A declaration of interdependence — where mind, matter, and compassion arise as one unfolding process. “Relational Naturalism” unites science, awareness, and ethics into a humanism without hierarchy and a spirituality without the supernatural.
If consciousness isn’t owned, then death isn’t loss. Thomas W. Clark’s “generic subjectivity” reframes mortality without mysticism—showing that awareness itself was never yours to begin with.
I. Luminara — The Hedonistic District 1950 FC (≈ 2025 CE) The Hedonistic District declared itself long before Zael crossed its threshold. Even from the high transit lines, its glow bled into the air—an electric bloom wrapped around Luminara’s ancient foundations. It felt less like a district and more like a pulse. Dr. Liora Lytton had warned him. “People go there to …
Golden afternoon light slanted through the tall windows of Dr. Liora Lytton’s office, setting the dust in the air adrift like tiny constellations. The room seemed shaped by centuries rather than design: shelves layered with preserved tablets, annotated codices, and transparent data cubes; a workbench scattered with instruments grown from pale bioceramic; preservation fields humming softly around manuscripts too fragile …
Byzantium’s Shift The Fluxian Calendar (FC) begins with the writings of Plutarch and the founding of Theseanism in Athens. In this reckoning, Year 0 FC corresponds roughly to 50 CE — the era when Theon of Athens first articulated the Fluxian principle of transformation. Theseanism takes its name from Plutarch’s “Ship of Theseus” paradox, the question of whether a thing …
The following tenets expand upon the ideas introduced in “An Introduction to Neo-Theseanism,” formalizing the philosophy’s central insight: that continuity is not the preservation of what was, but the mindful transformation of what becomes. 1. The Impermanence of Identity Concept:Identity is not a stable possession but a temporary configuration within a field of change. As the planks of Theseus’s ship …