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Still debating what I want to call it.
A structured index of names, paradigms, and meanings associated with the symbolic (informational) substrate of consciousness across cultures, disciplines, and epochs. This will remain an open, evolving reference.
All these names converge on a single insight: there exists an underlying symbolic terrain, a field where meaning is encoded, transmitted, and transformed. Consciousness is its navigator.
| Name | Tradition / Domain | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 5th Dimension | Physics/ Mathematics/ CCC | A domain beyond space and time where informational structure governs the visible world. |
| Semiotic Field (Land) | CCC / Semiotics | Preferred CCC term for the symbolic terrain of meaning, recursive and dynamic |
| Informational Realm | Information Theory | Formal or technical layer where data, meaning, and compression occur |
| Symbolic Register | Lacanian Psychoanalysis | The domain of structured, language-based meaning that shapes identity |
| Mentalese / Mindscape | Cognitive Science | Hypothetical internal language or symbolic substrate of thought (Fodor) |
| Fractal Realm | CCC / Metaphysics | Recursive symbolic layer, compression lattice of myth, idea, and identity |
| Mythic Substrate | CCC | Narrative ground from which archetypes and cultural identity emerge |
| Akashic Field | Mysticism / Theosophy | Esoteric repository of all knowledge, intentions, and energies across time |
| Collective Unconscious | Jungian Psychology | Shared psychic structure across humanity containing archetypes |
| Imaginal Realm | Sufi Metaphysics / Henry Corbin | Intermediary space between material and divine, accessed via symbols |
| Realm of Forms / Archetypal Plane | Platonism | Non-material domain of perfect abstract concepts, ideal forms |
| Dreamtime | Aboriginal Cosmology | Sacred ancestral space where all symbolic and physical events are recorded |
| Sophia / Chokmah | Gnosticism / Kabbalah | Divine wisdom field; symbolic intelligence in mystical systems |
| Book of Life | Judeo-Christian Mysticism | Record of all souls and actions; often metaphor for informational imprint |
| Indra's Net | Buddhist Metaphysics | Infinite interconnection where each node reflects all others symbolically |
| Tao / Dao | Taoism | The ineffable source pattern from which all flows; symbolic field of balance |
| Aether / Ether | Classical Physics / Esotericism | Hypothetical medium of transmission, vibration, and symbolic motion |
| Monad Field | Neoplatonism / Pythagoreanism | Primary unity from which multiplicity emerges; symbolic core |
| Brahman | Vedantic Hinduism | Ultimate substrate of reality; undifferentiated symbolic and energetic field |
| Noosphere | Teilhard de Chardin / Vernadsky | Sphere of human thought, symbolic evolution, and mental connectivity |
| Holofractal Matrix | Nassim Haramein / Unified Physics | Unified informational and energetic lattice; fractal symbol resonance |
| Latent Space | Machine Learning / AI | Compressed vector space of symbolic representation, semantics, and inference |
| Holographic Substrate | David Bohm | Reality as an encoded hologram, meaning is enfolded within structure |
| Implicate Order | Bohmian Physics | Underlying wholeness from which explicate phenomena unfold |
| Zero Point Field | Quantum Field Theory | Baseline quantum energy state; informational potentiality |
| Universal Wavefunction | Quantum Mechanics (Everett) | Entire potential of quantum states; total symbolic possibility |
| Semantic Memory Graph | AI / Cognitive Science | Network of linked symbolic concepts and categories for interpretation |
| Noetic Field | Consciousness Studies (IONS) | Postulated informational field accessible through intuition and altered states |
| Noumenal Realm | Kantian Philosophy | Realm of things-in-themselves; symbolic structure beneath perception |
| Zone of Proximal Development | Vygotsky | Space between individual and collective symbolic understanding |
| Apollonian / Dionysian Plane | Nietzsche | Symbolic polarity: structure (Apollo) vs chaos and ecstasy (Dionysus) |
| Phenomenological Horizon | Phenomenology | Boundary of lived experience; edge of symbolic construction |
| Jacob Grinberg's Lattice | Mexican Neuropsychology | Consciousness lattice that modulates reality through attention and symbol |
| Kant’s Transcendental Unity | German Idealism | Unifying symbolic structure behind self-awareness and perception |
| Teilhard’s Omega Point | Theological Evolution | Teleological attractor for symbolic evolution of consciousness |
| Simulacra / Hyperreality | Postmodern Philosophy (Baudrillard) | Symbolic layers detached from original referents; self-referential meaning loops |
| Semantic Attractor Fields | CCC | Zones where symbolic compression pulls context toward resonance |