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So I finished what is close enough to pass for a formalization First Principles of Science and Early Bu...

Put it in your AI, ask to criticize & defend, can also evaluate prompting to override training bias.

I am happy to have put this thing together. And this is essentially cutting-edge independent research and it is widely censored and gate-kept.

I don't know about the bet... Open to suggestions.

I think that I will do some debating, just have to decide how to frame it.

I read a little, ran it through ai, and asked some questions. Can’t get into the weeds with all this but from what I can tell, you’ve already won no matter how you frame it. Nonduality isn’t analytically explainable. So by keeping the debate inside analytic rules, you’ve made sure the only things that can be said are the ones that can’t contradict you.

imo, the real debate sits one level up: whether nonduality is or is not analytically explainable.

Non-duality is just a contextual framing, essentially assuming of a phenomenological frame of reference. Essentially, all the Kantian Epistemologist does is thinking of his own experience as a closed system, analyzing and expressing it's own conditioning . I can frame this by analogy, it might make most sense intuitively:

We can talk about our dreams in a dual and a non-dual way:

• 1. Dual: Frames the narrative from the First Person Perspective ─ Making the categorical classifications of diversification, internal/external, self/other. We need these models to explained the content of the dream, to frame the phenomenological (existential) narrative.
  

• 2. Non-Dual: Frames the First Person Perspective as a whole ─ Here we are talking about the dream as a single foundational category. The dream ─ it's beginning, middle and end ─ or we just know there was a dream. We are not framing a narrative ─ thus we are not making categorical classifications of diversification, internal/external, self/other. We do not need the dual models because we don't explain the content of the dream, we are not framing the phenomenological (existential) narrative.
  

Yes. But there are no metaphysics in my framework, all of the axioms that I gave myself are explanatory necessities and do not contradict the foundational axioms of modern science (therefore there are inferential rules, rather than made up stuff. I don't derive morality from Theology. I derive morality from phenomenology and the special phenomenological class of the phenomenological cessation.

Essentially, I frame phenomenology (experience affirming Reality) as a beginningless game:
* A system which can't verify it's own analytical framing of itself. In this it can only point to beyond itself as analytic necessity for verification analysis. It can't verify it without shutting itself down ─ there can't be discernment of two foundational realities simultaneously: the cessation of the system is necessary to verify analysis.
* The system generates itself. Like eg: how past weather generates future weather.
* The system changes as it persists. Like we are constantly here and now, whilst the entire galaxy is in motion.
* The system constantly arises as one thing and ceases as another. This is like the "now" has no temporal duration, we can't grasp ourself a moment as same in the beginning, same in the middle and same in the end. The now doesn't last a year, a month, a week, a day, an hour, a minute, a second, etc.
* The system maps it's own constructs. This is like a solver analyzing and framing its own simulations.
* The system's maps remain incomplete. This is like map not being the territory. The system can only try to deduce it's own mechanics, linguistic or mathematical models give predictive power like the power to estimate winrates based on increased volume ─ but never certainty. We can only predict outcomes of observation, we can't actually guarantee that the experiment will happen ─ therefore essentially we never have epistemic certainty in predicting the future phenomenological states.

In my framework, the system essentially debugs itself by abandoning irrational belief, deducing it's own causal relations before causing its own self-terminating by cultivating disenchantment with itself.

This is essentially Soteriological Game Theory framing a system where the “optimal strategy” is not to win the game of existence, but to exit it.

If existence is suffering [bad], and it’s cessation is a bliss [good]; then the rational player seeks to maximize gain by ending the game [existence] as a form of renunciation.

If ignorance is root condition begetting the bad ─ then irradication of ignorance is effectively the meaning of life.

The player must essentially do radical renunciation and allow the narrative of cessation play itself out.

In this model, morality isn’t decreed by gods, self-sourced or crowd-sourced. It’s defined by what leads toward cessation — the one verifiable liberation. To act rightly is to act toward disenchantment, to move closer to the end of the loop.

