The Evolution of Existence into Experience
by
Steven E.
Kaufman
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The Relational-Matrix Model of
Reality
Chapter 1
The Development of the Relational-Matrix Model
Section 1 The Implicit Structure of Space-Time
Section 2 Structure as Relationship
2.1 Relative
existence
2.2 Necessary
terminology
Section 3 Before the Beginning (of the Universe)
There Was…Absolute Existence
3.1 The
evolution of absolute existence into relative existence
Conceptual checkpoint I-1
Section 4 The Structural and Dynamic Aspects of
the Relational Matrix
4.1 The
structural aspect
4.2 The
dynamic aspect
4.3 The
relationship between reality-cell structure and dynamic
4.31 The rate-of-penetration constant
4.32 The inverse relationship between reality-cell structure and dynamic
Conceptual checkpoint I-2
Section 5 Defining the Structure of the
Relational Matrix
5.1 The
uniformity and consistency of structure
Conceptual checkpoint I-3
Section 6 Defining the Content of the Relational
Matrix
6.1 The
duality of reality-cell content
6.2
Uniformity and distortion of the relational matrix
6.3 Degrees
of reality-cell distortion
Conceptual checkpoint I-4
Summary, conceptual checkpoints I-1 through I-4
Section 7 The Propagation of a Pattern of
Distortion Content Through the Relational
Matrix
7.1
Distortion propagation-the basics
7.2 Patterns
of distortion propagation
7.21 The pattern of propagation in which distortion content decreases
7.22 The pattern of propagation in which distortion content increases
7.23 The pattern of propagation in which distortion content remains
constant
7.3 The
linear-radial distortion complex
Conceptual checkpoint I-5
Chapter 2 The Dynamic
Structure of Space: Relating the Relational-Matrix Model to
Space-Time and Physical Reality
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 The "Big Bang" and the
Relational Matrix
Section 3 Space-Time and the Relational Matrix
Section 4 Electromagnetic Radiation and the
Relational Matrix
4.1
Wavelength, frequency, the speed of light, and the relational matrix
4.2 The
quantum nature of electromagnetic radiation
4.3 Energy
and the relational matrix
4.31 Electromagnetic radiation, Planck's constant, and the relational matrix
4.4 Energy as
distortion field
Conceptual checkpoint I-6
Section 5 The Complementarity of Electromagnetic
Radiation and Gravitation
5.1 Matter as
associations of electromagnetic radiation
5.2 The EMR-gravitation
complex
5.3 Relating
the EMR-gravitation complex to the relational-matrix model
Conceptual checkpoint I-7
Section 6 Primary-Distortion-Process Interaction
(the Dynamic Structure of Matter)
6.1 The
pattern of primary-distortion-process interaction that forms matter
6.2 The
gravitational distortion as the basis of primary-distortion-process interaction
6.3
Repetitive primary-distortion-process interactions (interactive-process
stability
and pattern integrity)
Conceptual checkpoint I-8
Section 7 The Anatomy of Compound Processes
7.1
Compound-process periods
7.2 Compound
processes of the second order and beyond
7.3
Compound-process propagation
7.4 Compound
processes and the spatial distribution of the gravitational distortion
7.5
Gravitation's attractive nature
7.6
Gravitational acceleration
7.7
Gravitation's functional (but not actual) curvature of space
Conceptual checkpoint I-9
Section 8 Time and the Relational Matrix
8.1 Time is a
measurement, not what's being measured
8.2 Time as a
clockwork mechanism
8.3 Temporal
relativity and the interactive material structure
Conceptual checkpoint I-10
Section 9 Mass, Inertia, and the Relational
Matrix
9.1
Background
9.2 Inertia
and the relational matrix
9.3 The basis
of gravitational and inertial equivalence
9.4 Mass, the
relativity of mass, and the relational matrix
Conceptual checkpoint I-11
Section 10 The Underlying Unity of the Spatial
Structure
10.1 The
extension of physical reality from the spatial structure
Section 11 Quantum Theory and the Relational
Matrix
11.1
Nonlocality and the relational matrix
11.2 The
meaning of quantum theory
Conceptual checkpoint I-12
Part II The
