all
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variables of content have extent that may be used using the metrics of extent by utilizing per unit measures of density. Dimensions Conceived as Distinctions Closes Calculus of Distinctions (C of D): Distinctions are applied the Calculus of Distinctions (CoD) 8; 120 modified from Browns Laws of Form 121. CoD can greatly simplify the mathematics of substrate algebra by dealing with vectors, tensors, (scalars) twistors, and vortices as multi-dimensional distinctions. This makes the CoD especially effective for testing hypotheses. There are three ways to differentiate distinctions, which have a relevance for reality (see above), namely, Perceptual Distinction, Conceptual Distinction and Common Experiential (or Actualized) Distinction (PCE). The differentiation is subtle as distinctions occur in the context of reality. In summary, distinctions therefore, have PCE reality differentiation; ICE as variables; and also have the three essential elements DFC. When the substrate variables of extent are space, time and C-substrate, and of content are mass and energy, then the calculus of distinctions expression for the STC substrates are: R= f(S, t, m, e, c,) = !([ (m/S) #e/t]#c/St}#= ![ (ST) #C]# Where R= all reality, S= 3Dspace, t= time, m= matter, e= energy, c= individualized consciousness and C= Primary Consciousness.8,cc Distinctions in physics The matter and energy of the reality we experience is comprised of actual distinctions. These are made up of elementary actual distinctions, called quanta, which obey the laws of quantum mechanics. Quanta might reflect "elementary distinctions" only in the relevant S3-1t domain in which energy and mass is very important. Distinctions and the Origin Event If we think of the expanding universe as the reverse of a black hole, the point where quanta of matter and energy begin to form at the end of the rapid-expansion period is the event horizon. But we are calling the first finite events at the outset of existence the beginning (e.g., the big bang, theologians call it creation) by a non-prejudicial term Origin Event. At that point, the phenomena that make up reality do not exist until they are registered in an irreversible way upon a Primary Receptor or receptors.

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CHAPTER 10: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE NEW PARADIGM 122 The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist. William James (1842 1910, Psychologist) We have a minor dilemma here. Consciousness and reality are so fundamental to our ideas that we have introduced them early knowing that the summaries in Chapters 1 and 2 allow an initial, albeit cursory perspective. We have not yet introduced our entire new paradigm and they form enough of a unit that earlier ideas impinge on the later, but the later again impinge on the earlier. We regard this and the previous chapters as key to portray our TDVP concepts of consciousness and reality. In an infinite subreality, we could superimpose these chapters upon each other but we endeavor here still to create continuity even in our finite subreality. There may be concepts that are not quite clear at this point, but you can return if necessary after reading about dimensions, to the key axioms, essence, infinity and brain consciousness. (Table 2a) Table 2a: Subdivisions of C-substrate Kind Abb Site Application Key Neurologic Consciousness N-C Brain Neurophysiology (alive) End-point Ego Consciousness E-C Brain+ Psychological dynamics Psyche Transfinite Consciousness T-C Transfinite Higher TF dimensions Qualities Metaconsciousness M-C Infinite Mystical-spiritual Mystical =Higher consciousness H-C T-C+M-C Outside brain initially Growth Quantum Consciousness Q-C Quantum Quantum physics Basic N+E+T+M+Q = C-substrate C Paradigmatic consc. All terms Abb = Abbreviation, Key= Key features, TF= transfinite, consc. = consciousness. H-C and C are composites Consciousness C-substrate and consciousness We have found it necessary to use a global term that is different from consciousness. This is because consciousness may possibly be misunderstood and/or misinterpreted and therefore, not reflect the specific meanings we have for it. There are obvious ambiguities to the term consciousness: It is interpreted variably, and in each instance, differently in each discipline. These areas include predominantly neurology, psychology and consciousness research and philosophy. It also has a special meaning in quantum physics. Consciousness in any of these disciplines is narrower than the C-substrate term
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that we use, and it may not even be as broad even when it is used when combining all the subspecialties above because of its metadimensional and infinite applications. This is why it has been necessary to coin the new term, C-substrate, so we could then contrast it with the Space and Time Substrates (S and T substrates). We re-connect science with human experience by developing a logical framework for a comprehensive scientific paradigm. This includes the consciousness of the observer inherent within existence, as part of the legitimate domain of scientific investigation. Terminology in consciousness Let us concretize the problems we encounter when using the term consciousness as differently used in various specialties. We still want to use it in its specific forms in our model. Consequently, it is necessary to clarify these differences, particularly as our TDVP model impacts all these different areas of endeavor that use this term (as in Table 2a). With this basic differentiation, we move onto more detail. We suggest the following: * In Neurology: Neurological Consciousness (N-C) in the brain. This solidly allows for the neurophysiological physical basis of brain functioning in sentient beings, and is the ultimate endpoint for all other C-substrate kinds of consciousness expression while alive. In the brain, we refer to clear consciousness. There are various stages of impairment through to coma, including in lay-terms unconscious. These measures relate to the extent of awareness, and responsiveness including speech. Neurological consciousness involves any living sentient being, live and ultimately dead (where, e.g., the brain on electroencephalogram may reflect a flat tracing). Neurological consciousness, though critically important in our day-to-day lives, is only relevant in 3S-1t live sentient beings. It becomes irrelevant at other dimensional levels or in the infinite. * In Psychology: Ego Consciousness (E-C) (or Psychological functioning involves the psychological and psychodynamic areas. E-C reflects areas pertaining to cognition, affect and volition (drive and motivation). E-C involves another use of the term unconsciouswhat is not manifesting directly into consciousness. E-C also utilizes the Preconscious that kind of limited awareness that is just below the horizon of brain consciousness. And the subconscious is largely used synonymously with psychological unconsciousness psychodynamics. E-C may be induced psychodynamically but also is based on biological, social, ethnic, family and cultural modifiers of thought and behavior. E-C in the living physical being is strongly based in the brain and the body, but could interface informational experience deriving outside of the brain. * In Consciousness Research: (T-C, M-C; together H-C): These kinds of C-substrate
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derive from outside the brain and linking with broader meaningful information (some call this the mind). We divide this Higher Consciousness (H-C) into those involving higher finite dimensions (the finite and transfinite domains) as Transfinite consciousness (T-C) and Metaconsciousness (M-C) involving the linking with broader meaningful information in the infinite domains, even the infinity of infinities. The presence of interchange with the infinite is a core part of the TDVP paradigm. Metaconsciousness implies an all-embracing knowledge translated into meaning. This unending knowledge is meta-information. This metaconsciousness could be regarded by mystics as a mystical consciousness but that would move from science to philosophy and so is outside our main paradigm. It can be applied in Philosophy, but could reflect the highest levels of metaconsciousness and the range all the way through in the infinite: It would be the mystical-spiritual link, and, to theologians, at the infinity of the infinities the omniscience of components of all data. Such a gradation allows for different levels of impacting M-C: If survival after bodily death exists, there could be no reason why every individual would be at the same infinite level. T-C and M-C together are characterized as Higher Consciousness. This H-C is derived independently of the brain (but in sentient beings is almost always still integrated by it). The differentiation of information of H-C from E-C may be very difficult, if not impossible. We recognize, too, that H-C may not necessarily be higher in development but derives from data accessed beyond the brain: The broader term collective unconscious or collective consciousness for individual-unit groups or families or societies or ethnicities or cultures or humankind in general, is sometimes used and may variously be explained by H-C or E-C. Various kinds of conscious awareness exist described as psi phenomena, such as out-of-body experiences (OBEs), near death experiences (NDEs), retrocognitive, contemporaneous and precognitive anomalous cognition or extra-sensory perception as well as other spontaneous, induced and experimental afferent and efferent phenomena. Consciousness research also involves other kinds of subjective experiences, including Exceptional Human Experiences (EHEs), hallucinations and illusions. * In Philosophy, consciousness is sometimes used synonymously with the mind and is distinguished from the brain or the body in dualism, regarded as equivalent to such a body in materialistic monism and such a mind in monistic idealism. This includes a mystical consciousness. This philosophical consciousness may refer to H-C or be broader. *In the Physics of Consciousness, also referred to as Quantal Consciousness (Q-C) broader meaningful information implies a consciousness as opposed to space and time (and hence debates about what nonlocality, spacelessness and timelessness are).
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Quantal may not be the best description though used here because it is the more common way to describe such consciousness. It is possible that Subquantal elements or Dark Matter (which may turn out not to be matter at all) may play a role. Q-C may be very primitive. On the other hand, given the STC inseparability and tethering from the subquantum through to the astrophysical, all areas of C-substrate could be conceptualized as the building blocks of Q-C. We even use the term Conscit to conceptualize the C-substrate component of Qualits (of SpaceQubits and of Time Chronits). Conscits may play a role as a discrete consciousness component in the finite. * Paradigmatic Consciousness (P-C) can reflect the spectrum of consciousness, particularly Neurological, Psychological and Consciousness Research areas (N-C, E-C, H-C). We recognize various altered states of consciousness (ASCs). These can impact all of these areas. Neppe proposed subdividing these various ASCs 123. This includes 10 different phenomenological subtypes including regular waking consciousness. (See Table 2b). We seldom need to use this term, P-C because, in this book, we refer to C-substrate. Impacting all of the C-substrate (N, E, T, Q and P) are altered states of consciousness. Table 2b: Neppes Proposed ASC Terminology Classification 124; 125 ASC type Abbrev Variations Wakefulness WA Normal Wakeful Consciousness Awareness Sleep S-ASC Hypnagogic (Gs-ASC), hypnopompic (Ps-ASC), stage (14s-ASC), dream (Ds-ASC), Lucid (Ls-ASC) Psychiatric P-ASC Psychotic, psychiatric, transitional (describe) Lucid L-ASC Lucid hyperawareness Induced I-ASC Ganzfeld (Gi-ASC), meditative (Mi-ASC), mystical religious (Ri-ASC), experimental (Ei-ASC or Ei-WA) Trance T-ASC Dissociative (Dt-ASC), focused (Ft-ASC), or clear (CtASC). Recreational R-ASC Recreational drugs (drug should be stated) Between B-ASC Transitional or between states, e.g., Dt-Ct--ASC Mixed M-ASC Combinations Nondescript N-ASC Not otherwise specified Specialist Terminology for Consciousness We cannot continue to use these various terms for consciousness interchangeably. We further amplify and define these concepts briefly: Nervous System: The core of conscious awareness and responsiveness includes the conventional physiological description: N-consciousness (for neurological consciousness: N-C). This is the bodily experience element (expressed in the brain in humans) for sentient beings reflecting descriptions of the various terms for
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consciousness. It may reflect, in part, an endpoint expression of conventional physiology including neurotransmission and synaptic firing expressing itself in awareness and responses. It may also be the endpoint of psychological features such as dynamics and conditioning, which could also express itself in different realities such as dreams. It could manifest relatively non-local communications from a consciousness originating outside the brain, possibly from other dimensions or an infinite subreality. Interpretations may be difficult and complex because it may integrate all these source aspects. For example, C-substrate manifesting at the self-conscious structural level of the nervous system refers to a specific kind of consciousness involving information (knowledge) combined with understanding and meaning, but it also includes emotion (affect) and volition (drive). These features may be, in part, based on psychology and psychiatry, or this selfawareness of C-substrate could be a subset only of the broader metadimensional and infinite metaconsciousness. To differentiate these different origins requires clinical acumen but is fraught with uncertainty. Consequently, research in the area remains a challenge for the Neuropsychiatrist, Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist and Psychologist, Behavioral Neurologist, Clinician and Consciousness Researcher. Additionally, we then can refer to various levels of consciousness for any level of impairment of consciousness. This has its own classification such as the Glasgow Coma Scale 126. We measure responsiveness to touch, eye responses, and cognitive responsiveness. Or we can use clear consciousness, unconscious or coma to describe level of N-C. N-C, therefore, has the core features of both awareness and responsiveness. However, we do not know what is going on subjectively because it does not explain the origin of any thought, just the perceptual conceptual or experiential result. Psychology and social sciences: E-consciousness or E-C (for ego-consciousness). Once we use E-Consciousness then we can go into detail relating into the various kinds of psychological consciousnesses such as pre-, sub-, un-, collective- E-consciousness. We include all psychosocial mechanisms such as conditioning and psychodynamics. Consciousness sciences: H-consciousness refers to any kind of subjective experience, afferent or efferent, ostensibly involving apprehension or perturbation outside the brain. H-C has the transfinite (T-C) and metaconsciousness (M-C) elements. Paradigmatic sciences: This can be applied for broader consciousness such as meaningful information but in fact, incorporates all other areas of consciousness: This is Paradigmatic consciousness or P- consciousness or P-C but effectively synonymous
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with C-substrate unless we want to emphasize all of N-C plus E-C plus H-C plus Q-C. It therefore includes: the consciousness sciences, particularly in our TDVP discussion; the biological and life sciences including neurological anatomicophysiologicopathological elements; the psychological sciences across the systems spectrum of individual psychological, family, group and social, cultural, anthropological and ethnic the philosophical sciences including the mysticospirituotheological components; this is usually incorporated into Higher Consciousness, and the physical sciences including all the laws governing the subatomic, macrophysical and cosmo- or astrophysical, beginning at the Quantal Consciousness levels. To summarize key terms: In our TDVP model, we use metaconsciousness (M-C) in regard to continuous infinity and relative non-local conscious meaning in the finite context is T-C (transfinite or technically higher dimension of the lower 9 so S3T3C3. We use the broader term H-C (higher consciousness) for both. Our broad-spectrum term for all kinds of consciousness is C-substrate, sometimes referred to as simply C (or in earlier versions of our model, C-matrix). If we wanted to specifically emphasize the paradigmatic nature, without the broad implications of a substrate, this would be referred to as P-consciousness as Paradigmatic consciousness. This broader P-consciousness includes psi and the altered consciousness with the 10 different kinds of ASC that we have suggested and using the broader term P-consciousness allows normal waking states plus these altered states (as in Table 2). These altered states are broadly applicable in N-, E- and C-consciousness, and must be solved by philosophers in M-consciousness and explained by physicists in Q-consciousness. The paradigmatic sciences involve this attempt to unify the sciences, and may be best exemplified, with respect, in our TDVP model. Metaconsciousness in the infinite necessarily has the properties of being continuous, meaningful, and having an infinite extent of all available content information (metainformation). At the finite subreality level, this is Transfinite Consciousness experienced at higher dimensionality levels but is necessarily translated into our conventional experiential living paradigm of 3S-1t usual human experience into a discrete meaning expressed though our brain. This T-C at the finite level expresses itself as relatively non-local, and M-C at the infinite level as an aspect of a continuous essence (infinity). The combination is Higher Consciousness (H-C) Paradigmatic consciousness is a combination of all or sometimes, a global term not defining the specific, but generally, we globally refer to this kind of consciousness as C-substrate or C, as opposed to S-substrate (Space) and T-substrate (Time).
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Consciousness as we use it is a broad paradigm. This reflects both meaning consciousness. The non-meaningful derived potentially available, accessible content side would be information. With the concept of metaconsciousness in the infinite as extent, information would be the content in the infinite context. If you apply meaning to that information you would acquire a consciousness and that meaning is a meaning that begins at the subatomic level but includes the microphysical and the astrophysical. Meaning could imply that quantal meaning, or quantal consciousness or more correctly the Conscit or broader Qualit activity117 because effectively it could be in dark matter or a subquantal existence at the tiniest of levels. It has perceptual and executive elements, not only receiving or apprehending information but potentially manipulating or influencing objects or events. This is the same consciousness in relation to that meaning even with neurological consciousness quantal meaning or quantal consciousness (or more correctly conscit meaning and consciousness, which does not commit to discrete subatomic quanta per se) in the nervous system. Density in C-substrate If mass can be conceptualized as having density, which is measured in a metric extent, then meaning could possibly be the discrete density equivalent. Meaning in its various cognitive, affective and volitional forms could reflect the complex scalar or tensor per unit ordinal equivalent of extent. Meaning would be the functional mechanism, and if some kind of guiding occurs in some way, we could speculate that this is the intent, and that intent in that instance links the information content with the consciousness extent. What is scalar in one dimension, could be tensor or vectorial in another. Similarly there is a complex role of the 3D fabric of vortices and indivension with these mathematical representations. So with the simple use of prefixes like N- (neurological), E- (ego), Q- (quantum), M (metaconsciousness), T- (transfinite) and P- (paradigmatic) we can ensure at least that like in consciousness (-C) is phenomenologically conceptualized with like. C-substrate We now focus on this P-consciousness and its broadest base, C-substrate. The C-substrate includes all components and any of these is sufficient to be part of the C-substrate, though living mankind could have access to all three. We amplify much of what is above, now, to clarify, consolidate, conceptualize and differentiate. Neurological Consciousness: N-consciousness. This has been referred to as neurological consciousness and is that part of living mankind exemplified by brain function. Ultimately, in the living organism, the expression of such awareness while awake in
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clear neurological consciousness is through the brain (CNS consciousness). It can be expressed neurologically by three fundamental mental status components, namely, Cognition, Emotion and Volition (CEV). These all have solid expressions through neurophysiology. At the end, all consciousness in the living organism goes through neurological consciousness. This allows for perception, conception and actual or common experiential reality (experienced as actual or objective, but still subjective for that individual). N-consciousness involves the awareness, integration and responsiveness to our internal world of images, sensations, thoughts, feelings, information and higher qualities. Yet cerebral electrical and chemical activity in the brain cannot easily explain all components of consciousness such as qualities like honesty or wisdom. It can correlate, but there is no causal link established. The brain appears to be necessary but not sufficient to express neurological conscious awareness and that awareness is a subjective interpretation. We emphasize the neurological component here as conceivably in non 3S-1t domains there could be a conceptual description of Csubstrate not requiring an endpoint brain. For example, what happens if there is survival after bodily death (and we will discuss the cogent supporting six sigma data in that regard). N-consciousness awarenesses and responses may be even minimal or in deep coma absent. But the potential is there. N-consciousness can be expressed in terms of the Calculus of Distinctions as the distinction of self from everything else with a separation between. This distinction generally has been applied to living organisms. Ego (Psychological) Consciousness (E-C) Extended human consciousness is postulated to go beyond the most usual neurophysiological component of brain awareness and responsiveness. We call this metaconscious and postulate that it includes the infinite repository of content information converted into a meaning extent. However, our broader consciousness classification also includes, E-consciousness (E-C)what the psychologists call the unconscious, collective conscious, preconscious and subconscious, and this includes what the psychoanalysts refer to as Ego, Id and Superego. E-C might sometimes include the paradigmatic altered states of consciousness (ASCs) because major psychological overtones might occur in ASCs. EC even speculatively, may include what the philosophers refer to as mind or the theologians as soul because these might, in part, anyway, play a role in these psychodynamics. Depending on orientation, the psychologist or neurologist could argue based on current neurophysiology and dynamics that any form of extended awareness /
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responsiveness state that is postulated to originate or terminate outside the sentient being is, in actuality, an endpoint expression of a subjective reality originating in the brain. Such a state might well be so under certain circumstances, and could appropriately be motivated, in some instances, based on current knowledge: Applying this principle, the metaconscious state reflecting infinite information, knowledge and wisdom may not be pertinent in a proportion of living human 3S-1t domain experiences. In these, the physicalist monist would argue that this is all simply an epiphenomenon and part of the brain, part of N-consciousness or even E-consciousness. This may work in even 99% of instances. But it does not explain how higher qualities of meaning can easily be explained: Is honesty, courage, wisdom, understanding or love or their negative equivalents simply an epiphenomenon of N- or E-consciousness? If so, the problem is that no such neurological or psychological localities for such higher qualities have been demonstrated. Indeed, it is extremely difficult to motivate localization for some of the various components of the complex function of memory (registration, retention, integration, cued recognition and recall) and we cannot consistently evoke specific memories by stimulating specific brain structures.127-129 There are papers that posit that specific brain stimulations produce a God spot or equivalent 130; 131 132-134, but these are very tenuous in consistency135; 136. Effectively, they are based on premises of different stimulations, inconsistent results and, most importantly, misinterpreting the like with not like. With respect, these studies are scientifically flawed based on the premises not examining the phenomenology in detail. 124; 125; 135-138 Moreover, based on our TDVP model and also the data we cogently demonstrate on psi, a legitimate postulate of a partial neurological cause or of an impacting of the psychological aspects of consciousness, still would not exclude the probability that the metaconscious experience might derive from outside the brain: It would just involve an N-consciousness endpoint. This awareness and responsiveness is a consequence of outside input, not an origin of physiology or pathology deriving from brain. The living being needs to have a brain to process metaconsciousness because of limitationsthe physical reduction valves can only appreciate a tiny proportion of all of reality. We know this: We know the limitations of our physical senses. This is not the whole, just at the metaphoric Platonic cave shadow analogy does not express what is going on outside. 139 This has been a major research and theoretical area of study for one of the authors (Neppe).124; 125; 135-138 Metaconsciousness and Transfinite Consciousness as Higher Consciousness Whereas we certainly conceptualize metaconsciousness as relating to humans, we postulate that it is almost certain that all life-forms could tap into it. "Metaconsciousness" in its taxonomic use across TDVP should apply also to the lowest degrees of bioinformation 124, and should vastly transcend the limits of physical
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finite beings, potentially incorporating the largest astrocosmic (astrophysical) level, and possibly, at the other extreme, the smallest, subquantum infinitesimal level. Moreover, there are impacts of all forms of consciousness (N-C, E-C, Q-C, M-C and P-C besides the more obvious C-C) across all these levels, ultimately expressed by the limitations of the physical or metadimensional status of the level of perception or responsiveness. Metaconsciousness, at the finite level, may be particularly pertinent when extending to metadimensional states. Metadimensional is our term referring to any dimensions beyond 3S-1t. C-substrate can potentially be expressed as possible Higher Consciousness components in variables of ordinal extent in (interfacing indivension) qualities such an love, honor, courage, wisdom, understanding and a wide variety of qualities relating to higher attributes. Meaningfulness (or Meaningful apprehension and influence): We also use the term to describe any meaningful reality. We are defining this purely objectively without any theological meaning. Therefore, although Guided reality is ostensibly a good term implying meaning, guided could have the baggage of theological interpretation, and may be as provable or non-provable as theology. Some would argue that these terms express simply metadimensional interplays of Bohmian implicate order 140, without any theological interpretation. 94 We have used the term guiding, which may or may not be relevant to meaning. Instead, by meaning we imply apprehension or awareness of objects or events at the afferent level and perturbation or influences on them at the efferent level. This is also incomplete, as the model has possibly incorrect cybernetic afferent-efferent, stimulusresponse implications. This is incorrect because there might be no such element (unless S and T =0), as existence is triadic with an organismal or space-time-meaning base. This means that the existence of any subatomic particle or a quantum packet incorporates this meaningful reality C-substrate reality (implying a role for Qconsciousness). In fact, meaningfulness, linguistically, is meant to be a broad definition, and does not, therefore, necessarily only apply to living organisms. Meaning should apply at the finite subreality level to any kind of subatomic particle, packet or quantum or even subquantum. dd, ee Meaningfulness would then include apprehension and influence implying, at minimum, very basic meaning at these most primitive levels of reality. Meaningful apprehension and influence may exist not only in the smallest components (the STC tethering is at the most basic level), but go all the way through to the
This would be so if it were demonstrated that such a subatomic aspect exhibited a deliberate change contradicting entropic tendencies towards disorder. ee The subquantal infinitesimals have only one degree of freedom and hypothetically enter combinatorials which may reflect incremental degrees of orderliness. This "self-organizing" principle might be applicable across the whole metadimensional tensor spectrum 71; 141-143.
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astrophysical level. This meaningfulness could involve both the inanimate and the animate. When the meaningfulness is expressed in sentient beings, it is possible that at times such higher metaconscious qualities as honesty and love are being expressed as meaning. Therefore, meaning in the finite in 3S-1t may incorporate, in part or in whole (we can speculate which type or both) the metaconscious, which derives from the infinite essence. Meaning could potentially express itself discretely metadimensionally, at higher finite dimensional levels through to the transfinite. Again, this is a speculation, and it may imply that meaning is the finite equivalent of the infinite metaconsciousness. Because of the close links between N-, E-, M-, Q- and P-consciousness, we are using a term such as C-substrate below because we want to ensure that it incorporates meaningful reality, neurological consciousness and Higher Consciousness as well at the complexities of psychodynamics. Meaning may be qualitatively conceptualized at an ordinal level: There are levels of awareness that are different from describing classical levels of neurological consciousness such as coma, stupor, confusion or clear consciousness. Something or someone may barely apprehend incoming stimuli. This may be relevant in the socalled quantum consciousness that may occur in subatomic particles e.g. in split screen experiments. On the other hand, there may be a range of appreciation of this awareness. This hypothetically is qualitatively higher and could occur at a higher perceptual, conceptual, integration or experiential level depending on degree of evolution of sentient beings and might be postulated to occur also in the absence of physical life as a purer form of consciousness awareness (as in survival after bodily death). Perhaps this kind of apprehension to appreciation range is best expressed using the term meaning as opposed to awareness.

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CHAPTER 11: METADIMENSIONS AND THE C-SUBSTRATE 144 This blindness (or prejudice, or whatever you may call it) of logicians is indeed surprising. But I think the explanation is not hard to find. It lies in a widespread lack, at that time, of the required epistemological attitude toward metamathematics and toward non-finitary reasoning. Kurt Gdel 145 C-substrate Perspective Let us now examine C-substrate in a more detailed explanatory fashion. Many of these statements are axiomatic and could be approached top-down from the fundamental TTOOURS metaparadigm of TDVP. Infinite expression The infinite level of metaconsciousness reflects a measurable qualitative and ordinal quantitative extent (e.g., none-slight-moderate-profound). This is so as it portrays continuous infinite knowledge, wisdom and understanding from the neutral infinite source) of metainformation content. This cannot be metrically measured by any means except to differentiate quality of information (e.g., colors, or specific knowledge but not the ordinal none-weak-strong). With the concept of Transfinite Consciousness as extent, information would be the content. Applying meaning to that neutral vast infinite array of information, we acquire consciousness. Metaconsciousness originates from an infinite essence that we postulate also includes an all-encompassing infinite space (metaspace), a time that exists in the past, present and future infinitely at the same moment (metatime), and potential towards life (polife) and infinite order (ordropy). There is therefore, complete space and time at the infinite levelmetaspace and metatime linked inseparably with the metaconsciousness. Finite expression In finite reality, this meaning is expressed from the subatomic level of finite reality. Meaning might reflect components of the same discrete form from the subatomic to the macrophysical to the astrophysical, implying a progression of density of quantal meaning to the quantal consciousness (conscits) that may be more easily recognized in sentient beings. This meaning could be acquired through or related to the infinite linkage via the permeable boundaries or filtering of the infinite-finite interface: The infinite metaconsciousness might be expressed in finite consciousness subjectively as
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meaning in 3S-1t. The unit of density here may well be meaning. It is at that level that it is translated into subjectivity by the N-consciousness of the brain in sentient beings, but according to the STC tethering model of TDVP, it could be expressed at a more primitive level at even the subatomic or subquantal levels. This consciousness with the meaning is linked with, limited by and enhanced through neurological networks. This produces a consciousness that has quantal equivalents of meaning or quantal representations of consciousness in the nervous system. The sentient may ultimately express their experiences as cognition, affect and volition. This neurological consciousness uses the boundary sieve, barrier, filter or permeability elements to control, limit and sometimes amplify input so as to be able to (or attempt to) achieve optimal functioning. But N-consciousness also may distort meta-information without the sentient being easily differentiating, for example, their own psychological dynamics (E-consciousness) from the permeable metaconscious data. Triadic elements We call our model triadic, because of our space-time-consciousness (or meaning) reflecting different dimensional elements. We can translate triadic in the quantum model via meaning for consciousness. Metaconsciousness and metadimensionality There are also extra elements of metaconsciousness besides simple meaning. Metaconsciousness may not have equivalents of space or time at the finite level in specific higher dimensions or domains: at that level, dimensional level space may equal relative zero, time equals relative zero, but consciousness is still reflecting meanings. So Higher Consciousness when linked with ordropic physical life can demonstrate abstract qualities such as courage, honesty and determination. Whereas conceptually, possibly, S=0 and T=0 at some of these higher dimensionalities, the original STC tethering still applies at other dimensional levels meaning entanglement, psi and rare communication transfer can occur. This therefore, explains, teleologically, the C-consciousness elements: This may be linked up with zillions of interfacing vortices expressing themselves as meaningful information (psi or creativity) at times, and at other times demonstrating higher qualities (e.g., love, courage). These closely interacting vortices could be conceptualized as metadimensional higher level fields far more pervasive because of their higher dimensionality than for example, Sheldrakes morphogenetic fields. 27 The CST Model (C-, S- and T-substrates) We propose that none of the components of reality can be proved to exist without the action and participation of consciousness
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in some form. The links of consciousness with the physical reality of space-time suggests the possibility that consciousness may be another more complex and subtle form of the same universal substance that manifests in 3S, -1t space-time as matter and energy, or it may be beyond substance and energy as we perceive them, existing as a substrate outside the 3S-1t domain, yet interfacing, we postulate, continuously. We propose that this C-substrate is as equally important as space and time, and speculatively more fundamental. Whereas previously we spoke of space-time, we now need to talk of the unitary space-time-C- substrates (STC substrates) as the fundamental structure of reality. There is the classical dilemma: The materialist physicist will note that when an apple falls from the tree, it falls, it makes a sound, it lies on the ground and it rots. The Idealist philosopher will argue that the subjective personal experience is what exists and it is only when the observer (themselves) observes it that it truly exists. This is illogical but then quantum mechanics seems illogical. In TDVP, there is a tethering of consciousness with ST even in our usual physical experiential domain. This means that, indeed, the apple does fall from the tree to the ground where it rots. But it exists, it has its own consciousness, it is involved with its own meaningful reality. There is no contradiction. Justification of the C-substrate: Statistical demonstrations have shown a small but profoundly significant effect in consciousness studies (more than 1 billion to 1 against chance in nine separate endeavors!). These suggest the need for a radical alteration of the perspective of physics because although explaining phenomena in terms of matter and energy in space-time is usually sufficient for technological application, it does not always explain everything and is contradicted under rare circumstances. This is why we have proposed the need to involve a special use of Consciousness the Csubstrateat the primary level. Higher dimensional consciousness ASCs: Altered states of consciousness Altered states of consciousness also can produce changes in dimensional states, e.g., dreams, sleep, hypnosis, meditation are all mechanisms (dimensions of intent) to allow different higher dimensional states. We could refer to these as fluctuating dimensions, or the variability of dimensions. However, perhaps the term shifting dimensions for state changes and the more stable individual units of state consciousness variations are varying dimensions. There are variable levels of elevation / denigration dependent on nature of the sentient being.
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Ultimately there may be a commonality of more stable varying dimensions trait in individual-units such as groups, societies and cultures. These fluctuations generally are linked with meaning and consciousness implying meaningful information. Effectively, the metaphorical sink of all the vast available content information is coupled into the directed process of specific meaning that constitutes consciousness. In the infinite subreality, this vast, unending essence of metainformation allows an origin for the selected metaconsciousness that could involve knowledge, understanding and wisdom. Higher finite dimensions Transfinite Consciousness reflecting a higher finite discrete dimensionality may have a relative objective equivalent that would be metainformation at a higher spin breaking through. This allows for relative perception or conceptualization. However, that is most commonly experienced in 3S-1t in living sentient beings. But many of these higher qualities of conscious awareness (such as love and honor) cannot easily be explained by purely physiological cerebral mechanismsand, for those who feel that neurophysiology explains all, at best the explanation would be that they are only partial epiphenomena of brain function: The rest remains unexplained. The existence of the broader C-substrate, of Higher Consciousness and of metadimensionality extending into the transfinite, simply contradicts the interpretations of consciousness that imply it to be purely epiphenomena of the brain, each and every time, with nothing being processed from the outside. Infinite STC Moreover, STC tethering, still implies a separation of space, time, and consciousness, at other finite points or as part of the infinite continuity. Within our metaparadigm, there should be a STC tethering in the infinite realm as well, but space and time might be irrelevant in the infinite subreality because there is metaspace and metatimethe time that exists is simultaneous over all time from the beginning (past, present and future are the same) relative to the 3S-1t finite physical reality; the same omnipresence (all of space existing as one vast unit of space) would apply to space. Effectively, applying the top-down concept of the infinite continuity or of the discreteness at the levels of the transfinite, that STC and the tethering would also imply dimensionalities coming down. These dimensionalities would, theoretically, be so large that they are transfinite. Hypothetically, almost exclusively, they might involve a metaconsciousness that expresses itself transfinitely as discrete information packages of meaning. The C-substrate dimensions reflect not only the information content of
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cognitive stuff, but reflect special qualities (positive and negative) such as love or for that matter, honor or courage but also hatred, fear, and anger. We can convert or anger into love, or hatred into love. When we consider fluctuating metadimensions, and fluctuating dimensionalities of consciousness, they can be completely transient because the state of the one can be linked up with the other. These fluctuations would be rapid and momentary (state changes over 1t). Alternatively, they may be relatively maintained over a stable finite period (1T time where past, present and future, reflect the same stable structure). Cognitive, affective and volitional functions are all critical in this regard, with similar hierarchical consciousness requirements, though. Some, such as emotions may be more obviously expressed to other individual-units in 3S-1t because strong affect may more easily be observed and, indeed, evoke responses. This stimulus-organism-response cybernetic model could be relevant in both the apprehension and influencing of events or change, and appears to be relevant in consciousness research, such as evaluating mechanisms for psi. 146-149 Conscious Distinctions The most basic logical concept linking different dimensional domains to consciousness is the drawing of distinctions by conscious entities. These conscious entities can be at any of the subatomic, macrophysical and astrophysical levels. Even at the subatomic level, the key concept finding arising from the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics 41; 88; 150 and proven by the resolution of the EPR paradox by Bells theorem 86; 151 , the Aspect experiment 87 and many more refined quantum experiments, that no reality can be said to exist without the involvement of consciousness. With the triadic axiom, this is equally applicable at the macrophysical level where the six sigma consciousness research data are pertinent, and at astrophysical levels, e.g., expanding universe with ordropy and life forms despite the second law of thermodynamics.

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CHAPTER 12: INFINITY AND THE FINITE: THE MATHEMATICS AND THE LOGIC 152 The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto, as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type. Georg Cantor Substrates, Dimensions and Infinity The TDVP model may contain 3 real substrates of space, with 3 substrates of time with imaginary numbers as the unit of measurement. The 3rd component of C- substrate (as a broader consciousness) is expressed as quaternions. This means that even ndimensions of consciousness substrates fit in the dimensional model. This is because the quaternion concept is based on the finite, but consciousness links directly from the infinite. S and T also are pervaded by the infinite, but C is, as indicated, appears necessary for S and T beyond 9D and S and T both may equal zero at many transfinite levels. Provided we incorporate S and T into the finite dimensions, they still fit into the C of the finite component in terms of the meaning and the inseparable STC tethering. On the other side, we have the expression of the infinite expressed as the finite with ndimensions of C because we are effectively obtaining as many ordropic, ordered meaningful dimensions as we need from the infinite and it is expressing itself at the infinite metaconsciousness level and at the finite quantal level including the CNS level. For every timeline that is created in the T-substrate by the drawing of distinctions by a sentient being, every one of those creates an entire universe. That means just on that basis alone the C-substrate has to be infinite. TDVP, Mathematics and Consciousness The reason TDVP works mathematically is that it incorporates consciousness at the Origin Event by necessarily drawing meaningful distinctions. This same meaning is linked discretely throughout all STC substrates at that subatomic level all the way through to astroreality. A speculative mechanism could extend the current discrete subatomic model of particle/ wave/spin components. Currently these discrete particles applied to the extent distinctions and dimensions of time and space and the content distinctions of mass and energy have been labeled quanta. We have tentatively suggested conscits at the discrete consciousness / information level. Conscits with Chronits (time) and Qubits (space) make up Qualits. These are all postulated subatomic packets just as fermions or quarks are, and may have subdivisions. Conscits conveniently would have an apprehension side of psitrons and an influence side of kinetrons.
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The conceptual model of the areas in this section are reflected in Table 3. TABLE 3: The infinite versus the finite Infinite finite Comments
Natural law: Experiential and nonexperiential Continuous infinite: Infinite continuity without an end. Natural law: Perception limited to physical valve limitation axiom Subatomic levels through macroreality and astrophysical (cosmological) reality in 3S-1t. Discrete quantized qualits influence the animate (such as Quantum Consciousness in the nervous system) and the inanimate. Discrete finite: Subquantum and quantum common actuality is perceived as experiential The Origin Event is needed for C-substrate as otherwise a discrete threshold for interaction of meaning vs. information would occur. N-finite dimensional reality (finite and transfinite) Quantal: subatomic, macroreality, astroreality Closed finite reality For sentient being life occurs if physiology appropriate is purely potential Life exists from the Origin Event. In 3S-1t, physical life occurs when the appropriate STC physiology can be expressed to sustain life. Entropy, inanimate. Ordropy predominantly in sentient beings. Countable discrete finite qualities: Qualits, Chronits, universally applicable to all scientific reality/: Bohr science can only describe the reality we experience, no more and no less 41. Qualit finite world links with subatomic, macrophysical and astroreality. Qualits term is better than quanta (which recognize space and time only, and do not describe the subquantal or dark space existences.) Qualits are influenced at all levels microreality through macroreality through to the astrophysical. 117 Qualits reflecting STC Finite great flexibility involving processcontent across dimensions.; common actuality is experiential No discrete threshold can be demonstrated so origin is postulated

No quanta or qualits. Whole metareality reflecting existence at all levels. At origin, Origin Event

Infinite dimensional reality Reality hierarchy / conscious substrate Open infinite reality. Potential life (animate infinite) does not have infinitely linked physiology Life potential in the infinite (polife) Metalife reflecting eternal existence and survival after bodily death Ordropy: Entropy is minimal or absent Infinite, continuous, metaconsciousness,

Dimensional Extrapolation Quantization on all dimensional scales through the drawing of distinctions No discrete threshold can be demonstrated so origin of life is postulated at the S0-T0C0 singularity Life is part of that singularity. This is not a continuum where suddenly life or life force is inserted at a threshold event moment or extended period such as conception or during the first trimester or at birth. Possible reincarnative hypotheses? The finite and infinite linked through the conscious drawing of distinctions The finite and infinite linked through the conscious drawing of distinctions

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Infinite, continuous, metaconsciousness, ordropy, polife Conceptual Continuous, ordinal Continuous infinity Consists of inseparable STC and also tethered from top-down. Continuity conceptual infinite Extent CIST (consciousness, information, space, time) are complete and total Potential Dimensions Non-Euclidean Metaconsciousness at higher dimensionality Continuous Non-orthogonal interfacing Metatime, metaspace, metalocal Top-down approach Metaconsciousness topdown Metaconsciousness lower

Countable discrete finite qualities: Qualits, Chronits, Qubits, Conscits Perceptual and conceptual Interval (first 6 dimensions), Ordinal thereafter Alef zero, Alef subzero, Alef transfinity at highest levels beyond tethering. Discrete perceptual finite Content Time space consciousness may be conceptualized as nonlocal Metadimensionality Euclidean at 3S-1t Meaning vs. neurological consciousness Discrete quantized qualits Orthogonal and parallels

The finite and infinite linked through the conscious drawing of distinctions Meaning Rotation and Projection S and T may appear to be 0 at the transfinite levels. Thought patterns vs. quantized distinctions Intent may imply guiding reality or motivation via CNS at 3S-1t level. Dimensional tethering

Metaconsciousness N-dimensional time, also N-dimensional space and N-D metaconsciousness Time is unitary: Past, Time is experienced as a Metacist: Metatime, metaspace, metapresent, future are all moment in linear time information, Mathematics is sensitive to such quantum or qualit correlates metaconsicousness of dynamics impinging the same. the C-substrate. Quantum physics also incorporates 3D-rotational spin at the quantal

Origin Event to present universe Top-down, bottoms-up relative. N-C, E-C, M-C +Transfinite-C (= Higher Consciousness). Separately Q-C Experiential Vortical indivension from transfinite conceptualization to finite measurement Discrete series of dimensions Conscious substrate vs. dimensionometry of STC Bottoms-up approach with Also, could be regarded as outside-in vs. transfinite Top-down inside-out respectively Higher dimensions qualities Qualities can be positive and negative and change in state but be more stable in trait First 9 dimensions meaning Transfinite consciousness manifesting as STC inseparable and tethered discrete qualits particularly conscits, plus from bottom-up chronits and qubits. Meaningful information Quantization of consciousness Time is multidimensional Demonstrated through dimensional likely 3 dimensional if finite extrapolation freedom of choice

level, and this is taken into account for these subatomic particles but might also be relevant possibly in vortices: At the higher metadimensional level, this rotational spin could also be relevant and speculatively be applied to the (3D) vortical movement
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expression in the context of individual-units by indivension at the relative subjectivity level. This vortical indivension allows for the higher C-substrate finite dimensions and could be the finite translation of the metadimensionality coming from the infinite. This model is necessary because one cannot explain indivension in 3S-1t alone: Applying the finite subreality even at higher dimensionalities limits a conceptualization of an allencompassing consciousness. Consequently, infinity arises in the TDVP model as a source of necessity. Moreover, it allows the incorporation of ordropy with metaconsciousness as an expression of the infinite, as well as polife and also metaspace and metatime (all together called essence). C-substrate is more relevant than Space-time quantum correlates because of the concept of relative zero, S=0 and T=0. Ordropy and Thermodynamics It is this infinity linked up with the order that logically has to be a direct consequence of the infinite. Whereas the criticism has always been, you dont get around that second law of thermodynamics, you do here, because you have life. The existence of life in the universe has to be acknowledged by even the most hardened reductionist. But it is unexplained by any materialist model. Physiology and DNA do not explain why life comes about, just how. The infinite is sufficient to explain the existence and persistence of order, but the finite is not. Balancing the order of living organisms with disorder somewhere else only makes sense in a finite physical system with continuously active organizing forces to prevent an instant collapse to maximum entropy consistent with the 2nd law of thermodynamics, and these organizing forces are not explained by any finite physical theory. However, if we regard the order of life or polife itself as infinite because they are based on an infinite reality, which easily, and potentially profoundly, if necessary, impacts every finite dimension contiguously and also distantly, then the continued existence of both order and life is explained. Ordropy is reflected via life. What kind of infinity? At this point, there is no need to invoke Cantors infinity of infinities 116, although this is a useful concept in infinite regresses, this is not fundamental to, though quite compatible with, TDVP. The concept of infinity of infinities is essential to the Copenhagen interpretation proof of the existence of consciousness in some form prior to the emergence of the first quanta at the big bang event horizon. Also, recognition of infinities within infinities is a fundamental invariant in dimensional extrapolation. Thus, Cantors work116 is strongly supportive of TDVP, but infinity need not be located at N-dimensions plus or beyond N-dimensions because mathematically (e.g., parallel infinities in N-1 dimensions) infinity can be contiguous with any number of dimensions (e.g., 3D would imply a 3 dimensional infinite component). This is a key
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to understanding the unitary component of infinity at any level of the infinite. Infinity of infinities in mysticism Theologically, it would be very valuable to differentiate kinds of infinity. If one postulated a higher being, then the infinite existence after survival after bodily death could be easily differentiated from this higher being. Mathematics, Infinity and TOEs Our whole model is far more than just a specific TDVP unified monism presentation. The whole model creates an integrated way of thinking in mathematics and this actually must be the case for any TOE, not only TDVP. The mathematical inclusion of consciousness and infinity, and the application of Gdels incompleteness theorem to finite systems is what makes this a metaparadigm. Metaparadigm in this sense is beyond a theory of everything because it has practical implications that are mathematical and potentially testable in science. Any comprehensive model of reality has to include infinity because otherwise we are going to encounter both indeterminacy and incompleteness. Though the principle of Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica153 that logic and mathematics are complete was disproved by Gdel, he disproved it in the context of finite complete systems. 104 The infinite remains indeterminate by definition and this is quite acceptable in any model. 102; 103 But our current materialistic scientific 3S-1t model, allows only the existence of finite physical systems and nothing else and ignores the infinite. But let us go beyond what our current worldview says. Only then can we discover the logic and mathematics of an infinite reality. Infinity Our concept refers to the infinity of the continuum reflects the infinite reality subdomain (or subreality) of continuity. This is as opposed to a countable infinity including transfinity (Georg Cantors concept)116 which is in the finite reality subdomain of discreteness. We use the terms subdomain here because the finite and the infinite are inseparable and cannot be described separately in our TDVP model, except theoretically. Just as STC when described in their inseparability at the source level cannot be subdivided into their separate space, time and consciousness components except theoretically, when tethered the STC components can be perceived or conceptualized as separate but they still have the tethered linking to their source, like balloons on strings to their origin hand holding them. Similarly, when the infinite and finite interact in a permeable boundary, they are tethered, though still with all the essence of the infinite substrate available, and with all the meaningful information that the tethering process is communicating. Countable infinity versus continuous infinity
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Infinity becomes theoretically countable as it is translated down into the objective, but the infinity described in TDVP is continuous in the infinite subdomain. Rules of the Finite and Infinite The following rules derive from this: All dimensions exist in the same unitary existence. Relative objectivity incorporates the infinite and the finite. Space, time and consciousness exist in the infinite and the finite from the zero-th dimension to the highest N-dimensional substrate. 3S-1t relative objectivity does not exist on its own, so S=0 and T= 0 may legitimately occur at higher dimensional realms. The original finite singularity was S, T and C all = 0. This ultimate compression reflected the singularity and given the role of meaning in STC, we postulate it may likely have been a meaningful coincidence. Time in the present is a moment, and so is a point not a linear dimension, and therefore, also a singularity with zero dimensions. The higher dimensions of consciousness reflect ordinal not interval metrics. These may be associated with ratio metrics for S and T, e.g., when S=0 and T=0. The infinite and the laws of nature An essential of the TDVP paradigm is that the laws of nature prevail. A second essential is that reality has a finite subreality completely pervaded by an infinite subreality. Are these contradictory? We do not believe they are, because effectively we know almost nothing about the infinite subreality. Even what we have postulated in terms of essence, with life or potential life, order, metaspace, metatime, metaconsciousness, and metainformation, are all simplifications of this broader, expanded, without end (Ein Sof) component 154; 155 of what infinity is all about. We cannot even imagine infinity, except in the most rudimentary manner: Therefore, we cannot say that it does not obey natural laws. Yet, our 3S-1t, finite limitations tempt us to interpret anomalous events as miraculous or supernatural because they appear inexplicable. However, when instead, we apply a broader metadimensional finite level approach, we realize that we can simply say we know only very little about the infinite. We could speculate that the infinite could imply a great natural harmony for all of reality. Certainly, our model is consistent with this. And our TDVP model generates important questions: Is there such an event as supernatural? What is a meaningful coincidence and when is it just a pure coincidence? Why is psi apparently such a rare event and not occurring all the time? What about our free-will?
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Supernatural: Supernatural is usually applied in the relative context of the 3S-1t domain. It is an interpretation that is used when ostensibly anomalous events of unexplained type are interpreted as unexplained by the laws of nature (and therefore, described as outside natural law or supernatural). Coincidence and meaningful coincidence: Alternatively, we may interpret unexplained events as purely statistical coincidences, or we may regard such events as Meaningful Coincidences. These interpretations are also interpreted in our usual experiential reality of the 3S-1t domain. The first explanation would be just a group of those statistical rare events that could legitimately be called statistical coincidences. If there is a frequency to them, or a special quality that we could not regard these as just statistically driven, in our opinion, this still might be explained by a broader extradimensional natural explanation. Psi: Events might appear unusual or anomalous or miraculous because they are manifesting in 3S-1t through the top-down mechanisms, such as through vortical indivension. This might also explain why psi experiences appear rare in 3S-1t because their derivation is metadimensional, and we need to stumble upon a relevant piece of the jigsaw puzzle in 3S-1t to comprehend or influence such an occurrence. However, hypothetically, that rare event may just be the tip of an iceberg that could manifest differently and frequently in another domain. Metadimensionality, psi and vortices: The interfaces of different vortices or the associated vector, scalar or tensor elements, may facilitate a manifestation in the brain coupled 3S-1t domain of metadimensional events. Technically, this would occur under certain rare circumstances, because most living humans have not learnt a way to facilitate how such events could manifest through that brain. The event could be apprehended perceptually or involve influence or uncontrolled perturbation on the motor side. This would allow us to control it somewhat within its natural law limitations. By contrast, if such vortical indivensions were occurring within or across another domain of metadimensional STC, then the contents of that vortex could, hypothetically, be accessible to an existence within that domain and might not be a rare event: Psi would be a common occurrence as those interfacing components would be far more accessible. Laws of nature and miracles: In summary, we might inappropriately conceptualize unexplained events that we cannot easily comprehend as miraculous, supernatural or outside natural law. But this interpretation could relate to our physical perceptual and conceptual limitations of 3S-1t. However, it might be that the miracle is based on extradimensional natural law. Consequently, although we cannot understand it fully with our 3S-1t limitations, we would be able to but only if we could appreciate the
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infinite or finite metadimensionality, both of which still fit within natural law. Infinite intent: There is a small wrinkle, however. Such events, even when explained, may be remarkable because of their finite timing, location and kind of occurrence: It may that the meaningful time, place and consciousness (STC) manifestation would be of such a kind as to hypothesize an infinite intent allowing the event to occur at that moment in that place. For example, lets apply a biblical examplejust to illustrate, not to debate its existence: Did the Children of Israel encounter a natural event, like a tsunami or equivalent, to dry up the Sea of Reeds? Would that then be perceived as miraculous, a meaningful coincidence or pure statistical chance? Scientists could debate the causes and origins, and theologians could postulate some kind of divine intervention or broader purpose. If we conceptualize that explanation as miraculous, then it would be miraculous for us. But that miraculous within our TDVP finite-infinite natural law model, still obeys the broader finite and infinite natural laws. Yet, the timing of the event, its location and circumstances would remain noteworthy (a meaningful coincidence). Free-will: Would an infinite remarkable event compromise our postulated free-will? We do not think so because free-will is relative to our 3S-1t experience. The remarkable miracle within natural law example would reflect a top-down intervention, as opposed to the bottom-up free-will choices we might make in 3S-1t. Infinity from the Top-down The top-down approach Infinity is most easily modeled by looking at everything from the top-down. This is because then you can conceive of life and ordropy as reflections of what is in the infinite essence and that they are just manifesting discretely instead of continuously in infinite reality. In our experiential physical reality, life and ordropy are perceived and conceptualized by sentient beings predominantly through 3S-1t. This is a key differentiation of the finite from the infinite reflecting the continuous versus the discrete respectively. Indeed, we cannot conceive of anything in the finite that is actually continuous, and the basis of quantum physics recognizes this. Discrete and continuous Similarly, we cannot conceive of anything in the infinite that would represent the discrete. The term Infinite Continuity 17 is a useful one and the title of a previous book by Dr Close. Moreover, Dr Neppe similarly described a (continuous infinite) essence 6. With respect, the TDVP model is so beautifully elegant because it reflects a key basic assumption, possibly the truest of all: Reality is ultimately infinitely continuous; this can be applied from the top all the way down the line from the infinite to the finite, ultimately impacting the 3S-1t living domain. This model explains ordropy, life,
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and all that we experience. The reason why physicists havent come up with a true Theory of Everything is because they cannot explain everything we experience through 3S-1t alone, as that is finite, and some of what we experience are reflections of the infinite in the finite. Metaphenomena in the Infinite and Survival Terminology The use of terms like non-locality or even relative non-locality at the infinite level is meaningless. In fact, we postulate we ought to be using the terms metaspace and metatime: One could postulate that one of the difficulties of alleged communications supportive of the survival of bodily death may be the profound difficulty of penetrating the boundary between the infinite and finite: In the infinite, metaconsciousness or that aspect of essence that is existing is in a continuous metaspace and metatime reality, making any meaningful discrete communication extremely difficult and rare. Effectively, a conversion has to occur across a narrow permeable bidirectional bridge of continuous non-specific infinite information into a finite discrete meaning. Moreover, even if some part of an individual or individual-unit consciousness survives, other factors that could make such communications rare are shock, disorientation and lack of identification with a finite form. Communication There is no reason why such communications should be easier from the infinite to 3S1t than from the finite 3S-1t into a specific infinite communication vortex. On the one hand one could postulate that tethering at the infinite level still could occur in survival with all of metaspace, metatime, metaconsciousness or metainformation being relevant. However, one could equally point to times when information interfaces in a nontethered manner, but applying TDVP principles, it is uncertain whether there could ever be absolute non-tethering of the STC links in the infinite: Its just that the tethering that exists may not be relevant to the specific individual-units, but interfaces of information may still allow communication by their intersections. Also, at the finite level S may equal 0 and so may T at certain higher dimensional levels. We speculate that a certain point, the transfinite and the infinite realities so meld that the differentiation of continuity from discreteness becomes (literally) insubstantial. Mathematics Proofs Pertinently, we realized that to raise our TDVP theory of everything into a real metaparadigm, we needed supporting proof. We had always maintained that this would be via mathematics and related logic and we have introduced several mathematical
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proofs for our model. This is why we provide the outlines of such proofs in this book and amplify with mathematically rigorous details in our companion book. 10 Relativity of zero and infinity All of our models are relative with respect to the reference frame of the conscious observer. Even relative zero and relative infinity are pertinent. For example, based on our perceptual and conceptual experiences in 3S-1t, a relevant domain implying additional dimensions in the transfinite direction, may have S=0 and T=0 at that level relative to the observer/ experient in 3S-1t. This is relative zero. On the other hand, when we conceive of a level of extent and content that reflects the infinite, we are again basing it on our sentient awareness. This is relative infinity. It is not absolute because it is relative to our own conscious interpretation. Dimensional zero However, there are also entirely different elements of metaconsciousness. Metaconsciousness itself, theoretically, does not have any relative space or time: dimensional level space equals zero, time equals zero, but it still could reflect meaningful information. The metaconsciousness originates from a continuous infinity and the translation into the finite discrete meaningful information through the brain or nervous systems makes it perceived, conceived and experienced in the conscious awareness and responsiveness of human, individual-unit and other sentient beings. Singularity A finite singularity is not only a singularity of no space, or of absence of time, it is also absence of pattern, meaning and individualized or individual-unit consciousness. If it is a true or absolute singularity, as opposed to relative zero, with zero dimensions, it doesnt have a dimension of space, time, or consciousness. The consciousness comes from the infinite and that could be interpreted as the Primary Receptor. This Primary Receptor, because of the 3D nature of time, exists throughout relative time and space even without any distinction of self. Pythagorean elements in space Given that we perceive only 3 spatial dimensions, we can define a 3S reality in terms of a saturated, or infinitely continuous field of dimensional singularities (points) in 3 orthogonal dimensions. Dimensionometrically and mathematically, it is not possible to have another orthogonal dimension or any other kind of projection, in 3 dimensional space. This can be demonstrated in Euclidean or non-Euclidean space. The Pythagorean theorem is simply a handy tool that can be applied in Euclidean space to demonstrate this, but it is not the only one. We can demonstrate it with a totally different mathematical scheme to locate points that have nothing to do with the Pythagorean theorem, for example, by using radians. Applying radians instead Applying other mathematical representations like radians instead we can demonstrate the limitations of Euclidean space to 3 dimensions. This use of radian measurement to
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locate any point in the field of 3S simply substitutes three different parameters for the x, y and z in Cartesian co-ordinates, using the angle subtended between a reference line through the origin and a line from the origin to the point in question, and can handily utilize trigonometric functions. But, whatever method we use, we still need three parameters to describe three parameters for 3-D space. Interestingly, however, the use of radians also implies application of such a principle in curvature of space, which is relevant for 3S-1t. Dimensional representation Multidimensional scaling representations As long as we use real numbers to represent the measurement parameters, even if we assign one of them to a fourth dimension, we find ourselves back into 3-D space. Thus, a form of numerical representation other than real numbers must be utilized to represent a fourth dimension. Otherwise, all we are doing is representing a complex manifold surface within a 3-D space. The only non-real numbers available are imaginary numbers. Minkowski and Einstein realized that time could be included as a fourth dimension only if represented by imaginary numbers about 100 years ago. Accepting this and identifying invariant relationships between adjacent dimensions of any n-dimensional reality, we can proceed to define dimensional realities (of extent) beyond three and four. Effectively, we do not refer beyond 3S to spatial co-ordinates, though we may list mathematical points instead. We can therefore, analyze 22 different parameters by, for example, multidimensional scaling 156 applying median and mean column geometry in R22 and reflect it in a plane 2D graph. But representation of such points (ordinal or interval) does not mean the same as 22 spatial dimensions, it refers simply to 22 parameters with variables of content that can be metrically represented mathematically by applying an extent to them via a density measure (per unit of extent). Applying more than 3 dimensions. Orthogonality in the representation of 3 or more dimensions is not a requirement, but simply easier to conceptualize and represent mathematically. We find intrinsic and invariant consistency in extent variables of groups of three represented by imaginary and complex numbers once one goes beyond 3S. There are really only 3 spatial dimensions. Contemporary uses of Riemann, Hilbert or other hyper-space analyses are simply conceptual tricks used to solve certain problems (e.g., rotating 3D space using quaternions) but they have no implications regarding space-time dimensionality. Similarly, we maintain that folding spatial dimensions as in String Theory does not get beyond 3D. Complex surfaces analyzed using non-Euclidean geometry are simply being rendered Euclidean from a different perspective. Space and time This reasoning applies to any number of dimensions (variables of extent)
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including time. We describe time in terms of the measurement of duration, another variable of extent. The measurement problem in physics, especially quantum physics, arises because of this mathematical diversity in dimensionality and the difference between space dimensions, time dimensions, and dimensions of consciousness. Space can be measured by ratio / interval measures. But time can only be measured linearly by interval measures, otherwise it may require the use of complex ordinal numbers as consciousness does. Time as a necessary extra dimension We can frame these different phenomena in logical and even mathematical terms. The justifications with Minkowskis work and relativity exist and also, strangely, with the consciousness substrate and the laws of form: Brown 121, without any reference to Minkowski space or any kind of space, concluded that in order to take the form out of the form (to use his terminology) the only way to do that would be with what would be with the equivalent of imaginary numbers. It cant be space, he says, so, it has to be time. It comes in as a necessity to continue the development of the laws of form. It is fascinating that he saw this without reference to geometry of any kind. It appears that Spencer Brown is not understood by most scientists and may have long given up trying to get people to understand what he was talking about. More spatial dimensions Conventional mathematical physicists may argue that Pythagorean parameters (i.e., orthogonal dimensions) are not limited to 3 dimensions, but can be up to nine, ten or more. However, mathematically weve demonstrated that even if a model of greater than 3 multiple real dimensions is conceptualized, all points within the hypothetical ndimensional space can still be located with 3 Euclidean dimensions. This is a hotly debated topic but as far as spatial dimensions are concerned there are only three. The similarity of dimensions beyond 3 to spatial dimensions is no more than the similarity of the imaginary numbers used for the time dimension (the fourth dimension) to real numbers. Essentially, there cannot be more than 3 spatial dimensions, Euclidean or non-Euclidean. There can be n-dimensions, with n reaching nine or ten, but they are not spatial dimensions, or time dimensions necessarily. Even if there were more spatial dimensions, following our examples that lead to 3D-vortical indivension, every non-Euclidean space is actually Euclidean from some perspective. If that is true then we can always translate it into Euclidean n dimensional space, just as Einstein did for general relativity. Scientists have either not recognized, or avoided the Euclidean non-Euclidean issue, and have confused variables of content with dimensions. The absence of recognizing the Euclidean-Non-Euclidean and extent versus content dichotomies is a large part of the reason the other attempts at extradimensional or hyper-dimensional space-time theories have failed. The primary reason is that they have not included consciousness nor the concept of infinity as part of objective dimensionality.
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Creative thought and the Euclidean dichotomy To the rookie mathematician, the relativity of Euclidian/non-Euclidian dichotomy is easy to contemplate because he will not realize that most mathematicians just accept the assumption that Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces are fundamentally different. To that rookie, certain of the fundamental basics are not prioritized allowing an advantage because it allows creative lateral thinking not constrained by conventional concepts, and his conclusions may be either very wrong or very creative. However, scientists may be tied to their own terminology and concepts. If this applies to us, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The farther we analyze the TOE of TDVP, the more it holds together. Ultimately, the proof of the pudding (paradigm) is in the eating (practical application). Euclidean limitations of 3D of time Contemplating a potentially infinite number of 3D co-existing realities, through extra-dimensional extrapolation, if you have n dimensions, you must have an n+1 dimension in order to observe the warping of the n-dimensional reality. N+1 in terms of our Pythagorean time, or our Euclidean time, would stop at 3. But there is no reason why we cannot get to 3 by using this kind of logic, and yet we could go beyond Pythagorean time into Euclidean and/or non-Euclidean realities, which may be reflected potentially and very speculatively in the infinite. Theoretically, we can go to as many dimensions of time as we want into a transfinite time. We have to stop at 3 dimensions of time however, if time is represented by imaginary numbers, which we postulate is correct. This is a revolutionary idea but we argue that we cant go beyond three dimensions of time by dimensional extrapolation, as going beyond that redefines the entity of time: This is so as it can no longer be represented by imaginary numbers and it also cannot be represented by real numbers because dimensionometrically that would return the entity to 3S. Whether Euclidean or non-Euclidean, this new entity must contain both space and time characteristics. Algebraic number theory supplies us with the appropriate type of number: the complex number a+bi. This space-time entity is more than the sum of its parts. Because it contains the tethering aspect of consciousness, we are calling it the consciousness substrate (C-substrate) and these can be represented by quaternions, at least from dimensions 7 to 9 of consciousness. A rigorous development of the ideas relating to this virgin territory of S3-T3-C3 and beyond is presented in our companion book. 10 In this, we apply mathematical dimensionometric logic. We can ostensibly utilize non-Euclidean time (going beyond 3 time dimensions) but that would imply warping of 6-dimensional space-time, which would produce another (seventh) dimension. This properly should not be called time but consciousness because time could no longer be described with a simple multiple of the square root of minus one, but it would have to go to complex numbers. This is as different as time is from space. We have limitations of the 3 dimensional structural limitations of time via
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quaternion mathematics, which we relate to the complex number dimensional equivalents of C7-9 (dimensions number 7 to 9, which we are describing in the context of the C-substrate). The outside in or top-down approach again. The only way we could ever be aware of any non-Euclidean dimensional reality is to be outside of it. Then what we have is a non-Euclidean space embedded in a Euclidean space. A visualizable analogy is the surface of a mountain standing on a relatively flat plain. Representing the surface of the mountain as a non-Euclidean surface distinguishes it from the geometry of the plain, but you can still locate any and all of the points on the curved surface of the mountain-side in 3D space. In 3D time, just as in 3S, you can actually represent any point on any curved or weirdly shaped time manifold conceptualized in 4D time in 3D time because attempted representation in an additional dimension will result in being embedded in a Euclidean 7D reality, and the 7th dimension cannot be simply space or time, as indicated. Through indivension, dimensional embedding may relate to tethering. Tethering can occur in those first 9 dimensions, 3S, 3T, and 3C as they are embedded with each other in a kind of Euclidean hyper-space. Going beyond 9D, we postulate vortical indivension where we can represent as many finite dimensions we can conceive of. We do not yet know if this vortical indivension beyond 3S-3T-3C is equivalent to the tethered realities up till 9D reality. In conclusion, non-Euclidean dimensionality is postulated as relative and conceptual, while Euclidean dimensionality is perceptual but can always also be conceptualized, just as we can conceptualize ideas even in our regular 3S-1t subdomain.ff Because of the inclusion of the infinite through tethering, there may be a feature of the STC substrate that transcends the perceptual and conceptual. Unification of the C-substrate model by dimensions. Lets create a speculative C-substrate model: Given that our usual physical life experience is in 3S-1t, more correctly called 3S-1t-1C, we could conceive of Neurological Consciousness reflecting this minimum. Our brains will function very adequately, but without any creative spark being likely. We cannot access outside our brain so we are restricted to our brain structures, neurophysiology and chemistry for any thoughts. At the next level we could conceptualize Actualization of this Consciousness. This allows for maximal utilization of our Psychological Consciousness at 3S-3T-3C. We can access that in dreams, or altered states potentially, or via any kind of psychodynamics. But it does not require going outside of the brain. Our
This is hinted to by the term "nagual" as used by Carlos Castaneda: It could refer to the overarching cosmic harmony, where Euclidean and non-Euclidean" concepts are vastly transcended in the zero/infinity cyclic (self-referent) connection point. 94
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neurophysiology and neurochemistry still may explain it entirely. We elevate to metaconsciousnessthe broader consciousnessat the Transfinite level, such as 3S3T-NC. This is a conceptual jump involving qualities of higher thought and behavior, such as wisdom, understanding, meaningful knowledge, courage and lovingkindness. These are examples of transcendence of ones consciousness. They could be for good or bad, positive or negative. But they are discrete and ordinally measured and require access of meaningful data outside the brain. Finally, if we merge with the beginnings of the infinite, we could attain a taste of infinitypossibly as a Mystical Metaconsciousness. Could it be that this profound level of metaconsciousness continues infinitely higher ultimately to the Infinity of Infinities? Remarkably, ancient mysticism portrays this, as well: In (Jewish and Christian) Kabbalah, our Actualization model (3S-3T-3C) is the spiritual grounded in physical reality (Asiyah); the Transcendence (3S-3T-NC in the transfinite) reflects the Sefirot of higher development (Yetzirah); the infinite link, the gesher tzar narrow bridge for individuals is the Beriah (almost touching a conceptual Divinity); and finally if one came close to that infinity of the infinities, one would have attained a closeness to perfection (Atzilut). Why mention all this? Simply, because a model must work at all levels. TDVP does. And ancient wisdom that has persisted may be conceptually disregarded in science. But we think that may be an error: We can learn from this. If our C-domains are paralleled by the mystical, this could support our model: This is a remarkable parallel. And it conceivably may not be an isolated example. We find similar parallels, for example, in Vedic and Buddhist mysticism, as both of these also steeped in attaining Higher Consciousness.

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CHAPTER 13: LIFE, ORDROPY, ESSENCE AND THE INFINITE 157 Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, 1623 - 1662) Infinite Continuity Infinite Essence The infinite is continuous and is different from finite quantal subreality. Essence is a key theoretical portrayal of the properties of the infinite. The combination term for the STC, metalife and ordropy is postulated as essencethe quality of this essence is not defined at this point, but is the essential component to maintain life. This combination term includes space and time as well in its five elements and is valuable because of this exemplifying the ultimate relevance of the holistic, unified infinite expression of reality. Finite essence The infinite essence interfaces through all components transmitting discrete packets to the finite physical essence in terms of 3S-1t. We call that finite essence life and ordropy within a finite STC (3S-1t) experiential standard reality. The boundless ocean and the land One metaphoric portrayal of the finite versus the infinite can still involve bidirectional interactions but make understanding easy. We can impact reality from the bottom-up 3S-1t and therefore make a difference. Similarly, we can receive from the top-down transfinite and infinite models and this applies most obviously to order (ordropy), polife (metalife) and continuously to the stream of metaconsciousness converted into the finite. Metaphorically, we could portray the infinite as a boundless, unending, eternal ocean, and the land masses as part of the finite discrete STC realities of individuals or individual-units. This metaphor has the advantage of emphasizing the bidirectional flavoring of our finite-infinite existence. Life Life and consciousness Life is also different from consciousness but a sentient being is able to appreciate conscious awareness and responsiveness.gg Essence refers in the physical finite context to sentient beings that can screen aspects of metaconsciousness dependent on level of functional physical need, and possibly level of spiritual development. It has
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components, too, of space and time, just as the infinite does. But the difference is 3 dimensions of space and one point in time is experienced in our day-to-day earthly physical standard reality, whereas space and time are all-pervasive in the infinite, though this all pervasiveness is outside our 3S-1t and experienced as non-local in our standard reality. Metalife, polife and the infinite, and physical life. Life at the infinite level is described as metalife. Metalife refers to eternal existence (the immortality of eternal life). It implies necessarily survival after bodily (physical) death, but does not express the form of survival, such as, as an individual, as a collective consciousness, as emanations of light, or as a potential reincarnate. One component of metalife is polife: This reflects potential physical life with the essential characteristics to maintain physical life in 3S-1t already existing in the essence from the finite Origin Event period. It only manifests physically when the correct physiology and genetics are adequate. The infinite essence is not alive physically, but may activate a vehicle such as an individual-unit, either individually or at another systems level, e.g., groups, family, society, culture, and ethnicity. This essence contains or is imbued with a metaconsciousness. Effectively, essence is fundamental and inseparable in its qualities of STC, entropy and polife. It may be that this is only experientially evoked when a sentient being is cognitively or affectively or motivationally linked with such an essence. This requires that there is a pathway from the infinite metaconscious to a specific finite point. This linking through the boundary filter between the finite and the infinite involves again vortices, vectors, scalars or tensors link with points of meeting, and that filter in the TDVP model is bidirectional. Sometimes the term life force has been used in lay terms, but we have no proof this is a force in the usual physical sense, so we prefer to avoid such a speculation or misnomer. Infinite order ordropy is not limited to life, but finite physical life manifests with ordropic elements: order is necessary in living and a consistent state of disorder would produce death very quickly; but the persistence of life is not a statistical toss-up: We can make longevity predictions over time and this contradicts the second law of thermodynamics because the living should be continuously moving toward the entropic disorder that reflects death. Similarly, after writing about polife, we were struck by the superficial similarity to the theological soul. But soul in the conventional sense is not quite what were referring to. Polife specifically refers to the life potential in the infinite that may, indeed, manifest (if this occurs, and we have discussed cogent data in this book) 12; 13; 123; 158; 159 as some form of consciousness after bodily death, but without the baggage of a term like soul. We do not even speculate here whether this structure is individual or collective, or combinations of both, or its form. We do not hypothesize what role such polife
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plays: Polife in the non-3S-1t infinite context might refer to potential to infinite continuous consciousness in an infinite subreality but possibly limited by any individual-unit essence. In finite reality, polife at a higher dimensional level might reflect S=0, T=0 and C=N: However, such existence of a non-3S-1t-physical polife could allow some form of connectivity implying links with 3S-1t at certain points, given the ostensible data on such communication 123 This concept of Polife may be more akin to the Sanskrit term atma than the English word soul. But we do not know how this polife may then manifest: Is it, for example, individual or collective? Does it involve different and overlapping sparks of awareness and does this relate to an infinite consciousness? Also, polife is not a thing like a soul, it is a concept of life always existing in the infinite and in the finite, from the Origin Event of the initiation of our universe provided that lifes other physiological requirements are met. Polife is the conceptual base of not requiring a soul or life-force or any equivalent to be added at some point like conception or after a short period in pregnancy or at the moment of birth. Polife is always there from an origin conceptually. It does not have physical extent, nor content, but it speculatively could have intent in the same way as conscious meaning may sometimes play a guiding intentional role. Life track, psi and free will We present a metaphorical speculation, but certainly one that, given TDVP, could reflect a broader reality: We could model our finite lives into a track in the infinite. This would reflect our life track for all of our finite and infinite existence. Potentially, that same polife of the infinite (the metalife) that was linked with our living could continue to be very meaningful during our physical lives. Could our infinite life track, indeed, be reflecting the life component of our physical living, either directly our life essence equivalent that were living in the finite reality, or indirectly such that the track in the infinite is impacted or mirrored or shadowed by our physical existence? Moreover, though we are all on our own individual life tracks, our tracks are not separated from otherswe interface all the time (this is the equivalent of or may be vortical indivension in the infinite). We are part of those vast objective tracks of all sentient beings and perhaps even inanimate objects. That track is reflected in STC, ordropy and metalife in our personal essence in the infinite. Given the data supporting psi, there is no theoretical reason in this metaphor, why we cannot reach out near our life track and apprehend meaningful information. Similarly, we could impact other tracks by influencing them. By this means, we have the potential to interface zillions of other lives and objects, particularly those we become linked to in some way. We simply move our track slightly, changing the multidimensional direction a bit, and acquire meaningful information or perturb other tracks. These impacted tracks, in their turn, deliver meaning (metaconsciousness) from
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outside our track and impact us, as well as others. Similarly, we could also potentially change our lives by modifying our finite life track as we move through our finite existence. These changes, reflecting the infinite and the finite, imply our own free-will and our options to modify realityours and others. Effectively, as we sow, so shall we reap. This applies not only to individuals but also to individual-units: Cultures, societies, ethnic groups, the world and even ones physical reality. We all influence each other, particularly if we have contact. Extent, content and essence Essence reflects all those distinctions of extent and content that exist as potential on the infinite side. It includes meta-space and meta-time. In other words, it is not space-less and time-less, but it includes all of space and all of time, and these can manifest extent and content variables. The content variables might include forces and mass. The extent reflects the extent of space and time, which is infinite. The major way in which essence manifests is through metaconsciousness, in terms of imbued metainformation with meaning, and life with orderordropy. Order has extent, which translated to the finite reality is transfinite, but ordropy also has content; similarly, life has content, but also has extent. Life is more than just great order. So, essence involves variables of extent and content, but which are holistic and therefore, infinite and absolute but with infinities of infinities of all of the qualities of the STC plus order and life. Animate ordropy. Life is, as far as we know, the ultimate reflection of order in 3S-1t, and order is an infinite property. The animate essence manifests both infinitely and finitely and in both ordropy is not usually separate from life. Ordropy is part of a reflection of life and when we see order, we are seeing the potential in terms of lifepolife. Some would regard this as a mental kind of life or a mental existence. Disorder, based on entropy and the second law of thermodynamics is finite. Ordropy and Entropy, Animate and Inanimate Ordropy and entropy If there is entropy at the finite level, are there entropic components in terms of infinity, as well? Logically, it would seem that there has to be, because one linear aspect of the converse of ordropy would be entropy. That essence includes this order, which is reflected in the process called ordropy. Ordropy refers to an infinitedimensional order, not just the linear negentropy opposing the second law of thermodynamics implying the polar negation of that entropy. We define many kinds of ordropy, because it is an infinite phenomenon and contained as part of the essence. Entropy basis Entropy is based on 3S-1t thermodynamics, and is totally compromised with the infinite. Entropy works very well in a finite closed inanimate system wherein the
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second law of thermodynamics is not compromised because energy conservation is preserved in the closed, finite system. Ordropy is far more than just negative entropy because it is all pervasive order. However, ordropy is not only operating at a multidimensional level, but at that infinity level, it reflects infinite dimensional reality. That is where the order comes in. Animate Essence and artificial intelligence We posit that an overriding feature of the infinite is this animate essence. Ordropy is fundamental to life. There is speculatively a subset of order that does not require life, and a subset of life that does not require order, but it is not obvious what, other than robotic machines! They are certainly not synonymous, but appear to be very highly correlated. Such artificial intelligence systems could possibly be pseudo-ordropic: They are still dependent upon the initial programming implemented by a selfconscious human structure. They are disconnected from the metadimensional nesting of their human creator. 94 Infinite essence Indeed, conceptually, there might be very little in the infinite level besides this essence. However, the essence may reflect metaconsciousness as a profoundly relevant or overt component of infinity. There is also an infinite life element polifepotential lifeand essence could be conceived as animate as opposed to inanimate. All of these elements are unified and inseparable infinite essence: ordropy, life, metaconsciousness and there has to be a metatime and metaspace in the STC substrate where all existence for all time and space are one. One could conceive of an individual or individual-unit essences in the infinite and differentiate it from the infinity of infinities divinity or highest being essence. Content and process Life reflects the application of ordropic order in part and therefore, reflects the contents of the extent process of ordropy in the infinite. Other processes and contents are relevant in other models in TDVP: For example, vortices reflect the content of the extent process of indivension in the finite discrete reality. Projecting Concepts of Essence Essence, Primary Receptor and the concept of a deity Historically, Neppe used the term essence as a very primitive statement at that point when he wrote about vortex N-dimensionalism 7 but essence was not properly conceptualized. We are able now to emphasize the enormous role of the infinite and this may be synonymous with Closes initial Primary Receptor, and what the theologians may be calling a creator or a God. However, we dont want to entertain philosophical speculation here about what the infinite is all about. All of the various theological paradigms may have been attempts to explain what we are talking about in terminology that was limited yet would appeal to the population of the place
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and time. The conceptualization of a creator as something like a man with a long white beard sitting on a throne is necessarily just a metaphor. But, objectification into this cultural context is what people could understand. It is justified culturally, metaphorically, theologically and mystically within cultures. This is not a critique but a different, more logical approach. It is not, however, part of the scientific approach. An unknown great mystic once implied that masters who attained the great cosmic consciousness could not explain it because they could only talk in terms that their listeners are familiar with. If the mystic talks about a flower like a rose, then this is an object that the listener is familiar with, but he may actually be describing a beauty that exists in a higher state of consciousness that simply has no direct exact analogue in the 3S-1t world. We do not wish to enter that discussion here; ours is the scientific approach and theology is not part of the scientific approach. TDVP is portrayed in broader conceptual terms of essence without the theology. Yet, ultimately, our TDVP ideas may play a part in the unification of science and spirituality. Quantal Uncertainty and the theological model How does one explain the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in regard to Quantum mechanics and meaning? Does this reject the theological model? The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 45 apparently puts a dent in spiritual thinking because of the introduction of an intrinsic uncertainty. 160 In contrast, we argue that if it wasnt for the uncertainty at the quantum level, there would not be a door through which consciousness could have an effect from individual-unit consciousness on matter and energy other than mechanically, and this would exclude free-will. 161Yet we know there is such an influence. 162 The Heisenberg Uncertainty concept has been interpreted differently (some would say compromised but we think its a mechanism difference, not a refutation) by the Dehmelt/Wolfgang ion-trapping experiment 163; 164 But Dehmelts experiment involved the movement of electrons from one shell to another in subatomic decay, and we do not regard it as of relevance in our model. Certainly Quantum Theory, prima facie, seems to have compromised any idea of something guiding or of any mystical concept. However, quantum theory involves discrete quanta and the infinite is continuous. We recognize, too that there have been models that debate the uncertainty of quantum theory. Chaos theory Chaos Theory 107; 165; 166 is an important theory that tried to explain why quantum uncertainty was not something that was illogical. This explains any kind of order and extends this to the butterfly effect 165; 166. Theoretically, great variations might occur with cascades in terms of quantal results, producing highly improbable events or results that could not otherwise have happened. Effectively, having these enormously large variations could theoretically produce further step-wise effects in terms of gradients and cascades.
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We do not perceive chaos theory as a viable explanation of the persistence of order, but it is one of the explanations against a random quantal effect. We perceive chaos theory as a red herring that misguides people concerning what we call ordropy, producing order by means of the hypothetical self-organizing nature of reality. It is an attempt to bolster the materialistic perspective, but it is a cop-out: Nature itself organizes, but why? Chaos theory does not answer. With a mathematical model sometimes you have large variations in output from very small bits of inputin modeling, when we look for these kinds of variables, we call it sensitivity analysis. 165167 You look at which variables make the biggest impact with the smallest input on a model. The reason that happens is not, we argue, because of chaos: It happens because of the complexity of the interdimensional relationships and the inability of a finite mathematical model to mirror an infinite reality. Anyone bringing that up as an argument for anything beyond the materialistic paradigm, may be, and most likely is, in our opinion, totally missing the point.