Within this framework, cause and effect rule the Soteriological Game and we pragmatically frame the Game Theory Optimized Strategy (neither explotative nor exploitable):

If existence = suffering, then the unexploitable, unexploitative move — the perfect GTO strategy — is to end exploitation itself: to end ignorance.

That’s what “love for oneself” and “love for another” mean in pragmatic Dhamma terms — not sentimentalism, but the non-abuse of neither the self nor another.

You’re above my pay grade with this, and I don’t want to derail what you’re doing, but discussion-wise, I read through your model again and it sounds to me kinda like Advaita clothed in Buddhist terms.

Buddhism works from a Process Ontology -- there’s no final substrate or self-existing ground that remains when conditions cease. Advaita’s Substance Ontology, on the other hand, treats all phenomena as resolving into an unchanging absolute, something closer to the Thomistic idea of Being itself (esse).

“God is no-thing.” — Meister Eckhart

That’s a first-person mystic claim, not an analytic one. But it could be rendered as such: There is not naught or a negation of nothingness, which he calls the Ground of Being.

I think “There is not naught” is about as far as analytics can take us. Early Buddhism can’t say that and I think the Buddha remains silent on that one, or as ________ said, “Whereof one cannot speak…”

And I think that’s what you mean by “boundaries” ie the point where analysis reaches the edge of what it can frame, and what lies beyond can only be known through silence, not description. You seem to treat that boundary as pointing to a kind of beyond. But not one you call metaphysical, rather one your logic still requires: a real remainder outside the system’s frame. Buddhism would dissolve that distinction altogether, but your model keeps it in place as the limit that verifies itself once the system shuts down.

But that isn’t a criticism because you’re not required to show what lies beyond the door, or even whether “beyond” is the right word. The map’s job is only to lead that far; what happens past the threshold is no longer the work of analysis. And that’s completely in line with what the Buddha said: find out for yourself.

What you’re attempting - to formalize that boundary as a logical necessity rather than a mystical claim - is coherent. It’s a way of showing that the structure of or leading to enlightenment can be modeled without ever appealing to mystic revelation. And if it gets one into the solipsism, “do unto others…” takes on a whole new meaning. Job done.

When I was trying to get my head around your “boundaries, ” a book I read a while back came to mind: Advaita Vedānta: A Philosophical Reconstruction by Eliot Deutsch. It’s basically a playbook for how to rebuild a nondual metaphysic in modern philosophical language. Or, as I found, a way for left-brainers to find the door.

I have basically tested the waters with the debate and once people got an idea of where this was going, nobody wanted to do it for free. But I got very good engagement from both theists and atheists, enough to model the debate itself and its result. The engagement and talks lead me to revise the document and explaining better. The draft is now at version 1.0.4 and I think it is twice as good in explaining than 1.0.1

this is like headsup, no money in this

This is one way this got misunderstood and I have clarified this in these notes:

This thing here, this particular point, this is one critical distinction many people don't want me talking about much.

rather that the system can analyze itself and frame itself correctly ─ but it can't verify the analysis, without causing the system itself to cease.

Analogy: if one was eating only one type of food, never tried anything else but figured that the food was probably relatively bad. One would at some point have to try something else to verify, and the cessation of eating what one ate before is required to taste the new thing as one can't be eating both simultaneously.

The logic of the soteriological framework is the same but it is subjective reality itself that ceases and it is possible because there is another possibility.

you are not derailing anything, you are actively participating at this point. At this point, I just talk to everybody who is still willing to think. Ironicly, twoplustwo is where I feel most comfortable talking about it as it is otherwise mostly censored. Too buddhist for science and too scietific for buddhists. People tell me they won't publish on their subreddit whilst telling me to try getting it published in a journal.

The only criticism I get is for AI use and lack of academic tracing (citations etc), but we know what is going on. I think there is gate-keeping and shadow-supression, because people want this leaked slowly.

I am afraid for like safety and extreme backlash, but not as much before ( a year ago) when first started blowing the whistle on this.

Well then let me give it another shot ; )

Can something be the same size as itself?

