Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-06 Thread Bruno Marchal

Hi Roger,

On 05 Nov 2012, at 13:06, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal

Man's soul, being a monad, includes the physical man, as
the physical man must remain associated to its monad.

But man-and-his-monad is not an actor, it is a puppet of the
supreme monad.


Here we have a vocabulary decision to take.
Many thing you said about the supreme monad can wirk with comp if you  
model it by the universal machine, but this play the role of Man, not  
a God.






So there is but one actor, the Supreme monad.
Which is why we give thanks before a meal.


usually we thanks God, which is far bigger than any monads, supreme  
or not.


We will have to decide, as I am not sure there is really a conflict,  
here except vocabulary, and perhaps comp, as you seem to change your  
mind often (which is very nice to do, as you can acknowledge the mind  
change).


Bruno






Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/5/2012
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen


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Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow


On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Roger Clough wrote:


Hi Bruno Marchal

As to washington vs moscow, the man remains the same.
Although a man cannot stand in the same river twice,
his 1p or monad, his identity, remains the same.


OK.




The monad itself belongs to the supreme monad or
platonia (same 1p, same identity), because
although its contents keep changing, it has
to remain a fixed identity-- or else the supreme
monad would not know where to place the
constantly adjusted perceptions.


More or less OK. It is a play with four actors: God, Man, the Soul. (=
4 as the Man is a bit schizo and has two personality: a terrestrial
and a divine one). Those can be played, in comp + classical theory of
knowledge) by Arithmetical Truth (God), The Loebian universal Turing
machine (Man, Bp), and Bp  p (The theatetical definition of knowledge
applied to ideally correct machine's provability.




Note that in Leibniz's metaphysics, the perceptions
of each monad are not that of an individual soul such
as we understand perception. An individual soul
sees only the phenomenol world-- from his own
perspective. But a monad contains all of the perceptions
of all the other monads in the universe, so it sees
the universe truly, meaning from all perspectives.
The term holographic perception comes to mind.


Interesting. I think this or similar are still open problems.





In this sense we are God's local sensors, for the God
who knows all.


OK. This, for me, is more salvia than comp and logic, but so I
*guess* you are correct. Open problem with comp.

Bruno






Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
11/3/2012
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen


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Subject: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm




On 02 Nov 2012, at 19:35, Stephen P. King wrote:


On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:



On 01 Nov 2012, at 21:21, Stephen P. King wrote:


On 11/1/2012 11:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

[SPK] Bruno would have us, in step 8 of UDA, to not assume a
concrete robust physical universe.


?


Reread step 8. Step 7 and step 8 are the only steps where I
explicitly do assume a primitive physical reality.
In step 8, it is done for the reductio ad absurdum.

Dear Bruno,

I have cut and pasted your exact words from SANE04 and you
still didn't understand... From: 
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHAL.pdf

...what if we don? grant a concrete robust physical universe?
Actually the 8th present step will explain
that such a move is nevertheless without purpose. This will make the
notion of concrete and
existing universe completely devoid of any explicative power.
It will follow that a much
weaker and usual form of Ockham? razor can be used to conclude that
not only physics has
been epistemologically reduced to machine psychology, but that ?
matter? has been
ontologically reduced to ?mind? where mind is defined as the
object study of fundamental
machine psychology.

My claim is that neither physical worlds nor numbers (or any
other object that must supervene on mind) can be ontologically
primitive. Both must emerge from a neutral ground that is neither
and has no particular properties.



How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic?

Dear Bruno,

No, necessity. The totality of existence, the One, cannot be
complete and consistent simultaneously,


Why not? The One is not a theory.






thus it must stratify itself into Many. Each of the Many is claimed
to have aspects that when recombined cancel to neutrality.










[SPK] He goes on to argue that Occam's razor would demand that we
reject the very idea of the existence of physical worlds


Only of primitive physical worlds. And you did agree with this. I
just prove this 

Re: Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-06 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal  

Not to worry.

The supreme monad acts through the individual monads 
(men or doughnuts or planets or whatever)
in such a way that the actions appear to be perfectly normal. 

Thus from an outer perspective such as in comp, how
the supreme monad acts would be irrelevant (invisible).
The world effectively is as it appears to be. 


Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
11/6/2012  
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 


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Subject: Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent 


Hi Roger, 

On 05 Nov 2012, at 13:06, Roger Clough wrote: 

 Hi Bruno Marchal 
 
 Man's soul, being a monad, includes the physical man, as 
 the physical man must remain associated to its monad. 
 
 But man-and-his-monad is not an actor, it is a puppet of the 
 supreme monad. 

Here we have a vocabulary decision to take. 
Many thing you said about the supreme monad can wirk with comp if you  
model it by the universal machine, but this play the role of Man, not  
a God. 



 
 So there is but one actor, the Supreme monad. 
 Which is why we give thanks before a meal. 

usually we thanks God, which is far bigger than any monads, supreme  
or not. 

We will have to decide, as I am not sure there is really a conflict,  
here except vocabulary, and perhaps comp, as you seem to change your  
mind often (which is very nice to do, as you can acknowledge the mind  
change). 

Bruno 



 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 11/5/2012 
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 Time: 2012-11-04, 08:36:10 
 Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow 
 
 
 On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Roger Clough wrote: 
 
 Hi Bruno Marchal 
 
 As to washington vs moscow, the man remains the same. 
 Although a man cannot stand in the same river twice, 
 his 1p or monad, his identity, remains the same. 
 
 OK. 
 
 
 
 The monad itself belongs to the supreme monad or 
 platonia (same 1p, same identity), because 
 although its contents keep changing, it has 
 to remain a fixed identity-- or else the supreme 
 monad would not know where to place the 
 constantly adjusted perceptions. 
 
 More or less OK. It is a play with four actors: God, Man, the Soul. (= 
 4 as the Man is a bit schizo and has two personality: a terrestrial 
 and a divine one). Those can be played, in comp + classical theory of 
 knowledge) by Arithmetical Truth (God), The Loebian universal Turing 
 machine (Man, Bp), and Bp  p (The theatetical definition of knowledge 
 applied to ideally correct machine's provability. 
 
 
 
 Note that in Leibniz's metaphysics, the perceptions 
 of each monad are not that of an individual soul such 
 as we understand perception. An individual soul 
 sees only the phenomenol world-- from his own 
 perspective. But a monad contains all of the perceptions 
 of all the other monads in the universe, so it sees 
 the universe truly, meaning from all perspectives. 
 The term holographic perception comes to mind. 
 
 Interesting. I think this or similar are still open problems. 
 
 
 
 
 In this sense we are God's local sensors, for the God 
 who knows all. 
 
 OK. This, for me, is more salvia than comp and logic, but so I 
 *guess* you are correct. Open problem with comp. 
 
 Bruno 
 
 
 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 11/3/2012 
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 Time: 2012-11-03, 05:18:25 
 Subject: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm 
 
 
 
 
 On 02 Nov 2012, at 19:35, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 
 
 On 01 Nov 2012, at 21:21, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/1/2012 11:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 [SPK] Bruno would have us, in step 8 of UDA, to not assume a 
 concrete robust physical universe. 
 
 
 ? 
 
 
 Reread step 8. Step 7 and step 8 are the only steps where I 
 explicitly do assume a primitive physical reality. 
 In step 8, it is done for the reductio ad absurdum. 
 
 Dear Bruno, 
 
 I have cut and pasted your exact words from SANE04 and you 
 still didn't understand... From: 
 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHAL.pdf 
 
 ...what if we don? grant a concrete robust physical universe? 
 Actually the 8th present step will explain 
 that such a move is nevertheless without purpose. This will make the 
 notion of concrete and 
 existing universe completely devoid of any explicative power. 
 It will follow that a much 
 weaker and usual form of Ockham? razor can be used to conclude that 
 not only physics has 
 been epistemologically reduced to machine psychology, but that ? 
 matter? has been 
 ontologically reduced to ?mind? where mind

The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal  

Man's soul, being a monad, includes the physical man, as
the physical man must remain associated to its monad.

But man-and-his-monad is not an actor, it is a puppet of the 
supreme monad.

So there is but one actor, the Supreme monad. 
Which is why we give thanks before a meal.


Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
11/5/2012  
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 


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Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow 


On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Roger Clough wrote: 

 Hi Bruno Marchal 
 
 As to washington vs moscow, the man remains the same. 
 Although a man cannot stand in the same river twice, 
 his 1p or monad, his identity, remains the same. 

OK. 


 
 The monad itself belongs to the supreme monad or 
 platonia (same 1p, same identity), because 
 although its contents keep changing, it has 
 to remain a fixed identity-- or else the supreme 
 monad would not know where to place the 
 constantly adjusted perceptions. 

More or less OK. It is a play with four actors: God, Man, the Soul. (=  
4 as the Man is a bit schizo and has two personality: a terrestrial  
and a divine one). Those can be played, in comp + classical theory of  
knowledge) by Arithmetical Truth (God), The Loebian universal Turing  
machine (Man, Bp), and Bp  p (The theatetical definition of knowledge  
applied to ideally correct machine's provability. 


 
 Note that in Leibniz's metaphysics, the perceptions 
 of each monad are not that of an individual soul such 
 as we understand perception. An individual soul 
 sees only the phenomenol world-- from his own 
 perspective. But a monad contains all of the perceptions 
 of all the other monads in the universe, so it sees 
 the universe truly, meaning from all perspectives. 
 The term holographic perception comes to mind. 

Interesting. I think this or similar are still open problems. 



 
 In this sense we are God's local sensors, for the God 
 who knows all. 

OK. This, for me, is more salvia than comp and logic, but so I  
*guess* you are correct. Open problem with comp. 

Bruno 


 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 11/3/2012 
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 From: Bruno Marchal 
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 Time: 2012-11-03, 05:18:25 
 Subject: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm 
 
 
 
 
 On 02 Nov 2012, at 19:35, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 
 
 On 01 Nov 2012, at 21:21, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/1/2012 11:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 [SPK] Bruno would have us, in step 8 of UDA, to not assume a  
 concrete robust physical universe. 
 
 
 ? 
 
 
 Reread step 8. Step 7 and step 8 are the only steps where I  
 explicitly do assume a primitive physical reality. 
 In step 8, it is done for the reductio ad absurdum. 
 
 Dear Bruno, 
 
 I have cut and pasted your exact words from SANE04 and you  
 still didn't understand... From: 
 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHAL.pdf 
 
 ...what if we don? grant a concrete robust physical universe? 
 Actually the 8th present step will explain 
 that such a move is nevertheless without purpose. This will make the  
 notion of concrete and 
 existing universe completely devoid of any explicative power.  
 It will follow that a much 
 weaker and usual form of Ockham? razor can be used to conclude that  
 not only physics has 
 been epistemologically reduced to machine psychology, but that ?  
 matter? has been 
 ontologically reduced to ?mind? where mind is defined as the  
 object study of fundamental 
 machine psychology. 
 
 My claim is that neither physical worlds nor numbers (or any  
 other object that must supervene on mind) can be ontologically  
 primitive. Both must emerge from a neutral ground that is neither  
 and has no particular properties. 
 
 
 
 How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic? 
 
 Dear Bruno, 
 
 No, necessity. The totality of existence, the One, cannot be  
 complete and consistent simultaneously, 
 
 
 Why not? The One is not a theory. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 thus it must stratify itself into Many. Each of the Many is claimed  
 to have aspects that when recombined cancel to neutrality. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 [SPK] He goes on to argue that Occam's razor would demand that we  
 reject the very idea of the existence of physical worlds 
 
 
 Only of primitive physical worlds. And you did agree with this. I  
 just prove this from comp. That's the originality. A bit of  
 metaphysics is made into a theorem in a theory (comp). 
 
 Can we agree that physical worlds emerge somehow from sharable  
 aspects of multiple sheaves of computations? 
 
 
 
 This is what I have shown to be a consequence of comp. 
 
 I agree. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 [SPK] given that he can 

Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-05 Thread Richard Ruquist
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote:
 Hi Bruno Marchal

 Man's soul, being a monad, includes the physical man, as
 the physical man must remain associated to its monad.

 But man-and-his-monad is not an actor, it is a puppet of the
 supreme monad.

You seem to be claiming that men do not have free will
and that it is not because of predeterminism.



