ABSTRACT

Phenomenology has been historically presented as a rigorous pursuit of understanding about knowledge and experience, while religions generally offer a faith-based pursuit of understanding about knowledge and experience. Regardless of their methods, both of these labels and the domains to which they refer have proven to resonate with end users as a means to enhance one’s own well-being and satisfaction with the world as they perceive it.

The following essay demonstrates a meta-structure which constructs categories of abstract structures, both phenomenological and religious, and defines/arranges these categories according to the integers as a least reducible ontological construct. Any given knowledge structure (commonly referred to as a phenomenological structure in this essay regardless of rigor) posits unique, distinguishable symbols which may correspond to abstractions of phenomena; in general, any set of symbols should reliably align to integer-based principles per the inherently discrete manner in which end users may interact with symbolic representation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

–1– Simplicity and Coherence

Monotheism

Monads/Qualia

Counting to 1

What’s Next?

–2– Relation and Integration

Generalized Dualism

Uncertainty Principle

Political/Gender Binary

Counting to 2

Is This It?

–3– Meta-Perspectives

Meta-Undecidability

Infinity Mirror

Holy Trinity

Counting to 3

It’s So Over

–4– Symmetry and Complexity

Four Noble Truths

Thing Theory

2 + 2 = 2 * 2

Counting to 4

We’re So Back

–0– Recursion and Self-Reference

Recursion/Recontextualization

Halting/Self-Reference

Metamodels

Counting to 0

Where are We?

Works Cited

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Dedicated to Joshua Homme, for his inspiration and wisdom.

“That and this, these and those.”

Introduction

When analyzing religious and phenomenological models, one may note the necessity of constructing some mapping between symbols, given by a model as “fundamental”, and a corresponding set of referent meta-phenomena for which there is no proper mapping or ordering, but rather a purported best fit in accordance with the model’s inherent perceived utility.

To assert that the fundamental mapping of a given model is proper is to assert that the modelled phenomena are known. To assert knowledge of a phenomenon is to assert constraints on the boundaries of the phenomenon. Religious a...

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