Each topic examines a foundational assumption — something taken as given at the base of a discipline — and asks what happens when you look at it directly.
The deepest assumption in Western intellectual history — that the boundless exists — was inherited, formalized, and forgotten. This programme examines it directly, finds it unforced, and constructs a complete alternative: a foundation for mathematics and physics built from the ground up on finite bounds. Eight papers. One axiom.
The complete programme. 14 parts: from the foundational package through analysis, complex analysis, functional analysis, representation theory, complexity, and the Millennium Problems.
Every mathematical tool that basic physics requires, traced to bounded constructions. Experimental grounding across nine areas.
75+ named paradoxes examined. Four mechanisms identified. Four outcomes classified. Seven survive — and their survival is structurally informative.
Pain still hurts. Grief is still heavy. The self still coheres. What dissolves is not the phenomena but the unnecessary category imposed on top of them. This investigation argues that "consciousness" does not name a unified natural kind — and that retiring the word costs nothing that was real, while opening a more tractable research programme for animals, AI systems, and ethics.
There is no publicly available, cross-culturally grounded account of what AI systems are actually being aligned to. This investigation builds a foundation from the ground up — drawing on international human rights conventions, environmental law, animal welfare standards, rights-of-nature instruments, and the emerging literature on AI moral consideration — to derive a layered, honest, and contestable alignment framework.
The dominant traditions in Western normative ethics assume the moral domain is organised around a single axis. This investigation argues that the assumption is a category error. Eight candidate dimensions of harm are identified, tested for observability and independence, and mapped across the world's ethical traditions. A five-step structured method for moral reasoning is developed and applied to nine cases — from civilisational catastrophe to artificial intelligence.
Humanity has never had a single concept of "intelligence." Across civilisations and centuries, the project has been about reasoning, judgment, character, emotional attunement, social competence, practical mastery, ecological skill, and wise conduct. This book traces nineteen traditions, maps twelve dimensions of excellence, and proposes a plural framework to replace the false unity of IQ. Forty-one chapters. Three movements: history, map, replacement.
What every civilisation measured and ours forgot: a twenty-dimensional replacement for GDP. The integrating work — pulling together the bounded mathematics (Topic 001), the eight harm dimensions (Topic 004), and the twelve excellence dimensions (Topic 005) into a single reconstruction of economic reality. Fifty-seven chapters across four movements: history, harm, excellence, replacement. Specific institutional reforms at every level from the individual to the international.
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