Cross-Dimensional Analysis
Dimension Triplets
All 20 three-way combinations of the six dimensions — exploring the richer philosophical territories that emerge when three dimensions are considered together.
Time, Space & Matter
The physical universe in full
Time, space, and matter together constitute the classical scientific description of the physical universe. Matter occupies space and changes through time. This triad is the domain of mechanics, …
Time, Space & Observer
The situated knowing subject
Every observer exists at a particular place in space and a particular moment in time. This spatial-temporal situatedness is not incidental but constitutive: what the observer can know, …
Time, Space & Energy
The dynamic fabric of the cosmos
Energy propagating through space over time is the domain of fields, waves, radiation, and the fundamental forces of nature. Electromagnetic waves travel through space at the speed of …
Time, Matter & Observer
Embodied consciousness through time
The observer is a material being who lives and dies in time. Embodiment, memory, mortality, and development all arise from this triad. The observer does not merely observe …
Time, Matter & Energy
Transformation, entropy, and physical law
The domain of thermodynamics and physical chemistry: energy transforms matter through time. Combustion, nuclear fusion, radioactive decay, metabolism — all are instances of the triad at work. The …
Time, Observer & Energy
The energetic act of knowing through time
Consciousness unfolds in time and requires energy. Every act of perception, memory, attention, and reasoning has a metabolic cost; the brain is the most energy-intensive organ in proportion …
Space, Matter & Observer
The embodied observer in physical space
The observer is a material body located in space. This triad captures the fundamental condition of embodied perception: the body is both a material object among objects (viewed …
Space, Matter & Energy
The content and dynamics of physical reality
Matter and energy distributed through space — this is the subject matter of physics in its most comprehensive form. General relativity describes how matter and energy curve the …
Space, Observer & Energy
Situated perception and energetic participation
The observer is spatially located and participates in the world through energetic processes. Vision requires light (electromagnetic energy) traveling through space; hearing requires sound waves; touch involves energetic …
Matter, Observer & Energy
The living, knowing, energetic being
The observer is a material system that processes energy to sustain and generate consciousness. This is the domain of neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind: the brain …
Time, Space & Information
Signals, light cones, and the causal structure of knowledge
Time, space, and information together define the causal structure of what can be known. Light cones set the boundary of information transfer across spacetime: no signal can travel …
Time, Matter & Information
Memory, fossils, and the material archive of time
Matter is the substrate in which temporal information is encoded and preserved. Fossils record the history of life; geological strata encode climatic epochs; DNA carries instructions refined over …
Time, Observer & Information
Memory, learning, and the temporal arc of knowing
The observer is a temporal being who accumulates information over time through memory, learning, and experience. This triad captures the epistemological arc of a conscious life: from ignorance …
Time, Energy & Information
Entropy, computation, and the thermodynamic arrow
The second law of thermodynamics binds time, energy, and information into an indissoluble triad. Entropy — the measure of disorder, energy dispersal, and missing information — increases with …
Space, Matter & Information
Structure, encoding, and the geometry of knowledge
Space, matter, and information describe the physical library of the universe: material objects distributed through space, each one a carrier of informational content. A crystal encodes its formation …
Space, Observer & Information
Perspective, horizons, and the situated knower
The observer is always spatially situated, and this situation shapes what information is available. A distant galaxy is known only through the light that has traveled across space …
Space, Energy & Information
Fields, radiation, and the energetic transmission of knowledge
Information travels through space on carriers of energy: light, radio waves, gravitational waves, and sound all transport informational content across spatial distances using energetic means. The electromagnetic spectrum …
Matter, Observer & Information
Brains, minds, and the material basis of knowledge
The observer is a material system that processes information: the brain is made of matter, and its neural activity encodes, stores, and retrieves the information that constitutes knowledge, …
Matter, Energy & Information
Landauer's world: the physical substrate of data
Matter, energy, and information together constitute Landauer's world: the domain in which information is always physically embodied in material substrates and always requires energy to process, store, and …
Observer, Energy & Information
Cognition, attention, and the metabolic cost of knowing
The observer processes information using energy: every thought, every perception, every act of attention has a metabolic cost measurable in calories and ATP. The brain, which constitutes roughly …
Triplets vs. Pairs
Where dimension pairs examine the relationship between two dimensions in isolation, triplets reveal the emergent complexity that arises when three interact simultaneously. Each triplet opens questions that neither pair within it fully addresses — the whole is philosophically more than the sum of its parts.