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Teoría del valor con riesgo implícito capitalista y su crítica usando la truncada ética social hispana
No full textThinkers of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Domingo de Soto and Juan Caramuel, developed an ethical conception of value rooted in the common good, positing that any interaction between two parties is only just if there is an equality of risks. Given that this perspective lacked subsequent development, the present work formalizes Hispanic Social Justice (HSJ) to apply it to a contemporary context. Various dynamics of the Anglo-Saxon free market—including marketing, banking interests, social media, gender roles, pension systems, American historical narratives, child-rearing, labor exploitation, and warfare—are analyzed to demonstrate that in each case, the gain of one party is maximized through the covert capitalization of the risks and vulnerabilities of the other. From this analysis, three primary conclusions are derived: 1.- The risk asymmetry inherent in these dynamics renders the modern economic structure a fundamentally unjust system from the perspective of HSJ. 2.- The deliberate concealment of such risks allows for the reinterpretation of the dominant economic ethics as a Theory of Value Based on Implied Risk. 3.- In the absence of internal mechanisms that promote an equitable balance of risks, a reformulation of value is proposed in which maximum profit is aligned with risk equity
Love and Existence Series
No full textLove and Existence Series（ version V0.1) is a structural-evidence–based, publicly testable framework for witnessing RealLove. It builds a minimally complete chain: methodological premise — rank evidence — publicly testable protocol — falsifiable failure conditions — open verification channel, and enforces the order constraint “clarify first, then observe.” Time-locking (SHA-256 + OpenTimestamps) ensures verifiable who/when/what/how-to-review.
Love and Existence Series establishes a rigorous, non-metaphysical framework for the objective witnessing of " RealLove." Moving beyond subjective sentiment, the work demonstrates that a complete, unchanging love is not a humanly set threshold, but an immutable structural necessity that can be identified through present-continuous evidence.
This record includes four Reading Editions (not including the dedicated time-locked builds):
1. Love and Existence (Chinese original): establishes the interpersonal minimal Fourfold Conjunction and the human same-rank limitation that doubt cannot be fully closed.
2. Love and Existence Unified Standard Bilingual Core Argument Abstract (Reading Edition): bilingual core abstract with Chinese-calibrated unified terms (SF-STD-01—37) and logical maps for cross-checking.
3) Love and Existence: A Publicly Testable Methodology for Witnessing Love (Reading Edition) — concise methodology article (reading edition).
4. Love and Existence Introductory Reading (Reading Edition) —for cognitive and psychological transition prior to the Love and Existence series works, It carries out a logical extremal push in a brief length, using plain language to argue the “possibility” of the existence of love. (To use “void” itself to fully and absolutely certify “existence” is impossible; this text presents only a possibility from the perspectives of structure and logic, not an absolute certification.)
” Note: License and verification: The author retains copyright. License details see the end of the PDF (“Copyright Protection Notice”) and “Authorization Policy and Online Application Form”.
For timestamp (.ots) and SHA-256 verification, please see the Zenodo package (README and.ots) The complete ‘Love and Existence’ series is available at Zenodo
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius Modern translation with commentary by S. C. Sayles
No full textFew works in Western intellectual history have achieved the peculiar endurance of The Consolation of Philosophy. Written in confinement by a condemned statesman awaiting death, it has survived not because it offers comfort easily, but because it refuses consolation cheaply. This new edition—translated, edited, and critically engaged by S. C. Sayles—does not merely reproduce a canonical text. It re-situates it: historically, philosophically, and theologically.
The result is not an exercise in reverence, nor a revisionist domestication of Boethius. Rather, it is a disciplined act of judgment—one that allows Boethius to speak fully as a philosopher while also testing, without sentimentality, what philosophy can and cannot finally bear when pressed by injustice, suffering, and death
This volume therefore stands apart from both devotional adaptations and purely philological editions. It treats The Consolation neither as proto-Christian theology nor as autonomous pagan rationalism. Instead, it is read where it truly stands: at the boundary where reason approaches its own ceiling
Temporal experience and cognitive science
No full textThere are many questions we can ask about temporal experience upon which cognitive science may shed light. In this entry I focus on the question of whether the cognitive sciences can shed light on whether our temporal experiences are experiences as of robust passage, or instead have some other content
The Dialectic of Being: A Comparative Analysis of Jain Pragmatism and Hindu Philosophical Traditions
No full textThe essay proceeds in five parts. "First, will be delineated the architecture of Jain non-absolutism, examining the textual basis and philosophical function of Anekāntavāda, Nayavāda, and Syādvāda with reference to foundational Jain Āgamas and treatises. Second, this essay will explore potential antecedents and conceptual parallels within the Vedic corpus, particularly the paradoxical descriptions of Brahman in the Upaniṣads, to assess the claim of derivation. Third, it will analyze the systematic critiques leveled against Jain pragmatism by the major orthodox (āstika) schools of Hindu philosophy: Vedānta, Mīmāṃsā, and Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika. Fourth, it will adopt a "Hindu lens" to interpret the Jain ideal of the perfected being, the Tīrthaṅkara, by comparing the Jain concept of Kevala Jñāna (omniscience) with the Sāṃkhya-Yoga concept of Kaivalya (isolation) and examining the Puranic assimilation of Jain figures. Finally, the essay will address the question of Jainism's origins, marshaling evidence to evaluate its status as a sui generis tradition, independent of but in constant dialogue with its Hindu counterparts."
