PSTheory

1. What is the Panstructural Theory of Everything?

The Panstructural Theory of Everything (PSTheory) is a description of reality at the highest level of abstraction. It is a structural, holistic theory, whose primary concepts are Change and Information. PSTheory is assumed to be a collection of structural patterns pertaining to the world's general phenomena. From each phenomenon it is possible to isolate a structural pattern that is a section of that phenomenon along change. The author of the theory, Jadwiga Magnuszewska, has a holistic mind, a property of which is the skill of automatically creating structures—it may thus be surmised that PSTheory is partly an operationalisation of her mind. PSTheory is a jigsaw puzzle with multidimensional pieces, each of which can form a separate subtheory, consistent with all the others. PSTheory provides definitions of concepts used to describe reality at the highest level of abstraction.

 

2. The place of PSTheory in scienc

Describing reality at the highest level of abstraction makes it possible to see the universe as an interconnected network of entities. A preliminary proposition is that formulations typical of the disciplinary sciences may be implementations of general patterns offered by PSTheory. An implementation differs from a general pattern in that it is an application of the pattern to a specific issue, is enriched by the characteristics of the issue being described. PSTheory may provide science with some of the questions that need to be asked to correctly describe the issue under study. Its specific applications have not yet been studied. Thanks to PSTheory concepts, new, holistic and structural answers can be given to old questions. PSTheory provides a description from a holistic perspective, and so non-holistic minds may at first reject this description. This will change once new definitions have been grasped: the reader will then change their perspective.

 

3. How is the Panstructural Theory of Everything developed?

The Panstructural Theory of Everything is formulated through successive approximations. At first, the author does not even know PSTheory concept names. They reveal themselves during the work. Work on the theory is done on multiple tracks. A step forward in one area allows another step to be made in a related area. The theory’s multi-track development is one of the mechanisms for verifying its correctness. Concept definitions must always be compatible with the definitions of the concepts linked to them. At a certain point, the author's mind matures for formulation of definitions and postulates—the main forms of communicating content.

PSTheory is developed in isolation from the scientific world. Jadwiga Magnuszewska observes the world and tries to describe it structurally and holistically. She does not read other scientists’ works. If PSTheory includes ideas that are present in modern science, science was not their source: the author developed them independently, through her own reasoning. Science represents reality using fragmentary descriptions, whereas the description PSTheory aims for should be interconnected and cohesive. In describing phenomena, science does not usually achieve the highest level of abstraction, because it focuses on details.

PSTheory is formulated in a process of answering the simplest questions. Questions that have already been answered thousands of times. The author is looking for her own answers. Correction: not her own answers—she is looking for the answers of her holistic mind.

The presented text is not a finished, complete theory. It is the state of work on the theory at a certain point in time. A still from the creative process. In the book you will find formulations at various stages of elaboration. Many definitions already have their final form, but inaccuracies may sporadically appear. This working format of the theory makes improving it easier as the mind is forced to constantly introduce corrections. Presenting PSTheory in some closed form for the needs of publication would have blocked the process of its development.

PSTheory is being developed step by step. Discoveries made in one area allow a step forward to be made in another area and so allow to get nearer the ideal version, to which many more intermediate steps may lead. Jadwiga Magnuszewska will never herself be able to bring work on PSTheory to a close, as this is a task that exceeds the capacity of a single person. The author hopes people willing to continue her work will be found.

The Panstructural Theory of Everything, a holistic theory, could not be formulated as a synthesis of knowledge. Why? For two reasons: there is too much knowledge, and knowledge is recorded in different disciplinary languages.

A different way of developing the theory of everything was thus called for. That way is to develop everything from scratch. The author started by independently defining basic concepts. She was aided in this by her specific cognitive skills. Jadwiga Magnuszewska formulates concept definitions from the perspective of her own structural, holistic mind. She does not cite other researchers because everything that she creates has its source in the world surrounding her—and so she does not take into account the results of other scientists' inquiries. She does not read scientific literature or popular science. Of course, she is immersed in culture and subconsciously draws on its abundance. At some point, however, her mind switched to the holistic mode and reading any book started to result in a compulsion to form a model, to contain the content of that book in the model and thus put it in order—otherwise she was unable to remember its contents. This turned out to be such a great effort that her mind rebelled against reading popular science and scientific books. In practice, after reading only several pages of such a publication the author stops assimilating anything. Currently she reads only poetry and historical fiction.

In the Filozofia group on the goldenline.pl social networking service Jadwiga Magnuszewska described various concepts and situations in her own way—she did not cite acclaimed philosophers, not being familiar with their work, but she presented her perception of given issues. Of course, she was criticised for her independence, because in our world only the acclaimed count. Then she realised she had to investigate three questions first, because only investigating these issues would free her perception from distortion. These issues were: Truth, Freedom and Cognition. It was at this time that she learned mindfulness and self-awareness, so that she could draw knowledge from observing her mind in operation. Today Jadwiga Magnuszewska refers to her definition of Truth very often and it has proved to be useful and allow new insights. Meanwhile, observations about Cognition and Freedom allow her to shake off the bonds of illusion in which we live.