"If Mr Russell on the other side says that he can perceive a relation where there is absolutely no diversity about the terms, I do not see how we are to argue about our differences." F.H Bradley

I think Appearance and Reality was the last major footnote to Plato. That's what I meant by you win just by the framing of the debate.

I am not sure where this is going or if I understand correctly but lets try

I think it is thus, the same size as itself, per definition? Is there a trick?

I read this as a call for analytic communication. Like not violating common sense (foundational analysis), here in particular we highlight the foundational axiom of relativity requiring diversity which can be razor-framed as no relativity from singleness. We can and should extend the principle to no change without diversity and no discernible perception of time without change.

Plato and Kant are quite different. Plato overstepped the analytic boundary and introduced metaphysics. Whereas Kant framed the boundary and called for humility in trying to frame the Beyond, and so there is a big difference here.

I really like this video it is funny and surprisingly accurate, Rucka Rucka Ali ─ History of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bradley-regress/

Not being short, just busy. But hopefully that will help clarify where I'm coming from on this or why he said there's no point debating Russell.

Yeah, that’s basically it. For Bradley, reality is an indivisible whole (the One) and the Many are appearance.

That’s why debating Russell was pointless. Once he amputated the One, Bradley had already lost and Plato got canceled.

I seemed to recall something re Buddhism. AI told me it would be like Nagarjuna debating Russell, if that helps.

Buddha would've done this:

In general here it is explained:

Maybe it’s not all epistemic. Here’s a Buddhist who’s written a few books on this:

Samuel Avery
The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness
Transcendence of the Western Mind
The Buddha and the Quantum

From ai:

In *The Dimensional Structure of Consciousness*, Avery lays out a framework where what we call “space” and “time” are actually dimensions of awareness — not external coordinates, but the way consciousness organizes experience. Physics, in that view, isn’t mapping an independent universe but describing the internal geometry of perception. It’s like relativity turned inside out — the observer isn’t a variable but the field itself.

In *Transcendence of the Western Mind*, he pushes the same idea further. The world, our bodies, and even our brains are appearances within consciousness — not containers for it. What we think of as “the external world” is a cognitive projection of awareness into dimensional form. It’s not mystical; it’s a structural description of how perception manifests as matter.

Then *The Buddha and the Quantum* ties it all together. It uses Buddhist meditation phenomenology — terms like *kalapa* (subtle cellular sensation) — to connect inner experience with quantum mechanics and relativity. In that view, photons correspond to visual consciousness; light isn’t in space — space is in light. It’s a radical synthesis: not metaphysics as speculation, but direct phenomenology of the physical — physics as appearance, not reality.

The translation efforts began in late 1880s, link to phenomenology was first highlighted by this monk

He wrote about it. However, he didn't understand much beyond this, argued against canonized semantic conjoinment, and didn't systematize anything.

However there is still a very small monastic group that still studies his work, with full acceptance within the broader monastic network. Although they're kind of oppressed.

The full systematization hasn't been possible to do before.

Otherwise, there is the r1 western conservative (political) translator and senior monk named Thanissaro, he has been trying to systematize and deal with the paradoxes and early buddhist ontology, somewhat poorly, but it's stuff like this:

> This consciousness thus differs from the consciousness factor in dependent co-arising, which is defined in terms of the six sense media. Lying outside of time and space, it would also not come under the consciousness-aggregate ─ Thanissaro's commentary to MN49

This is too ambiguous and doesn't really work.

Otherwise there is nobody doing any serious work at all. The translations have come full circle. The deconstruction efforts have been halted as of recently. Otherwise all research is based on commentary, and history, there is too much conflicting interrst to do what I did.

People miss the historical arc of the early hybrid thinkers who first tried to think through the Dhamma in philosophical terms.

The overextension happens because of an epistemic overextension. As I think about it:

The single slit diffusion of light is essentially a rare but replicable natural phenomena which one can observe with the naked eye.

Explaining it turned out to require non-classical equations which model electromagnetic waves, to describe the interaction of electromagnetic waves and the data here is obtained by measurement.

The classical model reasons in observable absolutes like bodies moving through space. Effective ability to observe/measure here is the epistemic threshold and limit of the model, and you model outcome observation differently in dependence on whether you blind yourself or not.

