Creating A Psychic Ontology

by LeoDragon
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Psi can be loosely defined as the ability of an organism to interact with its environment, or other
entities within the environment, beyond what is known about the defined boundaries of that organism.
The inability to empirically observe how these interactions happen, outside of the initially observed
effect, has resulted in modeling various theories about psi within the context of it being an information
system of sorts. That being said, parapsychology typically approaches psi from the perspective that it is
a function which allows for an exchange of information between the organism and its environment;
however, information is extrinsic to the thing that it is encoded upon, thus, it can not exist separately
from the thing that it is encoded upon. While hypostatisation (making concrete an abstract thing
through reification) is useful for conceptual and ontological models (will be discussed later on in the
article), it is a reification fallacy to treat an unreal thing, that is nothing more than a conceptual
abstraction, as a real thing without giving it any substance, thus, information, within the context of
parapsychology, is a systematic mapping of a group of entities that is unobservable at the moment.
Information can be considered to be an abstract and polymorphic noun that has many contexts in which
it can be used.

Due to the abstract nature of psi, as it impinges upon the organism outside of the normal modes of
sensory encroaching on sensory organs, information, within the mind of the person manifests as various
symbolic, or even literal, associations that are tacit in nature and non semantic. Semantic information is
qualitative in nature which connects the dots in regards to meaning. Extrasensory information manifest
as various modes of anomalous cognition which present patterns of information in various associations
in which meaning has to be extracted via positive objective feedback. In other words, meaning is not
transferred, initially, via psi; however, it can be learned via proving various postulations about the
meaning of the information with the scope of the accuracy of what it actually means and whether or not
the information was mediated via psi via objective feedback thereby creating a semantic library of
sorts.

In addition to obtaining information about the environment, or other entities within the environment,
via psi, an organism has the ability to initiate and transfer information which manipulates the physical
environment in the form of psychokinesis. As was stated, before, due to the inability to observe the
underlying mechanisms, parapsychology typically models such interactions within the context of
informational models and theories based upon experimental evidence. That being said, one can define
two directions of transference between the organism; two and fro, but an issue that often arises is
conscious utilization of these unknown correlations between an entity and these interactions.

As was said, before, extrasensory information is tacit in nature. This makes it somewhat intuitive
making it hard to convey how one arrived to the knowledge of how. In addition to that, conceptual
representations of the information typically manifest as associations that are metaphorical in nature, but
the type of information that is conveyed is not semantic and qualitative thereby making it so that the
one has to find a framework from which to extract semantic and qualitative information all the while
understanding the metaphorical and associative properties of the information. Furthermore, the
emergence of the mind of the person is an epiphenomenon thereby making it an entity that is extrinsic
to the brain in which it is encoded within biochemical reactions within the neurophysiological
structures contained therein. Psi implies a type of dualism, or even a pluralism, in which a dual aspect
of consciousness can be said to be tied to an underlying domain which extends into a unifying and
fundamental spectrum. That being said, a thought, in the neurological sense, does not constitute the
thing that does what could be a psychic function; rather, it is the thing that can be said to mediate it,
thus, one can say one has a guiding and a doing aspect in which information impinges upon the brain of
the person via this entity creating physical changes to the brain in such a way as to transfer information
to it and vice versa.

This dual entity is often tagged the unconscious or subconscious mind, but, as mentioned earlier,
aspects of the mind are epiphenomenally linked to the brain and it ostensibly seems that an aspect of
what can be called consciousness is a more basic part of the matter which composes the brain;
however, psi mediated information can be thought to make itself known through the preconscious mind
(an aspect of the unconscious mind). It is often erroneously thought that the subconscious mind is the
thing that does psi, thus, it is thought that sending something to or reprogramming the subconscious
mind will result in psi mediated effects; however, the subconscious mind, in relation to other aspects of
one's personality, is hard to access outside of altered states that contain certain traits and/or hypnosis in
which the information is typically state specific (one would have to enter that state to understand what
the information means or even to attain it). In addition to that, such states are ephemeral in which there
is a highly subjective component to it which can pose a problem when attempting to extract what it
actually means.

Language can be thought to be a branch of linguistics that deals with a type of ontological conceptual
reification of entities in such a way as a way to encode abstractions in a way to store, convey, and
understand information. In other words, it is a way for human beings to organize conceptual
representations of information pertaining to the qualitative relationships between entities in a way that
is meaningful. As was stated earlier, a problem with extrasensory information is that, it is metaphorical
in nature, due to the abstract nature of it, and it is not semantic making it more or less something like a
pattern of information presented to the person in a metaphor of sorts. The abstract and metaphorical
nature of the information is due to the person not having adequate experiences or physical capabilities
to literally depict the information. Since most languages are centered around semantics and meanings,
it is hard to translate/assign the information, gained via psi, to conceptual representations that are not
based upon feelings/intuition, communicate it to another person, or even translate without associative
overlay due to the semantic entity that is closet is not exactly that thing thereby resulting in
unconscious associations warping the information. A way to get around these short comings is to create
an ontological model of sorts which can serve as an epistemic framework in which to house
information.
Ontology

Often times used as a synonym for Aristotle? metaphysics (what he refereed to as first philosophy),
ontology can be thought of as the philosophy and/or science of analyzing objects, structures, processes,
and other types of entities in such a way as to find relationships between entities within a said domain.
While used synonymously with metaphysics, the term ontology (ontologia) was coined by Rudolf
Gockel's Lexicon philosophicum and Jacob Lorhard's Theatrum philosophicum in 1613. Ontology can
be thought of as the organization of the abstract and is a critical part of linguistic systems such as
mathematics and languages.

