Summary

Summary

There are three main branches in the tree of knowledge:

• Direct Representation
• Universal Representation
• Indirect Representation
  

Logic, set theory, mathematics, information, and human communication are all forms of indirect representation.

Formal systems are incomplete because they are indirect representations. Indirect representations cannot represent themselves or anything else directly.

Direct representation is complete and consistent. Direct representations can represent themselves and all that they represent directly.

Everything that physically exists in the universe is represented by a direct representation. This includes the physical existence of neurons and the process of abstract thought, including the thought process that led to the human development of indirect representation. Direct representation led to universal representation which led humanity to the development of indirect representation.

Many of the “unsolved” mysteries and complexities encountered in the physical sciences are due to our attempts to represent complete, direct, context-dependent phenomena using incomplete, indirect, context- free representations. Things are a lot simpler if viewed from the correct perspective using the correct representation.

Existence is a direct representation based on nilpotent symmetric differences in nonexistence. Nilpotent symmetric differences in nonexistence represent all bosons and fermions and all energy relations between bosons and fermions.

It is impossible to destroy nonexistence. This suggests the existence of a new fundamental physical law for the conservation of nonexistence. The conservation of nonexistence is the first cause of symmetry, the cause of energy, the cause of matter, the cause of the conservation of energy, the cause of all forces, and the cause of the evolution of existence.

Universal representation is the most powerful and most compact of the three classes of representation. It is direct and indirect, intensional and extensional, context dependent and context free, and complete and consistent. It is based on the direct representation of the ontology and process of abstraction. The direct representation and process of abstraction represents abstractions and concepts directly and indirectly. It also represents the relation between intensional meaning and extensional existence, and does so in context across all levels of abstraction. It converts the external indirect representation of information to and from the direct internal representation of thought and knowledge.