If that non-debate between Bradley and Russell had taken place a hundred years earlier, I don’t think we would’ve developed quantum theory or relativity at all. Instead we’d still be tinkering with Newton’s equations, trying to find a grand unified theory between classical mechanics and the luminous ether or what we feel as whole-body acceleration and what we see in motion. Never once thinking the mind is the grand unifier of the two, like someone with the metaphysical chops of Schrodinger would.

My point is it’s not like modern physics departments are trying to keep metaphysics out, they just can’t see it any more than a philosophy TA can help but chuckle while skipping past Berkeley in a 101 course.

I’m not pushing my views here, it’s just the only way I know how to talk about this stuff since its all I know. Like I said, you’re way above my pay grade and I don’t really know the scholarly debates. But I do wonder if that’s the kind of wall you’re running into.

I think the postmodern philosophers of the 1900s did very well in fleshing out the Kantian foundations and framing the foundational philosophy of science ─ all who did work in the tradition contributed to fleshing out the inference and operationalizing the language physicists use.

In general, I think post-modernity was important for fleshing out what Kant implied, modernizing physics ─ and it is very impressive how well we have systematized it, the philosophy of language in particular was framed very well between Korzybski and Wittgenstein as the latest.

As I understand it, we basically have modelled the foundational electromagnetic weak/strong forces and found ways to calibrate for uncertainty by measuring effects of "Gravity". I personally think physics should be about engineering at this point and not pursuing theory of Dark Matter, Gravitons and things like these.

There is a thought experiment made by Jacque Fresco, therein he asks another:
- What is the Eye for?
- The Eye is to See
Then Fresco takes him into a dark room and tells him to see
- I can't see because there is no visible light
- So the Eye is not to see but to see when there is visible light.

Analogically one can frame there being an Eye (1), Visible Light (2) and Eye-Consciousness (3) as requisites for Contact as a meeting of the three and a requisite for "Seeing". We can frame consciousness and eye-consciousness in particular by the examples of being unconscious (as in fainting) or not-seeing due to distraction like being consciousness but a person might be distracted from seeing because he is thinking about something else, like being distracted in class. Either way we end up with a philosophy where a world and subjective existence are inseparable and are being felt by definition.

I get it and think myself the same, just learning here and there as I go. And it is good that we talk about it because these things are worth explaining and records will be useful, I never explained this before and it is an important part of the genealogy of my understanding.

Hey, I'm on mobile so I'll just put it all in one post since it's just the two of us.

“You have to have a lot of math to become a physicist, but the math is only a tool to visualize the physical picture. That is the difference between math and physics.” — Michio Kaku

Kaku: Visualization is primary; math formalizes intuition.
You: Symbolic structure is primary; visualization arises from that structure, and math formalizes it.

Is that about right?

Re your final paragraph:

One of the thought experiments I sometimes play with is just watching TV. I’ve got two sensory inputs: visual and audible, what you could think of as the “video out” and “audio out” channels from the cable box. Those are my sensory data channels.

But in and of themselves, each gives only a partial picture of reality. If I were to mute the sound, I’d still see the actors moving, their gestures, facial expressions, and body language, but the actions would feel incomplete. I could maybe infer some intention, but not the why behind it. I’d be missing the semantic layer, the part that carries meaning.

Conversely, if I closed my eyes and only listened, I’d get the emotional tone, the rhythm of dialogue, maybe even some sense of the scene through sound design, but no context for where these voices are, who’s talking to whom, or what’s physically happening. I’d be left with meaning but no embodied structure.

It’s only when both channels are combined that the experience “makes sense.” The image gives form to the sound, and the sound gives meaning to the image. Neither channel alone is the scene; the reality emerges from their relation.

It gets even more interesting when the two channels drift out of sync. If the audio lags behind the video by just a fraction of a second, the whole scene suddenly feels wrong. You can still “see” and “hear, ” but your mind starts working overtime trying to reconcile the mismatch. It’s as if two separate realities are running slightly out of phase, neither one false on its own but incoherent together.

