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(Drafts of a future post.)

Could you help me to formulate statistics with the properties I'm going to describe?

I want to share my way of seeing the world, analyzing information, my way of experiencing other people. (But it's easier to talk about fantastical places and videogame levels, so I'm going to give examples with places/levels.)

If you want to read more about my motivation, check out "part 3".

Part 1: Theory

I got only two main philosophical ideas. First idea is that a part/property of one object (e.g. "height") may have a completely different meaning in a different object. Because in a different object it relates to and resonates with different things. By putting a part/property in a different context you can create a fundamentally different version of it. You can split any property/part into a spectrum. And you can combine all properties of an object into just a single one.

The second idea is that you can imagine that different objects are themselves like different parts of a single spectrum.

I want to give some examples of how a seemingly generic property can have a unique version for a specific object.

Example 1. Take a look at the "volume" of this place: (painting 1)

Because we're inside of "something" (the forest), the volume of that "something" is equal to the volume of the whole place.
Because we have a lot of different objects (trees), we have the volume between those objects.
Because the trees are hollow we also have the volume inside of them.

Different nuances of the place reflect its volume in a completely unique way. It has a completely unique context for the property of "volume".

Example 2. Take a look at "fatness" of this place: (painting 2)

The road doesn't have too much buildings on itself: this amplifies "fatness", because you get more earth per one small building.
The road is contrasted with the sea. The sea adds more size to the image (which indirectly emphasizes fatness).
Also because of the sea we understand that it's not the whole world that is stretched: it's just this fat road. We don't look at this world through a one big distortion.

Different nuances of the place reflect its fatness in a completely unique way.

Example 3. Take a look at "height" of this place: (painting 3)

The place is floating somewhere. The building in the center has some height itself. It resonates with the overall height.
The place doesn't have a ceiling and has a hole in the middle. It connects the place with the sky even more.
The wooden buildings are "light", so it makes sense that they're floating in the air.

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I could go on about places forever. Each feels fundamentally different from all the rest.

And I want to know every single one. And I want to know where they are, I want a map with all those places on it.

Part 2: Examples

Part 3: Motivation

I think my ideas may be important because they may lead to some new mathematical concepts.

Sometimes studying a simple idea or mechanic leads to a new mathematical concept which leads to completely unexpected applications.

For example, a simple toy with six sides (dice) may lead to saving people and major progress in science. Connecting points with lines (graphs) may lead to algorithms, data structures and new ways to find the optimal option or check/verify something.

Not any simple thing is guaranteed to lead to a new math c... (read more)

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Key philosophical principles Here I describe the most important, the most general principles of my philosophy. * Objects exist only in context of each other, like colors in a spectrum. So objects are like "colors", and the space of those objects is like a "spectrum". * All properties of an object are connected/equivalent. Basically, an object has only 1 super property. This super property can be called "color". * Colors differentiate all usual properties. For example, "blue height" and "red height" are 2 fundamentally different types of height. But "blue height" and "blue flatness" are the same property. So, each color is like a world with its own rules. Different objects exist in different worlds. The same properties have different "meaning" in different objects. A property is like a word that heavily depends on context. If the context is different, the meaning of the property is different too. There's no single metric that would measure all of the objects. For example, if the property of the object is "height", and you change any thing that's connected to height or reflects height in any way - you fundamentally change what "height" means. Even if only by a small amount. Note: different objects/colors are like qualia, subjective experiences (colors, smells, sounds, tactile experiences). Or you could say they're somewhat similar to Gottfried Leibniz's "monads": simple substances without physical properties. The objects I want to talk about are "places": fantastical worlds or videogame levels. For example, fantastical worlds of Jacek Yerka. Details "Detail" is like the smallest structural unit of a place. The smallest area where you could stand. It's like a square on the chessboard. But it doesn't mean that any area of the place can be split into distinct "details". The whole place is not like a chessboard. This is a necessary concept. Without "details" there would be no places to begin with. Or those places wouldn't have any comprehensible structure.