Dimensions of Reality

Definition

While dimesionalities are to be considered as fundamental emerging properties of the two components of the Source of Reality, dimensions are intended as ways of observing the world, the Universe and all the forms that compose it.

We can observe and measure Reality in three fundamental "directions", corresponding to the three fundamental emerging properties of the manifestations of the Source: causality (expression of the Fundamental Force), Variationality, in its components Spatiality, Temporality (expression of the Elementary Field).

We can observe and measure Physical Reality in three fundamental directions, corresponding to the three fundamental emerging properties of the manifestations of the Source: cause (or force), space, time, dimensions that directly derive from the corresponding dimensionalities.

In the field of Cognitive Reality, in the metaphysical domain, composed by Immaterial Forms, Cognitive Forms (Information at the higher levels of complexity), in some areas and for some aspects, Causality and Spatiality-Temporality dimensions assume a different forms and can be transcended (eg products of imaginative thought, dreams, metaphysical descriptive models, physical theories "exotic"). In this domain of Reality the perception and the cognitive modelling of the dimensions of Physical Reality become particularly relevant.

Dimensionalities of Reality	Dimensions of Reality
. . Causality	. . Cause
. . Variationality	. . Variation (*)
. . . Spatiality	. . . Space
. . . Temporality	. . . Time

(*) Variation as a Dimension of Reality is considered only through its two components Space and Time. For Variation more properly we intend the first of the Modes of Action, the other two being Propagation and Conservation.

Common definition

The dimension is, essentially, the number of degrees of freedom available for movement in a space. In common usage, the dimensions of an object become the measures that define its shape and size. The size of a physical quantity can be expressed as a product of the fundamental physical dimensions mass, length, time, electric charge and absolute temperature, represented by the symbols M, L, T, Q and Θ, respectively, each elevated to a rational power.

Links to Wikipedia pages:

• Dimension
• Dimensional analysis

See also

• Dimensionalities of Reality
• Dimensions of Physical Reality
• Dimensions of Cognitive Reality
• Causality
• Physical Causality
• Cognitive Causality
• Cause
• Variationality
• Physical Variationality
• Cognitive Variationality
• Spatiality
• Physical Spatiality
• Cognitive Spatiality
• Space
• Temporality
• Physical Temporality
• Cognitive Temporality
• Time
• Agency
• Agency and Causality
• Agency and Variationality

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

• TFNR - 2.3 Levels - Aspects - Dimensions - Scales
• TFNR - 2.3 Cause, space and time: the dimensions of Reality
• TFNR - 2.3 The evolution of the dimensions of Reality
• TFNR - 2.3 The evolution of space-time
• TFNR - 2.3 From the fundamental dimensions of Reality to the nature of the physical quantities
• TFNR - 2.3 Could, Should, Would: the evolution of causality or the causal evolution of Reality
• TFNR - 2.3 No limits in cause, space and time
• TFNR - 3.2 The dimensions of Reality
• TFNR - 3.2.1 Cause
• TFNR - 3.2.2 Space
• TFNR - 3.2.3 Time

Classification

• Topic id: t_reality_dimensions
• Belongs to the class: Evolutionary Knowledge System
• Has as instances: Dimensions of Physical Reality, Dimensions of Cognitive Reality, Cause in Physical Reality, Cause in Cognitive Reality, Space in Physical Reality, Space in Cognitive Reality, Time in Physical Reality, Time in Cognitive Reality
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