(Originally published on May 26, 2025.)
Table of Contents
- A Letter from the Abstractionist
- A Reality Check
- One
- Join the Movement
1. A Letter from the Abstractionist
Dear Readers,
As part of our broader offering made through The Abstractionist’s Papers, we have decided to dedicate our first patent application to the public. The application generally describes systems and methods for visualizing natural spaces (Chapter 4) through augmented reality.
If the technology is developed someday, it will belong to all of us.
We’ve also released more than 130 audio tracks using Google Notebook LM. Each one explores an aspect of the book from a different angle. We’ll introduce them in the coming weeks. But if you’d rather wander, they’re already waiting for you at our YouTube channel.
This summer, The Papers will undergo a long-overdue edit. Early readers made their way through the work with a patience I didn’t expect and couldn’t have asked for. I’m deeply grateful. Your feedback helps determine what comes next.
Welcome to the Blue Space.
Founder and CEO
General Reality Media, LLC
2. A Reality Check (Section 12.2.4)
Progress requires giving new ideas room to form.
Ordinarily, the mind resolves meaning instantly using existing models; an energy-efficient approach for navigating the familiar world. But that same efficiency causes unfamiliar concepts to be absorbed too quickly. When this happens, potential contradictions are subdued before they can trigger reorganization.
Consider the imaginary unit.
Euler proposes i as an orthogonal solution to the square root of −1, a paradox unsolvable on the real line. Yet interpreters translate it into familiar terms: a disguised negative number, a symbolic workaround, a placeholder for something that isn’t real. This premature resolution prevents the idea from arising, let alone being tested.
The internal contradiction, the gap that would have required a new model, never appears. And if the interpreter insists that i is simply another name for something already known, then for that interpreter, the paradox persists.
The same happens with Natural Reality. The distinction between causation and interpretation differs fundamentally from mind and body, or physical and abstract. Those are interpretive categories. They exist within the mind.
They do not describe a boundary between domains. They operate entirely within one.
Treating them as equivalents misses the point.
Marking the orthogonal boundary properly matters; for recognition, and for crossing. The map makes it visible. But to walk it, the contradiction must be sustained long enough for a new model to build.
That part still happens from within.
3. One
You may have seen this before:
1 + 1 = 1
It comes up often, sometimes as a joke, sometimes as a mystery, sometimes to describe union. But no one explains why it feels wrong, or what it reveals.
We’re here to solve this.
✔️ In math, we have addition. Addition takes two quantities and combines them through a rule: 1 + 1 = 2.
✔️ In nature, outcomes follow a different principle. One sperm joins one egg. One embryo follows: 1 + 1 = 1.
For the most part, the difference between the model inside our minds and the reality outside goes unnoticed. Because of this blindfold, we apply rules we’ve invented as if they describe nature directly. When the outcomes we observe don’t match the forms we expect, contradiction appears.
The equation 1 + 1 = 1 brings both domains, mind and world, onto a single plane. On the left, the mind is modeling quantities. On the right, nature is continuing through transformation.
This is what creates the paradox.
When we see the equation entirely in black ink, we’re seeing interpretation and causation inadvertently commingled. The mind reads both sides as part of its model, including its interpretation of the right side, for which it cannot produce a rule. The contradiction appears because the boundary between domains is unaccounted for.
We solve the paradox by making that boundary visible.
- 🔴 Red for the left side: where the mind assigns meaning (i.e, quantity).
- 🔵 Blue for the right: where nature continues through interaction.
- 🟡 Yellow for the equals sign: where light connects two domains.
Each part still belongs to the same equation. But now we see what kind of reality each side describes. The red side belongs to interpretation. The blue side belongs to causation. The yellow line marks their contact.
What the equation shows us, once the blindfold is removed, is that nature moves as one. That’s what the right side reveals: a single process, still unfolding, as a continuation of what came before.
PS. On YouTube 👉 https://youtu.be/JoLsp3bD-SU.
4. Join the Movement
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