Dharma, Tao, and Relationality

“Dharma” is the passive version. An analogy is source code before it is deployed.

“The Tao” is the active ‘flowing’ version. An analogy is the logic in the app after it is deployed or is online.

Both have reference to metaphysical causes or the Supreme Entity.

• “dharma” and “tao” are the ordinary version in nature.

Similarly, ‘True Nature’ is anchored in something Divine and invisible, while ’nature’ is what is ordinarily inherent.

Problems begin when something does not keep in line with its nature. For example:

• loading a pickup truck with 2 tons when it was only designed for 1 ton will cause problems
• eating too much too fast will lead to stomach problems
• installing an app that requires 2GB RAM on a device with only 1GB RAM will lead to errors

Superphysics aims to solve real-world problems by using Socratic Dialectics:

• to probe the true nature, dharma, or tao of the elements of the problem
• to trace the events or circumstances that caused those elements to veer off of its nature
• to suggest ways to get back to that ’natural’ or proper state

Probing with Socratic Dialectics

This Dharma, Tao, or True Nature itself resides in the invisible metaphysical domain of ideas and feelings.

You cannot see your ideas and feelings. Instead, you can make them ‘real’ in the physical domain by expressing them physically:

• speaking
• drawing
• acting out
• writing, etc

Dialectic alone goes directly to the first principle. It is the only science which does away with hypotheses in order to make her ground secure. By her gentle aid, she lifts up the eye of the soul which is literally buried in an outlandish slough. She uses as handmaids and helpers the sciences in the work of conversion. Custom calls them sciences. But they should have some other name implying greater clearness than opinion and less clearness than science. We called this “understanding”.

Socrates The Republic by Plato Simplified, Book 7, Chapter 4

The Socratic Dialogue as Relationality Implemented

Probing is done by:

• back-and-forth dialogue for living organisms
• trial and error for non-living organisms

For example, we probe:

• a rock by tapping it with a metal rod
• a body of water by dipping our feet in
• a fruit by pressing it with our fingers
• our spouse by asking where he or she went last night

This exposes the relationality between the ‘prober’ and the ‘probee’.

These probing actions inject contact or impact between us with the other identity or object.

• This then evokes an action or feedback from it.

For physical things, we use physical objects like a metal rod, our feet and fingers.

For metaphysical things such as souls, we use our own souls. For example, we talk to a person to get feedback from his mind or soul.

If we try to talk to a rock, we will not get any feedback because the soul of the rock is undeveloped and cannot make independent expressions.

So talking to another man lets us build the relation between him and our own soul. We can probe this relation better if we ask him questions.

Built to Solve Problems

Unlike spiritual theories which are often useless, Socratic Dialectics is meant to solve real world problems. This makes it more in line with science and technology than philosophy.

The Pythagoreans who have enquired about harmony are as wrong as the astronomers. They investigate the numbers of the harmonies which are heard. But they never apply them to problems. They never reach the natural harmonies of number, or reflect why some numbers are harmonious and others are not.. Their pursuit will be valuable for our objects if all these studies reach the point of inter-communion and connection with one another and become considered in their mutual affinities. Until then, there is no profit in pursuing them.

Socrates The Republic by Plato Simplified, Book 7, Chapter 4