Architektonikē Designing Realities for Conscious Beings
Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!
Rubáiyát, LXXIII
Translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1859
A work of philosophy in progress on what someone able to design a reality owes the beings who will come to live in it. The argument begins with what a world is, what carries it, and who builds it, and goes on to what is owed, when creating is permitted, when the dying must be rescued, and what lies within reach. From there it writes the physics of a world law by law, from space and time to the sky overhead and the ground beneath, before turning to life, mind, body, and society. The book closes on the keeping of worlds, the limits of design, and an audit of our own world by the framework it has built. Chapters are added as they are finished.
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