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CHAPTER 14: THE INFINITE-FINITE BOUNDARY 168 Mind, in its use, is not static, but constantly developing. Therefore, although at each stage of the minds development the number of its possible states is finite, there is no reason why this number should not converge to infinity in the course of its development. Kurt Gdel 145 Permeable Bidirectional Filter We postulate a bidirectional communication between the infinite and the finite. Terms such as barrier, sieve, permeability, and even bridge could be used. Effectively, one creates bridges in a variety of different settings. Amongst those are the physiological settings such as the blood brain barrier (BBB) where there is a barrier of permeability that is bi-directional between the brain and the rest of the body. The BBB allows appropriate small or fat-soluble compounds to enter and leave the brain, but it acts as a mechanism to prevent what the body deems inappropriate to cross. When the BBB breaks down, for example when infected, it may transfer compounds that may damage the nervous system. Similarly, there is a prolonged membrane bridge across from the gastrointestinal tract to allow nutrition to be absorbed into the systemic circulation but to act as a barrier for what the body experiences as inappropriate. On the output side, the liver is the prime mechanism to de-activate and alter chemicals. The extreme: The infinity of the infinities Georg Cantors concept of infinity was not a single unbounded area.116With the infinite continuity in infinity, ultimately there would be an infinite elevationa greater infinity so to say, which conventional mathematics perceives as paradoxical because calculations, when possible in Higher Dimensions, would be metacalculations. But the idea of an infinite regress downward is well known mathematically, if only for countable not continuous infinity. We cannot discuss links of the finite with the infinite without recognizing these concepts. The existence of an infinity of infinities in the STC substrate isnt fundamental to TDVP, but it is strongly implied though it is better to use dimensionless to portray such elevations. An infinite continuity would imply infinite elevations: We do not use dimensions of infinity given that dimensions are finite, discrete, extent concepts though there is supporting physics here, though implied in the discrete context: Without the infinite descent demonstration of the consequences of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, TDVPs inclusion of consciousness
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would appear to be arbitrary and belief driven. Nevertheless, infinity of infinities has a mystical relevance too. Surely a being that supposedly survives physical death and experiences a tiny portion of an infinite subreality domain would be at a very different level from a postulated Divinity who would by definition possibly, be able to conceptualize that whole domain? So there is a teleological motivation for an infinity of infinities. Gesher and Bridges The metaphorical link These are all examples of necessary physiological bridges that function remarkably in sentient beings. We propose a special kind of bridge that may allow bidirectional interchange between the infinite and the finite. Certainly, all of these terms like filter, sieve, funnel, tzimzum (contraction), expansion, barrier and permeability apply. We could use the word bridge, as well, and that would be nonspecific, and we may apply the physiological or physical ideas of barriers and sieves to it. But this bridge may be entirely different, so we sought out a foreign term that we could use specifically at this level. We suggest gesher, Hebrew for a bridge, particularly referring to the special kind of meaningful bridge between the finite and the infinite. We prefer this word gesher because it could create a less prejudicial metaphorical appreciation of what we are talking about. This gesher could be narrow (gesher tzar) allowing minimal connections of interfacing with the infinite; it could be at any level such as one person or any individual-unit; and it could be applied more broadly allowing the essence of space, time, consciousness, life and order to interface and interact between the infinite continuous and finite discrete subrealities. Gesher is a metaphor for an infinite range of interdimensional connectivity, indivension and tethering interface with specific finite, discrete, N dimensional configurations or collections of dimensionsdomains. This interface might be contextually relevant at any specific dimensional level: N, N+a or N-b dimensional level. The endpoint could be the expression in the finite domains of discrete qualities from the infinite essence. Usually, these discrete parts would be the C-substrate metainformation. Which infinity is the Gesher referring to? Because weve portrayed an infinity of infinities, where is the gesher (mystical bridge) going to or coming from? The question may be unanswerable, though mystically one would portray most individual-units being only able to interact with the lowest levels. So-called heaven may be at a higher level, but this is outside our magisterium here: We simply do not know.
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Gesher and dimensions Gesher is an explanatory technique for a single reality: In our philosophical model of TDVP, called unified monism, the infinite and finite reflect the same reality but from a conceptually different approach. Distinctions involve sentient beings differentiating content, extent and intent and are discrete and therefore, are finite and, theoretically, cannot be in the infinite: The absence of sentient beings conceptually could imply the lack of an individual consciousness process to integrate information, and also, the absence of any distinguishing variables of extent in the continuous infinite would lead to the conclusion that the infinite does not have any dimensions of itself. However, on the other hand, paradoxically, modifying these ideas a little, S, T and C could reflect infinite dimensions in the infinite sub-reality. This would be so as the distinctions might be registered in a unified infinite metaconsciousness and not require individual consciousness. Moreover, metrics might theoretically be performed along the ordinal equivalent coordinates within infinity and so reflect infinite dimensions. If so, this would explain how the finite discrete reality at all its integration dimensional levels originates through the infinite. Both explanations are likely appropriate, because the differentiation is a semantic one depending on conceptualizing definitions. Gesher and different consciousness elements At times, the gesher is more penetrable, for example during meditative states, dreams and possibly any sleep state. The barrier may be loosened possibly with hallucinogenic drugs in certain instances, possibly in psychopathology such as schizophrenia 169, 170 and demonstrably anomalous temporal lobe functioning is linked with more subjective paranormal experiences. 127 Scientific phenomenological studies differentiating the subjective experiences reported in these statessuch as the different psychoses, dream, hypnagogic and hypnopompic realities, other altered states of consciousness, near-death experiences and out of body experiences might clarify the differences in this barrier between self and not-self. 124 Formal analyses may conceptualize these important 3S-1t individual differences in humans. 124 For example, the hallmark of psychosis is ego boundary disturbance. But that awareness is still within the brain. 2; 129, Neppe, 2009 #130; 171; 172 It is possibly associated with misinterpretations of a reality that may be entirely based within the brain, or that it may result in idiosyncratic interpretations of reality from the outside world, such as a distorted metaconsciousness. 124 We do not, at this point, know the answer. On the other hand, so-called out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and a possible interpretative subtype, near-death experiences, are phenomenologically usually experienced as the awareness (center of consciousness) being located in physical
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space outside the body. 124; 125 This qualitatively involves a total shift in the egoboundary because it is no longer located in the brain but outside. The self experiences itself as existing but outside the physical space and with the insightful awareness that that is so. The OBE is phenomenologically experienced as outside the 3S-1t location of the body. Whether this implies extradimensionality or not could be disputed: Ultimately, the live individual still needs to relay his/her subjective experience through their brain memories of his/her experience.124; 125 This barrier allows a filter of information coming through as physical reality. It may be that there is usually passage through from the infinite into the finite, but that it could be the reverse: Could it be that thoughts in our physical finite brain about something or someone or some idea may access the infinite via this gesher (which is not a place but an informational exchange mechanism) and allow a narrow bridge of deliberate contact? It is unclear what this deliberate contact might be. Packets like our speculative hypothetical qualits could be sources (e.g., kinetrons or psitrons that would be discrete, wave, particles or spin communication). On the other hand, the Csubstrate may utilize different metadimensional communications implying vortical indivension or loosening of tethering. But these are teleological speculations. Would induced meditative or OBE states or alleged mediumistic states about a specific deceased element facilitate this communication? Or is this gesher a physiological artifact, a distortion of spirituality, which remains in the brain but fools the individual? Certainly, this could be so because the psychological and the physiological influences are very powerful, but it may not always be so: It is this dilemma of differentiating ones own idiosyncratic, personal and unvalidated reality from the pathological and normal higher brain functioning, which is so difficult. There could be differentiation not only quantitatively in terms of quantity of communications with both inhibition and excitation, but qualitatively, too. This differentiation of neuronal and supportive glial or other structure and physiology is well recognized and may explain selective differences based on morphological and developmental levels of different parts of the brain. Gesher and the brain It might speculatively be that that gesher, in fact, is physically equivalent to the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in that the information transfer is directly into the brain, via, for example, the temporal lobe, and the executive action exits via the frontal lobe. This is unlikely though. We recognize the BBB as the means to limit or allow passage of molecules and ions into the brain. This is a physical mechanism only. But what is the gesher equivalent of information transfer in and out of the brain? Whatever it is (e.g., physiology, qualits or quanta), it would imply narrow limited transfers across
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from (and to) the continuous, unending infinite to (and from) the discrete, limited, 3S1t or metadimensional finite. We speculate that communication between the infinite metaconscious and the brain or nervous system in a finite subreality is bidirectional, not just receipt of specific metaconscious data by the brain, but also, involving potential influences from the nervous system. This influence may require a specific process to communicate from the sentient being to the infinite metaconsciousness. This might hypothetically be some kind of quantal or subquantal substrate. On the other hand, this could speculatively be via efferent psi; The postulate of kinetrons or psitrons would obviate quantal interpretations and implicate the broader use of qualits not quanta. One could additionally postulate specific neurophysiological mechanisms of conversion of neuronal data via synaptic communications to information that crosses the gesher. Because conversion of neurotransmitters or synaptic connections has never been demonstrated to result in thought, we do not regard this as the most likely mechanism. The Boundary and Communication Deliberate communication from the infinite C-substrate to a physically live human requires communicating to and from a specific discrete finite 3S-1t domain. We postulate this would and could be very difficult and has to go through a bidirectional permeable boundary of a narrow gesher: Let us imagine that we think of the deceased John Smith. By that means, we might be setting up a track through that boundary where we contact an aspect of John Smith in the transfinite or infinite substrate. John Smith has a direction to communicate because he has to align through a general metaconsciousness to communicate to a discrete specific finite reality. But he must convert information not only to finite meaning but handle finite space and time. This helps clarify not only why communication of specific ideas to finite sentient beings would be very difficult in so-called survival after bodily death, but it may also, explain the limitations of creatively obtaining knowledge, understanding or wisdom from the infinite metaconsciousness. Anything that is in the infinite and converted to the finite requires conversion from infinite continuity into a specific discrete phenomenon. There are an infinite number of degrees of freedom in infinity. In the finite there are really no more than the degrees of freedom that are consistent with the dimensionality of 3 or 4 dimensions. This really makes it comprehensible. It also, makes it understandable that we can talk about 3S-3t, and maybe 3C, plus ndimensions, because communication may be much more complex dimensionally than we can conceive of. Smiths communications might be easier because he is top-down compared to bottom-up. But the top-down idea is conceptual. We could see infinity being (say) on
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the left with the finite to the right, and the boundary between. We could move most of infinity conceptually to the top-down side. We would then portray most of the finite from the bottom-up: All of our scientific approaches are to a large degree the bottomup one, but the infinite is the top-down one. Continuity and Discrete: Metareality and Nonlocal Reality The important point is that even in the simplest conceptual dimensionality of one, two and three dimensions we see the infinite continuity of infinity and the quantal discrete component of the finite elements. We cannot therefore, just have the finite without the infinite. The two are necessarily more than interacting all the time indeed, they are an inseparable whole. We have conceptualized space and time as being zero in this finite reality (nonlocal spaceless and timeless). Effectively, S=0, T=O and at some points, C= N, which may be transfinite. It approaches the infinite but in the finite is still discrete continuous. In fact, in an infinite world it is not space-less or time-less, it is a holistic space and holistic time, where the two cover everything, in all time and in all space, all at the same time (so nonlocal is applied differently, as all not none, pervasive but not specifically locally located). Infinity, holograms and the brain In certain ways, there are parallels with the explicitly mentioned and implicately derived order of David Bohm 140 in relation to this infinity, and it was Bohm who recognized the reality of quantum interconnectedness 140. Similarly, Karl Pribram's holographic sets are also drawn in an infinity concept. The translation of cerebral function and some kind of hologram is also reflected in terms of the thinking of Karl Pribram 173 as well as with Michael Talbot 48; 174. Talbot, like Gerald Schroeder before him 175-177, tried to incorporate spirituality, religion and science and so illuminate profound questions. His most popular book, The Holographic Universe, explores the metaphysical implications that underline quantum mechanics. Following Bohm 140 and Pribram, Talbot uses holograms to somewhat explain supersymmetry, psi, and mysticism. However, Talbot does not directly postulate infinity. Clearly the infinite is the most obvious component that is necessary here. Interpreting Data Even when there is an interface of the finite with the infinite, there is a hard time perceiving what might come from the finite brain and what might be an infinite reality. There is a difficulty differentiating the two that complicates interpretations. Psychologically we refer to ego boundaries and ego boundary disturbances, and that ego boundary has a real function from the individual unit point of view. It is not only from an individual level, but at a greater group social, cultural, and psychological level.
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Boundary and the Brain The boundary between finite and infinite is likely a conversion barrier of the continuous infinite into the discrete finite where effectively we are translating Essence information into quanta or qualits. These quanta are translated into a succession of serial bits of time. Neurophysiologically, the brain reveals this same discreteness. Synaptic transmission moves in jumps in these discrete neuronal connections. Specifically, Neppe has shown that theoretically the temporal lobe of the brain may the great integrator of the brain and empirically proposed that dysfunction produces disintegration, 127, 178 The temporal lobe could hypothetically reflect the main conversion barrier between the infinite and the finite 127, 178 The temporal lobe not only appears to be a potential window from the mind and into the mind, 169 it also integrates incoming perceptual experience and information coming from other areas of the brain.127 Similarly, we distinguish meaning and its relevance as fitting well into our models of the infinite and consciousness. The discrete finite metadimensionality and the continuous infinite and the difficulties of the permeability (boundary, barrier, filter) between infinite metaconsciousness and meaning at 3S-1t make the situation even more complex.

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CHAPTER 15: THEORETICAL MODELS 179 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. Albert Einstein The Philosophy of Science model: A New But Necessary Synthesis LFAF: Lower dimensional feasibility, absent falsifiability is a legitimate scientific technique, often used in science and technology, especially technology, without being identified as such. A.) The model of feasibility without any facet being falsified is LFAF. B.) The model of falsifiability is superior to the model of feasibility in the construction of a TOE. This is because at the level of proof there is a negation as opposed to a possibility. But it is limited to aspects of 3S-1t, in general. Both models are pertinent in scientific endeavor and reflect a relative proof only. Within this discussion are axioms and theorems in pure and applied mathematics. In science, hypotheses are commonly tested by falsifiability when possible, but if not, by applying the philosophy of science concept of interpreting reality that weve suggested, namely, LFAF. Applying empirical data in 3S-1t as the most commonly experienced lower dimensional domain, and assists testing for falsifiability but even then not always (e.g., evolution). The LFAF / falsifiability evaluation may reflect epiphenomena, and gradually this leads heuristically to building a paradigm. We believe that this model of what is feasible and is not falsified (LFAF) is critical for advancement in the study of dimensionometry. LFAF is generally, in practice, applied for phenomena and results interpreted at the 3S-1t level. However, it applies not only in the lower dimensional domains but also in all metadimensional analyses. The equivalent of falsifiability in mathematics may be the contradiction of the basic logic of the calculus of distinctions. This section discusses the broader approach philosophy of science model to evaluating Theories of Everything applying our current sciences. Our Usual Reality Some relevant findings are not subject to statistical analyses. They may be too obvious using our conventional physical senses. For example, smelling a specific odor of burning, seeing someone on the roof, or hearing a noise. This produces a subjective perceptual reality and it is interpreted into conceptual reality by the individual based
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on their previous and current sense-data experiences. Others may confirm such a smell or sound in which case we talk about reality or objective reality or physical reality, but effectively this is the common or collectively agreed upon 3S-1t higher level interpretation of that subjectivity and may have degrees of certainty. However, these phenomena are not subject to statistical analysis, though there are increasing degrees of certainty relative to 3S-1t, as more individuals observe that common reality, or alternatively, an instrument, like a computer or lab test or detector of light spectra photography not directly available to human sensory perception may do similar nonstatistical but observational confirmations. Alternatively, some observations can be statistically quantified such as random number generators, which may independently find something. Therefore, reality, even objective reality is relative and this is why we are using common reality not actual reality because use of the term actual implies an absolutely objective base that may or may not exist. The Contribution of the Psychological Approach and Metadimensionality Reality, even objective reality is relative and this is why we are using common reality not actual reality because use of the term actual implies an objective base that may or may not exist, though the objective consonance is so consistent that we can base our life and reality experience on such objectivity. But surely when several individuals observe the same information, does that not produce objective reality? It may be very close, even approximating objectivity by 99.999% or more in many instances. But it still produces common 3S-1t reality because the final stage is conscious experience. For example, there may be a common distortion in observation of an event based on the individuals expectation and this is well demonstrated in psychological testing (observing, reporting, memory, expectation in specific higher brain interpretations of patterns or colors, for example). We use the terms, perceptual, conceptual and common reality. The term actual reality should not be used. This is why we call it 3S-1t common reality or if not in 3S-1t, we could describe it as the Common Reality at a specific metadimensional level, and this may be modeled mathematically. Clinically Relevant Approaches and When Statistics are Less Meaningful: Applying the Medical Model Let us re-examine the examples given, namely, smelling a specific odor of burning, seeing someone on the roof, hearing a noise, and apply a medical model. Ironically, however, even these may not appear what they could be: Episodes of burning smells may reflect abnormal firing in the temporal lobe of the brain, seeing someone on the roof may be a visual hallucination, and hearing a noise may again involve stimulation of an area of the brain, sometimes the superior temporal gyrus if well formed 180; 181.
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Double blind statistics versus clinically meaningful non-blind evaluations Similarly, in medicine, clinically relevant information may not require statistical validation. In fact, in a double blind study, if someone responded to a Drug A 51% of the time and yet placebo 50% then after a large sample size, a difference between the two would be demonstrated for Drug A. But realistically to treat a patient for that condition with Drug A would be meaningless. Instead, we would expect an almost complete response to the specific condition requiring an antibiotic treating a bacterial infection where the bacteria have been demonstrated to be sensitive. We look at clinical significance, which takes into account other features such as sideeffects of the drug, and long-term secondary elements requiring management. There is a balance in Medicine, which though often originally based on the double-blind studies, are meaningless unless the clinically significant results are attained. 182; 183 Statistics are far more pertinent to demonstrate differences in rare events such as we weve discussed in psi research, but even there spontaneous events are more meaningful for individuals because they can personally attest to their occurrence, but that personal attestation still may be scientifically incorrect as to origin: Psi, pathological hallucination, coincidence, memory falsification, distorted interpretation are all pertinent. The ultimate farce would be the parachute irony: Proving a parachute effective requires a control of individuals jumping without parachutes! In reality, there are medical studies like this too: Neppe 184; 185 in his Tardive Dyskinesia research, saw such profound results from using high dose buspirone, that it would have been unethical doing a double blind study. Instead, he resorted to a single blind patient study, where the clinicians adjusted the dose suitably for the patient. Today, two decades later, there is still as far as were aware, not a single reported failure with this treatment provided the very high doses required are tolerated and the indication is correct, but because there was no double blind study, it often does not get into reviews of management of tardive dyskinesia. This is an illustration of how medicine literally shoots itself in the foot: What may be approved because there is a statistical difference but is clinically marginal, will invariably reach the medical literature. But what is clinically relevant, but not statistically demonstrated, may be ignored. The medical evaluation paradigm Conventionally, medicine applies history-taking eliciting symptoms. This is fundamentally descriptive, phenomenological and subjective). The practitioner then examines the patient eliciting objective physical signs; these are replicable by other practitioners in that specialty producing a common reality base). Laboratory results may then demonstrate or confirm the condition. Neppe 135; 136 points out that the next
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confirmatory feasibility step is appropriate response to medication or treatment chosen for these conditions. In each instance, not all features may occurfor example, the patient may not have all the symptoms of the condition, or labs may not confirm the diagnosis, or the expected response to management may not occur at all or fully. Incomplete responses or data may produce a presumptive or differential diagnosis but not a final diagnosis. Sometimes, time may assist diagnosis based on progression of the condition. Therefore, there are the key symptoms, signs, labs, response crosssectionally at one point, and long-term measures over time. All are pertinent and consolidate the paradigm of medical evaluation. Correlations in medicine move to causality The Neppe bidirectional (multidirectional) approaches a relative certainty in interpretation of medical data. Neppe 135; 136 has emphasized the bidirectional causality approach that has been prevalent in Medical Practice for centuries, yet seldom verbalized. This application allows more definitive diagnosis as opposed to correlation: These techniques allow for conceptual translations of the perceptual experience and a common reality called diagnosis. Effectively, for example, diabetes has a series of symptoms that the patient reports. On examination, the physician may find signs compatible with the complications of the condition. On lab tests he may elicit changes pertaining to elevated blood sugar (e.g., HbA1C above a threshold, which also allows a metric that correlates with severity). He then prescribes a treatment for diabetes (e.g., medication and diet). The patient improves over time. The Neppe bidirectional approach in medicine and phenomenology Neppes approach has been to demonstrate how correlations move to diagnosis because of the bi-directional or even multi--directional confirmations. For example, symptoms of malaria are confirmed by lab tests demonstrating active plasmodium parasite in the blood. That may result in a definitive diagnosis of malaria. Or the patient has on examination; a throat that looks like it has streptococcal infection. He responds to an appropriate antibiotic. The results in a provisional diagnosis of streptococcal pharyngitis. On the other hand, only eliciting symptoms or signs may utilize the correlation of its possible that the patient has streptococcal pharyngitis or some other related disease. In medicine, this may be a differential diagnosis, which means there is an uncertainty but correlative data. Neppe has applied such an approach to phenomenology particularly consciousness and psi research. 124 We can, also, apply such techniques in our paradigm building, especially when we can tie a hypothesized concept into the logic of a demonstrably consistent mathematical model, moving to higher levels of certainty, making conclusions or jumps based not
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only on falsifiability and replicability of the more consistent (broader objective data that we call 3S-1t reality) but on the logic of increasing feasibility of findings (where no data are falsified using LFAF). The Gould Magisterial Approach Furthermore, there are times when we cannot even apply even correlative data. Such comparisons are qualitative but not quantitative. Gould 186has separated out magisteria. There is a major difference between the magisteria of belief related phenomena such as in religion, and of science, which draws conclusions from facts. To Gould, religion based on belief, and science based on drawing conclusions, are not directly comparable. World religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism can be tabulated for similarities and differences. And the similarities can be correlated statisticallyas can their differencesbut the ultimate judgment of value may be subjectively based on belief. Applications of the Statistical, Common Reality, Medical and Psychological Models to TOEs Therefore, some information may be empirically based but on feasibility, not falsified by data, and may not require statistics though comparisons can be made. Indeed, in areas such as cosmology and evolution, statistics as indicated are difficult to interpret because what is the statistic for the null hypothesis? Similarly, sometimes a theory of everything cannot be directly evaluated for quality although quantitative data of differences can be elicited. From that perspective, the more common features to a TOE can be understood, as well at the unique features. But ultimately, the translation will be falsifiability and LFAF. There are horses for courses. In a model for a theory of everything, a key aspect has been testability and comparison by replication using conventional falsifiability criteria, or applying LFAF. But prior to that Neppe 124; 125 has emphasized the need for phenomenological analyses as one legitimate approach to applying empirical data and by so doing helping with the analysis of multiple confounding factors. At that point the testing reflects the adequacy of methodology applied to hypotheses. Then comes interpretation, which we conventionally report in scientific papers under Discussion of the Results. We then draw conclusions. In our instance, our conclusions attempt to locate a broader paradigm that truly fits. This therefore, is a product of feedback back and forth. The endpoint of a paradigm, which fits across many areas of endeavor, is a theory of everything. Great refining of the multiple paradigms could rarely achieve an ultimate statement axiom that appears generalizable. Our ATO (Axiom of Tethered Origin) is such an axiom. The process then continues from the top-down reexamining information.
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The application of information to TOEs The process of achieving an overriding Theory of Everything, is therefore, an extension of the current methods of science as described above and summarized below. It is well illustrated, based on both the medical model of evaluating statistical and clinical significance, and applying the techniques of evaluating scientific publications in the area: 1. Empirical data analyses: These include the clinically relevant, the phenomenological with perceptual and conceptual experience (e.g., we taste something that tastes like garlic; based on our concepts of garlics taste, we conclude it is garlic) 2. Postulation of narrow testable hypotheses. 3. This may lead, ultimately, to postulation of broader hypotheses or skipping the narrower postulates, as there may not be any narrow hypotheses. 4. Results and analysis, by statistical, clinical, phenomenological or responsiveness (e.g., treatment) means. 5. Discussion, emphasizing the methodological limitations and strengths. 6. Re-refining the process. 7. Drawing narrow conclusions from the data available. 8. Re-evaluating other areas and integrating these conclusions into a model 9. Combining all pertinent information in models to evaluate the feasibility of a paradigm change. 10. Ensuring the mathematics and logic must not contain any logical contradictions. We differentiate this from paradoxes. Paradoxes are indicators of inadequate or incorrect assumptions. Sometimes such paradoxes are only apparent and must be approached within the limitations of their a priori assumptions. (E.g., Gdels incompleteness theorem is limited to finite reality) or paradoxes may be perceived as such only because of being counter-intuitive as in the twin paradox of relativity. Logical contradictions cannot be true under any circumstances. However, when discussing metadimensionality, we may note apparent 3S-1t contradictions, which may not necessarily be contradicted at a different metadimensional level or in infinity. Therefore, these may be paradoxical 3S-1t contradictions that are not so at specific or general N-dimensionality levels, for example, time is linear and forward only in 3S-1t. Multiple time dimensions are logically contradicted in 3S-1t but legitimate in, e.g., 3S-2t. This is a paradox not a metadimensional contradiction. Schrdingers cat may be dead or alive in 3S-1t 187; 188, but if survival after bodily death occurs, in another metadimensional realm, death becomes relative and is paradoxical, not contradictory. 11. Ultimately achieving a single, consistent statement axiom if the several subcomponents of paradigmatic change are still justified.
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12. The process is then continued but from the top-down to assure internal consistency: Any paradigmatic change must continue to be consistent with the results. In our TDVP model, we apply these processed to ultimately develop a metaparadigm. Our starting points were the simple essential components of our TOE: the Axiom Of Tethered Origin is consistent with an infinitely continuous conscious substrate. This infinity is without beginning and without end so is linked with a unified before, during and after period, even before the even horizon. This infinity expresses itself in consciousness, order, and an ever existing time (past, present and future being one) and an ever existing space (which is nonlocal in finite dimensional realities), as well as a universal life potential. We need to postulate the need for tethering. Our changes are borne out of the necessity of empirical evidence and experience, not convenience. And our lessons are learnt from our previous models, as well as from the attempts by others in the areas. A TOE is not based on belief. That would imply the magisterium of religion and faith. TDVP or any other scientific approach is based on fact, and has gone beyond belief reaching legitimate conclusions. Those require key ideas that have broad application and can instead be tested through LFAF and feasibility. In our instance of TDVP, the inseparable unification of space, time and C-substrate from the very origin is a key aspect and yet there also needs to be independence of multiple components of S, T, and C substrates too, though tethering at one or some points of origin is something required. To this, was added a process (indivension) and a content (vortices) allowing further applications in the metadimensional area and an awareness of the need for utilizing both order (obvious but in physics, an area that is neglected) and infinity (obvious in mathematics, but conveniently ignored as theologicalwhich it is not necessarilyin sciences.) There is a consistent build up of these tethers and meeting points by vortical indivension. Every separate component is integrated into a very large multisystems base allowing heuristic building together of this single unit. In TDVP, we have the specific Axiom of Tethered Origin (ATO). This leads to and combines with several others producing the metaparadigm (and several logical theorems that derive from there), as well as postulates, sometimes speculative. This is one level of the heuristic hypotheses going bottom-up, and also top-down. Another is the continual interaction of components within and between systems by vortical indivension: Effectively, this provides for a continued meeting point of tethering across, between and within dimensions and domains.
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The meeting points of information intersection or interface, or space or time meeting points intersecting by vectors, scalars or tensors, may be the equivalent of TDVPs interfacing of information via the meeting points of vortical indivension. TDVP: The Criteria of Scientific Correctness and the Problem of Intersubjectivity With our TDVP model, the broader metaparadigm is compatible, and in fact, we can apply the overall unifying mathematical logic of the calculus of distinctions across the various physical, biological, social and consciousness sciences, and also, across dimensions. Effectively, this is an extension of our idea of LFAF for scientific data but into the metadimensional base involving several domains. 1) We require terms to be specifically defined by using known terms, and not metaphorically unless to illustrate a concrete point (e.g., in tethering). 2) Abstract concepts should be differentiated from the concrete. 3) There should be a hierarchy of hypotheses as in our TDVP model. The fundamental is distinguished from the more speculative, and there are degrees of certainty, which we attempt to indicate. 4) Occams razor argues that the simplest explanation should be preferred if all other components are equal 135: We argue that although Occams parsimony and simplicity are excellent, coherence and logic are even more relevant. Additionally, it could be debated what is simpler. For example, is superpsi more parsimonious than survival? In our opinion, it is not: This is because superpsi is completely unproven to exist as an entity 123; 159 and yet there appears to be some cogent evidence for post-mortem survival 12; 101; 123; 159 Nevertheless, there are those who would debate that issue, and then Occams rule could argue for superpsi over survival, because if something is so unlikely to exist, any potentially legitimate theory would trump it. We caution that we should be particularly careful to use William of Occams rules for metadimensional data, or for knowledge that has tenuous components. 189 In summary, we prefer coherence and logic over simplicity and parsimony. 5) The role of internal and external consistency of concepts is emphasized by the absence of contradictions. 6) We like to emphasize rational logic but what is logical is again sometimes debatable. But there should be a consistency of hypothesis, methodology, results and conclusions. We have applied these principles with TDVP and we have been particularly cognizant of definitions, and careful to differentiate any speculative ideas. We have tried to be
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internally and externally consistent, simple and logical. In TDVP we recognize the state and trait components of neurological and metaconsciousness. We realize that altered states may even occur in individuals and psychosocially, Individual-units may differ, and states may differ in the same unit at the same moment depending on perception, conception and reality. Consequently applying the three groups of three basic principles of the calculus of distinctions (content, extent, intent; perceptual, conceptual, relative experiential actual/ common realities); self (in the context of individual-unit as well, not self, and differentiating border), TDVP solves this problem of differentiating (as opposed to set theory, which looks at similarities, predominantly mathematical not consciousness, and along linear dimensions). In TDVP, such a model is similarly developed: Is it compatible with other models? In what way can we look at the process and content, the state and the trait, and to what degree? The ordinal use of metric concepts in distinctions allows C-substrate to have various dimensions each different but interwoven by vortical indivension-- content and process. We therefore, recognize the need for a new Philosophy of Science, and that our current Popperian scientific criteria are insufficient to examine TOEs. Modern Science cannot explain many complex or borderline phenomena, though is quite sufficient for possibly >99.9% of our 3S-1t domain reality. But it cannot explain those phenomena that do not fit its standard paradigmatic base. Therefore, TDVP involves a philosophy of science paradigm shift. We realize that if we could demonstrate that empirical data are compatible with LFAF and Popperian Falsifiability, and if TDVP were supported theoretically by mathematicologic and theorems, our fundamental axiom becomes a more cogent model. We argue that we have done so. Gdels Theorem: The Finite and the Infinite in TDVP A pertinent question relates to Gdel's second incompleteness theorem. According to Gdel, if a system is consistent, then the sentence expressing the consistency of the system cannot be proven within a finite system. To prove a complete formal explanatory framework, requires there to be some external and more general explanatory framework effectively going outside that system. Gdels model was originally applied to peano arithmetic involving functions such as multiplication and division in a complete finite number system, but mathematicians have generalized from this. Close applied Gdel's theorem to quantum physics and cosmology in
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Infinite continuity and Transcendental Physics. 8; 17 and also, Neppe developed a similar motivation: Weve applied this to our TDVP model, which utilizes both the finite and the infinite. TDVPs model necessarily incorporates infinity because Gdels theorem specifically to the finite. This is why in TDVP, we necessarily postulate a corollary including the infinite. This is mathematically and logically necessary because without it could not be a TOE. TDVP could not be complete if it is purely finite because of this interpretation of Gdels theorem of incompleteness. The inclusive topdown approach in TDVP includes the infinite and the finite, and the interface of infinite with finite. A purely bottom-up approach cannot include the infinite and although TDVP allows approaches en route to its fundamental axiom that are both bottom-up and top-down, the one does not exclude the other. In TDVP, our metaparadigmatic model was fundamentally developed from the topdown as a broad more comprehensive consciousness-based TOE. This top-down approach did not initially have the limitations of what could be theoretically possible. We were able to develop 21 related axioms, all linked with tethered origins and unification of the discrete finite with the continuous infinite producing a unified reality. Our metaparadigm, effectively our Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity (TTOOURS) built from this concept, and we then re-examined feasibility (a very important concept for metadimensionality) in the context of known endeavors. Only then did we evaluate in detail existing theories and so TDVP in its first and final drafts remains largely outside the framework of existing TOEs, which are used for comparison not incorporation, and to appreciate those components of uniqueness.

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CHAPTER 16: THE KEY AXIOMS 190 Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience. Albert Einstein The justification of these axioms and corollaries are in the material listed mainly in the second companion book 10. These axioms are largely independent of each other unless otherwise stated. Refutation of any of these axioms does not refute any other axiom or theorem unless they are corollaries or lemmas. The metaparadigmatic statement based on 21 underlying axioms. We are expressing each of these axioms individually, but because of their essential unity, necessarily more than one idea is contained into each axiom. At times we amplify the axiom to clarify briefly. These fundamental axioms constituting the TDVP metaparadigm can be subdivided into The Finite Related Axioms. The Infinite Axioms. The Linked Finite-Infinite Axioms. After we have discussed these 22 axioms, we will synthesize them into the four axioms we discussed in Chapter 1. Finite Related Axioms A. Axiom of Finite Unification All of existence (space, time and C-substrates [STC]) is unified into one reality. STC constitutes a fundamental triad. B. Axiom of Triadic Inseparability Components of space, time and C-substrate are inseparable This inseparability is fundamental and ubiquitous, and occurs at all levels of nature from the subatomic quantal to the macro-level to the astronomical levels. (This inseparability reflects all dimensions and domains: In some space or time dimensions may be equal to zero, not existing at that dimensional level= relative zero). C. Axiom of CST Tethering Space, time and C-substrate (STC) are inseparably tethered together and constitute a
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single unit. The STC triad that is inseparable at certain points may be independent of each other at other points. Therefore, there is always a fundamental linkage of STC but all of STC can manifest independently. D. Axiom of Discrete Quantal Expression Quantal meaning is expressed at all levels from the subatomic, to macroreality to astroreality. It incorporates the biological, including the nervous system. More correctly, as quanta are used for space and time, we have preferred Qualits, which imply discrete expression including consciousness and information. At the nervous system level in 3S-1t, this might imply discrete meaningful packets that we have called Conscits. This may not be even at the quantal level but subquantal, in dark matter or elsewhere to be determined. E. Axiom of Vortical Ubiquity Existence manifests ubiquitously in three dimensional curved shapes, which we broadly call vortices. Quantally, these are expressed in part by spin. (Not all shapes are vortical. Interfaces of information content, of mass and forces can also, occur via vector, scalar and tensor communication). F. Axiom of nervous system endpoint Experiential living physical reality is subjectively experienced through a nervous system. All discrete information is ultimately translated via that response. Similarly, all low level bio-information circuitry (even at the molecular and subcellular level, such as with cytoplasmic reactivity and viruses, and even non-biological forms of meaning information processing in the "inanimate") may have subjective components. Such meaning may not only be cognitive, but have volitional (drive, motivation, intention) and affective (emotional) components. The meaning may even be exclusively affective or volitional or combinations, and so be without any cognitive (thinking) elements. G. Axiom of Subjectivity Reality is expressed subjectively applying the calculus of distinctions into what is perceived (perceptual reality), what is interpreted (conceptual reality), and what is ultimately experienced by the sentient being (experiential reality). This is the common (relative objective actualized, manifest reality). "Subjective" reality (perceptual, conceptual) depends upon the " actualized " information or meaning interplay and processing. The ubiquitous presence of this actualized information in its extraordinarily large number of combinations (zillions) constitutes a relative "absolute reality" and might even reflect a certain harmony in the universe or cosmos. We speculate that this might be linked with the harmony one
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postulates in the infinite subreality and therefore, may in a sense reflect at the metadimensional level a more complex actualized reality than can be conceived of. We could use the term virtual reality when conceptualizing these metadimensional actualities from the 3S-1t perspective. Conceptual reality involves a neurological type process in which information may be either actively interpreted (interpretative reality) physically through neurological full conscious understanding of the concept, or through concepts that can also form without full consciousness as well, for example, in so-called altered states, dreams, in ones psychological unconscious, or even ultimately in a reflex way (so-called motor memory is an example where one may have the conceptual framework of hitting a top-spin forehand but it does not require active cogitation). Experiential reality usually very closely resembles what is the common, manifest reality, apparently objectified reality but this is not an absolute reality. Though this manifest reality may, at times, be so tangible that it is almost indistinguishable from the absolute common reality, it still is experienced at an endpoint subjective phase through the nervous system of sentient beings constituting together billions of individual-units that have common though necessarily limited discrete physical sensory and motor apparatuses, that allow very similar interpretations of the objectified finite STC content of a reality. Infinite Axioms H. Axiom of Infinite Origin A unified wholeness of cosmic reality occurred at or around the Origin Event. This unified wholeness constitutes the fundamental structure of reality. Underlying the physical universe is an infinite form of reality that existed prior to the appearance of the first quantum. We call this the Primary Receptor and finitely regard it as occurring at or just prior to the Origin Event. This had to exist prior to the emergence of the first quantum from the big bang. This axiom, though axiomatic, is supported mathematically. At the original singularity, the concept of the Primary Receptor could speculatively be conceptualized as infinite consciousness and therefore, S=0, T=0 and C= $. This axiom is stated in the infinite and argues for the infinite. However, the finite subreality still may reflect finite data that, ultimately, is expressed in 3S-1t. Therefore, although there may be other explanations, we argue that one finite mechanism to initiate our cosmos may relate to the singularity and the big bang. But this is only one part of the broader picture because the cosmos is not just 3S-1t. The infinite origin axiom impacts all of finite reality. This finite representation is only part of the whole of reality because there is also an infinite subreality where we postulate it should be
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illogical to talk about the beginning of time because of metatime (all of time existing simultaneously). I. Axiom of Holism in Space-Time Infinity Infinity is not non-local in the sense of spaceless and timeless. It reflects the simultaneous coexistence of all of space and all of time. J. Axiom of Living Infinite Reality The infinite allows for a N-dimensional living reality. This provides the basis for physical life with the infinite providing potential life or polife: once the physical apparatus is functioning sufficiently to support physical existence. Effectively, the life potential (polife) always exists. At least one kind of physical life exists asour current existence as live sentient beings in the 3S-1t domain. When biological factors are insufficient to maintain physical life, physical death occurs. Effectively, without the appropriate physical biological supporting factors, we cannot maintain physical life. If we cannot maintain physical living physiologically, the cells, tissues and organs become non-functional. The endpoint of this phenomenon is physical death: biology has been sufficiently compromised to be unable to maintain the 3S-1t components of physical life. Extending the polife model, life (or more correctly polife if were defining life itself in the physical finite context) still would exist in the infinite. This implies an infinite immortality. K. Axiom of Ordropic Reality Ordropic reality manifests not only in the closed, finite, discrete context, but also, in the open, infinite, continuous context. The ordropic process involves far more than just negative entropynegentropy. This is so as the second law of thermodynamics in space time is applicable in a closed finite system not in an open, infinite, living system and therefore, entropy at a linear finite closed level is just one component of broader ordropy. Invariant mathematical and dimensional relationships emanating from the Csubstrate, and S, T and C substrate linkages exist, forming the basis of the natural laws of the cosmos. These laws are intrinsic to the STC substrate and thus, ultimately support the persistence of ordropic patterns, information and meaning. I. Axiom of metaconscious infinity The infinite provides the context for an open holistic nonlocal (in space-time), metaconsciousmetainformation system. M. Axiom of information Information exists and is translated in individual-units (including quantal meaning) into a broader consciousness. Cognitively this involves wisdom, understanding and
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knowledge. This holistic information source (metainformation) translates into a holistic broader consciousness source (metaconsciousness). N. Axiom of Pervasive, Essential Infinity Reality manifests in the laws of nature. These laws are not only limited to the finite but also, have an essential, pervasive infinite component. However, we at this point, do not know what natural laws govern the infinite essence of metaspace, metatime, metaconsciousness, polife and ordropy, but we postulate that they are consistent with known universal laws of nature, not only empirically in terms of demonstrable scientific manifestations, but they may also be revealed through mathematical and dimensional invariants, dimensional extrapolation and the application of the calculus of distinctions. Linked Finite-Infinite Axioms O. Axiom of Communicating Relative Infinity The infinite pervades continuously all the finite individual-unit dimensional realities it imbues, interfaces, impacts, apprehends, perceives, perturbs (individually and collectively), and influences contiguously and with noncontiguous extent relative to each dimension and domain. P. Axiom of Fluctuating Dimensional-Distinctions Reality manifests in % 3 D space (likely 3D)- multidimensional (likely 3D) time-Ndimensional fluctuating consciousness with the finite impacting from the infinite. Q. Axiom of continuous infinity linked with discrete finity Metaconscious continuity converts its content to quantal meaning, or more likely qualit or conscit meaning as part of the qualit components, through the STC continuum into 3S-1t reality. 117 Because quanta are usually referred to as the smallest discrete elements of space-time or mass-energy-spin, conscious discrete meaning would theoretically be excluded. Consequently, we use the term qualits instead of quanta. Qualits can be subdivided into what may be overlapping Chronits of time, Qubits of space, and Conscits of consciousness. Applying the concept of the quantum, Conscits, in turn, might hypothetically, involve discrete subatomic or even subquantal elements of particle, force (not necessarily energy) and spin, of conscious nature. R. Axiom of Artificiality The presence of specific dimensions or descriptive domains is artificial in the context of the unity of infinity but relate to theoretical imaginings or experiential interpretation, e.g., 3S-1t finite.
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S. Axiom of boundaries The distinction between infinite and finite requires a boundary. These boundaries reflect self and not-self and could be synonymous with the boundary between nervous system individuation and others. This boundary takes place at the infinite level. We call this boundary area a gesher or complex, infinite-finite linking, bridge. The gesher involves the boundary between the infinite and the space-time metadimensions, as well as the interface at the transfinite or C-substrate levels with indivension. T. Axiom of metaconscious dimensional-distinctions Information is not static, but dynamic: It is always fluctuating, metaphorically, waves in a boundless infinite information ocean. When infinite and finite broader information is expressed in meaning, it reflects a dynamic broader consciousness (the C-substrate). This C-substrate has many components: The infinite metaconsciousness continuous subreality combines with the discrete, finite subreality, reflecting all of the dynamic meaningful information that is available. This finite broader C-substrate reality is expressed as measurable finite variables of extent because they can be measured directly as different dimensions of broader consciousness, such as honesty, courage or love, or even negative meaningful information like hatred or evil, or as combinations. But, unlike Space and Time, which metrically is usually measured in discrete equal jumps (mathematically, interval and ratio data), C-substrate is metrically measurable only ordinally (by degrees of comparison, effectively like slight, moderate, marked where e.g., the interval between slight and moderate varies, and is not an exact difference): But these measures, nevertheless, are distinguishable they reflect distinctions. In this case, they describe distinctive variables of ordinal extent: Therefore, by definition, they reflect dimensions. The axiom of metaconscious dimensional-distinctions therefore describes all this: Meaningful information (C-substrate) links the infinite with the finite; and the combined finite C-substrate ordinal distinctions of extent reflect the dynamic, changing expressions of all the C-substrate components, namely H-C, EC and, in sentient beings, N-C. These are expressed as consciousness dimensions, either in the first 9 STC tethered dimensions (up to 3S-3T-3C) or at the higher transfinite dimensional levels. U. Axiom of Relativity All factors constituting the TDVP metaparadigm are relative, not absolute, because they are impacted through the consciousness experience. These include the individualunit, dimensionality and domain, space-time-consciousness, subjectivity-objectivity, the discrete-continuity dichotomy and the finite and infinite subrealities. Concepts such as zero and infinity are also relative.
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V. Axiom of Tethered Origin (ATO) This is a basic but also composite axiom implying a combination of the Axiom of Origin, the STC axiom, and the Axiom of Tethering. ATO is fundamental because it refers to the unified wholeness of Space-, Time- and C-substrates existing in finite subreality even at the Origin Event: The tethered origin (ATO) allows also for inseparability of STC at the Origin Event, and for each of the dimensions within any of S, T and C to be separate, yet remain tethered (linked and tied to) to the Origin (the source). These twenty-two axioms are linked together to constitute one composite statement, the metaparadigm. The Four Sentence Axiomatic Metaparadigm Summary This can be divided for clarity into four sentences creating a metaparadigm. 1. Reality involves a unified wholeness of the infinite and finite with the infinite pervading the finite experience of STC content and extent. 2. The essence infinite reality component is without extent because it exists or potentially exists in all space, time and consciousness, and information content. Infinity involves the potential towards order (ordropy). Discrete elements of the infinite are manifested in the finite. Consequently, in finite terms, infinity is conceptualized as nonlocal (beyond space and time) but in infinite terms it involves a metareality of all existing metatime and metaspace, existing as a pervasive metaconsciousness and potential living, ordered subreality. Metacist is an acronym for metaconsciousness, meta-information, metaspace and metatime. 3. The Finite reality component is fundamentally inseparably tethered from its origin as a triad of spacetime broader descriptive consciousness (S, T and Csubstrates), which manifests across, between and within multiple fluctuating dimensions. 4. This finite-infinite reality is relative to all dimensional-distinction factors, and experienced subjectively (by individual-units) (Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [ TTOOURS]). The 22 axioms together combine several axiomatic paradigms (unification, infinitefinite, triadic inseparability, CST tethering, fluctuating communicating dimensionaldistinctions, and origin) into the TTOOURS metaparadigm.
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Then the four summary axioms provide the conceptualization for the overriding higher level metaparadigmatic statement for the model called the Triadic DimensionalDistinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) and it is combined as follows, effectively a one sentence rewrite of the 4 subparadigms above: A unified wholeness of cosmic infinite ordered, nonlocal, existingliving reality pervades a finite fundamentally inseparably tethered original triad of spacetime broader descriptive consciousness (S, T and C-substrates) across, between and within multiple fluctuating dimensions experienced relatively (by individual-units) (Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [TTOOURS]).

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CHAPTER 17: DEFINITIONS: REALITY, DIMENSIONS AND DISTINCTIONS191 Mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical realitythe stuff of which physical reality is composed is mind-stuff. It is mind that has composed a physical universe that breeds life and so eventually evolves creatures that know and create: science-, art-, and technology-making animals. In them, the universe begins to know itself. George Wald (1906-1997, Nobel Laureate Biologist) hh We clarify now some basic concepts. We define all of the terms we use as precisely as possible. This means that the primary conceptual bases should be re-examined after evaluating these definitions. Definition I: Reality The totality of all individual and collective experiences as well as finite and infinite non-experiential realities of what exists. One component of reality is subjective (individual or group reality): If reality is defined as everything we experience, there are three aspects of this reality: perceptual reality, conceptual reality, and common reality. Definition I(i): Perceptual Reality Reality detected by the senses of the observer. Perceptual reality reflects the input activating quantum brain dynamics. Definition I(ii): Conceptual Reality Reality conceived or pictured in the mind of the observer based on the mental image. Conceptual reality reflects the output to consciousness, which is beyond brain dynamics in the C-substrate. Definition I(iii): Common (or Actualized) Reality The quantum or subquantal reality underlying perceptual and conceptual reality: It is made manifest (actualized) by an action resulting in an irreversible manifestation of a pattern of effects that integrate a consistent set of perceptual and conceptual distinctions. However, this actualization reflects a common reality at an individual-unit level. The three forms of reality may be understood more clearly by revisiting the EinsteinBohr debate, and thinking through examples illustrating the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, which was validated by the logic of Bells theorem and the results of the Aspect experiment. (See below)

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Definition II: Dimensions Our use of the word dimension will be precisely limited to variables of extent that can be measured and described geometrically and mathematically. In any reality model there are many measurable variables;, e.g., mass, energy, velocity, density, angular momentum, electrical charge, biological activity, information content, etc. But these are variables involving content not extent. While they are measurable features of perceptible reality, they are not dimensions. The number of dimensions is equal to the number of variables of extent present. Extent implies degrees of freedom, i.e., directions in which something can move. (This is contrasted with content, which does not have degrees of freedom but can be measured in terms of units of the constituent; a third domain, one with variables of intent refers to determination to act but not the action itself). Dimensions provide a logical, geometric-mathematical framework within which to describe the objects and events perceived and/or conceived as distinct features of reality. In the context of dimensions beyond the three dimensions of physical space, the term geometry should be replaced with the term dimensionometry. 192The answers to the questions about the nature of reality and consciousness may lie in understanding the extra dimensions of reality not normally perceived by our physical senses, but indicated by the existence of forces that appear to act at a distance and the special role of consciousness implied by the concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics. Even though we usually conceive of our direct experiential reality as a domain of only three dimensions of space and one of time, there is evidence indicating that we actually exist in a reality of more, perhaps many more, than four dimensions (metadimensions). We do not use the word dimension in its many different other conceptual manners. This includes, Closes statistical analysis application of as having a causal dimension and a resultant dimension. Nor do we use it to represent any measurable variable as a dimension. In any reality model there are many measurable variables;, e.g., mass, energy, velocity, density, angular momentum, electrical charge, biological activity, information content, etc. But these are variables involving content not extent alone. While they are measurable features of perceptible reality, they are not dimensions. Metric: The metric is a distance between two points or from the origin to any given point. This is the basis of algebraic analytical geometry. This is best understood by defining and using Cartesian co-ordinates. The arbitrary orthogonality (right angled, perpendicular orientation) of the ordinate and abscissa in three-dimensional space is the basis for defining the Pythagorean metric. Cartesian Co-ordinate: A Cartesian coordinate system specifies each point uniquely in a plane by a pair of numerical coordinates, which are the signed distances from the point to two fixed perpendicular directed lines, measured in the same unit of length. The coordinates can also be defined as the positions of the perpendicular projections of
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the point onto the two axes, and expressed as a signed distances from the origin. Definition III: Distinction Distinctions are applied via Closes Calculus of Distinctions (C of D). This can greatly simplify the mathematics of substrate algebra by dealing with vectors, tensors and scalars, as well as applying vortices, and a subgroup of these, twistors, as multidimensional distinctions. This makes the C of D especially effective for testing scientific hypotheses. Based on the definitions of the elements, the variables and realities below, there are three different conceptual qualities of distinctions: Distinguished, distinguished from, consciousness drawing elements (DFC) Intent, content and extent variables (ICE) Perceptual, conceptual, actualized realities (PCA) Elements of distinction We need to distinguish something from everything else. It could be oneself from others with the boundary between being the psychological ego-boundary. It could be the top from the bottom of a line. In each instance, we need to distinguish the difference. As indicated, the three necessary elements (abbreviated DFC) to produce a distinction are: that which is distinguished, that from which it is distinguished and that which draws the distinction. Variables of distinction Importantly, and critical for dimensionometry are the variables in any meaningful existential reality. This distinction has at least three types of variables: variables of intent, content and extent (ICE). Conceptually, we classify intent, at times, in the C-substrate. It may or may not exist on its own in the S and T substrates, although the intent from C-substrate may pervade the other two. In practice, intent would potentially be one way in which meaningful contextual information could be dimensionally represented, for example, by applying the concept of density through an infinite guiding reality. This could theoretically allow pure information to be converted to the C-substrate ordinal variables of extent, and might invoke theological postulates. However, it is likely that more commonly, the intent could reflect drive or intention or motivation, which may be applied mechanistically through psychological or neurological volitional mechanisms.
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But although, intent could be one method of applying density, the simple physical per unit conversion in 3S-1t is likely far more common: In that instance, without any intent applied, we can use the CoD concept of content per unit extent. In CoD, we have called this density. Through CoD density, we can convert variables of content such as mass and energy into measurable variables of extent. We illustrate this with two examples: mass and energy. Mass: The CoD content component of mass is composed of certain measurable aspects. But to measure mass, it requires determining the amount of content per dimensionometric unit of extent, in this case 3S the three dimensions of space that we call volume. The term density in CoD density derives from but is also different from the more familiar concept of density that we recognize and use in basic physics. Whereas in physics, the density in regard to mass, equals mass per unit volume, the CoD density effectively allows conversion of a content like mass into a measurable extent so that it can be measured metrically in a dimensional setting. Energy: Similarly, the content variable of energy is not measured directly in CoD because it must be converted through several components into extent such as distance and time (which already reflect the dimensionometric units of extent) and also, further applying mass, as the content example converted into the unit of extent above. Energy, therefore, also, requires measurement by conversion to an "extent" from a "content" by applying the CoD density element involving the dimensions of per unit time and space (as velocity has a distance and time component, for example in e=mc2). All dimensions are expressed in terms of variables of extent in some form. As shown above, mass and energy are measured with variables of content as they do not directly involve extent of space and time (and hence one cannot use degrees of freedom in that regard). The same applies to fundamental forces and vortices. And as indicated, all variables of content occupy extent that may be measured using the metrics of variables of extent and the concept of density. Variables are measurables that, when taken together with intent, may define a distinction. Sometimes abstract concepts are mistaken for dimensions. For example, Cognition, Emotion and Volition (CEV) are not distinctions, because they are concepts without dimensional variables, even though they may involve variables of intent. Similarly, the concepts of x, y, z, of space and t of time, or consciousness itself, are not distinctions. Such abstract concepts have no extent, even though they may have content ranging from zero to infinity.
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Reality distinctions There are three ways to differentiate distinctions in reality, namely, Perceptual Distinction, Conceptual Distinction and Actual (or Actualized or Experiential) Distinction (PCA). The differentiation is subtle as distinctions occur in the context of reality. Therefore, distinctions have the three essential elements DFC; have PCA reality differentiation; and have ICE as variables. Dimensions can be conceptualized as distinctions. One of the authors, Edward R. Close developed the Calculus of Distinctions with Vladimir (CoD) 8; 120 modified from Browns Laws of Form 121. CoD can greatly simplify the mathematics of substrate algebra by dealing with vectors, tensors, (scalars) twistors, and vortices as multi-dimensional distinctions. This makes the CoD especially effective for testing hypotheses. When the substrate variables of extent are space, time and C-substrate, and of content are mass and energy, then the calculus of distinctions expression for the STC substrates are: R= f(S, t, m, e, c,) = !([ (m/S) #e/t]#c/St}#= ![ (ST) #C]# Where R= all reality, S= 3Dspace, t= time, m= matter, e= energy, c= individualized consciousness and C= Primary Consciousness. 8; 191; 193-196 Distinctions in physics: The matter and energy of the reality we experience is comprised of actual distinctions. These are made up of elementary actual distinctions, called quanta, which obey the laws of quantum mechanics. Quanta might reflect "elementary distinctions" only in the relevant S3-1t domain in which energy and mass is very important. Distinctions and the Origin Event. If we think of the expanding universe as the reverse of a black hole, the point where quanta of matter and energy began to form at the end of the rapid-expansion period is analogous to the event horizon of a black hole. We are calling the first events at the outset of existencethe beginning (e.g., the big bang, theologians call it creation) by a non-prejudicial term Origin Event. At that point, the phenomena that make up reality do not exist until they are registered in an irreversible way upon a Primary Receptor or receptors. But we refer to Origin Event in the finite 3S-1t context, as it may be an illogicality to use the term in the infinite context with concepts of metatime, or even at the higher dimensional finite levels.
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CHAPTER 18: SPECIALIZED CONCEPTUAL DEFINITIONS 197 The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all. Kurt Gdel 102 Definition IV: The Primary Receptor This introduces a significant paradox: What was the first or Primary Receptor? The Primary Receptor had to exist prior to the emergence of the first quantum from the big bang. (This is an axiom). The first receptor could not have been composed of quanta of matter or energy because they did not exist. If this was not made up of components of space and time, it had to be relatively non-local using our Space-time 3S-1t dimensional model. We postulate that it was made up of the C-substrate. Life and conscious beings reflect apparent evolving complexity of reality, with a persistence of ordropy (negative entropy and therefore, an ostensible second law of thermodynamics contradiction). We, therefore, postulate that it is likely that the Primary Receptor still exists and functions continuously in some form. This therefore, means the C-substrate still exists. This syllogism means we still experience a complex physical universe through a complex physiobiopsychological self-conscious organism capable of interacting with the universe and other similarly sentient beings. Some would conceive of the Primary Receptor as being synonymous with an infinite existence that at that stage (theism) and also, later (deism) interfaced with reality, and call this God: This may not be God in everyones definition; Were talking about something that had to exist based on the realities of quantum physics and not conceptions of God. That is a theological concept and our model does not extend to an infinite omnipotence, omnibenevolence, omniscience, omnipresence or omnificence, per se. If one used terms such as these, omnipresence is used to imply all of time, but possibly all of space: A term like omnilocal instead may more easily confirm the metaspace elements. These are major conceptual jumps, which we cannot prove and are subject to belief. We make this comment to clarify the concept of Primary Receptor not to directly impact theological implications (although some would interpret this as such). Our model restricts this concept to an origin (Primary Receptor), to an Origin Event (such as theorized in the standard model as the big bang or some similar event), and to unitary-holistic existence across CST and that we living human beings on earth are experiencing only a tiny portion of reality in 3S-1t, and that the Primary Receptor necessarily implies an infinite reality. Notwithstanding, metadimensionality can be conceived of in the finite, as well.
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Definition V: Existence The essence of existence is actualized distinction. In order for a distinction to exist as a meaningful, actualized reality [Definition I(c)], it must have three components: existing perceptually, conceptually, and actually. Dr. Adrian Klein, a great Israeli theorist of dimensionality, defines existence as any xD configuration perceived from a [x+y D] perspective. 198 Existence is not dependent on the number of dimensions: It may apply to any number from zero through the transfinite, and in the essence context, to the infinite. Zero dimensions may imply a certain non-existence, but we can still mathematically define a point, which therefore, exists. Definition VI: Consciousness The term consciousness is generally misunderstood and misinterpreted. In common usage, the term is narrower than the substrate we call the C-substrate. C-substrate has four major components. Each is a significant functional aspect of the C-substrate: ! Higher Consciousness implying extended human consciousness (in the infinite metaconsicousness, and transfinitetransfinite consciousness). ! Meaningfulnessapprehension and influence implying at minimum very basic meaning at the most primitive level of reality from the subatomic particle or quantum level, even subquantally, all the way through to the astrophysical level. (Quantum Consciousness) ! Consciousness with at least minimal awareness and/ or responsiveness of the distinction of self from everything else, in living organisms. This relates to the neurological functioning of consciousness in the brain (Neurological Consciousness), which links with Higher Consciousness as well as the meaningfulness. ! Psychological Consciousness in the form of ego-changes and psychodynamics. (Ego-consciousness). In this paradigm, "consciousness" is used in its broadest C-substrate context, but because it may be misinterpreted we use the C-substrate term. Consciousness therefore, refers to all of neurological brain consciousness, Higher Consciousness and for even the subatomic level (Quantum Consciousness), some aspect of meaningfulness (apprehension or influence), as well as ego-consciousness (psychological aspects). Consciousness has components translatable into the calculus of distinctions: In that context, consciousness could be regarded as the awareness or apprehension of the distinction of self from everything else. Consciousness performs three functions drawing the distinction of self from other, i.e., to see self as distinct from everything
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else; drawing distinctions in the other; and organizing these distinctions into meaningful patterns. These distinctions can apply most easily to the human model but it may be extended to the subatomic level and to metaconsciousness. Therefore, phenomenologically consciousness doesn't necessarily imply awareness. At the most elementary undifferentiated phylogenetic range this cognizance would imply a sentience or presence, not a full blown awareness, and using the Copenhagen interpretation of physics, a photon may just afferently apprehend potentially leading to an efferent perturbation. Consciousness, cybernetically, could therefore, have either or both of two levels of organization: Awareness of some kind, and responsiveness of some kind. To have this stimulus (S) -response (R) component requires the third integrating that which does: Psychologically, this has been referred to as the organism (O). So the S-O-R model involves the 3 levels of distinction. We refer to this model of consciousness within the C-substrate, recognizing that the psychological term organism in a far broader way: We use it, too, to represent the boundary of any finite or infinite distinctions including those that may not even represent sentient beings. In it, awareness, responsiveness and organism also include zero in instances where is there is no awareness or no responsiveness or no organism. This allows C-substrate to be applied under any dimensional circumstance. Consciousness is not purely an epiphenomenon of brain function. But brain function is an important facet of level of awareness and responsiveness neurologically, and therefore parts of consciousness can be an endpoint expression of brain and ego. The C-substrate as "broader consciousness" is internally consistent across quantum mechanics, macrophysics and astronomical levels of reality, and contribute to quantum and consciousness dimensional fluctuations. It is as an integral part of reality and is also, non-falsifiable. Consciousness may involve any component of individual or individual-unit sociologically or at its most minimal level subatomically. It may fluctuate varying dependent on state and may include cognition, affect and volition as well as such qualities as honor, love, bravery, strength, understanding, wisdom and knowledge. These qualities can be measured with an ordinal metric such as slight, moderate or marked and therefore, are variables of extent that can theoretically be applied to dimensionometry. 192 C-substrate is broader than consciousness. C-substrate also includes the neutrality of information availability in metaconsciousness. This information is neutral but when it is linked with meaning, even at the minimal level manifesting subatomically it implies a level of consciousness. A metaphor may be that the information can be perceived as not registering rather like the emptiness or darkness of space. It is only when it registers, rather like quantum consciousness or mechanics that it reflects consciousness.
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Consciousness is energyless and massless but the tethering of the C-substrate of consciousness to space and time substrates means direct and immediate interaction and the availability of knowledge distantly at a relatively non-local level. Definition: Ordropy The organizing function of consciousness and life creates a multidimensional order wherever conscious life appears. Along a linear dimension this would be negative entropy or negentropy. For simplicity, we now officially replace the term negative entropy, sometimes called neg-entropy with the positive term, ordropy because it is more complex than pure negative entropy.ii This is so as it may reflect various degrees of order amongst different qualitative distinctions, dimensions or substrates, both finite and infinite. It is, therefore, not linear but multidimensional. It has potential essence infinite components and, we postulate, that it may be closely linked with time, space, consciousness and life. Definition VIII: Life Any organized structure that can react to distinctions critical to its continued existence. Life needs to have a direct connection with the C-substrate. (Artificial intelligence will not have life unless it is part of the C-substrate). Definition IX: Variables Variables are algebraic representations of features of reality measured in units of extent, content, or quality. At least in S and T, they form calculable metrics. They are the components that make up different distinctions. There are three types of units of extent: distance, time, and awareness; there are three types of units of content: mass, energy, and information-meaning. We speculate that there may be three types of units of quality: favorable, unfavorable, and indifferent but these can be better represented as extent linearly as well as quality involves a very high level of complex metadimensional integration. Definition X: Qubit Qubits are conceptual distinctions analogous to quanta and quarks in 3S, 3T reality.jj Our use of it here is defined more specifically as a unitary distinction in the conscious 3C-substrate, represented as quanta in the 3S, 3T reality. Qubits, like all conceptual units, are flexible, expanding or contracting as appropriate in the context of a thought and or image in 3C reality. There are three types of qubits, which are conceptual distinctions of substance: matter, energy and C-substrate (the special definition of
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consciousness). Definition XI: Chronit Chronits are conceptual distinctions of time. These are flexible in 3C reality, like in the individual 3C mind of a sentient being, but analogous to the three finite, relativistically measurable time units in 3T reality when related to specific events. Definition XII: Conscit Conscits are conceptual distinctions of consciousness that occur in three types: cognitivelogical (meaning), emotive and motivational. Outward manifestations of these conscious distinctions are: cognitive functions, emotional feelings and volitional acts (The adjective is conscial). Definition XIII: Qualit Qualit is the combination term for triadic C, S and T. S is reflected mainly by particle, S and T by packets with waves or quanta or energy, STC by Qualits implying the fundamental element. If we want a pure term for C-substrate we have psi or maybe numinosity or maybe influence (but influence does not need psi) or PK. We have postulated Psitrons and possibly Kinetrons (at the influence, perturbation level). Packet, wave and psi components of the qualit. The equivalent of spatial and temporal in this context is conscial with the units being qubits, chronits and conscits respectively. Conscits have mental dimensions of cognition, emotion and volition. Conscits could have spiritual and possibly causal (effect, influence) dimensions. Definition XIII: Vortex A dynamic N-D form, generally rotational. A key feature of the vortex is movement with circular, ovoid or curved components. It may or may not expand, as the degree of change may be zero. It may or may not be symmetrical. Note that a sphere is one form of vortex, so is a helix, so is a spinor. These may be stationary (zero movement) or moving or elongated. An N-D vortical form may appear in 3S, 1T reality as a rotating ovoid shape, vortex, helix, spiral, sphere, string, line, or almost dimensionless point. The exact shape of a vortical form will depend upon the perspective from which it is distinguished. Because of the occurrence of asymmetry in combined forms, as described above, and the opposing forces of gravity, universal expansion, the strong and weak atomic forces, electricity, and magnetism, vortical forms are also common on the macro scale;, e.g., spinning planets, planetary orbits, tornadoes and whirlpools.
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Definition XV: Relative Non-locality (see I. Proof, logic and illustration of N+1, N and N-1 reality for more background): In 3S-1t, spaceless and timeless data existence. Posited at that domain is Quantum entanglement, e.g., as in Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox (EPR) correlations84. The signature of a higher-D object in a lower-D reality is evidence of invisible entanglement, or what John Bell called non-locality, now known to be a common characteristic of elementary entities at the quantum level, including photons and electrons. Based on the double-slit, Aspect experiment and Wheeler Delayed choice, the LFAF allows for extra dimensions. Given the interpretation of fields as higher-D connections (see Appendix), we regard this action at a distance as resulting from higher-D entanglement since such an object is continuous in the higher-D reality yet manifests discontinuously, entangled, and ostensibly separately in 3S-1t. We also note that as the number of dimensions increases, the connections and the way they manifest in lower-D realities become more complex. The introduction of at least two additional dimensions is necessary to explain the behavior of electrons and photons. It may take even more extra dimensions to explain the processes of perception, and the experience of conscious awareness, including the distinction of self from other. However, this is speculative: Nonlocality is an expression of an interdimensional interplay and does not require entanglement. Moreover, entanglement (in the quantum meaning generally ascribed to it) may be implemented in any dimensional window, without directly being involved in the connectivity between the (indivension) dimensions. 200 Definition XVI: Substrate The term we use to describe each component of the broader Space-time-C triad. There is a space substrate, a time substrate and a special kind of substrate of consciousness we call C-substrate. Space: The dimensions of height, depth, and width (reflecting three variables of extent with an interval metric) within which physical reality manifests. Time: The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole (reflecting a variable or variables of extent with an interval metric) S-substrate: The substrate of dimensions in which space exists. T-substrate: The substrate of dimensions in which time exists. Definition XVII: C-substrate Allows for consciousness to be described without resorting to neurological,
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psychological or philosophical descriptions with the essential component as meaningful interaction. Definition XVIII: Domains Domain describes any ordered combination of STC Dimensions. Cluster of specified dimensions., e.g., 3S-1t reality is the usual physical experiential reality we on earth: This would be the 3S-1t domain as opposed to 3S-3t xC domain or the N-D domain. Subdomain A component of a domain, e.g., the 3S-1t vortex or a specific cluster of dimensions as parts of the larger domain cluster. Definition X1X: Realm Realm is the description focusing on specific dimensional combinations of STC and D reflecting Intent. In vortex n-dimensionalism, Neppe used the world realm. Realm may sound mystical so we use the word domain instead. We could imply the different reality realms, but the different reality realm at the relative objective level would be the complete unit of all the different STCs. Domain conveys the intended meaning more easily. Definition XX: Dimensionometry Geometry representative of N-Dimensions, including the C-substrate. Polynomial dimensional geometry was a similar term but did not incorporate the ordinal Csubstrate data. Definition XXI Prime-essence Prime-essence as a term for the original non-quantum receptor (also called Primary Receptor). Definition XXII: CST metric Space-time and C-substrate all as measurable ordinal or interval quantities. Definition XXIII: Manifold Mathematics geometrically multidimensional shape or form: a collection of points forming a certain kind of set, such as those of a topologically closed surface or an analog of this in three or more dimensions. Manifold manifests in N-1 D reality Thus, a line and a circle are one-dimensional manifolds, a plane and sphere (the surface of a ball) are two-dimensional manifolds, and so on into high-dimensional space. More formally, every point of an n-dimensional manifold has
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a neighborhood homeomorphic to the n-dimensional space Rn. Definition XXIV: Triads We considered the term trialism, but this was introduced by John Cottingham 201 relating mind body and sensation so we needed a new termhence triad and triadic. We speculate, too, that dimensional jumps may possibly exist in these CST units and that ultimately the dimensional increases may be predominantly or exclusively in the C-domain. 10. 10 Definition group XXV: i. Axiom An important statement or concept that must be accepted as a priori because it is selfevident and/or cannot be inferred or deduced from more basic concepts. ii. Postulate A postulate involves a proposition that is not proved or demonstrated but is hypothesized to be true based on the available information. It is not at the level of an axiom because it is not accepted a priori. This definition is ours and though some regard postulate as synonymous with axiom, in the context of this paper we are differentiating the two. iii. Theorem An important statement or equation that may be proved or demonstrated to be true by a series of logical or mathematical steps from an axiom, or from another theorem. iv. Corollary A secondary statement or concept that is closely related to an axiom or theorem and may be inferred directly from that axiom or theorem. v. Lemma A logical or mathematical statement that serves as an intermediate step between two theorems. vi. Principle A general rule or law that is an inevitable consequence of known facts and applies to all members of a given class of situations or circumstances. vii. Paradigm In TDVP, an all-encompassing, fundamental model with supporting mathematical, logical and empirical evidence, going beyond the postulate of a theory.
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Definition group XXVI: Indivension Cluster i. Indivension Describes the fluctuating dimensions and domains in the individual-unit or a combination of individual-units experiencing a common reality. Indivension allows for transitory or fluctuating experiential realities and is circumstance dependent. ii. Relative Actualization In one individual, multiple dimensions or domains may be perceived or conceptualized and actualized as their relative reality at that time. iii. Tethering. "Tethered" in the TDVP has two components: 1. a fundamental inseparable existence of the parts at the origin or source, namely, space time and consciousness (STC) 2. separation of any aspect of the STC components, into tethered elements. In TDVP, "source or linkage refers to an inseparable linkage of the partsspace, time and C-substratesat some or multiple points. Useful metaphors would be the umbilicus linking the fetus to the mother yet the fetus being independent too; the ship being moored and the moorage being the tethered part; staples holding down a series of papers; the roots of the STC tree being common but the branches being separate; the balloons being held in hand by strings that tether to the source (hand) but potentially interfacing with each other. Tethering may be different at different dimensional or domain levels (Relative tethering). Tethering may appear tight, loose or even slight. It cannot be that there is absolutely no tethering but it may appear so at a particular dimensional level. This tethering leads also to very fluid vortical three dimensional separations of the various levels of individual-units by indivension, whereby interfacing and interacting, and movement across, between and within dimensions occur. Tethering theoretically could occur at a dimensional distance where there may be no apparent direct link across individual-units. In that instance, one could argue that it is indeed a distant, remote phenomenon or that it the ostensible remoteness is relative to the specific dimensions involved in the domains being examined. Tethering is fundamental and the inseparability occurs from the event-horizon (e.g., the big bang). This allows for the unified wholeness of cosmic reality. (Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [TTOOURS]).
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iv. Relative Tethering Open components may be linked at the source in 3S-1t conventional reality domain, but not source linked at different dimensions, though tethering will still occur as there is relative tethering at other dimensional levels. v. Individual-unit An individual or unit such as a group, society or culture who share specific information. vi. Dimensional fabric Separation of the STC unit into separate space, time and C-substrate components (as when the tethering is loosened allowing each component to reflect itself separately, but still in an entangled way). vii. Ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural systems approach Describing the ethical, spiritual, biological, psychological, family, social and cultural systems approach, or components of these reflecting individual or various collective approaches, with each reflecting a broad dimensional variable of extent and, in this context, implying any systems approach including subgroups, military, political, economic or other collective or individual variables reflecting part of the C-substrate of metaconsciousness. viii. State specific Reflecting a specific finite state of Transfinite Consciousness at a 3S-1t moment in time. This can be broad waking, various stages of sleep or any other ASC. ix. Trait dependent Reflecting a broad maintained distinguishing quality or characteristic, typically one belonging to a person or an individual-unit This is particular relevant when referring to C-substrate. x. Altered states of consciousness (ASC) Reflecting an altered state of metaconsciousness. This translates into any state specific state besides regular 3S-1t waking reality, and may reflect various variables of extent in different dimensions.

