Philosophy Progress Update: Theory On Self, Being, Perspective, And Reality

TL;DR – This is an update for all my writings on Self, Being, Perspective, and Reality from the past month. It is a very rough draft.

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5 September 2020

Preface/Background Info

This past month I’ve made a lot of progress in understanding the central foci of my philosophy: Self, Being, Perspective, and Reality. The foundation of my philosophy is that the self is composed of three aspects of being. The three aspects of being follows: mind, body, and spirit. These writings try to define and describe these three aspects, relate the aspects to a being’s perspective, and discus how perspective interacts with and creates reality.

This is very rough and very disorganized. This is an example of my writing where I just dump months thoughts onto the paper. I don’t think when I’m writing like this. The words just flow. I don’t take the time to understand them, I just trust that my brain is choosing the right words and my hand is pressing the right buttons. I write until the words stop coming, and then I have to read through them and try to figure out what they mean.

As you can see, this is a very chaotic writing style, so sometimes the words don’t line up perfectly. I’ve only skimmed through these notes, and I haven’t corrected them at all, so don’t be surprised if there’s something that makes no sense or sounds crazy. It’s going to be a long process to reorganize and rewrite, so I figured I’d provide a first draft for anyone interested.

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10 August 2020

The Relationship Between Perspective and Reality

No matter the intention or desire, all beings possess a unique perspective. To exist is to separate oneself from the whole, and to perceive that which is now outside of oneself. Perspective is what separates an individual from the whole. Without perspective, we are nothing more than a component of reality; just another moving part in the giant Rube Goldberg machine we call the universe. Anyone who assigns any more meaning to existence than this has a unique perspective.

Perspective is a great and powerful tool. However greatness does not imply goodness. If you have control of your perspective, then you have control of your reality. But if your perspective has control of you, reality will be nothing more than a prison for your soul. Someone who has an absolute understanding and absolute control of their perspective, likewise, has an absolute understanding and absolute control of their reality.

Perspective has the capability to dismantle reality. When perspective is introduced into reality, reality ceases its existence as a single, uniform entity. Rather than existing as an absolute truth, reality becomes the sum of all perspectives of said reality.

Since reality becomes the sum of all perspectives, and it is possible for an individual to control and manipulate their own perspective, it should therefore be possible for an individual to alter reality itself by altering their own perspective. Of course the average individual would not posses the absolute understanding and control of their perspective needed to noticibly or significantly alter reality. However, if such a person were to exist, this would have astounding, and almost absurd, implications and consequences. An individual altering the course of existence through his vision and understanding of reality sounds like it comes from a children’s story. It would be easy to throw this idea out as absurd fantasy. But if we take a moment)…

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14 August 2020

(I think this may be the most complete and unified writing of my philosophy thus far)

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• A being is composed for three aspects: mind, body, spirit

• These aspects are uniquely independent of each other, but the being ceases to exist is even one aspect is missing

• What “we” consider as “us” is the spirit aspect. The mind and body are objective and logical. The spirit is what introduces perspective, subjectivity, and ego

• The body and mind are the teachers to the spirit

• That body teaches the body how to feel.

• What is “feeling; to feel” -> feeling is the experience of sensation that occurs when two opposing forces interact.

• It is the bridge between the physical and spiritual world; the connection that allows inherently contradictory aspects of our reality coincide.

• Since feeling is defined by its relationship to both the physical and spiritual, as well as their interactions, feeling does not

• The body doesn’t “feel” the same way we do. As an objective aspect, it does not experience happiness, anger, sadness, excitement, etc. It experiences the physical interactions of the world, and then simulates a

• It’s not happiness. It’s an altered body-chemistry state which causes a change to response to certain stimuli. They experience what we “feel,” but things like “happiness” and “sorrow” don’t exist in the physical world.

• The unique ability of the spirit to be subjective and inconsistent is what creates and assigns our emotional responses to physical sensations.

• In other words – the body doesn’t feel “good or bad.” It just feels physical sensation. The spirit is what decides how the being as a whole responds to that physical sensation

• The bridge of feeling brings the physical sensations from the physical world so that the spirit may experience and understand the physical world better. Sensation inspires the spirit, allowing it to create something new and outside of the realm of comprehension of the physical world. And then after the spirit is done, it sends back its paradoxical but inspired creation to the physical world, gifting an entirely new experience and comprehension of the universe that could only be obtained from outside of our.

• This constant back&forth of the body experiencing something, and the spirit creating an all new perspective of it is what causes our universe/reality to be infinite. Even in a limited and closed physical space, new components are always able to be added and changed thanks to the bridge between the finite world of the body and the infinite world of the spirit.

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(* what the spirit creates and introduces/gifts to the physical world is what we would call “art”)

• Art exists outside of the physical universe, and therefore so does its meaning/function.

• Art is not bound by the logic of the physical world, so often times it causes confusion and frustration to those only familiar with the logical existence of the physical world.

