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Explore how to add "Group Symmetry“ into "The Geometry of Awareness" Framework
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The Geometry of Awareness: What If Consciousness Has a Shape?
Elena Ryss
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5 days ago
Spoiler: it’s not a sphere. And not a cube.
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I used to think consciousness was fog.
You know the feeling. Something vague. Formless. Impossible to pin down. A mist hanging over the brain, or maybe over the world itself. Philosophers call it the «hard problem.» Scientists measure its correlates. The rest of us? We just live inside it, rarely stopping to ask the obvious:
What shape is this thing I call «me»?
Here’s a thought. What if consciousness does have a shape?
Not a literal one. Not a cube or a sphere. But something subtler. A structure. A geometry that unfolds not in space, but in experience itself.
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And what if that geometry isn’t random? What if it’s beautiful? Symmetrical? What if mathematicians already know it – hiding in plain sight, in the language of exceptional Lie groups?
The world you see? Not the whole story.
Most of life happens in the physical world. Trees. Coffee cups. Other people’s faces. It feels solid. Real. Unquestionable.
But you know it’s not the whole story.
Moments sneak up on you. Dreams. Creativity. Deep meditation. Suddenly the world thins out. Something else peeks through. Not another world, exactly. Another layer of this one. A place where choices happen before actions. Where symbols breathe. Where you’re not quite you – but something larger.
What if these layers aren’t random? What if they have an order? A hierarchy? A hidden architecture?
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A ladder made of numbers.
There’s this family of mathematical objects. Exceptional Lie groups. They have terrible names: G₂, F₄, E₆, E₇, E₈. They live in strange dimensions – 14, 52, 78, 133, 248. Most people never hear of them. Mathematicians study them for their beauty. Their symmetry.
But what if these numbers point to something real? Something we feel?
What if:
G₂ (14) is raw fabric. Matter before it becomes things.
• F₄ (52) is the physical world. Solid. Alive. Right here.
• E₆ (78) is archetypes. Patterns behind stories. Myths. The deep structures of psyche.
• E₇ (133) is pure possibility. Where ideas are born before they become thoughts.
• E₈ (248) is something like pure awareness. Vast. Whole. Undivided.
Am I saying consciousness is these groups? No.
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