Persona Classification Layer
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Pick two or more historical figures to set their attribute fingerprints, dimension-by-dimension evidence, and shared school influences side by side.
Mani
Cosmic dualism — the eternal war of Light and Darkness, with redemption through gnosis and ascetic separation
Attribute Fingerprint
Rows where personas disagree are highlighted in gold. The full ontology grid (32 attributes) is shown.
| Attribute | Mani |
|---|---|
| Time · Extent | Finite |
| Time · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Time · Grain | Continuous |
| Time · Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Time · Traversability | Linear |
| Time · Dimensionality | One |
| Time · Direction | Uni-directional |
| Space · Extent | Finite |
| Space · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Space · Curvature | Flat |
| Space · Dimensionality | Three |
| Space · Locality | Local |
| Matter · Extent | Finite |
| Matter · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Matter · Conservation | Conserved |
| Matter · Dimensionality | Three |
| Matter · Locality | Local |
| Observer · Time Instance | Single |
| Observer · Space Instance | Single |
| Observer · Knowledge Extent | Immediate |
| Observer · Knowledge Retainment | Total |
| Observer · Physicality | Both |
| Observer · Agency | Active |
| Observer · Number | Plural |
| Observer · Metaphysical Agency | Personal |
| Observer · Moral Authority | Revelation |
| Observer · Theological Method | Confessional |
| Energy · Extent | Finite |
| Energy · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Energy · Conservation | Conserved |
| Energy · Dispersibility | Irreversible |
| Information · Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Information · Cosmic Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Personal Conservation | Conserved |
| Information · Granularity | Continuous |
Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence
What each persona's writings reveal about their stance on each of the six dimensions.
Time
Mani
Linear-eschatological time bracketed by the eternal kingdoms; the present age is the mixed war.
Space
Mani
The cosmos as the battlefield where Light is imprisoned in Darkness.
Matter
Mani
Mixed substantival matter — particles of Light trapped in dark substance.
Observer
Mani
Plural souls (sparks of Light). Personal metaphysical agency: the Father of Greatness, the Mother of Life, the Living Spirit.
Energy
Mani
Light-energy conserved; the goal is its complete liberation.
Information
Mani
Personal-soul Light-particles conserved across deaths and reincarnations.
Internal Tensions
Where each persona's working synthesis strains against itself.
Manichaean dualism was attacked by Christians (most powerfully by Augustine, a former adherent) as making evil eternal alongside God, and by Zoroastrians as a heretical recombination of their cosmology with foreign elements. The religion was systematically persecuted everywhere it spread and was extinct in the West by ~600 CE and in China by ~1400 CE. The Cathar and Bogomil movements may have been independent revivals.