DAS ONTOLOGY

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Ontology is a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them. When talking about philosophy as a whole, ontology has both a metaphysical component and a physical component

Das' philosophy is based on a unified physical and metaphysical understanding of reality as humanity experiences and influences it. 

Reality is a complex system and humanity is gradually developing more complex understandings of things that can more accurately and reliably predict meaningful things for us.

Das' metaphysical philosophy is fundamentally a critical realist perspective. Critical realism is the belief that reality does objectively exist, but that humans have no way of meaningfully understanding it in its entirety. 

We are destined to progress through paradigm shifts, cycling through being 100% certain we have the correct answer for however long it takes for a better one to come along.

Reality is there, and our perspective is influenced by reality, but we are only experiencing our perception of reality as influenced by our subconscious bias, social pressures, and human senses. This calls for a balance of beliefs that provide real predictability and beliefs that provide personal and social stability. 

When something both offers at least the appearance of effective predictability along with intuitive and emotional acceptance, we experience intuitive resonance and relative certainty.

However, this intuitive certainty must be balanced with a key part of Das' philosophy; the Lost Cause Principle, which states that more happens in every moment than can be understood and communicated by humanity in the same amount of time. 

In light of the Lost Cause Principle, we must fundamentally accept inaccuracy and failure as part of our capabilities as humans, or else we cannot do anything at all. 

And for this same reason, we mustn't harm anyone based on our projected beliefs of intent in others under mutually assured stupidity. Mutually assured stupidity is the basis of the rights of conscience, which declare that humans have the right to determine the truth for themselves, so long as they don't harm anyone and contribute to the social good.

On the physical side, the emergent framework describing complex reality is quite simple itself. 

Emergence is when properties emerge from the interactions of components within a complex system that then influence the components of the system.

Reality is an, emergent, complex system of entities. An entity may be an emergent complex system itself while also being a component of another emergent complex system. 

This forms a causal mesh of omnidirectional interactions, including between system and component hierarchies. The overall interactivity of the universe, and even of small groups of people, is too chaotic to have full predictability.

But within specific relationships, you can develop a relative predictability, the relative appearance of predictability as the result of mapping the processes and relationships through which phenomena arise, interact, and transform.

If you can understand a small segment of reality with relative predictability, then it's pragmatically reasonably to act on that even if you don't have the bigger picture yet.

As you observe and master one relationship, you notice others attached to it, and explore those instead. This creates an exploratory feedback loop of iterative understanding, the most popular being science. However, the development of understanding and solving of problems sometimes involves stepping outside of the method before returning back to it.

This nuanced understanding beyond form is relative mastery, which is far more complex than what any job title or degree can describe. 

Humanity's understanding is dependent on networking individual relative understanding in a sort of complex version of the blind men and the elephant.

This approach respects the detailed rigor of reductionist scientific inquiry while embracing the complexity and unpredictability of emergence. It also empowers humanity to embrace and share their subjective truths so long as their are willing to listen to others do the same and collaborate on a better understanding for all.

There is no hope for an individually complete or controlled understanding. There is no absolute truth for humanity to unite behind. 

We can establish networks of shared understanding when necessary and freely collaborate as we wish, but the imposition of any arbitrary human understanding when we fundamentally know we are incorrect is an abomination of morality.