# Flove · Paper 1 — Metaphysics

> Synthesis of the metaphysical core of flove. Sources: `0Metaphysics.pdf`,
> `Slides26.2.pdf` (slides §METAPHYSICS), `Confluentism25.10.odt`,
> `Confluentisms25.10.pdf`, `Compatibilism25.10.odt`, `Floves25.4.odt`.
>
> The slides are the densest source — when in doubt, the slides win, and
> this paper paraphrases their argument in linear prose.

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## 1. The three founding questions

Flove organises *everything* around three questions and their three matching
sub-fields of metaphysics:

| Question | Sub-field | Asks about |
|---|---|---|
| **WHY** is there something instead of nothing? | **Teleology** | last source, intention |
| **WHAT** is the something? | **The·Ontology** (`The` + `Onto` + `logy`) | being, substance |
| **HOW** does it operate? | **MathyLogic** | rules, measure, analogy |

These three are not stacked; they are **fractaled** — every other field
(physics, biology, linguistics, psicosocial …) recurses the same WHY/WHAT/HOW
inside itself. The sprout is the visual mark of that recursion.

A fourth implicit question — **WHO** — is reserved for the human/relational
register and is what flove calls "love": the relational name for whatever
holds confluences together.

## 2. Determinism, Free Will, and Compatibilism

The slides set up the canonical metaphysical dilemma as a square:

```
            DETERMINISM (continuum, simple, stable, certain, "God exists")
                        ↑
        COMPATIBILISM ←—•—→  ANTIDETERMINISM
                        ↓
            FREE WILL    (rupture, complex, dynamic, uncertain, "God doesn't")
```

Flove's stance is **Compatibilism is the more fundamental confluence**, and
it fractals into all other fields starting from the metaphysics ones inside
their own fundamentals. The rejection runs both ways: pure determinism
("God exists") cannot be proven; pure free will ("God doesn't") cannot
either; both fail Gödel-style systemic incompleteness and the
measurement problem.

The compatibilist stance therefore is: **we cannot fully prove either
pole, and this very impossibility is itself the structure of reality**.

## 3. Confluentism — the master paradigm

**Confluentism** is flove's name for the metaphysical paradigm:

> Reality is a *confluence* of bipolar opposites that complexify and
> simplify simultaneously, never reaching either the Simplest or the
> Complexest.

Key axioms (paraphrased from the slides):

1. **Bipolar Fractal Holism** — every whole is a pair of complements
   (micro/macro, past/future, simple/complex, certain/uncertain), and
   every part inside it is itself such a pair.
2. **Simplexity** — `simple + complex = simplex`. Reality is more
   *simplifiable* than *simplest*, and more *complexifiable* than
   *complexest*.
3. **InEvolution** — evolution is *also* involution: as the macro grows
   more complex, the micro it sits on grows more simple.
   Cells became more dissipated, organisms more concentrated.
4. **Equivalent-while-varied bipoles** — opposites are equivalent in
   weight (yin-yang) but vary in expression. There is no "one true pole."
5. **Influence-Determine-Create-Simplify** — four operators that link
   micro→macro and macro→micro in a confluent loop.

A short formula from the deck:

> *We-all are a Micro&Macro INFLUENCED-DETERMINED CONFLUENCE that CREATE
> BIFLUENTLY COMPLEXIFY & SIMPLIFY in two opposite ways at the same time.*

## 4. The teleology square

Teleology in flove is the WHY question — "what intention underlies this
fine-tuning?" The slides arrange teleologies on a 2×2:

```
                FINE                    FATAL
                (best)                  (worst)
              ┌──────────────────────────────────┐
COMPATIBLE   │  COMPATIBILISM                    │
              │  STABLE  PERFECT  IDEAL  BENEVOL. │
              │                                   │
ANTI-COMPAT  │              RANDOM                │
              │  TRIVIAL  ABANDONED  RESIDUAL     │
              │  HIJACKED  EXCEPTIONAL  COMPLIC.  │
              │  EXPERIMENTAL  INDETERMINISTIC    │
              └──────────────────────────────────┘
              DETERMINISTIC          ANTIDETERMINISTIC
```

Theologies fit on this square: Pantheism / Monotheism on the deterministic
side, Atheism / Pandeism on the antideterministic side, with Compatibilism
as the centre.