Integration of Experience, Awareness, and Consciousness into
the Unified Model of Reality
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 1 Experiential
Mechanics I
Section 1 Physics and the Evolution of Our
Understanding of the Relationship
Between the Experiencer and the Experience
1.1 Classical
Reality
1.2
Relativistic reality
1.3 Quantum
reality
Section 2 The Introduction of the Unexperienced/Experiential-Reality
Duality
Section 3 The Nature of Unexperienced Reality-Two Possibilities
3.1 Possibility one: Assuming the existence of defined realities
in unexperienced
reality
3.2 Possibility two: Not assuming the existence of defined
realities in unexperienced
reality
3.3 Comparing and contrasting possibilities one and two
Conceptual checkpoint II-1
Section 4 The Experiential Process
4.1 The relational nature of the experiential process
4.2 Wave/particle duality and the mechanics of experience
4.21 The experiential process
4.22 How the experiential relationship creates complementary wave and
particle experiences
4.23 Why wave/particle duality reveals itself in the quantum realm
4.24 Why the complementary wave and particle realities aren't simultaneously
experienceable
4.3 The uncertainty principle and the mechanics of experience
Conceptual checkpoint II-2
Section 5 The Relational Nature of Physical Reality
5.1 If a tree falls in the woods…
5.2 The reality of functional objectivity versus the illusion of
physical objectivity
5.3 How the illusion of independent-object existence is created
5.31 The mechanism of the illusion of independent-object existence
5.311 How the experiential process creates defined physical objects
5.312 How the experiential process separates the experiential reality from
the experiencer
5.32 The support of the illusion of independent-object existence
5.321 The consistency of our own experiences
5.322 The verification of our experiences by other experiencers
5.4 The experiential something and the unexperienceable
nothing
Conceptual checkpoint II-3
Chapter 2 Consciousness and the Awareness of
Experience
Section 1 The Nature of Awareness
1.1 Awareness as intrinsic to physical reality
1.2 The localization of existence into awareness
1.3 The coexistence of awareness and experience
1.4 The function of the defined physical reality we experience
as brain
Section 2 Consciousness as Absolute Existence
2.1 Before the beginning (of the universe) there was…consciousness
Section 3 Experiential Mechanics II
3.1 The framework of experiential reality
3.2 The experiential construct
3.21 Two experiential constructs, external and internal
3.211 Relating the experiential constructs to brain structure
3.212 Two levels of neuronal organization, invariant and variable
3.22 Relationships between the external and internal experiential constructs
3.3 Relating the two experiential constructs to experiential
functions
3.31 The character of mental and physical experiences
3.32 The experiential theater
Conceptual checkpoint II-4
Section 4 Experiential Mechanics III: Positive and Negative
Emotional Experiences
4.1 What-is and what-is-not
4.11 The positive and the negative
4.12 Projection and reflection, the good and the bad
4.2 The alteration of the experiential construct that is
emotional experience
4.3 Experiential optics: The projection and reflection of
awareness
4.4 Attention
4.41 Attention and the experiential lens
4.42 Emotional growth and atrophy
4.5 "What's love got to do with it?"
Conceptual checkpoint II-5
Section 5 The Dimension of Experience
5.1 Projected and reflected states of being; Good moods and
bad moods
5.2 The creation of "I" as awareness' experience of itself
5.3 The trap of misidentification
5.4 Pleasure and pain
5.41 Karma
5.42 Judgment
5.5 The evolution of awareness
Conceptual checkpoint II-6
Section 6 Free Will and Intention
6.1 Free will and experience
6.2 Free will and action
6.21 The stress of controlling our actions
6.22 Attempting to escape control
Section 7 Moving Naturally Against Our Nature
7.1 Biting into the apple of knowledge
7.2 The cosmic game
A final note
Index
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