Jadwiga Magnuszewska has discovered that the definitions and less formal descriptions of concepts formulated by her prove incorrect after some time—not completely wrong, but imperfect. This is why she decided that her research method would involve approaching the perfect definitions through approximation. Each, even imprecise formulation is a kind of approximation of the ideal, showing the direction for research. Thus it is needed, just as the lower rungs of a ladder are needed, even though only the higher ones permit to reach the goal. Adopting approximation as the research method released the author from fear of mistakes. She starts investigating a new topic by writing down all associations that come to mind. Within the next step, after studying her "association scrap heap" and recalling it into her working memory, she formulates the first descriptions. Descriptions written in subsequent iterations are more precise: also because during their formulation the author takes into account a broader scope of topics, elaborated in parallel. New versions of the descriptions must be consistent with a greater number of concepts correlated with them than the preceding ones, which in the case of a holistic theory positively impacts the correctness of subsequent description versions.

Jadwiga Magnuszewska's mind is sensitive to falsehood and inaccuracy to the degree that she cannot watch films in which the heroes deceive; she leafs through descriptions of deception in novels, does not listen to most politicians. Falsehood brings her physical discomfort. She is sometimes unable to catch a single lie if the liar is very convincing, but a constructed structure, narrative that somebody tries to impose, and which contradicts her knowledge of a given subject, gives her pain. This quality of her mind allows her to catch falsehoods and inconsistencies in her notes and develop better formulations.

The author suffers from memory dysfunctions caused by a childhood accident that have activated a memory of structures and relationships in her. This is why identifying structural patterns in daily situations is easier for her. PSTheory is an instance of identifying structural patterns, i.e. describing reality at the highest level of abstraction. Jadwiga Magnuszewska's memory problems have worsened over time so that she does not currently remember her theory. This is paradoxically an advantage, because in creating PSTheory she is not a slave to the knowledge she holds, but can constantly improve her formulations.

She creates without words. How does this happen? She takes on a structural concept or question and gives herself time. She physically feels the effort undertaken by her brain. After some time, she pulls an approximated definition or answer from her subconscious. She experiences difficulties expressing them, because each word is important, and so must be properly chosen. She formulates subsequent forms of the definition until one of them gains her approbation, does not jar. She adopts it as a temporary formulation. Temporary because in consequence of the development of the mind, this definition may soon start to jar, amounting to the need to correct it. Jadwiga Magnuszewska understands jarring as the feeling of discomfort caused by encountering falsehood or imprecision.

She creates spirally. She returns to a given topic many times, approaching it from various sides, starting from various premises. A holistic theory assumes a direct or indirect connection between the concepts it contains, so it is possible to look at a given issue from various perspectives and reach a concept definition along many paths. This is a very useful approach as insurmountable cognitive blocks that make the development of a studied concept impossible are thus avoided.

The author has a high tolerance of change and lacks attachment towards her own concepts—“her children”. Such an attitude is uncommon: as a rule, people vehemently defend their views, their positions. The author, on the other hand, can abandon her previous assertions at any moment, if grounds for formulating better, more accurate ones appear.

Another method used by Jadwiga Magnuszewska in her research is defining in the presence. The author “takes on” several concepts that she suspects to be connected, and tries to define them and describe the connections between them. With such an approach, she can formulate more exact definitions, because the holistic mind takes care that the definition being written fits the other definitions. The final form of the definition is obtained after several such attempts made over different intervals, in the presence of various groups of concepts. This makes it possible to catch the differences between concepts, forces to indicate these differences.

In developing PSTheory, Jadwiga Magnuszewska does not carry out predefined objectives, but rather moves in selected directions. In science, an objective is always set from a position of ignorance. Often it is an erroneous objective, as the value indicated by the objective does not exist. Having a direction allows the existing to be found

A holistic theory is like a jigsaw puzzle with multidimensional pieces. Sometimes to discover a new concept it suffices to compare two concepts and, if there are no contact points between them, fill the gap with another, new concept.

Knowledge—knowledge that is held—is a trap for the researcher. The standard behaviour of a mind in a situation of uncertainty is to reach for the shelf in memory where knowledge is kept. This causes people to choose the solution from among familiar schemas, i.e. to be trapped by their knowledge. Because the author cannot draw on memory, she develops formulations—sometimes better, sometimes worse—each time. This is tiring and requires external memory to be used. However, her mind can choose the best, least jarring, from among several definition or description versions.

An important role in the author's creative process is held by questions, both technical and opening. Her mind answers these questions as it is conditioned to do so. It does not search the memory shelf for an answer to a given question, but constructs the answer by using tacit knowledge, recorded deeper in the subconscious, in some other form.

The research methods used by Jadwiga Magnuszewska also include sowing seeds, creating a foothold in the new. On entering a new research area, she establishes what concepts she associates with it and activates them in her mind to allow them to sprout and grow into new associations. It is from such associations that definitions and postulates are then formed.

Work on developing the Panstructural Theory of Everything in its current form took twelve years. In this time, the author exhausted her creative potential and is not for the time being able to develop is at the level she would like to. Perhaps she needs time for a very long rest, during which her brain would regenerate. This is a good time to publish existing results of work. There is also another hypothesis: it is possible that developing such an extensive holistic theory is beyond the author's cognitive abilities, as each defined concept must be consistent with all those that were defined previously—and they are already very numerous.

 

 

4. How is PSTheory verified?

What conditions have to be met by new content to qualify it as an element of PSTheory—as a final version or approximation? The term jigsaw piece means a fragment of PSTheory that together with others creates a coherent whole.

Mechanisms for verifying correctness:

1) a piece must fit collected data,

2) a piece must be formulated in a clear and simple manner,

3) all pieces must fit each other,

4) the author must experience the AHA sensation,

5) the author must not find the formulations jarring.

Most stages of verification occur subconsciously for the author.