One argument, from a point to the universe · free preview
An eleven-dimensional universe — and a rational case for God.
One long, careful argument that runs from a single point to the whole universe. No hype, no dramatic music — just the ideas, and an honest account of how sure I am of each one.
Essays twice a week. The video course is free, and still being built.
The standards I hold it to
The argument is metaphysics, and metaphysics has a reputation for being answerable to nothing. So the whole thing is held to four criteria, stated before the argument starts:
- Coherence. No part of the picture may contradict another part.
- Explanatory breadth. It has to account for physics, life and minds at once, not in sealed compartments.
- Contact with the sciences. It must engage the science we actually have.
- Falsifiability. It has to say something that could turn out to be wrong.
What would prove me wrong. The framework predicts that a mind able to take its own representing as part of what it represents may have arisen exactly once. Find a second civilisation and the framework is finished. That is the bet, and it was published before anyone asked for it.
Corrections
Where the work has been wrong, it is written down in public and kept in one place. The page separates two things that usually get run together: what was simplified on purpose in order to teach, and what was simply wrong and has been corrected.
Read the corrections page →
If a claim in the course is not on that page, it still stands.
Where to start
The whole course is on YouTube, free, released as each video is finished. Three ways in:
At the beginning
The orientation module: what the argument is, the standards it is held to, and who it is for. Start here if you want the case built in order.
At the claim that could be wrong
The boldest and most testable thing I say: that a mind of a particular kind may have arisen exactly once — and exactly what would prove me wrong.
At the destination
The shape of where this goes, shown in silhouette rather than argued. Start here if you want to know what you are signing up for.
Who it’s for
This is for you if you want to understand what the universe actually is, you’re willing to think hard, and you’d rather be reasoned with than sold to. It’s not for you if you want answers that are quick, or comforting. I assume intelligence and no specialist background — and I never patronise either.