The Dark Rationalism Glossary Abstract Existential theorists have been working to syncretize philosophy, science, and spirituality since shortly after Galileo unknowingly initiated the schism between them. Contemporary philosophers, scientists, and theologians are still engaged in this effort, but have little to show for nearly four centuries of effort. The thesis of this article is that-despite their cooperative intentions-these theorists continue to talk past each other, due to an unacknowledged disagreement on the meaning of their overlapping terms of art. To effectively unify the divergent existential insights of philosophy, science, theism, and spirituality, it will be necessary to return to first principles. To establish an integration baseline, this article defines a diverse collection of philosophical, scientific, theistic, and spiritual expressions, in a unifying vocabulary. Keywords: epistemology; idealism; quantum mechanics, relativity theory, spirituality; theism 2 The Glossary of Terms Note: The underlined terms in each definition are explained elsewhere within this glossary.  Acceleration – The material expression of any changes identified in the angle between the objective directions of temporal, vital, or mental transformation of an observed manifestation, and those of its inertial observer; which embodies corresponding changes in the magnitude of its subjective rate of dynamic translation.  Adaptation – The emergence, within a vital body, of a new, environment-reflecting intention as an identifiable cause of its life-sustaining effects. The vital analog of memory.  Analysis – The identification of information and simple knowledge within complex knowledge.  Anger – A mental incarnation's experience of its body's impatience with its separation from that with which it desires to connect.  Angst – A mental incarnation's experience of its body's impatience with its separation from that with which it aspires to connect. Anxiety.  Appearance – An incarnation's experience of a phenomenon. See Essence, Truth.  Art – Any practice that aspires to express wisdom by revealing beauty.  Aspiration – The will to transcend, rather than simply pursue, an imperative or intention.  Asymmetric mind A configuration of self-awareness, consciousness, and self-expression, with inexistential, objective, and subjective aspects, that share it as their identity, in their unified pursuit of perfect symmetry.  Asymmetry domain – Any portion of a symmetry domain, whose contents are distinguishable in the context of its emergent attributes. 3  Attribute – An identifying asymmetry of a being or category. To categorize an entity as contextualizing a specific asymmetry.  Awareness – The capacity to identify entities.  Awe – The aspiration to understand a beautiful phenomenon.  Beauty (objective) – The categorization of bodies whose imperatives, intentions, or aspirations are identifiable as increasing the symmetry of a manifestation of their inherently conscious observer.  Beauty (subjective) – The degree of a being's harmony with the imperatives, intentions, and aspirations of its manifest conscious observer. The identifier of the path to wisdom.  Being – An entity identified within existence. Existing with an identified asymmetry.  Belief – The subjective identification of an idea as truth.  Bliss – The transcendence of happiness and pleasure.  Body – An entity's self-expression within a distinct domain. The transitive self-expression of an objective identity-retroactively through material operands of the world it expresses-as an inertial manifestation, whose subjective expressions are identifiable as either its incarnations or the causes of other effects within its environment.  Body (mental) – An inertial manifestation with an essential aspiration that is subjectively identifiable as using its awareness of this same aspiration in other mental manifestations within its universe, to shape their mutual growth toward complete self-awareness.  Body (temporal) – An inertial manifestation with an essential imperative that is subjectively identifiable as using the energy separating it from temporal symmetry to translate in that direction. 4  Body (vital) – An inertial manifestation with an essential intention that is subjectively identifiable as evolving its adapted capacities to instinctively shape its life-sustaining effects toward its emergence in an environment in which it self-perpetuates.  Cancer – The divergence of a homogenetic guest's path to self-perpetuity from that of its living host. See Infection.  Capacity – A manifestation's use of its connection to the unmanifest objective identity's self-expression within it, to pursue an imperative, intention, or aspiration.  Category – A domain of entities that are identifiable as sharing an attribute. See Space.  Causal translation (objective) – To observe a world whose present encompasses merging complementary asymmetries.  Causal translation (subjective) –To experience the alignment of effects with imperatives, intentions, or aspirations.  Causality The identification of the transformation of possibility into certainty, as being a consequence of the use of energy.  Cause – The observer-identified imperatives, intentions, and aspirations with which an effect has the greatest degree of alignment.  Certainty – The degree to which the effects that emerge from an indeterminacy are retroactively determined by its observer's objective identity. Any distinct possibility that either has manifested (positive) or can never manifest (negative), within a given world.  Change – An observed material manifestation's transformation, which is the subjective expression of its objective translation through temporal, vital, and mental indeterminacies 5 separating observer-sequenced, unmanifest possibilities. To be temporalized, vitalized, or mentalized.  Charge – A material body's expression into the space around it, as a field-the local subspace whose operators transitively express its imperatives, intentions, and aspirations.  