Persona Classification Layer
Compare Personas
Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Joseph Smith Jr.
A restoration in upstate New York — pre-mortal souls, eternal matter, exalted human destiny
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Joseph Smith Jr. |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Infinite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Infinite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | implicit |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | implicit |
| Matter · Extent | Infinite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | implicit |
| Observer · Time Instance | Multiple |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Embodied |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Scripture |
| Observer · Theological Method | Confessional |
| Energy · Extent | Infinite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | implicit |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Joseph Smith Jr.
Infinite — pre-mortal existence of spirits and eternal progression after mortality together extend time without bound at both ends of the embodied life.
Space
Joseph Smith Jr.
Infinite — plurality of worlds. "Worlds without number have I created." (Moses 1:33, Pearl of Great Price)
Matter
Joseph Smith Jr.
Infinite, substantival, conserved, three-dimensional, local. The distinctive LDS claim: matter is eternal and uncreated, not made ex nihilo. Spirit is itself a refined kind of matter.
Observer
Joseph Smith Jr.
A single embodied person with multiple time-instances (pre-mortal, mortal, post-mortal). Active in eternal moral progression. Personal metaphysical agency: Heavenly Father (and, in LDS theology, Heavenly Mother), both embodied beings to whom the saints may relate as children to parents.
Energy
Joseph Smith Jr.
Infinite, substantival, conserved.
Information
Joseph Smith Jr.
Conserved at both scales. The Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants are durable revealed records; personal identity persists from pre-mortal through mortal through eternal life.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Joseph Smith's practice of plural marriage (the public 1843 revelation, but earlier private practice), the violence at Nauvoo and Carthage, and the ongoing scholarly debate over the historicity and translation processes of the Book of Mormon and Book of Abraham are the long-running historical-theological tensions of his legacy. The institutional Church has revised practice (plural marriage discontinued 1890, priesthood opened to all worthy men 1978) while maintaining the substantive theological structure Smith established.