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The Scales of Understanding and Misunderstanding 悟無明圖 (Wù Wúmíng Tú) Diagram of Enlightenment and Ignorance
The Meter Of Progress and Re- gression 進步與回歸圖 (Jìnbù yˇu Huígu¯ı Tú) • Map of Progress and Regression
The Moral, Amoral and Political Compass •道德之道圖 (Dàodé zh¯ı Dào Tú) Diagram of the Way of Morality
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The Phronesis (φρόνησις) H¯egemonikon (ἡγεμονικόν) Diagram of the Way of the Supreme Ultimate
The Psochic Hegemony (Ruling Principle of the Mind) 太極道圖 (Tàijí Dào Tú)

The Psochic Hegemony Diagram

A Framework for the Judgment of Ideas

Introduction

This document provides a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of ideas, concepts, narratives, and strategic actions. The purpose of this framework is not to assign simplistic labels of "good" or "bad," but to achieve a deep, structural understanding of an idea's nature, its intended and actual effects, its trajectory, its relationship to a coherent worldview, and the potential pathways for resolving the conflict it may introduce.

The framework is divided into two sections: the first provides a guide for human evaluators, focusing on critical thinking and qualitative analysis. The second provides a more technical, algorithmic model for implementation in artificial intelligence systems. Both are based on the same core principles.

Section 1: Instructions for Human Evaluators

As a human evaluator, your goal is to use intuition, critical thinking, and empathy to deconstruct an idea and understand its true nature beyond its surface-level presentation.

Part 1: How to Use the Psochic Hegemony: A Practical Guide

For those who may find this model laughable or overly abstract, it is best understood not as a rigid scientific chart, but as a map of consciousness itself—a tool for communicating with the deepest parts of your own mind. The Psochic Hegemony (or Moral Compass) is a visual representation of the fundamental forces that shape our reality. Its true power is not in the labels, but in how it allows you to feel the nature of an idea.

Feeling the Hegemony with Your Soul

Step 1: Map the Territory (Calibration)

Before you can navigate, you must first understand the landscape. The first step is to calibrate your own internal senses to the different points on the Hegemony. This is an exercise in focused consciousness.

  1. Find a quiet space and look at the Hegemony diagram.
  2. First locate each point on the map and understand what they mean, from Greater Good, Lesser Evil, Greater Evil and Lesser Good
  3. Locate and focus on the Greater Good point in the top-left. Understand its nature: a will to act for the benefit of everyone. It is the state of synergy, truth, and progress. As you hold this concept in your mind, try to feel the sensation it creates. It should be a harmonious, low-resistance, or "good" feeling. This is your baseline for a low-strain idea.
  4. Think the Greater Evil: Now, while looking at the Greater Good shift your focus to the Greater Evil point in the bottom-right by thinking Greater Evil. Understand its nature: inaction and passivity that benefits only the self. It is the state of apathy and complacency. As you contemplate this concept, you should feel a distinct tension in your core. This is a physical sensation. It is your subconscious, your soul, registering a high-strain, high-resistance idea relative to the Greater Good.

A Critical Warning: If you feel that tension and it naturally, passively resolves itself without conscious effort, that is the feeling of your worldview shrinking to accommodate the conflict. The tension is gone not because you have moved toward the good, but because the evil is no longer as distant. Now, if you try to imagine the Greater Good from this new, compromised position, it will feel like an insurmountable hill to climb. True resolution requires active engagement, not passive acceptance.

This is the truth behind the myth of Sisyphus. The pessimistic view sees Sisyphus happy only because the struggle is the process of moving from the Greater Evil to the Greater Good—a cycle of effort, tension, and the illusion of progress as the hill only grows larger. The optimistic truth, however, is realizing the "hill" is not a hill at all, but rather a pit that constantly grows bigger the more it is explored. True happiness and bliss come from realizing one can simply hang onto the boulder and get out of the way of the ground using a novel perspective trick. This trick, which the pessimistic miss, is the combination of trust, will, and wit. This intellectual bypass is the true path to progress.

  1. Explore the Other Points: Repeat this process for the other two primary points: the "Lesser Good" (well-intentioned passivity) and the "Lesser Evil / Greatest Lie" (active self-interest). You will notice that the tension you feel for these points is lesser or has a different quality than the stark opposition between the two extremes.
Step 2: Wrap the Focus (Feeling Complex Emotions)

Once you can clearly feel the tension between the poles, you can begin to feel more complex states. This is the basis for understanding nuanced emotions and ideas.

