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“I am the spirit that always denies! / And rightly so; for all that comes to be / Deserves to perish wretchedly.”
—Mephistopheles, Goethe’s Faust

The Soul is neither divine nor anthropomorphic, it is a functional absolute, it works as a top-down ethereal antagonist. I will now try and resolve the muddied clarity on if the soul is reaction or a data point. To put it bluntly, the soul as it has been discussed in this paradigm so far, is a data point that eventually becomes a reaction, transforming the kind of data it is. Whilst I have not entirely figured out something I am sold on in terms of origin or what could potentially be above it. I am certain that this absolute initially begins as self-reproducing data, like an echoed voice that slowly becomes distorted from the original source. To clarify this distortion further, the soul begins as a singular informational invariant (like a quantum bit’s base state), but through recursive observation, it bifurcates into dynamic feedback. A reaction that transforms its own initial data into the chainmail of reality. Once the data point has made itself a plurality, the reaction of the observer effect begins, slowly creating an infinite chainmail of reactions until the soul is martyred by its own creation. The Soul, as I have previously stated, must at least be sixth dimensional. The reason I said this which I failed to explain at the time, is that time exists within the fourth dimension, and the soul must exist above that. The fifth dimension is where all realties are said to possibly exist, and again, the soul as an ultimate observer must exist above that, placing it at the very least into the sixth dimension.

The homunculus problem, counterargues something similar to my paradigm in the philosophy of the mind. This problem works on infinite regression, an endless chain of internal observers must be accounted for to explain the homunculus itself. The counterargument in terms of this paradigm is that the soul and consciousness co-arise through reciprocal observation, it essentially becomes a dialectic without hierarchy. However, to play devils advocate, an infinite regression may not be wrong, although it goes against our logic, the infinite cosmos is set to infinitely regress once it has done infinitely expanding. My solution to this issue right now is that the observation that the soul emits, is a property of the system itself, not an actor within it. This falls into a broader argument of purpose and brings me back to the previous entry regarding a cosmic archive collecting data, however, this time a revision would make it self-reading. There’s no “first observer” because observation is a relational property of the system. Additionally, regarding infinite regression, Cantor’s infinities states that an endless hierarchy of infinities is mathematically coherent. The soul’s observation isn’t an act but a constraint, like the laws of physics, it shapes reality by being intrinsic to the system’s logic, not an agent within it. The soul and consciousness are intrinsically different, like water and fire, there is no prime mover, it is a part of the system not its primal actor.

I find Hegel’s Lordship and Bondage being a philosophical back-up to this paradigm (I never thought I would find myself relying on Hegel!). Consciousness is developed through interaction, like the matter that is developed through its initial observation and the movement of its container (Humans, animals, etc) through lineal time. Essentially, our identity is formed through the negotiation of this reaction throughout our existence. Much like Hegel’s master and slave theory, each seeks the others validation, but they are both by-products of the same system. This inherently leads to the martyrdom of the soul because it cannot dominate its own creations. The Soul is unable to govern its own chainmail, its own cascade of reactions, and thus succumbs to its own inception. Finally, the idea of God is not being killed within this paradigm, but God is becoming syntax rather than semantics. Tegmark’s Mathematical Universe Hypothesis posits that reality is not just explained using maths, but it is maths. This is not great news for me, as I am terrible at maths, alas, this creates an interesting notion. The soul is not a sentient being in its own right, it is a mathematical boundary condition.