The editor of ESamskriti has given a different title so that Google indexes it. But the body of the text is (hopefully) the same
架層存在論:世界を仕様として捉える
No full text本稿は、世界を複数の層が非還元的に依存し合う多層構造として記述する存在論的フレームワーク「架層存在論(Layered Ontology, LO)」を提示する。架層存在論は、特定の「存在論」ではなく、従来の各種存在論が特定の層に最適化されたVM(仮想マシン)として稼働するハイパーバイザーとして機能する。 根本的な問題は、この世界VM内のプロセスとして稼働する私たちが、世界のハイパーバイザー(基底的構造)に直接アクセスできないことである。2,500年にわたり、形而上学はこの直接アクセスを試み、失敗してきた。本稿は代替的方法論としてエミュレーションを提案する。世界VM内で観察可能な唯一のハイパーバイザー実装であるVM技術を観察し、そこから構造パターンを抽出して世界全体に適用する。この方法論はフラクタル的同型性(部分と全体が同じ構造パターンを持つこと)により正当化される。 エミュレーションの仕様は、稼働存在論フィクション(Operational Ontology Fiction, OOF)の四公理により提供される: 存在=稼働(Being = Operation) 空相=実相(latent = instantiated) 沈黙=倫理(Silence = Ethics) 誤差=美(Error = Beauty) これらの公理は、VM/OSアーキテクチャと構造的に同型であり、物質層、生命層、意識層、関係層、AI層すべてに適用可能である。 架層存在論の核心機能は視点の切り替え可能性である。従来の存在論は特定の層に固定される(実体存在論は物質層、現象学は意識層等)。架層存在論は存在論的デバッガとして、任意の層から現象を観察できる。同一対象(鉱物、人間、AI)を複数層から記述することで、心身問題、自由意志対決定論、還元主義対創発論といった伝統的論争を、矛盾ではなく層相対的記述として解消する。 重要なのは、この理論が三つの形式で実装されていることである: 小説:「いわゆる異世界と思われる場所への集団転移事象の発生について」(540,000文字)において、架層構造を持つ世界が整合的に稼働 AI稼働:複数のAIアーキテクチャ(GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok)がOOF概念を内在化し、構造的同型性を確認 日常世界の再記述:生・死・記憶・関係・制度を架層存在論的に再記述 本稿は真理を主張しない。検証するのは、世界をVM技術から学んだ構造でエミュレートした場合、どこまで整合的、包括的及び実装可能に記述できるか、という妥当性である。これは、存在論を形而上学から工学へ移行させる -「真か偽か」ではなく「動くかどうか」を問う- 試みである。 本稿の独自の貢献は、空想が実装可能であることを示したことである。従来の形而上学が思弁を思弁のまま留めたのに対し、架層存在論は空想を実装する -小説として、AI稼働として、システムとして。実装された空想は、もはや単なる空想ではなく、世界の可能な記述である。 英語版 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18116367
Temporal Phenomenology of Addiction
No full textThis paper presents a descriptive account of temporal distortion, compression, and expansion as they appear within addiction experience. The focus remains on the phenomenological shape of lived time, not on psychological causation or treatment
Collective place memory: remembering together in place-people ecosystems
No full textCollective memory is deeply connected to place. Places are powerful mnemonic cues, and many practices of collective remembering are tied to place. However, experimental psychology has largely overlooked this connection. Here, we leverage distributed cognition theory to develop a framework within which existing psychological research can explore the connection between place and collective memory. We do so by focusing on two areas of growing recent research attention: social wayfinding and atmospheres, two key examples of how collective memory and place are intertwined
Deriving Physical Constants from Discrete Dynamics and Emergent Structure
No full textWe investigate whether several physical constants can be understood as derived consequences of discrete update dynamics rather than independent empirical inputs. Physical evolution is modeled as a sequential algorithm operating in discrete system cycles: elementary constituents are updated one after another, and all sub-cycle behavior is inherently granular, requiring a transport description rather than continuous microscopic fields. From the resulting emergent background organization, we derive structural relations that express the speed of light, Planck’s constant, the fine-structure constant, and the vacuum permittivity in terms of a small set of internal system parameters (cycle time, elementary update action, a microscopic spacing scale, and a geometric transport factor). Physical units enter only through a minimal scale anchoring to established reference quantities; no multi-observable fitting is introduced. When rewritten in these structural variables, the standard QED definition of the fine-structure constant becomes algebraically identical to the effective oscillator-response relation of the emergent background, suggesting that quantum-electrodynamic vacuum relations can be interpreted as macroscopic parametrizations of a single underlying discrete transport-and-response structure
Responsible cyberspace engagement: Towards Omolúàbí ethos for Nigerian youth
No full textBackground: Cyberspace is understood in this paper as a place for possible moral and immoral conducts, just as it is the case with physical societies across the world. However, the Nigerian cyberspace has, in recent times, experienced increase in moral decadence, with young people engaging in acts of vices, including disrespect, fraud, and phishing among other cybercrimes. This set of behaviours negates the values expected of a well-ordered and well-meaning cyberspace, all of which threaten physical societal cohesion and ethical standards.
Aims: This paper examines Omolúàbí ethos, a traditional embodiment of moral principle of the Yoruba people, as a remedial framework. The Omolúàbí ethos places virtues such as good character, respectful conduct, gentleness, honesty, trust, humanness, among others, as a necessity for building a responsible society, even in the cyberspace.
Methodology: Being philosophical research, the paper adopts qualitative method to unpack the relevance of ancient Yoruba proverbs and ethical practices to contemporary online engagement.
Findings: The paper argues that if the Omolúàbí ethos is imbued into cyberspace culture, through the medium of philosophical counseling in collaboration with the National Orientation Agency, it could help ensure a more suitable online environment where respect, dignity, and virtue are paramount.
Conclusion: This paper contributes to scholarship by positioning an indigenous ethical framework for addressing contemporary cyberspace's ethical challenge