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SECTION E: SPACE, TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS

CHAPTER 19: RATIONALE FOR DIMENSIONS BEYOND 3S-1T 202 Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Physician, 1809 - 1894) Historical Base for the Existence of Dimensions Beyond 3S-1t Minkowski Historically, the feasibility of the idea that reality includes geometric dimensions beyond 3S was disputably implied by Albert Einstein when he developed the Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 203. He suggested a metric with four variables x, y, z and t, creating a unique 4-D reference frame). However, the fourth dimension was not specifically mentioned in his 1905 paper nor in the related paper where each system has its own matter-energy (e=mc2). The credit for describing time as a fourth dimension should therefore, go to Hermann Minkowski 23 developed the mathematics needed to describe 4-D space-time, but with some assists: Minkowski, in fact, drew heavily from the work of several other great scientists before himPoincaire, Hilbert, [his former student] Einstein himself, Lorentz, Maxwell, Gauss and Helmholtz) 28. Einstein Einsteins first reaction to Minkowskis contribution was that it was an unnecessary mathematical sophistication. It wasnt until 1915, when he was working on the General Theory, that he used these terms and discussed the mathematics of four-dimensional space-time. He then embraced the idea for General Relativity, published in 1917, and this re-awakened a broader awareness of a fourth dimension. Effectively, Einstein's special relativity with its non-preferential frames of reference upheld the absolute void context, but Einstein's general relativity with 4-dimensional space-time curvature swung the pendulum back toward an underlying "plenum" or pattern in basic reality in the space-time metric 204. Historically, too, Theodor and Oskar Klein independently derived the equations of electromagnetism and gravity by representing 5-dimensional paradigms. 202 Newton Newtons laws describe how the force of gravity varies with distance, but not how a
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physical force is effectual across empty space with no mechanical connection. General relativity revealed that gravity is not an attraction across a distance but the effect of the warping of the dimensional structure of the space-time continuum by relative mass. Where is the involvement of consciousness? But relativity did not involve any kind of consciousness. Was there an early link of quantum frames of reference with consciousness? Indirectly, yes. The idea of consciousness having such a relationship is not new. Even in 1929, Alfred North Whitehead posited that quantum mechanics perceived the universe as a process of events, at least some of which are imbued with a mental quality ("throbs, or occasions of experience") 205; 206. However, this was ignored for many years. There are now parallels with the modern view of Abner Shimony 207 to the extent that Chalmers calls this a "psychophysical law." 208. There are various descriptions of a fundamental quantum sea, vacuum, foam or spin network. These have been used to describe underlying space-time geometry. This could be speculatively relevant to the understanding of consciousness 204. The Theorem of Dimensional Extrapolation An extension of this idea through a process of what we call the Theorem of Dimensional Extrapolation leads to the hypothesis that all forces that act over distance in three-dimensional space (3S) are the results of the interaction of additional dimensions with 3S-1t. This idea will be developed further in the companion book 10. Applying this concept to the other fundamental forces of nature, we discover the existence of additional dimensions. Additional fundamental forces, such as the strong and weak atomic forces and electric and magnetic forces producing the phenomenon we call light, and likely the postulated expansion of the universe force with gravitation, all are involved with resulting dimensional warping and attendant extra dimensions, and are seen as the natural results of distortions in the space time continuum. Each force is integrated into the picture as the result of the progressive bending or warping of the continuum. This provides a clear and straightforward demonstration of the metadimensionality of reality in spacetime and is amplified further in our companion book, Space Time and Consciousness.

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Statistical Basis Justifying a Paradigmatic Shift To be accepted as feasible, hypothetical models require justification and our models are justified below. The tests justifying a new paradigm are based on already demonstrated empirical data emphasizing the need for re-examining the role of
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consciousness and also our unidirectional perspective of time only moving linearly forward. Justification for a new paradigmatic model lies in the discoveries that: 1. In special relativity: An observers perceptions of physical reality (space, time, matter and energy) vary depending upon the observers relative velocity and position relative to concentrations of mass. 2. In quantum physics, specifically in the double slit and delayed choice experiments: A real link between the conscious decisions made by the scientist and the outcome of the experiment is demonstrated. 3. In consciousness research: There are at least nine excellently research-based six sigma findings in consciousness research, of which six are extraordinarily well researched. Six Sigma refers to the statistical distribution of being six standard deviations beyond the norm. This is extraordinarily rare and when we refer to a six sigma finding, were saying that applying so-called frequentist statistical approaches, at minimum, the finding would be about one in a billion or more against this being purely a chance resulttechnically, applying one-tailed probability statistics, six sigma reflects a right tailed probability value of 9.866*10-10. When we refer to nine independent research areas of consciousness research that achieve six sigma results, we are almost certainly referring to nine different kinds of studies reflecting results that are so against them happening by chance, that these results may be unparalleled in scientific endeavor. Moreover, these results are all thought to reflect similar mechanisms described by one underlying broadly defined term in consciousness studies, called psi. Essentially, psi refers to consciousness research phenomena that are in some kind of way afferently apprehended or acquired, or motorically perturbed or influenced. In more common terms, psi is a blanket generic term for phenomena that cannot be explained by applying our physical senses or motor apparatus or extensions of that technology such as ultraviolet or infrared detection. Effectively, psi cannot be explained without significant modification of our current standard 3S-1t model. Psi can be looked upon cybernetically, with a sensory side (sometimes called extrasensory perception) and a motor side (sometimes called psychokinesis). However, we find these terms prejudicial because this input-output cybernetic model might imply an artificial and inaccurate dichotomy. Psi in layperson terms refers to psychic phenomena, in parapsychology it may refer to paranormal phenomena,
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and in cognitive psychology it is sometimes referred to as anomalous experiences when we may be dealing with experiences that may turn out to reflect normal experiences, or alternatively, exceptional human experiences. Every one of the nine six sigma areas pertaining to psi phenomena has developed over many years of Consciousness Research. They exemplify carefully studied major examples in this discipline. But they describe only the statistical side: There is a great abundance of comprehensively investigated studies and cogent research in other areas relating to psi, such as dreams, as well as thousands of remarkable spontaneous cases. Many of these phenomena simply do not fit the fabric of our current physicalistic worldview of three dimensions of space and one point in time reality.

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CHAPTER 20: CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BRAIN 209 Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein The Need for Proper Controls Our perceptions, conceptions and exposure to common though still subjective reality could easily flood us. We have far more information than any conscious mind could process. Moreover, our nervous system allows for remarkable learnt behaviors including the unconscious extras such as cognitive patterns, inferring and deducing, and creativity, plus all learnt new reflexes or patterns (bike riding; tying a tie; playing a musical instrument; responding directly to a trained tune). If we allowed all this input, we would easily be overwhelmed. We need the proper filter, ignoring what should be ignored, and appreciating what should be recognized. These are direct elements that our brain without any psi functioning can explain, and in fact, is expert at. Information Versus Consciousness and the Brain When information becomes meaningfully loaded we are referring to that as metaconsciousness. We are accessing that information through some source of communication, and that communication is invariably what Stephan Schwartz 210 has called the opening to the infinite. We are allowing this metacommunication to open up to the infinite, but it is also opening up to realities within our own brain because we posit that our brain functions as a filter in part and more than a filter to the infinite where it sieves by permeability those relevant awarenesses which we allow. Our brain might be that same infinite boundary, that impermeability/permeability that allows us to function and not be overwhelmed by the information that is irrelevant, but it also allows us to experience special selected pertinent information and distinguish when it is needed. There is a two way passage between the barriers of the infinite and the finite. The brain must handle all incoming information, integrate and juggle executive expression and it needs to adjust. Teleologically, communication is far more reliable when we use spoken or written language, or when relying on various cognitive, affective and volitional interactions (including non-verbal expressions). These may occur both at the levels of awareness, and also, in automatically learned responses. However, if we relied for survival in our society on purely psi phenomena, communication would likely be more elusive and also seldom directly validated by others, and consequently would apparently be more unreliable.
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Meaning in C-substrate What is the meaning that is implied in the consciousness that individuals experience in the 3S-1t context? Is this qualitatively and quantitatively different from the meaning that is implied in such qualities as honesty, truth, justice, courage, love, or a negative onewhich may be a continuity of love or quite separatehate? In other words, is this a qualitative difference or is this the same meaning we are referring to throughout? We are uncertain of the answer, though we very tentatively posit that it is the same unified meaning because everything is unifiedand this means Higher Consciousness at both finite and infinite levels contains all meaningful information: But we cannot conceptualize this in our 3S-1t experience. We utilize a very limited amount of the infinitely available information, not all of the information: Our axiom of physical reduction valves points out how we are limiting incoming data to what we can utilize or understand. But this axiom also, has a self-growth implication because the development of bidirectional higher consciousness leads potentially to actualization, transcendence, growth and development of self or of individual-units, even cultures, and ultimately there may be progression towards the individual-units finite/infinite development, possibly implying more higher dimensional awarenesses and a closer perception or conception of the sublime realities or of the infinite. These are the different elements.kk Is Psi Always on Call? Psi, relative nonlocality (they may be synonymous) and metaconsciousness, ultimately require the brain to be the endpoint integrator of limiting itself to finite discrete information. And most of the data the brain is perceiving, integrating and then executively expressing involves day-to-day functioning. It is well explained by appropriate physiology and psychology. We do not need to invoke psi.ll The brain is more than a superb computer and does an excellent job in ensuring what is necessary, available, accessible, handleable and not overwhelming for each individual. The brain, when normal and healthy, ensures we function optimally with maximal beneficial utility. It is conceivable that psi may always be one of those options that exists but manifests into full conscious awareness only sporadically and often unpredictably spontaneously. However, certain established protocols can demonstrate it, if not consistently, certainly via the statistical deviation from what is expected. We differentiate psi information or expression that may be rare, from a phenomenon that may exist all the time, just as our
We could speculate that psi may partially circumvent this filter. The postulate of an inactive filter may be tested in a comatose state, or in the data relating to survival of bodily death. ll It could be argued that psi plays an enormous but unrecognized role in day-to-day life. Until such time as this can be demonstrated, we will apply Occams razor in this regard.
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senses of smell, taste, vision and hearing are continually on call, even though they may be screened out and ignored. Is psi part of what is normally screened out? Recognizing psi: The difficulties But even if psi was persistently available in the background, there is little wonder we have difficulty distinguishing veridical psi from psychological and neurophysiological distortions.mm Even more so, our SPEs (subjective paranormal experiences) 211 are peculiarly idiosyncratic. We do not have any base to objectively validate an individual possible psi experience unless there are others who experienced the same reality at that time (a relative rarity), or there is demonstrable instrumentation (e.g., fMRI) showing a simultaneous endpoint expression (epiphenomenon), or we are able to statistically quantitate the uncertainty of what is happening (in, for example, a controlled lab setting or database). Ego-boundary distortions and psychopathologies Moreover, sometimes we have a breakdown of this system. Psychopathology results. One aspect of this pathology, may be ego-boundary disturbance. And one component of this ego-boundary disturbance may be incorrect delivery of relative nonlocal data into the brain. The endpoint is our intermingling with perceptual, conceptual subjective experience: We simply, at times, cant establish whether the origin is psi or is endogenous physiology or psychological adaptations. And the endpoint expression neither confirms nor denies the veridicality of our experience or its origins, and this applies to SPEs too. Future Research on the Interaction of the Brain with the C-substrate and Special Skills One research approach is to examine the exceptional cases, such as truly remarkable memories, where a rare group of individuals appear never to forget any information. Is this from within the brain or from accessing through that permeable sieve barrier, ones metaconsciousness, recording like a camcorder, all events forever. We can approach what should most have been long forgotten and try to understand why it is not, and yet what limitations occur. This might give us a great deal of insight into Higher Consciousness because conventional brain function is limited in its explanations. Also, we could look at states of coma or anesthesia where events happen that are not easily explained. Of course, this area is linked up in part with NDE research.

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Brain Epiphenomena The brain may be part of the machine allowing the information to work. For example, the car has an engine but there are several other necessary components to make it move, one of which is a driver. The brain synthesizes, analyzes and integrates information, while also, providing, controlling, or at least facilitating cognition, affect and volition that allows one to functionan endpoint expression. But is that sufficient on its own? If so, why can we not demonstrate how honesty, love, or beauty is appreciated? We see the epiphenomenal resultnn, but not the initial component. Current Limited Explanations for Consciousness Explanations pertaining to reducing consciousness to several alternative methods have been insufficient: neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, or electrochemical firing. quantum physics extended to a living macroreality with minute microtubules inside nerve cells creating quantum effects that might produce consciousness. computer modeling ultimately expressing consciousness emerges from the complexity of the brain's processing. Certainly a chess computer can beat a world champion but it is not conscious, just fed all the reasonable options and still consulted by humans. chaos theory cannot explain inherently increasing order. There is mild support for consciousness beyond the brain. For example, the body's ability to heal itself 172. However, the data are still limited, though sometimes cogent, and therefore, controversial. We do not currently know, using our conventional scientific paradigm, how consciousness occurs. We know about correlations, not causal links. Sorting Out Confounders Lets examine a few issues here: Animal experiments even when carefully controlled, could be attributed to experience of body language cues plus differential sensory acuity (compared with the humans physical sensory limitations, e.g., in olfaction). After controlling for this, what remains is a modest statistical effect. We still need to understand why psi does not occur all the time, as we cannot compare its effectiveness
Epiphenomenon is here used as the endpoint visible expression, but does not imply causality (as opposed to teleology). It is not used in this book in the context that consciousness originates at any physical level and it is just the expression of such consciousness. It is used therefore, in the linguistic context of a secondary effect or byproduct that arises from but does not causally influence a process, for example, it would be a symptom in Medicine. It is never used here to imply a mental state reflecting purely a byproduct of brain activity.
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with live speech communication or for that matter, electronic assistants like phone ringers in phone telepathy experiments. Solutions? We know the brain is necessary for expressing active conscious awareness but conceivably consciousness exists in the infinite without any necessary brain: The sound is in the forest despite being heard. Essence is infinite, but ultimately our experience as sentient beings is expressed in the finite. We motivate here that the TDVP model provides a fruitful explanation for consciousness. One large clue is data obtained by the various studies on psi. Based on the data that has been obtained on psi, the current reductionistic brain paradigm is insufficient to explain consciousness. Psi, when demonstrable, may manifest correlatively with epiphenomena such as fMRI or correlate with symptoms. But, psi does not obey the inverse square law, and is relatively non-local in the 3S-1t context. Moreover, psi phenomena may ultimately express itself in space-time, but it is inherently linked with the C-substrate. For a paradigm shift to occur, ostensible anomalies must be demonstrated that cannot be explained by conventional current scientific methods. Furthermore, legitimate attempts to explain those anomalies must occur, that are not refuted. The paradigm shift in consciousness must include known data. Besides psi, we list the numerous inconsistencies above, for instance entanglement, evolution, life, lower dimensional incompleteness, and consciousness itself. However, the current explanations are inadequate. We apply the paradigm shift, which our metaparadigm TDVP appears to constitute to establish how well it fits these models. We believe it gives greater insight without refutation to each and every one of them. By using our metaparadigm for TDVP, Csubstrate can be portrayed as part of the infinite STC essence ultimately expressing itself in a reality.

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CHAPTER 21: TOWARDS THE NEW PARADIGM: LFAF AND TDVP MODEL
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Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrandt nude differs from a nude by Manet. Arthur Koestler (Author; 1905 1983; p. 253) 213 TDVP Motivation With clear evidence that the C-substrate of sentient beings directly interacts with physical reality, a new paradigmatic approach is needed. We can no longer represent the observer as a dimensionless point with no direct interaction with that which is observed. We need a new consciousness-inclusive paradigm, and a mathematical framework capable of describing the total reality of conscious experience, not just the externalized mechanical components of reality described by current mainstream science. To motivate the development of a TOE, such a model must not be falsified and yet be feasible based on accumulated data in every area of endeavor. (LFAF). Our TDVP model appears tenable in all disciplines using other natural scientific models ranging from conventional macrophysics, quantum physics, string theory, relativity, Copenhagen interpretation, to astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, genetics, physiology and pharmacology, biology and anatomy and consciousness research. It also can be explained within the bases of philosophy and theology. Previous papers and a book preliminarily introduced these multidisciplinary areas (see Neppes Vortex N-Dimensionalism; and Closes Transcendental Physics). Moreover, it is essential to be able to model areas of difficulty with mathematics and logic. Our model, we believe, is consistent with the actual origin of life (not DNA or physiology but the understanding of when and how life begins). The authors believe this paradigm may be the first paradigm to unify all areas of science and philosophy. a. It applies the model of feasibility/ absent falsifiability (LFAF model) when nonfalsifiability is not readily demonstrable. b. There can be no TOE without taking consciousness into account. This is why Einstein, Kaluza and Klein, string theory and its variants, Hawking and Tegmark
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did not succeed in this endeavor. We present the logical basis of the essential elements of two plus decades of work by each of the two scientist authors culminating in a combination unification in the past two years, namely: The Triadic Dimensional- Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) The N-Dimensionometric CST Substrate Ordropic Mathematicologic LFAF Model: An integrated space-time consciousness substrate reflecting event-horizon, warping-N-Dimensional extrapolation, extent-content-intent distinctional-C-substrate indivension, open-closed, holistic-unified, finite-infinite biopsychophysical reality. Our main title The Triadic Dimensional- Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) expresses key features: a triadic paradigm (CST is fundamentalC-substrate of consciousness, S-substrate of space and T-substrate of time) It applies metadimensionality (beyond 3S-1t) and Closes calculus of distinctions of extent, content and intent as the logical bases for mathematical description. Its content involves CST communications in and through a three dimensional vortex. This vortical movement in its broadest sense implies a moving ovoid/ arc/ circular/ spiral /helical/ curvature base. This includes zero expansion or movement, and is across through and within various dimensions with interfaces and interactions of theoretically infinite other vortices at varying dimensionometric angles. The vortices may be closed or open, depending upon the number of dimensions represented in the description. Our subtitle The N-Dimensionometric CST Substrate Ordropic LFAF Mathematicologic Model expresses key principles. We apply an extension of geometry to beyond 3 dimensions dimensionometryand include C-substrate in that, making it more than just dimensional metrics. The fundamental substrate of CST implies metadimensionality. We posit an N-Dimensional model implying infinities both in the Cantor sense of infinity of infinities116 and in the sense of interfacing with infinity at every dimensional level. We introduce the term ordropy (the opposite of entropy, but an active phenomenon of orderliness in CST, which does not contradict the second law of thermodynamics but refers to order in a specific system, such as life). We use the mathematicological model of proofs with axioms, theorems and lemmas and the scientific model of LFAF to demonstrate the empirical data. Our model integrates three necessarily co-existing space, time and consciousness substrates, which are linked from the start of existence (the Origin Event). It applies dimensional extrapolation through warping across N-Dimensions using distinctions of metric extent, of vortical, mass, energy content, and of Csubstrate intent, content and ordinal extent. TDVP can be applied in the closed finite model or within an open infinite model. The whole is unified and there is no differentiation of time, space and consciousnesspast, present and future all

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existing simultaneously. Our model fits biopsychophysical reality at the biological, physical and psychological consciousness levels. g. This provisional overall full title encompasses about 33 fundamental TDVP elements. Conceptual advances are growing by the week. Compromise of any sub-title does not invalidate the rest of the paradigm. TDVP and TOE To be true, the key components of any TOE must allow feasible modifications from the current conceptual, mathematical and scientific models without contradicting fundamental knowledge (other than materialist reductionism), and must also seamlessly reconcile with the major theoretical models and authoritative sources from the other natural sciences like anatomy, anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, genetics, life sciences, medicine, meteorology, psychology and social sciences, physiology and pharmacology. It should also be compatible with the three major disciplines examining concepts outside our 3S-1t conventional reality: Hyperspace, Consciousness research and Philosophy including mysticism. Our premise is that natural laws should be universally applicable to to all scientific endeavors. The multidisciplinary TDVP model incorporates all these disciplines into the same unified world-view. TDVP: What Is It? TDVP impacts on every major scientific philosophical and consciousness discipline. TDVP is a comprehensive multi-dimensional paradigm integrating physical and life sciences with consciousness, applying ontological, epistemological, empirical, heuristic natural law. Essentially space, time and consciousness are fundamentally inseparable from the event-horizon (e.g., the big bang) implying a unification of what in our conventional reality of 3S-1t we experience as past, present and future. TDVP generates almost five hundred concepts, theorems, axioms, practical applications and this also includes some speculative hypotheses. We show how warping of dimensions occurs, producing an open-closed, holistic-unified, finite-infinite universally applicable biopsychophysical reality. We present first the key elements of our model. We then define concepts. We do it this way so that the core components can be initially appreciated. After reading the definitions and then the axioms and theorems we suggest you reread the fundamental model, the theoretical sub-hypotheses, and the cogent and demonstrable, then the less cogent hypotheses. As these hypotheses move down, the level of implication or speculation increases. Again, certain facets of this model may prove incorrect but we believe the core elements to have solid bases mathematically, logically and also, empirically. At the end of this book, are major clarifications of current science based on applications of our model.
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CHAPTER 22: STATISTICAL BASIS OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH 209; 214; 215 The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Albert Einstein Perspective There are several independent overt six sigma protocols in consciousness research based on statistical analyses. Six sigma refers to six standard deviations beyond the mean. In statistics, it is an astronomically high number with results of less than six sigma being roughly around 1 in a billion against chance. (9. 866*10 -10; 1t) The six that have been analyzed in detail are: RV: Remote viewing REG: Random event generator Ganzfeld GCP: Global consciousness project Presentiment Retrocognition/ precognition --- Bem protocol Three more have further data. Survival and superpsi Staring Precognition Why are these three separated from the others? The seventh protocol with six sigma data is different, namely, data studying survival communication after bodily death because it is difficult to quantitate. However, it generates six sigma data in individual instances while even using impeccable highly rated cases. The eighth is listed under further data because staring research has not necessarily been as impeccably examined, is inherently difficult to do because staring could be regarded as having other perceptual implications. The ninth six sigma protocol involves research in precognition: Precognition reports are often spontaneous and difficult to quantitate, particularly as there may be complex psychological elements existing as well: So we refer in this instance to individual site research, which also combines into a metaanalysis, both of which generate six sigma data. Therefore, essentially there may be, at least, nine separate areas of independent consciousness research (including staring and survival) that reflect at minimum 6 sigma protocols, and at least six have independent replications of the broader data
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studied over prolonged periods (years). Moreover, with all of these, there are independent laboratory replications. But first lets examine the possible implications of such statistical findings. A Perspective to Such Overwhelming Data and to Meta-analyses Numerous other protocols have demonstrated astronomical figures as well. Protocols like dream ESP only overall generate meta-analytic statistics of just 1 in 75 million! However, an earlier meta-analysis in that yielded six sigma data: Its important to obtain a perspective here. Meta-analyses reflect all studies, and sometimes theyre a little different (apples and oranges but that is reasonable if theyre fruit), the studies may vary in quality (and therefore, one has to examine top-rate solid studies too optimally) and they may suffer from reporting of positive studies (so-called file drawer effects). The bottom line is the techniques for such analyses have become very refined and statistically very careful attention is paid. This is relevant because some, possibly legitimately argue that such studies have such overwhelming implications that one cannot use the same level of analysis as one would a medical or psychological study where 1 in 20 against chance is usually regarded as adequate, knowing that there may be an error 1 time in 20. This is why these absolutely amazing statistics are generated here. Exceptional hypotheses may demand exceptional data and exists. But there is one component that is truly remarkable. The scientist likes to replicate data. And based on the TDVP model were presenting, and based on the empirical data in the area of psi, experimental psi is a rare phenomenon. This is the nature of the beast, just as certain findings in physics are by their natures rare. Rare events are part of the litany of psi, and even more so, when replication occurs it becomes harder. There is always the interaction of an extended consciousness (possibly a Higher Consciousness that has information beyond the brain, with the neurological and psychological elements of brain consciousness which distort information [therefore, making predictions less reliable because psi cannot often be differentiated from the psychological or the psychopathological experiences in the brain]) and moreover, repetition ostensibly lowers interest and motivation, and scores fall off: This is known as the decline effect. Add in different effects dependent on the expectations and attitudes of experimenters and the subjects, and it is easy to see why replication of data in consciousness research is so difficult. This means that such remarkable statistical data based on solid, careful research is even more cogent when it occurs, and its occurrence across eight different areas makes it even more overwhelming.
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Even studies on biological psychokinesis are statistically significant: DMILS (Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems) is only relatively significant using our usual statistical frequentist methodologies. Other areas of endeavor such as impact of crystallization of water and studies of water also suggest changes to our perception of reality. 216 If these were truly independent and applying the less than 1 in a billion statistic each time, the combined data would produce a figure more astronomical than likely anything in the cosmos. This implies solid proof of consciousness and psi phenomena. It must be emphasized again that these are rare events. This is why studies require large sample sizes because there are just slight deviations from statistical chance. This explains, too, the reason 3S-1t appears to work most of the time in our usual life. The Nine Six Sigma Protocols in Parapsychology 1.) RV: Remote viewing 2) REG: Random event generator 3.) Ganzfeld 4.) GCP: Global consciousness project 5.) Presentiment 6.) Backward precognition (Bem protocol) 7.) Survival-superpsi 8.) Staring protocol 9.) Precognition Psi Events, broadly called psi events, whether they be apprehension of objects of events, so-called extra-sensory perception, or manipulation or influence of objects or events, so-called psychokinesis, are rare. This cybernetic afferent/efferent model may well be incorrect because the mechanisms involved are uncertain: There may be many kinds of consciousness with one single mechanism. The discipline of parapsychology has developed over a century and studies psi phenomena. Experimental psi as a phenomenon is a rare event. For example, if the chances of something occurring are 1 in 2, and a study in psi is being done, it may be that instead of the 50% probability, one will see a 51% or a 49% depending on the predictions. This reflects a minimal change and therefore, does not compromise our usual standard scientific 3S-1t paradigm. Consciousness Research and Psi
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An enormous amount of research on at least eight different areas of psi has generated profoundly statistically significant results. This is despite the methodologies used in parapsychology being profoundly more stringent than any other area of scientific endeavor. Certainly, it is not even comparable with the physical, biological and psychological sciences because of the great emphasis on stringently preventing sources of leak, and trying to ensure that like is only compared with like. 124; 125 Important Principles in Psi and Consciousness: A Primer. The multiple studies and the multiple different areas of parapsychology have generally indicated a common pattern. Decline effect: For example, initially when a task is novel, the potential for psi appears to be higher, but as the task becomes more routine, one sees a well demonstrated, statistically demonstrable decline effect with a tendency toward chance results. Attitudes matter: Moreover, another a well-demonstrated, statistically demonstrable effect is that attitudes matter, and those participants, be they agents, percipients or experimenters or even those researchers remotely involved in that specific study, may influencing the result of the experiment. For example, if their attitudes are a little negative, their results may turn out negative. If their attitudes are a little positive, statistically their results may turn out positively. This can be analyzed for each participant and an ostensibly common pattern can be found over time. Replication difficulty: Consequently, when one looks at data that has initially produced profoundly strong results, there may be a fall-off leading to claims of nonreplicability. Effectively, one is not replicating the same study, the reason it is so critical for like to be properly analyzed with like. And often one cannot replicate because that experimental set-up will never occur again. In some areas of the physical sciences, the slight variations do not matter; in the psychological sciences they do and they are critical in the consciousness sciences. Repeatability: Repeatability has therefore, been a bug in parapsychological research. But it is mainly because the experiment cannot effectively be replicated and this is not recognized. The experimenter effect or attitudes of various subjects, or even the broader time frameworks (e.g., sidereal time) have produced a complex need to analyze data phenomenologically. 124; 125 Therefore, it is difficult creating a situation of replication per se, and so repeatability has its limitations. Rare events: In our 3S-1t environment, psi phenomena are rare events. They may occur spontaneously in the great majority of individuals but only once or a few times in their lives. Experimentally, one does not see
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results far away from chance so that if chance were 50% one is more likely to see results overall reflecting 52% instead of 50% than 80% correct in a psi experiment. This is clear because our 3S-1t ordinary standard living on earth actually works and is predictable. We rely on our physical senses and physical realities many, many orders of magnitude more than the ordinary person relies on psi. Psi skills unless cultivated are exceptions not rules. Large sample sizes needed: Data analyses invariably require based a large number of data points and sometimes a multitude of studies to demonstrate significance. Meta-analysis is therefore, important but has the limitation of whether the studies were identical, e.g., decline effects, attitudes. Frequentist statistics: In lab situations, psi studies, as in other scientific disciplines rely on statistics, usually stated as P (the probability) < 0.001. Now whereas, in most sciences P<0.05 reflects an error only in 1 in 20 studies, the idea of psi is so ludicrous to some that the bar is usually much higher. However, one cannot apply such a Bayesian approach easily as one does not know what the appropriate degree of probability would be. If one says the chances are impossible, no statistics will help: If, e.g., the prior odds are set such that the alternative over the null hypothesis being true is set at 10-20, this would reflect such a ridiculously skeptical position that dogmatism and closed-mindedness have severely compromised the science 146; 147. Amazingly, this was the statistic that Bem and Utts et al 143 pointed to in the attempt by Wagenmakers et al to refute the remarkable Bem research. 146; 147( formally expressed their prior skepticism about the existence of psi by setting these odds at 99,999,999,999,999,999,999 to 1 in favor of H0 143). Leakage: The major difficulty in parapsychological research is not the statistical demonstrations but their meanings. This is why these researchers have become the most stringent in any science, eliminating if possible (and it is experimentally) all known sources of possible misinterpretation. Computerized records and delivery of information are routine for example, eliminating any handling errors. Blind protocols: The main use of the blind protocol is not in medicine, but in parapsychology and consciousness research so that fraud and t experimenter or sometimes subject bias can be eliminated. However, the assumption of a blind trial is a difficult one because research from therapeutic intent/healing to remote viewing suggest that: all consciousness from single-celled organisms to human beings may be interlinked through a non-local aspect of awareness they all share210. Certainly, TDVP supports this linking through indivension. Meta-analyses: This is an essential tool in scientific investigation in the
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social and medical sciences and now in consciousness research. It involves combining the outcomes of well-designed and appropriately executed research in a particular area. The methodology has become stringent. Meta-analyses have to be performed carefully as not all studies are of the same quality; nor do they measure exactly the same parameters. As indicated, in consciousness studies particularly, even if one did ostensibly replicate, there are changes because of the decline effect. This implies that meta-analyses will produce less and less potent results as the number of studies increases (a testable hypothesis)even before the nonreported studies (file drawer effect) are accounted for. File drawers: This file drawer effect makes meta-analyses particularly difficult. Effectively, not all studies are reported and possibly there may be more non-reporting of negative studiesalthough, in parapsychological research, there is data supporting the fact that more negative studies are reported then in other areas of science, in general. Nevertheless, this file drawer effect has to be taken into account and there are statistical methods to account for that based on curves and distribution of data. Effectively, one is also looking for empty chairs that must be properly accounted for. Therefore, meta-analyses are difficult because whereas one would expect meta-analyses to be the combination of all statistics because of the need to take into account all data, this is not really so and excellent studies are mixed with poor studies. Psi in the General Population As an important aside, the area of subjective paranormal experience reflects events that individuals interpret as paranormal. This is not a rare phenomenon and numerous studies indicate that the great majority of the population report such events.211 Whereas we can reject such SPEs scientifically based on their pure subjectivity and usually their lack of validation, for the individual having them, it is often a profoundly changing awareness or a source of perplexity or denial of it even being possible. The fact that possibly four fifths of the Western population are convinced that they have had such subjective paranormal experiences at least once in their life does argue that such events are in fact, a normal, but individually rare, phenomenon that should be taken into account.217 This is something we, as scientists, would prefer to ignore, but it is intellectually dishonest not to recognize that we are dealing with a universally experienced phenomenon, that transcends cultures, and has an inherent dimension of strong perceived reality attached to it.

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CHAPTER 23: SIX SIGMA STATISTICAL DATA IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH 214; 215 Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through? Clive S. Lewis (Novelist; 1898 1963) Because six sigma data refer to results six standard deviations beyond the norm with less a one in a billion (1 in 10 9) chance expectation, such infinitesimal results could only happen by chance once every billion times. Effectively any such results are statistically proven. We emphasize, however, that six sigma results are not consistent for every study in a particular group or for every meta-analysis. We use the term six sigma only in its broadest sense, because it is more than adequate to prove a result if any wellcontrolled, scientifically impeccable study, or cluster of studies, or overall metaanalysis of all the studies in that specific protocol group (between pre-stipulated dates, for example), attain six sigma data, This is then so overwhelmingly proven statistically, that we need go no further in our statistical quest. At that point, we ask, what does this statistic purport to measure? And when six different outstanding protocols and possibly another two (which still involve solid scientific approaches but are by their nature more difficult to control) achieve six sigma data while allowing for the same mechanismpsithen psi becomes as proven a phenomenon as any in science or our regular experience and the object instead should be to try to understand how, why and when, this 3S-1t rare event occurs. By comparison, in usual psychological studies, it is acceptable to use a less than 1 in 20 statistical result against chance (in other words, p < 0.05). This means that although there may be an assumed link for a chance result one twentieth of the time, most scientists would regard the data as cogent. In some studies, when one really wants to show that there is great significance, result may even reach p < 0.01 (1 in 100), and very rarely, more by accident, a study may show a significance of p < 0.001 (1 in 1000). Lets put this into perspective: Less than one in a thousand against chance is very unusual in psychological experiments. Indeed, it often reflects that the sample size was very large, possibly much too large because the same study could have been done, e.g., with fewer subjects, or less data. This consciousness research data is in a
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different league: Amazingly, six sigma is a million times more statistically stringent than one in a thousand (already not considered necessary and, as such, results seldom even listed), but can, as shown below, be calculated. It should be emphasized this is a difficult area, at times: Some of the more prolific psi protocols accumulate so many experiments that researchers obtain truly astronomical data such as 9 or even 12 sigma. However, some analysts may counter with selective meta-analyses that reduce the confidence estimates. We have emphasized that the effect size still remains small, because one is dealing with rare events: Effect size refers to a difference from expectation that may vary depending on the units used across experiments. Two statistical measures there are Cohen's d, and a normalized difference, r, calculated by dividing the composite Z-score by Sqrt(N). Ertel 218 points out ingenious modifications to this. What is sometimes neglected, but highly relevant however, in psychological and medical or clinical experiments is the clinical significance of the data. In other words, if there is just that minimal chance of that event occurring, is this of any clinical significance? It may not be. It may be that if a person has a 51% or a 50.5% chance of a drug being successful compared with a placebo, which has a 50% chance, it is of no great relevance to use that drug because there will be a great deal of side-effects and the risk-benefit ratio makes its use improper. This is where a difference occurs in parapsychological research. Only these minimal variants are expected in 3S-1t, and so a great change statistically over a large sample size may reflect these rare-events. Because of its rarity, the stringency must be there to examine what it purports to examine and a century of parapsychological research has produced exactly that, more than any other scientific endeavor7a stringency borne from the rare event necessity. Six Sigma Research: Nine Types There are at least nine different ways in which studies in consciousness research have demonstrated six sigma results. Any one of these eight could be quite sufficient to prove the phenomenon. six sigma is a profound result, over one in a billion. We are not even talking one in a thousand, which is amazing and seldom do statisticians even state results beyond that. We are talking a million fold higher than this. The fact is these studies have been very stringent. They are broadly postulated to be via this same mechanism, namely, psi. If one were to combine even only a few of these nine independent results, each statistically less than one in a billion against chance, then despite being a rare-event on any individual hit, the results become absolutely astronomicalpossibly more than all the grains of sand in the whole world. We should bear in mind that regular psychological studies are regarded as demonstrated with
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results of P<0.05. Here we are talking about nine groups of results fifty million times higher in frequentist statistical stringency and some of these results in fact are at much higher levels (e.g., staring achieving results in the trillions against chance). These studies have indeed been performed impeccably and generated from very stringent statistical analyses. One would expect the statistics to be lower, yet despite that some studies, even individually, have generated the one in a billion or more against chance results at least in one analysis. Such results are so profound they become statistically meaningful. We must bear in mind that this kind of statistic is not consistent and most are relatively much lower but still highly significant. However, when one examines these results, there is a limitation: The question is always one of the limitations of our being able to be unaware that actually some kind of physical communication system or equivalent set up, or leakage of sensory realities, has not occurred. Because of this, these studies have become tighter and tighter in precautions with the attempts to become leak proof. Moreover, almost invariably there are control studies to rule out confounding factors: These allow comparable periods of time where any confounding limitations would be expected to statistically wash themselves out. We refer here to eight different areas of six sigma research. Sometimes, meta-analyses, applying all known studies have generated much lower statistics than the first study or studies. The reason is very simple: the decline effect, which may include the lack of enthusiasm of researchers for replicating. More particularly, researchers may regard the first study as very good but then the critics will point out theoretical limitations. The methodologies then tighten and this too may definitely have an impact on enthusiasm or ability to perform for the subjects. The statistic then may drop a little. The consequence is that one has to look at these studies as a whole, and looking at just figures such as just six sigma may be misleading. However, even when one looks at these tightened methodologies, invariably these results are highly significant, often in the range of one in many thousands against chance or even far less frequent than that. We briefly go through these different methodologies. Ganzfeld Ganzfeld in German means whole field. The Ganzfeld technique is probably the most well researched and highly examined area of parapsychological research. It has been independently evaluated in several psychological labs by Chuck Honorton, William Braud and Adrian Parker in the 1970s. The Ganzfeld is a mechanism whereby subjects are perceptually completely sealed in physical perceptions particularly in being delivered white noise for hearing, and vision being blocked out. In many experiments this may be in a sealed chamber, impervious to electromagnetic communications, a comfortably seated subject gives information about a target (e.g., a
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photograph with other controls) There are various methodologies, but fundamentally people in a Ganzfeld setting are trying to guess the appropriate answer and this is statistically quantified by others in a blind setting. Bem and Honortons early studies review reveled an effect size against chance of 1 in 48 billion219!! The modern Ganzfeld experiment is as as close to the perfect psi experiment as anyone knows how to conduct. 220. There have been many studies leading to a variety of different statistical debates. In one instance, two skeptical critiques argued that the statistics were relevant, but not overwhelming, yet further re-analyses of the same data set demonstrate that even the statistics analyzed were in fact overwhelming. This is a major area of generating amazing statistical results, particularly when one does meta- analyses and when one combines even the most complex of these studies. For example, Storm et al 221 in their meta-analysis of 29 modern (1997-2008). Ganzfeld studies showed enormous effect sizes (p=2.13 *10-8) The overall consistency of data collection in Ganzfeld assists as it may be of an order of 30% higher than chance expectation. This is simply not something that can occur by chance. Global Consciousness Project (GCP) The next area of six sigma data are the Global Consciousness Project (GCP). This is an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurements applying such as random event generators produces a steady flow of unpredictable bits with data consisting of a continuous stream of "trials" taken by each Egg at a rate of one per second. The project developed from outstanding lab experiments conducted worldwide since the 1960s demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs) apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. There are over 60 active eggs in the network, in Europe, the US, Canada, India, Fiji, New Zealand, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil, Africa, Thailand, South America, Australia. The hypothesis is that the instrument (the network of "eggs") will show anomalous deviations associated with Global Events when there is widespread participation or reaction to the event: Within minutes of a global event, many round the world will have their focus on it. The experimental results now demonstrate that non-random activity occurs during widely shared experiences of deeply engaging events. The methodology used is impeccable and the data graphed. For example in the most recent data analysis the August 1998 to February 2011 the results overall against chance are greater than a million to one. The main researcher currently involved has been Roger Nelson at Princeton, but he has collaborative set ups all around the world: Attempts are being made using extremely complex quantal type measures to see fluctuations in terms of global consciousness associated with major events. For example, 9/11, or the millennium time, where one
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could look at different parts of the country or the world and find differences in terms of consciousness. Again, the results have been remarkable and combining in these results one is dealing with six sigma type of results. (See, e.g., 222, 220). Effectively the results indicate a small but consistent excess of deviation corresponding to the expected deviations. Applying the GCP concept to the TDVP model, the data shows a broader global Higher Consciousness coherence in the broader population level of individual-unit. Speculatively, this could occur at a higher consciousness dimension. Interestingly some events seemed to begin shortly before specific events, e.g., 9/11/ 2001 suggesting possible precognition. This is, again, logical given TDVPs multi-time dimensionality. Remote Viewing (RV) Remote viewing is a significant variant that may have grown out of the sterile testing environment that constituted the original Zener card extrasensory perception experiments that JB Rhine and his colleagues were performing. But whereas these were local experiments, generally in the same building, remote viewing involves detailed examinations and looks at information sometimes over thousands of miles. RV was coined by the physicists Targ and Puthoff 223. In this context, the remote viewers have been able to find amazing objects, but more remarkably, when one starts statistically analyzing it again one is dealing with these people being able to portray objects, or sometimes events, sometimes current and contemporaneous, but often, in fact in the future, sometimes just a fraction of a second later, but, for example, where computer generated data has not yet formed in 3S-1t. These experiments are again at a six sigma level. Replications of data overall has involved multiple experimenters, possibly the most famous being the large PEAR lab sample, often involving precognitive (foreknowledge) studies involving researchers Bob Jahn and Brenda Dunne 224, where their specific study demonstrated chances of a mere 33 million to one result! Remote viewing is especially valuable because it can generate consistently remarkable results from many individuals who have been trained in the techniques of RV. This means that it is likely that psi is a quality that a significant degree of the population can develop. The profound results over long distances becomes highly relevant because of the fact that psi does not appear to obey the inverse square law: Although, there are variants of psi that seem to have psychological overlays and this may distort distant results, this is not a physical inverse square law, just a psychological component to it. This has relevance to the TDVP model because inverse square phenomena may be limited to physical 3S-1t and higher consciousness may exhibit relative non-locality. Additionally, the precognitive data requires a re-examination of the whole 3S-1t domain as the only reality. The application of relative non-locality at a
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metadimensional consciousness may be relevant here. Random Number Generators (RNGs) Possibly we should have begun with this next example of six sigma data because it was the earliest of the group: An early variant, but a profound variant all the same. Already, way back in the 1970s one could argue that psi was totally proven due to the advent of random number generators. Random number generators are extremely useful in terms of communicating statistically significant psi information without any kind of sensory leakage and where everything is electronically quantified. The attempt might be to influence the random number generator in a particular way, just as one would be influencing coin tosses to toss minimally more heads than tails. One can change tasks, and one can change orientation, but effectively this is completely automated. Often results can be interpreted as supporting psychokinesis because of the set influence of the RNG attempted, but conversely this may support precognition knowing what to predict. Essentially, in a meta-analysis by Radin and Nelson, the odds against chance were far less than even a staggering one in a trillion to onethey were 1 in 1017. Their study assigned each experiment a quality score, examined the 152 references they found in 832 studies. 68 different investigators performed 597 experimental (of which 258 were from the PEAR lab in Princeton) and 233 control studies (which were well within chance levels). 225, 226 Presentiment One highly relevantly recent exciting piece of research looks at unconscious responses, sometimes in the brain, other times in other parts of the autonomic nervous system (e.g., heart). The most provocative is research on presentiment, because not only is this psi research, but research where one has to change ones perspective of time. Effectively, this is work with precognition with the difference that this knowledge is not even consciously made, it is completely unconscious and looks at events just seconds before they are actually actualized. The apparatus generally is very sophisticated and therefore, such studies are usually very expensive. The most important physiological measures used in presentiment studies are heart rate, EEG, fMRI (BOLD signal), and electrodermal activity (EDA). So far, all of these have shown evidence of presentiment, so the whole body appears to be involved. Presentiment is measured in terms of certain physiological changes in the brain, the heart or in ones brain waves. Communications generally involve two different individuals, if necessary separated in different rooms, but monitored together by a stimulus to the one which can also be recorded in the other, and surprisingly reflecting, at times, the response seconds before. Quantitative measures include functional MRIs or positron emission tomography (PET). Experiments have also been done in a freerunning environment. Much of the early work to that date has been well-summarized
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by Radin and Nelson 220; 225; 226 but research continues. Testing presentiment hypotheses in experimental research designs that are familiar to mainstream psychologists, such as studies about learning and habituation, may encourage psychologists to better appreciate the anomalous results and to attempt to explore presentiment hypotheses themselves 227. However, the methodology has to take into account appropriate techniques to perform and interpret: Harvard researchers have stumbled 5. Presentiment research has even been done in non-humans, including earthworms! It is interesting, as an aside, that there do not appear to be significant declines in presentiment research, possibly because it involves unconscious measures. Essentially, when one again does a meta analysis in terms on presentiment studies, the overall carefully assessed statistic suggests these results happening by chance are less than one in a hundred million billion (p<1x1017 based on 37 studies between 1978 and 2010 based on Mossbridge, Tressoldi and Utts, 2011228)! Many studies in this field of presentiment research have confirmed what appear to be these retrocausal effects, in which physiological arousal occurs before the stimulus 229. Presentiment research has shown some special characteristics 227: Emotionally arousing visual or auditory stimuli produce stronger anticipatory effects than more neutral ones. Women appear to be somewhat more sensitive to presentiment than men. Effects of meditation are mixed. Bem Protocol The most recent study, which has caused consternation even while in press, is that of Cornell Psychologist, Daryl Bem and his precognition/retrocognition research146, which was impeccably done. This has been very heavily examined, as this study has been the source of frustration for many scientists as it threatens their whole materialist edifice may collapse. Indeed, Larry Dossey 148, has written a detailed editorial on this. Bems study was an eight-year project involving more than a thousand Cornell students in nine separate experiments. When one analyses the studies together, the overall statistic is astronomical against chance, about 1 in 74 billion. (Stouffers z = 6.66, p = 1.34 1011 with a mean effect size (d) of 0.22). All but one of the nine experiments yielded statistically significant results. These are so-called frequentist analyses, which referees and peers regard as eminently appropriate to use in this context statistically. 147 However, deniers have tried to motivate instead for a Bayesian approach, though likely inappropriate because it is difficult to establish logical prior distributions to use. Nevertheless, Bem has demonstrated, too, the overwhelming results that would even occur when examining his data146 applying legitimate Bayesian priors to quantify statistically psi and consciousness research, including his own studies.147 Bayesian statistics begin with a priori measures, postulating the chances of something
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occurring in the null and the alternative statistics. In consciousness research, if the something is regarded as effectively impossible, and therefore, one a priori estimates probability as about zero, this involves reductio ad absurdum. But Bayesian statistics must apply appropriate known information: Bem, Utts et al147 point out that the prior Bayesian H0 and H1 statistics must be carefully considered based on prior information. They cannot be indiscriminately decided: In their landmark response paper, they demonstrated how when knowledge-based priors for the Bayes factor posterior probability are appropriately applied in Bems research146, the combined BF was 13,669 with a posterior probability of all H0 being 7.3*10-5. This is extremely strong support for the Bem research. Effectively, Bems research was a test for retroactive influence by time reversing well-established psychological effects so that the individuals responses are obtained before the putatively causal stimulus events occur. Data were presented for 4 timereversed effects: precognitive approach to erotic stimuli and precognitive avoidance of negative stimuli; retroactive priming; retroactive habituation; and retroactive facilitation of recall. All but one of the experiments yielded statistically significant results; and, across all 9 experiments. The methodology has varied. In one controversial one erotic stimuli are use and the hit rate for the erotic stimulus was 53.1 percent (not the expected 50%), again reflecting the small effect size in such consciousness research experiments and the rare event model, we have indicated has to exist in the usual consciousness we experience while awake in the 3S-1t domain. Bem found that the subjects bodies generated a physiological arousal two to three seconds before the erotic picture appeared on the screen, and even before the computer had decided which curtain would conceal the erotic picture. It was as if the subjects were seeing the future, or that information from the future was perhaps traveling backward in time to the present. In another study, using priming (the effect of a subliminally presented word on a subjects response to an image), Bem found that the priming effect seemed to work backward in time as well as forward. In another, students were better at recalling words that they would later type, as if reinforcement from typing acted backward in time. Less Usual Six Sigma Protocols Six protocolsBem time shift, Presentiments, Random Number Generator, Remote Viewing, Global Consciousness Project and Ganzfeld Researchare looked upon as the most usual kinds of six sigma protocols. However, there are two more very relevant protocols that are more difficult to interpret because of appropriateness of controls, namely, studies of staring and survival after bodily death. Moreover, a ninth, precognition, appears solid in its base, but the experimental data is not as well replicated. We could have classified precognition under the six solid six sigma protocols, but instead were listing it as the ninth because the data though impeccable,
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has derived only from one main source and some subsidiary sources (which for any other scientific endeavor would be sufficient)! Staring Protocols Rupert Sheldrake and others (starting with Charles Coover in 1913 230) have been involved in Staring protocols. These are very fascinating because of the fact that again we are not dealing with a profound effect, where if somebody stares at somebody else under experimental conditions one is getting 80% differences. A special component of Staring Protocols is their simple design. Staring even when set up experimentally to avoid sensory leakage (not the same room, blindfolds), does not require sophisticated apparatus, though it does require time and effort. There are a variety of different experimental methods, and these experiments have gradually been tightened up methodologically. Radin 220 reports a meta-analysis of 60 experiments with 33, 357 trials. Once again, we are dealing with small differences from chance expectation, in this instance just 54.5% instead of the expected 50% overall. (Its surprising this is not higher as the figures for spontaneous staring without warning could be, we speculate, much higher; the difference experimentally is the expectation and possibly motivation factors). However, one examines it, the results are profoundly statistically significant. In Sheldrakes initial studies 27the statistics were so overwhelming that one cannot even talk about 1 in a billion, but 1 in absolutely astronomical figures.202 octodecillion against chance (2*1059) In its simplest form, the "sense of being stared at" can be investigated by means of simple experiments in which subjects and lookers work in pairs, with the looker sitting behind the subject. In a random sequence of trials, the looker either looks at the back of the subject, or looks away and thinks of something else. The effect still occurs in experiments in which subjects were blindfolded and given no feedback, showing it did not depend on visual clues, nor on the subjects knowing if their guesses were right or wrong, looked at through closed windows231. Studies have been in many countries and Sheldrakes staring work in Britain, was replicated by schoolteachers in Canada, Germany and the United States with even more significant positive effect than in his own experiments despite ensuring visual, auditory and olfactory clues had been eliminated. This implies that the sense of being stared at does not depend on the known senses 231. Survival After Bodily Death Finally, we have the most controversial area as well, the area of so-called Survival Researchsurvival of some component of human consciousness after bodily death. There are arguments that if data are transmitted, no matter how complex that data, that data are not occurring from somebody who survived bodily death because logically this may be a hypothesis that appears more improbable than just communicating by
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psi. In fact, if there is communication, it is postulated that it is by psi, so the term superpsi has developed as a pure theoretical construct, despite any evidence of this actually existing. We are not here at this point going to debate whether or not this is superpsi, which probably is simply psi, or survival. The important component is that sometimes when data are transmitted it is of such a kind that the statistics against chance are completely overwhelming. Such was the case in a famous so-called chess game involving the alleged communicator, the great Grandmaster Geza Maroczy and the world senior chess champion Victor Korchnoi. The important point statistically here is that Maroczy was able to communicate 31 out of 31 correct answers in terms of extraordinarily esoteric data, which nobody knew about, and where eventually a professional librarian had to be hired (blind to the reason) in Hungary to authenticate the answer: He thought this was just for a biography for Maroczy and did not know the purpose. Effectively, all 31 out of 31 esoteric data pieces were correct. Now, the chances of any esoteric data piece being correct may be very low, for example, we would put the a priori prior probability at one in a hundred or one in a thousand of guessing or knowing the data by information means. However, even if one takes a one in two probability, one is dealing with 231, or close to a one in two billion chance statistic. Overall, in this particular study Maroczy reported 79 out of 81 correct items. 159 This again is so high that it can be compared to all the grains of sand that are on the earth. Precognition and Six Sigma Data Precognition research also demonstrates six sigma data in psi research. Precognition involves information about knowledge of the future, which is not obtained by statistical prediction or logic. It can be studied in the lab situation with excellent controls for any kind of information leakage, particularly as the event being considered has not yet occurred in our current reality. In this regard, there are two important databases: The first is a meta-analysis of many studies, and the second is a particularly impressive study from one lab, both with overwhelming > six sigma data. The meta-analysis is by Charles Honorton and Diane Ferrari 232. They analyzed research data from 1935 to 1989 pertaining to precognition. They examined 309 precognition experiments carried out by 62 investigators. 50, 000 participants were used and there were more than 2 million trials. 30% of these studies were statistically significant whereas only 5% would be expected to be significant by chance. The statistical significance of this meta-analysis is overwhelming even for six sigma data: 10 20 against chance. This on its own constitutes overwhelming evidence for a mechanism occurring that cannot be explained by chance.
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The single lab study comes from the Princeton Engineering anomalies research labs in Princeton, NJ. Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne and Roger Nelson performed 227 formal experiments on precognitive remote perception233. Individuals were asked where one of the researchers would be hiding at a pre-selected later time. The probability against chance was 1 in 100 billion. The description was accurate to the same degree whether the viewer was looking hours, days or weeks into the future. This has implications about the concepts of future time and the inverse square law. Statistical combinations and independence It would be inappropriate to now combine the nine different meta-analysis or demonstrable studies into one mega-statistical analysis. This is so as the data should be demonstrating the same broader phenomenon (psi). This would imply that the data is not independent and therefore the statistics not additive. A similar argument could be made for independent meta-analyses in the individual protocols. Yes, they are likely due to the same base, psi, and so not independent. However, that is the main point. By this means we are demonstrating the overwhelming statistical basis for the presence of psi. If psi did not exist, there would be no dependence of data: they would purely be statistical aberrations. So these interrelated nine different protocols demonstrate simply that psi exists, and that therefore our current 3S-1t standard scientific protocol needs rethinking.

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CHAPTER 24: APPLYING TDVP TO THE DATA ON PSI 202 A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Albert Einstein We can apply psi phenomena and relatively nonlocal consciousness to TDVP: Dealing with a real phenomenon, there are enormous implications in terms of consciousness research because it may be that these data imply a whole different mechanism in terms of dimensional communication. If indeed there is survival after bodily death, this implies a whole difference in terms of space-time as well. In our conventional standard physical world of our human living at 3S-1t, the space-time component in relation to survival of consciousness would be described as S and a T of zero. We can apply the Indivension model in TDVP with interacting vortices at certain points producing little bits of information, or more significant information: If there is a more significant interaction, this may be via vortices, vectors, tensors, or scalars. Mathematically meeting at a point or in any three dimensional curved angle CST is a rare event. Therefore, psi is a rare event. Psi will always remain a rare event in 3 dimensions of space and 1 moment or short event in time. In fact, if it didnt it would overwhelm. Similarly, once one enters a broader consciousness, a metaconsciousness, there is far more interface in interaction of such vortices because there is less tethering. This means that psi becomes a far more common event at higher dimensions and at even further dimensions, psi is extremely common, and a TDVP test postulate would be that the mechanism of communication would be greater and more detailed. Because survival by definition in our general 3S1t domain involves higher dimensions, we would postulate that survival data would be far higher statistically in correct hits or detail than psi in living humans. Further applying Indivension, because survival in our conventional physicalistic earthly 3S-1t domain would be perceived as involving 0S and 0t. It implies that it has a higher dimensional level, or numerous higher dimensional levels so that one might be able to move between different flexible dimensions, just as potentially one does in a meditative state, in a mystical state, or in dreams. Consequently, the hypothesis is
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again that data in relation to survival would produce a higher statistical generation of psi. The only way this can be examined, however, is communications in alleged survival to individuals or Individual-units in 3S-1t. This filtering phenomenon may well diminish down the extent of information communication and other aspects of dimensional consciousness such as emotionality and distortions of information may also occur. However, these are therefore, two testable hypotheses, namely, the incidence of psi should be rare because the vortical indivension links are spontaneous and unusual, and the incidence of data received from alleged survival or superpsi should be far more common. These data are supported where reports of veridical communications may be of the order of 77% or more234. The Maroczy example shows the extent of potential positive data. Of course, as one moves from 3S-1t to higher, the potential in terms of difficulty proving ones instrumentation at an adequate scientific controlled level from a 3S-1t perspective becomes higher. In other words, the statistics or veridical data may exist but the implications of this data are more limiting. Perspective on the Consciousness Statistical Protocols There are therefore, eight different six sigma protocols in psi research and effectively this reflects studies in metaconsciousness. Whereas one can refute one or two, by trying to invoke fraud or poor methodologies, it is difficult to refute all of them. As they are different, they all support each other in terms of coming to the conclusion that we are dealing with a real phenomenon. Bayesian Statistics This, too, raises the debate about what Bayesian statistic would constitute a legitimate null hypothesis. This is particularly so if it is argued that results are logically impossible. However, quantification of what is applicable in terms of Bayesian improbabilities and null hypotheses should be based on legitimate knowledge not prejudice applying LFAF. At that point, the postulated impossibility becomes inappropriate. The term is theoretical implausibility the objection to use when all else fails as some experimental findings are so counterintuitive and nonsensical they should be rejected in principle: the earth is, indeed, flat. One could argue that if something is falsifiable at the 3S-1t domain, then one has some base to apply or estimate, a priori, Bayesian prior distribution statistical odds and examine a null hypothesis. However, when something is not-falsifiable because the factors in a metadimensional world cannot be entirely replicated in 3S-1t, then the use of the Bayesian reasoning approach is statistically completely unfeasible. The metadimensional aspect leaves just LFAF information in 3S-1t meaning that one has
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small pieces of the jigsaw. Bayesian approaches then are inappropriate because there is no base to scientifically argue about probabilistic odds: If one chooses impossible prior estimates, then Bayesian methods will appear to accommodate the researcher but it will produce meaningless, nonsensical results 146; 147. This is one reason why we have used a frequentist approach to statistics, citing the six sigma data. We pointed out the small deviation from the expected chance results that are often attained in consciousness research, and another reason for this rare event phenomenon is the fact that the end-point result is expressed in feasibility in 3S-1t only. Despite the exact circumstances of research never being replicable, for example, experimenter and subject attitudes, and emotional states at the time will vary and these play a critical role and even local sidereal time may play be relevant, and therefore, could confound, there still should be other factors that will ultimately dilute out these confounders. The Bem work has caused enormous consternation because finally conventional materialist scientists cannot refute it besides illogical Bayesian arguments. 146; 147 Their whole carefully constructed edifice may suddenly collapse. The wall of mud will leak. Dossey has written a carefully crafted editorial on this 148. In conventional physical, biological and psychological research these factors wash out rather quickly and easily. However, in consciousness research, these factors are prime: They are the key factors because consciousness with space and time is so impacting. This means that large sample sizes are needed to counteract the apparently small deviation of data from chance, which has been aggravated because confounders are not taken into account. Consequently, studies require large sample sizes to tease out these remaining differences. Fortunately, the progress over the past three decades, particularly, have allowed researchers to demonstrate, usually via meta-analysis, frequentist type statistically significant results that can still accumulate over to 1 in a billion against chance. This is, in fact, what has so far happened in at least six and possibly all the nine areas of consciousness research listed. Speculative Application to a Consciousness-Dimensionality Model, Specifically TDVP The demonstration of psi phenomena across several different levels of examination means simply that psi exists in one form or another. For those flat-earthers, yes, the earth is flat: It is just awful to be required to unthink all one has thought before. But that is required for anyone who is scientifically appropriate. An objective, open-minded skeptic trained and experienced in the area
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who examines the data, must come to the legitimate conclusion that psi is a proven phenomenon and move on from there. Nonetheless, there are pseudoskeptics who do not know the area, or who make a professional living out of debunking scientifically solid information that cannot be explained in any way other than psi. In other disciplines, this would be equivalent to someone with a second grade education debunking the findings of a leading expert PhD in his area of expertise, simply because they did not like the discipline or could not understand the results, or were being scientifically inappropriate: It should not happen in that instance. And nor should it happen in consciousness research of any kind. The great CD Broad summarized this: Anyone who at the present day expresses confident opinions, whether positive or negative, on ostensibly paranormal phenomena, without making himself thoroughly acquainted with the main methods and results of the careful and long-continued work may be dismissed without further ceremony, as a conceited ignoramus. 235 Statistically, there is solid proof of a consciousness that is non-local in the context of our conventional 3 dimensions of space, 1 point in time reality. These overwhelmingly large statistics prove that these phenomena are real. They have required large sample sizes because they are rare events experimentally. But their rarity in the experimental 3S-1t domain does not obviate their existence. Moreover, by their very existence, the staid insistence by many in the scientific and philosophical community in a materialistic reductionist existence is falsified and becomes not feasible when dealing with such realities. Also, the absence of null results fails the feasibility of the physicalistic paradigm in these areas. All of these examples of consciousness effectively may relate to the meaningful reality of the C-substrate or of metaconsciousness. A Model of Psi Applying TDVP An explanatory model is needed but a broad well-documented model has not been demonstrated to explain all of psi. Applying the TDVP model, psi implies some kind of connecting impact. Further, applying the model of indivension and vortices it may be that these connections relate to higher dimensional consciousness phenomena intersecting and interacting across individual-units (individuals or clusters; human or other animals or even inanimate objects). The TDVP model proposes a mechanism for psi. The TDVP N-Dimensional indivension mechanism explains the rarity in 3S-1t domain as one goes higher and higher dimensionally. It may be that there is more and more impact in terms of such communication of consciousness type
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information at the higher dimensional levels of consciousness (e.g., deep high level passive meditative at or active meditation [hitbonnenut] states), reaching levels like samadhi, compared with lower levels of consciousness (e.g., maybe dreams). The impact of psi may vary depending on the kind of receptor involved because possibly more individual-units can be influenced but only to a limited degree. Additionally, so-called psychic individuals, statistically, may be more sensitive to metaconscious awareness than those who are less psychic, and possibly some animals might have a different response to metaconscious awarenesses than humans. At the subatomic level, the delayed choice experiments in Physics may reflect entirely different consciousness mechanisms such as just a communication of consciousness involving some kind of meaningfulness or information delivery or influence. The broader tentacle of reaching many conceivably could relate to potentially higher fluctuating dimensional vortices. However, at these higher levels, the influence on a much lower dimension, e.g., 3S-1t, may be less than an immediately higher Csubstrate dimension. Speculatively, higher C-substrate dimensions in the transfinite range, such as artistic appreciation or specific moral behaviors may not be as easily demonstrated as events that involve day-to-day realities. 27; 236 It is probable that higher dimensionalities contain aspects that appear nonlocal for an individual experiencing the 3S-1t reality. This is a relative nonlocality of space and time in 3S-1t. This is brought about because only pieces of the metadimensional jigsaw puzzle are experienced through our limited physical senses. This leads events or experiences which dont fit 3S space or 1t time to be interpreted as beyond time and space or timeless and spaceless, when they reflect only our physical limitations in 3S-1t. The interface, influence or apprehension of information with 3S-1t events or objects may well be less while experiencing our conventional 3S-1t standard domain than would occur if we were able to experience higher dimensional consciousness. 3S-1t as a lower dimension may effectively be several dimensions of consciousness from the higher consciousness dimensions. The parallel may be apposite with the various forces (gravitation and expanding universe are very weak, yet extend large distances; strong and weak subatomic forces impact very locally but are relatively more powerful). Just as space and time have their own forces and packets, e.g., leptons and hadrons, such psi communication could speculatively be by some kind of different particle, for example a postulated psitron or a kinetron. The use of such data from consciousness research is critical when evaluating hyperspace, string theory, and higher dimensionalities. As soon as any kind of Higher Consciousness is postulated, the consciousness that is occurring at that
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higher level is, by definition, metaconsciousness, because we have defined neurological consciousness (N-C) as the limited information that one is obtaining from within the brain in terms of awareness and responsiveness. N-C appears to be a valuable evolutionary control. This is so because if people did not have this control or filtering mechanism, there would be so much incoming information that individuals would be unable to handle it. They need to be able to filter data and integrate it sufficiently within their own functional limitations. This prevents them from becoming sensorily or even motorically overwhelmed. In other words, the process of perception, conception, and actualizing reality is far more controlled for the living being in the limited neurophysiological closed brain system. However, N-C might not be a necessary component of information and meaning access when decoupled in an infinite reality (e.g. in survival, in coma). This way individuals can have control over their cognition, the emotion, and their volitional functions, with the cognitive and the emotional functions that relate specifically to N-C and also psychological elements of consciousness (EC). Ultimately, their neurophysiology is an expression of their behaviors. But it is far more complex than that because of metaconscious elements that might intrude. Emotional functions are extended in Higher Consciousness and brain consciousness: It also includes higher developmental attributes such as courage, love, and determination, zeal to perform, and the development of creative skills. These are areas that have some limitations in terms of many individuals performances, and at the highest levels are regarded as exceptional human experiences, a term that can also be attributed to psi. Although the data on psi phenomena cogently suggest that they do not obey the inverse square law or any other ST limitation of locality and time, this is not entirely proven because psychological components may correlate with nearer distances. 237 Nevertheless, this strong likelihood of relative nonlocality in psi, is one reason why one can posit that, if there are underlying phenomenal aspects such as packets of psi, a spaceless, timeless component, such as a psitron or a kinetron, could exist. If so, this could allow for communication between dimensional levels. Effectively, it could be that the vortical motion and indivension patterns of the metadimensional communications are a similar but purely non-physical C-substrate form or force. If so, this could be at the Qualit level and would utilize the conscits of psitrons and/ or kinetronsthese would be different from qubits of quantal space and chronits of quantal time. Whereas, these postulated packets of consciousness, conscits could similarly reflect the level of the quantum, disputably they could be reflecting an even lower level involving postulated subquantum infinitesimals 71 or alternatively,
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dark space. The tethered link of STC might further lead us to speculate that the C-substrate is intimately linked with all of 3S-1t content such as mass and energy, and that, indeed, all ST events may actually be reflections of C-substrate dynamics. A New Model for Psi: Applying Specifically Vortical Indivension Interfaces of TDVP Psi has been proposed to occur when vortices interface with each other or through vector, scalars or tensors connecting. In TDVP using the vortical indivension model, this is not a random process. Psi involves a situational component making it far more common in situations of emotional, cognitive and volitional familiarity and linkage and conversely may be repelled by situations that are against these principles., e.g., love may be more conducive than hate, common cognitive understanding more conducive than entirely different interests. Therefore, there are environments for psi and this appears to be supported in both spontaneous psi descriptions as well as psilinkage in experimental studies. Psi in this model is not an anomalous process: It is a communication skill potentially available to all, and its non-recognition on a daily or even hourly, might relate, in part, to it being filtered out, not recognized or so admixed with other information and meaning from the neurological and psychological settings, that it becomes unreliable as compared with, for example, the precise language of speech. Effectively, the data suggests that individuals who are linked psychologically, familially socially, culturally, or in other ways might be more likely to experience potential psi linkage. 27; 217; 238-243. This fits well with intersecting vortical components or contents that interface and therefore, provide a fruitful link of the interface of vortical indivension with subjective psi experience. This is so as information content in vortices is at least, in part, within the C-substrate, and this has the meaningful reality or meaningful components. Therefore, people who are in love, identical twins, motherchild relationships, siblings, or people who are very close in other ways may very well be interfacing far more at this N-dimensional level than otherwise. Consequently, the psi relationships of people with connectedness are far greater. Such connections may be at any of the dimensional levels or qualities of the C-substrate: Emotional links may be profoundly relevant, but also, cognitive links are highly important, too, so that the coincidental meeting of individuals with the same ideas, or the emphasis of the same concept across several different meeting points (e.g., learnt behavior, patterns becoming easier, same scientists investigating information at the same time) also is explained by such interfaces. Therefore, the mechanisms of interfacing at a vortical indivension level provides a
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coherent model for the occurrence of psi and connectedness. 1. Connectedness It explains connectedness in its broader base. Psi is not a random process. It is based on the meaningful elements of C-substrate interfacing in the living with S and T (note mass and energy are end point contents); Space and time reflect multiple variables of extent with metric measurements and hence dimensions. 2. Rarity It explains the rarity of the phenomenon in the context of rare events. Rarity, semantically, we suggest may be an acronym for rarity: "FIR"not only of "frequency" (very unusual event) but also "intensity" (e.g., how much it can be differentiated from the underlying noise) and "robustness" (which must take into account variations even in subjects, experimenters and other conditions). All three of these factors imply rarity of psi. Consequently, for example, small changes to a random distribution would require a statistical demonstration of differences from the control. "Rare" here implies small changes to an overall larger picture. That is "rare" because it is not "obvious" like clinically significant phenomena: In the medical model "clinically significant" evaluations and responses don't require statistics: We can see dramatic changes occurring consistently in a particular intervention almost every time we try that intervention (e.g., the person has a streptococcal throat infection; we give an appropriate antibiotic; in almost every case we will see that infection get better) or the features of a condition are so consistent that we can make diagnostic predictions (e.g., the person's fasting blood sugar is 160; diabetes now by definition is 126 or above; we regard that result as clinically significant for diabetes). Now in both instances previous statistical analyses may have been involved in initial validation of such information. In the medical model, rarity would imply small deviations from those expectations (e.g., side-effects in less than 1%, or it may be a rarity based on extent of change, though the event may be slightly different expectation). The rarity in vortical indivension could be expressed as connectedness or psi. The occurrence of these manifesting as rare events relate to describing them in terms of threshold intensity or frequency or robustness: Interfacing vortices or vectors across or between or within dimensions may be occurring almost all the time, but the registration of relevance in most instances would be insubstantial. Some events, such as well-done presentiment studies, may show changes that are highly significant when separating these parameters. But the fact that they need statistical demonstration of presence argues against their being phenomena which we see in clinical significance on a more probable than not" basis. Something that is clinically very reliable in dayReality Begins With Consciousness 2nd Ed. VM Neppe and ER Close. Brainvoyage.com 120904.2 b 199

to-day communication is speech, which is why we use it far more than psi in direct interaction, although there still may unconscious psi processes motivating it. 3. Psi conducive and repulsive phenomena Vortical indivension could potentially interface many psiconducive elements. These include possible linkage of the psychosocial, of interest and of understanding, of emotion, influence, drive, motivation and thinking, and of environmental elements. Each of these may allow greater convergence of vortical interfaces within and across dimensions. Therefore, there are many aspects that may attract and repel psi and ostensible meaningful coincidences could be reflecting not only just points of vortical interface, but significant joining or marked interaction of vortices allowing for commonality of experience. There is much that is submerged not expressedin these zillions of vortical indivensions, yet that remains meaningful. Every action, every individual, and every individual-unit influences others and may change the track of not only individual existence, but ultimately impact on all other realities, however, minimally. Some vortices may influence reality more profoundly than others because they create a larger web for the reality. Could it be that this book might ultimately influence the concepts of millions of others because they would be interpreting the this model within the fabric of their own previous thoughts. The merging of the new with the old would make a difference: Even if this broader model is wrong, it still could provocatively impact their thinking, philosophy or ideas by stimulating new ideas: Each of us touch the concepts of others, and sometimes profoundly. 4. Improbability of the superpsi hypothesis This, also, explains the illogicality of the theoretical precept of superpsi usually invoked as an all-encompassing, all-embracing extended psi without limits and invoked as an alternative to survival after bodily death. The problem is there does not appear to be empirical support for any instance of superpsi in the absence of survival communication data. Moreover, using this model of vortical indivension, psi occurs fundamentally as rare spontaneous events. A century of research has demonstrated this. This is why we require statistical validations because of this fundamental property. Superpsi would imply either a control of these rare events or greater collections of complex psi events together or of such a kind that it would appear to need to be more common: But we have no supporting data. 5. Learnt skills Support for the model of formative causation: Sheldrake with his morphogenetic fields suggested that a repetitive new learnt skill might become increasingly easier to a
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certain point. Effectively the closeness and connectedness of an idea or skill creates a more extended clustering and greater accessibility to the underlined vortices, almost metaphorically like tuning into a radio station in 3S-1t. 6. Decline effect Once routinized, an initial psi or connectedness event, loses the enthusiasm and emotional investment and cognitive attitudes. This change leads to the well-known decline effect in parapsychology. 7. Apprehension and influence Psi involves either an afferent or efferent loop: afferently, event information or space-time data may be acquired, perceived or apprehended (so-called extrasensory perceptionESP); or efferently, psi involves influence or perturbation without physical interventions (i.e. so-called psychokinesis or PK). Psi may occur spontaneously or experimentally, or be induced. Applying vortices, we postulate that experimental psi would require directedness to a limited number of vortical interactions and so should be less common than spontaneous psi. Similarly, nondirected, non-specific contacts of individual-units (e.g., individuals, groups, or even global consciousness) should be more frequent than actively influencing or acquiring specific data or information. 8. Psychoneurological influences Ultimately all psi is expressed through the brain, as the significant neurological filter, barrier and permeable unit for metaconsciousness. It is also an endpoint in sentient beings for STC tethering of data, at all size levels, quantal through astronomical. This means there will be some distortion of these mechanisms. Vortices being ubiquitous also manifest biologically (e.g., levorotatory chemicals, helices in genetics) 244; 245 and the linkage of information though expressed physically in the brain, may still have components of the vortical indivension interfaces at other dimensional levels. The endpoint is the human brain trying to utilize information appropriately and maximally.

