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Utopian Confederation: Hypophenomics and Aetheromechany
Discover the astounding scientific theory and astute philosophical methods that guide intellectual life in the 22nd-century Utopian Confederation!
What is the relationship between space, time, matter, mind, and thaumata? Is it possible to “retrocausally” influence events that have already happened? Does the cosmos subtly counteract poor human decisions that would divert it from its optimal path? In what sense can entities from human beings to starvessels to SGIs be understood as “metaphysical bubbles” and “metaphysical rainbows”? The answers are found in this volume, which explores hypophenomics and aetheromechany – the final two bodies of thought to have arisen as elements of the Utopian Synergeticist worldview.
Hypophenomics is the universally accepted approach to ontology and metaphysics practiced within 22nd-century Utopian society. Among other things, it focuses on distinguishing the “presented” from the “presumed” and on observing the relationships of the “beholder” to the “beheld” and of “guides” to the “guided.” Hypophenomics equips citizens of the Confederation with a shared approach to interpreting the world and its contents.
• Hypophenomics proposes a distinction between five qualitatively differing spheres of Creation known as the “five realms.” They comprise the “everyday world” of human experience; the “fundamental world” of underlying infrapsychic and infraphysical realities; the “theorized world” of hypotheses and intellectual constructs; the “mythopragmatic world” of artistic imagination and narrative; and the “dyneidric world” of technologically facilitated virtual environments.
• Among the most influential elements of hypophenomics is Iridic Bubble Theory (IBT), which posits that most elements of the world can be usefully analyzed using the metaphors of the bubble and the rainbow.
Aetheromechany, meanwhile, is the body of knowledge that unifies within itself all of the natural sciences. It can be understood as a form of “applied angelology,” insofar as it seeks to understand all stellar, planetary, meteorological, chemical, biological, ecological, and other natural physical phenomena as processes whose energies, movements, and interactions are continually and invisibly administered by their Author’s constant angels. Some key elements of aetheromechany are noted below.
• Spatiotemporal Pliancy Theory (SPT) transformed humanity’s understanding of the relationship of space, time, mass, and gravity. It posits that spacetime becomes curved by the presence of mass, with such curvature manifesting itself in the form of gravity. SPT predicted the existence of darkstars and gravity waves.
• Scintillant Theory (ST) offers a metaphysical explanation for the particle-wave hybridity of photomes, and it predicted or explained phenomena like scintillant tunnelling, affinity, and consistence. ST’s “Realist-Fabulist Interpretation” proposes that the resolution of unduloforms into concretons is infrapsychically (not infraphysically) caused. It affirms that the results of scintillant experiments reveal that inspiring and edifying story that the Author of the cosmos wishes us to discern, for the sake of our own enlightenment and wellbeing.
• The field of atopochronomy seeks to account for phenomena like metachronarchy (the apparent ability of certain human beings to teach themselves to initiate or perform a narrow range of countertemporal actions through an act of will) and retroquasicausality (processes that seem to work backwards in time rather than forwards, as exemplified by the forms of scintillant countertemporality demonstrated by some scintillant supercompensors). The existence of such phenomena was first confirmed experimentally in the ADI 2060s.
• In the ADI 2070s, experiments devised by synthetic general intelligences (SGIs) demonstrated the high degree of “teleocausal stability” displayed by the universe. The infraphysical elements of the cosmos are not, in themselves, “self-healing”; rather, the constant angels (who are themselves infrapsychic elements of Creation) continually carry out patient, invisible corrective action – working behind the scenes to keep the natural world “on track” and guide it gently toward its optimal end, in a manner consistent with human beings’ free will.
This volume is a dense text without illustrations. It includes a hyperlinked table of contents and an index. It complements the book Utopian Confederation: The Human and Numinous Bases of Utopian Synergeticism, which explores the first four strands of thought that gave rise to Utopian Synergeticism – namely, Utopian Stoicism, Utopian humanism, ratiomysticism, and Utopian thaumaturgy.
If one is seeking to understand the larger societal context within which Utopian Synergeticism exists, one may find helpful the previously published volume Utopian Confederation: From the Mall to the Stars. It covers the full spectrum of 22nd-century life – from the transplanetary extension of Utopian s...
What is the relationship between space, time, matter, mind, and thaumata? Is it possible to “retrocausally” influence events that have already happened? Does the cosmos subtly counteract poor human decisions that would divert it from its optimal path? In what sense can entities from human beings to starvessels to SGIs be understood as “metaphysical bubbles” and “metaphysical rainbows”? The answers are found in this volume, which explores hypophenomics and aetheromechany – the final two bodies of thought to have arisen as elements of the Utopian Synergeticist worldview.
Hypophenomics is the universally accepted approach to ontology and metaphysics practiced within 22nd-century Utopian society. Among other things, it focuses on distinguishing the “presented” from the “presumed” and on observing the relationships of the “beholder” to the “beheld” and of “guides” to the “guided.” Hypophenomics equips citizens of the Confederation with a shared approach to interpreting the world and its contents.
• Hypophenomics proposes a distinction between five qualitatively differing spheres of Creation known as the “five realms.” They comprise the “everyday world” of human experience; the “fundamental world” of underlying infrapsychic and infraphysical realities; the “theorized world” of hypotheses and intellectual constructs; the “mythopragmatic world” of artistic imagination and narrative; and the “dyneidric world” of technologically facilitated virtual environments.
