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What Is Prior to Time and Space?

Jan 6, 2026

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by Mark Tracy The physical notions of time and space—whether understood phenomenologically or theoretically—are ontologically posterior to the co-arising notions of demarcation and abstraction. By saying that one thing A is ontologically prior to another thing B, I mean that A is necessary for B to be intelligibly conceived at all. It is equivalent to…
Systems: How to Model Anything and Learn from Data

Apr 10, 2025

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Dear reader, Here is essentially everything I know, distilled into a handful of pages. It is a high-level map of how to model anything and how to learn from data. It is intentionally general, though it may be possible to generalize further. I’ll probably expand this writing over time, including by writing expositions to the…
The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

Nov 18, 2024

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“In order to have love, you must have separation. In order to have separation, you must have privacy. In order to have privacy, there must be mystery. In order to have mystery, there must be assertion and doubt.” This cascading truth offers a profound insight into the architecture of love, tracing its roots through interdependent…
On Dividing Totality: The Trinitarian Mystery

Aug 15, 2024

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This post is intended to introduce and summarize the main concepts presented in my book, The Trinitarian Mystery: Escaping Solipsism. Process is meaningless without objects that interact, but a world of objects alone is a world without content. There must be nodes AND edges. There are three models that I have found particularly fruitful that…

Core Philosophy

What Is Prior to Time and Space?

Systems: How to Model Anything and Learn from Data

The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

On Dividing Totality: The Trinitarian Mystery