Two Axioms of Reality
Integrative Realism is a metaphysical framework developed by Michael L. Adix II, MD. It posits that reality has a single nature with two inseparable faces: a structural face described by physics and an intrinsic face that is what consciousness is made of. Complex phenomena arise from simpler constituents through integration.
Axiom I
Reality has two faces: a structural face described by physics and an intrinsic face, what consciousness is made of.
Axiom II
Complexity arises from simplicity through integration.
What We Are, Vol. I: The Nature of Reality
The foundation. It sets out the two axioms and turns them on the mind itself — consciousness and the hard problem, time, personal identity, free will, machine consciousness, and the foundations of science.
What We Are, Vol. II: The Integrated Life
The application. It carries the same two axioms into how to live — ethics, beauty, political justice, the dissolution of God, the meaning of a finite life, and death.
Integrative Realism
Reality has a single nature with two inseparable faces: a structural face described by physics and an intrinsic face that is what consciousness is made of. Complex phenomena arise from simpler constituents through integration.
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