• Among the most influential elements of hypophenomics is Iridic Bubble Theory (IBT), which posits that most elements of the world can be usefully analyzed using the metaphors of the bubble and the rainbow.
Aetheromechany, meanwhile, is the body of knowledge that unifies within itself all of the natural sciences. It can be understood as a form of “applied angelology,” insofar as it seeks to understand all stellar, planetary, meteorological, chemical, biological, ecological, and other natural physical phenomena as processes whose energies, movements, and interactions are continually and invisibly administered by their Author’s constant angels. Some key elements of aetheromechany are noted below.
• Spatiotemporal Pliancy Theory (SPT) transformed humanity’s understanding of the relationship of space, time, mass, and gravity. It posits that spacetime becomes curved by the presence of mass, with such curvature manifesting itself in the form of gravity. SPT predicted the existence of darkstars and gravity waves.
• Scintillant Theory (ST) offers a metaphysical explanation for the particle-wave hybridity of photomes, and it predicted or explained phenomena like scintillant tunnelling, affinity, and consistence. ST’s “Realist-Fabulist Interpretation” proposes that the resolution of unduloforms into concretons is infrapsychically (not infraphysically) caused. It affirms that the results of scintillant experiments reveal that inspiring and edifying story that the Author of the cosmos wishes us to discern, for the sake of our own enlightenment and wellbeing.
• The field of atopochronomy seeks to account for phenomena like metachronarchy (the apparent ability of certain human beings to teach themselves to initiate or perform a narrow range of countertemporal actions through an act of will) and retroquasicausality (processes that seem to work backwards in time rather than forwards, as exemplified by the forms of scintillant countertemporality demonstrated by some scintillant supercompensors). The existence of such phenomena was first confirmed experimentally in the ADI 2060s.
• In the ADI 2070s, experiments devised by synthetic general intelligences (SGIs) demonstrated the high degree of “teleocausal stability” displayed by the universe. The infraphysical elements of the cosmos are not, in themselves, “self-healing”; rather, the constant angels (who are themselves infrapsychic elements of Creation) continually carry out patient, invisible corrective action – working behind the scenes to keep the natural world “on track” and guide it gently toward its optimal end, in a manner consistent with human beings’ free will.
This volume is a dense text without illustrations. It includes a hyperlinked table of contents and an index. It complements the book Utopian Confederation: The Human and Numinous Bases of Utopian Synergeticism, which explores the first four strands of thought that gave rise to Utopian Synergeticism – namely, Utopian Stoicism, Utopian humanism, ratiomysticism, and Utopian thaumaturgy.
If one is seeking to understand the larger societal context within which Utopian Synergeticism exists, one may find helpful the previously published volume Utopian Confederation: From the Mall to the Stars. It covers the full spectrum of 22nd-century life – from the transplanetary extension of Utopian s...
284 pages, ebook
Published March 29, 2025
About the author
Matthew E. Gladden
13 booksMy research investigates the impacts of technological posthumanization on the way in which we structure organizations, social interaction, and the architecture of the spaces in which we live. Such realms include not only the physical spaces of buildings and the workplace but also cognitive, information, and experiential spaces — both ‘real’ and virtual.
Much of my work has explored the organizational and managerial implications of emerging technologies relating to social robotics, artificial general intelligence, artificial life, swarm and nanorobotics, ubiquitous computing, neural implants and neuroprosthetics, and augmented and virtual reality. I am particularly interested in the architectures of cyberspace and virtual worlds.
I generally employ qualitative approaches that attempt to synthesize methodologies from the spheres of contemporary critical and philosophical posthumanism, systems theory and cybernetics, and classical phenomenology. I both analyze ongoing developments and attempt to anticipate future dynamics of technological posthumanization.
My work has been published by The MIT Press, IOS Press, Routledge, and Ashgate and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including The International Journal of Contemporary Management, Annales: Ethics in Economic Life, Informatyka Ekonomiczna, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Creatio Fantastica. I've presented my research at more than a dozen international academic conferences in countries including the US, Poland, Denmark, and Croatia. My work has been cited in academic journals, books, doctoral dissertations, conference presentations, blogs, and other media.
Much of my work has explored the organizational and managerial implications of emerging technologies relating to social robotics, artificial general intelligence, artificial life, swarm and nanorobotics, ubiquitous computing, neural implants and neuroprosthetics, and augmented and virtual reality. I am particularly interested in the architectures of cyberspace and virtual worlds.
I generally employ qualitative approaches that attempt to synthesize methodologies from the spheres of contemporary critical and philosophical posthumanism, systems theory and cybernetics, and classical phenomenology. I both analyze ongoing developments and attempt to anticipate future dynamics of technological posthumanization.
My work has been published by The MIT Press, IOS Press, Routledge, and Ashgate and has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including The International Journal of Contemporary Management, Annales: Ethics in Economic Life, Informatyka Ekonomiczna, Frontiers in Neuroscience, and Creatio Fantastica. I've presented my research at more than a dozen international academic conferences in countries including the US, Poland, Denmark, and Croatia. My work has been cited in academic journals, books, doctoral dissertations, conference presentations, blogs, and other media.
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