NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory

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The NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process) theory, authored by Kedar Joshi, is a theory that space, the one in which we apparently live and in which strange phenomena such as quantum non-locality exist, is not real, but virtual. In other words, it exists in the form of non-spatial mental events. The idea that space is a projection of non-spatial mind has a long philosophical tradition and is called metaphysical idealism. However, unlike (metaphysical) idealism, the NSTP theory, at the same time, also entails a possibility of existence of real space, the space in which phenomena such as quantum non-locality do not exist. This metaphysics, which is unique to the NSTP theory, is called “semi-idealism and semi-dualism”, for it is neither proper/pure idealism nor pure dualism. It is not pure dualism because unlike pure dualism the possibilities of existence of the virtual space and the real space are not necessarily equal.

The NSTP theory has 6 axioms, 1 theorem, and 3 conjectures. The axioms, or supposedly the self-evident propositions, and the theorem, which is implicatively based on three of the axioms, figure out “self” as an NSTP (Non – Spatial Thinking Process). In order to provide a metaphysical explanation for quantum non-locality, conjecture 1 regards space, in which quantum non-locality type phenomena exist, as a virtual reality. Conjecture 2 speculates existence of superhuman thoughts, responsible for the empirical order we experience, e.g. gravity, existing in the form of non-spatial mental events. And conjecture 3 finally entails the possibility of the reality of space, the one void of phenomena like quantum non-locality. The NSTP theory also describes idealism in computational terms.

[edit] See also

• Non – Spatial Mechanics
• Universe as a Non – Spatial Computer
• UQV (Ultimate Questioner’s Vanity) theory
• Superultramodern Science and Philosophy

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• Phenomena Supportive of Metaphysical Idealism
• Non - Spatial Mechanics