Category: Ontology
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Day 3: Older Than the Atom: Why Reality is a Single, Folding Field
I’m using the fold as my first principle. I think it’s a concept that is older than the atom and subtler than the idea of a relation. We see it everywhere. Nature is constantly folding: molecules coil, mountains buckle, neurons loop, and even thought itself reflects. A fold is a gesture of continuity. It’s how…
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Day 2: Stop Dividing the World. Reality is a Single, Self-Folding Surface.
So, why do I think we need this “folded field” idea? It’s because the old architecture of thought just doesn’t work anymore.Philosophy, right from the early Greeks, began with a split. It divided the world into what is and what becomes, mind and body, subject and object. While this promised clarity, it just produced fragmentation.…
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Day 1: Reality Isn’t Made of Things. It’s a Single, Folding Field.
I’ve been developing a new philosophical framework I call the Ontology of the Folded Field. I reckon our old ways of thinking, which are built on splitting the world into binaries like mind/body or subject/object, have really run their course. We’ve outgrown them. My core idea starts by rejecting two standard assumptions. First, that reality…
Notes From The Field 