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  • Essay / Psi and Ontology - 2215

    Psi can be loosely defined as the ability of an organism to interact with its environment, or with other entities within the environment, beyond what is known defined limits of this organism. The inability to empirically observe how these interactions occur, aside from the initially observed effect, has led to various theories of psi being modeled in the context of some sort of information system. That being said, the parapsychological generally approaches psi from the perspective that it is a function that allows an exchange of information between the organism and its environment; however, the information is extrinsic to the thing it is encoded on, so it cannot exist separately from the thing it is encoded on. Although hypostasis (making an abstract thing concrete through reification) is useful for conceptual and ontological models (this will be discussed later in the article), treating an unreal thing, which is nothing more than a conceptual abstraction, like a reification error, is a reification error. a real thing without giving it any substance, so information, in the context of parapsychology, is a systematic mapping of a group of entities that is currently unobservable. Information can be thought of as an abstract, polymorphic noun that has many contexts in which it can be used. Due to the abstract nature of psi, as it impinges on the organism outside of the normal modes of sensory encroachment on the sense organs, the information in the person's mind manifests itself through various symbolic associations. , even literal, of a tacit and non-semantic nature. Semantic information is qualitative in nature and connects the dots regarding meaning. Manifesto of extrasensory information ...... middle of paper ...... matrix, in which the color is a scalar multiple of the vector objects contained in the array. As such, syntax is determined by the mathematical properties of entities with respect to how they have organized themselves according to the traits attributed to them. Associations and Phenomenology As noted earlier in the article, a certain degree of hypostasis is necessary to use such a framework. In order to effectively use such a system, one would need to adopt a view of conceptual realism in which the conceptual and abstract parts of the system were real things in themselves. This requires a shift from phenomenology (the way things are experienced) to a mindset in which we view abstract and conceptual objects as real things that we can manipulate. This can be done in a meditative state in which one creates a sort of mental space where these objects are evoked..