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Open Viewpoint Method (OVM)
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TST Framework
The Open Viewpoint Method applies TST’s realism and calibration principles to human conversation. This is when and where you try to distinguish claims from identities, separate empirical questions from meaning questions, and encourage graded confidence instead of binary certainty. Never try to force agreement. Do try to preserve intellectual humility while allowing genuine disagreement to remain productive rather than divisive.
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“I have a worldview. So do you.”
- Michael Alan Prestwood
- 2024
Worldview
Every person walks through life with a personal lens shaped by experience, belief, and knowledge. Recognizing you have a worldview — and that everyone else does too — is the first step toward understanding, empathy, and clearer thinking. Once you see your own lens, you can finally adjust it.
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What does neuroscience say about “identity?”
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Biologically, you’re constantly changing: cells, synapses, even memories shift. Neuroscience shows that identity isn’t a fixed object stored in the brain. Your identity is less a fixed thing and more a maintained pattern and you have some control. What feels like a stable “you” is a maintained pattern: a story you update every day.
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Do we experience reality directly?
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As you go through life, remember: your first impression is not the whole of reality. Flourishing begins when we stop confusing our interpretation with reality itself.
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Is red an empirical idea?
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Empirical ideas describe the material world through direct experience, while rational ideas describe it indirectly by organizing, interpreting, and extending what direct experience reveals.
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What is cognitive dissonance?
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Cognitive dissonance is conflict of the mind. What happens when two things do not fit. Emotional conflict often means something in your life is out of alignment.
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Metaphysics
What ultimately is.
Structured Ontology
TST Metaphysics examines the fundamental structure of reality — matter, energy, space, time, causation, and possibility. It asks not only what exists, but how existence is organized and constrained. Grounded in science yet aware of conceptual limits, TST Metaphysics avoids both naive materialism and untethered speculation. It explores being as structured, layered, and partially knowable through disciplined models.
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TST Metaphysical Position: The Split
The split separates our ideas and the material world. Rational ideas must be internally coherent, but only empirical contact with reality justifies belief.
Philosophy: The Existence and Essence Debate
In religion and philosophy, the existence and essence debate asks if you exist before your time on Earth.
Existential Toolkit: Evolution’s Consciousness Misstep
Existentialism evolved during the post medieval time. At its core, existentialism is about discovering your authentic self. You, in your environment, in your time, living ...
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Existential Toolkit: Evolution’s Consciousness Misstep
Existentialism evolved during the post medieval time. At its core, existentialism is about discovering your authentic self. You, in your environment, in your time, living ...
Epistemology
The Limits of Language and Understanding
Some skepticism questions our words. Deeper skepticism questions whether we can ever truly know.
Ancient Humans
The Evolution of Vocabulary in Ancient Humans
The evolution of language is the evolution of communication. From touch which evolved about 800 million years ago to human words. Along the journey, communication ...
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Idea of Ideas
2 Layers: The Material World Split
Our ideas about the material world are not the material world. There is a split between reality and our descriptions of it.
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Mindscape Framework
The Mindscape Framework presents a layered philosophy of the mind: consciousness is the structured experience of reality, heuristics are its evolved shortcuts, and worldview and ...
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The split separates our ideas and the material world. Rational ideas must be internally coherent, but only empirical contact with reality justifies belief.
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Philosophy: Dualism and Nondualism
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Understanding Colonial America Dates, Holidays, and Calendar
Before 1752 the first day of the year was 25 March. So, days of the year that fell from Jan 1 – Mar 24 were notated using the previous year, or double dating.
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