A New Dawn
The world is not really there.
Where will you be for the e v e n t ? Can you conceive of an event that exists entirely on its own, not already placed in space and time, but actually constituting it? We have learned that the observations we make in modern science do not reveal already existing facts about an already existing spacetime. They rather establish a new spacetime each time. Not an entirely new one, but one that is discontinuous, a glitch or a jump from the previous one. The event is the last point of the previous world and the first point of the upcoming one.
Time and space contract into a single point. Because of this, they can be interpreted to unfold out of the event in different ways: Either we regard them as spatiotemporal entities that have a three-dimensional place and a one-dimensional time, or we see them as inevitabilities, “located” within three-dimensional time (past, present, and future) with an adjacent single space dimension. In any case, the event is becoming our starting point, the base assumption of reality and for this, it cannot already be pre-conceived of as a physical or material entity. The event does not occur in our mind or merely out there. It is the psychophysically neutral starting point from which the various aspects of the mental, physical or other domains of reality emerge.
Dual-aspect monism is the thesis that the mental and the physical are two (epistemic) aspects of an underlying (ontic) reality that itself is neither mental nor physical but rather psychophysically neutral. [...] An important variety of dual-aspect monism regards the psychophysically neutral domain as an undivided whole that is subject to decomposition into aspects, with mind and matter being two of these.
Atmanspacher, Harald, and Dean Rickles. Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning. 1st edn. Routledge, 2022. [1]