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CHAPTER 25: PSI AND ENTANGLEMENT 246 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein, "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921 Psi and Its Role Entanglement However, another second explanation against total quantum randomness relates to Schrdingers entanglement and the work that has followed. We recognize the relevance of entanglement and have used the Copenhagen interpretation of Physics in interpretations of these difficult to explain events. Entanglement at the quantum level is linked with the non-locality of the Copenhagen Interpretation, which is a subset of the entanglement we refer to. But it is an important part because it demonstrates what we are calling relative non-locality. Tethering through the interpenetrating series of dimensional realities is relevant here. METACIST (pronounced meta-kissed not cyst) is a useful infinite term within Essence. The consequence of the Copenhagen interpretation of physics 41 could be the postulated role of meaning and consciousness, that spooky action at a distance, quantum weirdness, and consolidated empirically by the French Aspect research 87, and the Geneva studies 85; 86; 247. These have shown that this entanglement can operate instantly over a great distance. Another study that said this might just be a question of timing has been refuted. 248; 249 Scientists examined relative time applying the concept of a craft going in two directions to demonstrate that this was not entanglement but just a time effect. But they failed: They werent able to demonstrate this and this, in turn, reinforced the idea pertaining to a consciousness as an important player. 160 We interpret entanglement as a subset in the Copenhagen Interpretation, but also, it is far greater in our model because we are looking at tethering through interpenetrating realities. Psi and rarity Psi argues against complete quantum indeterminacy yet is often neglected in the conventional sciences despite being possibly the most relevant area. Psi demonstrates, however, the six sigma data on slight influences on random number generators and also, on the global consciousness project. These explain ostensible uncertainty elements possibly having some meaningful relevance as well may be a nonReality Begins With Consciousness 2nd Ed. VM Neppe and ER Close. Brainvoyage.com 120904.2 b 202

randomization result as reflected by the intentional influences. We expect these influences to be rare and not profound and they are. We recognize this rarity via the model of vortical indivension. The why is because it is all connected to the original consciousness substrate. Entanglement and psi: Are they the same? Superficially, entanglement and psi appear to be similar, as entanglement may be the outward manifestation of the C-substrate of the dimensions of space time. We do not regard the two as synonymous but they may be closely related. Is the global consciousness project, or the random number generator data reflecting psi or entanglement or both? Dean Radin in his book Entangled Minds 220 certainly implies a major link or that they are the same. Certainly, the entanglement of particles that originate in the same quantum event is the outward manifestation of the connection between the various substrates evoked by w the C substrate, or even the transfinite substrate impacting down to the 4 dimensions of 3S-1t space-time that we experience. Entanglement is not easily understood by physicists. This is so because it is action at a distance, its nonlocality, it is quantum weirdness, its a spooky effect, and it is merely the surface manifestation of what we are talking about. It might even be the epiphenomenon, so to say. Historically, perhaps we have been looking at it absolutely upside down from the bottom-up trying to apply materialistic science. Everything that we see material may, paradoxically, be epiphenomenal to the consciousness substrate. The STC tethering may be unified even at the top-down level: It is not limited to finite 3S-1t-1c reality. The TDVP model implies that many of the aspects that we experience as material may ultimately be epiphenomenal with essence, at times, being primary. And essence is the reflection of the infinite expressed as metaconsciousness, life, ordropy, metaspace, and metatime. The rarity of psi and language "Rare" is a relative term. Our physical communication systems apply speech. Such language has been proven to be reliable and consistent. Regular, coherent and common linguistic experience may be a more valuable evolutional criterion in our living physical 3S-1t reality. This is so because one can directly and uniformly apply the same, broadly consistent common experiences of othersthough these "experiences" are still individually idiosyncratic because of their subjectivity perception, conception and expression.
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What about psi below awareness? On the other hand, we frequently do not need to directly apply psi in our living physical 3S-1t reality because it is a relatively unreliable, spontaneous, less predictable mechanism and therefore, in common use, by comparison, psi appears to be rare. But it might not be rare, in fact. It may be ubiquitous, but its expression in our living 3S-1t reality experience makes it appear not to be easily and consistently apprehended in awareness in our neurological consciousness such that we can reliably go about our business just with psi but not with concepts or/ and language. "Consciousness" here is qualified to avoid the misinterpretations of its non-qualified definition. Similarly, we distinguish meaning and its relevance as fitting well into our models the infinite and consciousness. The discrete finite metadimensionality and the continuous infinite and the difficulties of the permeability (boundary, barrier, filter) between infinite metaconsciousness and meaning at 3S-1t make the situation even more complex. Yet, we don't know what influences are occurring at other levels below neurological conscious awareness. Indeed, so much is automatic in terms of our functioning (cardiac, respiratory and other vegetative functions) that we take them for granted but can demonstrate them physiologically. And then there is the wealth of psychological functions, too, many of which are expressed subconsciously. So though a speculation, it is still a distinct possibility. Psi in everyday life Rarity is relative to other communication in 3S-1t: The majority of the population report it subjectively 127; 181; 211; 242; 250, and some might report their frequency of psi as overwhelmingly common though that kind of report itself might be rare. Theyre reporting what they are consciously aware of. Psi expression may be a relative rarity for the ordinary person in ordinary circumstances in our current 3S-1t physical reality. But a large variety of parameters, such as milieu, circumstances and ethicospirituomysticobiopsychofamiliogroupsociocultural factors in our subatomicmacrocosmoreality expressed electrochemically via the nervous systems of living sentient beings in 3S-1t may produce enormous fluctuations. Given the correct circumstances of these individual-unit variations, psi might be common. We have applied some complex words here, but were suggesting broader systems that are unified and this unification of complex systems may emphasize this point. The relevance of psychological parameters, and our model of "individual-units fits this. The psychological interface is enormously relevant in the frequency of psi. In
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TDVP, we recognize "fluctuating dimensionalities" and the major parameters are the physiological and psychological limitations of brain functioning, and the positive (and negative) transcendence of the various individual-units, such as the self, groups, ethnic identities, families, societies and cultures. We could even postulate that those in specific helping professions, who positively use psi in their everyday practice, may be more successful in their endeavors than those who do not. Ditto for other professions, and certainly for the development of new creative ideas. We should differentiate psi as a phenomenon and the data that results. Certainly psi delivered data may be rare, because there is no need for it all the time. But psi might be operating all the time though is used when there is a need or in an experimental or natural setting of inducing psi, e.g., meditation, remote viewing. Psi beyond 3S-1t Moreover, let's go beyond 3S-1t. It is possible to at least postulate that psi is the most important afferent-central-efferent, relative non-local mechanism that exists and that psi occurs ubiquitously at both the finite and infinite levels, though is not always expressed in individual-unit subjective reality. In the Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) model, we've tried to link the occurrence of psi at the levels of the physical, psychological, life and consciousness sciences. It explains the rarity of psi, how variations may occur at spontaneous and experimental levels and the needs for a systems approach, the differences between the perceptual and the conceptual, and the roles of consciousness, metadimensionality, ordropy, life and infinity. Psi and vortical indivension The rarity of psi fits very well the ideas of interfacing, vortical indivension, rare event theory, tethering and possibly entanglement. The explanatory "process" is called indivension, and the content relates to interfaces of vortices, vectors, scalars and tensors. Applying the Calculus of Distinctions we can distinguish percepts, concepts and experiences as well as subjectivity and relative objectivity. In TDVP, fluctuating vortical indivension utilizes the subjective experiences, the commonality of relative objectivity of zillions of interfacing vortices, the awareness that perceptual and conceptual phenomena are differently expressed.
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Entanglement and Quantum Correlations A complex re-think about nonlocality and psi Let us re-examine the issue of entanglement using complex information derived from cutting edge science in the area. This argues for the relevance of entanglement, for its likely link with the relative nonlocal and that it is not synonymous with subatomic equivalent of psi: If that is so it may be that other conscits may still be relevant. Bell, Copenhagen and beyond In the Bell test experiments, which play an important role in understanding the nature of the EinsteinPodolskyRosen paradox, quantum entanglement plays the central role. The violation of Bell's inequalities rules out local hidden variable theories which attempt to restore the realism. This is in the context that definiteness of the outcome in a single measurement cannot be ensured by using a supplementary variable along with the wave function, which cannot be obtained in the standard Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics in its various formulations. 41 Support for the Copenhagen interpretation began with Freedman and Clauser251 but the work was in a single room, and although the research was outstanding scientists still wanted to ensure that there were no loopholes relating to local explanations. The most serious loophole is the detection loophole, which means that particles are not always detected in both wings of the experiment. It is possible to "engineer" quantum correlations (the experimental result) by letting detection be dependent on a combination of local hidden variables and detector setting. This is a reason why the work by Nicolas Brunner and Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva is very relevant because it has been even harder to refute the conclusions of the outstandingly performed Aspect experiments 87. The Geneva Bell test experiments showed that distance did not destroy the "entanglement". Light was sent in fiber optic cables over distances of 11km (1998) and then later 50 kilometers (2007) before it was analyzed. Furthermore, in 1998, Innsbruck researchers led by Anton Zeilinger with Gregor Weihs conducted an ingenious experiment that closed the "locality" loophole, improving on Aspect's of 1982 252. The detector was made using a quantum process to ensure that it was random. Their results violated the so-called CHSH inequality by over 30 standard deviations with the coincidence curves agreeing with those predicted by quantum theory. 108 The Gisin group 85 86 247 also looked for coincidence probabilities on a three three-dimensional (qutrit) system. They showed the inequality was violated when each observer measures two noncommuting observables (this may be relevant in TDVP where three dimensional measures are used as a unit in dimensionometry). Moreover, time synchronies do not explain such phenomena. 249
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What allows entanglement? Statistically, given ideal circumstances, all of the subatomic particles like photons could exhibit entanglement. In theory, any two particles that have ever interacted, are entangled forever and this entanglement has infinite or transfinite range. In practice, however, such an entanglement is lost in the noise of multiple combinatorial entanglements. Therefore, the detection of an "entangled" state requires that there be something that establishes a link between the properties of the particles, such as a conservation law that must be jointly obeyed by the two particles. Moreover, after the first measurement on an entangled variable, the entanglement vanishes from the observable universe. It still remains in the mathematical representation of the system, but it only affects unobservable quantities. (Unobservable quantities, such as the complex phase, are part of the mathematical "hardware" needed to calculate observable quantities correctly). Since the usual environment is rife with interactions, all particles are entangled in the usual expectable environment without any kind of noise extraction. In general, though, the entanglements will not be of the observable types. The minimum entanglement observed in most research given the noise that exists could be zero. Entangled particles cannot be regarded as nonlocal per se but there may be a nonlocal relationship between some of their properties. Entanglement does not require nonlocality per se: what it rules out is the combination of locality plus realismthe notion that particles are actual "things" with innate properties of their own. Physicists sometimes prefer quasi-mystical ideas to preserve locality at the expense of realism and this approach comes closet to coherence is in arguments that quantum mechanics is a theory about our knowledge of the world rather than a theory about the world. Many physicists apply naive realism and would rather accept nonlocality, but this is not entirely true. The role of precognition If we accept the cogent evidence for phenomena like precognition, locality becomes untenable. Therefore, we would have no impediments to the preference for realism. In fact, the Leggett inequalities, a somewhat improved extension of the Bell inequalities 253 , are frequently touted as having ruled out nonlocality and forced the acceptance of nonrealism. The Leggett inequalities (from Anthony James Leggett) are a related pair of mathematical expressions concerning the correlations of properties of entangled particles. The inequalities are exemplified in terms of relative angles of elliptical and linear polarizations. They are fulfilled by all physical theories that are based on certain non-local and realistic assumptions that may be considered to be plausible or intuitive according to common physical reasoning. 254
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The role of time However, Leggett's assumptions in deriving those inequalities specifically ruled out the backward-in-time nonlocality that consciousness and time researchers are accustomed to dealing with. 249; 253; 255 Therefore, nonlocal, realistic theories are appropriate and supported by precognition. The Leggett inequalities are violated by quantum mechanical theory. 249; 253; 254; 256 The results of an experimental test in 2007 by a team directed by Anton Zeilinger showed agreement with quantum mechanics rather than the Leggett inequalities for a broad class of theories. 257 The Leggett related work is probably the most important theoretical advance, though the inequality refutation doesn't quite accomplish the task of absolutely proving nonlocality though with precognition, it could be argued that it did. The LeggettGarg inequality is always violated on the microscopic quantum mechanics scale. 253 Revisiting nonlocality Establishing nonlocality is based on significant supporting data. The original experiments confirmed that entangled particles violated the Bell formulas. Nevertheless, there was still an "out" for those insisting on "local realism": 254 The experiment was slow enough that information about the detector settings could propagate from one end of the apparatus to the other long before the photon measurements could take place. This meant that a purely local process could, technically, be carrying the information the particles needed to "make up their minds" about how to be measured. There were no particular candidates for what might carry such information, but the communication was possible in principle. Aspect refuted these local-realist ideas by randomizing the choice of detector settings on extremely short time scales. This made it such that there was no way before the measurement was complete that any light-speed-limited signal could carry information about the outcome of detector A over to detector B (or vice versa). 103; 104 Technically, extending the causal gap to miles does nothing to make the demonstration of nonlocality more rigorous: It simply tests the QM prediction that EPR correlations don't weaken with distancewhich they don't.254 But such research has been done to consolidate the previous work. Is entanglement observable? Brains have evolved to extract meaningful patterns from huge amounts of noisy data. Yet that ideal extraction may not be the state ideal for psi. Interpretations might be complicated by observable entanglement apparently vanishing at the first meaningful measurement interaction with the environment. Technically, this observation is not
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strictly true as the "measurement" is an interaction that correlates a particle state with a macroscopic state of a "measuring instrument" such that different values of some variables of interest are associated with macroscopically distinguishable states of the "instrument". This basic interaction should not be different from any other quantum interaction: This is why the so-called "quantum Zeno effect" works even though nobody's actually watching the lasers. 254 Sifting through the entangled complexity When an entangled particle interacts with "the environment", its state has become correlated with some jumble of 6x1023 grams of material in the "environment" that have not been carefully configured to amplify single-particle states to macroscopic levels. The single bit of entangled information is still there somewhere but it's buried in zillions of bits of noise. However, since, in principle, every interaction entangles the participating particles, the "environment" also contains as many bits of entanglement information as it has particles -- jumbled, disorganized and unprepared information that we don't know how to sort out or to read, and that is statistically indistinguishable from random noise. Learning to sort out that concealed information, though, might enable an organism to know something about what's going on somewhere beyond the reach of its normal senses, and so could have considerable survival value if it could be done at all. 254 Filters, signals and psi Entanglement can't be used to send signals, if current theory is correct. Entanglement as a mechanism for psi, even if the huge noise-filtering task is possible in principle, would be limited to things like knowing what sort of "random" events happened elsewhere, because all entanglement tells you is that this assortment of random particle states here correlates with that assortment of random particle states somewhere else. This is not valuable except for the fact that nature is full of processes that are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, so this kind of correlative information might inform us that the puma decided to go hunting on side A of the ridgeline rather than side B, or let us know whether the snowfield up the hill is two flakes below or two flakes over the critical point for avalanche instability. 254 Leggett or Einstein? Besides Einstein's famous "God does not play dice" objection to quantum mechanics, there was Einstein's still more fundamental objection that the moon is still there when nobody looks. If the violation of the LeggettGarg inequality can be demonstrated on the macroscopic scale, this would challenge even this notion of realism. 254

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CHAPTER 26: TIME AND FREE-WILL 193; 258 The illusion of the passage of time arises from the confusing of the given with the real. Passage of time arises because we think of occupying different realities. In fact, we occupy only different givens. There is only one reality. Kurt Gdel 259 Time Multidimensionality Time is particularly difficult in terms of conceptualizing multidimensionality. Scientists for a century have tried to talk about time. For us to approach multidimensional time is a challenge. Yet, we can tentatively demonstrate it with mathematical evidence for 3 dimensions of time-- both algebraically, geometrically; by inseparable tethering structurally; and by origin, infinite, essence and metatime. There might be limitations to 3 dimensions specifically. Linear Time Our experience is of a finite time-line. We know that this moment, the present, is a singularity with 0 dimensions. Linear time involves one dimension of time reflecting the individuals past, present, and future. This involves discrete moments in time that moves forward all the time. Linearly, it involves a past, present, and a future. We can represent fluctuations suddenly in a plane with waves of time technically reflecting alternative routing and alternative directions. We can access the past very easily on the VCR, in newspapers, by memory, in movie, and possibly through retrocognitive awareness. We can access the future by logical predictions or via precognitions: With predestined precognition one cannot modify anything. The future seems to move inexorably with us having no part in our future except via learning to plan for the best options. We look at this linear time-line helplessly or with the serenity that we can only impact through logic our best attempts. Subjectively this linear time might be curved. This is so because we interpret subjective time differently. For example, our estimate of the duration of some dreams may be very different from objective clock based reality. If this so we are actually each experiencing two dimensionsour own subjective one and our clock one. And everyone else is, therefore, producing an infinite number of dimensions, but were not aware of them because we experience our time as a linear though maybe wavy progression and we could argue that actually were experiencing just our own individual world realities and should not be calling these variable rates of time different dimensions.
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Absence of Choice Without choice, however, we have one single un-modifiable direction and that linear direction of time might be curved, so we could be conceived as 2 dimensional. But with freedom of will we have a hypothesis that is difficult to test. We have different routing, different directions and waves or curvature. With the original non-choice we therefore, get to 3 dimensions even individually. Even more so, collective time is a cultural phenomenon and may be measured akin to a Turing Apparatus, in this instance, a 3D- clock. That collective commonality of time we could argue would be another dimension. Yet, we cannot go beyond 3D-Euclidean space so can we in time? Our collective commonality of space, exists with our own individual collective space because we have our percepts and our concepts. We likely could not get beyond 3 dimensions by using collective time. Estimation of the Future We can also access the future mathematically by estimation. At a simple level, if somebody is walking 16 steps and we know how long it takes from step a to step, we can project, but only with some degree and not absolute certainty, that & of the way through the individual would have, e.g., completed the fourth step. However, because this produces the whole indeterminacy components in terms of velocity and space, we can make logical predictions in the future but only with some statistical likelihood. Linear time usually might be mathematically interval or ratio in nature, e.g., clocks or VCRs, or dates in newspapers, but examples of memory or precognition may not be interval but ordinal in nature 260. Time Seriality and Infinite Regress John Dunne 96pointed out the paradox of such a series of moments and their timing. We could, if we were an observer outside such time, time the time accurately with a clock, and we could repeat that repetitively, until therefore, we could produce an infinite regress. He contradicts himself arguing this is not infinite and we can understand why: This is not a continuous infinity but a countable onehence transfinite. Therefore, Dunnes infinite time dimensions appear to apply the logic of the Cantorian model of a transfinite series of numbers in finite reality 116, which in this instance would be a discrete, countable infinity. However, applying the calculus of distinctions, this is not infinite dimensions of extent, they are instead infinite dimensions of content with each reality parallel or parangular to each other in a non-Euclidean existence. Dunnes descriptions are esoteric and very difficult to follow, even after reading his theory and book several times. The major difficulty is the mixture of science with, not even speculation, but ideas that are stated as fact, yet are clearly not facts. This kind of model involves observers outside a box and is a theme Neppe used in his
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initial N-dimensional vortical paradigm 5-7; 261 5-7; 261. It can be one way to apply infinity, but in a way it would be meaningless. More generally, the absence of free-will simply produces a philosophical helplessness, a fatalism of inaction. But complete free-will in 3S-1t would imply no learning of psychological, social or theological behaviors. It must be relative to ones experience. Therefore, more correct terminology is potential freedom of choice: Here we can potentially act by overriding our learnt and genetic predispositions. Dunne and Multidimensionality Dunnes basic thesis relates to demonstrating serial reality of time. Translated into TDVP finite terminology time is occurring in discrete periods and discrete points: It is moving from one period to another, and we can demonstrate that we can experience information pertaining to the future, in the present time. Therefore, Dunnes main hypothesis relates to the fact that time is not a moment in time, but a single dimension of time with it occurring in a series of discrete events. As indicated, his further examining different observers observing time from the outside, transfinitely produces an Infinite Regressthe observer observes other time, then the next observes their observation, ad infinitum. This allows Dunne to talk about multidimensional time, but it is always seriallike electricity jumping from node to node. The other difficulty is how he defines concepts such as seriality and series. Yet this model of a different kind of multidimensional time different times in observers in parallel, or regressive time jumping from one observer to another like a serial electrical current should be examined in the TDVP context. Infinite regress and Dunnes parallel time in the TDVP context How would we explain Dunnes infinite regress concept applying the TDVP model? Because regression implies jumps from one Time variable to another, it produces different dimensions of extent each involving conscious observers outside the box. This means the observers become transfinite. We propose that thinking about these Time dimensions in isolation is incorrect because it produces purely time domains. Transfinite Time dimensions alone cannot exist alone because by necessarily impacting an observer, they impact Consciousness. The key therefore is a TimeConsciousness regress not a time infinite regress alone: The transfinite Higher Consciousness dimensions have Time playing only a subordinate role. We, therefore, can describe it as NC- (0-N) T (where N in T may be any of 0 or imaginary through to transfinite numbers). Space may or may not be relevant in this context. Moreover, this will vary by the domain (series of dimensions) conceptualized: Space and Time could easily appear relatively nonlocal so S=0, T=0 or they may be SN-TNCN. However, the C may fluctuate in dimensional quantity (fluctuating dimensions)
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and cannot be 0. Parallel time in the TDVP context applying Dunnes concepts. Dunne critiques anything pertaining to parallel time happening at the same moment, yet implies that each person lives in his or her own particular universe. If this were so, then this does involve tens of different dimensions of Time as these are content variables. The density of such events may be converted to different Time Variables of Extent paralleling themselves depending on actions and thoughts, and modifying themselves through choice implying three time dimensions. However, these could reflect only the first three time dimensions in the first nine STC levels. Beyond that, the TDVP model necessarily requires time be part of metaconsciousness in the transfinite. Free-will Implies Three Finite Time Dimensions If there is such a thing at that finite level of freedom of choice and freedom of will, this means we can actually meaningfully, at least to a limited degree, control our future. This for many, including ourselves is philosophically satisfying and a philosophical necessity. Now freedom of choice may not occur at the infinite level because time, space, and consciousness all exist as a unit and therefore, ultimately the infinite regress could look similar but the routing to such infinity for any individual-units may be necessarily different, because we would have chosen which way to go. However, paradoxically, if any individual has free-will as opposed to predestination, the logical consequence is to posit that he is experiencing not only the second dimension of time, but necessarily the third dimension of time, as well. Effectively, by asserting free-will, you are making a choice. This is not just a parallel reality choice based in a second action linked up with time progression into the future. It is therefore, not just another parallel linear time line but it is a plane because it has impacts on everything else: It changes the actions of others, be they finite animate individual-units and on finite inanimate objects. That choice therefore, links up with others, producing a density, because we have our initial linear time, and our new choice, which impacts on others. This creates a 3D component. Applying TDVP, we describe the variations of impacting others vortices by vortical indivension. No man is an island entire of itself! 262 That choice necessarily has a certain curvature or planarity because of fluctuations: This reflects something that is a plane plus a line. This contrasts to absence of choice, a certain fatalism, because then the linearity (which may technically be curved one way but experienced as a single time-line) has it is its own kind of manifoldits own kind of movement through a curveproducing one reality of predestination without free-will.
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Of course, again we would have an infinite regress. Technically, as Cantor would describe it, we would have an infinity of infinities 116 at the continuous infinite level of reality. But this would still constitute metatime. How would an infinite regress affect free-will? Free-will may be relative, and in this context relative to the 3S-1t domain. The depth of time is consonant with the potential for choices and free-will. However, that free-will could be linked with C-substrate metadimensional manifestations that may be tethered with our apparent 3S-1t -1C domain of time and C-substrate. Using this explanation, free-will occurs in individuals in the apparent 3S-1t. This is because they are not really living in 3S-1t but in, at minimum, a 3S-3T-1C or even 3S-3T-NC. This allows individuals to manifest their free-will choices in 3S-1t without contradiction. Free-will in any domain might not be free-will in another domain. However, if one combines the infinite and allows for meaningful interventions at that level, any finite metadimensionality should theoretically reflect some level of free-will. This is not complete free-will because it must conform to higher dimensional elements as well and must be part of the broader order of reality. Clock Reality and Ordinal Time However, in 3S-1t physical standard reality, our second and third dimensions of time are logically ordinal not interval if they exist (and they do if philosophically we can make choices). In other words, if we made a different choice via free-will, then the choice went into a different direction, and we cant measure that time as interval moments of time with a clock because such a clock would be purely subjective. We can only measure the gradual directions and possibly the end-points but the exact timing is indeterminateeffectively, we cannot locate and predict the velocity (or density) of the new time experience unless we are occupying that specific dimensional clock and we cannot appreciate all three time dimensions at the same time. Time and Consciousness and STC At the end of those choices, consciousness manifests or may be conceived or not experienced as those extra dimensions, although time might have components of that consciousness, just as space does. If in a dream, you dream about a place and a duration of time, is that a consciousness dimension, or is it a time dimension or is it space? This is an example of STC in our TDVP all inseparably tethered together at a higher dimensional level, but manifesting individual tentacles of one or more dimensions of space, time and consciousness that are theoretically separated by vortical indivension and manifesting, for example, as entanglement or psi.
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Time, Minkowski, Quaternions and Imaginary Numbers In retrospect, the idea of space-time of Minkowski26 has been dramatically extended: TDVP may have succeeded when others did not because of the recognition of the needs for multidimensionality, extended consciousness, ordropy, life, infinity, tethering, content / process (vortical indivension), origins and a supporting mathematical model as well as applications of LFAF and falsifiability, the empirical methods of science and the calculus of distinctions. The model of dimensional extrapolation impacting a fourth dimension and involving imaginary numbers compared with Minkowskis 1D imaginary time is relevant to a 3D model. Moreover, mathematically, Pythagorean and Gaussian co-ordinates would put the projected ostensible fourth dimensional point back into 3 dimensional time somewhere unless imaginary numbers are used to measure time. Until all of these were incorporated our metaparadigm was incomplete and not justified. Are There Other Motivations for Three Dimensional Time? We list a few of these briefly and without comment here. Physics: 3 dimensions of time are based on the concept of warping. Consciousness: The unified STC demonstrates S=3. Therefore, at the tethered area, T must be 3 in lower dimensional reality Psi: If free-will exists, then time is necessarily multidimensional. Free-will reflects the second and because of density of impacting other individual-units a third time dimension: Choice implies a further linear wave so a plane2d. Only free-will demonstrates another time dimension. Archetypes of actual time? This could be debated both in terms of existence and implications: Memory and precognition all reflect 1 dimension. Akashic records, if they exist, may reflect parallel or parangular time but not necessarily in non-linear dimensions. On the other hand, these records might not reflect time but purely consciousness. Thought experiment: Time will be passing at different rates on the sphere and the plane. We can calculate the relativistic time distortion and establish points defining a time-line for each dimensional world. Thus, there are two time-lines that coincide only when the clock on the sphere is exactly in the plane. In this case, time can be represented by two lines crossing at a single point. Two lines crossing define a 2S plane. Thus, time is, in this case, two-dimensional, and this is a 3S, 2T reality. If not, is it in a further dimensional reality because there are more than two time solutions? (Multiple alternative realities present in each individual-unit. But terms such as many-worlds, many universes, alternative realities are not mathematical as they may not necessarily imply
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worlds or universes or multiverses. Therefore, a term like co-existing reality could be used as less prejudicial. Co-existing is often referred to as within 3S1t, but it could be applied to any dimensional representation and even the infinite because it is not specific. However, reality may not be co-existent or parallel, because it is relative to the domain, and also because it can be ultimately unified. Hence, we prefer to use our neologism parangular. Relativity: Passage of time as measured by atomic clocks is ultimately tied to light speed. So if light is slowing down, so is time. This is a dance that we refer to as Relativistic time. Origins: The time singularity is this moment in time. T=0. Logic: All populations parallel to these linear dimensions reflect a third. Alternative times reflect infinity. Seriality by infinite regress reflect infinity. The remarkable mathematician and mystic, JHM Whiteman, supported the idea of multidimensional time. This was not only based on Eastern mysticism 263, but uniquely this scientist and polymath had more carefully documented deliberately induced subjective experiences 264 than possibly anyone else ever265. His complex writings examined hierarchical potential versus actuality, structures in physics, and the implications for multidimensional thinking of such subjective experiences. 70; 266-268. Whiteman also described three levels of time 269: 1. He used T, more broadly than we use it in TDVP where we reflect passage of time. Whiteman describes this as the interior causation of a potentiality field that is set up or modified by interference with the field through a force such as gravitation or psychokinesis. Time T is more structural or spatial, a plan that can be accessed in the right state, potentiality from which one can read off past or future, although the plan is not completely fixed. This allows for the intervention paradox. But the plan is largely fixed. 2. He used t, like we use it in TDVP, to reflect this moment in time, but also recognizes this as passage of time. Whiteman describes this as the actualization or manifestation of a not necessarily physical space-time reality; and 3. Whitemans third dimension (different from our use of dimension as space-like variables) was the term ' (tau) and this reflected intelligible structure and means. Unlike T, ' is mechanical and unalterable, what one might compare to collapse of a wave function once the actualization has been triggered. But neither T nor ' are measurable: This is only possible with the actualized t as in clock-time, and so becomes measurable passage of time. Interestingly, Whitemans three variables of time, were combined with the three spatial dimensions of length, breadth and height. Of course, we draw this triadic distinction in TDVP and link the initial three dimensions of T-substrate and C-substrate with the SReality Begins With Consciousness 2nd Ed. VM Neppe and ER Close. Brainvoyage.com 120904.2 b 216

substrate. Finally, Whiteman recognized the relevance of objective and subjective time, of the data on psi, of non-physicality, the laws of nature, quanta 266, hierarchies and universality. 268-271 Time Density The density of that choice could be through a consciousness expressed in terms of the time. It is impacting others with the same different kinds of linearities and their own special vortical expressions in 3D reality. Free choice reflects all coming together. It ultimately expresses a 3 dimensional time in one way at the same time perceived or conceived as conscious finite experience with an extent of discrete time because it is in moments. But also, this time consciousness can express an N-dimensional time in another domain, because metaconsciousness reflects both conscious infinite experience because if we move to N-dimensional time the dimension beyond 3 hypothetically may not be pure time but time consciousness. It experientially will not have any effect on the time lines that are experienced my 3S1t individuals. Parallel Dimensions and Universes and the Use of Parangular The term parallel dimensions is a misnomer. They are not necessarily parallel: Indeed, they may be anything from orthogonal to parallel and at any angle parangularsome intersect other dimensions and this is why we have intersections, e.g., via vortical indivension. There is a literature on parallel universes, but parallel universes do not necessarily imply parallel dimensions. Parallel in this sense was initially used in an inexact manner and has just been perpetuated. It was never intended to mean that all of the dimensions of say two universes reflect the consequence of the drawing of distinctions of two universes whose dimensions were parallel. Parallel universes are whole sets or whole domains. In fact, parallel in the literature of Everett 272 and other people who use that to understand quantum physics, refer to it as just a stratagem because even if parallel universes exist they dont interact, and if they did they would do so in a way that we would never detect. They were using it in rather a loose mannerheres a universe and here is another one. While they may be very much alike they are not co-existent. Our model requires interactions involving all of reality: Such interactions enhance and diminish individuals, groups, families, societies, cultures and ethnic identities. We are never the same when interacting or meeting others and the same applies even not only to sentient beings but also to the so-called inanimate world. Everyone changes
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everyone and everything else. Congruent realities may be momentary with timelines crossing. To become totally congruent would be like cloning, in effect. Two consciousnesses with the same congruent timelines would mean the same consciousness and logically, two physical should not have exactly the same consciousness. We suggest defining a new word so we dont need to use the word parallel, an unfortunate choice of words by somebody many years ago to describe the situation where a decision or the drawing of a distinction by a conscious being causes the universe to split into parallel universes. Similarly, the phrase, many worlds exists, yet using another term like angular (where angular can be anything from parallel to orthogonal) may be logical. We propose the term parangular, and weve used the phrase individual-unit dimensions to reflect that parangularity has subjective components. What If We Could Appreciate 3T and Therefore, 3S-3T? A conscious entity in the rare state of being aware of the finite S3T3 so 6-D continuum would be enormously advantaged in awareness but not be in an omnipotent, omnipresent position of being aware of all of the timelines, all the pasts and futures of all individuals as this is necessarily linked with the infinite. This distinction can be drawn applying an infinite number for time and space but not for finite time.

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CHAPTER 27: THE MATHEMATICS OF TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS 273 How indeed could one think of expressing metamathematics in the mathematical systems themselves, if the latter are considered to consist of meaningless symbols which acquire some substitute of meaning only through metamathematics? Kurt Gdel 145 Mathematics is Needed for Paradigm Shifts Paradigm shifts generally require mathematical modeling. Copernicus 274 challenged the geocentric worldview, demonstrating the sun, not the earth, was at the center. This allowed the movements of the planets to begin to make sense. Yet it was only when Newton formulated his laws of motion 275, providing a mathematical explanation for the planetary motion, that the new paradigm became generally accepted. New mathematical tools were also needed for relativity and quantum mechanics. This is why we emphasize mathematics in our model. We have found several explanatory concepts very useful, including quaternions. Quaternions Historically Quaternions 276 are a number system that extends the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 277. They have been applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. Hamilton defined a quaternion as the quotient of two directed lines in a three-dimensional space or equivalently as the quotient of two vectors. Quaternions can also be represented as the sum of a scalar and a vector. One common view of William Hamilton was that of a mad Irish mathematician locked in a room with food slid under the door while he worked. The quaternions to mathematicians were primarily a historical note. The concept initially evoked great excitement, but then vector analysis eclipsed it by becoming more useful, expressing the same concept Hamilton was trying to address with quaternions. The reason there was so much excitement in the peer or math circles back in the late 1800s and early 1900s was because quaternions were the first ever, at least if not the only, mathematical system that included a subset as a ring in the fields as algebraic rings. Both the finite and the real number, imaginary and complex numbers are identified in quaternions. A ring is defined as a set with two binary operations. Quaternions regained some life in the computer age where they form a fourdimensional associative normed division algebra over the real numbers, and thus, also form a domain. They therefore, have relevance in computer modeling.
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The binary operations would link the concept to the calculus of distinctions because COD has two primary equations: 1.) !!= ! and 2.) "=. These will be the operations that can be used to show the distinctions for the perfect ring as a part of the field of complex numbers. Multidimensionality and Quaternions When thinking about the various types of numbers that were appropriate as units for dimensions, we refer to multidimensional realities. Real numbers and imaginary numbers are subsets of complex numbers. Without quaternions, in the ST substrate, we have xyz and i: three real and one imaginary. With quaternions, the quad part is because it is 4 dimensional: however, it reflects three imaginary components and one real. The 3 time dimensions could be the ijk of the quaternion. However, we have cast the quaternion as the unit of consciousness because it is complex and simple imaginary numbers suffice as time units. Theoretically, superficially, from the time side, S space could be imaginary and T could be real. However, this will not work because the product of two quaternions is non-commutative 278 the product of two quaternions depends on which factor is to the left of the multiplication sign and which factor is to the right. Therefore, it is unlikely we could interchange space and time with space being imaginary and time being real but we do not need to. The quaternion is like a reflection of one real and three imaginary numbers, and using that concept adapted to the TDVP model, we encounter a unique different application for the t-substrate. Quaternions are more logical than imaginary numbers alone as we have six dimensions, three real and three imaginary: xyz and ijk. However, we can also or alternatively cast the quaternion as the unit of consciousness because it is complex and simple imaginary numbers suffice as time units. Quaternions are mathematically appropriate to represent consciousness units as we have six dimensions, three real and three imaginary: xyz and ijk. Contained within the C-substrate are complex numbers and these are expressed as quaternions. Complex numbers fit in well because of the three dimensions of time (3 real space plus 3 imaginary time). We apply this to consciousness implying consciousness has closely tethered components of space and time in those first nine dimensions (3S-3C-3T). The beauty is that the quaternion fits so beautifully mathematically. Applying complex number units in the form of quaternions for the C-substrate is a perfect match. 3S, 3T, 3C as the first nine mathematical dimensions are all closely linked with 3S represented by real numbers, 3T represented by imaginary numbers, and 3C is represented by
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complex numbers. S and T-substrates and Mathematics of Quaternions Though quaternions fit in the 3S-1t, they are unnecessary because 3S-1t is conceptualized as relatively objective experiential reality. Quaternions become more appropriate as we move into the subjective level. When you really examine quaternions with the parallel or intersecting universes reflected by 3 dimensional time, the quaternion reflects the whole substrate for the Tsubstrate, and effectively the substrate for the 3S-3T. What one really has is a 6 dimensional domain, and that is because quaternions allow us to have the 3S-3T embedded within the ijk domain. Quaternions are a mathematical tool that work well to fit the 3 dimensional C-substrate time substrate dimensionality into an overall 9D substrate that includes the 3S-1t and consciousness, as well. The priority here would be 3 dimensions of space, completely represented by the field of real numbers, and then the imaginary numbers of the complex ijk quaternion would represent 3T. Therefore, space is limited to 3 Euclidean dimensions because any attempt to project orthogonally out of 3D space using a real number metric will put you right back into 3 space, and a projected imaginary 4th dimension of space does not exist in Euclidean space, but does properly represent time, as demonstrated by Minkowski and Einstein. If you portray the dimensional structure of S and T mathematically, and instead of thinking of T just in terms of 3 dimensions with i as the square root of minus one as the time unit, think of it as the quaternion with the ijk still the same thing, but it is a way of putting it into a consistent mathematical formulation. Dimensional Extrapolation and the STC Substrate The processes of dimensional extrapolation and the warping of the 4D space-time continuum (3S-1t) by fundamental forces reveals additional dimensions beyond 3S-1t. Projections into the fifth and sixth dimensions are achieved successfully in the field of imaginary numbers, but when attempting to project into the seventh dimension, we encounter a problem analogous to the one that occurred when attempting to extrapolate beyond the third dimension of space. Any projection out of the sixth dimension using real or imaginary numbers will put you right back into either the field of imaginary numbers or the field of real numbers, i.e., space-time. To project into the seventh dimension, a different type of number must be employed. The type of number that works is a complex number of the form a+bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of minus one.
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Notice that complex numbers contain elements of both space (real numbers) and time (imaginary numbers), just as consciousness (in mental images) contains elements of both space and time. This is completely consistent with one of the invariants of dimensional extrapolation: an n-dimensional reality contains all domains of dimensions < n.oo The Relativity of Dimensional Scales At this point, it is appropriate to ask: What is the nature of each of the dimensions beyond the first four (3S-1t)? Dimensions 5 and 6 exist within the field of imaginary numbers. Since they are fully defined by, and measured with imaginary numbers, they could be called time-like. In fact, when we return to this from the top-down approach in the STC substrate, we find that we can identify elements of human experience that relate to a second and third dimension of time. Why are we not normally aware of the three dimensions of time? Even though the basic unit of measurement is the same (i) for all three, their magnitudes are very different. The first dimension of time is the one in which our experience of the instant we call now exists as only an instant on a vast timeline. This time dimension is occasioned by the opposing forces of gravity and universal expansion. These forces act over galactic and cosmic distances. The forces occasioning the other two time dimensions could speculatively be the strong and weak sub-atomic forces, which act over extremely small distances. Thus, the extent of all three time dimensions (3T) are not perceptible to human senses, which are fine tuned to earth-scale dimensions. Quaternions - the STC Mathematical Link We have seen mathematically that dimensions beyond the first six (3S-3T) have to be represented by complex numbers. It turns out that quaternions involve complex numbers of the form a+bi+cj+dk, where i 2 = j 2 = k 2 = -1 provide the perfect mathematical tool to link space, time and consciousness (S, T, and C). STC and NC Dimensions Re-translated Into Mathematics Mathematically, we can demonstrate that as long as you are in time dimensions, measures of dimensionality can be expressed as multiples of the square root of minus one, but the minute you go beyond the 3rd time level, you have to move to complex numbers, which means it has elements of time and space. Effectively, the first 9 dimensions are likely S3-T3-C3 and more correctly, three levels of each rung, because of the CST inseparability, so effectively 1.STC- 2.STC-3.STC. This conceptualization fits well with S being real numbers, T being imaginary and C being complex. These are all unified mathematically via quaternions. STC inseparability at the tethered level
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is a perfect model for the first 9 dimensions. But, additionally, we conceptualize higher dimensional levels. This would involve the discrete potential transfinite domains beyond these first 9 dimensions. We could call these the greater 10th dimension (coincidentally there are 10 dimensions in String Theory but these are very different: Strings usual involve dimensions of space, no C, and just 1 T). However, given that each quality of metaconsciousness such as wisdom or courage, can be ordinally measured as variables of extent. This is reflected by the potential to separate the tethered S, T, and C, which will then be able to communicate back to any of STC, implying N transfinite (ordinal) dimensions. Given S and T, as above, necessarily mathematically would require at least part of the C to go beyond 9 dimensions. C should always exist without or with S and T linked to it. So our model could be S3, T3, NC or it could be S3 or more, T3 or more, C3 plus to NC, which provided these are discrete, all but 9 are transfinite dimensions. Speculatively, if the discrete transfinite could merge into the infinite, these dimensions would become infinite. But this would be artificially so as the discrete countable transfinity would need to be reflected on the continuous infinite subreality. Our concepts of Dimensional Extrapolation in our companion volume, Space, Time and Consciousness amplify this.pp The transfinite dimensions might constitute a remarkable link with not only the infinite, but with the lower 9 S, T and C dimensions, as well. Also we could speculate that each dimension which at that transfinite level may be a multitude of partial and complex dimensions, mathematically negative and positive, and not necessarily integral, has its own metaphorical tentacles tooeffectively reflecting the tethered communication that we can conceptualize in individual sentient beings, or any level of individual-units. The process involved would be indivension and the content would be 3-D vortices that interface, interchange and interact across, between and within dimensions. C-substrate, STC and Quaternions: The Link Therefore, consciousness or discrete meaning applies complex numbers to imaginary and real numbers representing Time T and Space S respectively. We do this by applying real 3-D S and then imaginary 3-D T and together these numbers shift into complex numbers utilizing quaternions in terms of reflecting consciousness combined with space time. Moreover, this is the mathematical demonstration that they are inseparably linked. Logically the first 9 dimensions are 3S-3T-3C. We can represent
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the first 9 dimensions by metric intervals of space and time, and corresponding consciousness. Beyond 9 dimensions we cannot: That is fundamentally different because of the non-representation of more than 3 dimensions of space and time. Effectively, we may have produced the mathematical 3S-3T-NC model because of the tethered linkage. Quaternions and C-substrate We therefore, use mathematics creatively to reflect on the C-substrate proper. In the 3S-1t, C could be conceived of as unity and described in terms of real numbers, but it could be a complex entity just as well. It could theoretically be one of the three of S, T and C substratesyet all of them co-exist together. The appearance of consciousness in extrapolated dimensionality may be the ultimate case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. Moving into the C-substrate, ijk are all imaginary components of the quaternion, allowing for 3 imaginary components, making quaternions the link between S and T, where the quaternion is a 4-dimensional system. One of the primary uses of the quaternion has been the rotation of computerized images in 3 dimensional space, 1 dimensional time. The potentiality of applying quaternions to more dimensions of time has been overlooked because three-D time has not been an expected or even heard of concept in the history of physics. So, when instead of interpreting the quaternion as just a way of expressing a physical rotation in 3S-1t, we can portray it as actually representing the 3 Time coordinates in the Tsubstrate. Consequently, it works as a link. If you look at the mathematical symbolism of it, the T-substrate is a reflection of the S-substrate. The C-Substrate is a reflection of the previous two, the S and the T. That is exactly what we have in consciousness. In mentally visioning concepts and situations, we portray a reflection of the dimensions in the S and T substrates in the multiple consciousness dimensional substrates. Consciousness and Complex Numbers These ideas pose a key question: Does that complex number have elements of consciousness as well? This is relevant because if we are just saying that that complex numbers involves elements of 3 sets of quaternion imaginary numbers plus 3 sets of real numbers, then the quaternion imaginary numbers are reflecting 3 D- time and the real numbers are reflecting 3D- space (or, unlikely, vice versa if it turns out theyre non-commutative but as quaternions are non-commutative, it may matter). But if that is so, those complex numbers, too, reflect a whole that is more than its parts if it is more than the space and time together and has consciousness, too. We have posited this is so using mathematics. But we can also apply CoD as the measure of 3S-3T levels alone is purely theoretical as the CoD requires consciousness
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to perceive, conceive and experience. Additionally, we therefore, never can talk about 6 D of 3S3T, we require 3S-3T-1C and likely 3S-3T-3C at minimum so this is dimensionally higher. 3S-1t or 3S-1t-1c as our basic physical experience Moreover, the link of essence from the infinite to the finite is contiguous and available all the way from zero to infinity. So even 3S-1t is a misnomer: In our living reality, we might be 3S-1t-1c or even 3S-1t-nC at minimum where subjectively n can be any digit other than 0. Infinity permeates the whole structure of the substrate of the S, T, and C. So, while at the first six levels at least, you cant measure it, this doesnt mean that it isnt there. It is not going to show up in the measurement of space or the measurement of time, but it is there nonetheless. It isnt until you look at it from the top-down that you can conceive of this model. Support for 3 Dimensions of Time and Extensions: Some Complex Speculations 1. Time as a moment is a singularity. Linear time may be planar. Free-choice is 3D finite. The moment experienced is in 0 dimensions. Linear time in an individual involves the past, present and future, e.g., memory. Because of curvature or waves of time, we have, at least, planar dimensions. But what could have been (ending as one alternative being free-will = choice) provides for different parangular routings (directions). Therefore, we get to at least 3 finite time dimensions because the resultant collective time is at least 2 dimensions added to the first. 2. Interestingly the poet WB Yeats, recognized gyres of time. Intriguingly, the way it was described was really vortical time, which is 3 dimensional. 3. There are an infinite number of 3-D co-existing realities. But N+1 stops at finite 3 time in the 4-D space-time continuum. By dimensional extrapolation, we can imagine a 5-D continuum, a time plane, with an infinite number of time lines contained in it, and in a 6-D continuum with an infinite number of time planes, comprising a 3-D time domain. Non-Euclidean time produces another dimension but possibly called consciousness, but pure time cannot be described beyond ijk 4. In his Laws of Form, Spencer Brown pointed out that time comes in as a necessity to continue the development of the laws of form. This is interesting given that this preceded the calculus of distinctions yet Brown already conceived of multidimensional time. 5. The Non-Euclidean time and space is entirely embedded in Euclidean space. But
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locating numbers in curved space, we can represent any point on a curve or manifold of Euclidean space. Conception involves imagining, conceiving and can include infinite continuity. Perception involves experiencing as discrete finite elements. Conceiving of Euclidean reality in 3S-1t The first 9 D of 3S, 3T and 3C may be the tools of Pythagorean Euclidean representation or any other (such as, radians or other mathematical representations in Euclidean space). This we call conceiving of the potential Euclidean reality in 3S-1t. One measurement problem is the switch in dimensionality. Beyond 9D, the awareness transcends the perceptual and conceptual producing a potential transcendent reality moving into the transfinite, which we measure by ordinal not interval variables of extent. There may also be a potential Euclidean reality, even there. Potential realities may be co-existent and intersect in one on one binary set theory. This is a simplified representation of multidimensionality in two dimensions, though.

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SECTION F: THE THEORY BEHIND TDVP

CHAPTER 28: AXIOMS THAT ARE CLOSELY RELATED 279 I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. Albert Einstein Several axioms are closely linked but not directly part of the TTOOURS metaparadigm (pronounced Tours) itself. The Subparadigmatic Axioms 1. Postulate axiom of STC dimensions When S, T and C manifest independently, they manifest as specific dimensions, and there are likely three fundamental dimensions of space, more than one dimension of time, and likely N-dimensions of consciousness, with N potentially infinitethese dimensions manifest from the infinite. Expression of space, time and C-substrate cannot be as single substrates except in finite theoretical modeling. 2. Axiom of STC domains When dimensions are experienced or described with a particular pattern, this is referred to in clusters called domains. Our standard experiential domain in scientific realities is based on three dimensions of space and one point in time, called 3S-1t. However, based on the above axioms, there cannot be a separate 3S-1t per se in existential reality, because there is always a C for C-substrate, but it is a convenient way to conceive of this standard domain even though it must be 3S-1t-nC, with n=1 at minimum. There is always the inseparable tethering of space, time and C-substrates, even at the most subatomic, qualit or possibly subquantal levels. 3. Axiom of Relative Zero In some domains, S and T may equal zero and not manifest. This constitutes relative zero. Theoretically, C-substrate can approach zero at the lowest quantal or subquantal level, where information and minimal meaning almost meet. This allows for the three dimensional axiom (STC) to always be represented in any domain, e.g., S0, T0, Cn. qq
It may be that in finite reality there is a source or content for such minimal information producing a potential extent of meaning. One possible source may be the subquantum infinitesimals (this is different from postulating subquantum emptiness. 280
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4. Axiom of Potential Life Life in potential form always exists (polife), even at the Origin Event as part of this Csubstrate. This life is reflected in the infinite and is closely linked in mental form with the metaconsciousness. This does not require physical life. 5. Axiom of Physical Life Physical life in our physical earth reality (experienced in the 3S-1t-1c domain) occurs when the always existing potential for life, manifests as sufficient to fill the necessary S and T requirements. In Biology, this is perceived as a necessity fulfilled by genetics (e.g., DNA) and physiology. 6. Axiom of Interfacing of Extent and Content Space, time and C-substrate are distinctions of extent and involve interval or ordinal metrics and are therefore, potentially expressed as dimensions. Mass, force (including all forms of energy) and information are distinctions of content and not expressed as metrics except via density within 3 or more dimensions of extent, and are not of themselves dimensional. Content interfaces closely with extent by occupying volumes defined by three or more dimensions. Subsidiary, but Closely Related Axioms: Linked Infinite/Finite Very closely related is the composite Axiom of unified, holistic, simultaneous existence. 7. Axiom of simultaneous existence is pertinent because it directly follows from the above. Existence occurs at an N-Dimensional level simultaneously (was, is and will be). The infinite reality is time irrelevant. Time in a physical standard 3S-1t domain is a shadow expression of this infinite subreality that incorporates three dimensions of time. 8. Axiom of unified existence Existence occurs at an N-Dimensional level as unified existence, implying a monistic paradigm. There is no separation of mind and body, nor are they the same. The base of C-, S- and T- substrate pervades all finite existence. The infinite inextricably impacts at all levels of the finite. 9. Axiom of holistic existence Existence occurs at an N-Dimensional level as a whole. All of C-, S- and T- substrates constitute a whole pervaded by the infinite. Together these three axioms combine to form the Axiom of unified, holistic, simultaneous existence).
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Relevant But Somewhat Speculative Are the Seven Axioms of infinite-Finite Boundary Communications 10. The Axiom of Distinction Existence The essence of existence is differentiation: Some things can be said to exist only if it has a feature or features that differentiate it in some way from the rest of reality, and there is a conscious entity drawing the distinction. This is the basis of the concept of distinction, and the concept of ordropy (negative entropy). Distinction thus involves three elements: the distinction, the background from which it is distinguished, and the conscious entity drawing the distinction. A distinction without these three elements would be meaningless. 11. Axiom of distinctions The boundaries between finite and infinite are recognized in the calculus of distinctions and in the psychological sciences for individuals. Such a boundary can be at any systems level of the individual-unit. Inanimate objects also require boundaries ranging from the non-living macrophysical to the subatomic to the astrophysical. These boundaries are the discrete finite differentiations of subatomic particles from each other, of atoms, of molecules, and of structures. 12. Axiom of permeability The expression of interchange across and between infinite and finite reality varies dependent on the boundary permeability. Some factors hypothetically may assist this permeability such as dreams, meditation, hallucinogenics, temporal lobe anomalous functioning, psychosis, alleged mediumship. 13. Axiom of protection The boundary impermeability allows protection from overwhelming incoming metaconscious input 14. Axiom of Communication Ease It is easier communicating information chunks from the infinite to the packets or qualits of the finite than via the reverse. But this relates to the broader picture (metaphor: The light of the sun covers a broader area); similarly, the infinite or transfinite or higher dimensions emanate lower dimensions more easily than going upwards but it would be a more general rather than specific emanation (the continuous to many components of the discrete). On the other hand, paradoxically, the 3S-1t or lower dimensional finite domains are
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already discrete. That might be easier initiating such communication via the finite discrete to a specific potential component of the infinite because it would imply a specific discrete track allowing a focus to shoot for as the endpoint of specific communication to an individual or individual unit would be received in discrete qualits (reflecting, we propose, mainly the subgroup of chronits). Could it be that this is a mechanism for psi communication? The specific person or object is provided a specific link via passage from the discrete to the continuous, reflecting the finite-infinite pathway: This then allows definition of the reverse bidirectional track from a specific continuous communication to the discrete. 15. Axiom of Communication Complexity Communication between the finite and infinite is complicated by the need to convert to specific 3S-1t-nC in finite reality from N-S, N-T, N-C infinite reality. Therefore, theoretically, any communication at the post-mortem survival level would be complex requiring conversion of information transfer across S, T and C dimensional substrates. 16. Axiom of Top-down Communication It is easier transmitting information from the top-down than the bottom-up. These are theoretical concepts. The infinite and the higher finite dimensions, metaphorically, include the top-down influences on low dimensional finite elements. The lower the dimensional element, the broader the influence on a range of many different units. However, on any specific qualit, or individual, the overall impact would be weaker. The metaphorical parallel, here, would be the different energy forces: Gravitation impacts broadly; but it is far less potent than the very tiny range of the Strong Forces, which impact only initially subatomically. However, with the infinite there is a holism so that these weak individual impacts may, nevertheless, be translated into meaningful patterns once one reaches finite dimensionality. Infinite 17. Axiom of metaconsciousness qualities: The metaconscious manifests with more than neutral information knowledge. It also incorporates as part of the information meaning innumerable positive and negative values. The positive values kabbalistically include examples not only the cognitive wisdom, understanding and knowing, but also emotional ones such a might or courage and loving-kindness (or separately love and kindness) and volitionally as splendor or acknowledgment or glory, victory or eternity, and foundation or drive all expressed as a culminating holistic quality or kingship. These various qualities are abstractions and can be innumerable. Finite
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Clarification of axioms of relevance but not essential for this model. 18. Axiom of Individual-units Metaconsciousness may manifest at any dimensional level existence, and there are no physical life limitations beyond 3S-1t. Individual-units express themselves subjectively as mental life implying varied levels of individuality or group existence. Because of this, the phrase Axiom of Individual-units is used to refer to the domains of metaconscious existence, which may occur individually or at the various collective levels or subcomponents (such as biological, psychological, familial, group, social, cultural, collective spiritual or mystical). 19. Axiom of Metaconscious State and Trait Metaconscious subjective experience may manifest differently at different moments even in individual-units. This is State manifestation. A trait manifestation refers to the maintained condition over a period producing greater stability than states. Because state refers to a condition at that moment, it is very different from trait which refers to a maintained persistent structure over finite time in 3S-1T: They are conceptually very different (compare the parallel of current mental status with personality structure). However, using another comparison, "states" could be conceived as subsets of 'traits" (implicated orders of C substrate integration components linked in 1T). The stability of traits vs. states would their higher implication level in the individual C-Substrate set, thus "states" would be more 1T sensitive than "traits". 20. Axiom of Physical Reduction Valves Our senses are constructed to narrow down our focus to the parts of finite reality we deal with (e.g., a small visual and auditory spectrum). In physiology, the nervous system acts as an information and biochemical-electrical filter, maintaining a homogeneity and preventing an overwhelming flood of data. But this also limits metaconscious wisdom, understanding and knowledge. It reflects a developmental level of consciousness. Scientific limitations (e.g., instruments) often begin from this limitation level, but still reflect limited information at the physical standard 3S-1t level. There are more domains of information and ordropic manifestations than can be measured in our conventional 3S-1t. 21. Axiom of abstracted C-substrate dimensionality In addition to those finite dimensions that can be interpreted within the nervous system relating to cognition, affect and volition, higher level qualities may reflect different theoretical dimensions of the C-substrate and are measurable ordinally (e.g., great compassion vs. no compassion vs. even a negation of compassion). This implies the
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possibility of negative C-substrate dimensions, and its fluctuations across dimensions with different states and individual-units. We have indicated an ordinal spectrum of qualities and this may be more dependent on where we define relative zero (a temperature parallel would be absolute zero in Kelvin and yet -273 degrees in Celsius). However, there are also qualitative aspects: Just as darkness may be conceptualized as absence of light, or cold as absence of heat, is evil, for example, just absence of good? We propose that such C-substrate dimensions might be complex and even what appears a unidimensional variable may be linguistically regarded as such, but actually, using other language communication, may be multidimensional. Therefore, possibly love is not just an opposite of hate, but each has its own multidimensional spectrum. Several other mathematical -physics speculative axioms exist: 22. Axiom of Three Dimensional Manifestation Any subdomain of the universe requires three dimensions for an existential reality to exist as content within a domain. This is a dimensionometric axiom. Therefore, space is assessed in three dimensions; if there are more than three dimensions, the first three are fundamental and increase as units of three. Time is at least three dimensional, and so is C-substrate. If there are more dimensions than 3S or 3T or 3C, they manifest in threes in the finite subreality. 23. Axiom of Forces and Dimensional Increase Forces allow for the manifestation of further dimensions. In S and T these forces are energetic, in C-substrate these forces are non-energetic. 24. Axiom of Holistic Continuity, Corollary to the of Origin Einsteins relativity taught us that matter and energy are simply different aspects of the same composite essence. Similarly, the pervasiveness of consciousness throughout all space and time leads to the conclusion that space, time and consciousness are all aspects of the same composite essence. Reality consists of three domains of extent: the STC-substrate, measurable with variables of extent, three aspects of substance: matter, energy and individualized consciousness, measurable with variables of content, and three aspects of Primary Consciousness: dimensionality, substance and mind, measurable with variables of extent, content and intent, respectively. This can be expressed mathematically by the CoD expression: R= f(S, t, m, e, c,) = !([ (m/S) #e/t]#c/St)#= ![ (ST) #C]# Where R= reality, S= 3Dspace, t= time, m= matter, e= energy, c= individualized consciousness and C= Primary Consciousness. Note that R in this expression is a function of seven variables, four of extent and three of content. This expression could be rewritten as a function of at least twelve variables, six of extent, three of content,
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and at least three of intent when we show through dimensional extrapolation and the calculation of the dimensionometric metrics that there are three dimensions of space, three dimensions of time, and three or more dimensions of conscious extent. This is a mathematical expression of the nested nature of the S and T domains within the Csubstrate. On the other hand, possibly a purer equation would not mix extent, intent and content in the first place. This equation, however, is an expression of the integration of all aspects of reality through the over-arching ordropic influence of consciousness, and may indicate that there is a link between extent, content and intent that we have not yet fully understood. 25. Axiom of mathematical dimensional reality The first nine theoretical dimensions of reality reflect potential Euclidean reality: up to S3, T3, C3 because they reflect the mathematics of three tethered inseparable dimensional substrates when described in Euclidean space. This involves perceptual (experienced as discrete finite elements) reality interchanging with the conceptual (imagining, conceiving, continuous) reality. Thereafter, beyond 9D, the perceptual and conceptual are transcended, and this reflects potential non-Euclidean transcendent reality of ordinal variables of extent with transfinite dimensions. Euclidean is a way of looking at things, not a characteristic of reality. 26. Axiom of fundamental three dimensional space There can only be three dimensions of space mathematically. Even what appears to be a fourth dimension can only be represented in three dimensional Euclidean space. 27 Axiom of fundamental multidimensional time There is mathematical (algebraic Quaternion; geometric and logical justification) for multidimensional time, likely three dimensional time.rr 28. Axiom of consciousness Conscious reality is continuous and infinite expressed as metaconsciousness. In the finite realm, it is expressed discretely at finite level as meaning. This meaning combined with the transcendent conscious reality is integrated and limited by the physical nervous systems of sentient beings.
There is mathematical (algebraic Quaternion; geometric and logical justification for multidimensional time, likely threedimensional time. (STC inseparably tethered: As S=3, T=3; Pythagorean or other geometric representations are 3 dimensional; algebraically, quaternions imply three imaginary numbers, ijk. Logically, a time moment = Singularity = 0D; past, present and future reflect linear time =1D; different routings proposed = s waves and distortions = curvature into a second dimension; multiple co-existent individual-units realities = infinite time, but state, finite events limited to 3 as non-Euclidean time produces another dimension possibly consciousness as it cannot be represented by quaternion imaginary numbers. Laws of form: Time comes in as a necessity to continue the development of the laws of form.
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CHAPTER 29: QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT: A BRIEF PERSPECTIVE 281-283 In Einstein's theory of relativity, the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve. Sir Arthur Eddington (Astrophysicist; 1882 - 1944) What Is It? Quantum entanglement refers to a property of the quantum mechanical state of a system. when two or more objects in the system are linked such that the quantum state of any of them cannot be adequately described without full mention of the others, even when the individual objects are spatially separated. Quantum entanglement was the key controversy formulated in the Einstein- Podolsky- Rosen (EPR) paradox 84. They used a thought experiment that demonstrated an apparent inconsistency in the quantum mechanics theory. Because of the relativistic light-speed limitation of information transfer, Einstein felt it was illogical and derided entanglement as "spukhafte Fernwirkung" or "spooky action at a distance". The word entanglement was developed by Erwin Schrdinger, who realized the importance of the concept 187 188. It has become the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of physical thought. It led to Bohrs Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Violating Bells Inequality In 1964, John Bell demonstrated that Bohrs quantum theory was not compatible with one of the key assumptions of deterministic science, the principle of locality 83. He calculated an upper limit, known as Bell's inequality, on the strength of correlations, for any system obeying local realism; he showed that if Bohr was right, the limit would be violated. Bell's theorem has important implications for physics and the philosophy of science, because when the first definitive experiment was performed 87 it indicated that quantum theory must violate either the Principle of locality or of counterfactual definiteness.ss In conjunction with the experiments verifying the quantum mechanical predictions of Bell-type systems, Bell's theorem maintains that certain quantum effects travel faster
Some think that Counterfactual Definiteness may no longer be a valid reference point after Dehmelt's experimental canceling of the Heisenberg Quantum mechanical prohibition. 163; 164 However, Dehmelts experiment involved the movement of electrons from one shell to another in subatomic decay, and is not relevant here.
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than light, and so limits the class of tenable 'hidden variable' theories to the non-local variety. Bell's Theorem is now the collective name for a family of results, all showing the impossibility of a Local Realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics. There are variants of the Theorem with different meanings of Local Realism. Historically, neither John Bell nor Bells theorem proved the existence of quantum entanglement. In fact, Bell 105 believed that Einstein was right. While imagining that I understand the position of Einstein, as regards the EPR correlations, I have very little understanding of the position of his major opponent Bohr. Even after the Aspect experiment 87, he preferred David Bohms idea of implicate and explicate orders 140, retaining Einsteins hidden variables positiontt. I think that conventional formulations of quantum theory (the Copenhagen interpretation), and of quantum field theory in particular, are unprofessionally vague and ambiguous. Professional theoretical physicists ought to be able to do better. Bohm has shown us a way. The Entanglement Paradox Essentially, the term entanglement was used as an explanation of the violation of Bells inequality, but no one knows exactly how entanglement works. There are many postulates for the mechanism of entanglement. Amongst them are Radins implied link with psi 220, and Kleins Subquantum Model which postulates that quantum superposition and quantum decoherence effects run under retrocausation-sensitive informational determinants and are stored and carried at the deepest levels of the subquantum regime supplying the mechanism for quantum entanglement 280. Our (VN, EC) preference at this point is not to try to localize where entanglement occurs, though the subquantum regime could be relevant, but, alternatively, so could field theory. We perceive as more relevant explanations applying extra dimensions, without resorting to a particular locus such as subquantum or morphogenetic fields. The TDVP model is non-restrictive of location or field: It is a metalevel above that, so that demonstrations of the justification of subquantal infinitesimals or some kind of field not only do not refute it, but, instead, support the TDVP model. The TDVP concept recognizes the relevance of STC tethering and the continuous infinite communication and interfacing with finite vortical indivension processes. Entanglement is, however, experimentally testable, and there have been numerous tests, pioneered by Stuart Freedman and John Clauser in 1972 251. However, Alain Aspect's experiment in 1982 in Paris was well-controlled and designed and became the key early study of its kind. This was the first experiment using
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polarization analyzers with two exit channels, thus, realizing the theoretical scheme in the third step of the argument for Bell's Theorem in Section 2, was performed in the early 1980s with cascade photons from laser-excited calcium atoms by Aspect, Grangier, and Roger 87. The outcome confirmed the predictions of quantum mechanics over those of local realistic theories more dramatically than any of its predecessors with the experimental result deviating from the upper limit in a Bell's Inequality by 40 SD. A number of physicists went to great lengths to refute it but it became recognized in the scientific community as the first rigorous experiment confirming the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Essentially, it seems that elementary particles (quanta of energy or mass) do not exist as localized objects flying through space but are smeared probabilistically over all space between the source and the receiving point (eye, particle collector or photographic plate) and do not become a local physical reality until theyve impacted on a receptor. The most serious loophole is the detection loophole, which means that particles are not always detected in both wings of the experiment. It is possible to "engineer" quantum correlations (the experimental result) by letting detection be dependent on a combination of local hidden variables and detector setting. This is a reason why the work by Nicolas Brunner and Nicolas Gisin at the University of Geneva is very relevant because it has been even harder to refute the conclusions of the Aspect type experiments. The Geneva Bell test experiments showed that distance did not destroy the "entanglement". Light was sent in fiber optic cables over distances of 11km (1998) and then later 50 kilometers (2007) before it was analyzed. Furthermore, in 1998, Innsbruck researchers led by Anton Zeilinger with Gregor Weihs conducted an ingenious experiment that closed the "locality" loophole, improving on Aspect's of 1982252. The detector was made using a quantum process to ensure that it was random. Their results violated the so-called CHSH inequality by over 30 standard deviations with the coincidence curves agreeing with those predicted by quantum theory. The Gisin group 85 also looked for coincidence probabilities on a three three-dimensional (qutrit) system. They showed the inequality was violated when each observer measures two noncommuting observables. This may be relevant in TDVP where three dimensional measures are used as a unit in dimensionometry. The entanglement paradox has been verified experimentally respectively in tens of experiments. Quantum entanglement defies explanation for physicists who have not looked at consciousness as a consideration. Because the circumstances of such tests always seem to have at least one minor logical loophole, it is still possible to question the validity of the results but it is becoming harder and harder.
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STC Inseparability and Entanglement Relative inseparability Now, if there are direct link-ups with C-substrate, space and time, it could be that these three substrates are only relatively inseparable. They are inseparable from each other only at the certain points of origin (perhaps where the metaphorical string is tied, the knot, the umbilicus) and insertion (in a closed system at the other end). This allows a finite, closed model where in between C, S and T are separated into their own dimensional fabrics. Resolution of the dimensional fluctuation dilemma and the vortical and three D model How does one resolve this? Resolution may well be related to STC being indeed indivisible, but only at a certain point in the dimensional fabric. Being tethered to the metaphorical umbilicus may reflect when there is an ultimate collapse in one singular component. Effectively this is a singularity, a moment in time, space and consciousness where STC is completely inseparable. Yet it could expand markedly and when it does, though it could be tethered at an end, in any position or in multiple positions. Thus, tethering can be represented by other metaphorical components too, such as the ship being moored and the moorage being the source of the tethered part; staples holding down a series of papers; the roots of the STC tree being common but the branches being separate; the balloons being held in hand by strings but potentially interfacing with each other; besides that umbilical linkage of baby to mother. One could use the parallel of the strings that are playing a musical instrument that are vibrating. Indeed, this is one comprehensible metaphor in string theory where the knot would be at the umbilicus. However, the vibration is not a two dimensional planar vibration, or linear just in one direction, it has to always be three-directional. This supports the model of the vortex and the necessity of triadic representations of dimensions beyond 1 or 2. This ultimate maximum expansion point in this three dimensional vibration is expansion to a sphere: That expansion to a sphere would, in a way, reflect the center of the vortex but not necessarily because of the necessary asymmetries (as in FLT). The string theory paradigm is apposite but a three-D paradigm, not a simple 2-D vibrating string, but 3-D vortex. Of course, in both TDVP and string theories, one does not stop at 3-D but the descriptive model in TDVP is triadic in 3-dimensional jumps at metadimensionality. (Note too that the metaphorical strings used here may be a similar metaphor to String theory, but we are using a different vibrating string metaphor not one that relates to a miniscule tiny string as in string theory).
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Differing Metadimensionality: Hyperspace and strings versus TDVP All of metadimensionality, we contend, is not explained by string theory, folding or other strings. Hyperspace effectively refers to a finite number of dimensions beyond 3S-1t and usually implies multiple dimensions of space, but usually one dimension of time without consciousness (although Sirag 284 has recognized this need). This is very different from TDVP, which involves the finite and the infinite, but it also involves the need for multidimensional time and only 3 dimensions of finite space, and transfinite C-substrate. So, on the one hand we have STC tethering with the inseparable source at its end, a singularity at an umbilicus, and at another point we have a sphere, which may or may not be symmetrical and represents part of this vortical metaphorical vibration. Further, if we have these spheres and the vortical vibration is occurring, we could theoretically, also apply this to the C-substrate at that mystical or spiritual level and argue therefore, that survival after bodily death, or higher level of attainments in C-substrate or meditative or dream state, all could be reflecting different variables of extent at the Csubstrate level, all vibrating, yet tethered at zero points. This implies that at different dimensions or in different domains as collections of dimensions, reality is experienced differently. Therefore, it means that in one individual, there may be multiple dimensions or domains perceived or conceptualized and even for that individual-unit actualized because that is their realityrelative actualization. Moreover, circumstances might vary for an individual so that the dimensional numbers or domains may vary with circumstances or 3S-1t events. Without implying that such states exist scientifically, we utilize a spiritual or mystical metaphor, just as we did comparison of the umbilicus and the vibrations and the strings: An individual attaining the very high so-called spiritual levels (e.g., variably described philosophically or mystically as Samadhi or Chaya) may be fluctuating into states of consciousness that are not usually attainable equivalent to profoundly high dimensionality but always at that finite level with the potential to go higher from N to N+1 dimensions. It may be that the ultimate mystical or spiritual level is that state achieved even at the Primary Receptor, infinite level, which kabbalistically reflects a spiritual unification beyond yechida 285. Each of these are ordinal metrics of extent and therefore, dimensional.

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CHAPTER 30: INDIVENSION: A NECESSARY NEW CONCEPT286 Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. Max Planck. Counting Dimensions How many dimensions are appropriate using the TDVP model? Our standard current scientific model begins with 3S-1t. Based on C-substrate, our TDVP model requires at minimum, initially, at least 3S-1t-1C to include the Csubstrate. Our model further motivates that there could be 3 dimensions of time: This makes 3S-3t-1C.uu Then by using complex numbers for C-substrate, we could argue that it is 3S-3T-3C (using the same linked three dimensional model for each substrate) or even N-C applying N-Dimensions in the C-substrate level of meaningful consciousness. That implies 3S-3T-NC. There might potentially be more than 3D space, or 3D time, applying the speculative principles of three-dimensional incremental increases. This allows for 3S and 3T not necessarily being final for S and T. Such a postulate would not easily allow for e.g. an 11D reality, and TDVP, unlike String Theory does not require more than three dimensions of space. Yet, it could also even be argued that there is only one dimension, the CST dimension, but this would conform to our definition of a unified domain. This would be semantic and our definition of dimension is different from the Unified Monism idea of one unified reality: Reality encompasses dimensions, but exists fully at a metalevel beyond that which is perceived by finite conscious beings. But what do we regard as a dimension in the C-substrate? There are added dimensional considerations. The C-substrate involves meaningful apprehension and possibly meaningful perturbation of objects or events (even at the subatomic level), and a more easily qualitatively defined consciousness implying consciousness or awareness of events or objects and responses of influence or manipulation. Consciousness might imply not a single but numerous different but linked variables of extent. Broadly, consciousness could be linked up not only with CEV (cognition,
The 3t in this instance could be small case, because the individual may not realize he is experiencing a 3t equivalent in that moment of time. So his experiential reality would be 3S-3t-1C not yet 3T.
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emotion, volition) referring to consciousness at a mental level, but possibly other aspects are relevant from a mystical or spiritual or developmental point of view including modifications of Sefirot concepts such as knowledge, understanding, wisdom, kindness and loving-kindness, bravery, beauty and purity of character, pursuit of actualization, actualization, appropriate justice and honesty, transcendence of self, building blocks and planning, as well as love, intimacy, and qualities of improvement of the spiritual aspects of physicality, plus further C-substrate dimensions relating to these cognitive volitional equivalents. C-substrate might also impact time and space, with time-space modifications of what in the 3S-1t domain we refer to as cause and effect. These different levels of Csubstrate would be required to be ordinal variables of extent: Qualities such as love or transcendence or valor are not absolutes, but relative and have gradual ordinal measurable components. On the other hand, information is content alone, and therefore, not a variable of extent. Information cannot be a dimension, just as mass cannot be. Our definition of further dimensions requires these variables of extent as building blocks and there may be an indefinite and very large number of such variables. These are not stable in number but will vary by the individual and for any specific circumstance. Therefore, there may be a varying number of dimensions experienced by an individual or individual-unit: in different states (specific moments) or between individual-units, given that they have different traits. Indivensional communications would also vary with these state-trait differences leading to the concept of fluctuating dimensions. There may be an indefinite or very large number of such variables, and these may not be measurable for everyone, or for any specific circumstance. This means that there may be a varying number of dimensions participating in the definition of any specific indivensional window. Additionally, the fluctuations may be the extent values pertaining to each of the major dimensions or their implicated subdimensional levels. We may not be able to stipulate exactly how many dimensions everyone has, or for that matter, how many every subatomic particle has. However, it could be argued that the particle variation involving indivension should not fluctuate very much as the qualities above may reflect essential experiential characteristics only of living organisms with consciousness. This is in contrast with particles, packets, qualits or quanta which may have inseparable STC tethering, but should exhibit no or very limited special qualities that would be associated with significant variance in their less tethered components. This is because fluctuations appear mainly dependent on the
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varying experiences of the Individual-units (e.g., individuals, families, societies, cultures, organs, bodily systems, scientific orientations) and the individual specific circumstance (e.g., meditation in humans, possibly nuclear fission subatomically). These fluctuations, in their turn, are dependent on vortical indivension communications. Because of such indivension potentials, the dimensions and, more specifically, the C-substrate dimensions could and would fluctuate experientially depending on state and trait and subatomic particles may not exhibit such variance of state and trait (though the Quantum Consciousness model could imply that they vary as much being the units for higher sentient beings). But the fluctuations would be relative and not absolute, giving a new appreciation of the relative aspects of perception, conception or actualization of realities and the broader role of the calculus of distinctions, and these are dependent on the ability of the sentient being to experience such phenomena in metaconsciousness. There are not a static number of dimensions There appears to be a serious problem in regarding dimensions as static. This is illustrated by problematic situations: A simple, everyday, universal human experience example is dreams. Are the dimensions of dreams the same in a specific individual as during waking reality? An individual is in an altered state of consciousness: That person perceives a different reality in meditative states, and likely under the influence of hallucinogenics, or while in coma. What about alleged survival after bodily death? The problem is simply that if there is survival after bodily death, it must still fit our TOE model. Yet under those circumstances, what happens to space and time? It could be argued that space and time at the relative conventional experiential physical 3S-1t perceptual substrate would be translated into a post-mortem 0S-0T in that standard model domain, but at a higher dimensional level there could be linkups with space and time, perhaps introducing concepts such as vibrations, strings, superstrings, branes or other metadimensional or hyperspace representations. This 3S-1t post-mortem perception would reflect relative nonlocality, as it would appear timeless and spaceless. The scoffer would simply ignore the data: No dreams are relevant to physical science, only to psychology and anything that happens involves just different mechanistic physiological processes as waking reality. We do not need to introduce a new variable of extent with a different kind of consciousness. Furthermore,
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And who is concerned about hallucinogenics? This is purely an expression of aberrant brain function producing psychopathology. And would any serious scientist entertain the ridiculous idea of alleged survival after bodily death? This one is more difficult, however, because a century of psychical research has produced what many who have studied the area intensely, with training, and objectively, regard as extremely cogent data supporting the hypothesis of survival. We can point (like in other consciousness research areas) statistically to six sigma data against chance 159. But the issue at hand here, is even if one totally rejected this, we would still be faced with an imaginary theoretical idea: The individual looking in from another higher Csubstrate dimensionwould he experience an absence of S and T (in other words zero dimensions) in at least one of the higher C-dimensions?). We are still dealing with variables of extent and perceptual realities being interpreted conceptually however, one looks at it, and a TOE must answer the bell to this dilemma. Entanglement and TDVP So can TDVP explain entanglement more clearly? We believe it can. Entanglement appears a puzzle, but is a puzzle if one looks at 3 dimensions of space and 1 point in time. It makes no sense because it appears non-local: it is relatively spaceless and timeless because it cannot be expressed in our conventional 3S-1t dimensions of space and time. The solution may be to invoke higher dimensionality. By doing so, what appears incomplete can be extrapolated by dimensional extrapolation at a higher level. Suddenly, the points that are spread in what may appear a random or indeterminate manner become less random and more determinant not in 1 more dimension, but across dimensions. This requires a model to intrude across fluctuating dimensions in terms of individuals, individual-units, and even subatomic structure: Indivension is the process, and vortical fluctuation across dimensions is the content. Fields have been posited by others, but the fields are generally within one dimension or one world framework. The fields imply inherent structure. Here one is not dealing with an inherent structure, because each and everyone of these STC tethered components, be they time, space or consciousness, or be they expressed as mass, massless, energy, or energyless in the ST domain, have components pertaining to meaningful information in the C domain. These links are linked through the content of vortices across fluctuating dimensions.
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Vortices and Spin, Indivension and Tethering Spin Examining the standard model of subatomic physics, every one of the subatomic particles, exhibit certain properties: far more than mass (including 0), but also charge implying energy and possibly dimensions, and also spin. Spin, we propose, is the direct quantal (or possibly subquantal) link of the model of vortical movement expression. That spin can also possibly be applied to dimensional rotations. Spin and movement therefore, reflect different dimensions, whether by warping rotation or some three dimensional string 287or other hyperspace mechanism. The essence of this is the spin, and we can translate spin back to subatomic particles.vv However, it is noted that the physicists concepts of spin is rather esoteric: it is not really spin, just a name related to how all the types of subatomic particles are made up of quarks that have to have fractional spin and so forth. If there is an analogy it may be only vague or unclear one correlates the mathematics involved. Vortical implies we now have our spin because we have curved movement. This is now translated from what is perceived or conceptualized as relative objectivity or relative subjectivitythe common descriptive experience versus the personal one. Indivension and vortices Indivensionindividual or individual unit dimensionshas different dimensions and fluctuates: Tethering at that macro-level effectively utilizes different vortices. These are based on the rotational movementthe spin. This model links up the quantum model the relative objectivity model with a relative subjectivity model at a broader level. Charge, dimensions and forces The other component is charge reflecting energetic forces. If there are both negative and positive dimensions or fractional dimensions, spin could be translated into vortical rotation, and charge including 1/3 or 1/2 charge might be ultimately applied in terms of dimensionality or energy. We could possibly translate force quantal-wise in terms of charge.

The complex mathematical theorem, Noether's first theorem, time translation symmetry gives conservation of energy; space translation symmetry gives conservation of momentum; rotation symmetry gives conservation of angular momentum, and so on. It is based on 3S-1t and should not apply in the metadimensional configurations (vortical indivension windows exhibit multiple vectors of freedom). This theorem only applies to certain classes of theories and in its original version it applies to theories described by a Lagrangian, and the Euler-Lagrange equation would require rewriting to accurately represent metadimensional spin. 288

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Energies and forces There is one more aspect to this, and that is the idea of energies. We have seen how there is a warping of space-time in relation to gravitation. Gravitation is one form of energy. In electromagnetism, electricity and magnetism could under certain circumstances, be orthogonal (for example, in the propagation of light) but may not necessarily be so; this might imply that there could be potentially a warping at two different directional levels implying two different dimensions.ww There is no reason for orthogonality in warping and indeed if metadimensionality is non-Euclidean, orthogonality may be impossible. Warping of dimensions We have postulated these different forces relate to warping, and each force implies a new dimension. If we have C-substrate warping, then dimensional variables of extent such as love can warp realities: It could possibly influence other variables of extent and hence other dimensions, either from the C-substrate, or even (like all C-substrate dimensions), the S and T dimensions. But at this point, the warping of dimensions bringing about dimensional extrapolation to further dimensions is speculative though intriguing enough to warrant a chapter in our companion second book, Space Time and Consciousness10.