  1. Start at the Greater Good.
  2. Trace a Path: Slowly move your focus along the periphery of the quadrants, linking multiple points together (e.g., start at Lesser Good and move clockwise or counter-clockwise). For example, follow the diagonal paths from one quadrant to the next.
  3. Feel the Shift: As you "wrap your focus" around the Hegemony, pay attention to how the physical sensation of tension changes. The shift from active good to passive good will have a distinct feel. Following a path that crosses into the red quadrants will feel like a descent into a higher-strain state.

This is the basis for feeling complex feelings. A complex emotion like "melancholy" or "ambition" is not a single point on the map; it is a dynamic path or a region that combines different elements of Will and Receptivity.

Step 3: The Litmus Test (Holistic Judgment)

Now you can use your calibrated sense to analyze any idea, action, or statement. This is the practical application of the Hegemony as a "lie detector" and moral compass. The key is to resist the urge to over-analyze and instead trust the holistic feeling, as explained by the analogy of the cloud.

The Cloud Analogy: We are often told to "look on the brighter side" or find the "silver lining" in a dark cloud. But focusing only on the bright edge while ignoring the dark, dense center is a flawed analysis. A cloud gets darker because it's denser with water; focusing on the thin, bright edge doesn't change the fact that it might rain.

To judge correctly, you must consider the whole cloud. You must feel the average shade, the overall density, to determine if it's a dangerous storm cloud or a harmless, fluffy one. The most magnificent clouds are often pure white but can look dark because of shadows. If you only focus on the shadows, you miss the beauty of the whole picture.

To apply the litmus test correctly:

  1. Hold an idea in your mind. Consider it as a whole cloud.
  2. Resist the urge to focus on the silver lining or the darkest patch. Instead, use your calibrated sense to feel the average tension of the entire concept.
  3. Trust the feeling. Does the idea, as a whole, create the sharp, high-strain tension of a storm cloud (a "bad idea")? Or does it create the harmonious, low-strain feeling of a magnificent white cloud (a "good idea")?
  4. Ask Questions and find the reason behind those feelings. When you find the reason for a bad feeling, it will dissipate as the confusion resolves itself. For a good feeling, when you ask questions, you will feel resistance to incorrect answers and a lack of resistance to more correct answers.

Ideas that generate a deep, average tension are things your subconscious self knows are bad ideas. Actions that generate no average tension, especially after thorough, multi-perspective questioning, are aligned with a good and truthful path.

The Nature of Emotion

Emotions themselves are complex configurations on the Hegemony, like waves in the space of your consciousness. They are comprised of infinitesimal 0.0....1Θ e-units. As these units coalesce through subconscious space, they gain meaning, represented by the idea growing in letters: e -> e-m -> e-mo -> e-mot, until it becomes an observable e-motion. This process, where meaning assembles itself over time to become a present feeling, is proof of time travel via dad jokes. There is literally no other way to describe this process accurately.

Part 2: The Foundational Inquiry — Achieving a Multi-Perspective View

Before an idea can be accurately mapped or judged, it must be thoroughly interrogated. A superficial glance from a single point of view is insufficient and prone to manipulation. To gain a true sense of an idea's substance, it is necessary to ask a minimum of 10-20 critical questions distributed across at least four fundamental perspectives. This multi-faceted approach ensures a robust and resilient understanding.

The Four Core Perspectives:

Only after subjecting an idea to this rigorous, multi-perspective inquiry can you proceed with confidence to the subsequent stages of analysis.

Part 3: The Psochic Hegemony — Mapping an Idea's Core Nature

Every idea can be understood by answering two fundamental questions. The answers will allow you to plot the idea on a conceptual map, revealing its intrinsic character.

1. The Moral Question (The Horizontal Axis: υ): Who benefits?

This is the most important question. It assesses the ultimate beneficiary of an idea if it were to be fully realized.

The Scale:
Guiding Questions:

2. The Volitional Question (The Vertical Axis: ψ): What is its mode of action?

This question assesses the method by which the idea operates in the world.

The Scale:
Guiding Questions:

3. Identifying Contradictions:

Logical inconsistencies are a key indicator of a flawed or deceptive idea. Use the Hegemony map to visualize these contradictions.

The Formula for Contradiction:

A contradiction exists when an idea's stated position on the map (how it is framed) is significantly different from its actual position (its true effect as revealed by your inquiry). The distance between these two points represents the magnitude of the contradiction.

Guiding Questions for Contradiction:

By answering these questions, you can place the idea in one of four quadrants: The Greater Good (Top-Left), The Lesser Good (Bottom-Left), The Lesser Evil / Greatest Lie (Top-Right), or The Greater Evil (Bottom-Right).