In other words, the alignment between symbol and meaning, form and sense, is what makes the experience real. The “world” of the TV scene only exists in that relational coherence.

And maybe that’s not far from what happens in perception or even cognition generally. Each sensory stream is like a separate data channel: structured but partial. It’s the coordination between them, the constant synchronization, that produces the seamless experience we call the world.

In and of themselves, those sensory channels are just data streams. But when we put them together, they become dimensions of reality, with the synchronicity making our multidimensional reality comprehensible.

That’s the point where you realize the synthesis itself, the alignment between symbol and meaning, form and sense, is what makes the experience real. The “world” of the TV scene only exists in that relational coherence.

And maybe that’s not far from what happens in perception or even cognition generally. Each sensory stream is like a separate data channel, i.e. structured but partial. It’s the coordination between them, the constant synchronization, that produces the seamless experience we call the world.

For example, when we’re sitting on the couch and the audio and visual are in sync, we experience a complete, coherent sense of “what’s happening.” But imagine if we had super hearing and sight and tried to watch the same show from a mile away; we’d be right back in that annoying audio lag. Yet all we did was increase d, which, as in your geometric model, is equivalent to decreasing t, I think.

That synchronicity, the alignment across sensory “dimensions, ” seems to lie at the heart of the problem with GUT when pushed to extremes of scale: relativity describing the very large, quantum theory the very small. Each system stays internally coherent, but when you try to synchronize them, the lag shows up and the symbolic structures fall out of phase.

So in that sense, what you said about symbol and meaning implying each other makes perfect sense: their coherence is the world we experience. When the channels fall out of sync, so does the reality.

If I’m thinking about it right, that also seems to brush up against Bradley’s regress, the idea that any relation between things needs another relation to hold them together, which itself needs another, and so on forever. But maybe what we call “synchrony” isn’t another relation layered on top; it’s the act of coherence itself. In other words, maybe the world doesn’t need something else to connect the channels; the connection is the experience of the world.

I don't give primacy neither to rationalization nor seeing; rather they model each-other ─ seeing is an abstraction of what can only be thought about, and thinking about seeing abstracts the seen.

Idk if you saw this video, Feynman talking about the difference between math and physics:
https://youtu.be/B-eh2SD54fM

I like your thought experiments.

Maybe that Kaku analogy wasn't the best because I'm struggling when I try to parse what you’re saying through a classical lens where the subject is everything to the left of 'is' and the predicate is everything to the right.

(S) Seeing is (P) an abstraction of what can only be thought about.
(S’) Thinking about seeing is (P’) the abstraction of the seen.

When I unpack that Im reading it as:

(S) The immediate act of seeing is (P) a reflective abstraction of what can only be thought about.
(S’) Thinking about seeing is (P’) the reflective abstraction of a prior immediate act of seeing.

See what I mean?

Are you framing this chronologically, as in what comes first? As in, "the seen" precedes thinking about "the seen"?

Otherwise, I don't understand why something would be framed as to the left of what "is", or to the right. Because what **Is** defines what is real and existent, if something is outside, to the left or right, then it is outside of the range of existence and reality.

When I say that I don't consider neither empiricism (the five sense faculties) nor rationality (cognitive sense faculty) to be primal is for these reasons:

* They are two categories of a single category "the felt" and are therefore just it's variant expression-constructs.
* Mind is implicated in contact at the five sense bases as a requisite condition.

Essentially, I don't differentiate between seeing with the eye and seeing an idea with intellect.

So the relationship can be framed chronologically if we are talking about a defined sequence of experience, but as an aggregate it's like two objects leaning on eachother, or two mirrors facing eachother, neither is primal and together it is a structure.

Sorry. Outside of the mystic that's the only framework I know.

Okay, I'll give it one more try,

My read: There is no real difference between being aware of a perception and being aware of a thought. They are two sides of the same coin, which are the coin. And it’s not just that perception and thought are two sides of the same coin; it’s that the coin itself only exists as that double-sidedness as an indivisible whole.

I get it now, that makes sense. Two sides of what is, not to the side of what "is".