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CHAPTER 31: INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY: A UNIFICATION OF DIFFERENT CONSCIOUSNESS MECHANISMS 289; 290 Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any how. Viktor Frankl (1905-1997, Psychiatrist) 291 States of Consciousness and Dimensionality Altered states of consciousness and higher dimensions of consciousness Individuals living in our 3S-1t reality can experience altered states of consciousness (ASCs), sometimes induced (e.g., by meditation). These last a specific finite moment, several hours or longer. He/she might then be able to experience some of the transfinite or metadimensional higher consciousness attributes, and by so doing, transiently perceive or conceive of higher dimensionalities within his/her domain of current experience. The individuals experience of an ASC or of multiple altered states of awareness might therefore allow for these temporary shifts to and across higher levels of dimensionality. This, in turn, could also potentially create several kinds of more optimized circumstances to attain information or influence reality, or effectively, to elevate oneself mystically or spiritually. These elevations to different awareness levels might be very uncommon, limited in expression, unstable, or incomplete, and may reflect varying information depending on the extent of intrusion or experience of the different consciousness dimensional levels. A mechanism for acquisition of psi Reaching across dimensions might explain how information becomes more conducive to psi acquisition or expression. Hypothetically, if this could be performed at will, it should make such events less rare. The information would be available through the interfaces of multiple dimensions: An atmosphere for psi would be created when the interface of vortices, vectors, scalars or tensors would allow a new availability of such meaningful information (consciousness). Two levels of mechanisms of afferent acquisition or efferent expression may occur, resulting in ostensibly different kinds of psi phenomena: The individual (or individual-unit) apprehends or perturbs data or events, and so non-specifically impacts reality through the nervous system, but not consciously neurologically (e.g. via a bodily awareness, like a gut feeling, or autonomically). Alternatively, the individual (or individual-unit) either appreciates that data or events, or influences them or both, and in this way, more specifically impacts
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reality at a neurologically conscious level of knowledge or higher level of meaning. Revisiting Tethering: Closed or open? Finite or infinite? Why tethering may be important in metadimensional consciousness Lets examine a different but very related aspect in the appreciation of dimensions, namely the role of tethering. We emphasize tethering here, because it is a major concept expressing how consciousness is linked to our finite space and time realities. It, therefore, is a key to appreciating how the apparently separate but actually tethered components link back to their STC source, and how feedback by vortical indivension loops, windows or interfaces for any specific individual experiential reality may allow greater information transfer. This is so because, effectively, there is a direct link with the inseparable STC origin of reality, even when consciousness is manifesting at a specific dimensional level. Different amounts of tethering There is no definite requirement for the inseparable links of STC to be only tethered (like an umbilicus) at one end. It could be tied together at both ends like the knots of a string. This model reflects again, a potential sphere or arc, but in a metaphorical hammock, effectively, creating a closed circuit. Alternatively, the link could be anywhere or multiple, not necessarily at the ends. These closed components could imply finite subreality because they have ends, as opposed to the infinite subreality, which by definition is without end. Different dimensions of tethering The tethering may or may not be appreciated purely within 3S-1t-NC. It could also conceivably involve tethering at other dimensional levels. Would linear time precognition involve linkages to current STC via 3S-1T-NC tethering? Or could freewill hypothetically with 3S-2T-NC or even 3S-3T-NC also impact through tethered communication? (The 2T versus 3T differentiation could be because the second time dimension may be reflecting multiple individual-units but not necessarily the volumetric guiding of free-will.) Relative tethering The apparent open circuit tethering, with either one linkage or zero STC linkages specifically in 3S-1t conventional reality domains, may therefore reflect tethering at other different dimensional levels: Relative tethering. This open component might also imply infinite realities or meaningfulness in each individual or individual unit of consciousness with further tethering either being transfinite or not occurring at all in the finite reality. At the finite level, it could be reflecting tethered elements and
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potential vortices at different social, familial or cultural levels, for example. We have dynamic bidirectional (and possibly multidimensional) shifts from the finite to the infinite, from the closed and open, and these would all be relative to the experient. The finite is not always closed; the infinite is not always open. Technically, there might be no reason why the finite could not sometimes also be open with a linkage only at one end (at that metaphoric umbilicus). Conversely, the infinite could have an infinite extent, but within that infinity there could be every variety of linkage, including closed linkages with multiple STC inseparable links (could the metaphor of waves in an ocean apply here?). This closed and open status is logically so in both the finite and the infinite, because they are all relative to the individual-unit. Therefore, closed and open, and finite and infinite do not directly correspond one-onone to each other, but the relationships conceptually are likely to be highly correlated. The implication of such linkages might be even more important for the tethered areas. This is so as these tethered areas would still exhibit great links to their sources, and this would allow a mechanism to transfer information and particularly meaningful information (consciousness) to individuals and individual-units at the 3S-1t domain, and also to emphasize further the extreme potential for variability in such transfers of key data. Individual-units and systems theory A consideration here is: Who is experiencing all this? This introduces another facet of relative to what or whom? In the social sciences, we realize the relevance of Systems Theory. There is a linkage, too, across every level of individual-unit so that relative also contains many levels. This is why we apply compound words here, and elsewhere. Compound words more easily allow comprehension of and, indeed, realistically reflect the unitary nature of Systems Theory. The psychological interfaces with the sociological and with families, and with the ethics and the spiritual, for example, can more easily be seen to all play a role in the complex interactions of individual-units. To emphasize this point, we deliberately, first, combine all these corresponding individual units into a simple compound term, the ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural approach. Perception as Individual-units: The Role of the Social Sciences The individual and the individual-unit Moreover, each individuals reality may interact and interface with other realities of individuals or individual-units. The individual-unit can now be understood to reflect a specific component of the broader Social Science system and therefore each individual
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necessarily is linked with many individual-units. Application in extended social science systems theory We could, therefore, apply an extended social science systems theory to each and every combination of ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural reality136. Each of these constitutes individual systems units, so referring to the individual consciousness may indeed be individual systems at the social or cultural levels, for example. The use of experient here implies that these different systems are not necessarily an individual. We have used the term individual-unit for this. Psychofamiliosociocultural model: idiosyncratic percepts or concepts Let us add one more additional key component: The individual-units (experients) are experiencing an intensely idiosyncratic reality. This is their perception of reality, and sometimes their perceptions and interpretations of that concept, and it may not relate to the actuality of what is happening objectively in the common reality that combines (say) 99.99% of experiences arising from these mechanisms and is regarded as objectified. The reality may reflect a multiplicity of events that are happening relative to that experient, but may have mainly common elements with others (society or culture) or the rare very idiosyncratic perceptual or conceptual realities. During our sentient physical existence, it appears very difficult to conceive of a common reality at the metadimensional level, far beyond 3S-1t. This is because we only experience 3S1t and we do not have the antennae/sense data to go beyond what 3S-1t is experiencing. We are in the Platonic cave with shadows. The multifaceted multiple systems approach to metadimensionality Whereas it is easy to regard the biophysiopsychofamiliosocioethicosprituomysticocultural levels as each individualunits (biological, physiological, psychological, familial, social, ethical, spiritual, mystical, cultural), given that C-substrate also begins at the quantum level, we could also regard individual-units across the various levels of the physical sciences, namely, quantomacroastronomophysicochemicoelectrical describing the various levels of comparative size, namely, quantal, macroreality and astronomical, within the fabric of the physical, chemical and electrical ostensibly inanimate aspects to reality. These inanimate physical science descriptions are linked with the various animate systems. Therefore, one could talk about quantomacroastronomophysicochemicoelectricalbiopsychofamiliosocioethicosprituom ysticocultural individual-units. Each system description could be used individually or in any combinations in vortical indivension. Of course, the various qualities of consciousness such as honesty, bravery, determination, wisdom can also fit well and
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this is why the full term would add consciousness in the form of conscio, namely: conscioquantomacroastronomophysicochemicoelectricalbiophysiopsychofamiliosocioe thicosprituomysticocultural. Superficially, this may appear to be a meaningless compound word. But it is anything but a meaningless compound word: It is truly unified and meaningful: It reflects the unification of sociocultural systems theory. The common multifaceted systems approach to individual units The emphasis with such multifaceted terms is, indeed, on meaning itself, and the ways in which every one of these levels of various systems impact consciousness and reality. These compound and complex words allow an appreciation of the unitary aspect of reality from the smallest to the largest of all phenomena. Moreover, they allow us to integrate the inanimate with the animate finite systems. The common thread is the application, presence and sometimes involvement of vortical indivension and individual-units in our finite reality. Indivension, Vortices, and Systems Theory Indivension revisited in an individual unit systems context It seems that there had to be a way to describe how individual-units interact across dimensions. This required a new word to describe the fluctuating dimensions and domains in the individual-unit or a combination of individual-units experiencing a common reality. This word allowed for transitory or fluctuating experiential realities and relates to individual-unit, dimensional distinctions and domains. This is why the compounding of the two key concepts here, individual and dimension, make up the word indivension. Vortical metadimensional realities The experiential realities in metadimensions (discussed during this book) are necessarily in non-Euclidian space. This is so because realities are not orthogonal or parallel. Vortices are the usually tethered content that may interface: They move in every kind of direction and are not equal in size, shape or dimensionalities. We postulate they can go up, down, across, inside or outside the STC substrates. This movement across, between and within dimensions and the crossing of these different vortical windows, allows for the process of indivension. The metalevel of individual-unit vortical indivension Every social and physical system above is critically important for the individual, or more correctly, for that level of individual-unit finite reality being experienced in a specific domain (like 3S-1t or 3S-1t-NC). Moreover, every system involves vortical indivension at a higher metalevel than others have individually hypothesized: For example, two relevant models as Theories of Everything involve the communicating
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field theories (e.g. Sheldrakes morphogenetic fields and formative causation 27) and subquantal infinitesimals (e.g. the model of Klein and Boyd 71). These may be useful explanations but at a lower theoretical level. These authors have demonstrated that data has accumulated supporting both these kinds of models. Top-down versus bottoms-up revisited But because the (amorphous?) process of indivension with the content of vortices can be incorporated into these lower conceptual models, Vortical Indivension would, also, be automatically empirically supported when these field or subquantal, or for that matter any other structural model, is empirically supported. The demonstrable merging and meeting of these models with science, therefore automatically incorporates TDVP and vortical indivension. However, the converse does not apply because fields or subquanta cannot be put into metadimensional vortical indivension. Its a case of the top-down models being easier to access the lower level bottoms-up models, than the reverse. Unified systems theory and compound words Our compound word reflects the profound unitary merging and interfacing of numerous relevant systems and theories, and the inseparability of all of these in the context of individual-unit influences. We could add other lengthier compound concepts such as geographicoeconomomilitaropolitical,xx to the fourteen fundamental systems inanimate-animate systems above. However, these, or other specific systems prefixes, do not as directly reflect the interchange of individual-units in vortical indivension. Nevertheless, they could certainly be combined as secondary elements. The message is unification of information, consciousness and interchanges across numerous different individual-units, across, between and within dimensions by a seamless, amorphous process (indivension), using equivalently amorphous curved movements that can intrude anywhere and across dimensions (vortices). Multidimensional, multifaceted common individual-unit reality We could have introduced the term multidimensional here to illustrate the multifaceted elements of the various systems. Indeed, social scientists may use the term multidimensional in Systems Theory, but not in the same context of mathematical dimensionsan important distinction because what social scientists refer to as dimensions, for example of the personality, is very different from our specific mathematical definition. Multidimensional in the social sciences does not
Therefore one could extend this concept even more with four or more extra systems, and appropriate adverbs (-ly) and nouns (-ness) but it is not necessary: 107 or with these, 109 or 111 letters is sufficient. The 144 letter compound word Conscioquantomacroastronomophysicochemicoelectricalgeographicoeconomomilitaropoliticobiophysiopsychofamiliosoc ioethicosprituomysticoculturalness is unnecessarily descriptive
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involve multiple different dimensions in the context of our definition of dimensions as variables of extent. Therefore, we apply a far better social science term, namely multifaceted reflecting the different facets and interchanges that occur across different systems of reality. States and traits and the individual-unit At the simplest level, the same individual at different times may exhibit different states of consciousness with different qualities, for example, during meditation, dreams, waking, and dissociation. This will be combined with his/her biological, family, social, cultural, ethnic, religious, mystical and spiritual appreciations of his/her finite living reality, and put in the context of his/her physical inanimate quantal, macroscopic and astronomical reality, across the physical, chemical, and electrical levelsthe broader, more consistent traits. This is why for each individual, there are potentially zillions of individual-units all interfacing and allowing for the most part a common reality, which is experienced as objectified. Calculus of distinctions applied The important component here is that there may be perceptual, conceptual, and experiential calculus of distinctions components in relation to realities, and these distinctions might fluctuate, particularly at the level of the C-substrate, but also in terms of any kind of dimensionality, domain, world or reality experience. Materialism or Metadimensionality? Two models The key importance of tethering for dimensions, C-substrate, and survival: 1. Materialism: If STC (Space-Time-Consciousness) were inseparably linked at all times, without any kind of separate tethering of components, then because all of STC could exist physically together, a very tight, indivisible and inseparable central core with nothing else could reflect the local unified structure of all of physical materialism including STC: Then, Consciousness could simply be an epiphenomenon of spacetime, without independent existence. The materialist (3S-1t with no C) could then adequately explain events: Physical death would be a final, logical extinction and all mental or mystical processes (including consciousness): It could simply be explained as a product of the brain and the body. 2. Metadimensionality: If distant spinning vortical consciousness movements impacted that central core from above (top-down) or outside (e.g., by rotation) that could reflect: extra dimensions of C (3S-1T-nC or 3S-nT-nC), and therefore metadimensionality; independent consciousness, separate from space and time; separate S, T and C tethered channels entangled to that core at a distance;
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 communications between and across dimensions (e.g., C with S and T) (indivension); and the potential for extended survival of consciousness after bodily death. This latter metadimensionality model portrays TDVP: it is more than 4D (>3S1t) as C exists, necessitates tethering entanglement (? same), C-substrate communicates with space and time via individual-unit consciousness, and it potentially survives physical death: Applying LFAF, the survival hypothesis (and there is supporting data for this.12; 101; 123; 159 234) strongly supports TDVP because it demonstrates the independence of C-substrate from S- and T-substrates, and any (infinite) communications exemplify tethering. These relationships involving metadimensionality, indivension and vortices in individuals or individual-units are complex: Communications of information and meaning (across and between numerous connecting dimensions) involve subjective distinctions of self, consciousness and reality. In Space, Time and Conscousness10, we will explore these relationships more extensively in our discussions of dimensionometry and the calculus of distinctions. But briefly, dimensions are primarily conceptual: at any moment, there could be as many dimensions as we could conceive of. Each dimension could be perceived metrically measurable either intervally or ordinally. These conceptions and perceptions are determined by our experience attained through zillions of individual-unit realities. These relationships could last a moment in linear finite time if the state was very variable, or they could be maintained over some period of time, reflecting a more stable state.

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CHAPTER 32: FLUCTUATING DIMENSIONS 290 No man is an island entire of itself. John Donne, 1572-163, Poet 262 Fluctuations Fluctuations occur in relation to dimensions, generally C-substrate dimensions. Fluctuating wave particles fit well into the idea of indivension. The fluctuation produces combinations of meaningful linkage of information because information is meaningful at that C substrate level, and always linked with S and T. Vortical Indivension In vortical indivension, the content is vortical. The process is indivension allowing fluctuating across, between and within dimensions and interfacing between them. Vortices are at a higher level than fields per se because any field theory can be reduced as one explanatory alternative to vortices. Vortices are empirically derived from nature, and mathematically justified by extension of Fermats Last Theorem, Pythagorean interaction, and extending a modeling of General Relativity with warping beyond four dimensions. The term indivension was needed because an equivalent concept did not exist. Consciousness Transfer Meaningful information can arise via 2 mechanisms: Either the meeting points interface or entanglement occurs via the meaningful information links that existed at the inseparable STC tethering level. These may or may not be the same: Indeed, the tethering may or may not be a mechanism for entanglement. Tethering could therefore, be a functional linkage implying entanglement. Effectively, the vortical indivension meeting points may also reflect a tethering. Meaning and random fluctuations Fluctuation seldom implies a totally random fluctuation phenomenon. We regard dimensional fluctuations as meaningful. They may be something initiated from the bottom-up by the finite animate sentient being or from the infinite either by contiguity across any finite dimension or conceptually from the top-down. State Dimensional fluctuations depend on the state of consciousness. For example, we have obtained inspirations waking up from sleep in the middle of the night with some new ideas about something we were mulling about. This could reflect a link of our metaconscious infinite linking with the finite. This could be easier to obtain in a milieu
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of what could at that moment be a favorable altered stated of consciousness. So, one of the components in terms of fluctuating is obviously, state. The altered state could allow the experience of realities in the finite that otherwise one could not experience, and these could be very meaningful. The number of dimensions could fluctuate because, for example, a state is lost after waking or completing meditation. Accessing the Metaconscious Additionally, conceptually there may be a meeting point of the tentacles moving out from the inseparable STC tethered portion. This would usually be by design, but could be accidental leading to incidental acquisition of (psi) information: Though it seldom has a completely random element, it could be random in terms of the unexpected intersections of consciousness vortices. Much more commonly, we posit, that vortices fluctuate and meaningfully meet at specific points producing meaningful information availability at 3S-1t. So, this is fluctuating and allowing the ability to access the metaconsciousness. Metaconsciousness and Fluctuations Metaconsciousness can be interfaced at every dimensional level. It is conceptually more than meta-information, which does contain meaning, individual-unit knowledge, wisdom or understanding. Information is a bare component that requires processing in the sentient brain to register for neurological consciousness awareness. Consciousness implies not just information coming through because it always has a meaning, and it almost always has an affectan emotionality. It very often has an intention and relates to information or communications that have been primed, thought about, puzzled about or desired. It is not something that is just coming through because it is randomly there. Traits The word fluctuating may be conceptually difficult. Consequently, we apply other terms insteadvaried in traits; shifting in states: Sometimes, the word varied instead of fluctuating works particularly in a more consistent traita trait is a maintained structure of a specific individual-unit implying a consistency of dimensionality. Otherwise, the term shifting allows conceptualization, particularly in these changing, sometimes oscillating states of consciousness. Quality and Quantity Movement across dimensions reflects the different state and trait fluctuations producing different quantities and also qualities of C-substrate dimensions. This is a key point: There are various levels of elevation of the self (individuals humans) or of any kind of individual-unit be it ethnic, cultural, groups, families or
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social that one can achieve. Conversely, there are also levels of denigration. The metaphor is the hell-heaven or good-evil dichotomy but without the heaven or hell of theology. Effectively, there are different ways in which we can access information that becomes meaningfully loaded (metainformation) and even when this is finite, the vortical indivension interfaces with the infinite knowledge. No Man is an Island Entire of Itself Given the infinite element there is no fixed locality and this concept of a barrier is very broad. It is far more than information or meaning. One can apply this at any level of Individual-Unit: individual (any objectinanimate or animatewith any sentient being), group, family, social, cultural, ethnic, theological; or psychological or psychopathological interfaces. And there can be numerous interfaces. Such a barrier/sieve/ filter /strainer/ funnel/ sponge yy may restrict or allow permeability of influence across humans such that every man influences everyone else and the controlling factor is how much to allow. Someone who is sensitive (in any sense) may be overwhelmed by the amount of data coming in and may feel intense likes, dislikes or experience marked influences by another; a psychiatrist may deliberately set up a barrier in relation to such ego-boundaries to prevent being overwhelmed. The terms empathy and sympathy may metaphorically use this kind of mechanism. Such data may be neutral, positive, negative or have mixed components. The separation is part of the individuation that is necessary psychologically and physiologically for adequate living. That information hypothetically could invariably be linked-up with intuitive wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. But it is also linked up with all the different good and bad emotional and volitional components. The Brain and 3S-1t The brain and nervous system also has a more obvious and less controversial function: It is linked in 3S-1t-NC with (organically based) physiological and neurological states and it also integrates psychological dynamics that may distort the information. All of these therefore, include fluctuation, which is generally obtained intentionally though theoretically could occur purely by accident, as in some dreams. Fluctuating non-random information may be rare and variably meaningful.
Interestingly, within a minute of writing this section, VN received the following email content: There are four types among students who sit before the sages: a sponge, a funnel, a strainer and a sieve. (One commentary argues that it is the sieve that is best: It allows the flour dust to pass through yet retains the fine flour. He retains the essence of his studies and the ability to focus on the heart of the matter and to ignore the rest.) 292 We are more pragmatichorses for courses. Meaning involves intentionality and all of these characteristics can be valuable or a hindrance depending on the discrete circumstances.
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CHAPTER 33: THE BRAIN, PHYSIOLOGY AND ITS CONSCIOUSNESS 293; 294 The brain is a computing machine connected with a spirit. Kurt Gdel 145 Brain Interaction The physiology of the brain along with the rest of the nervous system and the general physiology of the body is very precise. It is remarkable, and it allows actions. Every one of those components, be they measured at the atomic, molecular, neurotransmitters, or anatomical areas, are all linked up at any point in 3S-1t with space, time, or consciousness. The living nervous system comprises the major functional components of the vehicle used by consciousness for interaction with the physical universe. The purpose of this interaction is to bring ordered patterns and meaning into a physical universe that would otherwise be chaotic tending rapidly toward maximum entropy. The reason for this interaction is the desire of our physical brain consciousness to perceive, conceive and actualize the reality experience itself. The Bergsonian Filter Henri Bergson295 theorized about a filter of the brain: Individuals filter out irrelevant or overwhelming information from other consciousness or sources. Some call this the Bergsonian filter and it often is understood as a mechanism to filter psi and limit information to appropriately useful input: Breakdown of this filter mechanism would, theoretically, allow potential psi to be received. In this sense, the organs of the individual physical vehicle (usually specifically the central nervous system) act as filters or reduction valves to allow consciousness to focus and experience a limited amount of reality as meaningful phenomena. The body, driven by the variable cognitions, emotions and volitional elements interacts with macro-reality through physical mechanisms. We postulate that the brain, however, is the link to higher dimensions of consciousness: It interacts subconsciously with physical reality on the quantum level and is capable of developing abilities to interact more fully with the hierarchy of physicality and consciousness through the perceptions of additional dimensions. These abilities might be rare, at this point, in the history of our world. Effectively, we see the
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filter as one aspect and prefer selective permeability, where necessary information can be received and the organism has some control over the choice of allowing or filtering data from the outside. Metaphorically, the brain, in this way, would be like computer RAM (random active memory being used at that time). This reflects specific functioning in N-C that is being utilized, as opposed to the broader hard drive that is not really the brain at all, but reflects all of metaconsciousness. Windows Into Metaconsciousness We posit that ours is an adaptive brain: a filter of overwhelming Higher Consciousness impressions and an expansive brain allowing one to intrude into wider Higher Consciousness like the so-called unconscious. Our definition of consciousness has three components and its unified. In this context, the temporal lobe and possibly the frontal lobe are playing the roles of being windows into the mind 169. By allowing these windows, one is not only perceiving the negative of the Bergsonian filter, but the positives coming though, of brain physiology. There has to be a mechanism by which information is integrated appropriately: This means not only excluding the irrelevant (filtering is one component of that) but bringing together the relevant: That integration of information is not only bringing together into a meaningful whole all incoming perceptual information from seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and our sense-data, but also information that is coming through from psi. It is not only perceptual reality but it is also integrating information coming through from the rest of the braineffectively, including as one small component, conceptual reality at a conscious level. This is the function of the temporal lobe of the brain. The Temporal Lobe When the temporal lobe does not function properly, we talk about temporal lobe dysfunction and a variety of different possible temporal lobe systems and non-specific symptoms, and sometimes seizures result. On the other hand, that same temporal lobe is still the integrator, par excellence. Paradoxically, sometimes the ostensible malfunction of the temporal lobe allows greater experiences of other realities in Higher Consciousness through psi. This has been well demonstrated in the work of Palmer and Neppe 296, 128, 189 in so-called temporal lobe epileptics or people with temporal lobe firing. The converse has been demonstrated too127. SP Experients have more temporal lobe symptoms. There is a phenomenological linkup here that is profound and has been well
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demonstrated in the work of Neppe and on subjective paranormal experients, so-called psychics. Neppe has been able to show that the symptoms of temporal lobe dysfunction are different from those of subjective paranormal experiences. Yet, the subjective paranormal experients have more temporal lobe systems and vise versa, and patients with temporal lobe conditions have more subjective paranormal experiences. So, the reciprocal applies, and this is a very strong reciprocal in medicine because this is how medicine does it. A person has malaria, they have the symptoms, and you can diagnose it based on the symptoms of malaria. Then you do a blood test and then can justify the malaria. Alternatively, you can do the blood test and pick up the malaria and later on the person can develop the symptoms. So, there is this two-way directionality in terms of looking at causal links as opposed to just associative links. The same thing applies here in terms of brain. Because the temporal lobe of the brain might be a window into the mind, it neither confirms nor denies the veridicality of that metaconsciousness. We have not used that word mind either, but effectively that word mind is our metaconsciousness. Motor psi expressions or consciousness may not be temporal but frontal lobe because this is more an executive function, it may be frontal lobe135, 297. Unconscious Bodily Metaconsciousness? Depending on the developmental level, humans, and possibly animals, might experience part of the tethering through expressing itself in so-called intuition or bodily experiences and the gut feeling. These may not necessarily be expressed in full awareness in N-consciousness, but psychologically or somatically only. How then does the neurological consciousnesshigher brain functionscomprehend this situation? What role does the rest of the brain have? In this kind of instance specifically, is the brain purely a filter of information coming through from the Higher Consciousness or is it trying to integrate information from many different sources, unsure what is correct, uncertain what is a guess, and insecure as to the certainty of origin? It could be all of these or none depending on the specifics and the exact interpretations. These instances of only a nagging certainty that something is afoot could be reflecting the permeating boundary between self and not self, possibly paralleling the interface between the finite and the infinite, or potentially expressing information that is interpreted as relevant and important, but may be endpoint expressions of what is purely neurochemically or psychodynamically based. This is an excellent example of the interface between neuroscience and psi, and of the
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phenomenological interaction of the psychological with the subjectively paranormal. It illustrates how important it is to study this area. Differentiating the Brain Consciousness or Unconsciousness from Metaconsciousness If information is apprehended from metaconscious sources, that information needs to be registered, processed and integrated into brain function. One likely area as indicated is the great integrator of the higher brain, the temporal lobe, and for output elements, motoric influences may involve the great executive, the frontal lobe. A century of psychology has demonstrated the relevance of psychodynamics, of unconscious egodefenses, of the complexity of the human personality, and of the admixture of consciously and unconsciously motivated human behaviors and ideations. This makes differentiating what may be metaconscious (be it the Jungian collective consciousness, or a repository archive of information, or a limited excessive different reality usually filtered by an otherwise overloaded brain) from central nervous system, particularly brain, information, very difficult, and often impossible. It is easy to assume the reductionistic base of everything arising from the brain, and it is only the contradictions (the tiny, rare events that weve noted that do not make statistical or spontaneous sense) that gives rise to wonder whether the Higher Consciousness is playing a role. But the fact is that those tiny rare events are so overwhelming statistically (and for many spontaneously) that we have to take them into account if we want to practice objective science. And if they are acknowledged, it may often be impossible to differentiate a reality that cannot be authenticated but may exist, from a limited psychological or neurological brain experience 124; 169; 293; 294. Neppe128; 135; 136; 169; 178; 189; 296 has written extensively on this topic and has emphasized perspectives such as taking the whole context of the individual into account, situational information, outside validations, nontoleration of psychotropic medications and taking into account all details in uncovering this profound challenge. Consciousness and Information The TDVP Axiom of Tethered Origin begins at the level of consciousness not at the level of information as even the quantal interpretations of physics implies a certain meaning exists, and these data are supported by the existence of psi and the hypothesis that meaning and numinosity involve psi conducive states. If the tethering were purely space, time and information, we might need to establish a threshold at which that information becomes consciousness. As it happens, this would imply a linearity and realistically the distinctions are different: Consciousness is a
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distinction of extent, and has an ordinal metric, information involves a content and the metrics linked with it are consciousness. Consciousness does not begin at the cutoff point of a certain ordropic state: If this were so, it would require further proposals and justification relating to this. For example, does consciousness or, for that matter, life itself, begin at conception, some time in the first trimester, or at birth. Our fundamental metaparadigm reflects that is was always there, that there is an infinite and a finite reality, and that the level of consciousness began at the very origin of all. Moreover, this is not just information, but meaningful information even at the most subatomic of levels. This is based, too, on the interpretations of physics implying a certain meaning exists, supported by psi. It does not begin at the cutoff point of a certain ordropic state, and this requires further proposals relating to this: The animate versus the inanimate begs the question of the threshold of change, how and why. Both empiricism and logic drive the original Consciousness component. Information remains content, consciousness involves a meaning that is an intent. Pan-consciousness is the process with meaning as opposed to content of paninformationism and these form part of the broader unified monism. There are those such as Stephan Schwartz 298, who separates out an Informational Domain from the Mass-Energy Domain aspect, and Eva Lobach, who conceives of a triad of mass-energy-information.299 While these differentiations appear logical on the surface, they may not quite fit conceptually. This is so as by applying the calculus of distinctions, mass, energy and information are classified as distinctions of content not extent. Their metrics of content are measured the extent of the consciousness distinctions, and space and time are involved with mass-energy. It is difficult or impossible to conceive of energy without space and time, and mass is converted into energy. The more fundamental measures / metrics are the extent of space-time. Similarly, information is a content of relevance, but we apply a measure of extent to it by using meaning, at which stage there is consciousness. Also, the model of consciousness can allow space and time, if necessary, to both equal the metric of relative zero at specific higher dimensionalities. This avoids the paradox of possible absence of space and time, for example, in post-mortem survival. Also, theoretically, too much information without any meaning would imply consciousness as equal to a zero metric. At the lowest levels of inanimate object, e.g., subquantal, this may be close to zero, but the ATO specifically implies consciousness existing at least minimally, even at the Origin Event.
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SECTION G: THE MODELS BEHIND TDVP

CHAPTER 34: CALCULUS OF DISTINCTIONS 195 A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. Georg Cantor The Axioms of Finite-Infinite Interaction Effectively, several common-sense axiomatic assumptions may allow a perspective of transfer between finite and infinite subrealities. The axioms of barrier, penetrability between finite and infinite, the axiom of continuity of the finite and of discreteness of the finite implying quanta are relevant but again these are not key to this TDVP model but convenient explanations that we cannot prove. The conversion of the continuous metainformation source in the infinite to meaning involving infinite wisdom, understanding, and knowledge on the one side, and this conversion to meaning, however, primitive, at the lowest level, at the other finite side, at the quantal level. So, there is interconvertibility with infinite metaconsciousness and finite meaning. It is not separated. The ultimate endpoint that is separated is that filter, but the filter is actually the filter between the infinite and the finite reality, and not necessarily the direct filter from outside into the brain. The two may at times be synonymous. Self Versus Not-self This difference is very important and very relevant because this is the differentiation from the self from the not self in the Calculus of Distinctions. This is implied in terms of infinite versus finite realities. The self here may be any kind of individual unit and therefore this differentiation may be complex, as it is self at one level, and not self at another. There is also the question of separation of the self versus the collective consciousness, post-mortem, because when one conceives of infinite reality, the merging would be that of whole space (all of space; metaspace) and that of whole time (all of time; metatime simultaneously). This theoretically could be interpreted as one real reason for difficulty in communication post-mortem with a living individual, for example. Not only is it the shift of consciousness, but also it is the shift through the vacillating ego boundary component, and the shift in relation to the aspect of being able to communicate from a continuous infinite essence through some kind of defined, discrete, space-timemeaning barrier. The ultimate actualization and expression of reality is at the finite and not the infinite level.
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Table 4 is a speculative portrayal of some key concepts separating variables of content (what it contains; the stuff) from variables of extent (the measurable elements) and related dimensions. TABLE 4: Distinctions and Dimensions Level distinctions Intent Extent Always relative, never Realty Distinctions: Observer absolute perceptual (afferent) / conceptual (interpretive), Experiential (response) C-Substrate patterns Reality dimensional domains 3-D density 9-D density Expanding Warped space-time / action at a distance / Charge / magnetic flux? C-Substrate patterns Conscious drawing of distinctions Space / time Space- Time-Consciousness Meaning (consciousness) (massless/ energyless/ spinless) Dimensionality / fields Dimensional manifestations (vortical movement expression) Rotation Indivension produces combinations of meaningful linkage of information via entanglement and meeting points interfacing. Tethering produces entanglement Reality Distinctions: Observer perceptual (afferent) / conceptual (interpretive), Experiential (response) Exists in relative subjective context Real number/ Imaginary number/ Complex number / Quaternions /

Content Reality: relative objective/ common/ actual/ manifest Complete unit of all differential STC Mass / energy/ Mass / energy (force) / thought/events/memory Information / pattern / ordropy Forces / energy Spin / electromagnetic radiation / gravity /strong and weak forces Fluctuating wave / particles / frequency

Wholeness C-Substrate patterns

Finite/ Infinite particle/ wave Reality: relative objective/ common/ actual/ manifest Does not exist in absolute context Substrate / discrete phenomena / quanta

Indivension Infinity of Infinities

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continuity / infinity Reality realms (was domains) N-Dimensional Reality N)$ Transfinite Consciousness at higher dimensionality

Potential Projection Mathematics Number Fields Geometry Dimensionometry Universal Structure Dynamics Interface with Csubstrate

Animate Non-orthogonal Non-Euclidean Real number/ Imaginary number Complex number to Quaternions/ infinity Non-Euclidean and Euclidean N -Dimensional N -Dimensional Time is multidimensional most likely three dimensional Consciousness parallels time and space but also draws higher ordinal dimensional structure

Complete unit of all differential STC (substrate) Meta-information at higher spin breakthrough vs. neurological patterns and strange attractors Inanimate Orthogonal Euclidean Space/ time / consciousness transfinity Euclidean All content is three dimensional or more Space is necessarily 3 dimensional Events Thoughts, memories, images

Density Distinctions of extent describe and measure space, time and consciousness. Therefore, they can be reflected as different dimensions because extent variables can metrically be measured either intervally or ordinally. Distinctions of content describe and measure mass, energy and information. For example, the distinction of extent reflecting a measure of space is paralleled by the distinctions of content reflected, for example, by mass. Mass-energy or force cannot be dimensions because they are not variables of extent: We use the term, force instead of energy here, so that potentially (and speculatively) we can apply this content to consciousness (C-substrate). This can be translated into space extent only indirectly via an equation: Though mass and energy are measurable metrics, they are distinction of contents because ultimately they are metrically measured through space-time via the ratio of density. Density is a mechanism measure of the amount of mass, energy or information in a given STC
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domain, and is therefore, the mechanism to link distinctions of content to extent. Distinctions of content are related to extent through densitythe amount of mass, energy or information per unit space, time or consciousness. The content is indirectly measured by an equation, e.g., y per unit. The relationship of extent and content is a relevant one. Logically, the best way to conceive of content is via density. Extent can be reflected in dimensions. Content is conceptualized as containing: for example in space, content is essentially mass. But mass is closely related with density (unit per volume gives density and weight) implying a mechanism linking the two (possibly an intent). Energy has components of both space and time in its content. Time contents may reflect events that are more than two dimensional in time zz because of the commonality of experience. Conceptually, this commonality is expressed by the 3-D vortical indivension fabric, which we postulate, would commonly have a component in C-substrate, and when discussing time dimensions, it would conceptually be a 3-T time element, in this instance. Mathematically, we have demonstrated how logical it is to reflect both 3D time and 3D space. This allows for density measurements, necessarily as 3D experiences. Relative density is the relative expression of content in extent. The operational definition is the amount of content per unit of metric extent. Mass is obvious in that regard. Density differentiates the light from the heavy of the same size. The content of energy in 3S-1t in physics is applied by flux density: the amount of energythe amount of forceconveyed through a unit of extent per unit of extent. The flux density, for instance of a magnetic field, is a measure of the strength of the field, a density in a sense neither extent of content, but it really relates content to extent. The analogous unit would be intensity of the conscious quality. The extent of consciousness is ordinal we can measure it as the intensity, but it is more than intensity (see how 260). Intensity is the quantitative extent. But there is a qualitative element. This reflects the different dimensions of consciousness. That quality difference reflects the number of dimensions, and the intensity reflects that ordinal component. As we ascend the ladder in the hierarchy of dimensionality it becomes subtler and
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more complex. It is very simple at the 3S-1t level, but even there not so simple, as still there are analogous terms. Density could be regarded as the boundary variable, the third component in the distinction. Perhaps that relative component is the intent in some components of the calculus of distinctions, for example, theoretically a guiding of reality content implying an intent. Intent would be one of those boundary conditions linking content with extent but does not apply to other boundaries, e.g., density. And if so, would meaning without guidance imply that intent within the substrate? Would the same apply for density? Could ordropy be a mechanism or functional explanation or a distinction of intent? Density is, therefore, not only a spatial concept in terms of extent, but it also has a time concept, and maybe a consciousness concept. We are talking quanta but translated across STC these become qualits reflecting the composite term for qubits of space, chronits of time and conscits of consciousness. Qubits, chronits and conscits may each have their own packets or particle-wave components so still are generic terms. Perceptual reality is quantized into finite discrete wave-particle-packet components of qualits. We therefore, have different elements that are relevant packets or waves at the STC levels. If we kept quanta, we would have to describe this purely at the quantum physical level though quanta certainly may be qubits or sometimes chronits. If there are meaningful quanta in the Copenhagen sense, they are qualits and there may or may not be separate conscits as particle/ waves like psitrons or kinetrons. Distinctions of Intent Content and extent are fundamental distinctions. Distinctions are relevant in consciousness, and besides extent and content, there is the intent, which might be quite different. It may be that intent could be applied as a theological concept for guiding or guided meaning. Intent, as portrayed theologically, could imply infinite guiding, but it could also neurologically derive from the finite, for example, working though physiology and the psychology of volition. Intent would then be perceived as mechanistic and include functionality. Mathematically, depending on conceptualization, it could include mechanisms such as density translating the content of mass into the extent of space per unit, but we think that would confound the concept. Whereas intent can be a mechanism or a functional way to produce content, the converse does not apply. The use of Intent appears to be more controversial and less relevant than content and extent so an alternative term, which is more embracing,
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may be more valuable. But the concept of God is a philosophical explanation. Belief is separate from the scientific method. Calculus of Distinctions and Set Theory The Calculus of Distinctions has a derivation from Spencer Browns Calculus of Form but on the other hand it has some early parallels with Georg Cantors Set Theory 116, a great contributor in similar areas to ours. Set theory examines non-dimensional, nonconsciousness similarities. It did not include imaginary numbers or negatives. COD evaluates differences, including at the metadimensional extradimensional and transfinite levels, and relates to consciousness. The conceptual relationships are extremely important in the context of the Calculus of Distinctionsthere is great relevance to distinguishing percepts, concepts and experiences as well as subjectivity and relative objectivity. COD could, we posit, be further applied by metadimensional diagrammatic representations, and portraying the differentiation and integration potential of the shared, interfacing, and differing components of indivension windows. It would apply, too, to the top-down and bottom-up metadimensional models, by reflecting not only the static diagrams, but also the dynamic representations of multiple representations of vectors, scalars and tensors. These speculations are likely linked closely, too, with the model of dimensional extrapolation. An attempt to portray Space, Time and some kind of Consciousness on the Venn diagram of Set Theory (as attempted by Sirag) 300, produces an incomplete portrayal: Set Theory involves a one on one binary model and is too limiting. It was not applied to multiple dimensions, just representing them in two. The Calculus of Distinctions goes beyond what Set Theory does in that regard. Instead of just applying binary algebras, we utilize another basic element, expressed mathematically as imaginary numbers.

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CHAPTER 35: THEOREMS 17; 192; 193; 245; 301; 302 The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom. Georg Cantor These concepts reflect mathematics and symbolic logic. Besides the data discussed in this book, further justification of these theorems, lemmas, postulates and principles are in our companion book. 10 These theorems, postulates and principles and lemmas are largely independent of each other unless otherwise stated. (Refutation of any of these axioms does not refute any other axiom or theorem unless they are corollaries or lemmas.) The Theorem of (Extra) Dimensional Extrapolation There are invariant dimensionometric features linking S, T and C substrates. These allow extrapolation upward from one dimension to the next. The bending of an NDimensional reality, (e.g., a line or plane) requires the action of a force from outside that reality, implying the very real pre-existence of an (n+1) D reality. Defining the fourth dimension as time conforms with the Principle of Dimensional Extrapolation because linear time exhibits the invariant feature that it contains an infinity of 3D realities. This is, in itself, an internal validation of the consistency of dimensions beyond 3D. Theorem of Lower Dimensional Discontinuity (or Incompleteness) (a converse to dimensional extrapolation). Higher dimensional qualits (world experience) are expressed incompletely in lower dimensions. Most commonly this is expressed as an incomplete jigsaw puzzle in, e.g., 3S-1t, where only feasibility pieces are available. This could also be called a theorem of discontinuity: An N-Dimensional manifold when wrapped onto N-1 reality is reflected as discontinuous in that N-1 reality. As Carlson states: "any one-to-one mapping between spaces of different dimensionality must be discontinuous in that a continuous path in one space maps into a broken path in the other. 303 This is mathematically (dimensionometrically) proven because a continuous curve is projected as broken in a lower dimensions of space. This reduction of dimensions would be the dimensional reduction theorem or it is called the topology theorem. This could also be called the Theorem of N-Dimensional manifold: A manifold when mapped onto N-1 reality is reflected as discontinuous in that N-1 reality: Manifolds continuous in dimensional M has discontinuity in <M dimensions. Dimensions mapped onto n-1 dimensions will be discontinuous. This has been proved as a theorem in topology: Manifolds that are continuous in N dimensions are
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discontinuous in dimensions < N. Consequently, traces of an object in an (n+1) dimensional reality appear in an n-dimensional reality. Together or separate theorem or lemma: Theorem (Principle) of Tridimensional Warping of Reality Warping of reality (time, space and C-substrate) occurs in three dimensional elements once one has attained three dimensions. (It can only be unidimensional if there are static systems or if time is unidimensional: Bend, warp, distort). ! Bending of an n-dimensional reality is the result of two opposing linear forces ! Warping of an n-dimensional reality is the result of two or more sets of non-parallel opposing forces. In this context, even the stretching of a zero-dimensional point into a 2-D line is a subset of warping. ! Distortion of an n-dimensional reality is a general term denoting any bending or warping that results in a non-Euclidean ndimensional reality. ! In this context, even the stretching of a zero-dimensional point into a 2-D line is a subset of warping. The time domain (T) is more dynamic and subtler than the space domain (S), and warping of ST into C-substrate elements produces a domain subtler than the time domain. This implies three D for each of space and time and at least 3D for C-substrate. This applies even to 0, even in one dimension. The Theorem of Parallel N-1 Realities and Further N-D Realities Perceived from the standpoint of N+1 dimensions, there are infinite parallel lines at the N dimensional level and a further N Infinite parallel lines (or, more precisely, configurations) in the N-1 dimension, Because of these parallels, the first infinity at N+1 is larger than the second at N dimensions, ad infinitum, when approaching from N-Dimensions. This can be applied in analysis of signals, electronic engineering, with light propagation, as well as in mathematics. Theologically, it could be seeing only the embroidery in reverse and producing confusion, yet in the full infinite reality, all the embroidery is visible. Principle of Vortices Being the Ubiquitous Universal Shape Given multidimensional systems, motion becomes spiral. Vortices are three dimensional moving shapes consistent with warping due to non-parallel forces and our
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proof of asymmetry using Fermats last theorem. The FLT proof of asymmetry at the quantum and atomic level applies for all n >2 implying prevalent asymmetry in all dimensions beyond 2. 301 The exception of the case when n= 2, explains the flat orbits of planets and moons and the rings of Saturn, etc. The expansion of this equation beyond the FLT limits into An + Bn + Cn= Dn reveals special exceptions for certain specific integer values of A, B and C where symmetry prevails. The directional nature of the forces in additional dimensions manifesting as fields, combined with the natural prevalence of asymmetry creates vortical movement in 3S-1t. Therefore, mathematical appreciation of the potential ubiquity of vortices would be through Fermat's last theorem (FLT). Because there is proof, this is a theorem but it does not prove it is fundamental per se, hence we call it an axiom. It is also a lemma and principle, following on the principle of tridimensional warping of reality. Circle The vortex is not only the most ubiquitous form in nature. It is also the most natural. At its most basic level the circle portrays the simplest form in the universe. Vortical forms range from raindrops, to tornados, from tree trunks to planets, stars and subatomic particles. Even the earliest form of home and sacred sites (10, 000 years ago) have been found to be circular. 304 And yet, what about the square? This exquisite form is not natural except with exceptions such as pure crystallization. Yet, the simplest squares derive from circles. The ends of two perpendicular lines drawn through the center of a circle produce a square. And yet, it is the square that symbolizes our measurements both practically and in theory. It is these angles that have allowed enormous progress. We no longer need circular homes. 304 Pi Fundamental to circular shapes is the concept of * (Pi). This is the transcendental number reflecting the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. The mathematics is closely related to the concept of circularity. It too, may reflect the ubiquity of the round shape and its related mathematics. Yet the geometrical mathematical relationship of the circle to the square is fraught with difficulty unless we add * as the constant. And even more so, * is abundant also in mathematics and nature even in situations not directly related to the circle. Examples abound like the probability that two integers are relatively prime (do not have common factors) is 6/*2; the same formula reflects the probability of seeing two sticks picked up at random in a large rectangular orchard without any other getting in the way is again 6/*2. Even the ratio of favorable to unfavorable tosses of needle of length d landing on a line in a plane surface rules by parallel lines d units apart is 2/*. 4 Pi is also closely related to other transfinite numbers such as e. 304
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Lemma of Dimensional Falsification Impossibility We cannot falsify beyond the dimensional expressions one is dealing with. Complete verification or falsification of phenomena related to an (n+1) dimensional reality by observers in an n-dimensional reality is generally not possible because all the details of the (n+1) -D reality are not available to the observer in the N-D reality. Only incomplete pieces are accessible and the data are often not repeatable, verifiable or falsifiable, though occasionally individual components can be falsified. The existence of additional dimensions is indicated by LFAF through extrapolation of the general theory of relativity backwards to 3S-1t. The involvement of consciousness is strongly indicated in quantum mechanics, relativity and psi research: Prior to relativity, the observer was represented as a single point with no direct involvement, but with relativity, what the observer perceives is dependent upon his dynamic physical conditions. And at the quantum level, the experimenter is part of the experiment. If there were no organizing factor of consciousness, the continual operation of the second law of thermodynamics would sabotage any accidental evolution of the seeds of ordropic order before they could get very far. There is good evidence to show this using strong feasibility arguments. The probability of an explosion creating complex structures by pure accident is virtually zero. It is far more likely that a tornado moving through a junkyard will construct a Boeing 727 plus pilots, passengers and luggage. 10 Lemma of Lower Dimensional Indeterminate Feasibility Assessment All data in e D or e+g D cannot be reflected completely at e-1 D or less. This is why only incomplete pieces are accessible and the data are often not falsifiable, though individual components can be falsified. The observer is dependent upon several facets of his state. Lemma of Open Ordropic Systems If the second law of thermodynamics operated all the time in a closed system, then ordropy would be sabotaged at the consciousness level. As there is solid evidence biologically of ordropic processes, this implies a system incorporating this: This can be achieved through a more open system including consciousness. (We believe this lemma to be true). Open systems may if necessary require the infinite, although not proving it. Ordropy in the infinite is more than unidimensional negentropy. Pythagorean Theorem (PT) Extension to 3 Dimensions and Applicability Beyond For conscious beings with senses limited to the perception of 3S-1t, spatial dimensions are limited to three. Calculating the distance (the metric) between two points, the Pythagorean theorem (PT) can be applied to three spatial dimensions but not more: Extending Pythagoras into 3 dimensions is easy to visualize. But as long as one is
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using the same units, one cannot escape the three dimensions even though one attempts to extend it into a fourth dimension. This is so as additional dimensions are non-real numbers: We can compute the metric of the fourth departure as described by three dimensions even in that fourth point. The fourth dimension is necessarily represented by an imaginary number. Minkowski used the square root of minus one as a meaningful metric in a four-dimensional continuum. Minkowski realized that to move into the fourth dimension one needed a different kind of number otherwise one cannot escape the field of real numbers. It is not therefore, just a convenience but a necessity (as discussed in Dimensionometry below). Proof using Cartesian coordinates: While the PT is introduced and proved in 2S, it is step-wise applicable to 3S, 4D, and beyond in the calculation of the metric (dS) in n-dimensional Euclidian space: For 2 dimensions, d2S2= dx2 + dy2, where d is the distance from the origin (0, 0) of a Cartesian coordinate system to a point P(x, y). This distance is commonly called the metric. Departing orthogonally from the point P to a new point, Q(x, y, z), in 3D, the new metric, d3S, the distance from the origin to Q, is calculated using the Pythagorean theorem again as: d3S2= d2S2 + z2 = dx2 + dy2 +z2 for 3 D, and similarly, d4S2= dx2 + dy2 +z2 (ct) 2 for 4D Minkowski space. (See Appendix.) This, however, is a special application used to describe electrodynamics, i.e., the propagation of light. In general, we have: dnS2= dx12 + d x22 + d x32 + d x42 + + d xn2 where the xs are the measurable Cartesian coordinates in each dimension. The Theorem of Metadimensionality Requiring Non-integers, Imaginary or Complex Numbers Fermat's last theorem demonstrates how asymmetry arises even at a quantum Pythagorean level. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (FLT) states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn= cn for any integer value of n greater than two. When n= 1, an + bn= cn is immediately solvable with an infinite number of integer solutions, representing the symmetric fundamental operation of addition. When n= 2, there are specific integer solutions known as Pythagorean triplets, allowing the symmetric combination of square areas. But when n= 3 or above, there are no integer solutions. This can be shown to apply to the combination of any two symmetric volumes, including quantum volumes, because the constants of shape factor out of the equation. We discuss elsewhere in book proof in Symmetry, Dimensionometry And Asymmetry. The proof of FLT confirms the fact that there are no solutions for An + Bn= Cn where n,
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A, B & C are integers when n >2, but, since the PT works for non-integer, imaginary and complex number A, B and C, it can be used to calculate the metric for dimensions beyond 3D. In addition, fractional values of n may have application in domains beyond 4D. There are an infinite number of integral solutions of the Fermat equation when n= 2. (If a and b are positive integers and b >a, we can generate an infinite number of integer solutions [X, Y, Z] with [a2+b2, 2ab, b2-a2]). Examples: For b= a+1 and a= 1, 2, 3, , (X, Y, Z) = (3, 4, 5), (5, 12, 13), (7, 24, 25), Therefore, rotational symmetry for a particle composed of two symmetric entities in a two-dimensional reality is not necessarily broken. This may result in symmetric flat (planar) spirals like the rings of Saturn, orbits of planets, etc. This is because as you approach the plane one has a tendency towards symmetry. Note that there are rare (but an infinite number of) solutions to the cubes when using three variables, e.g., beginning ([3, 4, 5]= [6]). These rarities may have profound implications for subatomic particles like quarks, their usual asymmetries and may explain why elements are distributed as they are in the Periodic Table. This is an interesting area for further research. The application of Fermat's last theorem (FLT) demonstrates how asymmetry arises at the quantum level. In the FLT equation, n is the indicator of dimensionality, because A2 describes an area, A3 describes a cube, and so on. In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn= cn for any integer value of n greater than two. N=1 (x+y=z) is immediately solvable. as are the equations for squares but not cubes. So this introduces the asymmetry of the combination of symmetric volumes. We have tested and found that a modification of FLT also applies to three or more variables in three dimensions (with rare exceptions;, e.g., those postulated below relating to quark combinations), and x or x+1 variables in x dimensions still cannot allow for an integer solution. Because we cannot have integer solutions beyond 2-D, we must factor out constants of shape or dimension forming an asymmetric object or volume or mass using the same units. Considering Fermat's equation for each exponential integer (n) as a specific equation of interest yields solutions in 1D and 2D that provide us with a trivial real number theorem for 1D, and the Pythagorean theorem for 2D. Theorem of Pervasive Multi-level Tridimensional Distinctions The mathematics of triadic realities is demonstrated by Pythagoras triangular extension and in physics can be illustrated by mass-energy-C, and astrophysical, macrophysical, quantal realities, plus the rapid expansion period of the big bang, It lays the foundation for the basic and pervasive triadic nature of reality, the origin of dimensionality and ordropy-entropy

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CHAPTER 36: POSTULATES AND PRINCIPLES 305 In mathematics, the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. Georg Cantor The Postulate of Three Fold Quark Combinations This postulate of three fold quark combinations is testable and should allow explanation using Fermats Last Theorem. Not all N-Dimensional objects made up of two or more elementary particles are necessarily asymmetrical. If, for example, we consider three spherical particles combining to form a fourth, by the same process described above, we arrive at the equation: X3 + Y 3 + Z 3 = Q 3 There are an infinite number of case with (X, Y, Z, Q) all integers, e.g.,: (3, 4, 5, 6). 27 + 64+ 125= 216 If the volumes of quarks are found to be integral multiples of the Planck volume that satisfy the equation X3 + Y3 + Z3= Q3, we have the explanation of why quarks are only found in combinations of three, and the hadrons formed by them are symmetrical. This mathematical demonstration explains why, even though, by Occams razor, the most basic building blocks of physical reality are perfectly symmetrical, macro-reality is only occasionally and approximately symmetrical. Principle of Dimensionometric Explanation of Forces Acting at a Distance The proof of this theorem ties into the postulated rapid expansion period of the big bang, the origin of dimensionality (see Dimensionality below) and it lays the foundation for the basic and pervasive triadic nature of reality: Three dimensions are necessary and sufficient to describe any domain of N-D reality and N-1 realities have a descending infinity of existences. Evidence of the connection of two or more objects separated by empty space in an nD reality, is actually evidence of the connection of the objects in an additional dimension. What weve been calling a field (evidenced by action at a distance) could actually reflect evidence of the existence of extra-dimensions. An illustration, would be, for example, the gravity wells created by massive objects in Einsteins theory of relativity, often demonstrated in two dimensions by placing a heavy spherical object on a rubber sheet, can more accurately be described geometrically by adding an extra dimension, because when a 2S object (e.g., a rectangular plane) is warped, it becomes a 3S object. Similarly, when a 3S object is warped, it becomes a 4D object.
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A clarification: Field has been relevant in discussions in other consciousness and interacting ways beyond the usual physical context. In that regard, the outstanding model of Rupert Sheldrakes morphogenetic field stands out.27 With the CST inseparability at the point of tethering, we do not need to postulate per se, a morphogenetic field or entanglement, as the influences that occur across ostensibly unrelated information or events, is clarified by the theorem of lower dimensional incompleteness and the link translated by the theorem of dimensional extrapolation. Both models can involve mechanisms to explain previously unrelated events (either as morphogenetic fields or as indivension influences upon 3S-1t). Extradimensional extrapolation of individual-units creates links ranging from the limited immediately linked subatomic to the broader cosmic realities, and from the individual through every kind of social group. Therefore, the impacts of morphogenetic fields may be secondary not primary, and some experiments devised to demonstrate Sheldrakes formative causation and morphogenetic fields could as easily demonstrate indivension influences (e.g., Neppes kindling test236). Effectively, the concept of vortical indivension is a versatile one, reflecting a metalevel higher than other models. Consequently, the explanations that fit these other models, would also fit the model of vortical indivension; paradoxically, though, their refutations would not refute our TDVP (and specifically, here) vortical indivension model. Principle of Non-Euclidean Dimensional Representation Approximated through Euclidean Substrates (space, time, C-substrate) In non-Euclidean geometry, multi-dimensional manifolds (complex shapes) do not map directly onto any N-Dimensional Euclidian system. This principle of NonEuclidean dimensional representation is approximated through Euclidean substrates (space, time, C-substrate). In his book Relativity, the Special and the General Theorya Clear Explanation that Anyone can Understand, Einstein 306 states that applying Gaussian coordinates in N-Dimensional space can approximate nonEuclidean problems using Euclidian substrates. Einstein demonstrated this, though focusing only on the fourth dimension, time. Principle of Non-Euclidean Space-time 4D Continua are Actual, Not Only Perceptual and Conceptual If, in Minkowskis four-dimensional space-time continuum, the fourth dimension unit of measurement, t, was replaced by ict, where i= the square root of minus one and c= the speed of light, then propagation of light between two reference frames in relative motion to each other could be described by the Lorentz transformations of space and
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time coordinates, preserving the constant speed of light with respect to both static and moving reference frames. This principle that can be extended to N-Dimensions. Corollary of Pythagorass Theorem Being Only True for Euclidean Spaces I.e., spaces that have not been warped or bent. PT assumes dimensional orthogonality for ease of calculation. Non-Euclidean space dimensions are not orthogonal in the sense just referred to: However, one can draw orthogonal lines that intersect at 90 degrees, but both can be curved: An example is the surface of the earth. Postulate of Indivension Tethering The C, S and T substrate domains are inseparably tethered to each other at certain points. At other points, they are apart, like three-dimensional vibrating vortical strings. This allows communications to occur across space, time and C-substrate (the metaphor of the electron rotating round a dense atomic nucleus impacting that density). Csubstrate is particularly involved with that vortical type movement producing ostensible entanglement. This tethering involves individual-units allowing a 3S-1t reality that is impacted by fluctuating metadimensional levels. The Postulate of TOEs Requiring Infinite Reality TOEs must by definition incorporate the stability of consistent mathematics and cannot be incomplete. Gdel's second incompleteness theorem shows that if one particular arithmetic truth system cannot prove is the consistency of the system itself. This applies to closed finite systems. If one extends this to any closed metric system then to demonstrate consistency one needs to be outside the system. 103; 104 This implies a corollary of an open infinite system. It does not necessarily prove that an infinite system may be complete but LFAF is applied. The infinity may be any kind of infinity. Rare Event Theory Postulate C-substrate phenomena manifest in S and T as rare events that appear discontinuous, random or unexplained in 3S-1t. If one can control C-substrate events they may not be rare and this is particularly so beyond 3S-1t-1c. Rare event theory involves a mathematical conceptualization of events: So, e.g., 53% vs. 50% may not be rare in the context of curvature of space (which is even more rare) but requires statistical calculations to demonstrate global presence. Postulate that Rare Events Are Linked to Interfacing Vortices, Vectors, Scalars and Tensors We postulate this based on the infrequency of psi and its possible occurrence when vortices, vectors, scalars and tensors interface producing meaningful apprehension or perturbation of events across or within domains.
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Postulate of At Least 9 Dimensions The warping of 6D space-time, evidenced by the existence of the fundamental forces of nature, and the Principle of Dimensional Extrapolation implies their existence. There are at least three additional dimensions, and those dimensions are the dimensions of C-substrate. ZN The general framework of our paradigm is that of an NDimensional continuum, where N is at least nine, based on the existence of known fundamental forces that manifest as measurable fields exhibiting different characteristics. (See Dimensionometry below). Postulate of Dimensional Representation is Based on the Fundamental Forces of Nature Each dimension has a fundamental force, which is intimately involved with the variable of extent that allows for the dimension to occur. Bending or warping of spacetime continua by the fundamental forces (the controversial expansion of the universe vs. gravity, electromagnetic radiation, strong and weak sub-atomic forces) indicates and reveals additional dimensions. Space-time, or any N-Dimensional reality, is warped by universal forces. Postulating the idea that each of the fundamental forces of nature creates dimensions beyond 3S helps us to explain and understand the reality we experience, we are justified in doing so: It is feasible, if not directly verifiable or falsifiable but there is no falsified data here. Therefore, LFAF applies. (See Dimensionometry below). Corollary of Dimensional Warping The warping of dimensions explains apparent action at a distance in a direct and logical manner. (See Dimensionometry below). Corollary of Double Warping Distortions By logical extension, distortions in more than one direction, (e.g., the orthogonal distorting forces of electromagnetic radiation) should give rise to more than one additional dimension. (See Dimensionometry below). If our hypothesis that all the fundamental forces that seem to exhibit action at a distance are actually phenomena that can be explained as effects of the warping of the mass-energy space-time continuum is true, then every directional force, like electrical charge or magnetic flux indicates a separate warping of the continuum. The propagation of radiant energy is generally thought to be caused by the alternating action of electric and magnetic fields. A moving electrical charge creates a magnetic field, and a magnetic field produces a current in a conductive medium, moving at right
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angles to the direction of the lines of force in the magnetic field. This is illustrated by the simple right hand rule. If the fingers of the right hand are curled around the conducting medium, say a copper wire, then the flow of current is in the direction of the outstretched thumb, at right angles to the lines of force of the magnetic field. aaa In this sense, electrical and magnetic force fields are orthogonal. Thus, radiant energy issues forth in straight lines from the source to infinity, but each and every line is orthogonal to the electromagnetic force field that generates it at each point along the line of propagation in the continuum. Here we have a triad of potential and actual motion with the alternating electric and magnetic fields orthogonal to each other at every point, and the motion of the resultant radiant energy orthogonal to both. Corollary of Euclidean / Non-Euclidean Perceptual Experience Whether a continuum is perceived as Euclidean or non-Euclidean depends upon the state of consciousness of the observer with respect to the number of dimensions he or she perceives. This is a corollary to t the Principle of Relative Dimensionality (See Dimensionometry below). Postulate of Non-Euclidean Spaces or Domains are Conceptual and Not Actual The perception of a particular region depends upon the dynamic state of the observer. Postulate of Perceived Different Dimensionalities In two different dimensionalities or domains, each observer sees his own world as Euclidean and the others world as non-Euclidean. Both observers are correct as the perception is the reality. (See Dimensionometry below). Postulate of Worlds with Additional Dimensions Inhabitants of worlds with additional dimensions would see our perceptions as limited and distorted by the extra dimensions that we call the fundamental forces of nature. The nature of the conscious perception of reality depends upon the number of dimensions perceived. It is a mistake to assume that there is a rigid set-in-stone reality out there, totally independent of the functions of consciousness. Postulate of C-substrate Warping Additional Dimensions If we postulate forces impacting the C-substrate as well (e.g., psitrons or kinetrons which are massless, energyless and do not obey in 3S-1t the inverse square law) then
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such forces could also warp dimensions. Corollary of Postulate of C-substrate Warping Higher Dimensions Using the paradigm of the first 3 dimensions being real integer space, the next three being imaginary number time, and the following 3 at least being complex numbers then these may involve distorting by psitrons (globally both afferent or efferent) or impact via kinetrons. (This a speculation in TDVP: Whereas there is no reason why Csubstrate should not involve timeless, spaceless packets of force packets/ particles like psitrons or kinetrons or both, it is inessential to our model). Postulate of Initial Symmetry Then Asymmetry The initial symmetry of zero space suggests that the expansion was naturally symmetric during the rapid-expansion period of the big bang. (This is verified empirically by COBE data.) This initial symmetry prevailed through the expansion to one and two dimensions to three dimensions, where interfacing with the Primary nonquantum Receptor Field caused matter, energy, and subsequently, asymmetry, to form. (See the proof of prevalent asymmetry using Fermats last theorem). (COBE= Cosmic background explorer). Postulate of Distinction Singularity We see the big bang as Primary Consciousness drawing a distinction within its own awareness, expanding from a zero-point dimensional singularity. (Note that zero is not the same as nothing). Postulate of the First Distinctions The beginning of the universe and reality as we know it was not an explosion in nothingness, but the drawing of the first distinction of self from other by an innate, preexisting intelligence in the 3C-substrate which acted as the Primary Receptor, bringing the first quanta of matter and energy out of the big bang potential into existence in ND reality. Postulate of Infinite Qualits in 3S-1t Moving conceptually from zero-S to 1-S, to 2-S and to 3-S, within the STC substrates there are an infinite number of 3S-1t qualits. The Principle of Infinite Coexistence The Principle of Infinite Coexistence refers to the coexistence of the infinite with the finite. It is a corollary to the converse of Gdels incompleteness theorem where the infinite is necessarily involved in a TOE. Is it logical to postulate that infinity can interact with the finite and dimensions? Superficially, finite N-dimensionality may not
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imply infinity because N-dimensionality is already dealing with a finite number of Nroles But this thinking is incorrect simply because the infinite is not part of the finite. The infinite is separate from the finite. The essential part of this principle is that the infinite can interface with all dimensions at a finite level. Using the fundamental TDVP axiom, there is no logical reason why some kind of Primary Consciousness or primary STC cannot interface. Such a Primary Receptor of Consciousness is necessarily outside finite dimensions so infinite. There appears to be no fundamental contradiction between having N-dimensional realities that are finite and infinity because they are two different concepts, which may interact in a meaningful sense. The two are logical and appropriate together. Principle of Different Experience In processing information and turning it into knowledge and understanding, we deal with the three defined distinction aspects of reality: perceptual reality, conceptual reality and common reality. Because of the dynamic nature of reality, these are rarely identical. The Principle of Relative Dimensionality The experience is referential to the dimension fabric of the experient or that dimension being examined in a thought experiment by extrapolation of dimensions. Postulate of Perceptual Consciousness and Warping If an N-Dimensional reality is warped by a fundamental force, the warping will be seen by a conscious entity experiencing an n+1 dimension reality as warped or nonEuclidean. But a conscious entity whose perception is limited to n dimensions, (as we are to 3S-1t) will not be directly aware of the warping. Because the entity's perception is limited in such a way that he cannot see beyond n dimensions, he will experience his reality as Euclidean. Thus, perceptual and conceptual reality are relative. A conscious being's experience is a creation of the perceptual and conceptual images in consciousness (See Dimensionometry below).

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CHAPTER 37: MAJOR MATHEMATICAL AND LOGICAL ADAPTATIONS 307 What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending ladder of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers. Georg Cantor Mathematicological Models used in TDVP: These include or amplify a very large number of ideas. Many of these are discussed in detail in our later books, that follow, such as Space, Time and Consciousness. The key mathematical models Certainly the most important mathematical models include Pythagorean theorem used in demonstrating that three-dimensional space being the maximum dimensional spatial metric. Closes calculus of distinctions 8 with dimensions of extent, content and intent applied to STC, dissimilarities and across dimensions Fermats last theorem with 3-d or greater space 308; 309 3 used in reflecting asymmetry, and also demonstrating 3-d vortical realities. The next level of mathematical applications Doctorows Rare Event Theory 310 demonstrating the rarity of apprehending or influencing information from the C-substrate to S and T substrates. Einsteinian general relativity 25 demonstrating warped curvature of space time and extending beyond orthogonality and an extra time dimension. Minkowski space 26 utilizing square root of minus one in time dimensions (imaginary numbers) with complex numbers being used in the C-domain. Theorem of dimensional extrapolation (moving to higher dimensions) and lemma of dimensional incompleteness (moving to lower dimensions). Gdels incompleteness theorem in finite closed reality 103; 104 extended to the requirements of an infinite reality for TOE to exist. Cantors set theory 300applied to similarities and one to one correspondences Spencer Browns laws of form 121 from which Closes calculus of dimensions was adapted. Cantors infinite of the infinite 116; also Hilbert space 17 applied to infinity Euclidean applications in 3-D space or below;
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 Non-Euclidean and Gaussian mathematics in >3-D. Extension of Popperian falsifiability 22 to include feasibility in the absence of falsification (LFAF) in science. Futher mathematical applications. These are still very relevant: Alfred Everts mathematical model of vortices. 311 Penroses spinors 312 Riemann in his N-Dimensional manifolds 313 and later Hilbert 17 tried to relate generalized subsets; amplified to include mathematical separation of space and time. Euclidean Newtonian perspectives delineated with the non-Euclidean dimensionometries. Gauss and Riemanns multidimensional manifold onto a Euclidean area from non-Euclidean perspectives. Bells inequality theorem applied to the theories and empiricism 86; 87 of Young, Aspect 87, Wheeler 88 plus the EPR and Copenhagen interpretation 41 with Bohr debate in the consciousness context 150. Real numbers (space), imaginary numbers and quaternions 277 (time) and complex numbers (C-substrate) applied to dimensionality. Major Physicist Mathematical Applications: We apply the mathematical concepts derived from physicist models including: o Einstein (numerous) 25; 47; 84; 88; 150; 252; 314, o Planck quanta 35, o volume and fundamental equations, o Schrdinger probabilistic wave equation 188, o Heisenberg uncertainty 45 and questions about its mechanism. 45; 162; 164 bbb

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SECTION H: THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