Charge (mental) – A body's willful capacity to shape indeterminacies, expressed as its thoughts and emotions, which are identifiable as causes of transformations of possibilities into certainties, in accordance with its aspiration to grow toward complete self-awareness. A conscious body's personal values.  Charge (temporal) A body's energetic capacity to shape indeterminacies, expressed as material interactions, which are identifiable as causes of transformations of possibilities into certainties, in accordance with its imperative to translate toward a world in temporal symmetry.  Charge (vital) – A body's biotic capacity to shape indeterminacies, expressed as its instincts, which are identifiable as causes of transformations of possibilities into certainties, in accordance with its intention to evolve toward self-perpetuity. A living body's genomic expression pattern.  Choose – To take responsibility for the emergence of a particular certainty from a mental indeterminacy. Decide.  Collective unconscious – The world observed by the inexistential identity that is common to all inherently conscious observers. The Jungian noumenon extended to be analogous to Kant's transcendental imagination. See Universal consciousness, Imagination.  Compassion – Any expression of empathy that embodies love. 6  Complementary – The categorization of any configuration of asymmetric entities whose symmetry increases as their separation decreases.  Complete self-awareness The perfect symmetry, which encompasses every conceivable possibility, and is hidden by the self-attributed uniqueness of each asymmetric mind. Selfless awareness. See Perfect symmetry, Real mind, Reality.  Conceivable – Residing within the world, the inherent consciousness, or the inexistential identity of any asymmetric mind. Not necessarily existing.  Connection – The relationship between entities identified within the same category (asymmetric), or that transcend categorization (symmetric).  Consciousness The objectively internalized and subjectively embodied portion of an inexistential identity's complement that distinguishes, categorizes, sequences, counts, temporalizes, vitalizes, mentalizes, and attributes meaning to beings it observes. The basis of the aspiration to grow into the real mind.  Count – To identify the cardinality of the members of a given metrical category.  Courage – The capacity to resist fear and hatred.  Creativity – The capacity to increase the symmetry of knowledge, which enhances its utility.  Curiosity – The mental intention to reveal beauty by decreasing ignorance.  Current (extrinsic) – The translation of charged matter through material space, whose rate changes subjectively express inverse changes in its objective rate of translation through time.  Current (intrinsic) – The torque of the rotation of charged matter within material space that is the subjective expression of its objective translation along its temporal, vital, and/or mental geodesics. 7  Dark Rationalism – The hypothetical school of thought-based on the existential assertion that Unity underlies each combination of a conceivable being and its unique, perfectly complementary dual-that uses reflection to metaphysically extend physical theories, in order to generate logical conjectures explaining philosophical, scientific, and spiritual mysteries concerning the fundamental nature of reality and our role in it.  Death – The cessation of a body's predictable divergence from its causal path of least resistance.  Degrees (metrical) – The metrically operational subset of a quantifiable, sequential category that are identifiable as greater than, equal to, or less than each other, based on the cardinality of quanta that its operators express as separating each of them from its metric of size. Numeric operands.  Degrees (sequential) – The members of a quantifiable, sequential category whose identifications as greater than, equal to, and less than each other, are determined by their relative position with respect to its minimum endpoint-or any maximum endpoint-based on which reside between the others and the endpoint.  Depression – A conscious incarnation's extended experience of its body's mental inertia- the mental expression of its temporal imperative to pursue the path of least resistance.  Desire Any expression of a vital imperative to translate toward a causal body, with the intention of internalizing its usable energy, for shaping adaptations toward self-perpetuity.  Despair – The hopeless awareness of the ultimate futility of imperatives and intentions. The basis of impatience. See Equanimity.  Destiny – Each causal manifestation's transcendence of its identifying capacities, imperatives, and intentions. See Origin. 8  Devotion – A body's mental intention to sustain the object of its desire, or its aspiration to facilitate the growth of all conscious beings.  Displacement – A unique entity's expression within a space, which emerges from applying its operators to its operands.  Distance – The displacement of a material, temporal, vital, or mental space through each observing body's expression that applies local operators to its matter.  Distinguish – To identify a being informationally as a specific manifestation.  Domain – A collection of entities.  Doubt – A mental manifestation's experience of a separation between a belief and the truth. See Skepticism.  Dynamics (mental) – Each asymmetric mind's aspirational use of mental energy to connect all conscious manifestations within its universe, and facilitate the growth of each of them toward complete self-awareness, against opposition from nonaligned imperatives and intentions.  Dynamics (temporal) – Matter's imperative use of temporal energy to connect to or separate from temporal manifestations within its world, in its translation toward temporal symmetry, against opposition from nonaligned imperatives, intentions, and aspirations.  