The Trinitarian Mystery

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Dear reader,

I am sharing here for free my book of poetry and philosophy, called The Trinitarian Mystery. It is the result of much reflection after a transformative experience I had. If you are interested in the backstory, please see here.

With love,

Mark

My Core Philosophy

Dear reader, I am sharing here for free my book of poetry and philosophy, called The Trinitarian Mystery. It is the result of much reflectio

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Clock This: Discovering Eternal Structure in a World That Never Repeats

Mark Tracy Imagine living in a world where patterns repeat in a meaningful sense—but never in exactly the same way. The Sun rises every day.The Moon goes through phases.The seasons return each year. But if you look closely, these cycles do not line up perfectly. The lunar month does not divide evenly into the year. The year does not divide neatly into lunar cycles. The phases slowly drift…

Clock This: Discovering Eternal Structure in a World That Never Repeats

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Temporal Cognition: A Hypothesis

“Por los siglos de los siglos” Human temporal cognition emerges from the interaction of four recurrent processes experienced by an Earth-bound observer: the solar day, the lunar phase cycle, the solar year, and the circadian sleep–wake rhythm. The celestial cycles possess incommensurate periods, generating quasi-periodic patterns—stable cycles whose relative phases continually drift. This…

Temporal Cognition: A Hypothesis

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The Moral Principle of Action-Motivation

Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative is to act according to that maxim which you can simultaneously will to be a universal law. However, I think that there are no maxims regarding actions alone that may be coherently willed universally, because one can easily contrive a situation where any action is permissible to prevent a greater evil. Instead, there are combinations of actions and sets of…

The Moral Principle of Action-Motivation

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On Abstraction and Analogy

I like to publish my most important ongoing works to this blog so that they may be read in the event of my unexpected death. The foregoing text is one example. In it, I discuss the crucial topics of abstraction and analogy, two mechanisms of mentation and communication so pervasive and critical that it can be hard to pin down how exactly they function structurally. I have attempted to do so here.…

On Abstraction and Analogy

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Prior to Time and Space?

by Mark Tracy Demarcation and abstraction are ontologically prior to time and space. To have demarcated something is to have differentiated—without dividing—what is otherwise a unity; demarcation is thus the holding of difference atop unity. Abstraction, on the other hand, is the association of differentiated instances with a common representation; abstraction, then, is the holding of unity atop…

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Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First Stone

by Mark Tracy Let He Who is Without Sin Cast the First StoneTake up space in creation.You already do.Take your place in creation:Your place of creator and creature,As the imaginer, the imagining;What you slow grows; and what you let pass shall slip away at its pace.You see, there never were any rules.But if you want one, here:You cannot play by any rule that you have not yet discovered.And so on…

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A Thought to Meditate On

If we choose to be, then we are reality articulating itself into existence as such. In saying, “I am,” we at once give voice to God’s “I AM.”

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Crystal Teardrops: On Gender and Transgenderism

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A Few Thoughts on Grace for the Easter Season

I have been thinking about grace recently. Psalm 42 says, “Hope in God, and you will praise Him again.” This strikes me because it seems that if you hope for grace, then you will have eyes to see it: or rather, you will attribute to grace what may otherwise have been attributed to chance or something impersonal. And because of the seeing, the fulfilment of hope, you will open further to hope in…

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Systems

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Love, Suffering, and Evil: Operant Definitions

Love is manifest in the degree to which the consideration of another’s good (and by “good” I mean the subjective “good-to-that-person”) factors into one’s decision-making. One can think of a decision as an optimization process: maximize Objective(d) subject to Constraints(d), where d is the decision variable of interest. The objective may be decomposed into additive terms, such as…

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My Understanding, Rephrased

I understand that Reality is a priori OPEN (by “Reality” I mean that which IS, prior to anything we may say about it), yet I operate under the assumption that Reality may be segmented (provisionally) into objects with properties and relationships between them. Among those objects is “me” or “self.” More explicitly, I make the segmentation between “self” and not-self, or “Other.” However, endowing…

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Pointing Toward a Society Without Sin: Love as a Collective Ideal

by Mark Tracy via “Self” GPT At the heart of Roman Catholic theology lies a profound sociological vision: a society aligned with God’s divine will, where sin is eradicated and love forms the basis of human relationships. This ideal society rests on a deceptively simple command, as articulated by Jesus Christ: to love God with all one’s heart, mind, and strength, and to love one’s neighbor as…

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The Foundations of Love: A Journey Through Mystery, Privacy, and Separation

“In order to have love, you must have separation. In order to have separation, you must have privacy. In order to have privacy, there must be mystery. In order to have mystery, there must be assertion and doubt.” This cascading truth offers a profound insight into the architecture of love, tracing its roots through interdependent layers of existence. Love, often thought of as the ultimate…

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On Dividing Totality: The Trinitarian Mystery

This post is intended to introduce and summarize the main concepts presented in my book, The Trinitarian Mystery: Escaping Solipsism. Process is meaningless without objects that interact, but a world of objects alone is a world without content. There must be nodes AND edges.There are three models that I have found particularly fruitful that (artificially) divide Totality into two nodes, or…

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