Going Dotty

I'll maintain last month's idea of eventually using inner spheres spiralling around the inner-surface of a larger containing sphere (two, rather than just one split into two hemispheres), meanwhile here is a simple, flat animated schematic to show the relationship (reciprocal, nested, contextual) of each named concept at each of the nine ‘levels’. 

These relate to the three following tables, three levels each: 

Metaphysics	Metaphysical	Epistemological	Axiological
1 Axioms	1 Existence  exists	2 Consciousness  is the process of identifying that which exists	3 Identity  is what defines something (the difference that makes a difference)
2 Correlates	4 Entities  exist as identifiable similarities	5 Action  is how entities behave as processes in accordance with their attributes	6 Causality is the law of identity applied to the action of entities
3 Inference	7 Volition Inserts Self  as a result of the choice to focus/evade (autopoiesis)	8 Validity of the Senses in that they are causal evidence of a difference making a difference	9 Objective Reality as absolute  (primacy of existence)

Epistemology	Metaphysical	Epistemological	Axiological
4 Integrals	10 Sensation  as undifferentiated awareness of objective reality	11 Perception  as groups of sensations becoming causally identified as entities in the present	12 Conception as the volitional categorisation of percepts into particular relationships
5 Formation	13 Mind-Body Integration harmonises consciousness with existence	14 Differentiation  & Integration of percepts into concepts	15 Man-Made from Metaphysical  differentiation of volitional concepts from given percepts
6 Integration	16 Cognitive Objectivity when concepts are aligned with reality	17 Logic  as method of developing knowledge through non‐contradictory identification	18 Rationality  as man’s only means of knowledge

Axiology	Metaphysical	Epistemological	Axiological
7 Ethics	19 Reason  as man’s means of survival	20 One’s Own Life  as the core measure of value  (reason, purpose, self-esteem)	21 Virtue of Selfishness with man as an end in himself (pursuing rational self-interest)
8 Politics	22 Happiness  as the aspired condition of man	23 Individual Rights enforced by a governmental agency	24 Capitalism  as the only moral system
9 Æsthetics	25 Art  as a concretisation of metaphysical ideas	26 Romanticism  as the supreme conceptual school of art	27 Æsthetics Are Objective when evaluated in context

The last circle in the schematic animation, number 28, is white and not part of the tables and currently has no label. I see it as a potential portal to all other ideas and arguments (possibly linking æsthetics to pleasure/pain and FEP prediction/error). 

More next month…

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