Dynamics (vital) – Each lifeform's intentional use of vital energy to connect to or separate from temporal and vital manifestations within its evironment, in its evolution toward selfperpetuity, against opposition from nonaligned imperatives, intentions, and aspirations.  Education – Any practice that aspires to increase the effectiveness of a mental manifestation's intelligence and creativity. See Indoctrination. 9  Effect – A change identified as aligned with a body's imperatives, intentions, or aspirations.  Elegance – The utility of beauty.  Emergence – The identification of an entity as having crossed the boundary into an asymmetry domain, from its encompassing symmetry domain. The hiding of a symmetry. See Transcendence.  Emotions – The expressions of a mental manifestation's intuitions, imperatives, intentions, aspirations, and memories, as inertial operators that determine the shape of its local mental space. Mental mass.  Empathy A conscious observer's extension of its self-awareness into other entities.  Energy – Dynamic operators of a causal space-whose observer is expressed in their distribution within it, and distance from their material operands-that are identifiable as translating their operands through the indeterminacies separating observer-sequenced, unmanifest possibilities. The capacity to traverse indeterminacies.  Energy (mental) – Dynamic operators that are expressions of the objective identity that mentally shapes a world, or of its embodiment therein, and are identifiable as connecting its consciousness to every other mental operand in its universe, with the aspiration of facilitating their growth through the indeterminacies separating each of them from complete selfawareness. A mental manifestation's thoughts.  Energy (temporal) – Dynamic operators that are expressions of the objective identity that temporally shapes a world, or of its embodiment therein, and are identifiable as connecting its material manifestation to other temporal operands displacing its causal space, under the 10 imperative to translate it through the indeterminacies separating it from temporal symmetry. Elementary bosons.  Energy (vital) – Dynamic operators that are expressions of the objective identity that vitally shapes a world, or of its embodiment therein, and are identifiable as connecting its living body to other vital operands in its environment, with the intention of using them to evolve through the indeterminacies separating it from self-perpetuity. A vital manifestation's heritable instincts.  Engineering – The practice of shaping effects whose transitive effects are intended to satisfy imperatives or fulfill intentions. Mental expressions that redirect energy in the service of vitality. See Technology.  Entanglement – The reciprocal temporal, vital, and mental connections that emerge from multiple objective identities observing interactions among their subjective identities, within their respective worlds, from which their shared universe retroactively emerges.  Entertainment – The category of experiences that are intended to generate happiness or pleasure.  Entity Any conceivable possibility.  Environment – The material space to which a manifestation is causally connected.  Equanimity – The aspirational awareness of the ultimate futility of imperatives and intentions. The basis of patience. See Despair.  Essence The expression of an observed being by its observer's objective identity. See Appearance, Phenomenon, Truth.  Essential complement – The domain that uniquely reflects a given essence, and with which it merges to reveal reality. 11  Evil Any practice that intentionally diverges from the mental geodesic, and therefore limits the scope of justice. The subjective categorization of any being that a mental manifestation identifies as separating it from that with which it needs, desires, or aspires to connect. See Suffering.  Evolution – The sharing of mutations within isolated populations of vital incarnations as expressions each of their bodies' intention to translate toward self-perpetuity. The vital analog of growth.  Existence – The domain containing everything necessitated by the uniqueness of any inexistential identity.  Experience – The observation of a being that subjectively identifies it as a cause of changes in a manifestation of the observer. The causal interpretation of objective, retroactive determinism.  Explanation – The transformation of information into objective knowledge.  Expression [Self-] – Any reflection of an [entire] entity that emerges from the operators within a space or domain that it shapes. See Information, Knowledge.  Externalize An observer's identification of a being as distinct from its identity. See Observation.  Fact – An idea that is a constituent of an epistemological framework.  Faith – A belief whose justification is a mystery.  Fear – The mental imperative to translate away from a potential source of suffering.  Field (dynamic) – Any charge's expression within its local space, as a sub-space whose temporal, vital, or mental energy operators are identifiable as transitively expressing effects 12 that align any other causally relatable charges within it, with specific imperatives, intentions, or aspirations of the source charge. The capacity of a material operand's charge to be identified as exerting force on relatably charged matter, which translates it through specific indeterminacies separating observer-sequenced, unmanifest possibilities.  Field (inertial) – Any matter's expression within its local space, as a sub-space shaped by its identity-reflecting inertial operators, which are identified as exerting force on all other matter within it.  Force – Any use of energy by specifically charged matter, which expresses a field that is identified as a cause of particular certainties emerging from possible indeterminacies in an observer's future, in alignment with the imperatives, intentions, or aspirations of the field's source.  