The One T
Right now, you are experiencing this page from one particular perspective.
You will never experience another person's perspective directly.
And yet the same experiencer stands behind every perspective there has ever been.
We call it T.
The Core Ideas
T
The single experiencer and the only ontologically independent reality.
Perspective
A distinct standpoint through which T experiences a universe.
Information
A determinate datum or statement about something within a universe.
Universes
Informational state spaces within T, each characterized by its own properties and relations.
The T Theory
The One T proposes that many persistent problems concerning consciousness arise from treating the experiencer, the perspective through which experience is structured, and the informational structure of the universe as if they belonged to the same explanatory level.
The T-theory separates these roles.
T is the experiencer. A universe is an informational state space. Perspectives describe transformations through which informational structures correspond to T's experience.
This separation changes the structure of several classical problems. Questions that appear to require new mechanisms may instead result from demanding explanatory relations between levels that the theory treats as distinct. In such cases, the problem is not solved by adding further machinery, but by identifying the category mistake that generated it.
The theory does not require any modification of the physical laws or structures described by science. Its central claim concerns the ontological and explanatory framework within which those structures and experience are related.
The theory is developed through starting premises, definitions, and axioms, from which its consequences are derived.
Starting Points
The epistemic and conceptual starting points from which the theory proceeds.
Definitions
The concepts that define the model.
Axioms
The fundamental propositions of the theory.
Consequences
What follows from the theory.