One and many: what a common source must explain
Explore unity and multiplicity through source states, observable distinctions, and shared constraints that give the Single Monad proposal content.
Read the guideConceptual foundations
What does a generative account of reality explain?
The philosophical starting point of SMM/DTT is the relation between one source and a differentiated world. This route explores what generation, time, persistence, and observation mean, and how those concepts guide mathematical questions without replacing the work of a physical explanation.
Clarify the concepts behind the construction
These six guides examine unity and multiplicity, relational time, persistence through renewal, causal explanation, the relation between a model and reality, and the role of an observer or record. Each uses a concrete example to distinguish ideas that can otherwise be hidden by the same word.
The connection to SMM/DTT is conceptual and methodological: what must a single source explain, what makes a renewed object persist, and when does an interpretation become an operational claim? Philosophy helps formulate these questions precisely; mathematical definitions and physical comparisons then determine which proposed answers a model realizes.
6 connected guides
Relational time: order, clocks, and shared duration
Distinguish event order from measured duration, and explore how relational clocks could emerge from the same source as completed spatial records.
Read the guideRenewal and persistence: why a changing world can keep a history
Explore renewed creation through invariants, retained memory, and tests that distinguish genuine persistence from repeated identical appearances.
Read the guideCausality and explanation: from common origin to controlled change
Distinguish source dependence, dynamical causes, and observational inference using a controlled example connected to SMM/DTT completion.
Read the guideModels and reality: what a successful reconstruction establishes
Assess models through assumptions, invariants, calibration, and predictions, while distinguishing SMM/DTT interpretation from physical selection.
Read the guideObserver and record: making observation part of the model
Explore observation through correlations, stable memory, predictive records, and the role of completion in a self-contained SMM/DTT model.
Read the guideThe source is not pictured as a small object occupying a location in already existing space. The question is how relations could become the observable world in the first place. Ever-renewed creation provides a language for dependence and persistence, while the formal record programme asks which distinctions survive completion and which histories an observer can tell apart.
Historical interpretation, metaphysical commitment, and physical mechanism have different standards of support. The same care is needed when discussing consciousness and freedom: a theory of records or information access does not automatically explain subjective experience. Reading these themes together shows where conceptual insight opens a research question and where a further argument or construction is needed.
Unity and multiplicity
Explore how a single generative source can be discussed without presupposing spatial location, and how retained relations provide a mathematical language for observable plurality.
Time and persistence
Compare recurrence, renewal, completed records, and event order, asking which concept is doing the explanatory work in each account of a continuing world.
Observation and experience
Distinguish a detector’s accessible information from consciousness and agency, so that connections with quantum records remain explicit proposals rather than unexamined identifications.
Continue with the articles
All 220 articles →What is Time?
A definition of time must distinguish succession, duration and observation. Simple record models show why an ordered series of events does not yet provide a physical clock or a complete predictive state.
Read article →The Contrasting Approaches of Sufism and Philosophy
Sufism and philosophy connect experience, interpretation and argument in different ways. Their comparison distinguishes the origin of an insight from its justification and explains the task of translating SMM’s ontology into explicit DTT models.
Read article →Unicity and multiplicity: the conceptual problem
Unity of source, unity of law and unity of structure are different ideas. Simple generative examples show how one rule can yield distinct records and why multiplicity requires more than assigning a single name to its origin.
Read article →The Oneness of Being
The Oneness of Being concerns dependence without erasing distinctions among manifestations. The SMM/DTT comparison connects that idea with the separate tasks of defining possible states, realized histories and persistent relational properties.
Read article →The Principle of Ever-renewed Creation
Ever-renewed creation motivates an account of persistence through changing states. Update rules, invariants and retained memory show what SMM/DTT must specify for renewed records to support recognizable objects and continuous histories.
Read article →Causality and Induction
Causality concerns dependence, while induction concerns inference from observed cases. Their distinction clarifies why temporal order and repeated records need a lawful generative relation before they support explanation and prediction.
Read article →Quantum Consciousness and Free Will
Quantum descriptions, consciousness and free will pose different explanatory problems. Record models clarify why randomness alone does not explain agency and why a proposed consciousness mechanism needs its own discriminating consequences.
Read article →One action, two temporal roles
Inner generation and outer record order can be roles of one process. A completed return becomes an observable advance only when its action respects the retained records and their tests.
Read article →Keep following the question.
The glossary explains the vocabulary; the reading paths connect the ideas; the source register points to the original arguments.