Framework (epistemological) – A distinct configuration of facts assembled in accordance with the mental intention to identify the truth.  Framework (existential) – A distinct configuration of wisdom assembled in accordance with the aspiration to explain reality.  Free will – The self-identification of a mental manifestation as having the capacity to choose-independently of the shaper of its world-which unmanifest possibility in a causal indeterminacy, manifests as a certainty.  Friendship – A mental manifestation's awareness of another's contributions to its growth.  Frustration – A mental incarnation's experience of its body's impatience with its separation from that with which it needs to connect. 13  Future – The temporal identification of the inherent consciousness of an objective identity, by its subjective identity, and all other mental manifestations within the world it shapes. See Past, Present.  Genius – The creative intelligence from which wisdom emerges.  Geodesic (mental) – Each conscious manifestation's shortest, aspirational path through the indeterminacies separating it from complete self-awareness.  Geodesic (temporal) – Each causal manifestation's shortest, imperative-driven path through the indeterminacies separating it from temporal symmetry; any predictable divergence from this path of least resistance identifies the manifestation as also being alive or conscious.  Geodesic (vital) – Each living manifestation's shortest, intentional path to fulfillment through the indeterminacies separating it from self-perpetuity.  God – The identification of the all-encompassing real mind-the perfect symmetry that transcends existence, uniqueness, and consciousness-which encompasses the identification of the unique universal consciousness residing with each world-shaping, inherently conscious objective identity, whose self-expression is the interiority of a distinct subjective identity that manifests as a sequence of conscious bodies, summarizing its memories of the world it shapes. The most persistent of conscious spirits whose objective conceivability or subjective embodiments are the justification of the beliefs that identify their followers.  Gratitude – A conscious observer's expression of an observed manifestation's beauty. Prayer or worship.  Growth The transformation of consciousness into greater self-awareness, which is subjectively experienced as the increasing empathy that reveals the path to bliss. 14  Guilt – The negative effects of a mental manifestation's self-identification as a cause of a body's separation from that with which it needs, desires, or aspires to connect. See Responsibility.  Habit – Any practice that is an expression of a recurring imperative. See Meditation, Ritual.  Happiness An incarnation's satisfied experience of a lack of need for change, which is its body's expression of a decrease in its temporal stress. See Pleasure.  Harmony – Symmetric alignment.  Hatred – A mental body's expression of its impatience with any being that it identifies as persistently separating it from that with which it needs or desires to connect.  History The causal portion of the world expressed by an objective identity that any of its incarnations experienced. See Future, Past, Present.  Hope – A mental manifestation's awareness of its destiny to transcend its causal origin.  Human condition (the) – The growth of hominids-a distinct category of mental manifestations-through their body's conflicting intuitions, imperatives, intentions, and ideas that will end with their transcendence of their causal origins.  Hypothesis – A justifiable opinion.  Idea – A mental manifestation's expression of an intuition.  Idealism The school of philosophical thought based on the premise that the logical consistency of reality has a mental foundation.  Identify – To attribute an identity to an entity.  Identity – The name that identifies an entity. 15  Ignorance – The separation between a mental manifestation and objective knowledge, where its doubts about the truth of its beliefs and opinions reside.  Imagination – The self-expression of an inherently conscious objective identity within its subjective identity's sequence of bodies as their interiority, which embodies their mentality.  Imperative – A need of a material body, with which it is identifiable as using the energy of its environment to align effects.  Impossible – The categorization of entities that can never manifest in the world of a given objective observer, which collectively embody its inexistential identity.  Incarnation – The retroactive self-expression of a predecessor objective identity. The causal self-expression of an inertial body as a dynamically charged manifestation that emerged from it experiencing the expressions of certain relatably charged bodies within its environment.  Incarnation (mental) – An inertial body's memories of itself that extend from the causal emergence of its consciousness to its previous thought.  Incarnation (temporal) – An inertial body's material history that extends from its causal origin to its prior temporal interaction.  Incarnation (vital) – An inertial body's adaptation history that extends from its first selfsustaining divergence from the causal path of least resistance to its most recent vital experience.  Indeterminacy – A material possibility from which multiple, observer-distinguishable certainties can emerge.  Indoctrination – Any practice that limits a mental manifestation's intelligence and creativity to a specific epistemological framework. See Education. 16  Inertia – A material body's capacity to resist change.  Inexistence – The categorizing asymmetry of every entity residing beyond existence.  Inexistential identity – The portion of an unmanifest observer that embodies every entity that can never manifest within its world. Any entity whose uniqueness necessitates the existence of all other entities.  