The primary goal of the typical nonfiction book is to convey insights into a subject of interest to a narrow demographic group, while also affirming the thought leadership of its author(s). Conversely, the target audience for A Concise Theory of Truly Everything includes everyone seeking objective rational knowledge of reality and our existential origin, intrinsic purpose, and ultimate destiny therein. Its author is a business and technology analyst, toiling away in a metaphorical patent office synthesizing—seemingly without the appropriate credentials—evolutionary insights at the leading edge of a revolution in existential thought.
I have a compassionate zeal for sharing my logical existential knowledge with every open-minded person whose curiosity is great enough to entitle them to rational enlightenment. Accordingly, the aspiration of A Concise Theory of Truly Everything is to characterize all of reality in the context of modal idealism, a new school of existential thought that logically aligns with our contemporary philosophical, scientific, and spiritual knowledge.
Although modal idealism is a comprehensive philosophical framework that spans diverse, complex areas of study, the only prerequisites for comprehending its principles are an open mind, a hunger for existential knowledge, and the capacity to follow straightforward lines of abstract reasoning. This book will provide everything else you need to know along the way to rationally answering our foundational existential questions.
In the course of developing modal idealism, I have probably gored a few sacred cows in the form of widely embraced reductionist theories, self-limiting conjectures, and paradoxical doctrines. However, since none of these alternate schools of ontological, teleological, or eschatological thought can generate objective existential answers comparable to those that emerge from modal idealism, any disagreements between them would figure to favor my framework, as long as it remains consistent with our subjective experiences.
Nonetheless, I remain open to any proposal of a simpler, internally consistent theory that rationally answers our existential questions; because my ultimate goal is not to be right, it is to find the best answers. To my rationalist mind, any framework that provides simpler, contextually consistent answers, has more explanatory power, while requiring fewer brute facts, and no magical thinking, is closer to the truth.
Modal idealism integrates my informational, epistemological, sequential, metrical, temporal, vital, and mental analysis of mainstream philosophical, scientific, and spiritual principles, into a school of thought that rationally explains our existential origin, intrinsic purpose, and ultimate destiny in a meaningful manner.
Our lack of these rational existential insights keeps us from a consensus on the true nature of reality and our role within it. Accordingly, many of us perceive our world to be capricious and ultimately tragic, when in the context of modal idealism it is neither.
Grasping the knowledge that will dispel this pessimistic perception will require liberation from the existential ignorance underlying it. To facilitate this freedom, this framework provides ontological, teleological, and eschatological insights that are consistent with what we already know about the world, and logically explain what has been, until now, inexplicable.
A Concise Theory of Truly Everything is not pushing a religious agenda. Nor is it a secular screed against all things religious. It is simply the result of an extensive effort to develop a framework providing long-sought-after rational answers to our principal existential questions. It stands in unwavering opposition to the sanctification of our existential ignorance, as embodied in the core mystical tenet that there are no logical solutions to our deepest mysteries.
Modal idealism does not share the inherent mistrust of subjectivity that characterizes the classical orthodoxy of the physical sciences. This suspicion manifests as a tendency to marginalize the role of consciousness in our world. By logically contextualizing consciousness—while marginalizing mysticism—this framework describes a logical reality in which existence can be meaningful and purposeful without with reaching a level irrationality that requires mysticism to legitimize it.
The target audience for A Concise Theory of Truly Everything comprises agile thinkers who have spent time contemplating the meaning of their existence. My aspiration in writing it was to make its logical contents accessible to the members of the broader public who hunger for knowledge that can rationally explain the underlying necessity of everything that is; and who believe such existential insights can make a significant positive difference in their lives, and ultimately our world.
A consequence of my aspiration to be concise is that this text embodies a concentrated form of my thesis. The first draft of this manuscript, which I mined to produce this one, was over twice as long as the final product. I left some potentially illuminating digressions behind in that initial version that may yet see the light of day, if there is sufficient interest out there.
The title of this book is “A Concise Theory of Truly Everything”, rather than “THE Concise Theory of Truly Everything”, because its contents represent my abductive attempt to integrate our most promising mainstream existential frameworks; it is not based on any revolutionary new insights into the foundational nature of reality. This text summarizes the results of my search through our diverse, comprehensive schools of existential thought, for a configuration of them that can rationally solve our greatest mysteries.