Reality is not static being but a continuing cycle of observation-driven convergence and dynamic becoming
If the world is not made of ready-made entities, where does certainty come from, and where do freedom, meaning, and goodness reside? This book answers: the substrate of the universe is infinite possibility; observation converges possibility into certainty; and this process never stops — to be is to be continuously becoming.
The Cycle of Convergence
Key Concepts
Ground of Possibility
The infinite source of potential prior to all definite things — neither being nor non-being, ceaselessly generating.
It is the ontological foundation of the book: every certainty is a temporary snapshot of it after convergence.
Observation as Convergence
Observation in the broad sense is a filtering mechanism pervading all things, collapsing possibility into certainty.
It bridges quantum physics and social construction, turning every being into a participant in reality.
Conceptual Ecology
Ideas spread, mutate, and compete like organisms, forming stable loops of consensus.
It explains how our perception is shaped in return by ideas, warning against ossified loops.
Evaluation Alienation
Evaluation power degenerates from a symmetric tool of value discovery into an asymmetric instrument of control.
It exposes the mechanism of modern exploitation through "forced voluntariness" — a sharp lens of social critique.
Available Margin
The elastic space within rules not yet converged — a freedom that can be sensed and created.
It frees free will from philosophical quagmires and turns it into an operable, practical concept.
Map of the Book
Part One: Ontology — Possibility and Dynamic Existence
Part Two: Epistemology and the Theory of Order — The Evolution of Consensus and Power
- Chapter Five: The Diminished Truth—Cognition as an Incomplete Mapping
- Chapter Six: The Ecology of Ideas and the Consensus Loop
- Chapter Seven: The Origin of Power Hierarchy—Differentiation in Convergent Capacity
- Chapter Eight: The Alienation of Evaluation—From Market to Algorithmic Control
- Chapter Nine: The Game of Institutions and the Current of History
Part Three: Theory of Practice — The Realization of the Possible
- Chapter Ten: The Rediscovery of Free Will—Choice as Available Margin
- Chapter Eleven: The Art of Sustainable Decision-Making
- Chapter Twelve: The Observer's Practice—The Path of Individual Liberation
- Chapter Thirteen: Fault-Tolerant Ethics—A Process-Oriented Morality
- Chapter Fourteen: The Consensus of the Future—Building a Benign Evaluation Ecosystem
After reading, you will understand
- The world is a continuing process of convergence, not a collection of entities
- Observation is not limited to humans; all things filter reality
- Consensus is solidified power; institutions are moats around it
- Freedom is the available margin within rules — sense it, expand it
- Goodness is the act of increasing possibility; practice outlasts revolution