 So there is but one actor, the Supreme monad.
 Which is why we give thanks before a meal.


 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
 11/5/2012
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen


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 From: Bruno Marchal
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 Time: 2012-11-04, 08:36:10
 Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow


 On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Roger Clough wrote:

 Hi Bruno Marchal

 As to washington vs moscow, the man remains the same.
 Although a man cannot stand in the same river twice,
 his 1p or monad, his identity, remains the same.

 OK.



 The monad itself belongs to the supreme monad or
 platonia (same 1p, same identity), because
 although its contents keep changing, it has
 to remain a fixed identity-- or else the supreme
 monad would not know where to place the
 constantly adjusted perceptions.

 More or less OK. It is a play with four actors: God, Man, the Soul. (=
 4 as the Man is a bit schizo and has two personality: a terrestrial
 and a divine one). Those can be played, in comp + classical theory of
 knowledge) by Arithmetical Truth (God), The Loebian universal Turing
 machine (Man, Bp), and Bp  p (The theatetical definition of knowledge
 applied to ideally correct machine's provability.



 Note that in Leibniz's metaphysics, the perceptions
 of each monad are not that of an individual soul such
 as we understand perception. An individual soul
 sees only the phenomenol world-- from his own
 perspective. But a monad contains all of the perceptions
 of all the other monads in the universe, so it sees
 the universe truly, meaning from all perspectives.
 The term holographic perception comes to mind.

 Interesting. I think this or similar are still open problems.




 In this sense we are God's local sensors, for the God
 who knows all.

 OK. This, for me, is more salvia than comp and logic, but so I
 *guess* you are correct. Open problem with comp.

 Bruno





 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
 11/3/2012
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen


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 Subject: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm




 On 02 Nov 2012, at 19:35, Stephen P. King wrote:


 On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote:



 On 01 Nov 2012, at 21:21, Stephen P. King wrote:


 On 11/1/2012 11:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:

 [SPK] Bruno would have us, in step 8 of UDA, to not assume a
 concrete robust physical universe.


 ?


 Reread step 8. Step 7 and step 8 are the only steps where I
 explicitly do assume a primitive physical reality.
 In step 8, it is done for the reductio ad absurdum.

 Dear Bruno,

 I have cut and pasted your exact words from SANE04 and you
 still didn't understand... From: 
 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHAL.pdf

 ...what if we don? grant a concrete robust physical universe?
 Actually the 8th present step will explain
 that such a move is nevertheless without purpose. This will make the
 notion of concrete and
 existing universe completely devoid of any explicative power.
 It will follow that a much
 weaker and usual form of Ockham? razor can be used to conclude that
 not only physics has
 been epistemologically reduced to machine psychology, but that ?
 matter? has been
 ontologically reduced to ?mind? where mind is defined as the
 object study of fundamental
 machine psychology.

 My claim is that neither physical worlds nor numbers (or any
 other object that must supervene on mind) can be ontologically
 primitive. Both must emerge from a neutral ground that is neither
 and has no particular properties.



 How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic?

 Dear Bruno,

 No, necessity. The totality of existence, the One, cannot be
 complete and consistent simultaneously,


 Why not? The One is not a theory.






 thus it must stratify itself into Many. Each of the Many is claimed
 to have aspects that when recombined cancel to neutrality.










 [SPK] He goes on to argue that Occam's razor would demand that we
 reject the very idea of the existence of physical worlds


 Only of primitive physical worlds. And you did agree with this. I
 just prove this from comp. That's the originality. A bit of
 metaphysics is made into a theorem in a theory (comp).

 Can we agree that physical worlds emerge somehow from sharable
 aspects of multiple sheaves of computations?



 This is what I have shown to be a consequence of comp.

 I agree.












 [SPK] given that he 

Re: Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent

2012-11-05 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Richard Ruquist  

There is not really any problem between free will and 
pre-determinism as long as the men did what they wanted to do. 


Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
11/5/2012  
Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 


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Subject: Re: The supreme monad is the only actor, the only agent 


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 7:06 AM, Roger Clough  wrote: 
 Hi Bruno Marchal 
 
 Man's soul, being a monad, includes the physical man, as 
 the physical man must remain associated to its monad. 
 