Infection – The divergence of any of its guests' imperatives, intentions or aspirations from a host's identifying causal geodesic.  Information – The observer-reflecting separations that fundamentally distinguish the manifestation of an observed being. The categorization of knowledge. See Knowledge.  Inherent consciousness – The possibilities within the objective identity of an asymmetric mind-the portion of its inexistential identity's complement that it internalized-residing beyond the manifest world it shapes through essential reflection. A noumenon that is analogous to Husserl's pure consciousness.  Instincts – Vital intentions.  Instincts (mutated) – The expressions of a vital manifestation's imperatives and intentions as inertial operators that are identifiable as mutations that determine the shape of its local vital space. Vital mass.  Instincts (evolved) – The expressions of a vital manifestation's imperatives and intentions as dynamic operators that are identifiable as having translated it through specific indeterminacies that separated its unmanifest, vital possibilities within its objective identity. Vital energy.  Intelligence – The capacity to transform information into knowledge. 17  Intention – A body's desire whose work is based on predictable divergences from the causal path of least resistance, and so is identifiable as decreasing the vital and mental energies available for use in the pursuit of it.  Internalize – An observer extending its identity to encompass an observed entity.  Intuition A mental manifestation's use of its imagination to contextualize the original- though conceivably irrational-insights that constitute its objective identity's self-expression within it.  Joy – A conscious observer's experience of an observed manifestation's beauty.  Justice – Willful effects aligned with decreases in every conscious body's separation from that with which they each aspire to connect. Each conscious being's expression of its intrinsic purpose. See Vengeance.  Justification – The alignment of an idea with a specific epistemological or existential framework.  Knowledge The observer-reflecting connections by which observed beings are mentally internalized. The categorization of information. See Information.  Law of science – A theory that codifies the predictability of the effects that can be experienced by the successors to the observer of a recurring causal indeterminacy. The rational identification of a spirit. See Spirit.  Life The predictable divergence of an inertial body from its causal path of least resistance, using energy that it extracts from its environment to evolve toward self-perpetuity. The meaningless interplay of need and desire. 18  Logic – A rational epistemological framework that aligns ideas with facts, and premises with conclusions.  Logical Enlightenment – The wisdom aspired to by any framework in the Dark Rationalism School of existential thought.  Love The empathic experience of increasing proximity to completeness, shared by complementary conscious beings as their separation decreases. The identifier of the aspirational path of all asymmetric minds.  Lust A body's vital intention to obligate the object of its desire to its evolution toward selfperpetuity. The vital analog of devotion.  Manifestation – The categorizing asymmetry of any entity that exists within the world of its observer.  Mass – The observed result of any tangible space's inertial operators that materially distinguish their operands by expressing the kinematic size and shape of the distance separating them. A causal manifestation's experience of a body's temporal, vital, or mental inertia.  Material space – The domain bounded by the material membranes of observer-sequenced, metrical spaces, through which matter is subjectively identified as having translated, and in which the torque of each elementary particle's intrinsic rotation expresses its objective capacity to translate along its temporal, vital, and mental geodesics. A universe's appearance domain that represents the transformational record of all of its measurable changes.  Mathematics – The practice of identifying quantifying categories, sequences, operators, and operands. 19  Matter – Any metrical operands of a universe's inertial or dynamic operators-the spatial distributions of which are expressions of the space's observer-whose separations are tangible distances.  Meaning – The difference that an observed being can make in the aspirations of its conscious observer.  Measurement – An objective record of an experience.  Meditation – Any practice that is an expression of a conscious observer's aspiration, which maximizes its equanimity by limiting its frustration, anger, and angst. See Habit, Ritual.  Membrane (material) – The border of a world's material domain that separates the tangible from intangible, and within which all of its matter manifests. The boundary of a universe.  Memory – A conscious observer's awareness that the past exists, and contains certainties whose transformations from possibilities shaped its history. The experiences attributed to any mental incarnation of an inherently conscious objective identity.  Mentalize To identify a being as having memory, which underlies its body's aspiration to grow toward complete self-awareness.  Metrical – Countable.  Miracle An effect with no identifiable, manifest cause.  Modal Idealism A Dark Rationalism framework that applies modal logic to transcendental idealism to explain the nature of reality, and the structure of the mind, by identifying the purpose of the latter in the context of the former.  Morality – The category of degrees to which practices can align with the aspirations of all mental manifestations. The basis of justice. 20  Mortality – A body's vital expression of its separation from self-perpetuity. The basis of the vital intention to evolve.  