Assumptionism

 

Philosophy, by definition, is theoretical; even when heretical. Religion differs by taking the theoretical and putting a period where question marks should be. Science comes back through and places the squiggly, upright line over every period and turns every statement of fact back into a question in the form of an unsolved mathematical equation. Philosophy takes every unsolved mathematical equation and offers a new theory. Religion comes back through and takes one of those theories and extracts a new fact from that. Science comes back through and turns all of the dogma back into catma again.

Dogma is a formally stated, authoritative view without proof. Catma is a term I just made up, based on the superposition of all unobserved potential. What I find most interesting about one of the most abused theories in science is that there is no proof Schrödinger ever owned a cat. The dogmatic cat we always refer to is not even in the box at all. Therefore, the cat, said to be in the superposition, is the unchanging variant, Zero. What gives the poor creature the nine lives we’ve assigned is assumptionism.

Assumptionism is another term I just made up, based on the effect of any observer’s belief-system. Instead of insisting that the unobserved cat is either dead or alive, I am more comfortable giving it zero-value. With zero being the first number of the quantum potential, the cat is not both dead and alive; it is neither. Schrödinger started his equation with known, initial conditions. Not knowing whether or not Schrödinger even had a cat, I am just revisiting the equation with a known box and its unobserved contents. Until the box of unknowns is opened, the equation is simpler for me; it is 0xc (C=contents).

Would the mass of nothingness emit radiation? No. What could be mistaken for mass exiting the event horizon of the cardboard box would be the decaying of the box over a very long period of time. When the last particle of the box has been measured, and seen leaving, there is no event horizon to consider. It becomes one of Turok’s Mirrors, reflecting symmetry through the space where the box was; in other words: “Move along. Nothing to see here folks.”

So why do we insist there has to be a cat and that the cat has to be dead or alive? Assumptionism. We would necessarily have to begin with the value of a cat. Without a cat, we would need to assume there was a cat; thereby assigning a value to zero. When we assign a value to that which does not exist, we will always end up with variables of the assumed value, and it’s assumed initial conditions. Assuming zero as the value for all unobserved contents of any space is to give all unobserved phenomena the only value it could possibly have: zero. Assumptionism is required to replace zero with any other value.

To toss an imaginary coin, an infinite number of times, the odds are that the result will always be heads or tails. With only two options with equal potential, the outcomes observed would always be an equal value assigned to each side of the coin. Adding an observer, who happens to also be the flipper of the coin, seems innocent enough. But if the observer has discovered that if she begins with a coin with its head up, it tends to land with the head up, then the new, known value has to be factored in. It may seem as though the observer is changing the value by observation, but she is actually adding her will to the outcome. This is no longer random, but driven by choices.

Zero times zero is zero. Zero plus one is one and one cannot be reduced to zero unless you subtract one, thereby removing its influence on zero. The entire universe is zero+one. No phenomena exists without assumption. Even hypothetical assumptions have to begin with some value other than zero. What exists in the unobserved universe? Pure potential. What is really in that unopened box? It could be anything. If the box is unopened, without any known, initial conditions or value, the cat could be a dog.

This is why Barfield’s Rainbow is a different kind of cat. Barfield’s Rainbow is just one example of an observer enjoying the beautiful, colorful sight of a rainbow which is only visible from where that observer is standing. Looking into the same sky, from another location, another observer cannot experience the phenomena of the same rainbow. This means that one of the known, initial conditions is subjective and not collective. Barfield suggests this subjective condition is a requirement for any experience. In other words: nothing is there except for what is there based on the way I see it.

In other words: the coin lands on heads or tails based on the way I flip it.

Yes, this does require time travel; or the ignorance of time. Whatever happens in the future is based on my observation of it; but if the phenomena could observe me, it would see my assumptions developing and from those assumptions, it would arise. But time is not a place, so before and after are of no value. Without value, everything is zero and if everything is zero, it I also pure potential.

To the rainbow I go. This might mean that I will need to climb a particular mountain on a particular day with a particular forecast; these are the known conditions I would begin with and the journey is a personal journey. I could never bring the rainbow down the hill with me. However, if I saw the rainbow, I would always believe that I saw a rainbow; even if an entire village, located at the bottom of that mountain argues: “There was no rainbow that day!”

To summarize, I would simply say, “To begin with nothing is potential. To assume anything adds value. To observe any phenomena is to take assumed value into account.”

Before The Word, there was zero. The Word, therefore, becomes the first known value. That value, times anything is something.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.” John 1: 1-3 KJV

This can seem religious to the religious, but to science, it could read:

“In the beginning was a known condition, and the known condition was in a box, in a superposition. The same can be said of The Contents of The Box without the condition. All phenomena were made by known conditions and without known conditions, nothing exists.”

So is anything real? Yes, it is real because of the observer. Even if nothing else existed without the only observer, nothingness-plus-the-observer would be the only known condition; making everything possible by multiplying this One fundamental condition infinitely. Phenomena and The Observer arise simultaneously, with endless reflections of The Observer at every interval of space and time, creating from the known value of the self forever.

Zero times no fundamental condition would only lead to zero. 0X0=0. However, 0+Cxo=R

Or:

Zero, plus a condition, times observations = reality; or the represented.

Creativity multiplies in a chain reaction, based on all of the initial condition’s infinite reflections.

Assume

 

It’s your world; do good with it.