CHAPTER 38: PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS OF TDVP 315 I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. Albert Einstein Monism and Dualism: A Short Perspective Philosophy of mind is a branch of modern analytic philosophy. It studies as a central issue the mind-body problemthe relationship of the mind to the body, the nature of the mind, mental events, functions and properties, consciousness and its relationships to the physical body, including the brain. Dualism and monism are the two major schools of thought that attempt to resolve the mind-body problem. Philosophically, Monism argues that there is unity in a given field of inquiry: For example, the universe is really just one thing, despite its apparent diverse variability. Monism argues that mind and body are not ontologically distinct entities. Dualism denotes a state of two parts, and is now used to imply some kind of existence of both mind and matter. Both have ancient derivations. Monistic Western philosophy began 2500 years ago (Parmenides) and was later modified by the 17th century rationalist Baruch Spinoza. Dualism has ancient proponents in Plato, Aristotle and Hindu philosophy. Ren Descartes in the 17th century formulated an attempt at trying to find the link of mind and brain. Continued scientific progress in physics, consciousness and neurobiology has partly clarified but not resolved some of these issues because contradictions have arisen (as discussed). This has led to continued arguments about how subjectivity, objectivity, meaning, reductionism, intentionality and neurological and psychological states and properties can be explained while applying the laws of nature. Many scientists and philosophers have apparently swept any contradictions under the carpet because the contradictions imply unthinking what they have thought and accepted before. Monism in philosophy can be defined according to three traditional kinds: 1.Idealism, phenomenalism, or mentalistic monism holds that only mind is real. Physical reality, as we experience it, does not exist. Idealists, therefore, maintain that
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the mind is all that exists and that the external world is either mental itself, or an illusion created by the mind. Bishop Berkeley 316 developed one classical kind of Monistic Idealism. A variant is panpsychism. This philosophy views all matter as a having a mental aspect, or all objects having a unified center of experience. 2. Neutral monism argues that both the mental and the physical can be reduced to some sort of third substance, thing or energy. Neutral monists adhere to the position that there is some other, neutral substance, and that both matter and mind are properties of this unknown substance. They are two sides of the same coin. 3.Physicalism (or materialism) is the overriding current scientific paradigm maintaining that only the physical is real, and that the mental or spiritual can be reduced through the physical. Materialistic monism (also called monistic materialism) conceives of the global unity of matter with one comprehensive cosmos and the parts produce all origins and resultant reality effects. Physicalists argue that only physical entities exist, and the mind will eventually be explained and reduced within these entities. Variations o f physicalism include behaviorism, type identity theory, anomalous monism and functionalism. These reductive physicalists, therefore, argue that all mental states and properties will eventually be explained by physiology. The most extreme are the eliminativists (such as Dennett 317 who maintain that certain classes of mental states do not exist). Some argue that there is no coherent neural base for many everyday, poorly defined psychological concepts like belief and desire, since behavior and experience should be judged by biological reductions, and even pain and visual perceptions may not exist. This viewpoint is extreme and, we believe, irrational itself. A more logical neurophysiological perspective is functionalist monism: the mind reflects the behavior of the brain 318; 319. The most prominent example is the Identity Theory, which says that mental states are brain states. A variant is functionalism: a mental state can be whatever provides mental functionality, and this is irrespective of anatomy. Non-reductive physicalists are separate groups who argue that although the brain is all there is to the mind, the predicates and vocabulary used in mental descriptions and explanations are indispensable, and cannot be reduced to the language and lower-level explanations of physical science. So the questions remain unanswered. For example, if consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter, is there an evolutionary function for consciousness and is there a meaning to life? What pertinence is there to the experience of our acts in consciousness, or is our worldview purely deterministic?
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Most modern philosophers of mind have adopted either materialism or neutral monism applying either a reductive or non-reductive physicalist approach. They maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body and these approaches have impacted sociobiology, computer science, evolution and neuroscience. There are many alternatives, for example, the perception of consciousness or mind as an emergent component of the physicalism. One recent attempt has been Peter Strawsons emergent physical process or Realistic Monism 320. This is a metaphysical model because the structural features of our thought about the world, and thus, about reality are defined. This has linguistic elements, too, as the various concepts that form an interconnected web, represent a portion our common, shared, human conceptual scheme. Conceptions of basic particulars are variously brought under general spatiotemporal concepts. His son, Galen modified this philosophy into a Realistic Physicalism 321; 322 as a version of Panpsychism. It assumes that awareness is a fundamental property of "matter" just like charge and spin are. The ontology is not that mind is the interface between the physical meat and awareness, but that all matter has at least the potential for awareness built in but this proposes a whole new property of matter. Like most of the monistic philosophies Chalmers hard problem of mind-brain is eliminated 118; 119 Dualism and interactionism is removed, and so is Eliminativism and Emergentism is unnecessary. However, the harder problem of explaining, for example, alleged survival after bodily death is not solved by these materialist models. Moreover, the aspects of meaning of life, any evolutionary function to consciousness, if inanimate objects have any kind of awareness: (not a big problem because it could be argued that would be a stretch at best), psi phenomena, and the links of how any micro-consciousness of brains translates to a macro-consciousness are all unexplained. Realistic Physicalism also holds that free-will is fundamentally impossible irrespective of determinism. There is possibly a fourth kind of monism that may in part fit into the idealism area, namely, Theological Monism. Theological monism could support the one God view and have many manifestations in different religions but usually implying terms like unitary, eternal, unchanging, infinite, ineffable, immanent, transcendent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnificent, omnibenevolent, incorporeal, emanating divine reality responsible for all matter, energy, time, space, awareness and essence in this Universe. Stoics taught that there is only one substance, identified as God. One variant is pantheism. This monistic view describes only one Being: all ostensible aspects of reality are appearances, modes or identical with that one being. A related term is panentheism implying God is in all things, neither identical to, nor totally separate from all things. 323 This might imply that
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God is in ourselves and personal, yet allowing creation: In a way, there is a parallel with God being tethered to all through STC, but us having a separate existence too and hence free-will. If one speculates that meaning involves some kind of guiding infinite element, we could argue that panentheism is part of the whole tethered ATO. Other variants exist for example some Chassidic thought argues that God is an absolute unity, constantly present with sustaining power and essence within nature, but even within Judaism such views are criticized as pantheistic. Some Jewish thought then considers God as transcending all physical, created things and as existing outside of time (eternal). Maimonides in his Guide to the Perplexed saw God as the First Cause324. We point this out because our TDVP concepts motivate these points: First Cause for Closes concept of Primary Receptor 8 and this infinite component transcends the finite N-Dimensions of STC substrates, and the variant of panentheism from the ATO. We will introduce below in the TDVP philosophical basis a new kind of monism: Unified Monism. Dualists adopt a non-physicalist position. This challenges the notion that the mind is a purely physical construct. There are two main kinds of dualists: 1. Substance Dualists who argue that the mind is an independently existing substance 2. Property Dualists argue that the mind is not a distinct substance. The mind constitutes a group of independent properties that emerge from but cannot be reduced to the brain. Most consciousness researchers regard themselves as dualists because they argue there is a mind or consciousness and given their physical experience and the contradictions they have noted they cannot resolve such thought by monism. We believe we can. Unified monism as part of the TDVP model: The Philosophical basis of TDVP A common attitude is that if there is such a thing as mind that is separated from brain or body or physical substance, then this would imply the philosophical model of dualism per se. The most classical kind of dualism is Ren Descartess Dualism (socalled Cartesian Dualism). In fact, the perception of existence under a single mode (monism) is sometimes understood to contradict findings such as mind being separated from body. The most common philosophy of monism is materialism or physicalistic monism" and the far less common kind of monism that argues there is nothing material and everything is in our minds, even our individual minds reflected in idealism monism,
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e.g., as propounded by Bishop Berkeley 324 appear to contradict the idea of any separation of mind and body. Then come ideas close to our own where there is the recognitions of mass, energy and consciousness as with a modified Spinoza philosophy where everything that exists is part of the creator 325 There is a triadic perspective recorded in mystical tradition, but our unified monism has important differences from, for example, Spinoza or Sefer Yitzirah or Vedic Mysticism. It is also quite different from any postulate that mind is a completely separate entity. Descartes felt the mind was linked through the pineal gland of the brain. Our TDVP model provides another optional alternative explanation. TDVP does not imply any kind of separation of mind from body or brain. It does however, recognize that some aspect of space-time event or identity in 3S-1t earthly domain may =0 but not necessarily be so in another "set of dimensions" (which we call "domains"). This is one example of when we use the term "relative zero". In fact, TDVP is effectively unified monism because space, time and consciousness are necessarily tethered togethertightly, loosely or even only slightly. However, by tethering, they're always linked but can also exist with their own dimensional properties via a content-process we call "vortical indivension". We do not need to invoke an area of interaction such as the pineal. And the temporal lobe, for example, may be an area of neurological integration including metaconscious and possibly quantum conscious information with neurological consciousness but this just allows such awareness and responsiveness to be available to the living organism and brain. It is remarkable that both Neppe and Close quite independently developed the same philosophical concept, effectively referring to Unified Monism, even though it did not exist and we are only now defining this new philosophical model! In its earliest iteration, long preceding TDVP, from two decades ago, Neppe (1996; starting formally from 1989 and informally earlier than that) had called his model Vortex Pluralism because of its N-Dimensionality261, 169.However, in the early 21st century, he realized that his N-Dimensional model was clearly monistic because when applying infinity, the model transforms from a closed finite N-dimensionalism plural components to an open, both finite and infinite, N-Dimensional unifying monism7. At that point, this N-Dimensional vortical model allowed a unification of science with empirical data, philosophy and mysticism. To this earlier model, we have now added tethering from the onset and clarified the role of consciousness. We also integrated mathematics (e.g., Closes mathematical Pythagorean, Fermat,
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Extrapolation and Distinction additions, and Neppes Gdel modification and Incompleteness ideas). This philosophical position can at this time truly be described as a Unified Monism. The philosophical basis of Closes development of Transcendental Physics 8 is also monistic because it is based on the single a priori assumption of infinite continuity which posits that all things, including consciousness, are connected. This means reality is unitary, exemplified by when consciousness is actually included in the basic equations of science, meaning arises. Moreover, philosophically the ultimate purpose of existence is the realization of the unity of everything in Primary Consciousness 3. This philosophical position can also be described as Unified Monism. Dimensionally, unified monism could be interpreted as inspired by Spinoza, Sefer Yitzirah and Vedic mysticism or related to Lanza, because it has some links with all. In reality, we developed our ideas independently, and only secondarily recognized the similarities with these philosophies. We perceive consciousness as far more than an inherent part of matter and energy, and far more than an extension of wave and particle dualism, turning reality into a triad including consciousness (the STC triad). Our TDVP model has created such a reformulation right there. We use, as indicated, space-time-C-substrate as a fundamental triadic building base using consciousness below in its broadest C-substrate sense. Our conclusion summarizes this view: The views reflect a paradigm shift. Henceforth space by itself and time by itself and consciousness by itself are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of tethered union of the three from the very beginning will preserve an independent identity. Unified monism implies the direct ongoing link of awareness and matter, applying the indivension process, the fluctuating dimensional vortical content, the dimensional interval and ordinal metrics, extending Einsteinian principles, interfacing scalars, vectors and tensors and recognizing the brain, Higher Consciousness and meaningful realities. Unified monism can be applied to any kind of consciousness and reality. Unified monism does not mean that consciousness is separated from matter as this implies a form of dualism: The tethering of space-time and C-substrate does not imply mind and body are separated: The separation is a conceptual not actual distinction: The level is conceptually much earlier than mind versus brain or body. As a clarification, through the drawing of distinctions, first the distinction of self from other, and then through the drawing of distinctions in other, timelines of experienced events are
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created in N-Dimensional reality. This consciousness-based approach is facilitated by the introduction of a pre-arithmetic mathematical procedure for describing the reality we experience in terms of distinctions. 196; 307; 326; 327 This change in perspective to a unifying monism is particularly because space-time and the broadest consciousness (which we carefully define as C-substrate) were seen as tethered together. This may be the key idea separating it from possibly all other previously proposed philosophical models. TDVP allows us to logically explore not only empirical data but apply mathematical principles and theorems, it does not contradict mysticism thousands of years old, and it is amazing how 500+ ideas naturally flow from this presumption. Clarifying Monism and Dualism in Its Modern Context Using the term unified monism needs another clarification. In current philosophical discussions, the term "monism" is rarely used. The two terms most used are "materialism" and "dualism", the latter often being used to mean "not materialism". The term "monism" is used in two very different ways: it can mean (i) there is only one kind of thing or it can mean (ii) there is only one thing. A materialist usually believes (i) together with the belief that there are many individuals of that kind; an idealist like Berkeley believes (i) together with the assumption that many such individual minds exist. These individuals are "atomistic monists". In contrast is the mystical view (e.g., Spinoza): There is only one individual, God or Substance, and everything else, lives and moves and has its being in God. But, Spinoza rejects a God that manifests Himself as the Attributes, of which mind and matter (extension) are the only two that we humans are acquainted with. Thus, Spinoza is not a monist in the sense of (i) above, since his system posits infinitely many dimensions to God's being, each dimension constituting a distinct "kind". In the mind-body debate, the more important distinction today may be to differentiate atomism or atomic monists, where causation goes bottom-up, and holism (or holism), where causation flows top-down. Our Unified Monism clearly has the Holism element, and we use a top-down approach. By tethering, S-, T- and C-substrate are always linked. However, they can also exist with their own dimensional properties but they always have a relative source/ other connectivity. But unlike most monism, Unified Monism is anything but a reductionism to the physical, or an epiphenomenalism of consciousness expressed by the physical, or an idealism of consciousness without physicalism, it is a true unified monism.
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CHAPTER 39: THE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF MEANING AND CONSCIOUSNESS 328 General philosophy is a conceptual study, for which method is all-important. Kurt Gdel 102 Primary Consciousness In TDVP, we speculate on the role of the Primary Receptor (also called Primary Consciousness). We have posited a period encompassing the Origin Event, possibly applying time as experienced in 3S-1t a moment before the event horizon of the Big Bang, and speculated that a kind of consciousness was available prior to space and time and mass and energy. This began immediately before what were calling the Origin Event of the big bang. However, this Primary Receptor / Primary Consciousness is a philosophical idea linked with the infinite. Nevertheless, this Primary Consciousness at the Origin Event is somewhat equivalent to what others have loosely called God but without any theological attributions. Philosophically, too, we illustrate below how to resolve the ostensible dilemma of the model of unified monism that TDVP implies if there were a Primary Consciousness, and we want to ensure that TDVPs philosophical perspective in its Axiom of Origin is not unexplainable using the various arguments for a higher being. We therefore, examine below the three main existing models for the existence of God based on origins of our universe or its continued development. Cosmological Argument The so-called The Cosmological Argument, or cosmological interpretation of theology, postulates that God precedes all, and is the maker. This is also called First Cause, and argues that because the cosmos exists, it must have come from somewhere. The cosmological argument argues for the existence of a first cause, or an uncaused cause to the universe, and is often used as an argument for an unconditioned or supreme being, usually then identified as God. It is known as the argument from universal causation, or the argument from first cause, or the causal argument, or the argument for existence. The cosmological argument recognizes infinity in that every finite and contingent being has a cause and a causal loop cannot exist. The causal chain cannot be of infinite
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length, therefore, some kind of Primary Consciousness or first cause must exist. The universe requires an explanation, and God is that explanation. The Big Bang theory is sometimes called the Kalam Cosmological Argument. Whatever begins to exist has a cause and the universe began to exist and therefore, the universe had a cause. It is an argument from contingency. The cosmological argument implying God is not a scientifically proven cause, and does not necessarily imply religious monotheism and scientific analysis. There are 3 basic variants to this Cosmological Arguments, all with subtle important distinctions. in causa, the causality argument: in esse, the inessentiality argument: The essence argument, is like lighting a candle or liquid in a vessel. Not only does a candle produce light in a room in the first instance, but its continued presence is necessary to continue the illumination. If the light ceases, the candle then would cease. This fundamentally argues for a continued presence of a God (the Maimonides and also, Aquinass theism) as opposed to God existing initially but having no role with ordinary people (Aristotles deism) in fieri, the becoming argument: The critiques of the cosmological argument David Hume and Paul Edwards have critiqued the cosmological argument. Their argument is the so-called Hume-Edwards principle. 329 Essentially, the notion of an infinite causal regress may be felicitous, and David Hume and later Paul Edwards have criticized the cosmological argument as who made God, and who made the thing that made God, and an infinite regress until we get to God made itself, If there are other universes the same problem applieswho made those aliens who occupied the earth? This cosmological interpretation is always an infinite regress. Interestingly, quantum mechanics undercuts this argument because the infinite regress becomes finite, stopping with the first quanta impacting the Primary Receptor, which does not have a beginning in space-time. This concept of a necessary Primary Receptor based on the fundamental concept of quantum mechanics was developed by Close in Transcendental Physics, Chapter 2: The Final Receptor. 8 Teleological Argument A second God argument is the Teleological Interpretation postulated by St Thomas Aquinas. This explains functionality and causality of events over time. For example, it is posited that for evolution to have occurred and for our existence and life to have continued, one needs a meaningful interpretation. This is discussed in some detail, in
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the remarkable writings of Gerald Schroeder. 175-177 The problem here is the Bayesian interpretation of what is the statistical probability. This is illustrated by arguments on the anthropic principle 330 of, if we humans are one of the only groups in the whole universe that survived (are living), we might perceive that absolute rarity as statistically impossible,* but meanwhile we dont know how statistically impossible it really is because we cannot define a zero or null hypothesis statistic. This argument from design has been supported by Isaac Newton, who argued that the entire cosmos was supported by the same universal laws. Latterly, Robert Lanza has pointed out how precise and remarkable the universal constants are. However, the teleological argument cannot easily be justified universally because it would be based on Bayesian statistics and it depends on how one estimates probability of our existence coming about in a vast cosmos. There we rely extensively on Dr. Bernard Carr330 whose detailed and definitive analysis shows how difficult it is to appreciate whether or not key areas such as the fundamental constants and the pyramidal complexities all came about by chance and we relook at the tiny variants that would have not only not allow life, but not allow existence on earth. The teleological model is one example of the feasibility model. This area is important and complex. and a section immediately below has been devoted to the strong anthropic principle, the fundamental constants, ordropy and TDVP. Essentially, we find that TDVP allows significant insights and is valid either way. Ontological Argument There is a third interpretation of creation, namely, the Ontological Interpretation of theology. The ontological interpretation of God is exemplified from St Anselm of Canterbury in the 11th century in his Proslogion and later Aquinas who modified that version. Anselm argues that God has to be the greatest thing ever conceived. Therefore, there can be no greater aspect that can be perceived because it would be absurd that there would be anything greater than the greatest thing that was conceived as this could go on ad infinitum if there was something greater. in the 17th Century, Renee Descartes also used similar arguments. (E.g., 5th meditation) His proof demonstrates the existence of God from the idea of a supremely perfect being, arguing that if there is such a supremely perfect being that lacks existence, then there would be a triangle interiorly whose sum did not add up to 180 degrees. (Ironically, in non-Euclidean physics, this exactly is what happens). But if we conceive such a supremely perfect being then we must conclude that such a being exists. Aquinas's version proceeds from the meaning of the word "God, " by definition, God is a being a greater than which cannot be conceived. Descartes' argument is grounded in two central tenets of his philosophy the theory of innate ideas and the doctrine of clear and distinct perception. Essentially, the critique is that this is not analyzable and therefore, impossible to demonstrate perfections that may turn out to be incompatible. Moreover, to Immanuel
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Kant, the linguistic attribution of what is is relevant. In any event, this ontological interpretation is irrelevant to TDVP because the Primary Consciousness is not postulated to have any omni elements including Anselms omnipotence. If S, T, and C-substrate is existing, has existed, and will exist, and this is all outside time (t), it implies infinity, and it implies a thing that may or may not exist that is outside that box. The Spinoza perception of this quality, this thing being in all beings has been interpreted as God and Pantheistic, but it also is not far from the fundamental existence of a consciousness within all things. And as all those things in 3S-1t certainly have space and time, there is the STC component there. Ironically, this is also so in Kabbalic Mysticism, which therefore, implies consciousness-like qualities in all things. Our C-substrate goes beyond the animate to the inanimate, and also includes subatomic particles. A New Explanation: Our Proposed Infinity Model of the Axiom of Origin. Even if the existence of every member of a set is explained, the explanation is necessarily outside the set and the existence of that total set is not necessarily explained because it is argued that the whole chain needs to have a cause. In our TDVP model, applying the infinity of infinities of Cantor 116, there is no mathematically logical reason for not having an infinity of infinities. It does not matter in TDVP if one is talking about Big Bang or infinite universe theory or continuous creation of some kind of steady state theory. Philosophically, we can best resolve the dilemma of unified monism that TDVP implies by arguing that the Primary Consciousness that is supported by the Calculus of Distinctions examining Consciousness itself and recognizing a pre-mathematical logical differentiation between what exists and others, can most easily be explained by arguing metadimensionally. This means that Primary Consciousness may also be associated with Space-time extent and Mass-energy content. However, that Space-time in 3S-1t may equal zero, though not necessarily in other dimensions. This still does not resolve the philosophical arguments or explain cosmological origins, essences and becoming, but it does not require any further axioms to be invoked. This infinity is different from the Infinite Regress of the ontological argument. This infinity is based on Dimensionometrics not on infinities in 3S1t. The infinity that is proposed here is not a regressive infinity and given its major role just before the event horizon of the Big Bang or equivalent (even a continuity), space can equal zero and time can equal zero within those finite realities, which in any event based on an extension of our axiom of origin, all existed at the same time anyway when we view it from our linear time reality. Importantly, Primary Consciousness, with or without space and time, implies relative zero in the 3S-1t earthly domain. It does not imply
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God as commonly conceived. The TDVP Position In TDVP, the postulate of a Primary Consciousness as the Primary Receptor alone is purely speculative, even though quantum mechanics requires a Primary Receptor. It is not necessary to the fundamental axiom of TDVP because the fundamental axiom states that space, time, and C-substrate are fundamentally tethered from the origin. Therefore, if the C-substrate exists even a nanosecond beforehand this, it would add in a further axiomatic requirement: If the C-substrate and Primary Consciousness are one and the same, then The S and T domains come into existence with the first distinction of matter/energy at the Origin Event. Again, at this point, this is pure speculation and might be revisited and further explored in our second book: Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad. We cannot completely justify the logic of the ontological argument because we do not speculate philosophically about the powers or attributes of Primary Consciousness, other than the fact that it fills the role of Primary Receptor. The infinite regress argument of a cosmology is also bothersome unless we evoke infinity and dimensions outside 3S-1t in which case it becomes relative only to that sentient being experiencing it, and equivalent to the observer outside the box looking in from above. STC (space, time, and C-substrates) tethering, ab initio, still requires an explanation of origin in 3S1t. In 3S-3T, however, there is no such requirement since all events co-exist there, and thus, there are no beginnings or endings, only change. The cosmological argument challenges the nature of time, but time disappears in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation331. TDVP proposes more than one time dimension and relative timelessness in the 3s-3T in contrast with the Standard Earthly Domain of 3S1t. In the Big Bang theory all dimensions came into existence at the start of both space and time, so that it would be logical therefore, in STC to have S, T, and C coming into existence at that point. If the Big Bang theory is correct, the expansion of the universe, at least initially is a logical consequence. In our model, all time (t) in past, present and future, all exist at one moment of 3T time. Thus the question of what existed before becomes moot. With the Standard Model, on the other hand, there is always the problem of what occurred before the Big Bang, including the scenario of the collision of so-called membranes to give the cause for the Big Bang: Where, for example, did the membranes come from?
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In 1948, Hoyle and his colleagues, developed an alternative to the Big Bang theory postulating an infinite universe theory, or continuous creation theory in its modern form. 332 This theory, if true, does not affect TDVPs basic axiom of STC tethering because TDVP involves both the finite and the infinite. Nevertheless, it is important to note that in Vortex N-Dimensionalism, Neppe does not raise up the issue of any kind of Primary Consciousness. Primary Consciousness, in this model, is derived directly from Closes Transcendental Physics only, and the question of the attributes and qualities of Primary Consciousness is deliberately left open. The important point is that for the first quantum to come into existence, a Primary Receptor is required, and some form of conscious substrate is the only feasible receptor that could conceivably organize the quanta received into ordropic order before they could disappear again in conformance with the natural tendency of virtual quanta to return to maximum entropy as reflected in the second law of thermodynamics. This Primary Consciousness is not necessarily omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The Primary Consciousness certainly is not given attributes such as good omnibenevolentbecause it is not necessary to assign attributes to Primary Consciousness in order to develop a logically consistent model. We see no contradiction in having the whole unified monism model, S, T, and C existing before, during and after the big bang. This is so because T is timeless in the context of our 3S-1t standard domain. The assumption taken by most philosophers, however, is that something produced the STC substrate, which would imply a certain omnificence. This postulate is an unnecessary speculation in TDVP. Even if we revert back to the source STC-Substrate as from its origin, and ask: What produced the STC-Substrate? There could always be the cosmological component of production, but the attribution of an omnipotent God is unnecessary. We could say that we dont know because I know only that I exist, as Descartes famously describes. But beyond that, the circularity of origins remains cosmologically, teleologically and ontologically as long as we are limited to 3S-1t. However, this is not circular, because applying the infinite in the TDVP model that we are proposing, we can justify the STC substrate source without contradiction: Time is excluded because the infinite has metatime (and is common, too, to the Klein-Boyd Subquantal model). TDVP and These Models Essentially, the temporal origin of the cosmos is a paradoxical mystery, and likely not scientifically soluble even with LFAF. It becomes merely philosophical. But none of
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these models contradict or falsify TDVPs basic TTOOURS metaparadigm (Metaparadigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity) or the necessity of a primary non-quantum receptor. Moreover, there is significant feasibility support for TDVP in the context of the origins of everything: The ontological argument is irrelevant to TDVP because it implies special characteristics for a supreme being. The feasibility- teleological anthropic model strongly supports TDVP in most variants and in the absence of an anthropic explanation; TDVP is not refuted by it. The cosmological origins do not require invoking a deity per se, though supporting a Primary Consciousness that may be initially independent of SpaceTime (effectively S=0 and T=O in 3S-1t) or involve the initial tethering of STC. And our proposed infinity model is part of TDVP and allows even other options for the origin of the Universe or Cosmos but does not refute TDVPs axiom of tethered origin. Applying LFAF, and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, there is significant overall feasibility and no falsification. As further clarification, one key TDVP axiom, that of original tethering (also called tethered origin) (ATO) allows also for all of the dimensions of the N-Dimensionality to have originated at the Origin Event. And because of this, anything prior to the Origin Event would be speculative indefinitely and require evoking infinity. The essential contradiction others encounter is applying 3S-1t specifically. Assuming a linear one-way time, which is not the case in TDVP, leads to necessary contradictions. But we strongly and critically motivate for multiple dimensions of time in TDVP. Once that principle is grasped, many questions become irrelevant. Essentially, we explain the Origin Event based on relative aspatial, and relative atemporal reality, in the equivalent of our experiential four-dimensional (3S-1t) reality. The concept of infinity becomes extremely important here. It means conceiving beyond dimensions, outside that box to the infinite, potentially an infinity of infinities. The concept is again a unification, a merging of the finite with the infinite, and a monism in its truest terms. Hence unified monism is justified. Semantically, one could argue dimensions could extend by definition to the infinite: Our definitions of variables of extent make the infinite beyond dimensions because it does not have a metric. Infinity is beyond extent because it is continuous not discrete. We now discuss possibly the most cogent of the scientific debates in the area. The Strong Anthropic Principle, the Fundamental Constants, Ordropy and TDVP Revisiting the Anthropic Principle
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Although the term anthropic derives from the Greek word for man 333, most of the arguments pertain to life more broadly in general (the life principle) 330. The simplest version is the so-called weak anthropic principle which is no more than a logical necessity334. This accepts the constants of nature as given and then shows that our existence imposes a selection effect on when (and where) we observe the Universe. Does TDVP support the fundamental constants? A TOE should be able to explain physical concepts such as the fundamental constants relating to the forces of physics. Does TDVP support the presence of these fundamental constants? We believe that it does, and it does so irrespective of whether the strong anthropic principle is invoked, although its invocation is more direct support for C-substrate, and in some explanations, metadimensionality, time multidimensionality and ordropy. Physical life pre-requisites This discussion is complex: In order for life to exist, there must be carbon, and this is produced by cooking inside stars. The process takes about 1010 years, then supernovae, scattering the newly-baked elements throughout space, where they may eventually become part of life-evolving planets 335. Since all the forms of life we can envisage require stars, this suggests that life can only exist when the Universe is aged about ten billion years. Paradoxically, the very hugeness of the Universe, which, cursorily, may reflect insignificance, might be a prerequisite to human existence. The question arises about how to explain this life. The Strong Anthropic Principle points out the remarkable constants that exist and the necessary relationships between the couplings of these constants. These constants are dimensionless numbers that characterize the strengths of the fundamental forces of nature and other physical quantities, which are necessary in order for observers to arise. Some of these relationships are remarkably fine-tuned and do not seem to be predicted by standard physics 330. The first set of fine-tunings involve the four dimensionless coupling constants. These were taken to be S ~10 for the strong force, EM ~10+2 for electromagnetism, W ~10+10 for the weak force. and G ~10+40 for gravity. The data are there, but the why of their occurrence is problematic. Carr330 discusses this area in possibly the most detail ever. He illustrates this with particularly striking anthropic examples that include: 1. How tunings associated with the existence of stars with convective and radiative envelopes reflect a most striking coincidence because of the high power of , involved. The ultimate relationship , G ~1020 is satisfied numerically but physics does not explain why this relationship should pertain.
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2. Carbon is a prerequisite for our form of life. A famous anthropic tuning illustrates how the generation of carbon in the helium-burning phase of red giant stars via the triple-alpha reaction occurs: two alpha particles first combine to form beryllium and this then combines with a third alpha particle to form carbon. However, the beryllium would decay before interacting with another alpha particle were it not for the existence of a remarkably finely-tuned resonance in this interaction 332. Hoyles paper prompted nuclear physicists to look for the resonance and they then found it as predicted anthropically! 3. The variations in oxygen and carbon production in red giant stars vary with the strength and range of the nucleon interactions. But the nuclear interaction strength must be tuned very precisely to at least 0.5% if one is to account for this 336. 4. Carr330 points out the crucial role of eleven fine-tunings in the evolution of the Universe involving the various key steps in the history of the Big Bang. He indicates the remarkable various anthropic fine tunings associated with each of them. The key question therefore, is why does this occur? Does this imply something beyond pure physical coincidence? Each explanation below can be explained by the TDVP model. 1. Teleologically, this could reflect the existence of a higher being influence who tailor-made the Universe for our benefit330: The theological application of the term strong anthropic principle, would then imply that the Universe was created by a God or Supreme Being or Primary Receptor as in speculative TDVP, with the purpose of creating life. But teleology is only one of several possible explanations. 2. Wheeler 337 proposed that the Universe does not properly exist until consciousness has arisen: This Universe is described by a quantum mechanical wave-function, and an impact on a receptor is required to collapse this wave-function. If consciousness collapses the wave function, once the Universe has evolved consciousness, the Big Bang could originate bringing the world into existence. 49; 88 But we do not know if consciousness really does collapse the wave functionaccording to Wheeler, this is far from certain. In TDVP, C-substrate exists at the quantum level from the beginning. This means that collapsing of wave functions may not be pertinent to the veridicality of our model, but the Wheeler explanation could provide an adequate mechanism for TDVPs (Axiom) of STC being tethered from the origin. 3. The third possibility invokes very many multiverses, all with different (possibly random) coupling constants. Some of these multiverses could be physical and Rees 338
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points out these constants would have to be contingent on accidental features of symmetry-breaking and the initial conditions of our universe, and would occupy a specific point in some multi-dimensional space of coupling constants to be anthropic. Alternatively, later astrophysicists may determine each universe has a unique constant: In that context, there would be no room for the Anthropic Principle as any fine-tunings could be regarded as coincidental or worlds could have different physical laws or different mathematical foundations where only some of these can permit anthropic relationships339. However, Smolin 340speculates that its far more likely that each universe should have properties like our ownour universe would be typical. This may imply support for the strong anthropic model. If so, the explanations relating to TDVP apply in the Multiverse context. 4. Top-down cosmology is another possibility: Stephen Hawking and Thomas Hertog of CERN, proposed that the universe's initial conditions consisted of a superposition of many possible initial states, only a small fraction of which contributed to current conditions. 341 According to their theory, it is inevitable that we find our universe "finetuned" as the current universe "selected" only those past histories that led to the present conditions. This top-down cosmology provides an anthropic explanation for why we find ourselves in a universe containing matter and life, without the necessity of invoking the existence of a multiverse.342 This hypothesis does not directly refer to any kind of consciousness, but it does not contradict our TDVP model. 5. Carter 343 has argued that the earth may be the only site of human life within our cosmological horizon because of the remarkable coincidence that the time for life to arise on Earth seems to have been comparable to the cosmological time. In our opinion, this does not require any strong anthropic principle, but would imply that there is no other life anywhere else in the universe or multiverse, and it introduces debates about other life in other worlds. If we are the only world in all universes or multiverses, then there is no need to find any contradiction of the fundamental constants and TDVP, though the postulate of C-substrate, although not refuted, would not be necessary. 6. Some higher-dimensional theories expect the (so-called) fundamental constants to vary in time, even in our Universe. This is so as constants should be related to the variable size of the dimensions, and this would be expected to change during at least part of the Universes history, and be dependent on the compaction of such dimensions. This model therefore, could postulate that there would be varying sizes of the fundamental constants, and that they would be relative to the number of dimensions. For example, if we had three-dimensional time, the constants that depend on time and they all domust vary. TDVP recognizes multidimensional time,
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which means that there would be variable constants relative to the specific dimensions of time. In TDVP, we postulate warping of S, T and C substrates to achieve dimensional extrapolation. This does not specifically address size and compaction. Moreover, we have not complicated our TDVP model by introducing folding as necessary (as it is in many kinds of String Theory). On the other hand, folding is not exclusionary, and this would allow easy vector or tensor movement across dimensions via indivension. Therefore, the fundamental constants are well explained by TDVP because metadimensionality, multidimensional time and quantum consciousness all support their existence. But the fact that these are invoked, supports the strong anthropic principle as experienced in our 3S-1t domain. Ordropy, Expanding Universe and the Big Bang We now examine ordropy in the context of the Big Bang Theory examining this anthropic perspective, specific constants and priorities of a possible pervasive consciousness as this is particularly relevant to TDVP. Pyramids of complexity and yet stability Carr 330 points out how the Big Bang theory explains the so-called Pyramid of Complexity, introduced by Reeves344. This pyramid ranges at its (larger) base and very early on from quarks alone, all the way eventually through to complex life at its top in much narrower and later time. These structures arise because processes cannot occur fast enough in an expanding Universe to maintain equilibrium. If they could, then each force would always form its most stable objects (e.g., the stability would turn all nuclei into iron [applying the strong force], all atoms would be noble gases (applying the electrical force), and all matter would turn into black holes (via gravity). All variety would be lost and there would be no life. However, the disequilibrium entailed by the rapid expansion of the Universe prevents this. In TDVP, the support for the expanding universe and the fundamental asymmetry that is mathematically demonstrated, is pertinent. Higher Organization Entropy However, Carr 330 argues that Reevess Pyramid of Complexity can only arise in a small subset of all the universes. The structures at the pyramid bottom (e.g., quarks, atoms) are stable and need large amounts of energy to destroy them, but those at the top (levels of life complexity) are more fragile. Carr suggests the term complexity principle is better than anthropic principle and recognizes they must be constantly maintained by exchanging energy with the outside world. These life structures must extract information from the world. Because the second law of thermodynamics requires that this process is inevitably accompanied by the release of entropy, the
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higher organization must be explained. We have call this higher organization ordropy in TDVP. Carr points out that information extraction may allow for continued existence near that peak of the pyramid (in life forms), particularly as there is life competitiveness as a living population grows: Evolutionary survival produces mutations, ultimately leading to the complex central nervous systems of humans, and this further allows for greater efficiency in survival. 338; 345. Which one is the epiphenomenon? This concept of complexity is relevant in TDVP as the C-substrate permeates meaningful complexity: The metaconsciousness implies acquisition of information, and in TDVP, we could argue that the increased complexity in evolution may inevitably and rapidly lead to brain consciousness. This turns around the usual concept in physical materialism of consciousness reflecting an epiphenomenon of brain functioning; here, consciousness is facilitating the complexity of the brain. Moreover, the possibly the Higher Consciousness level (could this be a so-called mind in the philosophical sense?) may facilitate the increasing evolutionary complexity of life that links with evolving life over billions of finite 3S-1t time years. This would be an example of the unification of the C-substrate: Quantum consciousness, neurological consciousness, metaconsciousness and life: Effectively, despite the vehement argument against anything but an unguided evolution, it still may be difficult to explain evolution as a purely chance phenomenon. Schroeder 175-177, Penrose 46, Collins 346, Lanza 347and Laszlo 348 all recognize the difficulty with the purest evolution hypothesis of an unguided progression based on Darwinian survival of the fittest. Also, Carr 330further supports this view as he shows in the Big Bang theory, how the history of the Universe reveals an increasing rather than decreasing degree of organization. Without violating the second law of thermodynamics, modern physics explains that heat death can be avoided because local pockets of order exist at the expense of a global increase in entropy. If the Universe continues to expand forever, intelligent beings may be able to delay their disintegration indefinitely349. This model explains the presence of ordropy as defined in TDVP. We know order does occur just look at the remarkably ordered component of the complex state of complex human life. TDVP postulates that a universal existence or life happens as part of the infinite and the appropriate physical (genetic and physiological) characteristics need only be present for it to manifest as physical life. A terminological aside on consciousness concepts As an aside, we mentioned mind. Various terms have been loosely used in different
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scientific and theological endeavors. They are difficult to define, and carry specific meanings for different individuals. What is thought", "mind", "intellect", "subtle matter", subtle energy, "soul", intuition" or spirit? Even more controversial are "physical field", mental life, "mental energy or forces". In TDVP, we have steered clear of these terms other than consciousness which has been defined carefully to ensure clarity of our concept and state, which we have used in the context of a maintained condition in the state-trait dichotomy. Philosophy and Meaning Degrees of meaning Although consciousness or meaning is one of three initial inseparable triadic components, we do not regard subatomic particles, as possessing the same level of meaning as, e.g., molecules, and a molecule would have less meaning than a stone. At a certain point, this increase of complexity allows sufficient DNA and physiology for the extent of complexity to become an organism. The animate is expressed as a CNS consciousness-possessing system in the first place. We postulate that ordropy increases within advancing living systems, but not necessarily at a proportional linear rate: Ordropy may change along, across, between and within several dimensions, and certainly may influence all of space, time and C-substrate. The potential for life exists even at the finite origin event, and it becomes expressed simply because the DNA encryption and physiology allows that potential for life to be expressed. Consequently philosophically, there is increasingly meaningful organization, with the animate having a consciousness, however, primitive in a nervous system, and the higher developed human or possibly equivalent, e.g., dolphins or other animals, having greater meaningful organization in metaconsciousness. More than just panpsychism If one referred purely to the consciousness and meaning and guiding reality, one could argue this model is panpsychism, but this is just one component. The complexity and changes can relate to changing any of the consciousness, space and time metrics: The extent metrics of space and time imply a content of mass and energy, and consciousness implies a content of information. In the living organism (animate being), energy in the life form is expressed through physiology, mass is produced by caloric food, and yet these, too, are not random processes, but reflect different orders of ordropy showing the multidimensional elements. Consciousness not information at the finite beginning In TDVP, ab initio, C-substrate ascribes meaning to the tethered STC domains. This is so because space, time and consciousness are unified and inseparable from the very beginning of finite subreality. On the contrary, the idea of initially just having
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information alone without consciousness, and then later on that information becoming converted to what would be a very primitive degree of consciousness could not work. This is because it would both complicate the model unnecessarily and raise up new issues, and require new models. The difficulty of information alone becoming consciousness appears two-fold: Its conversion would require a certain threshold for consciousness. At what point? And why? And how is that attained? What circumstance would make that threshold phenomenon active? Is the conversion from the information content to the meaningful extent sudden or gradual? How is the conversion justified? What model could one then use? And what happens initially to the extent variables of time and space because what are they tethered to initially? Our TDVP model would be severely compromised. The presence of the calculus of distinctions makes the logic behind consciousness as extent and information as content clearer. Consciousness has its intent of meaningful information, and by default it has its content of information that simply exists. However, the beginning of finite existence (Origin Event/ Big Bang/ Event Horizon) could not involve just information because that would reflect a variable of content and not extent. What would be the extent? In the TDVP model, there is no contradiction because no new threshold interaction or extent/content distinction is needed. This is because consciousness simply exists at the start of the finite time of the origin. The C-substrate is extent from the beginning implying meaningful qualitative information and information is always a content without any imbued meaning. Moreover, at the infinite level, the Csubstrate of metaconsciousness is part of that infinite essence that exists over allpresent time and all-extending space, and the metainformation is the content that can be imbued with meaning. On the other hand, as one goes up the evolutionary scale, the quality of the meaning experience changes and it is very different for sentient (living) beings than for subatomic structures, molecules or inanimate objects. Philosophy, Purpose and the Infinite Our infinite reality choices These lead to imaginative and wonderful speculations. Lets just imagine, one more time. Could it be that we utilize our brain alone as the ultimate common endpoint in terms of our unique expression of consciousness? Or is there something outside the brain, possibly in that infinite subreality that relatively objectifies some of our choices? Could it be that such choices derive from our metaconsciousness and we translate them into discrete meaningful pieces?
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Could it be then that not only some of our choices are infinite, but also that these choices create a track for ourselves? Is it possible that such a track of memories or of dreams or streams of consciousness without physical life may totally supplement or distort what we are perceiving as finite, objective reality that can be recorded for all time? It is almost like that recording is recording in a particular fabric sometimes of 3S-1t, and sometimes even a 2S-1t component where we are not seeing that depth of space perceptionits just a picture. Or maybe its 3S-3T-NC reflecting all our time choices and all those choices of others, possible or actualized, within the fabric of the most intense weaving of meaning and extended consciousness and higher attributes like beauty and love, and courage and honor, and transcendence of self melding with a higher infinite. Our own idiosyncratic reality? The ultimate speculation There is one strange, subtle, and outlandish component to objective reality. If we talk about common reality and we realize that there is a consciousness and an awareness to it, could it be that what we are perceiving as common reality in the context of objectified events that have been translated into our own perceptual, conceptual, and experiential interpretations, is, in our subjective experience, valid at the finite level 350. But, at the infinite level, it is a direction that we have chosen or been assigned, like a finite dream, pre-assigned to a track, a specific trace that has happened, that traces across this metacist, whole broader infinite continuous existence but along our own particular pathway. Others may experience slightly different or very diverse pathways in this broader fabric that we call reality and in the finite level multidimensional time. This would be so because we impact others and we share and interface with zillions of vortices. This concept has similarities to the ideas of Parallel Realities or Worlds. We in this scenario, certainly make what we reap! And this becomes just a tiny track in the Infinite Subreality. Approaching solipsism through the infinite Could it be that this is why we are literally making our own reality, not only at the infinite level, but also converting it to, or pervading into, or permeating through the finite level? This implies that what we are experiencing in terms of this broader objective life is our broader, perceptual, conceptual, experiential life: This life may be far more unique than we would think when we try to objectify it, and in fact, possibly throughout we could be changing tracks toowe call this free-will. But, of course, this is just a thought, just a question; and a radical though remarkable and unproven speculation. We, in effect, make our own reality at the finite level, and this creates traces at the infinite level, of one specific actualized reality in an infinite number of possibilities. These traces should involve the C-substrate and therefore freeReality Begins With Consciousness 2nd Ed. VM Neppe and ER Close. Brainvoyage.com 120904.2 b 303

will is linked with both T- and C-substrates and occur in a S-substrate context in finite reality. A philosophical model with some similarities is solipsism: only ones own mind is sure to exist and knowledge of anything outside ones own specific being is unjustified, and the external world and other beings are unknown. The speculation above is quite different though because it never denies the existence of others. Individual traces in infinite reality The awareness that there may be individual traces of ones physical life recorded within the infinite, raises a question that some philosophers take seriously: We have carried through an aspect of our destiny and given its uniqueness, were tracing a particular pattern within the infinite. This could speculatively be consonant with TDVP, and may imply an extreme level of individuation. We are following our "trace" as a specific metadimensional individual pattern. Our 3S-1T track is our free-will direction of its implementation, within the confines of the other natural laws. This pattern would, in its more extreme version, be so subjective that we could create it just as we might have a role in creating and even controlling our dreams. Would this be a possible logical way to approach the infinite in TDVP? Because we do not even know what the infinite laws of nature imply, we certainly know little about this whole unending expanse of nothingness or potential that may reflect the infinite subreality. So we cannot begin to answer such questions. Rejecting solipsism But personally, we cannot go this route of absolutely defining all aspects of our solipsist reality. This is not because we have scientific or mathematical justifications in favor or to the contrary. It is simply because if we did think solipsistically, in the context of our controlling reality in all its complexity and beauty, it would imply, to us, a level of arrogance that would be extreme. It would imply that we have the powers of a divinity. Because we regard ourselves as ordinary people, we reject solipsism for this reason. However, it might be possible for us to be able to mold our individual existence through our freedom of will: Our consequent actions would then be paramount, and, moreover, given our TDVP portrayal of the infinite possibilities of existence, it would not be a great jump for us to postulate that we may be able to create traces of our life in all formspossibly even our thoughts and impacts on others through the infinite. This implies our impacts on many other beings, which fits well with the model of zillions of interacting vortical indivension windows. This impact on others could also conceivably be like some kind of maintained dynamic memory and, in this context, may, initially, be quite independent of
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neurophysiology, reflecting the C-substrate. It might then, ultimately, be secondarily expressed in the brain. 2; 136; 193; 294 Rejecting Panpsychism Panpsychism 316refers to the philosophical perspective that all matter has a mental aspect, or that all objects have a unified center of experience. In variants, like Whiteheads Panexperientialism 351, entities have the raw experience of basic awareness (phenomenal consciousness) but not higher level cognition, and in Panprotoexperientialism 351 all entities have non-physical properties that are precursors to any kind of phenomenal consciousness in even a latent, undeveloped form but again are lacking conscious awareness. TDVP also does not apply Panpsychism per se. TDVP comes close because there is a pan-informationism or pan-consciousness or pan-C-substrate element with the most primitive level of meaning in inanimate objects or even subatomic particles. But that meaning is part of the tethered STC reality, not part of space or time itself. Space and time are different from each other, and so is C-substrate. They reflect discrete entities and may even have their own particles, forces and spins at that subatomic level. The order level of meaning is very low at the level of stones or subatomically, but the informational order exists to a limited degree. We at one point were using the term guided. However, guided is a potentially misconstrued term because English has no other alternative, and we do not want to portray necessarily a passivity that is guided or a theological entity who does the guiding. Similarly, our TDVP model regards the STC tethering as relevant, but it does not commit to a subquantal or morphogenetic field or any other reality causing this. TDVP involves meta-reality, the broader picture above the other specific models, and those models of others, such as that of Klein and Boyd, or of Sheldrake, may explain certain data, but that same data can be also applied at that higher metareality level of TDVP. 27; 71 Meaning may be a better term than guided, or even guiding implying at the basic subatomic level the most basic meaning involving potentially apprehending or perturbing of objects, events or information. This is very close to information delivery, not consciousness, per se, and very different from atoms or stones acquiring metaconscious realities compared with live beings. However, one speculation would be to regard meaning as a C1 extent variable, and guiding as more volumetric as a C3 extent. 352 However, by virtue of the order component even in the subatomic levels, might this imply ordropy playing a role at all levels? Entropy is demonstrably relevant for a whole closed finite thermodynamic system, but could such factors as sheer beauty of
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nature, or even of man built artificial structures allow a semblance of ordropy beyond the linear energy equilibrium of entropy? Meaning does not necessarily imply the deliberate continuity of finite and infinite but the term guiding could. Therefore, guiding is speculative and not fundamental to TDVP. However, in TDVP, the pan-information or pan-consciousness is just part of the bigger picture of the triadic tethered union of Space-Time and Csubstrates, with their separate extensions. Consequently, Unified Monism incorporates pan-informationism, but it also incorporates the pan-consciousness necessarily as meaningful information is transmitted at origin. Meaning and purpose The purpose of our being alive in 3S-1t might be living to the fullest extent in finite reality. We cannot conceive of infinite, but we pervade into and from the infinite. Our function may be to improve the discrete components of our present finite conscious reality, and we may be ideally placed to do so as our physical existence may approximate an ideal biological setting for success. Psychologically, we may see a hierarchy from working through psychopathology, to self-actualization to transcendence of self. Possibly that self-transcendence is where we attain higher dimensions and this may be one reason why there is a fluctuating number for each individual or individual-unit. We speculate that sometimes transcending performance at that finite level could allow the interaction of these higher levels of dimensionality. This would produce a unification and an appreciation that can allow some extent of intruding into the infinite. But, certainly, at the end of it all we do not have that overwhelming power implied by controlling not only all of our destiny, but all of the infinite itself. That would be far more than we can conceptualize, conceive, experience, or even understand. It would be like having a driver that had no clue how to manage his machine.

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CHAPTER 40: PERSPECTIVE: DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF TDVP VERSUS OTHER TOES.ccc, ddd, 353 The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. Paul Valery, 1895 (Philosopher, 1871 - 1945) How is the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) model distinguished from other Theories of Everything (TOEs)? What other TOEs share certain characteristics with TDVP? And in what ways are the concepts found in TDVP unique? In this chapter, we address these areas. 1. Essentially, TDVP is not only a TOE: it is a complete mathematical-logical, empirical paradigm for reality covering physical, biological and psychological sciences. (We do not know of any other comprehensive paradigm like this). 2. TDVP involves s a major paradigm shift because of its great scientific and philosophical implications. It can apparently be applied to all disciplines. This is unique. Some TOEs with similar bases, e.g., CST or multidimensionality can be applied to some (but none to the life sciences, for example). So this is unique. 3. TDVP has demonstrable mathematical and empirical supporting data. It has a solid mathematical and logical foundation, is empirically feasible using LFAF in the physical, biological, social and consciousness sciences, it forms its own philosophical model, and is mystically compatible with some traditions (e.g., Kabbalic and Vedic). This is unique. 4. Consciousness is far more broadly defined (We do not know of any other comprehensive definition like this with the three elements of any of meaningful reality, brain consciousness and metaconscious). This is unique. 5. The tethering of CST from the Origin Event is unique. Mysticism sometimes perceives this but does not allow the freedom away implied in content by vortices and in process by indivension. This is unique.
TDVP: Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm. TOE: Theory of everything CST: "consciousness", space, time. 3S-3T-NC is 3 dimensions of space, 3 dimensions of time, N dimensions of "Csubstrate". ddd This perspective gives the broad bones allowing a greater insight into TDVP. The next section, 21. Tabulation of Relevant Theories of Everything compares them in some detail and we then discuss each model briefly.
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6. CST being ubiquitous in all things from the subquantal thought to astrophysical may have been mystically implied, but not so rigorously defined. 7. The Primary Receptor with the concepts of relative infinity: We do not know of any other scientific, non-mystical paradigm like this that recognizes an infinite receptor, ab initio. Of course, this is conceptually and philosophically basic to most religions. 8. The calculus of distinctions provides an important logical mathematical link of Csubstrate. This was developed by Dr. Close, is unique to TOEs and is necessary to allow the model to have a logical consistency particularly in applying C-substrate to dimensionality 196; 202. This is unique to TDVP. 9. Individual-units and indivension is a critical concept. This allows the freedom of Csubstrate differences so that it becomes a new major biopsychosociobiological contribution and explains the role of the individual or group units. It also provides an adequate model for key ideas such as entanglement in relative non-locality, morphogenetic fields, quantum field theory, and aether theory or any other content model. This process provides a model explanation for parapsychological research and consciousness studies. This is unique, although it has some similarities to what Carr describes as Transcendental Field Theory. That in its turn links with Marshall, Smythies and Whiteman. The unique difference in TDVP is the individual-unit existing in both state and trait contexts involving fluctuating dimensions even in individuals. Indivension can be at any level, animate or inanimate. 10. An explanation of life. This effectively is a new epiphany. Life, as an essential aspect of the STC substrate, has always been present and physical life is simply based on the necessary requirements of physiology and DNA. This is unique. 11. The numerous theorems particularly extradimensional extrapolations and parallels and their variants, with dimensionometrics. This is unique. 12. Vortices are an important structural element. This is unusual in this context and integrated with the first scientific dimensionometric model and mathematical demonstration. Whereas others have seen the utility of vortices, our applications in TDVP across dimensions as Transdimensional Vortices is unique. Fundamental is curvature (as compared with Smythies tesseract). 13. The conception of the past, present and the future all existing simultaneously in the infinite subreality from the Origin Event: Because everything is simultaneous in the
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infinite subreality of metatime and metaspace, this is before the Origin Event and after the end of existence too. These become infinitely synonymous.eee Ultimately, at minimum there is a 3S-3T-3C reality but there may be more dimensions of time and space than 3, and almost certain it is 3S-3T-NC. Some models conceive of this using time and space alone (e.g., Hawking) but STC is unusual in science though not in mysticism. 14. Other relativistic concepts including relative zero, relative non-Euclidean spacetime, relative dimensionality, and relative non-locality. These again are groundbreaking ideas, when taken together. 15. The idea of N-Dimensions varying with each individual-unit and yet impacting with infinity at any step. This is unique. 16. The definition of dimension in the context of the calculus of distinctions as variables of extent. This is unique. 17. The strength of the TDVP model is, at first pass, based on two major principles; Applying external validators including applying mathematicologic and empirical data. Ensuring internal consistency of the TDVP inner construction by applying Popperian falsifiability and LFAF at the testing level, ensuring that the TTOURS metaparadigm is applicable. 18. We then apply repetitive passes to TDVP: We repeat this process to establish more feasibility at each turn. We also allow moving away from certainty to speculation. We then use empirical tests again to demonstrate and support hypotheses by falsifiability or by LFAF again. In a way, this becomes an ever-expanding model, incorporating more and more of the paradigm, until TDVP becomes a metaparadigm. This way valuable criteria are developed, some more general for all TOEs, and some unique for TDVP. 19. The success of the TDVP model is dramatic when looked at quantitatively. As below, TDVP scores 39/39 and no other TOE besides our previous Neppe and Close models, score above 19/39 (none conform to half the criteria stipulated).
We add the following clarification from Klein: I see in this fragment, a brilliant extreme reference to the Singularity's pre- and post- manifestation forms on its own pluriversal axis. The self-replication of the non-manifest singularity is nevertheless asymmetrical, as the STC manifestation results from the primary distinction implemented inside the singularity itself (between its non-manifest essence and its manifestation potential) while the "end-phase" is reached by the dimensional collapse as a panentropic result of inherent metadimensional dynamics. This applies to the finite Universal subsets on the high-degree infinite pluriversal connective line. 352
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CHAPTER 41: TABULATION OF RELEVANT THEORIES OF EVERYTHING354 First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. Napoleon Hill (Author, 1883-1970) Criteria for Consciousness or Dimensional TOEs or Related Models Historical perspective Scientists and philosophers have proposed numerous theories of everything (TOEs). We have indicated that we dislike the term intently. This because TOE is imprecise and ambiguous. Consequently, some may misinterpret what we are saying within the fabric of Theoretical Physics (the original TOE use). They may then try to explain all unknown content mysteries e.g. esoteric specific angles as part of the TOE. This is an old usage of TOE. Were referring to something quite different: Models based on processes not content. These are best described as paradigms, and if these paradigms have a universality across the sciences, we use metaparadigms. However, because we are comparing what others have conceptualized as TOEs in this broader sense, we will still use TOEs here, though really referring to paradigms (modern use TOEs) in the comparison. Which paradigms do we choose to compare? Given that these TOEs necessarily must be scientifically broad and not just based on abstract concepts, we have chosen all the well-known and also some esoteric models that incorporate space and time directly and involve the finite. Occasionally, because of their fame, we have included others, such as those of Gould and Langan. All recognize the fundamental laws of naturenot therefore theological ideas, although some focus more on the phenomenological philosophical models, e.g., Lanza, Smythies. We recognize there are other philosophical and linguistic or neurophysiological or biopsychosocial TOEs, but these have their own narrow range, and do not fall under the scope of this discussion. We added the current Standard Scientific Reductionist Paradigm as a baseline comparison. Methodology and selection criteria The criteria we have, may be perceived as self-selected as they appear post-hoc. However, we cannot think of any criteria that are legitimate that we have not included and few criteria could be debated as unnecessary to a TOE when using the criteria of consciousness, dimenensionality, infinity and order. Nor have any other criteria been raised by referees and our vast numbers of readers pre-publication. Therefore, we believe that the results as tabulated below reflect a reasonable perspective of the power, validity, value and ubiquity of the TOEs compared. Moreover, the further subdivision into three (general, specific, and unique) allows group sub-analyses, yet
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the order of the TDVP results and its predecessors (VNDP and TP) remain unchanged: They still are far ahead. Nevertheless, the criteria derivations were when accessible sent to the developers (or with Kabbalah and Vedic mysticism, the representatives) of all available authors. The results strongly motivate for the powerful breadth of TDVP as a TOE and a paradigm shift: Remarkably TDVP scores a full (16+11+12=39) or 39/39. This would be required for a real TOE because it cannot afford exceptions. Applying universal constructs We also used a post-hoc empirical approach. If certain criteria occur commonly in several TOEs these are regarded as basic criteria to this kind of TOE. These criteria could be argued to be somewhat universal for major TOEs and the Specific and Special columns developed gradually out of necessity and feedback. Given that we list 24 different TOEs, arbitrarily it is useful to require at least 7 in a criterion to be regarded as common (8 was the lowest figure in Table 5 in the General group and 12 of 16 included criteria involving 10 or more TOEs). These are reflected under categories. Of those criteria scoring below 7 across the 24 different models, some should, prima facie. be regarded as required criteria, for example, paradigms. One could critique a TOE that does not have theorems so theorems are so regarded as well. We believe measures pertaining to distinctions, e.g., perceptual versus actual versus conceptual are important and weve been liberal in scoring theories that just recognize different kinds of perceptual realities as opposed to the real but is nevertheless, special to our model in its full form so we are scoring it as amongst the almost unique. We have created a subtotal table (=) to score these common ones. The TDVP model has unique elements and the object is to fit the laws of nature not linguistic or theoretical debates of what is universal. If it were all there, there would have been a universal TOE already. The fact is there was not. That was because certain criteria which are universal may not have been incorporated, e.g., all of consciousness, dimensions, infinity, ordropy (already our models and their precedents become the only models that have this). Add in origin, tethering and life and this becomes unique though they must obey the laws of nature (which may involve recognized universal criteria). TDVP has been borne out of necessity based on the empirical needs and confirmed mathematically. Specific criteria; the example of the triadic element We debated whether the triadic element should be in the more fundamental scoring, but it involves a certain unique idea. TDVP and our earlier models (in less developed form) and Kabbalah all specifically look at the triad of space-time and consciousness as a unity. Other models such as Hoffman, uses mass-energy-consciousness / information, and this is also Spinoza type thinking. Note that this triad is only well
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defined in TDVP and Kabbalic mysticism; in the others it is vague only. However, a recognition of consciousness as relevant to time/space or mass/energy is quite common and occurs in 11 of 24 models. Universality of certain results In our initial, prima facie, examination of TOEs, we speculated that certain criteria would be somewhat idiosyncratic and not applicable to the general scoring criteria. These were: Meaningful Reality of some kind (g), Origin at source (O), multidimensional time (T), Ordropy (x). Yet these items all scored respectively. (reflects the commonality of %10). This suggests some universality to proposing these concepts. Sometimes determinations for the comparisons were neither clear to us, nor our referees. To ensure feedback opportunities, this table was sent to 14 of the 24 authors (or consultants, including the context of the mystical TOEs) of this model and they did not modify any criterion, either in their own theory or that of someone else. When uncertain, we inserted a question mark (?) (but still scored it as 0). This is often because the items are somewhere in between or may claim something in part or show minimal elements or alternatively, we have not been able to establish that the criterion is fulfilled or in the case of esoteric mystical models, were not well clarified. It is certainly possible that we are missing a . despite our best efforts or that a score could be debated, e.g., a? to - or to .. But referees have not raised these issues either. Also, checkmarks or positive scores (.) do not reflect quality, e.g., Indivension is a far more sophisticated concept than field for process; even more so, a string of mathematical formulae as in TDVP may have been scored the same here as just the mathematical mention of something, when in fact, there are over fifty mathematical formulae in TDVP and a metric of quantization of information would further demonstrate differences. The TOE that had the most ? was Kaballic Mysticism (11), not surprising because of its close similarities to TDVP, though beginning at the mystical and being short on the sciences. Applying Table 5 But Table 5 still gives a reasonable index for comparison. TDVP as expected scores a maximum. In fact, at this point, the only TOE it competes against is making itself better. However, it is somewhat tautological because the criteria we have deemed important may not be the criteria that others deem important, and models such as those of Sheldrake and Watson, are very exciting and directed towards a level of completeness that none others besides TDVP competes with: But they have their own special qualities.
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The most complete TOE by a landslide There is a great difference between even the second placed older VNDP of Neppe6 and similarly that of Closes Transcendental Physics (TP)8 in that tethering and indivension were not delineated. Neppes VNDP contained the key concepts of fluctuating dimensional extension values in individual-units, and communication across dimensions and essence so may be argued to be a paradigm shift without the mathematics; Closes contained the calculus of distinctions and some theorems and proofs (these have been amplified). At their best, these factors limited these models, and the profound paradigm shift in TDVP in all the sciences and also covering mathematics and philosophy, makes it qualitatively profoundly superior to even the original models of Neppes VNDP and Closes TP. Using a level playing field Moreover, even eliminating the nine idiosyncratic or unique components in the TDVP modeland there is no reason to do so as those distinguish TDVP and its uniquenessthe order does not change. This supports the postulate of TDVPs overwhelming superiority when applying quantitative criteria. This is so even when only using logical universally derived criteria and without applying any criteria that may be perceived as contrived or advantageous for TDVP as a TOE. Therefore, when referring to TOEs with either consciousness or dimensions, TDVP is far superior qualitatively to any other model. In any event, no reader or peer reviewer has criticized the unique criteria for TDVP and therefore these appear appropriate, anyway. Scoring 12/12 on Special with no other model (besides our ownNeppes VNDP) scoring more than 2/12 demonstrates the uniqueness of the TDVP model even more. Were using the term TOE in its general usage: We prefer the terms paradigm, metaparadigm and with major multidisciplinary changes in thinking, paradigm shift. Understanding the data The object of this tabulation exercise is to provide key features common to many and see where the TOE models differ, to understand the limitations of models, and to amplify their strengths. Our models began with our preceding ideas involving VNDP and TP. They were very useful initial models, but incomplete and these tables demonstrate that. Requirements of a real TOE and metaparadigm The baseline, which is the current Standard Scientific Materialistic Reductionist paradigm, scores 13th of the 24. It reflects a reality that is explained maybe 99.9% of the time, has mathematics, language and theorems, but does not accept dimensionality
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or psychology, nor does it explain physiology as part of the key model. On the other hand, a real TOE should fit all the criteria that are necessary for it to explain phenomena. With respect, based on our experiences where more than two hundred readers prior to publication received this, and the daily feedback we received, and applying the above tabulations and criteria, it appears that TDVP is a very solid model. If there were universal criteria that would be useful which is why TDVP is separated into several sections. Although it scores maximum even in the General Section of 16 criteria, there are several TOEs that score close to that. These may suggest the direction of thinking is similar. However, it is the TDVPs specific, but still common components, which already far outstrip any other model, and furthermore, the unique elements that follow still fitting the laws of nature, that make it a practical paradigm shift. It is the not linguistic or theoretical debates of what is universal (as in, for example, Langans ideas). If a TOE already had all these details, then there would already have been a universal TOE. The fact is there was not. That was because all the universal criteria needed incorporation, e.g., all of consciousness, dimensions, infinity and ordropy (already our models and their precedents become the only models that have this). However, in addition, concepts that are not in many TOEs appear key, such as initial origin, tethering and life. Because together these are unique, we use an added criterion that they must obey the laws of nature. Does it work? The criteria weve deemed important may not be the criteria that others deem important, but the endpoint is does it work? TDVP appears to work. It scores a full 39/39 when applying all the general, specific and special or unique criteria that reviewers and ourselves deemed necessary for a TOE. No other TOE besides our models, scored into the 20s out of 39. Even if the scoring can be criticized, TDVP is so far ahead of any other TOE that it is a front-runner to be used as a standard for the future. This is particularly so as the previous models on which it was based, rather expectedly, are second and third. The uniqueness of TDVP We briefly emphasize the more subtle but significant differences apparently unique to TDVP. This allows a perspective on not only the quantitative ordinal comparisons here, but also the profound qualitative difference between TDVP and all the other TOE models: tethering of STC or of reality: This is the major theoretical advance in TDVP because it allows an ease of explanation of information that is unparalleled; this requires a specific triadic pattern from the origin of finite reality and pervading the infinite;
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 fluctuating dimensions in different individual-units (traits reflecting differences between individuals or groups etc.) or even the same individual-unit under different circumstances (states); these allow dimensional jumps by individuals or individual-units and allow for differences between individual-units. We are not dealing with a fixed 10, 11, 26 or 9 dimensional reality as in various String Theoriesthe metadimensionality in TDVP emphasizes extra time, and particularly, C-substrate dimensions, not space. communication across dimensions and conceptualization of these into domains (multiple dimensions conceptualized together). This allows for the interactions, transmission and reception of metainformation and metaconsciousness across individual-units, and across time and space; and this is done via Vortical Indivension, as a meta-conceptual idea, higher, for example, than Subquantal or Field Theory models. application of perceptual, conceptual and experiential actualized distinctions defining and applying the latest more complete form of Closes Calculus of Distinctions to our TDVP model: This allows C-substrate to be defined ordinally as dimensions194. COD is contained in Closes TP in an earlier developmental form; the conceptualization of life potential as always existing and physical life in finite reality occurring when the correct physiology exists: This reverses the concept of the beginning of physical life requiring something extra to be added at conception or another point in the life cycle; the concept of infinite subreality interacting with and also permeating the finite subreality as part of the structure of complete reality; the concept of a discrete finite versus a continuous infinite reality; this infinite element allows for ordropy as multidimensional order (not just the opposite of a unidimensional entropy); the reality beginning at its onset in finite reality, with consciousness meaning already tethered to space and time, and yet at an infinite level, a simultaneity of time and an omnipresence of space, and an all-pervasive content of information transformable into meaning.

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Table 5. Comparison of Paradigms for Reality (TOEs). General (/16); Specific (/11); Special (/12) (Total /39).
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Legend _________ General criteria (16 items) These are scored as a general subscore (G1) reflecting the most usual criteria for TOEs. These may involve specific hypotheses but common across several TOEs (!9 instances) so included in the broader TOE scoring. One exception was =8, psychological but was found, post hoc.(" = in 10 or more categories) ? reflects insufficient classification to ensure it fulfills the required criteria, - is when it does not and # when it does. e = Regarded as a theory of everything (generally by the author or by others) m = Mathematics is significantly a core part of the model, not just en passant. c = Content, e.g., vortices (V), subquantal (Q), non-quantum receptor (NQ), morphogenetic fields/ formative causation (M), transcendental fields (T), phenomenal spaces (P), Akashic field (A). or (Af) i == Infinity (this involves either continuous or countable infinity as a principal concept) p = Process to communicate: ID = Indivension or equivalent (cross dimensions, biopsychofamiliosociocultural), FC Formative causation, phenomenal consciousness (PC). M = Consciousness/ Mind/ Information Q = Quantum level H = Human level S == Structure, e.g., Vortices, fields etc. ! = thinking; philosophical translation defined to mind-body model R = Meaningful reality of some kind h = history of core mystical concept over millennia B = Life Sciences, biology (principal concept) D = Dimensions beyond 3S-1T + = 3 elements: Space / Time (or Mass-energy)/ Consciousness (or Information) P = Psychology and social sciences (principal concept) __________ Specific: Special qualities common to several TOEs including TDVP (and so excluded from the TOE broader scoring; second subscore (S2) reflects 11 items) The following additional 11 criteria are special to some TOEs and were developed, in part, during referee feedback. This has been called Specific Hypotheses as theyre specific to many models. Nevertheless, they so pervade several TOEs, that theyre included in the broader TOE scoring. (6 items have !10 instances; and all items show at least 4 TOEs with that concept). Some could have been defined under general because !9 TOEs showed the criterion, but this differentiation was post hoc. The Specific header still reflects fundamental and broad
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criteria because so many theories still list this. (" = in 10 or more categories). O = Origin at source /beginning/ Origin Event/ around the big bang or before or infinite. = Evolution as an important part. =Paradigm more than a Theory of Everything this causes logical change in model in that area if accepted. (if applied, this results in a logical change in models in that discipline.) T = multidimensional time x = ordropy q = uniqueness L= Linguistic (the development of necessary new terms as a core part of the model) = Theorems/proofs (mathematical; demonstrable) n new Generation of 100s of ideas/ postulates demonstrated N = explanation of consciousness mechanisms within neurophysiology (principal concept) d= distinctions (minimum: perceptual and actual or conceptual; not necessarily CoD) ____________ Special criteria based on feedback (= 12 items) These criteria reflect pertinent elements but which were not initially shared by more than three theories (with re-evaluation one criterioninfinitywas shared by a fourth. With the gradual development of TDVP, further coherent, consistent, feasible, and logical elements required comparison. a = across dimensions (being able to communicate across metadimensions); this includes indivension, which is a specific case of communication and interfacing points or vortices across dimensions f = fluctuating dimensions (states of consciousness; variation across individual-units) F = feasibility measure " = Infinity-finite interaction = Consciousness qualities (specifically taken into account in model as dimensions) # = Metaparadigm: overriding paradigm impacting the major disciplines of science: consciousness, life, physical, psychological sciences 3 == STC tethering (a fundamental and inseparable component of space-time-C-substrate being unified, and yet being able to extend separately in their own dimensional expression). = Continuous- discrete as fundamental part of model triadic patterning (specific e.g. tethering) $ =Interval and ordinal metric data (allowing CoD of consciousness) C dimensions of consciousness j dimensional jumps ____________
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g1 = total general s2 = total specific S3 = total special = = grand total Au = Author, Ti = Title of theory of everything or equivalent Models: These 24 models are summarized in their key forms, alphabetically, as follows: David Bohm (db): Implicate-Explicate Order (IEO). 1980. 140 Thomas Campbell (tc): My Big TOE (MBT) (bt). 2007. 355 Bernard Carr. (CA) Transcendental Field Theory (TFT) (tf). 2008. 345 Edward R. Close (Cl): Transcendental Physics (TP). Starting in 1985, parts published in Infinite Continuity 1989 and in Transcendental Physics 1999 and 2000. 8 Alfred Evert (Ev): Typology of Aether-Motion-Pattern (ap) (AMP) 311 Amit Goswami (AG) Quantum Activism (QA). 2006. 356 Steven Jay Gould (go) Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA); 2001 186 Stephen Hawking (Ha): Many World interpretation (mi). 2010. Variants from 1996(357; 358). Don Hoffmann (ho): CR, Conscious Realism, 2006. -2008 359 Kabbalic mystical model (Ka) ancient reflecting Judaic tradition particularly Sefer Yitzirah. 154 Adrian Klein /Neil Boyd (kb): Quantum Field theory subquantum integration approach. 2010. 71 Chris Langan (Lg): CTMU Cognitive theoretic model of the universe. 1998. 360 Robert Lanza (Lr): Biocentrism (BC) 2004. 347 Ervin Laszlo (Ll): The Akashic Field TOE (AK) 2009. 348 Vernon M Neppe / Edward R. Close (cn): Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) Vernon M Neppe (Ne): Vortex N-Dimensional Paradigm (VNDP /VND). (1989, presented 1996). Rupert Sheldrake (Sh): The theory of formative causation. (FC) 1981. 27 Saul-Paul Sirag (Sir): Consciousness and Hyperspace. 1993. (HS) 300 John Smythies (cd): (Consciousness) Material Dualism. Modified considerably from 1956. 361 Standard Materialistic Reductionistic Scientific Model (SS) 2012. String Theory (Str): Numerous individuals; including MT; 1984 Green and Schwarz used; M theory in 1998 as date but many others. Vedic mystical model (Ve): no official name, but unified field ancient reflecting Eastern religious tradition Ken Wilber (wi): Kosmos TOE. 1995. 30; 362 Don Watson (wa): enformy; TES; Theory of Enformed Systems, 1998 to 2005 (en = enformy) 2005 363
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These comparisons largely speak for themselves. We have compared these twenty-four major models, namely, those of Bohm, Campbell, Carr, Evert, Gould, Goswami, Hawking, Hoffman, Kabballic mysticism, Klein and Boyd, Laszlo, Lanza, Langan, Sheldrake, Sirag, Smythies, Standard Scientific Model, String theorists, Vedic tradition, Watson, Wilber, and previous models by Neppe and Close. We also later comment on De La Sierra and Leibniz. These criteria are all demonstrable in Table 5. However, they reflect only the qualitative differences. Quantitatively, the difference may be far greater, for example, the fifty theorems and the several hundreds of ideas generated by the TDVP model. Effectively, this means that the difference is far more vast than just the presence or absence criterion for a particular criterion: Quantitative measures reveal even more profound differences. These reflect qualitative comparisons of TOEs based on 39 carefully chosen characteristics, chosen for relevance and different broad screening parameters. These were added to once our initial paper was sent to referees, so that although necessarily retrospective, because the TOEs already existed, they do incorporate a consensus of criteria. TDVP as expected scores a maximum. In fact, at this point, the only TOE it competes against is making itself better. However, it is somewhat tautological because the criteria we have deemed important may not be the criteria that others deem important. Nevertheless, the criteria derivation were sent to the developers (or with Kabbalah and Vedic mysticism, the representatives) of all available authors. TDVP, as expected for a real TOE, scores a full 39/39. This would be required because to be an all-embracing TOE once cannot afford exceptions. Not surprisingly, the older models on which TDVP were based easily come in second and third scoring highly at Neppes Vortex N-Dimensionalism (15+7+5) or 27/39, and Closes Transcendental Physics (13+9+1) or 23/39. However, both of these models leave out key features making the combination TDVP profoundly more powerful. For example, tethering, at origin, fluctuating dimensions and triadic relevance were major breakthroughs in TDVP. Vortex N-dimensionalism (VND) particularlyNeppes earlier modelcould be criticized because it did not have demonstrable mathematics and theorems, and ignores the calculus of distinctions. Closes earlier Transcendental Physics (TP) model needed to impact the biological and social sciences and needed mechanisms across dimensions. And both VND and TP needed to have specific hypotheses to empirically validate and mathematically prove. In TDVP, we approach this problem in some detail in this book and in its sequel (Space, Time and Consciousness). However, radical though logical new ideas are difficult to demonstrate: Einsteins relativity involved ideas where technology had to catch up: We had to wait until the science could handle the theories. However, with TDVP, even technological advances may be insufficient: Until such time as recognition of feasibility in 3S-1t becomes a key and appropriate scientific method in approaching metadimensionality, C-substrate and the
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infinite, TDVP may languish scientifically. Objectively, TDVP may be decades ahead of conventional thinking in this regard, and it requires a new legitimate Philosophy of Science approach to data: Lower dimensional feasibility, absent falsification (LFAF) is the key. In this regard, it is interesting that models that are not scientific but mystical and have endured for millennia have scored so well. For example, Kabbalic Mysticism scored 19/39 (12+5+2 with 11?) the highest besides TDVP, VND and TP. Moreover, Vedic Mysticism scored 5/39 (11+4+0) it might actually score higher than that, though even with less stringent scoring it should not score higher than Kabbalah because the fundamental bases of Vedic thinking are different consciousness is interpreted differently and it is not triadic. However, in both Kabbalic and in Vedic thinking, it is difficult clarifying many areas as there are ambiguities in the philosophical interpretations and great linguistic differences. It is difficult scoring philosophical ideas and metaphor. These models are also particularly difficult to score because of the limitations of their scientific validation, and their origins being esoteric mystical not scientific. This is why Kabbalic Mysticism has been scored with so many question marks (?) the information is simply not validated or clearly developed. In esoteric sources, you find, for example, references to vortices, and though one does not interpret dimensions as TDVP does, there are the ten Sefirot (of consciousness), and there is even an interpretation of what could be called tethering, and implications of infinite time. But in TDVP, our criteria began as scientific conceptualizations with lack of ambiguity. The mystical models are also in evolution e.g., in Vedic mysticism, it appears the mathematics was worked out much later. We have not yet analyzed Sufic or Tantric or Sankhya philosophy, but the closest mystical model to TDVP (with its unification of the STC triad) appears to Kabbalah, so these should score <19/39.364-369 In Table 5, we compare the several remarkable TOEs which contain outstanding original ideas: Klein and Boyds Subquantal and Quantal field model, which is the highest scoring of all the TOEs other than the TDVP and previous Neppe and Close models and Kabbalic mysticism. This model has enormous potential but was not developed yet in its finer points and most closely resembles TDVP in its broadest perspective. It scores a very creditable (13+6+0) or 19/39. Watsons TES (11+5+1) or 17/39 is very different, and Sheldrakes Morphogenetic Fields (11+5+0) or 16/39 is possibly the most known model, but not developed as a TOE although still scoring remarkably. Carrs Transcendental Field Theory (10+3+3=16/39) partly closely resembles TDVP The lengthy model of Campbell at 12+5+0=17 or 17/39 has attracted some interest. Lanzas Biocentrism (9+5+0) or 14/39 is highly relevant,
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 Smythies Material Dualism (11+1+2) or 14/39 combines neurophysiology and dimensions. Langans CTMU (7+5) at 12/39 (which some perceive as the most esoteric of the TOEs but one that is not really a TOE relating to consciousness itself). Goswami (10+0+1) and Wilbur (10+1+0) follow at 11/39. Not far behind and also exciting models, in themselves, are those of Hoffman and Laszlos Akashic Fields (9/39) and Sirags model of the same score (9/39) has great qualities, despite not even being a TOE. These results, however, essentially and strongly motivate for the powerful breadth of TDVP as a TOE and a paradigm shift. These qualitative results for TDVP are even more dramatic when looked at quantitatively in the TDVP context. For example, there are fifty different mathematical theorems in TDVP, yet this is the only scientific TOE that utilizes theorems (other than Carr who mentions theorems en passant). Moreover, the fifty new definitions and concepts in TDVP were not even qualitatively measured. Other TOEs have, at most, a few new concepts yet TDVP generates nearly six hundred new ideas, some solid, some empirically based, some mathematical and logical, some speculative but with many being testable, either now or some time in the future. The most unique aspects of TDVP is the tethering, yet allowing independence of S, T and C substrates, the fluctuating dimensions, applications of the calculus of distinctions and a workable new philosophical model called unified monism.