Mutation – The emergence of a random heritable effect in a vital incarnation as an expression of its body's intention to evolve toward self-perpetuity.  Mystery The information that identifies the inexplicable.  Mysticism – The irrational belief that there are mysteries that can never be explained. The sanctification of existential ignorance as an argument in support of theism, which underlies the mental imperative to reveal the beauty of reality in order to identify our intrinsic purpose.  Name – The identification of the domain of attributes that fully categorizes an entity's asymmetry.  Necessary – The category of possibilities whose existence embodies their observer's unique self-identification as a complementary domain of impossibilities-whose inexistence it also identifies as such.  Need Any imperative to use energy to translate toward a world in temporal symmetry.  Noumenon – Any unmanifest entity that expresses itself in the manifest certainties of the world it observes. See Objective identity, Phenomenon, Spirit.  Objective – The categorizing asymmetry of manifestations with worldwide identity invariance.  Objective identity – An unmanifest observer that expresses itself in every manifest certainty, by embodying all of its world's possibilities and impossibilities. A noumenon analogous to Kant's transcendental ego. See Noumenon, Soul. 21  Obligation – An externally imposed imperative or intention. The work of a manifestation that is intended to sustain that which effectively lusts for it, or to appease that which it fears.  Observation – A unique entity's expression of a being as distinct from it. See Externalize.  Operand – A manifestation to which the application of an operator expresses its observer in its local displacement within its encompassing space.  Operator – An essential identifier of translational or rotational displacement that expresses its observer in the metrical space of its operands. An inexistential entity's uniqueness, which embodies the axis of reflection that differentiates it from its perfect complement.  Opinion – The subjective expression of an idea as fact.  Orientation – The configuration of geodesic displacements from a given manifestation to each of the beings within the space they share.  Origin – The emergence of a causal being's identifying capacities, imperatives, intentions, and aspirations. See Destiny.  Particle – A material sub-space comprising a persistent combination of identifying charges that manifests as a single body.  Past – The causal portion of the world expressed by an objective identity that its inertial body is not directly experiencing. See Future, History, Present.  Patience – A conscious body's expression of its equanimity.  Peace – A mental incarnation's experience of harmony among its body's imperatives, intentions, and aspirations. See Stress. 22  Perfect symmetry The primal nothingness, embodied as the foundational indistinguishability of all conceivable possibilities, and identifiable as their transformational invariance. See Complete self-awareness, Real mind, Reality.  Persistent – The tendency of an identifiable manifestation to recur continually within a sequence. The categorization of noumena whose expressions are continually recurring effects.  Person – The constituents of an inherently conscious observer's subjective identity, who have capacities, imperatives, intentions, aspirations, and memories in common. A mental manifestation that is analogous to Kant's empirical ego.  Perspective – A conscious being's knowledge of its world.  Phenomenon – A body's identification of an essence within its environment. See Appearance, Essence, Noumenon.  Philosophy The practice that works to identify truth, and explain reality, by developing sound arguments that draw logical conclusions from rational premises, derived from intuitive ideas regarding the human condition. The categorization of the wisdom revealed by this practice.  Physicalism – The hypothesis that reality is an objective, tangible domain comprising only manifest causal space, time, matter, and energy, in which all life, minds, and the effects thereof emerge. Materialism.  Pleasure An incarnation's fulfilled experience of a lack of desire for change, which is its body's expression of a decrease in its vital stress. See Happiness.  Possible The modality of the totality of reality, or of any conceivable being that can manifest within an observer's world of certainties. 23  Practice – A recurring expression of will.  Predictability – The identification of the regularity of a recurring sequence.  Present The causal portion of the world expressed by an objective identity that its inertial body is directly experiencing. See Future, Past.  Proof – The logical argument that justifies the identification of an idea as fact.  Purpose Each observed being's contribution to its conscious observers' growth toward complete self-awareness.  Quantum – The smallest operand within a given metrical space.  Random – The categorization of each succession of manifestations that does not correspond to any possible countable or predictable sequence.  Rational metaphysics – The identifying categorization of any philosophical framework based on the principle that each conceivable unique observer, within the perfect symmetry, embodies a hidden asymmetry that it expresses in the domain it observes, through an existential or essential reflection. Any logical synthetic reasoning that generates a priori existential knowledge.  Rationalism The practice that intends to identify truth, by transforming the information that identifies a mystery into knowledge that explains it, through an analysis of it in the context of an epistemological framework.  Real mind The original identity of each asymmetric mind that its growth toward complete self-awareness ultimately reveals. The noumenon that is analogous to Hegel's Absolute Spirit. See Complete self-awareness, Perfect symmetry, Reality. 