Existence

A look at the fundamental root of existence based upon many different schools of thought:

Quantum Physics
1. Universal Vacuum (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Boson Energy Field (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Universal Holarchy Of Systems (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (Subjective, Relative Ego-manufactured) (-)

Stochastic Electrodynamics
1. Universal Vacuum (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Zero Point Field (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Universal Holarchy Of Systems (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (-)

Hinduism
1. Brahman (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Ishvara (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Trimurti (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Atman (Individual Consciousness) (-)

Buddhism
1. Shunyata (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Dharmakaya (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Trikaya (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (-)

Taoism
1. Wu Chi (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Yin & Yang (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Tai Chi (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (-)

Kabbalah
1. Ein-Sof (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Kether (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Tree Of Life (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Conscioussness (-)

Gnosticism
1. The Root (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. Pleroma (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. Aeons (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (-)

Christian Mysticism
1. Abysal Sea (Void/Emptiness) (0)
2. God (Infinite Potential) (1)
3. The Trinity (All/Everything/Infinite Complexity) (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness (-)

Hopi
1. Tawa OR Taiowa
2. Sotuknang
3. Four Worlds
4. Individual Consciousness

Yoruba
1. Oludumare
2. Odu & Amulu
3. Orisha & Ajogun
4. Individual Consciousness

Egyptian
1. Tum (0)
2. Atum-Khephrer-Ra (1)
3. Neters (∞)
4. Individual Consciousness



Individual consciousness is operationally inseparable from reality because we are limited in our knowledge of either to our self-referential experiences.



"Noumenal reality (i.e. objective reality) is unknowable. Only phenomenal reality, subjective reality is knowable. Consciousness is structured from this subject/object relationship."
~ Kant

"Reality is understood only through our self-referential consciousness-of-experience. “Ego-cogitum-cogitatum” I (ego) have volition/knowledge of (cogitum) an object (cogitatum)."
~ Husserl

"objective reality is a self-referential picture of something the existence of which we cannot possess. “reality and …experience are one.”"
~ James

"we have no more reason to posit the existence of matter than suggest that reality existed entirely as an idea in the mind of god."
~ Berkeley

"We are biased in favor of physical existence."
~ Merleau-Ponty

"we only know what we experience – fundamental premise for empiricism."
~ Hume



As consciousness and reality are operationally inseparable and as consensual evidence suggests that individual consciousness is a product of reality’s cosmic differentiation process, we can further suggest that they reflect a single self-directed process at different orders of magnitude. In mathematics a complex process that is self-directed and self-similar at multiple orders of magnitude is called a fractal.