The **MONOTHEISM(S) → FATALISMS** vector is criticised throughout: Judaism,
Christianism, Islamism are read as Soft-Fatalist fixings of a confluentist
truth — antithesis-feeling-Messiah, Satan/Rage, Murdered, Non-muslims/
Revenge/Warlord. Flove proposes returning these to a confluentist frame.

## 5. The·Ontology — Bipolar substance

The·Ontology (in flove's spelling — to mark theology as a special case
of ontology) treats substance bipolarly:

- **Wider Substance** = `Concentrated · Dissipated`
- **Inner / Outer / Object / Others / Outher** as a chain of widening
  recursive prepositions (slides repeat *I(NNER) ≈ OUTER ≈ OBJECT ≈
  OTHERS ≈ OUTHER*). Every "thing" is its inner relation seen from
  outside.
- **Bitheism** — the soul/god pair. The Bitheism poem-song expresses
  this in vocal form.
- **TaxoSouls / Taxonomy** — categorising souls as bipolar pairs rather
  than monads.

## 6. MathyLogic — How operates

MathyLogic = (Meta)Mathematics + (Meta)Logic. It contains:

- **Intuitionism** (per `Intuitionism25.10.odt`): the operative logic
  flove prefers — we *intuitively grasp* relations before formalising
  them. Constructive over classical.
- **Dimensionality** (slides §SCIENCE) — flove proposes **2 powered N**
  as the fundamental dimensional skeleton: 2D base (length × height),
  2² for adding width, 2³ for adding time, etc., reaching `8D+` in
  the infinite limit. There is "no 3D as fundamental"; 3D is just
  `2² with time as 3rd vector`.
- **Analogizing** is the master operation — `Analogizar.mp3` is its
  vocal emblem. Mathylogic is *analogical computation*.

## 7. The fractal applied to monotheism (a worked example)

The slides walk this case carefully:

```
           MICRO                                     MACRO
DETERMINISM ────── ATOM ── PLANT ── HUMAN ──────── MACRO
            ↑ POLYTHEISM   MONOTHEISM   MODERNISM
            EARTH         SUN          UNIVERSE
```

> *"In a bigger macro we look more capable, so our antideterministic
> perception gets bigger too. While within a smaller micro, our
> indeterministic perception increases too."*

Theology is therefore **scale-relative**: each civilisation's god-image
is calibrated to the macro it can perceive. Flove's confluentism is the
paradigm that lets all of them coexist as cross-sections of one
bipolar fractal.

## 8. Metaphysical flaws flove explicitly criticises

From the deck's "Resume of Popular Metaphysical Flaws within the
Achademia":

1. **Anthropic Principle** is a misnomer for teleologies; Confluentism
   is the cleaner name for the *Strong Participatory Anthropic*.
2. **Freedom & Will** are Rupturist-Specist — they assume only humans
   are undetermined. Free will should be a degree on the bipolar axis,
   not a special exemption.
3. **Fine-Tuning vs Uncertainty** — uncertainty is over-applied to
   teleology when it should apply to observation. Determinism is
   wrongly used for reductionism.
4. **Missing-Links / Unpredictability** — used to push *random* as a
   sole teleological option, ignoring confluentism.

## 9. One-line operational rule

> **When in doubt, simplexify.** Find the bipolar pair that holds the
> phenomenon, and choose the simpler-but-still-bipolar formulation.
> "Simplification is the last step of sophistication, and the first step
> for big explanations." — Da Vinci, quoted by the deck.

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## Cross-references for AI consultations

When a user query touches **why-questions, intent, fate, free will, god,
meaning, purpose**, this paper is the right one. Pair with:

- `papers/3_linguistics.md` (when the question is about how the concept is
  *named*).
- `tables/FloveTables25.12.ods` for the canonical bipolar pairs.
- `slides/Slides26.2.txt` lines 1–1100 for the visual derivation.