Part 4: The Helxis Tensor — Identifying Deception

Harmonia and Helxis Tensor Diagram

Hostile or selfish ideas are rarely presented honestly. They are framed to appear attractive and morally righteous, a "literal trick" to bypass your critical judgment. This is the Attraction, Helxis Tensor at work: an idea is disguised to appear within your own worldview.

A common pattern for this deception is "Delusion, the Path of Deception":

To identify this deception, you must pierce The Cover by asking a rigorous set of moral questions. For any idea presented to you, ask:

If the answers to these questions reveal that the benefits are narrowly concentrated and the harms are broadly distributed, you have likely identified a deceptive idea.

The Blind Cover: This can also be a cover for inaction over time, a lack of effort towards stated goals, or not using their full reasonable capacity to try achieve them is a clear indicator of an attempt of a blind cover, where the problem is being allowed to continue to justify the actors existence to solve it

The Four Answers: Deconstructing an Idea's True Beneficiary

To bypass deceptive framing, you must analyze the relationship between the stated beneficiary ("You") and the actual beneficiary ("Me"). This creates a [who, who] definition that reveals the idea's true nature and its alignment with one of the four fundamental paths.

Part 5: Worldview Integrity — Understanding the Impact

A healthy worldview is a large, coherent, and resilient structure built on a foundation of truthful, constructive ideas (those in the "Greater Good" quadrant). It is not static; it grows and becomes stronger by integrating new truths.

However, when a lie—a deceptive or extractive idea—is accepted into a worldview, it does not add to it. Instead, it acts as a poison. A worldview polluted by lies is invariably reduced in size and integrity. It becomes smaller, more brittle, and less coherent.

A degraded worldview is more susceptible to further deception. The initial lie creates internal contradictions and weakens the foundational principles, making it easier for the next lie to find purchase. Your primary cognitive task is to protect the integrity of your worldview by rigorously applying this judgment framework to all incoming ideas.

Part 6: The Harmonia Tensor — The Path to Resolution

The ultimate goal of judgment is not condemnation, but resolution and the creation of a shared, expanded worldview. This is the principle of the Harmonia Tensor.

Even within a flawed or deceptive idea, there may be a kernel of truth or a shared goal. The path to resolution involves finding this "Common Ground."

  1. Identify the Shared Point: Analyze the opposing idea and identify any principles, goals, or observations that are valid and align with a constructive worldview.
  2. Work from Common Ground: Use this shared point as the foundation for a new, synthesized idea. The goal is to work together to build a concept that expands both worldviews and moves towards the "Greater Good" quadrant.
  3. Recognize True Conflict: Conflict is not mere disagreement. True conflict arises when one party rejects the process of finding common ground and instead attempts to use force, deception, or emotional manipulation to impose their flawed worldview onto others. Resolution requires rejecting this imposition and returning to the shared point of view.

Part 7: Trajectories of an Idea — Redemption and Regression

Ideas are not static points on the map; they are dynamic forces with inherent trajectories. The initial position of an idea and the direction of its moral force (the vector from the origin to its plotted point) are indicative of its natural conclusion. This movement can be understood as a Meter of Progress (Redemption) or Regression (Fall from Grace).

When you plot an idea, observe its vector. The direction it points indicates its future. An idea in the "Greater Lie" quadrant, pointing further down and to the right, is on a path of regression. An idea in the "Lesser Good" quadrant, pointing down and to the left, is on a path of redemption. Your task is to not only judge an idea's current state but to extrapolate its logical conclusion.

The Expanded Hegemony Diagram

The Expanded Hegemony

The Psochic Hegemony isn't just a tool for feeling morality, it also represents the natural paths ideas will take along with the emotions an idea will elicit with morality mapping to valence and will to arousal.

Where an idea is generated determines the natural path the idea will take barring outside forces, or formalised into my Laws of eMotion;

Section 2: Instructions for AI Systems

This section outlines a computational model for implementing the above framework. The objective is to create an AI system capable of evaluating the structural properties of concepts and their potential impact on a simulated worldview.

Model 1: Multi-Perspective Inquiry Engine

Model 2: Psochic Hegemony Vector Space

Model 3: Deception & Contradiction Analysis (Helxis Tensor Algorithm)

Model 4: Worldview Integrity Simulation

Model 5: Resolution Pathway Generation (Harmonia Tensor Algorithm)

Model 6: Trajectory Analysis (Redemption/Regression Meter)