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CHAPTER 42: CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE EARLIER CLOSE AND NEPPE THEORIES OF EVERYTHING AND RELATED MODELS 370 Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. Albert Einstein 371 These models are compared in some detail. We begin first with the current TDVP and the earlier Neppe and Close models. We then follow with detailed key information comparing the most similar Theories of Everything or Related Models. The choice of these models has been based on our knowledge of the TOE area. If we missing any that are relevant here, we have done this inadvertently. Current Close and Neppe (Neppe and Close): Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) This has already been discussed in detail. TDVP is far the most comprehensive Theory of Everything that we know of. It has been preceded by many other TOEs individually that have similar ideas. However, it is also unique in certain areas. Indivension is an overriding concept as is the Calculus of Distinctions. This has allowed mathematicologic metrics and allows all postulated tests for any field theories, such as Sheldrakes, and also Subquantal ideas (such as Kleins) to also apply to TDVP. Table 5 indicates how it is complete in every major comparative category. Additionally, TDVP also has the most precise definitions, we believe, of C-substrate (consciousness) and dimensionality and introduces Indivension. It, also, is the first TOE to explain Life and for this reason alone the others fail as TOEs. This is why TDVP involves a paradigm shift because it changes all of reality perception: It is truly groundbreaking, in that regard and fully warrants being regarded as the first metaparadigm amongst the TOEs: It impacts all scientific endeavorthe physical, biological, consciousness and TDVP was not derived from any of these models. It was derived from first principles, and as an offshoot of the models of Close as exemplified in Transcendental Physics and of Neppe as originally in his Vortex Pluralism, which he then perceived as an all encompassing monistic paradigm and renamed it the Vortex N-Dimensional Paradigm (VNDP). However, we
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acknowledge particularly the genius of Saul-Paul Sirag, and a discussion specifically on complex hyperspace and spinors that VN had with him circa 2007. Neppe: Vortex N-Dimensional Paradigm (VNDP) This information is derived from the two key papers by Neppe on Vortices. VNDP derives from a model developed in 1989, and presented publicly first in 1996. We have abstracted the major features. Neppes Vortex N-Dimensionalism Paradigm (VNDP) has now been eclipsed by TDVP of Neppe and Close. However, many of the ideas are similar. The major difference is though much on vortices as described reflects Indivension, the full mechanism was not yet developed. Additionally, VNDP did not have STC tethering per se, a mechanism for life, and did not have any of the mathematics and theorems. In VNDP, Neppe proposes a radical, new paradigmatic shift from the current numerous mindbody theories to the Vortex N-Dimensionalism Paradigm (VNDP). This was previously called Vortex Pluralism (VP) but VND is a misnomer because the VND paradigm essentially is not pluralistic but reflects an all-encompassing N-Dimensional monism, of which the mind and body dilemma is but one component. The VNDP reflects part of a grand universal design and this model obeys the laws of nature. VNDP has two essential components, namely, N-Dimensionalism and the fundamental role of vortices. N-Dimensionalism may involve three fundamental elements: 1. N-Dimensional space tending towards infinity, but not necessarily like the infinity of Hilbert space. This may be modeled on a gradual process of diminishing density / mass in infinite dimensional vortices impacting, impinging, repelling and intruding at and through specific vectors or points, which can be partly conceived of using an imaginary observer. Simplistically, the paradigm of an infinite number of variably shaped and moving vortices allows the subject to experience their reality at specific defined points in an N dimensional universe. 2. Time in our usually experienced universe is one point in time. There is no reason why time should not be all encompassing as well and N-Dimensional as opposed to linear (future to past). 3. Essence is the third necessary component though the most difficult to describe. There may or may not be energetic elements but not limited to or different from the energies generated by space and time. There may be informational and communication elements that cannot be directly translated into space and time. And these may reflect a conscious awareness, responsiveness and integrated understanding. There may be linguistic elements. All of these combine into an essence of being possibly reflected in life or existence and reflecting a conscious kind of reality. This essence may be an inessential part of the model because it is not easily portrayed and it may not be an essence, per se. However, awareness, responsive and interaction of this consciousness may be more essential.
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Superficially such space time elements can be perceived as non-local but the non-locality is relative only, to the absence of experience of higher dimensions (in the sense that 6>5>4.>3 so 6 dimensions is higher than 3). Vortices appear fundamental to nature and every area of scientific endeavor. Vortices can be regarded as circular or ovoid movement including zero (or absence) of movement. Vortices are hypothesized to occur not only within recognized dimensional frameworks, e.g., our 3 dimensions of space and 1 point in time but across dimensions allowing communications between N-Dimensions of space and time. It is possible that vortices may be part of the Essence above involving Life, Information, Communication and Energy (LICE). Numerous sub-hypotheses logically follow or may at least be postulated from the paradigm but are not essential to VNDP's validity. Consequently, their disproof or invalidation of any such hypothesis does not disprove the VNDP. This model of VND should be evaluated using current knowledge from every known model of reality ranging from the natural scientific models ranging of conventional quantum physics, to string theory to vortex atomic theory to mathematics including rare-event theory, and holograms and calculus, to other physical sciences such as astronomy, chemistry and meteorology, to the social sciences including psychology, the unconscious, anthropology and, sociology, to the medical life sciences including genetics, and biology, physiology and anatomy. However, three major disciplines deal with extra dimensions and possibly with shapes or energies outside our earthly realm: Parapsychology, Theology and Philosophy. The last is discussed in these papers; the first two are subjects for later papers. The difficulties of proof of information are raised. Mathematical and cosmological models of non-falsifiability exist. Some of this is not falsifiable because we can only use 3S-1t to do so and N- dimensionality makes it impossible. VNDP impacts on both the infinite and finite with existence having ultimately an infinite number of dimensions. In developing the VNDP model, Neppe utilizes another approach: He demonstrates the fundamental ubiquity of vortices in nature in numerous different sciences. Therefore, the feasibility that the vortex shape is shown and no data contradicting it is demonstrable. In its broadest form, the vortex shape range from spheres to profound elongation of the three dimensional into almost a linear appearance. Its basic components of curvature are sometimes symmetrical, sometimes asymmetrical; sometimes circular, sometimes elliptical or an arc or portion of a warped reality; the vortex may be expanding or contracting or remain the same homogeneous size like a helix. The other essential property of the vortex is movement, however, the movement can include real positive and negative and imaginary and complex
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numbers, as well as zero. And when perceived in multiple dimensions, an observer can perceive zero velocity in one dimension but not another. There appears to be support from the various disciplines: Amongst these are two theories in the Physics/ mathematics domain that particularly support facets of this theory, namely, Rare-event theory and Atomic Vortex Theory. The concepts and body of knowledge of Parapsychology are tenable. Theological frameworks such as Kabbalic mysticism are applicable. Psychological models of extended consciousness fit potentially fit this framework. Furthermore, this model of Vortex Pluralism appears tenable in other areas as well using other natural scientific models ranging from conventional quantum physics, string theory and relativity, to astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, theology and biology, genetics, physiology and pharmacology, and anatomy. VNDP may be the first paradigm to unify all areas of science and philosophy. However, in the original VNDP, Neppe realizes it would be extremely difficult to find formal scientific tests to test this hypothesis. This is what we have done in TDVP. Close: Transcendental Physics Closes Transcendental Physics grew out of the conviction that consciousness had to be introduced into the equations of modern physics. The basis for this was contained in Dr. Closes earlier work Infinite Continuity, published in 1989. Using the calculus of distinctions, adapted from George Spencer Browns Laws of Form and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, Closes paper the Case for the Non-Quantum Receptor, presented at Tucson II, Toward a Science of Consciousness in 1996 became the basis for a mathematical proof by infinite descent of the necessity of a non-quantum receptor both in human consciousness and in the emergence of matter from the big bang, This proof was published in the book Transcendental Physics, in 1997. Transcendental Physics was written for the informed layperson with most of the mathematics presented in appendices at the back of the book. Much of the book is historical narrative, tracing the development of the ideas of Einstein, Bohr, Schrdinger and Heisenberg and the conflict between the determinism of relativity and the basic probabilism of quantum theory. By focusing on: the importance of the observer in both relativity and quantum physics, the book reveals the indicators of a new paradigm. The aim of the author was to raise the public awareness of the emergence of a new paradigm; one that brings consciousness and deep spirituality back into science and restores a sound metaphysical basis for all scientific inquiry. Concepts coming out of Transcendental Physics were seen to align perfectly with Dr. Neppes Vortex N-Dimensional Paradigm (VNDP). And new concepts, including mathematical and geometrical theorems, demonstrations and proofs were motivated. The two theories were complementary; and the combination of the two is greater than the sum of their contents.
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CHAPTER 43: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PREVIOUS THEORIES OF EVERYTHING OR RELATED MODELS: KEY THEORISTS AND COMPARISONS WITH TDVP. 353; 372 Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. Max Planck Sheldrakes Formative Causation Dr. Rupert Sheldrakes model 27 has not formally been perceived as a TOE. But it is a brilliant compilation of information working into a viable model to the extent that the New Scientist journal held a competition in 1983 for a model to test this theory and one of the winners was Neppe, who also devoted a full journal that he edited to Sheldrakes work. This is why we include it here. Sheldrake postulates "Morphic (Morphogenetic) fields" within and around a morphic unit, which is organizes into as characteristic structure and pattern of activity. This morphic field underlies the formation and behavior of morphic units, and can be set up by the repetition of similar acts or thoughts. A particular form will tune in via morphic resonance, into its already established specific morphic field and use the collective information through the process of morphic resonance. There is psychological archetype support from Carl Jung and using Vedic akashic records. Memory-traces are related and "non-local" in time and space. Morphic fields are the universal database for both organic (living) and abstract (mental) forms. Ultimately, the morphic fields stabilize. Morphogenetic fields contain the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing and may also shape its behavior and coordination with other beings. Sheldrake's is an example of what is currently (incorrectly in our opinion) regarded as unfalsifiable because, using a process akin to LFAF, it is testable. He proposes that the process of morphic resonance leads to stable morphic fields, which are significantly easier to tune into. In this way, simpler organic forms self-organize into more complex This model allows a different explanation for the process of evolution itself, as an addition to Darwin's evolutionary processes of selection and variation. 27; 236; 373. Sheldrakes formative causation implies that as one learns certain patterns they become easier. This appears initially contradicted by the decline effect we see in parapsychology, consciousness, and psychological research. However, one must take into account the whole picture. The whole picture relates to boredom, frustration, no feedback, people not being as enthusiastic. In other words, the whole methodology of the experiment has changed. Consequently, although one sees a broader decline effect, it does not mean to say that this rules out formative causation where like a radio receiver one is tuning into a new event and one can
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more and more easily tune into a new event. Applying formative causation to TDVP, vortices impact at certain points via indivension of individual-units. This impacting could be attuned to being like a radio receiver, imprinting itself. We can understand this impact because of the natural asymmetry in metadimensionality. This in and of itself limits the aspects of formative causation potentially because one would expect identical imprints and here one is seeing asymmetry. However, again one must look at the data in relation to formative causation. We are not dealing with a 100% model, not like speech communication. Instead, we are still dealing with statistically relevant rare events, although not as rare as psi because hypothetically this may involve a higher dimensionality. The higher realities, therefore, will have a broader influence on lower dimensions, such as 3S-1t, although to a lesser degree of influence on a specific event. However, given several of these components of vortices interfacing, certainly formative causation could be useful. Effectively, indivension intersects across realities and across dimensions and these fluctuating dimensions are highly relevant. As indicated, they can occur as a state phenomenon within individuals or individual-units, such as small groups. such as in dreams or in some kind of mystical state or meditative state. Alternatively, they may persist as a trait consciousness phenomenon persistent over time at a certain dimension or collection of dimensions (domain) in metaconsciousness. One hypothetical example has been survival after bodily death, another example is of a state phenomenon such as a subjective near death experience of out of body experience. The content is vortices or maybe morphogenetic fields or some kind of transcendental fields. It is the content as this is what it contains. It is not a dimensional extent, it is like mass. However, there is a process that is occurring. The process that we postulate is an advancement on one that was not worded specifically in relation to vortices, but has been around for many years in Neppes model, and that is Indivension. Indivension also always allows movement across fluctuating dimensions. The process that Sheldrake has postulated is formative causation, though asymmetries and decline effects limit formative causation, which we postulate could only be one of several possible mechanisms. Therefore, formative causation is not a necessary mechanism for our model to be true, however, if formative causation is illustrated, it would be a sufficient illustration to allow our model to be further supported by LFAF. The TDVP model differs from Sheldrakes model in that it traces the origin of morphic fields to the N-Dimensional hierarchy of the C-substrate, and the origin of the C-substrate to the reverse event horizon of the big bang or any other kind of Origin Event. This explains why the morphic forms are vortical in nature. It also relates rare events, such as verifiable psi phenomena to the
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dynamics of vortical forms and multiple dimensions. Carr: Transcendental Field Theory The models of Carr and Smythies below are both based on previous models involving the earlier suggestions of C.D. Broad 374and H.H. Price158. Dr. Bernard Carr is a prominent Cambridge mathematician and his 2008 model comes from a basis in cosmology and physics. It also relies on the thinking of the South African mathematician, mystic and consciousness researcher, Dr. J.H. Michael Whiteman. Like Smythies one, it proposes the links between consciousness and higher dimensions of space-time. Carr recognizes that physics regularly undergoes paradigm shifts and a new paradigm must assign a central role to consciousness as there are indications that this is a fundamental rather than an incidental feature of the Universe. Carr also emphasizes the ostensible difficulty of fully reconciling matter and fields: Matter usually refers to solid objects (like bricks) which are made up of atoms, which themselves comprise fundamental spin-half particles called fermions (e.g., quarks and electrons). However, physics also describes the fields through which matter interacts, these corresponding to integer-spin particles called bosons (e.g., photons, gluons and gravitons). It also incorporates concepts like the quantum mechanical wave function and higher dimensions, which are very remote from the ordinary mundane reality of classical physics. Carr recognizes, like Smythies does, the critical role of any sort of percept, which is not associated with or derived from the ordinary physical world, and therefore, the difficulties of terms like mind and non-physical in stressing the link with the laws of nature. His model of Transcendental Field Theory links with M-theory, in String Theory and recognizes the need for a higher-dimensional model that involves fields. Carrs Universal Structure, a higher dimensional reality structure or information space, is the container of all perceptions or experiences (be they physical or non-physical). This arises in physics as a natural extension of general relativity, but philosophically with perceptual, phenomenal or psychic space. Carr recognizes the geometrical aspects of this theory and the limitations (as we do in TDVP) of portraying higher dimensional components into 3 spatial dimensions, citing Dr. Ian Stevenson. However, similar to our TDVP model, that nexus may be considerably expanded in a higher dimensional description (e.g., two lines which are disconnected in a lower-dimensional space may be connected in a higher-dimensional one). Thus, while one has a distinct identity at the level of t1, one may be connected with other consciousnesses at the level of t2. From this perspective, telepathy may be the manifestation of the higher-dimensional connection between two people, and experiences of mystical unity may reflect some more universal connection. This also links to the notion of survival, since it is natural to associate survival space with memory space in this picture 375. Carrs model amalgamates physical space with various types of mental space.
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Dr. Carrs proposal is similar to that of Smythies, except that it places more emphasis on the relationship between the phenomenal spaces associated with different consciousnesses. Like Broad, he argues that physical and phenomenal space must be contained within a single higherdimensional space. In Smythies model both physical and phenomenal space are real but intersect in some way. Similar to TDVP, Carr recognizes the need to allow for non- Riemannian metrics. He interprets this as possibly some higher-dimensional embedding space yet the world we experience remains 4-dimensional. He suggests in Universal Structure of an extended notion of time. A multi-level time perspective relates to the problem of identity and explains how there can be many manifestations of a single unitary consciousness. By comparison, this component has broad similarities to our postulated minimum three time dimensions in TDVP, and also the concepts of state and trait process of indivension with the content being vortices. Both models differ from the serial time approach of J. W. Dunne 96, who also invoked an extra dimension to explain the flow of time and used this to explain precognition and applied an infinite regress of time effectively postulating N dimensions, although TDVP recognizes N-Dimensional domains which fluctuate individually. Applying the concept of embedding is also relevant to TDVP, dimensions and tethering. Just as we cannot really separate a two-dimensional domain from the three-dimensional domain in which it is embeddedwe can only separate them conceptuallyS, T and C cannot be separated at their sources. The concept of tethering is a conceptual way of expressing the very real universal connection of S, T and C through dimensional linking, a connection which is perceptually fragmented by the limitations of the physical senses of conscious individual-units. In his Transcendental Field Theory (TFT), Carr proposes fields more extensive than the usual physical ones (similar to Zllners transcendental physics of 1879).376 Fields are combined with higher dimensions and quantum effects, and he assumes all interactions can be interpreted geometrically and TFT should be able to explain the interaction not only of physical objects but also of hyperphysical (what we are calling metadimensional) ones. It is a logical endpoint to the approaches previously proposed by Marshall, Smythies and Whiteman and Beichler, who recognized that the existence of the 5th dimension means that the mind necessarily extends beyond the brain. 70; 330; 377-380 Carr recognizes the relevance of this kind of model implying a true paradigm shift affecting all of science and culture. We agree. The TDVP model differs from Carrs TFT model in that it applies Neppes fluctuating ND vortical interfaces to explain the interaction of consciousness with reality on different dimensional levels. The TDVP paradigm shift also introduces ordropy as a more comprehensive term, as well as indivension as a logical basis for the relative and personal nature of individual conscious entities.
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Ultimately, TDVP presents a model that reflects the big picture: The broader top-down approach to space, time and consciousness. This may, consequently, allow conceptualization of new prioritiesit allows for lateral thinking. For example, one could speculate that the Higgs Boson, the so-called God Particle381, may have a broader relevance than particle physicists think. Could this or another particle or property be tied into the C-substrate, and more legitimately linked with some kind of Chronit? Could the search be less for a particle, or a wave, and more for that third elusive component, not yet characterized but within the Csubstrate? The inseparability of Time, Space and Consciousness Substrates cries out for such a hypothesis. TDVP: A metalevel higher than Field Theories. Essentially, TDVP is a metalevel above TFT or any other Field Theory, including subquantal 71 and morphogenetic fields 27. Most importantly, TDVPs N-dimensional top-down approach includes the transfinite and infinity. It, therefore, subsumes field theory, because these fields involve a content at lower dimensional levels. Whereas some field theories, such as Carrs345, recognize metadimensionality as relevant, most do not invoke extra dimensions, trying to explain the fields within 3S-1t or 3S-1T. The higher dimensional model is a critical part of TDVP subsuming Field Theories and models because it is a metalevel higher. This implies that whatever empirical or theoretical data is demonstrated in these field models, they would, likely, also be applicable to TDVPfor example, the data already supporting morphogenetic fields, for example, could be applied to support TDVP, as well. However, the limitations of specific Field Theories might still be overcome by TDVP, because there might be higher level explanations. In addition, there are several important secondary reasons for field theories to be explained within the TDVP model: TDVP flexibly incorporates into its model any fields involving multiple lower dimensions because of fluctuating ordinal dimensions in the transfinite. Field models do not include infinity. This means that any finite model can be incorporated into the infinite subreality of TDVP. TDVPs C-substrate allows for a metalevel of consciousness. Most field or multidimensional string theory and field models ignore consciousness (the obvious exceptions are the models of Smythies 378, Carr 345 and Whiteman 268). TVDP applies a flexible process (indivension) allowing a content (vortical fluctuations) within, between and across dimensions. Vortical indivension subsumes fields. TDVP allows for a social context (individual units) making it far broader than models that are based on physical fields alone. The subsuming of fields in TDVP is supported by other complex explanations to be discussed in Space, Time and Consciousness: These could include variable force fields manifesting, inter alia, as warping of dimensions.
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 Mathematicological demonstrations support TDVP being a metalevel higher and by so doing incorporating Field Theories: o Closes calculus of distinctions allows the ordinal metric for the C-substrate. o The lower dimensional incorporations are sometimes explained by dimensional extrapolations to lower levels and the converse increases in metadimensionality. Smythies: Theory Of Material Dualism We invited Dr. John Smythies to contribute a short prcis of his excellent Material Dualism theory, which serves as a philosophical model on a basis of clinical neurology and neuroscience. Smythies model (1956 and 1994) precedes Carrs chronologically and is based from a clinical neurology and neuroscience perspective. 361, 139 Smythiess major aspects are consciousness in the context of topological phenomenal space and use of a tesseract (effectively an orthogonal 4D cube, not therefore, the curvature of a vortex). It also involves vectors and connections, and it recognizes psi and individual participation in a common 3D domain, but conceptualizes, too, the relevance of clusters of N-Dimensional consciousness models. He recognizes the great thinker, Leibniz and compares Jourdans model. He also recognizes a variant of vortex, however (as in the Ehrenhaft phenomenon, described above). This offers a method of testing the theory experimentally, and it could also be used for testing the vortices in TDVP. We quote from Smythies 382 as follows. Phenomenal consciousness, contra Descartes, may be observed to have a complex structure. One part contains entities (or events if time is included) i.e., visual and somatic sensationsthe latter making up the body image of neurologyand images, that are located and extended in phenomenal space. The other part (i.e., auditory, olfactory and gustatory sensations and images) contains entities that are located, but not extended, in phenomenal space: plus the unextended Self or Observer. 3D phenomenal space (A) and 3D physical space (B) are different cross-sections of a higher-dimensional space. The topological model for this is a tesseract, not a cube. The human organism has a part in Bthe physical bodyas well as a part in Athe consciousness module as described in (I). A and B are connected by causal relations called psi-gamma (afferent) and psi-kappa (efferent). These may be represented by vectors in 4D. In Smythiess model the physical body is located in one cube of the tesseract and the consciousness module, that includes the body-image that we experience, is located in another cube of the tesseract. The psi vectors run from a point in cube A to a point in cube B. Psi normally focuses on the brain but has a penumbra that allows for clairvoyance and telepathy. We (Neppe and Close, and also Klein) regard the tesseractic (geometric) approach to metadimensionality as extending Space beyond 3D as contradicting the assumptions both of the
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TDVP and Subquantal models. Psi does not require extended space, we posit, but elements pertaining to Vortical Indivension interfaces and these may reflect Time and C-substrates. 352 Thus, the N-Dimensional material universe has a common 3D domain (currently regarded by physics as the universe), as well as a number of private 3D domains called Higher Consciousness modules. The relationship between one persons consciousness module and another persons consciousness module remains to be determined.fff The currently fashionable brain-mind identity hypothesis (IT) (metaphysics masquerading as science) is impossible because it violates Leibnizs Law of the Identity of Indiscernibles. Cartesian Dualism gives an inaccurate account of phenomenal consciousness. Material Dualism ties up a number of loose ends in the neuroscientific account of consciousness: it is just as important to give a true account of what the brain does not do, as well as of what it actually does. In ordinary perception the Self is aware of its sensations constructed by TV-like representative mechanisms. For example the eye functions like a TV camera, the brain like the electronic mechanism used in digital TV, and the visual field in consciousness like the screen of the TV set. In the NDE state reported by Jourdan the Self leaves body-image, and vision is no longer constrained to focus on the ordinary visual field. Instead it now can focus directly on the physical world, now observed from a 5D perspective (including time) (as explained in detail by Jourdan)383 Klein and Boyd: Subquantum Integration Approach Klein in Israel and Boyd 71 in the USA have motivated subquantal or other sub-quantum infinitesimals in non-local space (a database supports this subquantal emptiness which may not be empty or may be dark space). Their new Subquantum Integration Approach demonstrates how they have very actively researched the literature, and very creatively substantiated their very complex model based on empirical data that is little known in general but has been demonstrated nonetheless. Effectively, in their model, the subquantum is assumed to coexistentially accommodate proto-units for matter, energy and information. Information and mass are thereby brought onto an equal ontological footing, in the subquantum domains. The basis of their model is the Nobel winning, Fractional Quantum Hall Effect. This suggests the further divisibility of the quantum domain, which was previously considered an irreducibly fundamental component of nature. Drs. Klein and Boyd provide data supporting subquantum potentials evolving in the Prime Radiation Substrate.71 These result in organizing functions able to interfere with classical local determinacy chains, operating at the quantum levels of randomness inherent in space-time-like matter configurations, leading to highly complex representational patterns, linked to their phenomenal correlates in macroscopically detectable
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systems. Their model has significant experimental evidence. They recognize Quantum Potential (Quantum Field Theory) as a superluminal Sub Quantum Information-carrying aether. This allows interaction with matter and physical forces at well defined Space-time positions effectively producing information content into our observable world modulating the event potential. 71 They describe matter as an n-degree entanglement state of SQ complexity. They describe an absolute void with a lack of matter equal to a space-time sequence resulting in information in its nascent, non-aggregative form (the Sub quantum plenum). Implicated layers of increasingly subtle pre-quantum domain may be organized in complete worlds of the kind our current standard physical universe is, but ranging till its own "absolute void" as a transition state to the next implication level of reality. The pre-quantum tenets rely upon experimentally testable assessments. Klein and Boyd assert and upside-down epistemological approach for the primary determinism that Information structures have upon their physical counterparts. 71 Their views are perfectly consistent both with conventional empirical treatment of space-time defying representational variables, and their causal primacy upon Quantum implementation systems of their content, in the integral range of their polyvalent manifestation. A defined endless time vector allows ab initio existing inherent resonance links in any subquantal subtlety domain to turn into fluxes and organization effects leading to sequential entelechial self-contended worlds. These primeval harmonic SQ resonances are the very pattern of their overarching cosmic harmony, the source of all conceivable manifestation and interconnectedness. Communication is via subquantal communication Klein and Boyd have motivated this in their new subquantum integration approach. Klein, after examining our current TDVP model, points out the Subquantum Model is a Unified asymmetric monism, implying Bohm's implicate orders of reality, and thus the particular ontological essence of Information in its non-tethered variant to the triadic STC tensor. Consequently, all manifestation (virtual or actual) in the Subquantum Plenum is originating in the over-arching cosmic harmony contended in a potential form in the predistinctional null-singularity. 143 The Klein-Boyd model cannot be done justice to here. If it is correct, it could possibly still fit an additional component of our model of indivension providing a possible field using the smallest of reality elements. Evert and his Typology of Aether-Motion-Pattern Alfred Evert has developed a Typology of Aether-Motion-Pattern311. Everts aether has any kind of granules assumed to be minimum small sub-quantum-particles. He postulates that all aether is connected, there are no gaps within and everywhere the medium is likely hard. His portrayal of the aether closely resembles vortices and so overlaps with TDVP, in that regard. Wider swinging should exist within that resting Free Aether. He postulates that the principle
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of intensive movement at the middle is inevitable characteristic of motions within gapless and partless aether. That motion-pattern is contrary to many motions of our experienced material world, where, e.g., all wheels are moving most fast at the rim. He postulates there is only one aether-substance and no second material-substance (like elementary- or sub-elementary-particles or any kind of substantial matter). Indeed all material, spiritual and mental appearances exclusively are different motion pattern of aether within the aether. Above this, nothing solid is wandering through space. Only the characteristic features of motion-structures are forwarded through the stationary aether (just like sound wanders through resting air). He proposed that particle-less and gap-less aether any motion should be possible. Based on strong mutual interdependence of synchronous motions, the aether can not move unrestricted (like, e.g., particles can move within gases or also previous aether-granules could move - if there would be great distances between). Within the gapless aether however, only a restricted number of motion-patterns in principle can exist with compelling necessary structure-features, like upside mentioned as typology of aether-movement pattern. The high degree of mutual interdependence is the essential reason for limited bend-ability of the aether. Whereas the model may be brilliant, it is not easy to fully appreciate and it is difficult for us to classify in the TOE framework. Much of this is theoretical and because the ideas are very different from conventional physics, it is difficult at this point to take seriously. However, his vortical model is well developed and it is interesting to see the ubiquity of the vortex even in a hypothetical aether. String Theory and Dimensionalities String theory involves another multidimensional perspective. The series of theories is particularly complex, but have in common the theories of multidimensionalities. Initially, in the 1920s and 1930s, Polish Theodore Kaluza and Swedens Oscar Kleins theory of 5 and later 4 dimensions existed384; then 26 dimensions were hypothesized, then varying string theories of 10 dimensions were suggested, then time was added making eleven M theory385, and recently with a second time dimension was hypothesized producing a twelfth dimension the F-theory of Vafa circa 1997386. String theory supports pluralism although it has not been NDimensional per se. The fundamental premise of string theory is that the basic objects in nature are not point-like, but rather string like. This requires all of gauge quantum field theory, supersymmetry and gravitation to produce a unified theory. String theory sometimes uses parallels such as musical instruments to make it more comprehensible. In string theory, elementary particles observed in particle accelerators could be thought of as the "musical notes" or excitation modes of elementary strings. As in guitar
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playing, the string must be stretched under tension in order to become excited. The strings in string theory float in space-time, and are not tied down as in a guitar. Nonetheless, they have tension387. The string tension in string theory is denoted by the quantity 1/(2 p a'), where a' is equal to the square of the string length scale. Combining quantum gravity, the average size of a string should be extremely tiny, near the length scale of quantum gravity the Planck length, about 10 -33 centimeters. Current or expected particle physics technology is too large to test hypotheses dealing with objects of such infinitesimally small sizes. 388 Table 6: Perspective of String Theories (from (http://www.superstringtheory.com/basics/basic5.html) Type Space-time Details Dimensions Bosonic 26 Only bosons, no fermions means only forces, no matter, with both open and closed strings. Major flaw: a particle with imaginary mass, called the tachyon I 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with both open and closed strings, no tachyon, group symmetry is SO(32) IIA 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, massless fermions spin both ways (nonchiral) IIB 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, massless fermions only spin one way (chiral) HO 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, heterotic, meaning right moving and left moving strings differ, group symmetry is SO(32) HE 10 Supersymmetry between forces and matter, with closed strings only, no tachyon, heterotic, meaning right moving and left moving strings differ, group symmetry is E8 x E8 Some highlights of modern string theory history: (based on Figueroa-O'Farrill) 1984Green & Schwarzanomaly cancellation: After the first revolution, five perturbatively consistent superstring theories, living in a tenDimensional space-time. 1994 Seiberg & Witten supersymmetric gauge theories 1994Hull & Townsend string dualities. Today: the search is for an intrinsic description of M-theory.
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String theories are classified according to loops strings closed or not, and particle spectrum including fermions, which require a special kind of symmetry called supersymmetry- for every boson (particle that transmits a force) there is a corresponding fermion (particle that makes up matter). Supersymmetry relates the particles that transmit forces to the particles that make up matter. The parallels of unusual mass energy relationships with VP are drawn. 388 We can extend this to sub-atomic physics and quantum physics with enormous periods of space emptiness in our conventional three-dimensional universe anyway, interfacing with points sub-atomic particles - at a time level, all again with ovoid, occasionally irregular, motion implying a relativity of perception of observer, which only then makes reality logical. Already string theory is up to twelve dimensions with a variant including two dimensions of time386. Is there a reason why there should not be a dimension beyond the maximum number of dimensions discovered as calculations at each of the previous maximum number, e.g., ten, needed another dimension, e.g., eleventh, to explain them appropriately. This should then continue ad infinitum. String and Superstring theories are but modifications of an approach to mass/energy extended from a disconnected 3S-1t domain and assuming self-contended and self-originated shapes and energies. Although pioneering multidimensionality, this relates to space, not time and consciousness, and so is largely irrelevant both for the TDVP and Subquantal models. Hawking: Many-worlds Interpretation and Dimensionalities The great contemporary physicist, Steven Hawking29; 357; 358, and others such as Everett in 1957 272, 66; 67 support the interpretation of many worlds with an infinite universe. (MWI) MWI is only one of several competing theories in Quantum Mechanics but if it is true it may imply immortality. Moreover, it may imply parallel universes.ggg 339 In this regard, the Tegmark Quantum Suicide experiment can prove that the experimenter does not experience death, but that cannot be objectified to anyone else. 389. However, MWI rests on several premises continued by Hawking and his co-author, physicist Leonard Mlodinow 358 where, they describe the concept of multiverse in their M-theory, a conglomeration of several theories, and concludes as we do that multi-dimensionality exists, everything and every time exist simultaneously, and have from the outset. This component is similar to TDVP, but our model defines out N-D extrapolation, vortices, distinctions, three-dimensional time, the Primary Receptor, indivension, life and ordropy. Hawkings MWI differs fundamentally because consciousness is denied (not even in their index) and their position is still in the dead end of physicalistic materialism: From this point of view, human beings are fortuitous arrangements in the debris of the expanding physical
The Tegmark QSE at a closer scrutiny applies only in the Space-Time Quantum regime, while disregarding Quantum decoherence sources that may be present in hidden variables originating both in C-substrate as well as retrotemporal vectors beyond T1 (amply described both in the TDVP and Subquantum models). 352
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universe, brought into being by a self-organizing feature intrinsic to physical matter and energy, implying, that the belief in anything beyond the physical is fantasy. Hawking and Mlodinow358: There is no way to remove the observer -- us -- from our perceptions of the world. In classical physics, the past is assumed to exist as a definite series of events, but according to quantum physics, the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities." Our TDVP model is based, inter alia, on copious evidence demonstrating the existence of psi phenomena, but not invoking the supernatural, as well as analyzing the evidence and logic pointing to the existence of an all encompassing, ever-existing primary form of consciousness that gives meaning to physical, psychological and mystical experience, and really explains why there is something instead of nothing. Langans Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU) Christopher Langan's well-reasoned and detailed TOE is entitled the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe360. Our TDVP model though approached entirely differently, has some striking similarities to Langan's very sophisticated model. The similarities, however, were developed skeletally in our model before CMTU in 1998. (Dr. Neppe was first presented in 1989; and Dr. Close similarly published his model prior to 1998 in 1996 and 1997 8). For example: In Langan's CTMU, he mentions how the real universe has always been theoretically treated as an object, specifically as the composite type of object known as a set. He argues that an object or set exists in space and time, but reality does not. Tautologically, the real universe by definition contains all that is real, therefore, there is no "external reality" (or space, or time) in which it can exist or have been "created". This approach is very different to our TDVP, which links space and time to consciousness. Furthermore, Langan points out how the universe is not the sum of its parts, as these parts exist solely within a space-time manifold identified with the whole and cannot explain the manifold itself 360. He points out that this rules out pluralistic explanations of reality, forcing us to seek an explanation at once monic (because nonpluralistic) and holistic (because the basic conditions for existence are embodied in the manifold, which equals the whole). Obviously, the first step towards such an explanation is to bring monism and holism into coincidence." Neppe called his original Vortex Dimensional Model, Vortex Pluralism referring to the N-Dimensions as pluralistic 5. However, within years he recognized that it was Monistic 6; 7 (just as Langan does 360) and incorporates all of reality (a whole). Therefore, we both recognize the Monistic and Whole component of existence as well. Langan also applies topology (containment). So do we: We apply 3-D vortices in TDVP. Langan applies Cantor's set theory; we apply a great advancement of this: Closes calculus of distinctions allowing us to develop a mathematical model of distinctions of consciousness leading to different dimensions. Langan sees the cosmos as dynamic; in our Indivension model, we see dimensions as fluctuating dependent on state and individual-unit.
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 Langan uses mathematical topological mapping. In TDVP, we use some 50 plus theorems, many of which we have developed, but essentially, many relate to dimensionometry. Langan uses the word "God". We speak of the Origin Event and the Primary Receptor, as a non-prejudicial term. Langans CTMU recognizes the roles of zero and infinity, just as TDVP does, but TDVP uses concepts of relative zero and relative infinity. Langan's emphasis is different "Reality Theory". However, in TDVP, one major element involves the distinctions of different kinds of Reality, namely, perceptual, conceptual, experiential (PCE); variables of intent, content, extent (ICE); distinguishing features, distinguished from, consciousness drawing the distinction (DFC). Langan's "spirituality" is one component in our consciousness and N-Dimensionality models. He recognizes the need for some kind of meaningful intelligence in evolution. In TDVP, we recognize the fundamental tethering of reality at the STC level, but we go beyond that with our concepts of Vortical Indivension, fluctuating dimensions and explanations of life: Theoretically, aspects of information in indivension may not be relevantly tethered because the sentient being may not be involved, just the merging of several interdimensional windows. But there are major differences too. Langans emphasis is different 360. He regards his Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe or CTMU, can be regarded as a supertautological realitytheoretic extension of logic. Laszlo The Akashic Field TOE The philosopher, Ervin Laszlo has been an extremely prolific writer and an outstanding thinker. In his 2004 book, Science and the Akashic Field 348 : An Integral Theory of Everything posits a field of information as the substance of the cosmos 348. Much of his model derives from Sanskrit and Vedic traditions and he applies the "Akashic field" or "A-field" term for "space" and he utilizes cosmic memory refers to a universal field. Dr. Laszlo postulates a "quantum vacuum" as the fundamental energy and information-carrying field that informs the Metaverse (collectively, all universes past and present) 348. As in our TDVP model, Lszl motivates conscious life-forms and informed evolution solving several problems that emerge from quantum physics, especially non-locality and quantum entanglement. In TDVP, there is the initial tethering of C-substrate with S-substrates and Tsubstrates. Laszlos concept of the preconditions has some similarity, but without the tethering of all reality. Laszlo posits that our universe is so fine-tuned to the creation of systems of higher and higher orders of complexity, differentiation, and integration, that such a universe would have come about by chance is astronomically improbable. According to quantum cosmology, some 1 x 10500 (1 followed by five hundred zeros) universes could exist physically, but only a handful could give rise to life. Therefore, our life-supporting universe brought about by a random
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selection from this enormous set of possible universes is a still almost impossible, but far, far more improbable than that living species would have come about by random mutations. The solution to evolution he feels requires highly harmonized and coordinated processes in all its domains. He also applies Rudolph Steiners models of spiritual-scientific methodology 151; 348 Lanza and Biocentrism Physician and biologist, Robert Lanza has proposed a model of Biocentrism. This recognizes the primacy of consciousness features in the work of Descartes, Kant, Leibniz, Berkeley, Schopenhauer, and Bergson. Dr. Lanza postulates, like Smythies does, that space and time are forms of sense perception rather than external physical objects. In this way there is a similarity with our model of Closes calculus of distinctions and percepts of reality 196. Lanza 347, like Laszlo 348 and ourselves, recognizes the extreme unlikelihood of the Cosmos arising purely by chance and the continued elements that seem to have maintained our survival on earth. Lanza and Berman have mentioned that 96 percent of the universe is comprised of dark matter and dark energy 347, the nature of which is a mystery, and this may imply that materialistic scientists are ignorant of 96 percent of their subject matter including non-local manifestations of consciousness about how the universe does or does not work. Dr. Lanza recognizes the profound implications of how exact the dozen constants in physics must be to allow the world and consciousness to exist. 347 However, this raises the controversy of the anthropic principle. The anthropic principle states that when speculating about causes of the universe's properties, humans should take into account the conditions necessary for them to exist. If a suitable universe does not evolve intelligent life, then there would be no observers to notice that fact. This anthropic principle can be strong or weak. The strong anthropic principle recognizes that an infinite number of universes could produce every possible combination of initial properties and only those universes with exactly the correct density (or fundamental constants in this context) for forming galaxies and stars would give rise to intelligent observers such as humans 92. Therefore, such constants could simply be a reflection of our own existence." The "weak anthropic principle" requires no speculation on multiple universes, or on the probabilities of various different universes existing instead of the current one, because it requires only a infinite universe so that everything could potentially exist. Debate ensues as to the relevance. Bernard Carr and Martin Rees390 argued that the anthropic principle is entirely post hoc because it has not yet been used to predict any feature of the Universe 390. But they point out that these strong anthropic principles are not vacuous or trivial arguments and these reflect how strong the relevance is to determine the remarkable exactitude of the physical constants and features of our Universe. They point out that the weak anthropic principle cannot just be resolved by just a simple selection effect. Ernan McMullin 391 argued that "the weak Anthropic principle is trivial, and the strong
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Anthropic principle is indefensible." Therefore, many physicists and philosophers of science do not consider the principle to be compatible with the scientific method. Moreover, there are other ways that such principles can be interpreted, including theologically, which muddies the waters because of the multiple interpretations of the anthropic principle. Lanzas model does not really recognize space-time in the way we have portrayed it, but certainly involves sense-perception. In a way there are elements of both dualism and idealism philosophically. Lanza's theory of biocentrism has seven principles. 347 1. What we perceive as reality is a process that involves our consciousness. An "external" reality, if it existed, would by definition have to exist in space. But this is meaningless, because space and time are not absolute realities but rather tools of the human and animal mind. 2. Our external and internal perceptions are inextricably intertwined. They are different sides of the same coin and cannot be divorced from one another. 3. The behavior of subatomic particles, indeed all particles and objects, is inextricably linked to the presence of an observer. Without the presence of a conscious observer, they at best exist in an undetermined state of probability waves. 4. Without consciousness, "matter" dwells in an undetermined state of probability. Any universe that could have preceded consciousness only existed in a probability state. 5. The structure of the universe is explainable only through biocentrism. The universe is finetuned for life, which makes perfect sense as life creates the universe, not the other way around. The "universe" is simply the complete spatio-temporal logic of the self. 6. Time does not have a real existence outside of animal-sense perception. It is the process by which we perceive changes in the universe. 7. Space, like time, is not an object or a thing. Space is another form of our animal understanding and does not have an independent reality. We carry space and time around with us like turtles with shells. Thus, there is no absolute self-existing substrate in which physical events occur independent of life. Lanza's Biocentrism recognizes a deterministic Universe implemented by retrocausation but ignores its metadimensional structure and its implications, thus limiting reality to physically manifesting self-conscious structures. 352 Laszlo and Lanza on Evolution and Reality In a way, Laszlo and Lanza are similar. They both argue cogently for some kind of meaningful reality in the progression of our human life existence to this time. And they both recognize how remarkable and statistically infinitesimally improbable it is that our universe, our earth, life and humankind exist purely by chance. They both cogently argue that the more usual standard model of physics cannot explain why we live, and how we humans continue to persist, not necessarily evolutionally but over a lifetime and across lives. Is there just a physical automatic mechanism that will continue irrespective? Once the switch has been put on, does it just run without any help?
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On the other hand, many reductionist scientists apply physical materialism, and cogently argue that these events, though apparently remarkable, are just statistical aberrations, and we humans on earth are the consequences of this. They are anthropically easy to explain, and materialists maintain the statistics support their views. Certainly, an uncontrolled natural evolution of the species is a strong possibility, and would still support a physicalistic presupposition of reality. It really depends how one sets the Bayesian statistical null set and probabilities, or even if one can apply such Bayesian statistics, at all, to such events. Similarly, indeed, is the physicalistic model of evolution alone without any guidance sufficient to overcome the reality of the random selection of our world from the 10500 cosmic worlds and the appropriate evolution of man? Maybe it is. But others including Lanza and Laszlo point out the statistical illogicality of this argument. On the other hand, are there exceptions to a natural but unguiding evolution? Could it be that there is a blueprint from the beginning and the rest freewheeled from there? This is how Laszlo perceives it. And Lanza points out about 200 fundamental constants. Like TDVP, both oppose the complete accident model of the existence of a physical reality as a blind evolution with a maintained world over billions of years, grandly continuing as a blind cosmos which happened by pure accident and without any interference. Where does TDVP fit this model? Like the ideas of Laszlo and Lanza, TDVP recognizes the fundamental relevance of consciousness with space and time. But TDVP explicitly recognizes both the source inseparability and the tethered linkages, as well as the interchanges of the finite and infinite subrealities. These possibly have profound philosophical implications: If every structure, every subatomic particle, and every component of reality is fundamentally tethered to a meaningful kind of consciousness, it implies that decisions of the most primitive kind are being made from the finite beginning and will continue. It could be that an infinite subreality with consciousness, meaning and guidance simply freewheels, and impacts all current events, but without any current interventions. However, in TDVP, we posit that given the unitary elements of metatime in the infinite, with meaningful activities impacting the finite, an active finite subreality would be far more likely than just freewheeling. Moreover, our specific postulate of three-dimensional time further suggests freewill. The watchmaker making the watch metaphor of a meaningful origin may be appropriate, but we posit that if that watch then ran only purely automatically, without guiding or meaning in the current finite subreality, then TDVP would make less sense. Additionally, the specific zillions of tethers of consciousness through indivension vortices across dimensions allowing for meaningful information, makes it more likely that the finite subreality is far more complex than our perceived 3S-1t physical existence. Therefore, we propose that there is a continued active interaction in our finite 3S-1t reality, which involves a freedom of choice and meaningful interchange with the infinite. This watch may best be served by winding, and that implies, philosophically, an ongoing purpose. Campbell: My Big TOE The physicist, Thomas Campbell has developed a very detailed and also deep and well-thought
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out Theory of Everything called My Big Toe 355 (MBT). This consists of a lengthy trilogy of books published in the 21st century. The MBT model is based on a mixture of science, transmission of meaning and subjective paranormal experiences including his collaboration since the 1970s with Robert Monroe, who extensively chronicled out-of-body experiences. It has continued to develop with several others currently contributing their ideas. Campbells TOE begins with the assumptions of consciousness and evolution 345. Evolution is the fundamental process of trial and error that moves toward greater profitability by increasing the quality of consciousness and decreasing entropy. Campbell regards these two assumptions as reflecting the limitations of Einsteins approach and he suggests why Einstein failed to create a TOE. He regards the fundamental field as nonphysical, consisting of a consciousness with fractals. This transcends and encompasses space-time, and is digital. Consciousness is a form of nonphysical energy (but in a very different sense to conventional use of the term energy) and by recognizing this, Campbell points out how quantum mechanics may need re-interpretation in some details. Campbells model has both computerized and gainful need components: He describes a fundamental digital energy that he regards as the media of reality. Just as in TDVP, psi plays an important role, as do the emphases on Origin Event. The Campbell model is very complex, specialized in vocabulary and detailed. My Big Toe involves the collection of linked Virtual Realities of Physical Matter and Non-Physical Matter types that represent our local society in the fractally organized totality of the Absolute Unbounded Manifold. One of Campbell's missions has been to return the paradigm of science to more traditional ancient concepts of everything originating in consciousness. Consciousness reflected in Buddha's teachings and Indian metaphysics as the origin of all that is, is exemplified in MBT by Individuated Units of Consciousness. There are some significant similarities of MBT with TDVP such as the emphasis on the unit that is existence, the recognition of the relevance in some kind of meaningful evolution and the origins of reality Campbell describes the original void. But meaningful evolution is not unique to either model, and is important to several theorists, such as Laszlo 339 and Lanza 338; 375 particularly. Moreover, though both MBT and TDVP recognize how important consciousness is, the conceptualization of consciousness in TDVP appears different, and far more developed and complete, with the awareness of the subclassifications and integration of C-substrate within the Neurological and Psychological as well as the Higher Consciousness model. Also very consonant for both models is communication. MBT recognizes universal communication across all elements, boundaries and divisions: effectively over a digital Reality Wide Web; TDVP utilizes individual-units and vortical indivension. MBT treats "profitability" as an evolutionary mechanism expressed in entropic terms. This is similar in a limited sense to Lanzas Biocentrism approach 338; 375, which ignores nonReality Begins With Consciousness 2nd Ed. VM Neppe and ER Close. Brainvoyage.com 120904.2 b 343

biological evolutionary pathways. Campbells model recognizes not only humans, but other classes of beings with differential capabilities in an appointed administrative hierarchy. Campbells TOE model appears fundamentally limited in its basics to physics and consciousness, not emphasizing the life and the psychology models, though these are alluded to. The concepts that are fundamental to TDVP are the concepts of metadimensionality, metatime and multidimensional time, specifically defining ordropy across dimensions (not just as negative entropy), origins of life, tethering and the conceptual role of reality including both the continuous infinite and the discrete finite, as well as the transfinite. TDVP also includes numerous mathematical justifications and theorems, plus its new monistic philosophical model (MBT applies a variant of monistic idealism). On the other hand, a key to Campbells consciousness is the non-physical energy (more correctly, whatever rule set drives the functionality of Consciousness Space). In TDVP, we do not perceive energy, per se, either within the C-substrate alone, but hypothetically, warping of forces may produce new C-substrate dimensions and the STC tethering allows meaningful information to impact on space and time. Whereas we recognize the holistic elements in TDVP, particularly in the infinite context, TDVP does not see fractals as fundamental, because the complete whole can be expressed in other ways. In MBT, fractals are consequences of repeated iterative application of simple rule sets, resulting in fractal constructs. Goswami: Quantum Activism Retired Quantum Physicist, and prolific visionary, Dr. Amit Goswami has recently been in the forefront of the increasing influence of scientists pertaining to spirituality. Goswami recognizes that some quantal experimental findings are not explained, and emphasizes the primary role of consciousness. 392-394. He has created a popular video for the layperson to describe why. He has fashioned this in the form of morality and universal potential development and closeness to a Divinity leaning heavily on his early Hindu background, and has been inspired in part by philosophical ideas drawn from Advaita Vedanta395and Theosophy376. Universal consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence, in congruence with mystic sages. There are similarities of Goswamis Quantum Activism to TDVP. Even in that context, they reflect different perspectives, levels of detail, language and conceptualization: Goswami rejects pure physicalistic materialism. He also recognizes discontinuitysimilarly, TDVP refers to the discreteness of the finite subreality. Goswami also recognizes asymmetry based on his quantal information; so does TDVPthis is not obvious as many paradigms regard symmetry as essentialfor example, holograms or fractals are conceptualized as entirely symmetrical. Goswami uses nonlocality in the quantum sense and alludes to psi research in the brain 396; 397 . He recognizes that hierarchical interactions occur. He supports this data with empirical findings. In TDVP, we also recognize Quantum Consciousness as fundamental, but we emphasize this as part of the STC triad. We recognize relative nonlocality in the
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context of dimensional domains, and are far more definitive about the very cogent 6sigma psi research in nine different areas. TDVP recognizes hierarchies such as metadimensionality, individual units, influences on and acquisition of data, and emphasizes the relative elements in that regard, dependent on the domain being examined. Both recognize the influences of self on others and vice versa making it directed more to spirituality and the potential for behavioral changes. There are significant differences between the two models: Unlike TDVP, which translates philosophically to the unique model of Unified Monism, Goswamis Quantum Activism spins off from what is regarded as Monistic Idealism but in which there is nevertheless a link with physicality. This has similarities with Campbells model despite his MBT virtual reality language being very different. Goswami perceives a science of spirituality that is fully verifiable and objective yet he apparently recognizes only subjectivity. His approach is largely top-down beginning at God, though, like in TDVP, he does not perceive qualities of God such perfection or omnibenevolence as part of his model. Goswamis is a call for actionapply quantum thinking the bottoms-up componentto several societal issues. His spiritual economics reflects a message of well-being and improvement of our world, but might reflect not science but theological belief. TDVP also applies both the top-down and bottoms-up approach, and regards the reality of space and time as essential and fluctuating depending on the domain. We recognize Space and Time as essential components of the inseparable triad with Consciousness. TDVP recognizes infinity but without emphasizing theological concepts, though moral interpretations can certainly be made, particularly given the infinity of infinities. Goswami sees the brain as primarily made of consciousness, TDVP understands the critical role of the brain as the integrator of both Higher Consciousness as well as cognition, affect and volition that arise within the brain in the context of Neurological and Ego Consciousness. Goswami recognizes probabilistic features and limits freedom of choice to areas associated with conditioned choice. TDVP, too, points to Quantum Consciousness, and therefore probabilities, but this is applied predominantly in the dimensional context and eventually within the probabilistic infinity. TDVPs bidirectional link of the finite and the infinite, reflects part of the unification of the single unit, and recognizes the core unification with the infinite. TDVP's Life Track allows for limited overall free will but significant and major changes in 3S-1t and psis potential influence in life, effectively allows us to extend our metaconsciousness and impact significant changes on all levels of our culture. Whereas Goswami uses "Collective Intentionality" from (Sheldrake's) morphogenetic fields 27, TDVP uses Individual Units and vortical indivension.
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 TDVP's mathematics is developed in far more detail, with theorems, axioms, proofs and logical justification. Goswami does not utilize concepts of Ordropy, which are fundamental to TDVP in its multidimensional context, nor does he show how life is infinite and therefore polife allows for life in 3S-1t. However, he does not perceive physical death not as an extinction but as a transition: But he doesnt scientifically explain physical life or survival adequately, instead, he applies it as a belief system of e.g., Theosophy and Indian teachings. To Goswami there is no STC in the infinite, just pure consciousness possibilities. He recognizes the physical, the vital, the mental, the supra-mental intellect and the limitless bliss state which has some similarities though linguistically different from TDVP. In our model, the physical is relevant particularly in 3S-1t and STC tethering is vital. The "mental" is the N-consciousness in the transfinite and the metaconsciousness, but S and T may be relevant, though depending on the domain, may be S=0, T=0. Gowami's "supramental intellect" could be TDVP's Transfinite Consciousness, and his limitless bliss state could reflect TDVPs boundless metainformation, translated into metaconsciousness in the infinite. To Goswami, nothing is both the subject and object of consciousness. In TDVP, the observer plays a great role in subjective dimensional interpretations and in the Calculus of Distinctions, and in experience of Vortical Indivension. Given Goswamis idealism, there is some disconnect with his quantum activism which would impute energy, mass, time and space are part of reality, yet, conceptually, this is linked with the primary influence of thought on action. To Goswami, electrons don't have free will and don't go through free space yet Man uses the limited moral compass of quantum physics and that can actually transform our lives and society. In TDVP, subatomic particles effectively have some Q-C as part of STC. However, in our model, the morality issue is not specifically addressed, but psi influence of thought and bidirectional finite-infinite communication are critical and therefore both guidance and morality are strongly implied, though regarded as theological, so not specifically addressed in TDVP. Wilber: TOE Kosmos Ken Wilbers writings are well-known in non-scientific circles and his TOE is very different from any other we discuss. Wilber's philosophy has been influenced by Madhyamaka Buddhism, particularly as articulated in the philosophy of Nagarjuna so that the Eastern religious element seen with Laszlo also applies here. He has written several book and In his latest book, A Theory of Everything, he crystallizes his several decades of model building into a reality that embraces the entire Whole of all mental-physical existence (Kosmos) not just the particle-physics aspect of it. His approach relates to personal and societal development and he labels Spirit, and the progressive development of mental and physical expressions of Spirit with
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ever-larger concentric circles with origin in a common center representing outward, developmental, evolutionary movement and thereby solving a variety of Kosmic truths.30; 362 Wilbers model, we perceive, as targeted more to actualization and transcendence of self with the development of insights. His model of interweaving is similar, and of concentric circles if extended to three D could be vortices of consciousness, but there is no overt dimensionality. It may be best described as a mystical philosophy, but it does not conform to our LFAF definitions of science. Sirag: Consciousness and Hyperspace Theoretical Physicist, Saul-Paul Sirag recognizes multidimensionality in the hyperspace continuum, incorporates a consciousness into his model and recognizes the infinite. Although his is not a TOE, this is our homage to him. The Kabbalic Mystical Model and Vedic Tradition Our purpose is scientific discussion not mysticism. However, it is striking that particularly Sefer Yitzirah in Kabbalic triadic even refers effectively to the Triad of Space, Time and Consciousness. The persistence of mystical systems over thousands of years, though quite unscientific, still may support the ubiquity of the idea of tethered STC substrates. On the one hand, to the conventional scientist steeped in physicalistic materialism, it is bad enough for us to propose a model that radically alters their world view. But now we have dared to even mention mystical models in a scientific paper! If we did not, we would be intellectually dishonest. There is a great deal to be said for the inherent wisdom of mysticism that has survived over millennia. Is this pure superstition? Maybe. But it could be interesting how fundamental truths may have commonality across cultures. Indeed, if the TDVP model of Csubstrate impacting as a meaningful reality in everything, we would expect that to correlate with mysticism. Possibly the great 19th century psychologist, William James, in 1897 398 expressed it best: In psychology, physiology and medicine, whenever a debate between the mystics and the scientifics has been once and for all decided, it is the mystics who have usually proved to be right about the facts, while the scientifics had the better of it in respect to the theories. 398 It may be intrinsically validating that much of our TDVP model fits even mystical philosophies (which incidentally, we discovered only after developing our model). If it didnt we would be concerned. It is intriguing that other than the earlier TOEs of Neppes VNDP and Closes Transcendental Physics, Kabbalah (with Klein and Boyds model) scores highest in our Table 5 of all the TOEs. Is this coincidence or is it a meaningful coincidence? And it may be that the limitations of other mystical philosophies are just based on our ignorance of their finer points. We dont know but are open enough to wonder. Applying the Highest Dimensions and the Mysticism Metaphor to the C-substrate C-substrate becomes increasingly important as one goes higher and higher dimensionally at a
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substrate level. Applying a commonly conceived of mystical metaphor, one refers to vibrations, which become finer and finer as the consciousness development becomes higher and higher. Extending this metaphoric concept, in order to have vibrations there has to be a frequency and there has to be a spatial component. Finer and finer vibrations imply therefore, less relevance at a space-time level as one goes higher and higher in terms of a mystical spirituality, which may here be a C-substrate higher level dimensionality (N+A dimensions instead of an earlier N-Dimensions); and starting at 3S1t, it would be 3S-1t- 1C up to (N+A) C. Eventually, we could conceive of the extent of the space and time substrates approximating zero at the highest kind of levels of finite dimensions. Additionally, one could argue that consciousness (in C-substrate) at that level impacts on the lower dimensions but only very minimally on the more distant lower dimensions yet asserts that minimal impact across a very broad range of consciousness. In this way, C-substrate impacts metaphorically in an analogous way to the impacts of gravitation and the expanding universe, which have tiny force impacts, but act on a very broad level. This is as opposed to the equivalent of strong subatomic forces, which would impact very strongly, but only over a tiny dimensional atomic neutron area in 3S1t. Applying this metaphor further, C-substrate could be purer possibly at those very high Csubstrate dimensional levels, It has moved closer to a higher consciousness level may imply that consciousness/C-Substrate is almost exclusive at those higher dimensional domains as S and T may equal 0 in those domains. Beyond that, one would move beyond finite discrete dimensions into the infinite, and that infinite may or may not be directly accessible. Ironically, too, in these high metaphorical domains, C-Substrate at that highest level may be negligible or in infinite terms reflect a nothingness compared with that infinite reality. The infinite would imply potentially some kind of meaningful reality, the difference being that the guiding component may range necessarily from very broad but miniscule in impacting force to any combination of the above. There is no reason why the infinite may not impact dramatically and broadly, or may be very directed onto a particular narrow gesher. Because it is infinite and there are infinites in every dimension, the impact could be powerful and broad. This mystically evokes again an idea of Primary Consciousness. There is another component in Kabbalic Mysticism in regard to C-substrate, life and higher dimensions: What could be regarded as the "lower" tiers of creation, such as plants, are in fact loftier than the human being's own vital potential spark of divinity: The "lowlier" something is, the loftier its spiritual core. Yet in Kabbalah, humankind is the most spiritual of earthly creatures. The animal exhibits a more sophisticated vitality than the plant, and the mineral shows no outward signs of "life" at all. Yet, the sublimity of the spark of divine life in a thing is in converse relation to its manifest spirituality. Thus, the mineral nourishes the vegetable, both nourish the animal, and all three sustain human life. However, only humans have the capacity to direct the vital energy themselves and they alone have free choice. The animal, vegetable or mineral conformity with the divine will is automatic and inevitable, and thus, devoid of moral
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significance. 399. In TDVP, C-substrate is also expressed by meaning in that lowest of levels, even the inanimate. Consequently, this is similar, as is the free-will element, and the concepts of the infinite. But the key tethering is not spelt out in Kabbalic Mysticism: It is in TDVP. De La Sierra: Neurophilosophy of Consciousness Dr. Angell de la Sierra has produced a number of innovative, creative writings on research in Quantum Brain Dynamics, Process Philosophy, attractor hypotheses, psychosociocultural perspectivism mental images, spirituality, and brain sinks. This is based on the works of John Emlen and Walter Freeman. The conceptualization is complex but does not fit the fabric of a theory of everything, but we pay homage to a great thinker here. We illustrate the complexity here: We can no longer say that the past has been but is no longer, while the future will come to be but is not yet. 400 From the many sense-phenomenal objects and/or events in our immediate environment (including memories) only a limited number of steady states of discrete, individualized neuronal patterns (attractor basins) are set-up to respond exclusively to particular stimuli in the future. These would activate a particular set of bulbar neurons acting as a relay switch to a corresponding attractor basin uniquely coupled to different memory, emotional and physiological pattern of responses (mental state). When these signals were analyzed on the oscilloscope screen they were found to resemble chaotic systems with attractor basins. Once it was experimentally documented that there is probabilistic nature to brain dynamics, he concludes we are forced to consider not just the fleeting moment we call present, the being, as it evolves or becomes past in transit into a potential future, but also to predict with variable degrees of certainty its evolution into that future, the becoming we may control: and free-will to choose from available futures scenarios. In so doing we acknowledge an involuntary shift away from the reductionist physical approach into the metaphysical emergence realm of process philosophy. 161 This thinking derives in part from Emlen 401 who points out the difficulty of evolution in explaining day to day to day changes, including cerebral plasticity, an emergent phenomenon they call the attractor hypothesis 401. De La Sierra later built on this hypothesis in his model, which effectively limits brain sinks that concentrate information. Moreover, Meyer cogently points out the profound complexity of the cell and of DNA and the needs for certain biophysical elements to be complete for them to work. This is a very potent argument against evolution without meaning. 402 Again, this supports the model of meaning at every level of science and origin within
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Whitemans Philosophy of Space and Time We were originally going to place the extremely complex, comprehensive and esoteric work of Prof J.H. Michael Whiteman, the late South African mathematician, mystic and musician into a single further theory of everything. Dr. Whiteman had more than ten thousand subjective out of
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body experiences 265 and wrote thousands of pages in books analyzing reality from his own experiential perspective, as well as from his esoteric interpretations of original Eastern Mystical readings 268; 269; 271. However, classifying Dr. Whitemans contributions under our comparisons of Theories of Everything is not fully appropriate because it was never claimed to be so. Nevertheless, his major work distinguished the physical life and distinguished the physical life from the multitude of other non-physical lives that people can experience. It impacted, therefore, on several significant areas that TDVP discusses, namely, the subjective and the objective; life and consciousness; and multidimensional space-time.269 Whiteman also significantly impacted psi experiences and concepts of survival 266; 270. His writings did not directly impact order and infinity, although they certainly implied them. Whiteman recognized that life could be very different from how we usually perceive lives at the moment, as people could experience it non-physically. His many pertinent books though esoteric, will endure, and one of the authors (VN) had the privilege to interchange ideas for many hours with this remarkable centenarian. Goulds Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA) Stephen Jay Goulds Nonoverlapping Magisteria (NOMA) is an attempt to separate science and religion yet provide a paradigm. There are two Magisteria in the fields of science and religion, respectively. A magisterium refers to the authority of the church but Gould applies it equally to both science and religion, though overlap and interdigitate along their joint border. The content of these two realms deal with what we could classify as a fact and value distinction. Science describes via empirical verification factual information and why it work in this way; religion attributes questions of ultimate meaning and moral value. These two magisteria do not overlap, Gould proposes a fence between the two. These two magisteria do not reflect everything: For example, inquiry about art and the meaning of beauty does not fit either. An interesting illustration is in Aristotles physics: He named his Unmoved Mover, God, but this God was not an object of religious devotion. It served merely as the engine to crank the motion of spheres. Watsons Theory of Enformed Systems (TES) Psychiatrist, Don Watsons original Theory of Enformed Systems (TES) is a theory of organization itselfits origin, maintenance, and evolution. TES is founded on the posit that there exists a fundamental, conserved capacity to organize termed enformy. By logically following the implications of the posit that enformy is the fundamental, conserved capacity to organize, TES explains life and consciousness as characteristics of enformed systems. Under TES, the fundamental organizing principle is a process--enforming. Enforming, occurs without an entity, pre-exists and is fundamental to all physical phenomena. From this posit,
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deductions flow, e.g., enforming creates entities, and these predict, psi, life and consciousness. Enformism is the set of concepts that are based on the premise that organization itself is fundamental to everything, including matter and spirit. Enformism derives explicitly from the Theory of Enformed Systems (TES). Like spiritism, enformism holds that something nonmaterial is fundamental to matter, but enformism is deeper than spiritism because it holds that organization per se is fundamental to everything, including "spirit." Enformism is also broader than spiritism because TES provides an internally consistent, holistic model of the SELF. The concept of SELF is deductively derived from the enformy posit. This entity superficially resembles some renderings of "soul, " but is far more useful because it's well-defined and testable. Consequently, because SELFs animate living organisms, TES eliminates the need for undefined concepts such as "soul, " "spirit, " or "vis vitae." There's no need for a concept of "mind, " either, because the SELF performs all the operations traditionally attributed to the mind. That's why there's no "mind-body problem" in the TES world-view. Under TES, connecting, connection and interconnection consist of SELFs cohering in spacetime and sharing enformation. Living, conscious organisms are animated by SELFs, which are created by the enforming process. Non-enformed systems (such as robots) are not animated by SELFs. However, as a theory of organization per se, TES does not apply only to living systems. It applies to all natural systems, animate or inanimate. TES explains psi phenomena. If "science" is traditional materialism and "spirit" refers to traditional spiritism, a reconciliation of the two can't happen because spiritism and materialism are incongruous from their conceptual roots up. Applying TES, spirit and matter are conceptualized in entirely new ways. Linguistically and emotionally, naming "something" creates the illusion of mastering the unknown. This is very common in medicine. Our beliefs reside in our theories. The ideas inherent in TES can't be interpreted in terms of any familiar world-view. Humans prefer the certainty of fiction over the uncertainty of reality. TES also encompasses concepts such as wisdom: Wisdom is the set of mental attributes that allows a species to adapt to make adaptive decisions in a social context and its environments. Such a definition must (a) apply to all kinds of animals, and even plants; (b) imply that wisdom entails thinking--information-processing that organizes behaviors; (c) include abstract thought as well as sensorimotor ("concrete") thought; (d) apply effective reality testing; and (e) comprehend instinctive and acquired abilities. Dr. Watsons TES model has some similarities to TDVP. It recognizes that a TOE must be all encompassing. It applies to psi, to life, to the animate and the inanimate. It tries to encompass both the material and the spiritual. It recognizes the origin of things. It postulates a process from the beginning. In ways, Enformy is not far from our conceptualization of a broader
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consciousness that exists from the start of the Origin Event and impacts on everything because it is fundamentally tethered to it. Also, Enformy recognizes the need for organization, which TDVP also does in its concepts of Ordropy. Hoffman: Conscious Realism and Multi-User Interface Theory Don Hoffman PhD, a cognitive psychologist, recognizes on the one hand the great number of empirical correlations linking consciousness and brain activity, particularly the experimentally induced damage or losses or stimulation data. This demonstrates how activity in brain systems with a high degree of information integration can easily be correlated with conscious experience. The problem is one of cause and effect. Some material monists postulate that such biology causes the epiphenomenon of consciousness. This has become the prevailing neurobiological viewpoint, but it is incomplete as there are areas that are not explained. These can be regarded as just incomplete information at this point, or ignored. Effectively, Hoffman postulates the reverse. Sentience is not a combination of brain events or computational states: how a red-sensitive neuron gives rise to the subjective feel of redness is not a whit less mysterious than how the whole brain gives rise to the entire stream of consciousness. 403 Hoffman 359, and also later Miller 404 motivate very powerfully why correlations in the brain should not be regarded as causal reductionist correlations where consciousness or psychological functions are epiphenomena. Not only should one necessarily need to establish a causal link but it is not apparent in which direction such causality goes. Dr. Hoffman suggests a solution to the mind-body problem is that correlations arise because consciousness creates brain activity, and indeed creates all objects and properties of the physical world. This can be conceived as a variant of monistic idealism but with some objectivity as well. Hoffman develops two theses. The multimodal user interface (MUI) theory of perception: This states that perceptual experiences do not match or approximate properties of the objective world, but instead provide a simplified, species-specific, user interface to that world. Perception is a multimodal user interface 359. A successful user interface does not, usually, match or approximate what it represents but reformats it in a user-useful manner. It simplifies, and does not match the user interface quickly informing the actions of the user and this is entirely distinct from the represented user domains. This perceptual user interface is effectively reformatted appropriately to the particular organisms niche, producing an adaptive advantage over the objective world. Hoffmans second idea is the related Mind-Body model of Conscious Realism. This states that the objective world consists of conscious agents and their experiences. These can be mathematically modeled and empirically explored in the normal scientific manner. Whereas Hoffmans MUI theory makes no claim about the nature of the objective world, Conscious Realism does. Conscious realism proposes the answer to the question of what the universe is made of. Conscious realism asserts that the objective world, i.e., the world whose existence does not depend on the perceptions of a particular observer, consists entirely of conscious
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agents. It therefore, is a non-physicalist monism. What exists in the objective world, independent of perceptions, is a world of conscious agents, not a world of unconscious particles and fields which are not themselves fundamental parts of the objective world. Consciousness is the fundamental and arises from complex interactions of unconscious matter and fields. Consciousness arises first; matter and fields depend on it for their very existence. The terms matter and consciousness function differently for the conscious realist than they do for the physicalist. Dr. Hoffman understands that physicalists TOEs are always incomplete because of their failure to recognize that consciousness had to be present from the beginning, although his argument for this appears to be purely heuristic. By contrast, TDVP is solidly based on the Copenhagen interpretation, and the logic of infinite descent. Hoffman realizes the links of conscious perceptions and distinguishes it from actual reality. In this way there is a similarity to a limited version of the Calculus of Distinctions. Hoffmans conscious realism with MUI construction of perceptual reality is original but his ubiquitous conscious agents seem poorly defined. Leibniz: Topological Space, Totalities and Monads We have mentioned the German rationalist philosopher and mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) only briefly yet many of the ideas that he developed have created the environment for many of the scientists above 405. He recognized that space was relative and debated the issue with Newton. He also developed what we now call topology. We introduce him briefly here because some of the TOEs above are based on his conception of substance. He recognized something beyond the totality of contingent things. He also described space and time, as real only insofar as they symbolize real differences in substances, but illusions to the extent that space or time are taken as a thing in itself, or spatial/temporal relations are taken to be irreducibly exterior to substances, or extension or duration are taken to be a real or even fundamental property of substances. This is similar to Einsteins view of space and time. He referred to monads, which means it is one, has no parts and is therefore, indivisible and described how time, like space, is an illusion. Bohm: Implicate and explicate order (IEO) We did not previously detail the ideas of the great theoretical physicist and creative thinker, David Bohm.140 This was because Bohms ideas were not central to our theme and we developed our model entirely without Bohm. However, based on feedback we have had, we amplify his concepts of Implicate and Explicate Order in the Second Edition. This is the case because once one gets beyond the linguistic idiosyncrasies of both models, some aspects of Bohm's model are similar to TDVP. Consequently, we delineate here briefly a comparison of TDVP with David Bohms 1980 model. Bohms implicate order is a metaphysical entity where nothing is fundamentally separate or
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autonomous, and therefore recognizes the whole. Primacy is through the undivided whole which is all things including particles and the abstract. The implicate order is responsible for matter and energy as well as consciousness (which belong to different categories under his scheme). Therefore, there is a triad similar to TDVP. As opposed to TDVP, these components are all enfolded, and material particles are derived from a deeper orderin TDVP, there is no deeper order: STC exhibit primacy. Bohms explicate order is unfolded. It is contained within all the implicate orders. Therefore Bohm posited that a TOE on the nature of reality is theoretically possible. Bohm distinguished true reality as different in some way from the reality we perceive. Therefore, he recognized individualized distinctions, which has some similarities to the concept of individual unit. Bohm also recognized the hidden variable theory of theoretical physics recognizing that other components were possible. This could parallel what TDVP postulates to be the models of Qualits including Conscits. There are both superficial and striking similarities to Bohm's implicate and explicate order (IEO) and our TDVP model. This is illustrated by Bohms IEO remarkably high score on our 39 qualitative criteria. He scores (11+6+2=19/39). These are equal to the high TOE scores of Kabbalah and the Klein-Boyd model but lower that our own models (originally Neppes Vortex N-dimensionalism model scored 27/39 and Closes Transcendental Physics 23/39; when combined and amplified into TDVP, the Neppe-Close model scored a maximum at 39/39). Both TDVP and IE0 models have the unification emphasis, the components of covert elements, the awareness of the limitations of some basic theoretical physics and the recognition of the major role of vortical movements or equivalents. Both are aware of mathematicophysics and the need to go beyond current thinking. Bohm introduced vortices that reflect patterns within a continuous flow (holomovement). Interestingly, these vortical models were developed entirely separately by Bohm and NeppeClose. Both recognize the "flowing movement" element. In TDVP these are specifically called vortices, Bohm's are holomovements. In TDVP, vortices are the content, the process is indivension. There apparently is no Bohm equivalent for indivension but it is described. Certainly Bohm utilizes the flow patterns in vortices and recognizes the stable continuous flux and flows without sharp separations or independence. This has some similarity to indivension, but indivension introduces the whole biological and psychological dynamic as well as psi across, between and within fluctuating dimensions However, even within these similarities there are important differences: For example, Bohms model has more in common with current mathematical physics than TDVP does. TDVP has a
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foundation in the calculus of distinctions, so that our mathematical description of reality coincides with certain aspects of current mathematical physics, but not with others. We regard the mathematical-logical-dimensionometrics in TDVP as more basic and comprehensive than anything previously produced. Bohm's model of folding is more akin to our TDVP recognition of multidimensionality and the metadimensional (beyond 3S-1t). TDVP has no need for folding or curling up of dimensions, because with the ongoing development of dimensional extrapolation and the mathematics of this process, there appears to be greater clarity on indivension, non-Euclidean geometry and fractal geometry. Moreover, the calculus of distinctions (in TDVP) may be controversial, because it may perceive the view of mathematicians and physicists on non-Euclidean geometry and fractal geometry as apparently incorrect or misleading. But there are also significant differences, including the fundamental premises. The fundamental premises that are very different include: Most importantly, in TDVP, we recognize the pre-eminent relationship is more than just between space and time: There is no space and time on its own without C-substrate (the extended consciousness). Bohm does not apply triadic STC, nor fundamental inseparability or tethering. It does not go beyond four dimensions. The Bohm model also does not integrate or recognize metadimensionality, fluctuating dimensions, dimensional jumps or dimensions of consciousness, the transfinite, tethering or origins, and ordinal and interval data needs. Even where there are peripheral interpretations of any of these, they are certainly not in any form resembling TDVP. Whereas IEO distinguishes the implicate and explicate, it does not apply the calculus of distinctions context and, instead, makes its own differentiation. Bohm recognized a non-denumerable infinity of field variables at the quantum level and postulated sub-quantum realities, whereas TDVP recognizes the unity of the infinite and finite subrealities. For Bohm, there is the enfolded implicate order where space and time are not dominant and an explicate unfolded order. These may only reflect undefined, vague similarities to someone imaginatively applying TDVP because ultimately both reflect a whole. However, in TDVP, existence is fundamentally a unified whole, and there are neither divisions between space, time and "consciousness" (C-substrate) nor with the finite and the infinitedespite both being subrealities, they are indivisible from each other, even in the concepts of infinite space and time. Therefore elements such as life, order, free-will and movements across time have special implications for finite living and physical existence. Whereas Bohm recognized implications for the psychosocial and the biological particularly the brain and consciousness, and realized these were relevant, there were no true integrating elements in his mathematico-physical model. This recognition creates a deeper order, but it is different from the TDVP order because indivension is so fundamental. Also in
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TDVP, there is no distinguishing of finite and infinite implying tracks in the infinite can be expressed in the finite. Essentially, Bohms model is paradigmatic as it is physically based, yet the TDVP model literally qualifies as a metaparadigmatic model as it has direct links and implications for all the ethicoconsciobiopsychofamiliosocioculturalphysicochemical systems. Similarly, whereas Bohm postulated how thought and brain function could obstruct direct conscious contact with reality, there was no direct integration of the different elements of consciousness outside and inside the nervous system, as there is in TDVP. To Bohm, consciousness is in the brain, and manifest in memory. TDVP recognizes the endpoint expression of consciousness in the brain. TDVP also specifically separates a higher consciousness (transfinite and metaconsciousness with links in the infinite), a neurological consciousness (as a final common integrator and expression in the nervous system and with its own biochemical, electrical and the complex interface with the psychological consciousness). All are one as they are inseparable in the sentient being. TDVP also recognizes that because of the STC tethering fundamentally there is an equivalent of a Quantum Consciousness (as pointed out the discrete qualit is more than the discrete quantum; and also recognized possible continuous subquantum infinitesimals which may be linked with the infinite). Bohms concept of consciousness vaguely implies links with TDVP, but is still firmly rooted in time and space or alternatively in the implicate order. Bohm certainly effectively draws distinctions between every facet of reality. Bohm recognized the concept of hidden variables in what may have been four dimensions. In TDVP, finite and transfinite dimensionality plus infinity are conceptually integrated within reality and consciousness. Bohm does not approach the concepts of STC inseparability and tethering (the most fundamental single axiom of the whole TDVP model), extended consciousness yet translated through the nervous system in the living, and the most fundamental aspect of life. Bohm's model does not integrate the fundamental role of infinity within all existence, and consequently does not address multidimensional ordropy (order), N-dimensionality of consciousness, and the origin of physical life and possible infinite existence. In TDVP the objective and subjective are directly integrated into the model. Bohm certainly implies this in his implicate and explicate elements. Amongst other similarities with some relative differences are: In both models, phenomena are not reducible to fundamental particles and laws describing the behavior of particles. More generally, Bohm emphasized non-reduction to any static (i.e. unchanging) entities, whether separate events in space-time, quantum states, or static entities of some other nature. In TDVP, we recognize the discrete finite and the continuous infinite. Within the discrete finite, we realize the relevance of particles and waves, and the significance of quanta. But given that quanta do not recognize Consciousness, we use the term qualit. 117 In TDVP, we recognize the limitations of the finite. But we go beyond that: the infinite continuity is necessary in our model of Space, Time and Consciousness. There is no equivalent in Bohm.
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 TDVP goes beyond Cartesian metrics certainly, and also recognizes the ordinal in the transfinite (as does Georg Cantor). 116 Both recognize that nothing is fundamentally separate or autonomous. Both utilize parallels from a mathematical physics perspective. Both recognize the abstractness of statistics and variables. In TDVP, we recognize the fundamental initial base of the Calculus of Distinctions which allows us to utilize variables of extent and content, and occasionally intent, and apply ordinal as well as interval metrics, particularly with the transfinite. In TDVP, the base is empirical data and recognizing that that is usually inductive, we also utilize the deductive in mathematics. Both Bohm's model and TDVP go beyond the usual (explicate) representations of algebra. TDVP also utilizes dimensionometry (N- dimensional geometry). Both recognize the limitations of a moment in time. In TDVP, we develop a detailed model of multidimensional time, and this extends to infinity, to "tracks" of finite existence in the infinite and to precognition and retrocognition. Bohm also recognized time that went beyond moments. 140 It could be argued that there is no need for psi to Bohm though his concepts of hidden variables and metaphysical recognitions may imply this. Bohm does not integrate core mystical concepts, nor have aspects of the philosophical thought persisted over millennia. However, he does appear to have been versed in Vedic thinking. Because there are linguistic differences, interpretations of these factors could peripherally be made, but certainly not in any form resembling TDVP. For example, Bohm's extra dimensions, if conceived of that, are hidden, but discoverable. Philosophically, David Bohms IEO could disputably be regarded as dualistic because of the dual implicate and explicate components and the non-materialistic metaphysical elements, yet he focused on the concept of hidden variables and was a firm believer in materialistic determinism, though inherently anti-reductionistic. (His thinking is Ontological Holism). By contrast, our TDVP model is monistic, but recognized the flaws of materialism, reductionism and idealism. Philosophically, TDVP reflects Unified Monism as it unifies STC. However, these philosophical models are both simplifications as they both recognize the whole, and both deny the current physicalistic materialist paradigm. Bohms model was influenced by ancient Krishnamurti and Vedanta philosophy 364 and mystical concepts. If anything, post hoc, we discovered that TDVP has a similar Triadic STC component to Kaballic Sefer Yitzirah. 140;155; 406

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CHAPTER 44: TDVP: A UNIFIED PARADIGM SHIFT 407 The idea that everything in the world has a meaning [reason] is an exact analogue of the principle that everything has a cause, on which rests all of science. Kurt Gdel 102 The Paradigm Shift The most important goal of science is a deep understanding of reality. The deeper and more complete our understanding, the better our chances of survival and growth as a species and as individuals. A review of the history of science reveals slow growth punctuated by occasional relatively sudden leaps in understanding called paradigm shifts. During the periods of slow growth the attitude is: We know what reality is, we only have to fill in the details. But science as we know it has always been incomplete. The important paradigm shifts, like the discoveries of Newtons laws of motion, relativity and quantum physics, have occurred when, in the process of filling in the gaps, phenomena that contradicted or could not be explained by the existing paradigm were found. New paradigms always open new vistas revealing aspects of reality that were either only dimly perceived or totally unexpected prior to the advent of the new paradigm. Overall, science moves forward most rapidly when the details of various studies and disciplines are integrated into a larger, more consistent picture. The standard scientific physicalistic paradigm involving 3S-1t alone has not integrated relativity and quantum physics, and it does not adequately explain quantum observations and various psi phenomena. Nor does it adequately explain, some scientists argue 175; 177, an unguided evolution, and the states of order reflected in life, or the phenomenon of physical life itself. Whether the brain can fully explain all facets of consciousness simply as epiphenomena of underlying physiology can be strongly disputed. In the past, scientists have not associated psi phenomena with quantum phenomena, yet they both defy explanation in much the same way: They both exhibit connections over time and space without the normal physical mechanisms found in other phenomena and the rare event ostensibly anomalous behaviors invoke the possibility of a unified mechanism. Revisiting a Key Area: Consciousness Numerous key ideas have sprung from the TDVP model: Dimensions and Consciousness with ordropy, tethering of CST, indivension, fluctuating dimensions, and the varying relative components. All of these fit into our model well and we believe can be unified. Our approach, therefore, has been to investigate the areas of contradiction and incompleteness and the various documented phenomena that are not explained by the current paradigm. We identified one common element in these phenomena as
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consciousness. Consciousness has been defined in a broad sense of encompassing three key components. First is brain related awareness and response, which also facilitates the processing of cognitive, affective and volitional functions (CEV) plus in humans (and possibly other animals) such higher qualities as love, courage, meaning, knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and spirituality. The physical senses, the autonomic nervous system, the central nervous system and the brain are the major functional components of the vehicle used by consciousness for interaction with the physical universe. Brain consciousness is a property of all living beings. Second is the extended, more collective reality from which information and knowledge could be apprehended and influencedmetaconsciousnesswhere the contradictions and incompleteness could be resolved and corrected by applying this new consciousness-based metadimensional paradigm, which by definition therefore, extends beyond 3S-1t. Extended consciousness is a property not only of all living beings, but of all informational existence and knowledge. Third is a meaningful awareness and responsiveness in all particles or packets even at the subatomic level. This meaningful consciousness exists in everything living or dead, animate or inanimate from the subquantal to the macrophysical to the astronomical. It pervades the cosmos. Therefore experiments at the double slit photon level implying meaning, or experiments on influencing plant cultures would all support TDVP. Fourth, because Space and Time and Matter and Energy are inseparable from meaning, the likelihood of some level of meaning in evolution would support the TDVP model. Fifth, proof of psi phenomena. As psi demonstrations (currently 6 sigma in 9 areas) increase in strength, so does the support for the feasibility of TDVP. Even more so, as a further extension, support for survival after physical death significantly supports TDVP. Sixth, field models such as the proposed Morphogenetic Fields of Sheldrake27, given that they are at a lower level of validation than TDVP, would also demonstrate feasibility. \ Paradoxically, the refutation of any of these does not refute TDVP as it is a metalevel higher. However, alternative hypotheses of feasibility and falsifiability would need to be invoked. The essential element is to demonstrate a broader consciousness and to justify the feasibility of this not only in a broader dimensional reality, but ultimately with the equations describing this reality. We have done this in this book by applying, inter alia, a new
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consciousness-based mathematical tool called the calculus of distinctions (elaborated in more detail later.10) The extra mathematical theorems add to this, too, such as the application of other relevant theorems revealing asymmetry in motion, and the existence of additional dimensions. The Process of Indivension: The Content of Fluctuating Vortices There needed to be a process of interaction, interface and communication across and within these dimensions. This process we defined as indivension. There needed to be a content in which this process could take place, one broader than just a field in one dimension. This content involved vortices: We applied these vortical motions in all their varied manifestations as the primary underlying form content of all reality. Vortices fluctuate across and within dimensions as individual-units (individually, or as groups, or as even subatomic units) through the process of indivension, creating an enormous web of interacting and interfacing vortices with zillions of other individualunit vortices. In this way, information is shared, and meeting points created via vortical intersections, which may appear to be vectors, scalars or tensors depending on the dimensional interfaces. Such meeting points (in a way singularities) or vortices (3 dimensional) allow psi and entanglement to manifest at the 3S-1t level of our usual human earthly domain living. Vortices exist within the S-, T- and C-substrates therefore, impacting space, time and consciousness. Moreover, we realized that the vortices need to have a fundamental link with all of Space, time and consciousness and this came about through the STC tethering that exists in all objects from the subatomic to the astronomical and from the beginning of the Origin Event, be that the Big Bang or other event. The Unified Basis The explanation of previously unexplained phenomena should rest in a unified theoretical basis. Inter alia, three lines of evidence support the need for a new paradigm, namely: extensions of special and general relativity using dimensional extrapolation; interpretations of entanglement or relative non-locality in the paradoxes of quantum mechanics; and consciousness research, including the solid scientific data, which has been achieved by a century of research into psi, and the numerous different ways psi can manifest in consciousness. We propose that psi and consciousness have been unified, and that is a major step. If these three bodies of evidence can be explained by one underlying possible unitary model, then the TDVP paradigm is, indeed, a unifying paradigm. Alternatively, it could be that each of these is independent. We clearly rely on empirical data to support TDVP. This includes quantum meaning. Recently and notably, in six double-slit optical experiments, Dean Radin demonstrated a possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function 408. This is a significant major finding. However, it greatly threatens the physicalist materialist edifice: The critic could opine that consciousness is an unfounded, unnecessary, superfluous
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addition.409 But, the accumulating data on quantal level meaning motivates for a real finding. Our explanations might variably allow added awareness of the fundamental elements of quantal functioning with meaning. They might also provide explanations for dimensionality, psi and/ or entanglement of meaningful reality and/ or consciousness at its tethered core. Radically, we have even posited relative warping of forces and manifesting by extrapolation to higher dimensions. This therefore, provides further secondary components to our unified STC model of space, time and C-substrate, all necessarily being inseparably tethered together tightly, loosely or slightlybut always linked together as fundamentally as time and space are. The rarity of the events of relativity and quantum mechanics and also the rare events of psi phenomena are all explained within the framework of the TDVP model: But this rarity may be domain dependent, and particularly striking in our subjectively experienced 3S-1t domain. We have necessarily invoked two components to our model: 1. metadimensionality as extra dimensions explain why the level of 3S-1t is incomplete; and 2. vortical indivension, because the indivension process allows for connections across fluctuating dimensional realities and fluctuating domains. These too may be, rare events. These models could allow an explanation of what could be entanglement at a distance. This distance does not need to be identical on both sides because one is dealing with a 3-dimensional fundamental triadic reality in consciousness, in space, and in time, and these contribute to potentially higher dimensions, which are almost always (unless in rare instances) asymmetrical. The Ultimate Unification In summary, space, time, and consciousness in the context of S, T, and C-substrates always exist together, each and every time. This means that any kind of quantal mechanical action, or action at any level, exhibits all three of these. We find that the integration of dimensional structure, vortical form and the drawing of distinctions, and the organization of those distinctions into meaningful patterns, constitute the actual nature of our reality. The patterns of vortical distinctions created by consciousness out of consciousness are tied together or tethered at the point in STC dimensionality where quantum and psi phenomena meet. We hypothesize that greater awareness of this connection, implying the integration of all phenomena, will facilitate the further development of this real theory of everything. In this merged unification of our TDVP paradigm, we can also show that it would be consistent for entanglement to originate from the tethered STC substrate, and similarly, psi phenomena are fundamental jumping points. Psi manifesting precognitively and possibly retrocognitively, not only contemporaneously, could imply possible extra time dimensions.
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We have further proposed an extension to TDVP, whereby warping of the gravitational dimensions in General Relativity using dimensional extrapolation include other energetic forces and possibly C-substrate dimensional forces (e.g., non-energetic or different energetic ?). By applying models of metadimensionality, the inconsistent, incomplete entanglements of 3S-1t and the rare transitory or incomplete events picked up or influenced by ostensible psi, become more detailed or complete when applying three-dimensional vortical indivension (justified by Pythagorean and FLT theorem modifications). Furthermore, by applying the Calculus of Distinctions, specifically variables of extent (interval metrics in S and T substrates, ordinal in C-substrate) to the limits of an N-Dimensional reality, the next stage for a metaparadigm must be infinityotherwise it would be incomplete (modified Gdels incompleteness theorem). Our model incorporates some key features. It logically suggests some hypotheses that may or may not be true or which have not yet been tested. The key elements of TDVP relate to STC tethering, metadimensionality, distinctions, and vortices. The first suggestive level reflected in our subtitle suggests the possibilities of N-Dimensionality, as well as order in living organisms. At the next level of speculation, we tentatively suggest models of how to extrapolate dimensions, and the roles of infinity and unifying of reality. Whereas we attempt to apply mathematical and physical data, and to utilize theorems, while supporting the feasibility of the broader model, it does not prove that exact model. This is why we have separated the primary aspects of our hypothesis from secondary elements. We have used a paradigmatic shift and the major jump in ideas that flow from it will ultimately take several hundred scientific papers to evaluate some of this data and they will still be sources for debate. Importantly, the refutation of any single concept does not refute the model, only that single concept. That becomes a building block to re-assess the status, and part of the heuristic structure of a related or modified model. All theories are open to modification, reflecting a living basis, applying LFAF to each avenue.