24  Reality – The complete unification of a conceivable essence and its essential complement, which reveals the perfect symmetry and transcends existence. See Complete self-awareness, Perfect symmetry, Real mind.  Reflection (essential) – The essential uniqueness operator through which an objective identity expresses its phenomenal world-its perfect complement-and whose inverse merges them to reveal reality. The core idea of modal idealism.  Reflection (existential) – The foundational uniqueness operator through which an inexistential identity expresses its existential domain-its perfect complement-and whose inverse merges them to reveal the perfect symmetry. The core principle of Dark Rationalism.  Religion – A system of shared beliefs and rituals that aspires to collective equanimity.  Responsibility – A mental manifestation's self-identification as the cause of the alignment of effects with its internally generated imperatives, intentions, and aspirations.  Responsible agency A mental manifestation's universe-shaping capacity to choose.  Ritual – A practice that is an expression of the mental intention to reinforce a shared belief or personal value. See Habit, Meditation.  Rotation – An operation that expresses a uniform change in an operand's orientation with respect to all other beings within the space they share. See Translation.  Sadness – A mental incarnation's experience of its body's sorrow.  Sanctified – Any manifestation that is identified as being in harmony with the will that shaped its world. Sacred.  Science The practice that works to identify truth and explain reality, by applying quantitative speculation to intuitive ideas, to develop theories that map recurring 25 indeterminacies to metrical sequences, and empirically confirms the symmetry of their alignment, by using the latter to predict or retrodict the former. The categorization of the insights that emerge from this practice.  Self-awareness A mind's self-identification whose completeness is hidden from it by its attribution of uniqueness to itself.  Self-perpetuity The environmental immortality that is the ultimate effect of life's evolutionary work to survive.  Separation – The relationship between the members of distinguishable categories.  Sequence – A collinear domain of either predictably or randomly aligned manifestations.  Sin – The moral categorization of practices that prioritize the pursuit of needs and desires over their transcendence, and therefore prolong the world's suffering.  Skepticism – The awareness of the separation between a belief and the truth. See Doubt.  Sorrow – A mental body's expression of the identified persistence of its separation from that, with which it needs, desires, or aspires to connect.  Soul – Any inherently conscious objective identity whose self-expression is the interiority of the mental manifestations that constitute its subjective identity. Any persistent spirit that is also embodied as a manifestation within the world it observes. See Objective identity, Spirit.  Space – Any manifest domain in which an asymmetry is identifiable. See Category.  Space (causal) – The configuration of inertial distances, separating the manifestations within a tangible domain, whose shapes reflect the effects of its causal bodies' temporal, vital, and mental masses on each other. The configuration of dynamic distances separating successive 26 instances of each causal body within distinct observer-sequenced, tangible domains, whose shapes reflect the effects of their contents' temporal, vital and mental energies on each other.  Spirit A noumenal entity embodied as either sustained or recurring cooperation among causal manifestations.  Spirituality – Any system of beliefs and practices that aspires to generate persistent equanimity and explain reality, using wisdom derived from the noumenal coherence underlying sustained or recurring cooperation among temporal, vital, and mental manifestations. The categorization of the wisdom revealed by such a system.  Stress – A manifestation's imperatives and intentions that are in opposition with each other, or with its aspirations. See Peace.  Subjective – The categorizing asymmetry of manifestations with worldwide identity variability.  Subjective identity The sequence of embodiments of an inherently conscious observer's self-identification as a manifest mind with a distinct history.  Suffering – A mental manifestation's experience of recurring negative effects of the persistence of its separation from that with which it needs, desires, or aspires to connect. See Evil.  Symmetry domain – A collection of entities that are indistinguishable with respect to the attributes that emerge in any asymmetry domain within it.  Tangible The categorization of any metrical manifestation's attributes that embody its imperatives, intentions, and aspirations, and so are identifiable as causes or effects within its environment. Any space containing such manifestations. See Membrane.  Technology – Effects that are expressions of engineering. See Engineering. 27  Temporal symmetry – The state identifying any environment that contains no usable energy.  Temporalize To identify a metrical manifestation as residing within an environment where it embodies imperatives to use energy to translate toward a world in temporal symmetry.  Theism – The belief in the existence of persistent conscious noumena that caused the phenomenal world; and can express themselves in effects there.  Theology The practice that aspires to explain our existential origin, purpose, and destiny in the context of the primal noumena that facilitate all temporal, vital, and mental cooperation, based on an existential framework comprising spiritual texts and commentaries that are identified as their writers' divinely inspired insights and revelations.  Theory – A falsifiable fact.  