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Search - A Layman's View of Reality: Through the Lens of an Empirical Model of Reality

A Layman's View of Reality Through the Lens of an Empirical Model of Reality
Author: John Taylor

This book is about a very common, everyday thing, namely experience or—more to the point—experiencing. The book was not meant to be that way nor, come to think of it, any other particular way for that matter. The thrust for writing this book came from a desire to understand what sort of reality is appearance, but very early in the underta... more »king it became clear that the answer was to be found, if at all, in the very human occurrence of experiencing. What pointed the way to experiencing is the intuition or insight, so to speak, that appearance and experiencing are so bound to each other that you cannot have either one without the other. From such initial groping in the dark and subsequent trial-and-error initiatives—thank goodness for the computer!—a rather clearly defined endeavor emerged involving a writer, a Reality observer with a bird’s-eye view of Reality (observer outside Reality), and an experiencing Self in the place of the observer in Reality. Under this setup, the writer was to report on the findings of the observer about the relationship and interactions of the experiencing Self with Reality. (The three character types in the setup can be visualized as constituting a network of three role-players embodied in one and the same real person.) This development led to the perception that the general outcome of the endeavor would be a view of Reality from the perspective of experiencing, at which point the writer decided to portray Reality in the form of a model. The model is portrayed graphically and textually in terms of components fitting together into a harmonious, consistent, and complete whole. The book’s front end includes Chapters 1 and 2, where three fundamental assumptions are laid out. Those three assumptions, jointly with another fundamental assumption on the roots of appearance (Chapter 3), constitute the foundation of the model. Given this foundation, the model unfolds one stage at a time in five stages covering Chapters 3-7. Reasoning and intuition, i.e. the derivational processes, take turns to build the model on its foundation—as previously laid down—with some interesting, even startling results. Part III of the book—Review of the Empirical Reality Model—as well as the subject matter in the Appendix, may be browsed over before engaging Part II—the model proper—to get a preliminary feel for the overall concept.

ISBN-13: 9781588987464
ISBN-10: 1588987469
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Imprintbooks
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