An ontology can be either formal, informal, and descriptive/realist (however the realism of said
ontology is based upon philosophical grounds in which one can call something real or not). A formal
ontology can be said to be domain neutral in which it seeks to categorize and classify entities via
taxonomy, how one can utilize said entities to make accurate predictions, what is the criteria in which
one can classify something as true and false, how one constructs relationships between said entities, so
on and so forth. It is important to note that an ontological framework can be arbitrary. This arbitrariness
will play a role in constructing an ontological framework to utilize in psychic endeavors; however, it is
important to note that the entities within the framework are meant to be epistemic (meant to hold
information rather than be the thing in itself; the map is not the territory) in regards to the reified
entities relationship to actual objects. Even though a degree of hypostatisation is necessary to utilize
such a system, it is important to base results on discernible and empirical observations. In other words,
the formal ontology that one is dealing with are with physical and conceptual objects (in which
conceptual is defined as an abstraction) rather than the realism of arbitrarily created ontology. As such,
the goal is to create what can be called a descriptive ontology to serve an abstract framework of the
before hand formalized ontology of physical and conceptual entities in order to hold patterns of
information or to serve as a framework from which to create a type of formula or syntax structure in
which to decipher psi mediated information.

An ontology can be thought of as starting off with an approximation of various categorizes and
domains to house various entities. It is best to have these categorizations in a hierarchical tree of sorts.
An example of this would be a class and a type or a genus and a species. It can mathematical be
thought of as a function in which the properties of the superset are applied to the properties of the
subset. One should aim at creating a generative ontological framework which can dynamically adapt to
new information and extend itself into new domains. The goal can be thought of as creating a type of
array of to hold information in such a way that patterns can be encoded and extracted. In essence, the
ontological framework is a way to house objects which represent bits of information. These objects will
serve as entities in which to encode information which is decoded for meaning via a type of syntax.

As was stated, before, there is a degree of arbitrariness in such an ontological framework, but the
entities should be regarded as being an abstraction of physical objects and concepts. As such, the
conceptual representations and categorizes are up to the person, but abstractions should be meaningful.
For example, if one picked elemental categories, one would have to determine traits associated with
those elements. This can be done via a subjective type of introspection or even analysis of various
styles of art that one is drawn to. Below is an example from John
Wilkins' An Essay toward a Real Character and Philosophical Language (1668):

transcendent relations: General, Mixed, Of Action

unclassified: Discourse, God, World, Element, Stone, Metal
plants: Herb Leaf, Herb Flower, Herb S. Ves., Shrub, Tree
animals: Exsanguinous, Fish, Bird, Beast
parts: Peculiar, General
quantity: Magnitude, Space, Measure
quality: Natural Power, Habit, Manners, Sensible Quality, Sickness
action: Spiritual, Corporeal, Motion, Operation
relation: Economic, Possessions, Provisions, Civil, Judicial, Military, Naval,

As was stated, above, the framework should be quantitative, over qualitative, and geared towards
patterns over semantic meaning. As such, one should construct a mathematical and relational
framework complete with the necessary permutations over an associative one. In addition to that, the
general layout of the categories should be something like nodes on a tree as shown below:

Say, for example, one had types of colors and one wanted to arrange objects based upon their color in
which the colors are blue, green, yellow, and red. Say one had a red apple, green leaf, yellow flower,
and blue crayon.

color
blue:crayon
green:leaf
yellow:flower
red:apple

Since blue, green, yellow, and red are types of colors one could a notate it like this:

color:blue:crayon
color:green:leaf
color:yellow:flower
color:red:apple
or

color{blue(crayon), green(leaf), yellow(flower), red(apple)}

The above example is a basic array, or matrix, in which color is a scalar multiple of the the vector
objects contained within the array. As such, the syntax is determined by the mathematical properties of
the entities in regards to how they arranged per their ascribed traits.

In the above example, color would be considered the domain that is being modeled. Blue can be
considered the class of that domain in which a crayon can be considered an attribute, or a type, of blue
entity. Domains, within this type of ontology, should be modeled after states or instances of that
particular thing. Complexity is up to the person; however, typically, the levels of morphology and
versatility go up as the levels of complexity and abstraction increases within the framework. It also
becomes more potent when one makes relationships between entities contextual as in some properties
are relative to its relationship with another thing.
Associations and Phenomenology

As was stated earlier in the article, a degree of hypostatisation is necessary to utilize such a
framework. In order to use such a system efficiently, one would have to adopt a view of conceptual
realism in which the conceptual and abstract parts of the system were actual things in themselves. This
requires a shifting of one's phenomenology (how things are experienced) to a state of mind in which
one views abstract and conceptual objects as real things one can manipulate. This can be done in a
meditative state in which one creates a type of mental space where these objects are conjured.

Creating a psychic ontological framework has many advantages. One advantage is that subjective
experiences are formalized into objective frameworks. While the experience, itself, is subjective, how it
is modeled is made objective by a consistent depiction, syntax structure, organization, rules, etc. It also
allows one to loop back and channel clairvoyant information into the entities allowing one to capture
information about physical states within a given domain which can be modeled into a series of events
between states to convey the change that one wants to cause with psychokinesis in addition to its
telepathic usages (especially in telepathic defenses).