Thoughts – The expressions of a mental manifestation's intuitions, imperatives, intentions, aspirations, and memories, as dynamic operators retroactively identifiable as having translated their conscious operands through particular indeterminacies that separated their unmanifest, mental possibilities within its objective identity. Mental energy.  Time The transformations that traversed observer-sequenced unmanifest indeterminacies, which retroactively form the material space containing a manifestation to which their objective observer has attributed its identity. The temporal, vital, and mental indeterminacies within a given objective identity that separate the predictable, transformational sequences involving its possible manifestations, and therefore embody the unmanifest possibilities that are identifiable as causally shaping particular manifest certainties. See Material space.  Transcendence – The identification of an entity as having left a given asymmetry domain, for an encompassing symmetry domain. The revelation of a symmetry. See Emergence. 28  Transformation – The material record of any operation that traversed the indeterminacies separating unmanifest possibilities, by translating the identities of its operands through temporal, vital, and mental space.  Translation Any operation that expresses a non-uniform, change in an operand's orientation with respect to all other manifestations within the space they share. See Rotation.  Translation (mental) – A body's self-expression of its mental incarnation through the imperative, intentional, and aspirational stages of consciousness toward a domain of pure bliss.  Translation (temporal) – A body's expression of its temporal incarnation through the fields of other charged bodies, toward a world in temporal symmetry, which resides beyond all such fields.  Translation (vital) A body's expression of its vital incarnation through evolving cycles of the stages of mortality-inception, symbiosis, individuation, maturation, reproduction, senescence, and expiration-toward an environment in which it resides beyond the reach of death.  Truth – An objective identity's knowledge of an observed essence within its world. All objective knowledge of a world. See Appearance, Essence, Phenomenon.  Understanding – The process through which a mental manifestation internalizes knowledge of beings, by transforming its separation from them into a connection, with the intention of decreasing its ignorance. The transformation of curiosity about a domain into an identification of its beauty. 29  Uniqueness – An entity's axis of reflection across which it expresses its complement as the domain it observes. The necessitation of the existence of the complementary domain observed by an inexistential entity.  Universal consciousness – The inexistential identity that is shared by every conceivable asymmetric mind, and so is the source of all meaning in reality. The noumenon that shapes the categories of Kant's transcendental imagination, to form the collective unconscious. See Collective unconscious.  Universe – A domain of worlds that are causally entangled through the retroactive, historymerging intersection of their observers' objective identities.  Unmanifest – The categorization of each noumenon residing beyond the manifest world it shapes through essential reflection.  Usable energy The capacity to traverse indeterminacies in an observer's future, which decreases with each predictable effect that its causal manifestation experiences, and increases with each effect that emerges, without an identifiable cause from the observer's objective identity. The operators of the material space traversed by imperatives, intentions, and aspirations.  Utility – The degree to which a manifestation aligns with all of the temporal, vital, and mental geodesics in a universe.  Value (extrinsic) – A conscious observer's identification of the utility of a being, which embodies its worth to other observers.  Value (intrinsic) – The intersection of internally generated imperatives, intentions, or aspirations of a mental manifestation. Mental charge. 30  Velocity – The material expression of the angle between the objective directions of temporal, vital, or mental transformation of an observed manifestation, and those of its inertial observer.  Vengeance – A mental manifestation's intention to maintain or increase another's separation from that with which it needs or desires to connect, as a consequence of the former, or its proxy, identifying the latter as having intentionally, and unjustifiably, done the same to it. See Justice.  Vitalize To attribute to a temporal body, a self-sustaining intention to diverge predictably from its causal path of least resistance, in an evolutionary pursuit of self-perpetuity.  Wave – The transformational probability distribution that embodies a given manifestation's possible material state changes, and resides within its observer's objective identity.  Will – A mind's choices that align effects with its body's imperatives, intentions, or aspirations.  Wisdom – The symmetric connections that extend beyond the objective knowledge of a given world, to explain reality.  Work – A body's reaction to effects as aligning with its imperatives, intentions, or aspirations.  World The portion of the complement of an inexistential identity that its objective identity externalizes-and shapes to reflect the internalized portion-as the observational reference frame that is its subjective identity's domain of manifest certainties. 31 Conclusion The primary objective of this glossary to make the theorists in each existential field, aware that their terms of art have meanings in the other fields. It represents a potential first step-in a unified language-toward the syncretizing of philosophy, science, theism, and spirituality. The predictable lack of agreement on these definitions may at first seem to imply that this is a step backward. However, if this disagreement produces work toward a consensus on the meaning of these terms, that will be a step in the right direction. University of Chicago, USA