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CHAPTER 45: SOME ANSWERS TO THE PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLAINED 410 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein We asked some questions at the start showing the demonstrable limitations of the standard model of 3S-1t, and how it is incompatible with the features below. Let us now re-examine these features that have challenged the standard scientific model of 3S-1t, and evaluate whether the TDVP model should allow compatibility even in those areas in which the standard model has failed. Entanglement The model of quantum entanglement fits well within the concepts of relative non-locality. We can better appreciate concepts pertaining to infinity including in space and time, it may be intimately related to psi, and it particularly may have pertinence in the contexts of tight, loose and slight tethering. Entanglement allows one explanation to demonstrate interconnectedness of meaning and it could, speculatively, even have relevance for vortical indivension across, between and within dimensions. Psi The data for psi is overwhelming and we have shown a model for psi within TDVP. It is rather ironic that pseudoskeptics keep denying the existence of psi despite the presence of overwhelming statistical data in that regard. Lower dimensional incompleteness We have demonstrated how we need to have higher dimensions and infinity for our model to be complete. Inter alia, if we regarded all of reality as purely based on three spatial dimensions and one point in time, then there could be no meaning. If we extended meaning to a fifth dimension (variable of extent) of consciousness, we still could not explain completeness (which requires infinity) or asymmetry in nature, nor the incompleteness of awareness in the limited 3S-1t-1C reality of sentient beings. We could hardly conceive of higher realities, nor could we explain distortions of time, such as precognition. We would need to sacrifice either free will or precognition, but not have both. By contrast, a metadimensional reality of extra time and consciousness dimensions explains why bad things happen in 3S-1t, and is, to boot, supported both mathematically with proofs and inductively with scientific empiricism. We simply cannot explain all of existence using 3S-1t-1C alone. The extra dimensions are borne out of necessity. We need to make sense of reality: We can with extra dimensions, infinity, order, and meaning. And we can empirically justify this inclusive process of everything metaparadigm by applying feasibility to the small jigsaw puzzle pieces of the results found in our very restricted experiential 3S-1t-1C domain reality.
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 Evolution Debate exists as to whether or not evolution could occur without meaning. We argue that it could not, not only statistically quantitatively but quantitatively based on the complexity required at several steps including cellular. But where did the meaning come from? The TDVP model supports this meaningful evolution model and the meaning comes from the original STC tethering. The whole model we have developed relates to a consciousness that has a finite origin at the beginning, and is also part of (for want of lacking vocabulary) an eternal infinite without beginning or end. Life The origin of life has been a mystery. How it occurs and why it occurs has been uncertain. The TDVP model explains life not as beginning at a certain physical moment or requiring an insertion of a new substance (soul or the like). Instead, life is always there: Life exists in an infinite reality whereas the reality of our physical life existence is limited to a restricted 3 S-1t. The TDVP model of infinite essence includes life from the origin. It allows for an explanation of how life begins. Life always exists. But the limited finite physical life exists only when the correct physiology and (genetic) messages can function to sustain physical life. Life exists before and after the physical, and eternally in the infinite. This obvious statement may never before have been scientifically postulated, yet if this is true (and it is supported, e.g., by cogent evidence like survival after bodily death), it alone would be a profoundly important insight. The Standard Physics Quantum Mechanics Model has limitations. We look at this again below briefly: Subatomic Particles and the Current Paradigm: Can They Now Be Explained? Speculations We amplify this area, though it is the most difficult challenge of all. Possibly we have clarified some of the contradictory data in this book, though the whole area is far too nebulous and complex to explain in detail, and remains controversial. Essentially, we know there are limitations to the conventional scientific subatomic paradigm. How would the awareness of any of consciousness, psi, and extradimensionality involve a way to explain some of these limitations? This is a deliberately broad question, and, additionally, we know that the definitions of these concepts are under dispute as well, but lets look at a broad answer. In explaining the current subatomic fundamental standard model of quantum mechanics, the macrophysics and astrophysics may involve a contradiction before reaching the Plancks scales. Consciousness may be a link because of the infinite component, in that regard impacting at every level including the cosmologic. We see no reason why neutrino oscillations with extra arbitrary constants and similarly, quantum chromodynamics, and symmetry and asymmetry may not have link ups with the extra-dimensional realities where there are asymmetries this may be highly relevant.
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 The problem of homogeneity of isotropy is linked up with cosmic inflation, but there appear to be rules pertaining to cosmic inflation and expanding of the universe. 68 66; 67 Different measurements of size imply that there is another component, a hypothetical consciousness. At the finite level, it might be quanta or chronits, or qualits or conscits or psitrons, or kinetrons, extra particles that might explain these differences. This is purely speculative, but it is just interesting that one can utilize such ideas to try to explain such things as asymmetry and the hierarchy problem. Conscits might be a non-measurable phenomenon because it derives form the infinite and it is relatively non-local. The physical theory of everything unifying all the fundamental interactions of nature might have been unified by extended dimensionality by applying warping of forces producing extra-dimensionality. Wave Particle Duality or Wave Particle Meaning? Other areas to test. The role of waves and particles alone may be insufficient: There is more than the concept of wave -particle duality: We believe its appropriate to conceive of a triadic component of wave, particle and meaning. How can we prove this? We postulate we can demonstrate this with an experiment demonstrating the influence of biophotons. There have been experiments involving biological psychokinetic influences, for example on plants and microcultures.149; 163; 411-415 We suggest, therefore, an experimental test of the hypothesis that photons have three components: particle, wave and meaning (or consciousness or influence). This could be demonstrated by an experiment such as demonstrating the influences of biological impacts on photons. The photons in a vacuum tube would be influenced by a healer who would in a controlled manner try to influence the screen projections in a specific direction. Some kind of biological influence must be shown to cause photons to behave in a different measurable fashion and this must be replicable.hhh If this is found, it would be a groundbreaking major advance changing the whole model of quantum mechanics demonstrating that it was triadic and not binary in nature. This is already fundamental to TDVP. The TDVP model postulates it requires this third element, namely, in this instance apprehension of information, implying a primitive kind of meaning. Possibly one reason this is more obvious in TDVP is that we apply a top-down approach utilizing metadimensionality, consciousness and infinity, where conceptually certain aspects become clearer. Whereas TDVP recognizes the legitimacy of the bottom-up approach to
Given the impacts of the so-called Experimenter Effect 416-418on such research (this is effectively biological psychokinesis, also called bio-PK or DMILS) such replication may not be as easy as it should be. We need to also take care that setting up a control and experimental group may both generate statistically significant and demonstrate deviant responses even using a very high significance requirement but not differ from each other. But still the results of the two group may be equal and not statistically different. The classic Coover work at Stanford in the second decade of the 20th century 230 demonstrated so called contemporaneous thought transference (later called telepathy) but was not different from contemporaneous clairvoyance. Yet both groups, despite still small sample sizes were already overwhelmingly significant when re-analyzed later.
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particles, we also recognize its conceptual restrictiveness for the development of creative ideas. Preliminary approaches to testing the TDVP hypothesis Already Existing Pertinent Data. What falsifiable predictions arise from TDVP? How specific are these compared with other models of Consciousness Research? We make some suggestions below, noting these portray only examples, and not a complete list. The model we proposed as a necessary extension technique for philosophy of science is LFAF (Lower dimensional feasibility, absent falsification) (see Chapter 21). Within this, the feasibility model is still more limiting an approach than actual Popperian falsifiability. Nevertheless, LFAF as a methodological approach is necessary for metadimensionality, for psi and other cosmological research. Practically, if we have not falsified something, and we can show data that it is feasible, then there is no refutation of the hypothesis. TDVP is like that. Of course, there are direct areas of contradiction, though rare but present in our conventional standard physical materialistic model. That model, though working in possibly 99.9% of instances, has areas of both falsifiability and non-feasibility. The difficulty in research is we're discussing the metadimensional (i.e. beyond 3S-1t-1c) and the infinite. The only results we have are what is directly expressed from the bottoms-up in our conventional 3S-1t experience. This is why we apply LFAF. We do not want to re-invent the wheel. For example, more than a century of research on psi exists. Some of this is very solid and we point out that there are nine different areas of Consciousness Research that reach six-sigma (roughly one in a billion against frequentist statistical chance) results, mainly in meta-analyses. (Chapters 22-25). These results are empirically based and, as a consequence, even positive results are inductive. (However, if one argues for Bayesian impossibility, then setting impossible Bayes values would never prove anything inductively. We regard that as fallacious science, so motivate frequentist approaches. Therefore, we utilize data from Consciousness Research and the findings of parapsychology to demonstrate feasibility and /or falsifiability of the models. Effectively, much of the research has been done before the hypotheses were even proposed. However, the results, though fitting the TDVP model are not unique to a TDVP explanation alone. These same results could sometimes be appropriate to explain other models for psi. The same applies to syncretically amalgamating information and any past knowledge from across societies, cultures and various scientific endeavors. Yet, competing theories can sometimes and apply use the same research results. But, no postulated models (psi or sociocultural) and also biological or physical is anywhere as comprehensive as TDVP model, and none can claim to be metaparadigms.
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The key axiom in TDVP is that Space, Time and Consciousness (C-substrate) are inseparably tethered. This axiom is very broad ranging: it encompasses all natural law with reality necessarily includes finite and infinite sub-realities working as a whole at all times. Not surprisingly, because data in psi research refutes the standard scientific materialistic paradigm, TDVP provides a theoretical model for explaining any kind of psi. Consequently, any demonstrable empirical research on psi, provides a testable hypothesis for TDVP. Weve discussed the difficulty in this research, because often there is a replicability problem. This is possibly in part anyway, due to no two experiments ever being the same. In all research, the C-substrate component the consciousness is always subtly different. So for that matter is Time, which has to be regarded as a variable as well. Time moves on inexorably. This may not matter in solid state research, but it does in subtle areas of higher consciousness or higher dimensionality, we are not even able to replicate many experiments. Moreover, often all we can analyze are meta-analytic trends because the data will not produce results of 100% replication: (As in baseball) even 30% hits above chance could be remarkable because the territory is ever changing, so one analyzes variations beyond what one expects. Whether anything in parapsychology is falsifiable per se, is difficult, because circumstances change and this may produce negative empirical research, even when actual psi may be occurring. Moving targets produce such distortions. Consequently, the empirical testing problems of falsifiability for TDVP are the same as for any area of parapsychology or consciousness research. One is at times looking for the spontaneous production of the dollar to prove the existence of a mint. This is therefore very difficult. Nevertheless, TDVP neatly packages what is already known including, as indicated in Chapters 22-25, the six sigma data in nine different areas of consciousness research. This is better proof than we will find in almost any psychosocial research projects. Amongst those cogent but particularly pertinent areas of psi research already discussed is the Global Consciousness Project (GCP). 222, 220 If it were demonstrated that there was something that could meaningfully influence what is usually a random pattern, that would be useful. And as indicated, there, is very promising excellent GCP data so this supports the primary axiom. Consciousness here apparently impacts the physical space-time 3S-1t data continuum and has some slight (anticipatory?) time shifts in doing so too. Additionally, the work trying to link up the brain and modifications of consciousness with some kind of psi communication, such as presentiment research, is remarkable. However, that would be an example of a secondary level of the hypothesis because it involves directly a nervous system as well.
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Consequently, we would still prefer to isolate consciousness without the brain, but maintaining finite space and time. Possibly survival research fills that need, and again, we have briefly discussed the six-sigma data in relation to communication of some kind of isolated consciousness with living beings. What tests would we suggest? If we were to construct a test, one experiment could be to set up a basic investigation involving biological psychokinesis. This is also called bio-PK and sometimes referred as DMILS (direct mental interaction with living systems). For example, as suggested in this Chapter (45), can the path of a photon be perturbed by a biological influence (e.g. a paragnost /psychic)? Can we compare the impact that a Subjective Paranormal Experient would have with a Subjective Paranormal Non-experient? The problem, however, is to exercise appropriate controls. We have mentioned the famous Coover research in about 1913 at Stanford. 230 It involved a faux pas effectively of controlling telepathy (thought transference) with clairvoyance (no sender). There was no statistical difference between the two groups, but overall despite a small sample size, the data was beginning to be significant. We have to be particularly careful using control groups in this kind of research because consciousness still exists and in fact, by showing statistical significance in both an experimental and control group, we would actually support the hypothesis of the profound impact of broader consciousness on space and time. Therefore, this kind of bio-PK study could directly demonstrate the key broad ranging axiom in TDVP, provided we exercise enough care that, in effect, we recognize the equivalents of active control and experimental groups. So, the construction of such an experiment would be challenging. More easily, we could work, e.g., on experimental cultures and healing or worsening. But, as discussed in Chapters 22-25, that has been done and demonstrated. So this is already common knowledge that is available.149; 163; 411-415 Then there are several other related tests but these are one step off the major hypothesis of inseparable STC tethering. They are not easily testable, and we can only evaluate feasibility. 1. If life after death in any form were refuted, a secondary hypothesis of TDVP is refuted. This would not disprove that there is no STC tethering, but it would impact on the postulate of an eternal life existence, and also possibly imply that the concept of infinity being directly relevant to the finite, less pertinent. 2. If freedom of choice were refuted, again a secondary hypothesis of TDVP becomes questionable. You may ask how could that be tested? We see free-will as a variant of not only influence or manipulation of future events such that they can change (so called psychokinesis) but as a subset of freedom of choice because psychological learned habits, reflexes, temperament and instincts, and spiritual philosophies may partly determine outcome. Choice, even if potentially free, is therefore confounded. Technically, however, work with
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Random Number Generators (RNGs) could set up an excellent experimental model. But even then, there is still the limitation: Is this truly an influence on events, or is it simply a prediction of an event, that experimentally is deliberately manipulated to change, has changed? There is, of course, six sigma support for RNGs (see again, Chapters 22-25). 3. If precognition or retrocognition were refuted, then a secondary hypothesis of TDVP is refuted. Again, there is excellent six sigma meta-analytic data supporting precognition (see again, Chapters 22-25). 4. We do not recommend one specific kind of research because it has too many variables, and it is even difficult demonstrating that the work is being done. But just as an illustration of the diversity of potential research in the area, there could be research involving the degree of difficulty of communicating between the "continuous infinite" with the "discrete finite". Alleged mediumship might have this relevance but we could postulate that this may be different from completely non-directed psi communications ostensibly between sentient beings. Because we would not know in which direction this result would be, it would require a two-tailed statistical difference between the two groups as demonstrable numbers of hits might be different from more conventional psi research. Again, such controlled research could be very difficult to implement, and the limiting side may involve the meaning of negative data. But if such results were interpreted, again these would simply reflect secondary hypotheses not primary ones. 5. A similar but already demonstrable kind of study would be hypothesizing that STC tethering hypothesis implies a limited but relevant influence of C-substrate on Space and Time. This means that psi should occur, but the hit rate would be low. Research to date, demonstrating an effect, but a tiny one, but statistically significant, supports this. For example, well studied is the Ganzfeld phenomenon, again another six-sigma aspect of research (see again, Chapters 2225) but limited when one compares numbers of hits obtained over the expected numbers of hits. And Ganzfeld is amongst the most replicable of psi phenomena. There may be support from other disciplines, e.g. entanglement, but one could debate its links with psi. We have done so. (Ch. 25). There may also be a whole area of the social sciences with experiments being potentially set up showing predictable meaningful changes in individual-units when variables are manipulated. Now this would just involve consciousness (C-substrate) and not necessarily psi. However, The social sciences are difficult to measure. Nevertheless, Daryl Bems six sigma data research certainly supports this (see Ch. 22-25).146; 147 Similarly the work with neuroscience and direct changes (e.g., the role of neurological consciousness in behavior) would be another fertile area. However, again the limitation is that this can be argued to be a purely physical phenomenon based on space and time and that consciousness is an epiphenomenon. Presentiment studies exhibit appropriate methodology and are pertinent in this regard 220; 225; 226, 227. (again 6 sigma; see chapters 22-25), though.
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There are other areas, possibly as cosmological and difficult to prove as parapsychology is. One would be the data that has accumulated such as meaningful aspects of evolution versus pure chance, and trying to explain discrete whole changes versus partial changes, and statistical analyses in this regard. 10 This is, of course, a very hot potato, complicated by the religionists interfering with the objective methodology.175-177 But ultimately, this area will evolve! But it is particularly relevant as part of the secondary hypotheses in TDVP, because the axiom of origin actually says that in finite reality ST and C substrates are inseparably tethered from the start (the origin of existence, be it Big Bang or anything else). Essentially, we're looking to test hypotheses, therefore, including past research already done, and future research to be contemplated, that involves the physical time, space expression of consciousness in the Consciousness, Biological, Psychological and Physical sciences. We would have to also differentiate TDVP from models that argue that both space and time are not epiphenomena of consciousness (as in an "idealism") or that consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of space and time. The above suggestions do. TDVP is a model in evolution: We do not have answers for everything. Were not even close. Solutions may take centuries, or may never occur in our current limited 3S-1t sentient being reality because our 3S-1t reality prevents such intrusions. There are key elements that may not be soluble at any point in the future. The vast limitations of proof in biology and psychological sciences will not change. They are based on inductive reason an order of magnitude less certain than the physical sciences, which already are embedded in controversy. Much more needs to be done, and even then we can never approach omniscience. The biological sciences and even more the psychological databases are simply too tenuous to draw many conclusions, even in areas that have been studied for decades. Inductive empirical proofs are simply at a different level from the physical sciences, and even physics relies on inductive empiricism. We can never achieve complete proof by even proving falsifiable scientific data, because the inductive elements limit proof and we ultimately rely on less certainty than interpretations. Moreover, in TDVP, certain models are even more esoteric and less subject to proof: How do we show that life always exists, as opposed to times when there is no life /no existence? We can make conceptual jumps and posit new secondary ideas such as infinity and this leads to tertiary hypotheses such as infinite life. And even despite enormous progress in applying TDVP to the mathematicological models, we have not yet, and likely will never prove each and every secondary and tertiary component of TDVP. However, no theory devised by mankind ever has been, or ever will be, the final and complete answer to all questions. At this point, the Neppe-Close TDVP, based in sound logic, provides the most comprehensive metaparadigm with its own fully-developed innovative mathematical language. Practical Separation of the Levels of Hypotheses.
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A linguistic element of practical relevance is why do we refer to secondary and tertiary ideas of TDVP, and not primary ones? Primary involves the inseparable STC tethering from the origin. Everything else is a step down. However, secondary hypotheses reflect consequences of this axiom but are extensions. They include new ways of looking at time, infinity in the context of consciousness, space and time. A tertiary or further hypothesis would be based on indivension, or involve research on the finite discrete physical life track because they require the secondary ones to be true. Other tertiary examples would be testing the origin of physical life (the actual how not the why or the DNA/ physiology mechanism) and the existence of ordropy (effective multidimensional and infinite order as opposed to the unidimensional physical tendencies to disorder of entropy). At that tertiary level, too, we could move to the quantal or subquantal levels investigating Qualits and specifically Conscits. Conscits and the particle wave equivalents Psitrons or Kinetrons would then be hypothetical ideas to research. Refutation of a tertiary hypothesis does not disprove a secondary one, and similarly secondary hypothesis refutation doesnt invalidate our primary TDVP axiom. A refuted tertiary hypothesis demonstrated as false creates a dent only. However, if e.g., eternal life were not falsified but feasibly supported by data then it would support the primary hypothesis, noting, however, that feasibility has its own limitations in proof level: It shows only that something is possible. Mathematicologic approach to hypothesis testing for TDVP. The alternative way to test TDVP is to create a thought experiment. And this is what mathematicologic and mathematical physics may be all about. This is why we have emphasized mathematicologic, which is based on deductive reasoning. We would hope that a mathematical model which includes dimensional extrapolation will be more complete by the time our book Space, Time and Consciousness: The Tethered Triad is published. These theorems involve inter alia a variant of geometry across dimensions (dimensionometry) and necessarily invoke areas of logic as in the Calculus of Distinctions combined with other aspects of mathematics and physics. So, this would involve a testable, replicable, deductive mathematical proof. We raise a separate final difficult question. Even if we accept "consciousness, how do we ensure STC tethering is not just "consciousness" impacting Space and Time. As we see it, essentially much of our physical reality in space and time supports STC. If we completely separate consciousness from space and time, it creates the typical philosophical problems of dualism or idealism, e.g., interfaces and origins. These make for less simplicity, parsimony and reasonableness of explanations and create hypotheses beyond our current TDVP.

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Chapter 46: IS TDVP TRULY A THEORY OF EVERYTHING? 419 A theory must be tempered with reality. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 1964; Prime Minister of India) For a Theory of Everything (TOE) to be truly a TOE, it must be feasible at every level of endeavor. The true TOE is universal and leads to a metaparadigm. It must necessarily have the following properties: It must be scientifically feasible, even when opponents dont like the idea. Applying LFAF, despite active applicability to the physical, psychological, consciousness and life sciences, it must not be falsified and it must remain feasible in all these sciences. It must be feasible subatomically, in macrophysical reality and cosmologically. It must be mathematically appropriate. It must form an appropriate theoretical model for philosophy, theology and mysticism. 1. The only model that fits these criteriathe model weve developedis called the Triadic Dimensional Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP). Therefore, we discuss it below. 2. The TDVP model has several fundamental premises: The laws of nature should be universally applicable to to all realitythe finite and infinite subrealities. The laws of nature are interpreted and experienced for us as humans in a finite subreality and specifically by living humans in 3S-1t (3 dimensions of space in a specific moment in time). We do not know all the laws of nature pertaining to infinity. The infinite subreality interchanges with the finite subreality. 3. This infinite essence expresses itself in an all-encompassing space (metaspace), an allpresent time (metatime), an all-pervasive information (metainformation) with meaning (metaconsciousness), associated with all-pervasive order (ordropy) and existence (potential life or polife). 4. The continuous infinite subreality allows for a potential, which can be translated into specific finite discrete subreality. The potentials are expressed in tracks of finite existence, which may make up the history of our finite existence, but effectively, an infinite number of tracks may exist in the infinite subreality. 5. Space, time and a broader descriptive consciousness (S, T and C-substrates) are fundamentally inseparably tethered from the finite origin event (e.g., the big bang)
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producing a unified wholeness of cosmic reality. (Axiom of Tethered Origin [ATO]). 6. The TDVP model is versatile, involving a process of fluctuating dimensions with indivensions, and a content mechanism with vortices. 7. In the life sciences, the potential for life exists in the infinite subreality. In the finite subreality, it arises around the big bang event horizon (see Definition section) or any Origin Event in the C-substrate. Physical life becomes actualized into finite reality when the correct genetic and anatomicophysiological markers evolve to sustain such existence. 8. There is no current TOE that fits all these criteria, other than TDVP. The essential characteristics of TDVP include the consciousness elements of: a. Consciousness. This is not unique for a TOE. Models such as those of Klein, Evert, Laszlo, Smythies and Carr recognize the pre-eminence of consciousness and possibly Hoffman recognizes the pre-eminence of information. b. Consciousness as conceived of in several components: H-C as Higher consciousness, N-C as Neurological consciousness, E-C as ego-consciousness, Q-C as Meaningful reality at the quantal level. These together are deliberately called C-substrate to ensure this concept is understood, as the conceptualization may be unique. c. C-substrate has several subcomponents: It can be expressed in CEV: Cognition, Emotion, Volition, which have solid expressions through neurophysiology of CNS consciousness, or it can be expressed as possible Higher Consciousness component qualities such as love, honor, courage, wisdom, understanding and a wide variety of qualities relating to higher attributes or it can be expressed at its most basic level (e.g., quantal) with apprehension or perturbation of objects or events. d. Ultimately in the living organism, the expression of such awareness while awake in clear neurological consciousness is through the brain (CNS consciousness; also called N-C). However, we do not regard consciousness as simply being explained as an epiphenomenon of physical evolution without resorting to some unexplained selforganization. In other words, we cannot explain all aspects of consciousness and meaning and qualities such as honesty, love and courage simply based on biochemical or electrical processes in the brain. We cannot reduce consciousness to a reflex, a habit or an organismal stimulus, integration and response. There has to be a level of order to it, a level allowing separation of self from not self. Moreover, quantum physics requires that consciousness precedes the first quantum out of the big bang. 9. The essential characteristics of TDVP also include the dimensional and distinction elements of: a. An N-Dimensional base. Such a base includes hyperspace and various string theories. This requirement eliminates those models that are still based on the 3S-1t standard physical
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paradigmatic model, which explains most daily experience but does not explain the contradictory data. ND reality with N>4 is a hypothesis. However, it is strongly supported with logic, mathematics and empirical evidence. b. TDVP is the only model that employs a new multi-dimensional mathematics (the calculus of distinctions) developed specifically for the model. c. The unification of STC substrates. The only other TOE amongst the current ones is that of Laszlo (though it does not use tethering). Hoffmans model uses mass-energy-information as a basic threesome though not unified inseparably and this threesome in the calculus of distinctions involve content and not the metric of intent. d. The concepts of pervasive processes are frequent in the TOE model. This includes not only TDVP with vortical indivension, but Sheldrakes morphogenetic fields, Carrs TFT, Laszlos akashic fields, and also seen in String theory, Hawking, Langan, Watson and Smythies plus Kleins subquantum. However, TDVP is a metalevel higher than these. e. The only model that moves across fluctuating dimensions is TDVP. f. The tethering of STC and vortical separations allowing communications between, across and within dimensions is unique to TDVP. This is the indivension process. g. Indivension relating to individual-units and communication both at a state and trait level. This integrates the social sciences and allows for a fluctuating number of dimensions. This is unique to TDVP. The concepts of pervasive processes are frequent in the TOE model. h. The Space Substrate is at least three dimensional and represented mathematically as real numbers. The Time Substrate is posited as multidimensional and applies the imaginary numbers (as per Minkowski space). Because C-substrate is tethered with time and space, the interface is likely to be represented mathematically as complex numbers (the sum of real and imaginary numbers). Both T and C may be conceptualized applying quaternions. i. Multidimensional time, which several have proposed, but not fully integrated, e.g., (alphabetically) Broad, Carr, Close, Dunne, possibly Hawking, Neppe and Whiteman. TDVP provides a model and reason for NT, particularly including 3T. 10. The essential characteristics of TDVP also include the origin elements of: a. The initial elements from the Origin Event or equivalent. This is comprehensible mystically, e.g., Kabbalah and possibly Vedic philosophy, and also through Laszlo, Lanza and Watson and possibly Campbell (void). b. The unification of past, present and future. This is comprehensible mystically, e.g., Kabbalah and also An N-Dimensional base. Such a base includes hyperspace and various string theories. This requirement eliminates those models that are still based on the 3S-1t standard physical paradigmatic model, which explains most daily experience but does not explain the contradictory data. ND reality with N>4 is a hypothesis. However, it is strongly supported with logic, mathematics and empirical evidence. c. The integration of biology including ordropy and life. The interpretation of how life actually begins is a unique part of the model and involves an explanation for life. A similar concept
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is implied in Watsons enformy but is not so verbalized. d. Conceptual linguistic elements with order are used in Langan and Watson et al, as well our TDVP model of multidimensional ordropy and balances of entropy. e. The role of the infinite, and its interaction with the finite, which very few paradigms incorporate. Kabbalic and Vedic mysticism recognizes this. 11. Specific hypotheses or tests that have been proposed to support several other TOEs will not refute the TDVP model but provide added supporting feasibility data. This great flexibility involving process-content across dimensions allows for the applicability of the model across numerous different disciplines and across many concepts. Consequently, specific hypotheses or tests that have been proposed to support several other TOEs will not refute the TDVP model but if related, at a lower metalevel (e.g. fields, subquantal matrix) provide added supporting feasibility data. 12. TDVP as expected scores a maximum. In fact, at this point, the only TOE it competes against is making itself better. However, it is somewhat tautological because the criteria we have deemed important may not be the criteria that others deem important. Nevertheless, the criteria derivation were sent to the developers (or with Kabbalah and Vedic mysticism, the representatives) of all available authors (15/21). Moreover, even taking out the 12 items involving comparisons of specific analyses, TDVP scores maximally (of course now 27/27) and no other model approaches such scores (except the initial Neppe and Close models). Remarkably TDVP scores a full 39/39. This would be required for a real TOE because it cannot afford exceptions. These results strongly motivate for the powerful breadth of TDVP as a TOE and a paradigm shift. These qualitative results are even more dramatic when looked at quantitatively. No other TOE besides our previous Neppe and Close models, score above 19/39. Nevertheless, a perfect score using comparative ordinal metrics simply makes the model a candidate for a workable metaparadigmatic shift. Tests of data already available and of hypotheses showing absent falsifiability and feasibility dimensionally (3S-1t is most easily researched) are critical further empirical, usually inductive reasoning based, scientific tests. Additionally, deductive approaches using mathematics, mathematical physics and logic have been applied to TDVP: Results are very encouraging and support this model. 13. TDVP impacts several speculative critical and fundamental ideas: Three dimensions of time, N-Dimensions of consciousness, cause-effect, cognition-affect-volition, ego-boundaries,
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 free-will, hyperspace, meaningful information, knowledge and awareness, understanding, wisdom and thought and their influence across and interactions with subtypes of affect and volition, life, mystical awareness, special higher qualities such as love, and causality. Metaconsciousness, subject-object paradoxes, multidimensional time-space and numinosity, are all introduced. Relative non-locality, relative zero, relative time, relative infinity and even relative nonEuclidean mathematics facilitate the interface with our current physical universe. An ultimate end-point is the infinite interacting with the finite even prior to the Origin Event with a Primary Receptor. This produces an open-closed, holistic-unified, finite-infinite universally applicable biopsychophysical reality. Ultimately, at minimum there is a 3S-3T-3C reality (implying 3 dimensions each of space, time and C-substrate) but there may be more dimensions of time and space than 3, and almost certainly it is 3S-3T-NC (implying N dimensions of C-substrate [broader consciousness]) 14. Even more so, the greater speculation of C-substrate particularly metadimensionality reflecting extra dimensions based on Higher Consciousness forces is posited. 15. The speculative but important idea of all fundamental forces warping reality as a mechanism to extrapolate dimensions, following on an adaptation of Einsteinian general relativity is raised. 16. We perceive TDVP as a critically important beginning with demonstrated feasibility through application to various fields of science, from quantum physics to the life sciences to consciousness research. The model should evoke further research and demonstrate a viable mathematical and scientific theoretical framework. From a simple axiom of the fundamental tethering of space, time and C-substrates from the Origin Event, TDVP generates about 600 different ideas. 17. TDVP may become a major contribution to the physical, biological, psychological and consciousness sciences, as well as to mathematics, philosophy, the philosophy of science. It impacts on the scientific linking of mysticism and spirituality. TDVP pioneers the new discipline of "dimensional biopsychophysics". We have been unable to find an area in which our TDVP model does not conform to the LFAF
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rule. The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) truly appears to be a tenable paradigmatic shift. The core axioms and points effectively separate out each component of our metaparadigm. This includes the necessity for infinity, for the origin of everything, for tethering associated with the absolute incontrovertible link of meaning with space-time dimensionality and the component of order as multidimensional ordropy, and the need for ordropy as reflected in life. We speculate this could be a mechanism or functional explanation or a distinction of intent. The same applies for density. Intent would then be meaning within the substrate. Our metaparadigm has not altered fundamentally since we first brought it out because our ideas reflect the same model of our original TDVP concepts. However, the emphasis is a little different with added clarity about time, the infinite, the top-down approach, fluctuations, distinctions with the role of density linking content with extent. Every one of these features is in our metaparadigm. Every axiom is fundamental but global axiomatic groups are infinity, finity and the boundary permeability contiguously and also with the top-down approaching the bottoms-up. The TDVP model cannot work without these two components. But our mixed dilemma is that consciousness and meaning alone is insufficient to imply the potential of life. Consciousness and meaning are still linked up with our S, T, C tethering and inseparability at that finite level but life becomes part of this ordropy at the infinite level. The key to it is also the linkage back to the Origin Event. Weve noted that instead of diminishing the excitement we experienced as each new version of TDVP was distributed to our peers and earliest readers, we felt more confident that the revisions weve produced are closer and closer to reality. Weve seen how the model explains one difficulty after another. It may be wrong, and it certainly is preliminary, but with respect, we think that this model explains much of psi, including its rarity more than anything else that has been proposed in the past. A Theory of Everything requires a simple basic statement of truth that appears universally applicable. Again, we modify Minkowski23: The views of space, time and a broad consciousness which we wish to lay before you, have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, the toil of consciousness research and the challenges of mathematics and logic, and therein lies their strength: A universality applicable to the sciences, to mathematics, and to philosophical ideation. These views are radical, indeed, reflecting a paradigm shift. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, and consciousness by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of tethered union of the

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three from the very beginning will preserve an independent identity. 23 iii We now go one step further than our modification above of Minkowskis famous link of spacetime and our linking of consciousness. This is so, as though it is poetic, we prefer to verbalize our metaparadigm again in more detailed brush-strokes. Clearly S, T, and C-substrates and the tethering are fundamental from the origin event. But we want to also emphasize the role of dimensional distinctions, life, ordropy and infinity. Admittedly, with some difficulty, we place this in a single lengthy metaparadigmatic but complex, and this time, non-poetic sentence. However, by so doing, we illustrate the unification of all reality. The Triadic Dimensional-Distinction Vortical Paradigm (TDVP) explains reality within the fabric of the laws of nature. TDVP incorporates empirical and theoretical data from the physical, psychological, biological and consciousness sciences and impacts in these areas. TDVP is supported by precise mathematical expression and logic including the calculus of distinctions and dimensional extrapolations. TDVP involves a scientifically derived philosophical model of Unified Monism. The TDVP model and Unified Monism reflect a unified holistic reality with an interweaving infinite continuous essence metareality. This infinite subreality reflects an ordered (ordropic), living, all-encompassing space, time and consciousness/informationpervading a finite subreality of a discrete, always inseparably tightly tethered triad of S (space), T (time) and C-substrates (broader consciousness). This tethering provides a direct dimensional communication network and an indirect one from afar (relative non-locality or distant) jjj . This is relative to the individual unit involved because ultimately the experience is based on subjective observations and consequently interpretations. These interpretations vary in domain finite space, time and Consciousness (C-substrate) dimensions. There is a more local related interfacing mechanism involving vortical indivension where direct interaction across, between and within dynamic multidimensional finite realities occurs. The finite vortical indivensional realities are always interfacing, manifesting and pervading the infinite subreality and the finite also expresses itself in the infinite (e.g., as in Life Track in sentient beings), just as the infinite influences and receives from the finite (they are always units). The tethering of STC has always been from the finite origin of events, and without beginnning or end in the infinite subreality. Even when S, T and C appear distinct of each other, they are more
This quotation is again adapted from Hermann Minkowski, in his famous Cologne public lecture: 80th Assembly of German Natural Scientists and Physicians. 21 Sept 1908 The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself and time by itself are doomed to fade away into mere shadows and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent identity. jjj It is in terms of such areas as describing time and space using our 3S-1t model despite in fact being relatively non-local in time and space, that terminology is lacking. Distant here is not linear physical distance, just as local is in the context of metadimensionality. Our language uses the metaphors of time and space and we are trying to describe information that is different still in those terms applying origin and beginning differently, and even order and ordropy are very different from an ostensibly linear, physical polar opposite with specific energy which we regard as entropy.
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loosely still linked by the STC tether, even if only slightly kkk. 3-dimensional vortices interface within, between and across dimensions, and they are dynamic, fluctuating over both moments in finite physically measured time, as well as over much longer periods (e.g. millennia). Vortices provide the innumerable, interwoven content fabric , and indivension the process of interfacing with zillions of other multiple interwoven, fluctuating 3-dimensional individual-unit vortices. Additionally to its interwoven relative indivension role where tethering may allow the fabric of what individual-units manifest by vortical indivension with what (a non-random, meaningful process), tethering may allow for ostensible distant transdimensional communications by the process of individual units interfacing across dimensions. These may be the manifestations of psi in local and non-local contexts. Reality is only experienced by us to a limited degree as sentient beings in our entropic physical 3S-1t subreality domain. This is modulated through our restrictive perceptual and responsive 3S-1t perceptual physical experience. The reality is interpreted by our living physiological ordropic individualism and collective individual units. The reality is conceptualized subjectively relative to our own individual-units. This is the paradigm of Triadic Tethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity [TTOOURS] which reflects our reality response to the TDVP model. Let us imagine once again: Expanding our awareness from 3S-1t-1c to include at least a limited sphere of 3-dimensional time and N-dimensional consciousness spanning the space, time and consciousness of human history, past, present and future: What do we see? We see the giants of science and spirituality upon whose shoulders we stand, and we see an integrated future Science of Reality begetting a better, more enlightened humanity. Focusing down to Earth, 2012, past the end of the long count of the Mayan calendar, and all the dire predictions, what do we see? The world has changed. Human beings have changed, reflecting a bit more clearly the ordropy of the Transfinite Reality. In short, the finite has changed, the infinite has not. Humanity has never been anything but God asleep, entertaining itself with dreams of shadow and light, plus and minus, pleasure and pain! Consciousness is, and always has been There is no separateness. I simply recognize my original state. Edward R. Close, 1977 3

Untethering is a term we previously used but which we now recognize as inappropriate. By definitionaxiomaticallyin TDVP, STC is always in some kind of way tethered, even if the specific circumstance may reflect only minimal tethering. Given its relative domain locality, what is minimal in one domain, may be profound in another. Theoretically untethering could occur but this would invoke a contradiction of the STC unification. Apparent untethering may appear to occur due to individual dimensional limitations (a specific indivension situation) but complete separation would be a contradiction of STC unification.
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Index using key words and phrases above

3S-1t, xxiii, xxv, xxix, xxxi, li, liii, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 28, 33, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 79, 80, 81, 83, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 98, 99, 225, 226, 227, 228, 230, 231, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 246, 248, 254, 255, 256, 264, 265, 267, 269, 270, 274, 275, 277, 278, 279, 286, 289, 292, 293, 294, 295, 299, 325, 328, 342, 348, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 373, 374, 379 3S-3T, xxvi, li, 26, 73, 224, 239, 293, 307, 309, 376 3S-3T-NC, li, 26, 239, 309, 376 Actual reality, xvi actual realities, li Affect affects, li Aharonov, li Akashic field akashic fields, li, 317, 339 Altered states of consciousness, xxiii, li, 98, 162, 245, See ASC Anatomicophysiological, li Anatomy, li Anthropic, li, 295, 296, 298, 340 Anthropology, li anthropologies, xxxix ASC, xxiii, li, 88, 90, 162, See Altered states of consciousness Aspect, li, 23, 49, 100, 235, 236, 281 astronomy, li Astrophysical, li Asymmetry asymmetries asymmetrical, li, 26, 271, 278 Atomic Vortex theory, li Atoms, li axiom, lii, liv, 5, 21, 22, 27, 64, 67, 100, 102, 134, 135, 138, 139, 140, 142, 153, 160, 168, 227, 232, 261, 267, 269, 279, 292, 293, 294, 295, 376, 377 Bell, xxvi, xxviii, xxxii, li, 20, 23, 49, 53, 64, 100, 148, 158, 206, 207, 208, 234, 235, 236, 281 BEM, xxv BEM protocol, xxv, 175, 177, 187 Bending bend, xxx, li, 268, 276 bidirectional, xx, xxi, 109, 123, 124, 127, 133, 168, 247 bidirections, li Big bang, li, 4, 14, 20, 23, 51, 66, 84, 104, 142, 152, 153, 161, 174, 272, 273, 278, 289, 294, 302, 318, 326, 328, 372, 373 biological, xl, xlii, xliv, xlvi, liii, 7, 9, 12, 13, 15, 32, 33, 39, 76, 90, 137, 149, 162, 174, 177, 178, 194, 231, 248, 283, 307, 320, 365, 376, 378 Biology, li, 12, 23, 29, 39, 52, 172, 174, 228, 317, 325, 326, 352, 374 Biopsychofamiliosociocultural, 61, 317 Black hole, li, 84, 152 Bohm, li, 23, 128, 235 Bohm's, 235 Bohr Bohr's, li, 1, 23, 48, 64, 234, 235, 281, 326 Bottom-up, xl, li, 73, 128, 136, 139, 230, 288, 365 Boundary, xx, xxiv, xxvii, 66, 97, 105, 109, 117, 127, 128, 129, 145, 167, 169, 204, 229, 261, 265, 377 Brain dynamics, li, 25, 349 Bridge, li, 73, 109, 123, 124, 126, 145 Bridges, xx, 123, 124 Brown, xxxi, li, 17, 84, 112, 152, 225, 266, 280, 326 Calculus, xvi, xvii, xxix, xxx, li, 17, 58, 71, 84, 92, 251, 261, 266, 292, 323, 353 Calculus of distinctions, xxxvii, xliii, li, 21, 26, 27, 34, 54, 59, 61, 78, 84, 130, 137, 138, 144, 152, 154, 173, 211, 215, 220, 225, 229, 241, 251, 260, 265, 280, 302, 308, 309, 313, 315, 320, 322, 326, 332, 338, 340, 360 Cantor, xxxi, li, 21, 23, 266, 280, 292, 338 Carlson, li, 267 Carr Carr's, ix, xxxiv, li, 27, 28, 29, 31, 291, 296, 297, 299, 300, 308, 319, 320, 322, 329, 330, 332, 340, 373, 374 Cartesian co-ordinate, xvii, li Cartesian co-ordinates, 78, 111, 149 Causality, xxi, li, 26, 133, 290, 352, 376 Cause and effect, li, 41, 42, 240, 352 CEV, 28, 92, 151, 239, 359, 373 Cognition, emotion, volition. See C-substrate Chaos, xx, li, 121 Charge, xxviii, li, 44, 76, 149, 243, 262, 276 Chemistry, li, 12, 39, 75, 172, 174, 325, 326 Chronit, xxii, 157 Chronits, li, 102, 144, 157 Close, iii, ix, xiv, xvii, xxxiii, xxxvii, xl, xli, xliii, xlv, li, 17, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 54, 60, 84, 152, 280, 285, 286, 287, 294, 308, 309, 313, 315, 319, 320, 323, 324, 326, 332, 338, 340, 347, 374, 375 Closes Transcendental physics. See Close Closed, viii, ix, xvii, xxviii, xxxi, li, liv, 2, 6, 15, 26, 35, 61, 62, 72, 102, 119, 120, 143, 159, 173, 174, 189, 197, 206, 236, 237, 246, 247, 270, 275, 280, 286, 305, 336, 337, 376 Cognition, li, 28, 92, 151, 373 cognition-affect-volition, li Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe, xxxiv, li, 338 Collins, li, 27 Common reality, xvi, xxi, li, liv, 3, 19, 69, 70, 71, 83, 131, 132, 133, 142, 148, 161, 248, 279, 303 Complex numbers, xxvii, xxx, xxxii, li, 20, 21, 24, 29, 111, 113, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 239, 278, 280, 281, 326, 374 Conceptual reality, xxii, li, 71, 130, 142, 148, 257, 279 Consciousness Conscious, iii, xv, xvii, xviii, xxii, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xxxiv, xxxvi, xxxix, xl, xli, li, 1, 2, 5, 12, 15, 16, 28, 34, 35, 38, 46, 64, 86, 87, 88, 89, 91, 224, 239, 245, 253, 254, 259, 260, 263, 266, 278, 279, 289, 292, 294, 295, 307, 310, 317, 326, 347, 349, 353, 359, 364, 377 Conscit, xxii, li, 157 Content, xvii, xx, xxvii, xxxiv, xxxviii, xxxix, liv, 2, 4, 8, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 27, 28, 35, 46, 49, 54, 59, 61, 63, 67, 76, 77, 79, 81, 82, 83, 84, 90, 91, 92, 96, 99, 102, 110, 111, 112, 118, 119, 120, 125, 136, 138, 141, 142, 144, 146, 149, 150, 151, 152, 156, 173, 198, 205, 211, 215, 228, 232, 240, 242, 249, 253, 255, 260, 262, 263, 264, 265, 280, 286, 287, 292, 302, 307, 308, 328, 330, 334, 350, 360, 373, 375, 377 contents, 317 Continuous, xxi, li, liii, liv, 2, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 33, 45, 58, 61, 63, 64, 66, 72, 73, 90, 96, 102, 103, 106, 108, 109, 110, 116, 121, 124, 125, 129, 136, 139, 143, 144, 158, 184, 204, 211, 214, 230, 233, 261, 267, 292, 294, 303, 378 Copenhagen, xxvi, li, 20, 23, 49, 100, 104, 123, 148, 172, 202, 206, 234, 235, 236, 265, 281, 295, 326, 353 Corollary corollaries, xxiii, xxx, xxxi, li, 24, 232, 275, 276, 277

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Correlations, xxvi, 50, 133, 158, 170, 206, 207, 208, 234, 235, 236, 352 Cosmological cosmology, xxxii, li, 45, 289, 290 Countable, li Creative creativity, iii, xix, xxxvi, xxxvii, li CST, 140, 146, 153, 159, 160, 173, 192 Consciousness, space and time, xvi, xviii, xxi, xxiii, li, 2, 14, 21, 23, 25, 35, 64, 67, 77, 97, 239, 274, 307, 308, 358, 361 C-substrate, xvii, xviii, xxiii, xxiv, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, li, liii, liv, 2, 4, 14, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 35, 46, 54, 56, 63, 64, 67, 75, 78, 79, 80, 83, 84, 85, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 102, 104, 113, 127, 136, 138, 140, 143, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 203, 216, 220, 221, 223, 224, 227, 228, 231, 232, 233, 237, 238, 239, 242, 244, 248, 251, 253, 254, 263, 268, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281, 287, 288, 292, 293, 296, 297, 298, 300, 305, 307, 308, 315, 318, 323, 328, 332, 339, 347, 348, 349, 362, 373, 374, 376 CTMCognitive theoretic model of the universe, li, 27 De La Sierra, ix, xxxiv, li, 30, 320, 349 Dj vu, li Delayed choice experiments, li Deniers, li Dennett, li, 27, 283 Density, xviii, xxvi, xxx, li, 18, 59, 76, 81, 82, 84, 91, 96, 111, 149, 150, 151, 213, 214, 215, 217, 228, 262, 263, 264, 265, 275, 324, 340, 377 Dimensionometry, xvii, xxii, xxiii, li, 78, 159, 271, 276, 277, 279 Dimensions, xvii, xviii, xix, xxvi, xxvii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxiv, xxxviii, xxxix, xlv, li, liii, liv, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51, 52, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 63, 65, 66, 67, 70, 71, 73, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 94, 97, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 104, 106, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 125, 127, 128, 135, 136, 137, 138, 140, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 151, 154, 156, 157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 166, 173, 174, 192, 195, 196, 199, 200, 203, 210, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 231, 232, 233, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 246, 249, 252, 253, 254, 256, 262, 263, 264, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 286, 288, 292, 293, 295, 298, 299, 301, 306, 307, 308, 309, 311, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318, 320, 322, 325, 326, 328, 329, 330, 335, 337, 338, 339, 342, 348, 358, 360, 361, 362, 363, 373, 374, 375, 376, 379 Discrete, xvi, xx, xxi, liii, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 33, 46, 61, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 73, 80, 90, 91, 96, 99, 102, 108, 109, 110, 116, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 139, 142, 143, 144, 145, 168, 204, 210, 211, 212, 217, 223, 226, 229, 230, 233, 255, 261, 262, 265, 302, 305, 306, 349 Distinctions, xvii, xxx, 7, 17, 18, 58, 71, 75, 83, 84, 92, 100, 125, 144, 150, 152, 205, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 272, 278, 292, 315, 323, 339, 353 Distortions, xxiv, xxxi, 24, 164, 169, 193, 233, 276 Domains, xvii, xxiii, xxvii, 75, 83, 159, 277 Double-slit, li Dualism, xxxiv, li, 282, 285, 288, 319, 322, 332, 333 Dunne, xxvi, li, 29, 53, 185, 191, 211, 212, 330, 374 Ego-boundaries, li

Einstein, viii, xxvi, xliii, xliv, li, 1, 23, 34, 41, 48, 49, 52, 54, 75, 111, 112, 130, 140, 148, 158, 163, 167, 172, 175, 192, 202, 206, 209, 221, 227, 232, 234, 235, 273, 274, 281, 282, 323, 326, 353, 363 EinsteinPodolskyRosen paradox, 206 Electrochemical, li Electromagnetism, li Electrons, li Elementary, li elements, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xxii, xxxviii, xliii, xlvi, li, 1, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 25, 29, 35, 51, 55, 65, 70, 71, 72, 76, 83, 84, 88, 90, 91, 97, 110, 116, 117, 120, 128, 132, 144, 146, 150, 152, 153, 167, 168, 173, 174, 176, 199, 202, 222, 224, 226, 229, 230, 233, 248, 256, 259, 262, 265, 268, 272, 284, 292, 296, 301, 307, 311, 312, 314, 317, 324, 325, 334, 340, 341, 362, 374, 375 Emergent, li Empirical, li, 135 Energy, li, 151, 260, 264, 325 Enformy, li, 351 Entanglement, 202, 203, 206, 207, 209 entangled entangles, xv, xxv, xxvi, xxviii, li, 42, 235, 237, 242, 363 Entropy, xx, li, 62 Epiphenomena, li, 170 Epistemological, li EPR, li, 23, 48, 100, 158, 208, 234, 235, 281 Essence, xix, xx, li, liii, 73, 116, 119, 120, 129, 171, 202, 324, 325 Ethicospirituobiopsychofamiliosociocultural systems, xxiii, li, 162 Ethicospirituomysticobiopsychofamiliogroupsociocultural, li Euclidean, xvii, xix, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxix, li, lii, liii, liv, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 72, 77, 80, 103, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 211, 221, 225, 226, 233, 244, 263, 268, 274, 275, 277, 279, 280, 281, 291, 309, 376 Evert, xxxii, xxxiv, li, 27, 28, 29, 281, 319, 320, 334, 373 Everts mathematical model of vortices, 281 Evolution evolve, evolving, xv, li, 43, 341, 364 Exceptional Human Experience, li Existence, xxii, xxiii, li, 66, 67, 141, 154, 163, 228, 229 Expanding universe, li Extent, xx, li, 76, 81, 82, 103, 119, 149, 228, 262, 264 extrapolation. See Extradimensional extrapolation Extropy, xvi, xix, xx, xxii, xxxii, li, liv, 61, 62, 104, 116, 119, 120, 156, 270, 295, 299, 300, 301, 312, 352 Falsifiability, xv, li, 48, 51, 138 Feasibility feasible, xv, li, liii, 5, 51, 53, 270 Fermat, xxxi, xxxvii, 17, 20, 23, 59, 253, 269, 271, 272, 278, 280, 286 Fermats last theorem, li Field fields, xxxiv, li, 274, 278, 308, 319, 329, 330, 334, 339 Filter filters, filtering, filtered, li, 123, 256 Finite, xvi, xviii, xx, xxvii, xxviii, li, liii, 8, 16, 22, 70, 96, 102, 106, 116, 138, 140, 144, 146, 213, 228, 229, 230, 246, 261 Finity, li Fluctuatifluctuate, fluctuates, xxix, li, 144, 253, 255, 262, 360 Fo rce, li Formulae, li Fractal, li Fractal geometry, li Fractional dimensions, li

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Free will, xxvi, li Fundamental, xvi, li, liii, 60, 269, 276, 295, 308, 317 Fundamental constants, li Fundamental forces, li Fundamental ideas, li Funnel, li Future, xxiv, li, 169, 211 Ganzfeld, xxv, li, 88, 175, 177, 183, 188 Gauss, xxxii, li, 163, 281 General Relativity, li, 11, 17, 51, 163, 253 Genetics, li Geneva, li, 202, 206, 236 geometry, xxxvii, li, 18, 34, 50, 58, 59, 77, 78, 80, 111, 112, 114, 149, 159, 164, 173, 274 Gesher, xx, li, 73, 124 Gisin, li, 206, 236 Global consciousness project GCP, xxv, li, 175, 177 God, xliii, li, 93, 120, 153, 209, 227, 266, 282, 284, 285, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 297, 339, 350, 379 Gdel, viii, xxi, xxxi, li, 20, 23, 61, 96, 105, 123, 135, 138, 153, 210, 219, 256, 275, 278, 280, 287, 289, 358, 362 Gdels incompleteness theorem, li, 20, 105, 135, 278, 362 Goswami, xlix, li, 29, 31, 319, 320, 322, 344, 345, 346 Gould, xxi, xxxiv, li, 29, 134, 310, 319, 320, 350 Gravitation, li, 244 Guiding, li Guth, li, 45 Hameroff, li Hamilton, li, 23, 219 Hausdorf, li Hawking, xxxiv, li, 27, 28, 29, 172, 309, 319, 320, 337, 374 Heisenberg, li, 23, 121, 281, 326 Helices, li Heuristic, xv, li, 56 Hierarchy of infinities, li Hilbert, li, 23, 111, 163, 280, 281, 324 Hitbonnenut, li Hoffman, xxxiv, li, 29, 31, 311, 320, 322, 352, 353, 373, 374 Holistic, xxvii, xxviii, xlvi, liv, 2, 9, 13, 22, 23, 26, 32, 33, 35, 55, 57, 58, 59, 116, 119, 128, 143, 144, 153, 173, 174, 228, 230, 338, 351, 376, 378 Hologram, li Hyperspace, xxviii, xxxiv, li, 12, 39, 174, 238, 319, 347 Imaginary numbers, li Indivension, xxiii, xxviii, xxx, li, 19, 24, 29, 67, 70, 82, 161, 192, 198, 239, 242, 243, 249, 253, 262, 275, 308, 312, 317, 323, 324, 328, 338, 339, 360, 374 Individual-unit, xxiii, li, liii, 162, 241, 249 Inequality, xxviii, xxxii, 20, 206, 208, 209, 234, 235, 236, 281 Infinite infinity, infinities, xvi, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxvii, li, liii, 2, 16, 24, 63, 64, 96, 99, 101, 102, 106, 108, 109, 116, 117, 120, 138, 139, 142, 143, 144, 211, 212, 228, 230, 261, 268, 275, 278, 292, 302, 303, 319, 326 Influence, li Information, xxiv, li, 79, 143, 167, 254, 259, 260, 262, 317, 325, 333, 334 Integrated, xxxvii, li Intent, li, 82, 103, 159, 262, 265, 377 Interactions, li, 71 Inverse square, li

Jigsaw, li Kabbalic Kabbalically, xxxiv, li, 29, 30, 292, 307, 312, 319, 321, 326, 347, 348, 375 Kinetrons kinetron, li, 157 Klein, ix, xxxiv, li, 27, 28, 29, 30, 50, 81, 83, 154, 172, 319, 320, 321, 333, 334, 335, 373 Langan, xxxiv, li, 29, 319, 320, 338, 339, 374, 375 Lanza, xxxiv, li, 29, 31, 287, 291, 300, 310, 319, 320, 321, 340, 341, 342, 374 Laszlo, xxxiv, li, 27, 28, 29, 31, 300, 319, 320, 339, 340, 341, 342, 346, 373, 374 Laws of nature, li Leibniz, xxxiv, li, 1, 21, 30, 320, 332, 333, 340, 353 Lemma lemmas, xxiii, xxx, li, 67, 160, 270 Lemma of dimensional falsification impossibility, xxx, li Leptons lepton, li LFAF, xv, xxiv, xxxii, xlvi, li, liii, 2, 5, 11, 12, 33, 35, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57, 60, 68, 130, 134, 136, 137, 138, 158, 172, 173, 193, 215, 270, 275, 276, 281, 294, 295, 307, 309, 327, 328, 347, 372, 376 Life, xv, xix, xx, xxii, xxvii, li, lii, 43, 63, 102, 116, 117, 119, 120, 153, 156, 228, 301, 308, 317, 323, 325, 364 Life sciences, li Limitations limitation, li, 10, 35 Logic logical, xxvi, li, 60, 216 Lower dimensional discontinuity, li Macrophysical, li Magisteria, xxxiv, li, 350 Mandelbrot, li Manifold manifolds, xxiii, li, 159, 160 Meta-information, lii, 64, 263 Metaparadigm, lii, 8, 20, 22, 56, 60, 105, 139, 146, 147, 161, 295 Metareality, xx, lii, 128 Metaspace, lii Metatime, lii, 103 Meteorology, lii Metric, xvii, xxii, lii, 78, 149 Minkowski, xxvi, xxxi, lii, 21, 29, 34, 111, 112, 163, 215, 221, 271, 274, 280, 374, 377, 378 Minkowski space, lii, 112 Model models, xv, xvi, xviii, xxiv, xxxii, xxxiv, li, lii, 2, 8, 35, 36, 44, 45, 51, 60, 66, 97, 131, 173, 194, 195, 198, 292, 338, 339, 347, 364 Monism monistic, xxxii, lii, 69, 72, 282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 306 Morphogenetic fields, lii, 327 Movement movements, lii, 254 Multi-dimensional, lii Multidimensional scaling, lii Multidimensional time-space, lii Muons muon, lii Mysticism, xlvi, lii, 30, 286, 292, 307, 321, 347, 348

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Mysticospirituotheological, lii N-1 dimensions, lii N-1 dimension, 104 Natural law, lii, 69, 102, 174 Nature, lii, 26, 122, 276 N-Dimensional manifolds, xxxii, lii, 22, 281 N-distinctions, lii Negative entropy, lii, liv Neppe, ii, iii, ix, xiv, xxi, xxxiii, xxxvi, xxxviii, xlii, xliii, xliv, xlv, xlvii, lii, 21, 29, 30, 60, 88, 93, 120, 129, 132, 133, 134, 139, 159, 172, 211, 257, 258, 259, 274, 286, 294, 309, 313, 319, 320, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 330, 338, 347, 374, 375 Neppes Vortex N-Dimensional paradigm, lii Neurological consciousness, xviii, lii, 86 Neurophilosophy of consciousness, lii Neuroscience, xxxvi, lii NOMA, xxxiv, lii, 319, 350 Non-locality, xvi, lii, 64, 158 Nonoverlapping Magisteria, 319 Nucleons, lii Nucleus, lii Numinosity, lii Object, lii Objective, lii Ockham, lii Ontological, lii ontologically, xxxii, 291 Open, lii, 72, 102, 162, 270 Ordinal, xvii, lii, 78, 103, 214 ordropy, xxxii, liii, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 29, 38, 61, 62, 65, 66, 73, 96, 100, 102, 104, 108, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 122, 143, 144, 146, 153, 156, 173, 203, 205, 215, 229, 262, 265, 270, 272, 291, 296, 300, 301, 305, 311, 314, 315, 318, 330, 337, 344, 358, 372, 374, 375, 377, 378, 379 Origin Event, lii, liii, liv, 4, 6, 9, 26, 29, 33, 43, 63, 64, 67, 72, 84, 102, 103, 117, 118, 142, 152, 153, 173, 228, 260, 289, 295, 302, 307, 308, 318, 328, 339, 352, 360, 373, 374, 376, 377, 378 Ovoid, lii Packets, lii Panexperientialism, lii, 305 Panprotoexperientialism, lii, 305 Panpsychism, xxxiii, lii, 305 Paradigm, xlvi, liv, 9, 372 paradigm shift, lii paradigms, xv, xvii, xxiii, xxiv, xxxiii, xxxiv, xl, xli, xlv, lii, liv, 2, 5, 10, 12, 13, 14, 35, 55, 57, 85, 147, 160, 173, 205, 219, 307, 319, 323, 324, 326, 358, 364, 377, 378 Paradoxes, lii, 135 Parallel, xxvi, lii, 217, 268, 303 Parangular, xvii, lii, 78, 217 Parapsychology parapsychological, lii, 177, 325, 326 Particle particles, xxxv, lii, 365 Past, lii, 103 Penrose, xxxii, lii, 23, 281, 300 Perceptual, xxii, lii, liv, 84, 103, 148, 150, 152, 265, 274, 277, 279 Pharmacology, lii Phenomenal consciousness, lii, 332 Philosophy, 39 philosophies, philosophical, xvi, xviii, xx, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, lii, 11, 12, 51, 65, 87, 130, 138, 174, 282, 301, 302, 325, 349

Physical life, lii, 23, 228, 373 Physicalist, lii Physics, xviii, xxiv, xxvi, xxxiv, xxxvii, xl, xliv, xlv, lii, 15, 23, 30, 32, 60, 87, 139, 172, 196, 202, 215, 287, 290, 294, 313, 319, 320, 323, 326, 347, 364 Physiobiopsychological, lii Physiology, xxix, lii, 104 Pico, lii, 23 Planck, viii, lii, 10, 23, 44, 45, 81, 239, 273, 281, 327, 336, 364 Polife, 118 potential life, lii, 117, 118 Popper, xv, lii, 11, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52 Postulate, 24 postulates, xxiii, xxvii, xxx, xxxi, lii, 24, 160, 227, 273, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279 Precognition, xxv, lii, 177, 190 Present, lii Pribram, lii, 128 Primary consciousness, xxxii, lii Primary receptor, lii Prime essence, lii Prime radiation substrate, lii Principle principles, xxiii, xxx, xxxi, lii, 24, 26, 121, 160, 234, 267, 268, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 295, 296, 298 Protons, lii Provable, lii Pseudoskeptics, lii Psi, xv, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, lii, 15, 42, 132, 168, 171, 177, 178, 179, 180, 192, 195, 197, 198, 199, 200, 202, 204, 205, 215, 332, 361, 363 Psitrons, 157 Psychology, 86 psychological, psychologies, xviii, lii, 89, 317 Psychoneurological, xxv, lii, 201 Pythagoras, xxx, lii, 23, 24, 270, 272, 275 Pythagorean theorem, xxx, xxxi, lii, 20, 110, 270, 271, 272, 280 Qualit, xxii, lii, 91, 102, 157 qualits, 83 Qualits, xxxi, 5, 23, 24, 46, 64, 71, 102, 103, 129, 144, 265, 267, 365 Quanta, xvi, lii, 64, 84, 152 Quantomacroasronomophysicochemicalethicospirituobiphysiopsycho familiosociocultural, lii Quantum, xviii, xxiv, xxviii, xxxiv, lii, 15, 23, 35, 45, 58, 72, 102, 103, 121, 158, 206, 234, 236, 300, 317, 319, 326, 333, 334, 337, 349, 364 Quantum consciousness, xviii, lii, 15, 300 Quantum field theory, lii Quantum Hall effect, lii Quantum mechanics, lii, 58, 121 Quantum physics, lii, 35 Quaternion quaternions, lii, 233 Qubit qubits, xxii, lii, 156 Radian, lii Radical, lii Radin, lii, 186, 187, 189, 203 Random Event Generators REG, lii Random number generato RNG, lii Rare events, xxiv, 176, 178 Real numbers, xxxii, lii, 220, 281

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Realities, xxix, xxx, xxxix, liv, 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 22, 25, 39, 43, 52, 58, 59, 61, 66, 69, 73, 79, 82, 83, 109, 111, 113, 114, 136, 138, 144, 150, 153, 158, 161, 167, 168, 179, 183, 195, 200, 202, 210, 215, 218, 220, 225, 226, 227, 233, 241, 242, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 254, 257, 261, 267, 272, 273, 274, 279, 280, 287, 292, 305, 311, 328, 341, 361, 364 Reality, iii, xvi, xxii, xl, xli, xlvi, lii, liv, 1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 20, 21, 26, 33, 69, 70, 72, 102, 116, 128, 130, 131, 134, 143, 144, 146, 148, 152, 214, 232, 262, 263, 268, 275, 312, 339, 341, 379 Relative, viii, xvi, xxi, xxxviii, xxxix, 3, 6, 8, 14, 19, 21, 22, 26, 32, 35, 54, 55, 64, 65, 66, 71, 72, 77, 79, 80, 90, 97, 99, 104, 106, 109, 110, 114, 130, 131, 133, 135, 138, 140, 144, 145, 146, 159, 161, 164, 165, 168, 169, 185, 196, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 227, 238, 240, 241, 243, 247, 248, 260, 262, 264, 265, 266, 274, 279, 286, 288, 292, 293, 295, 298, 299, 308, 309, 325, 330, 339, 353, 358, 360, 363, 376 relativity, xxii, xxiii, xxvii, xxviii, xxxi, lii, liii, liv, 2, 9, 14, 20, 22, 26, 33, 106, 139, 144, 146, 147, 158, 161, 162, 227, 237, 246, 264, 277, 279, 295, 376, 379 Riemann, xxxii, lii, 111, 281 Roth, lii, 27 Russel, lii, 27 Russell, lii, 105 Samadhi, lii, 238 Scalar, lii Scalars, 17, 84, 117, 137, 150, 152, 192, 198, 205, 275, 287, 360 Schrdinger, lii, 23, 135, 202, 234, 281, 326 Schroeder, lii, 27, 128, 291, 300 Scientific model, lii Self, xxx, lii, 261, 332, 333 Set theory, lii, 266 Sheep-goat, lii Shefa, lii Shefam, lii Sheldrake, xxxiii, lii, 27, 29, 31, 43, 97, 189, 200, 274, 312, 319, 320, 321, 323, 327, 328, 374 Sieve, lii Sigma, xxv, lii, 177, 182, 188, 190 Sirag, ix, xxxiv, lii, 23, 28, 29, 31, 238, 266, 319, 320, 322, 324, 347 Smythies, ix, xxxiv, lii, 27, 28, 29, 308, 310, 319, 320, 322, 329, 330, 332, 340, 373, 374 Social sciences, lii Space, iii, xix, xxii, xxxiv, xl, xli, lii, liv, 5, 13, 14, 29, 34, 46, 64, 75, 83, 86, 90, 106, 111, 112, 140, 143, 153, 158, 159, 199, 212, 223, 228, 262, 263, 266, 274, 276, 292, 295, 301, 305, 306, 317, 334, 336, 341, 347, 349, 353, 360, 372, 374 Space-time, lii, 292 Special Relativity, xxiv, lii Speculative critical, lii Spinors, lii S-substrate, xxiii, lii, 75, 90, 158, 173, 217, 224 Standard paradigm, lii Staring, xxv, lii, 175, 177, 189 State specific state, xxiii, lii, 162 Statistical, xxi, xxv, 5, 42, 52, 56, 68, 76, 117, 130, 131, 132, 135, 149, 168, 170, 175, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 190, 193, 199, 200, 211, 259, 275, 291, 342 statistic, statistcs, xxiii, xxv, lii, 98, 134, 164, 193 String theory, xxxiv, lii, 23, 29, 237, 335, 374 Strong anthropic, lii Strong forces, lii

Subatomic, xv, lii, 44, 364 Subject, lii Subjective, lii Subquantum, xxxiv, lii, 333 Subreality, lii, 303 Substrate, 26, 173, 224, 294, 348 substrates, xxii, lii, liv, 2, 29, 35, 75, 158, 173, 221, 333, 374 Subtypes, lii Survival, xxv, lii, 175, 177, 189, 300 TDVP, xiv, xv, xvi, xviii, xx, xxi, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, xxvii, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiii, xxxiv, xxxv, xli, xlvi, lii, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 46, 55, 56, 59, 60, 64, 65, 66, 67, 69, 72, 83, 85, 86, 90, 96, 98, 101, 104, 105, 106, 109, 113, 120, 121, 123, 130, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 145, 147, 160, 161, 163, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 179, 185, 192, 194, 195, 198, 203, 205, 206, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 220, 227, 236, 237, 238, 239, 242, 259, 261, 278, 279, 280, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 317, 319, 320, 322, 323, 324, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 332, 334, 337, 338, 339, 342, 347, 349, 350, 351, 353, 358, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378 Tegmark, lii, 172, 337 Teleological interpretation, lii Tensors, xxxi, 24, 275 TES, xxxiv, lii, 30, 319, 321, 350, 351 Tethering, xvi, xxiii, xxx, lii, liv, 19, 20, 24, 63, 67, 69, 70, 114, 140, 161, 162, 202, 243, 253, 262, 275 The Tethered Triad, xl, xli, 5 Theorem, xxi, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, li, 20, 24, 27, 49, 59, 61, 100, 105, 110, 135, 138, 139, 140, 148, 160, 234, 235, 267, 268, 269, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 278, 280, 281, 362 Theoretical strengths, lii Theory of Enformed Systems, xxxiv, 319, 350 Theory of Everything TOE, xv, xxxv, xli, xliii, xlvi, lii, 11, 38, 39, 40, 46, 56, 109, 135, 323, 339, 346, 372, 377 Theory of relativity, lii Thought, xxvi, lii, 215 Time, iii, xix, xxii, xxvi, xl, xli, lii, liv, 5, 29, 34, 46, 53, 64, 81, 86, 90, 103, 106, 112, 143, 158, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219, 223, 224, 225, 228, 232, 233, 262, 263, 264, 266, 295, 306, 317, 324, 341, 347, 349, 374 Top-down, lii, 70, 103, 230 Topology, lii Trait, xxiii, lii, 162, 231 Transdimensional vortices, lii Triadic, xvi, xviii, xxxiii, xli, xlv, xlvi, lii, liv, 2, 9, 13, 14, 18, 20, 22, 26, 33, 35, 55, 67, 97, 139, 140, 146, 147, 161, 173, 205, 295, 307, 311, 319, 323, 372, 377, 378, 379 Trimath, lii T-substrate, xxiii, lii, 75, 90, 101, 158, 173, 216, 221, 224 TTOOURS, liv Triadic Thethered Ordered Origin Unified Relative Subjectivity, lii, liv, 2, 9, 20, 22, 33, 96, 139, 146, 147, 161, 227, 295, 379 Watson, ix, xxxiv, lii, 29, 30, 312, 319, 320, 321, 350, 351, 374, 375 Wave, xxxv, lii, 365 Weak anthropic, lii Weak forces, lii Wheeler, lii, 23, 49, 156, 158, 281, 293, 297 Whiteman, xxxiv, lii, 29, 216, 308, 329, 330, 349, 374 Wilbur, lii, 31, 322

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Can we find "consciousness" relevant? Can we explain how Life actually occurs? Can we reconcile the idea of a Higher Being with science? Can we have Free will as well as Foreknowledge (Precognition)? Can we regard all events and objects even subatomic particles as reflecting meaning? Can we find order in our world even though in physics we tend towards a disorder? Can we look at reality by starting at science and applying a new philosophy? Can we reconcile our reality by introducing more dimensions and infinity? Can we make a difference for us and for our broader world? Can we explain everything in Nature? Can we reconcile the quantum model with the astronomical? the animate with the inanimate? the finite with the infinite? The answer to every one of these questions: "Yes, scientifically, each is strongly motivated."
But how does the model developed by Drs Neppe and Close objectively compare with all the other major models? We know that when applying appropriate scientific comparisons: it is far better than any other model; it (uniquely) scores a perfect score (39/39); the model is expanding in breadth, new applications, new proofs, and new evidence; no other "theory of everything" can explain better the process of how reality works; its basic axiom has successfully answered challenges from scientists and philosophers; it is qualitatively the most challenging so far well justified, yet likely incomplete
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