• Before now, I’ve always described art as anything that is an expression of self. This agrees with my new understanding, for the art is created by the spirit, and as I mentioned before, the spirit aspect of being is the ego and identity of the being

• Art is the spirit’s response to the forein stimuli of the physical world. Similarly to how the physical world is incapable of naturally comprehending the spiritual world, the spiritual world is incapable of naturally comprehending the physical world.

• The art of the spirit’s way of interpreting the physical world’s stimuli. The abstract nature of art is a result of contradictory universes trying to interact with each other.

• Art is the combination of the physical and spiritual to create a unified understanding of reality as a whole. It combines opposing hul, but in overcoming this paradoxical relationship, an actual truth of reality is discovered.

• Art is a feedback loop. What I mean is that the creation of art can happen infinitely due to the nature of the relationship between the spiritual and physical. In the same way that the spirit must interpret the physical sensations to recreate them in a way that makes sense in the spiritual world, the body and mind must interpret the physical manifestation of the spirit’s art. This interpretation in a sense is the body creating its own art. This creates physical sensations that must once again be interpreted by the spirit. And thus the creates a new piece of art, and the cycle continues.

• Art as a combination of elements

TL;DR on art: art is the expression of the relationship shared between the physical mind & body and the spirit. Since the relationship between the spiritual and physical is what defines a being, art is therefore a reflection of self.

(more to add)

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• The mind teaches the spirit how to think.

• Although not physical, the mind is born and exists within the physical world. It is created by the same logic and natural laws that determine who matter and forces interact.

• The body experiences the universe, while the mind comprehends it

(a lot more to add)

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• If this God of the body is the caring embrace of Mother Nature, then the God of the mind is the strict discipline of father logic.

• Both are necessarily, but excess/over reliance on one over the other will cause time being as a whole to de

• It is the duty of the spirit to find the balance between the mind and the body.

• The ability to create cooperation between the mind and the body to achieve a greater goal is what defines life and free will. The mind and body are no longer the sum of an finite chain of cause and effect. We are not determined solely by every occurrence in history that had led up to that point. The spirit is powerful, because it can create something from nothing. At any moment, the spirit can convince the mind and body to cooperate to work towards something greater than the sum of the physical interactions in the universe.

• The hierarchy of intelligence in life is a direct parallel to the ability of the spirit of the being being able to get the mind and body to cooperate.

• This is what separates animals from humanity: the spirit of an animal can only get the mind and body to cooperate to the point of survival and physical gratification. The spirit of a person can look outside its self, and explain the world to the mind and body in a way that convinces them to achieve far beyond what makes instinctual sense.

• The ability to sacrifice one’s self for the benefit of others points to a strong and resolute spirit. The ability to reject the one absolute goal of our bodies – survival – to achieve a goal seemingly outside and against our bodies shows an absolute trust and cooperation between the mind, body, and spirit.
• Philosophy occurs when the spirit describes reality and the world to the mind and body.

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I’ve already written so much, but I have so far to go.
This is the closest I’ve come to understanding my own philosophy.

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• Society is humanity’s attempt to create a new, higher being. A being who’s spirit exponentially dwarfs any individual.

• Society basically breaks down to this: individual beings coming together to form a large, but singular being – a group.

• Using the structure of being from above, the spirits of time individual beings have agreed to cooperate and combine the collective capabilities of their physical bodies and minds.

• In addition to our physical aspects combining and cooperating, our spirits do something similar. We combine all of our perspectives, experiences, ideals, and morals – crafting an ideal and overreaching spirit of society. In a sense, this is society’s “God.”

• The cooperation of spirits to create the spirit of the society is expressed in the physical world as Law and Order (I.e society’s philosophy)

• The incarnation of Law and Order would be the governance system and the justice system

• Justice is the proper execution of the philosophy of the Law and Order. Proper execution of Law and Order is often misunderstood.

• The perversion of the intent of society’s Law and Order is one of the most critical failures in execution. The letter of the law (the physical aspect) should never contradict the spirit/intent of time law (the spiritual aspect). To do so is the greatest injustice to society.

• Law and Order reflects its society. Therefore it should change and grow in the same ways as the society and its people do.

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22 August 2020

• Our mind is how our spirit communicates with our body. That’s why/how it is both finite and infinite.

• It follows the logic and rules of the physical world, but at any moment it can reject the reality of the physical/finite world, immersing itself in infinity. This acceptance of finite vs infinite is how we can define sanity vs insanity.

• Is the mind the bridge that I mentioned before? I’m not sure, but maybe it’s at least the support of the bridge.

• After having given it more thought, I believe the mind is, in fact, the bridge.

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4 September 2020

• Our mind doesn’t create thoughts. Thoughts require interpretation, meaning that aren’t a natural/physical phenomenon. If that’s the case, that means thoughts must come from the spiritual aspect of reality.

• So how is the mind related to forming thoughts? The mind is the intangible part of the physical reality, but is still physical in nature. It is the logic that rules the physical realities. The natural laws that determine all interactions and outcomes. It is why the hard science can be consistent, because the universal logic is absolute.

• So how does that lead to thoughts? (circular inspiration from the three aspects of being)

• The brain is not the mind. Moreso the central hub of how the spirit manipulates and interprets the physical world.