Telesis

In the CTMU, telesis is the universal substance from which reality is refined. Telesis is the raw material of cosmogony, the ultimate ancestral medium from which the universe originates.

Telesis can be bound or unbound. Unbound telesis (UBT) consists of pure ontological potential, characterized by nil constraint, zero information, and total freedom. When bound, telesis becomes infocognition, the structured, dual-aspect substance of which reality consists. To be clear:

CTMU monism says that the universe consists of one “dual-aspect” substance, infocognition, created by internal feedback within an even more basic (one-aspect) substance called telesis.

Thus, whereas UBT consists of infocognitive potential, a specific reality (SCSPL) consists of infocognition. Once bound in a primitive infocognitive form that drives emergence (the MU form), telesis continues to be refined into new infocognitive configurations as reality evolves.

Telesis (infocognitive potential)

Mereon:

I think it’s best to let Chris describe his terms in his own words on this page, and if you’d like to explore your own interpretations of it you can do so on your talk page or discussion board for this topic.

Chris Langan on the Nature of Reality (Preview) - Simulation https://youtu.be/9uSq9w3VwAM

Chris Langan - Telesis - CTMU -TOE https://youtu.be/HQ_jTSLfqVk

Chris Langan - Unbound Telesis (UBT) - CTMU https://youtu.be/1N7ce2jK6WA

Chris Langan - Cells as Telors - CTMU https://youtu.be/m1dQALIQKSU

Mereon (talk) 14:49, 11 October 2021 (UTC) Mereon

“It follows that the active medium of cross-definition possesses logical primacy over laws and arguments alike, and is thus pre-informational and pre-nomological in nature…i.e., telic. Telesis, which can be characterized as “infocognitive potential”, is the primordial active medium from which laws and their arguments and parameters emerge by mutual refinement or telic recursion.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesis

“As an identity, M can be considered one coherent entity which self-differentiates by syndiffeonic self-stratification through the cumulative factorization of telesis, a dual generalization of energy properly defined to serve as the ultimate “stuff” of reality. Thus, rather than going through a sequence of steps to construct M, we are simply explaining how the aspects of M:L<– –>U interrelate, breaking up the explanation into parts and steps for the sake of clarity. The steps do not occur as a temporal sequence, but metasimultaneously; the ingredients M, L, and U are interdependent and mutually recursively defined with respect to function (although M can be considered to stand alone as a self-potentializing, self-actualizing global identity creating L and U in the course of self-identification).” https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/download/618/1040/2741

“Q: If I have interpreted you correctly, you maintain that the universe created itself. How did this come about? What existed before the Universe and when did the Universe create itself or come into being? - Celia Joslyn

A: You're asking three distinct but related questions about cosmology: how, when and as what did the universe self-create?

The universe can be described as a cybernetic system in which freedom and constraint are counterbalanced. The constraints function as structure; thus, the laws of physics are constraints which define the structure of spacetime, whereas freedom is that which is bound or logically quantified by the constraints in question. Now, since there is no real time scale external to reality, there is no extrinsic point in time at which the moment of creation can be located, and this invalidates phrases like "before reality existed" and "when reality created itself". So rather than asking "when" the universe came to be, or what existed "before" the universe was born, we must instead ask "what would remain if the structural constraints defining the real universe were regressively suspended?" First, time would gradually disappear, eliminating the "when" question entirely. And once time disappears completely, what remains is the answer to the "what" question: a realm of boundless potential characterized by a total lack of real constraint. In other words, the real universe timelessly emerges from a background of logically unquantified potential to which the concepts of space and time simply do not apply.

Now let's attend to your "how" question. Within a realm of unbound potential like the one from which the universe emerges, everything is possible, and this implies that "everything exists" in the sense of possibility. Some possibilities are self-inconsistent and therefore ontological dead ends; they extinguish themselves in the very attempt to emerge into actuality. But other possibilities are self-consistent and potentially self-configuring by internally defined evolutionary processes. That is, they predicate their own emergence according to their own internal logics, providing their own means and answering their own "hows". These possibilities, which are completely self-contained not only with respect to how, what, and when, but why, have a common structure called SCSPL (Self-Configuring Self-Processing Language). An SCSPL answers its own "why?" question with something called teleology; where SCSPL is "God" to whatever exists within it, teleology amounts to the "Will of God".” https://web.archive.org/web/20060523223943/http://megafoundation.org/CTMU/Q&A/Archive.html

“R is the “inductively completed” physical universe and a base-relation. R* is a relevancy relation and the combinatorial expansion of R. I.e., R* contains all possible abstract relations on R, including all possible spatiotemporal evolutions of R with respect to any vantage in spacetime. R* is an inductive invariant. I.e., it describes by definition anything which it contains, and thus anything which is relevant to the physical level Γ_0 of the empyreon Γ (the metaphysical transductive algebra). The CTMU, through its fundamental mind-reality equation, defines reality strictly subject to limitation by the human subjective cognitive syntax. I.e., HSCS observational limitations defining R distribute over R* as limitations on relevancy. “Relevancy” is thus a direct generalization of “observability”. That which is physically relevant, but which has not yet collapsed as information, is comprehensively defined as telesis. As such, even it is R*-included. Telesis is the ultimate, universal component of reality. Telesis is self-restricting relative to any two-valued subsystem through active-telic feedback; conversely, telesis not involved in restrictive feedback is irrelevant to the two-valued subsystem in question. This is why R* is called the “relevancy relation” on the two-valued physical universe R.” https://facebook.com/groups/ctmurealitytheory/permalink/10161016710477486/?refsrc=deprecated&__hwl=1&_rdr