 But man-and-his-monad is not an actor, it is a puppet of the 
 supreme monad. 

You seem to be claiming that men do not have free will 
and that it is not because of predeterminism. 


 
 So there is but one actor, the Supreme monad. 
 Which is why we give thanks before a meal. 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 11/5/2012 
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 From: Bruno Marchal 
 Receiver: everything-list 
 Time: 2012-11-04, 08:36:10 
 Subject: Re: heraclitus and leibniz on washington vs moscow 
 
 
 On 03 Nov 2012, at 12:29, Roger Clough wrote: 
 
 Hi Bruno Marchal 
 
 As to washington vs moscow, the man remains the same. 
 Although a man cannot stand in the same river twice, 
 his 1p or monad, his identity, remains the same. 
 
 OK. 
 
 
 
 The monad itself belongs to the supreme monad or 
 platonia (same 1p, same identity), because 
 although its contents keep changing, it has 
 to remain a fixed identity-- or else the supreme 
 monad would not know where to place the 
 constantly adjusted perceptions. 
 
 More or less OK. It is a play with four actors: God, Man, the Soul. (= 
 4 as the Man is a bit schizo and has two personality: a terrestrial 
 and a divine one). Those can be played, in comp + classical theory of 
 knowledge) by Arithmetical Truth (God), The Loebian universal Turing 
 machine (Man, Bp), and Bp  p (The theatetical definition of knowledge 
 applied to ideally correct machine's provability. 
 
 
 
 Note that in Leibniz's metaphysics, the perceptions 
 of each monad are not that of an individual soul such 
 as we understand perception. An individual soul 
 sees only the phenomenol world-- from his own 
 perspective. But a monad contains all of the perceptions 
 of all the other monads in the universe, so it sees 
 the universe truly, meaning from all perspectives. 
 The term holographic perception comes to mind. 
 
 Interesting. I think this or similar are still open problems. 
 
 
 
 
 In this sense we are God's local sensors, for the God 
 who knows all. 
 
 OK. This, for me, is more salvia than comp and logic, but so I 
 *guess* you are correct. Open problem with comp. 
 
 Bruno 
 
 
 
 
 
 Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 
 11/3/2012 
 Forever is a long time, especially near the end. -Woody Allen 
 
 
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 Time: 2012-11-03, 05:18:25 
 Subject: Re: Numbers in the Platonic Realm 
 
 
 
 
 On 02 Nov 2012, at 19:35, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/2/2012 12:23 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 
 
 On 01 Nov 2012, at 21:21, Stephen P. King wrote: 
 
 
 On 11/1/2012 11:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: 
 
 [SPK] Bruno would have us, in step 8 of UDA, to not assume a 
 concrete robust physical universe. 
 
 
 ? 
 
 
 Reread step 8. Step 7 and step 8 are the only steps where I 
 explicitly do assume a primitive physical reality. 
 In step 8, it is done for the reductio ad absurdum. 
 
 Dear Bruno, 
 
 I have cut and pasted your exact words from SANE04 and you 
 still didn't understand... From: 
 http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHAL.pdf 
 
 ...what if we don? grant a concrete robust physical universe? 
 Actually the 8th present step will explain 
 that such a move is nevertheless without purpose. This will make the 
 notion of concrete and 
 existing universe completely devoid of any explicative power. 
 It will follow that a much 
 weaker and usual form of Ockham? razor can be used to conclude that 
 not only physics has 
 been epistemologically reduced to machine psychology, but that ? 
 matter? has been 
 ontologically reduced to ?mind? where mind is defined as the 
 object study of fundamental 
 machine psychology. 
 
 My claim is that neither physical worlds nor numbers (or any 
 other object that must supervene on mind) can be ontologically 
 primitive. Both must emerge from a neutral ground that is neither 
 and has no particular properties. 
 
 
 
 How can anything emerge from something having non properties? Magic? 
 
 Dear Bruno, 
 
 No, necessity. The totality of existence, the One, cannot be 
 complete and consistent simultaneously, 
 
 
 Why not? The One is not a theory. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 thus it must stratify itself into Many. Each of the Many is claimed