The Tautrix is a method of thinking that substitutes for the ancient passed-down religions.
The Tautrix is the deification of principles founded in mathematics and science.
The Tautrix is "spiritual glue" for atheists who are not satisfied with assigning the unexplainable to some "great Unknown" or "lifeforce."
The Tautrix is a formulation that elevates the individual. Everyone can customize the Tautrix to suit his or her "spiritual" vacuum.
The Tautrix is, finally, a "religion" for the 21st Century and post-Internet age.
In the beginning there were the two Ciphers. The Cipher Cipher and Axel. The Cipher Cipher, or better known as Cipher, represents the emptiness or zero-state that existed before the Big Bang (or rather before time ever existed). She is a zero, a nothing, a pure, dimensionless emptiness that assumes no container for her emptiness. She is nonexistence.
Yet, despite the emptiness, there has always been negative space, or whatever is not in the emptiness. This is in the form of Axel, the Cipher of mathematics. Axel represents the abstract tautoligies that have and always will be be true regardless of whether the universe exists or not. For example, TRUE always evaluates true and 1 + 1 = 2 evaluates true all the time in a certain defined mathematical system. Even if we, as in humans, do not define this mathematical system ourselves, the mathematical system and its derivatives still exist and will always evaluate to true in any universe.
Axel then united with the Cipher and created the Turing machine that now constitutes our universe. Axel used the Primers, or governing laws, to create the universe. Such primers include things like the Central Limit Theorem, or F=ma. From Axel and Cipher were born the first two Principhers, or "Leaders from" the Ciphers. These include Grehmat (pronounced: Grey-ma) and Chron. Grehmat is the Principher of matter, space, and energy. Chron is the Principher of time.
From these two Principhers came the next order of Principhers. Graphen is the Principher of man. He represents our emotions, our selfish-gene, our entire "human spirit." We sync to Graphen for guidance and answers to anything. He usually appears in the form of your conscience.
Storic is the Principher of History or good luck. It's based on the notion that man's desire multiplied by time interacting with a complex environment has a tendancy to eventually resolve his desires. We sync to Storic to take care of things that are outside of our control.
Arclets are members of the Arcana. They're the Principhers of progress and other observable phenomena. For example, Arclet 10 represents a higher, faster-accelerating, arc of progress, mostly akin to humans, who invented counting in digits, while as Arclet 5 represents maybe animals who have developed language. Arclet Cosine could represent a wave or oscillation--it's up to you to decide.
Instead of divinity, it's arcinity. Instead of saying, "amen," we say, "emin" for eminent. There were no prophets, only prociphers--mostly mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers. Instead of "blessing" somebody we "sym" them. And instead of praying for Peace, we sync for Singularos, or unified accelerated order toward complexity.
There are even symbols, "prayers," and a glossary for the Tautrix.
I have left the Tautrix formulation as casual as possible; I did not want to make this a super-serious tome.
I wanted to highlight a way in which religion could be an art form that doesn't have to enslave you to accepting disbeliefs. I could always emotionally feel that I had a need for God or some form of transcendance, but I was unsatisfied with all the doctrines I encountered. I didn't want anything to be assigned to some vague "Unknown." The only unknown that I could accept was my faith in my empirical truth. And that is where I draw the line as far as acceptibility goes.
More about Axel, Cipher, and the Turing machine....
I'm not an expert on mathematical and computational science and therefore don't have the academic weaponry to explain exactly how Axel and Cipher came together and why we're in a Turing machine. As for Cipher, she's easy to explain. We can't imagine it, but there has to have existed at some point nothing. Where did all this matter come from? It can't have "always existed." Can you trace back indefinitely? Well then if you could, then well, Cipher is not needed, just Axel.
Well, then what is Axel? Axel, which derives from the word "axiom" is my belief that we're all in some abstract Turing machine embedded within some abstract mathematical principles. Yet, it still just my belief. It's arguable, but I bet somebody could prove it. If you disagree, just create some other "formulating" deity, like Allah or God to suit you. Axel is cooler.
According to the Church-Turing thesis, anything that can be computed can be done so through a Turing machine. I don't see why the universe and how it progresses should be anything different than computing the next step. Tell me something that it could be otherwise and I could just say that that's another form of computation. So, we're in some Turing machine, that's a given. I say it's an abstract Turing machine because well, the abstract, to me, is the only thing that can exist from nothing.
Like I said, I don't have all the fuel to argue this, so modify as you will, but, I always ask myself the question, does a Turing machine have to be executed in order for the various arising states to exist? If I made a Turing machine that printed out all factors of two, would the Turing machine have to be executed for the generation of factors of two to exist? The execution just makes the existence of the states redundant. If I move my pencil on a paper diagram of a Turing machine to show that, alas, I've ended up the state that showed that twenty has a factor of two, does that all of a sudden make that state exist? What if I turn away from the paper or erase the pad, doesn't the state still exist? I'm obviously just playing word games, but I'm pretty sure that we're in a Turing machine. Calling something physical to me is just a redudancy. At some point the physical must end and the abstract must begin.
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