Simple Protism

Definition

Simple Protism is the conventional, “two‑box” version of Protism. It depicts a single Hylaean Theoric World linked by a one‑way arrow to this cosmos (also called a causal domain). The arrow is described as representing information flow or cause‑and‑effect—different phrasings that, in discussion, are treated as amounting to the same claim.

Context and Usage

• Baseline diagram: Avout refer to the two‑box sketch as the standard way Protist ideas are drawn on slates in teaching and debate. One box stands for the Hylaean Theoric World; the other stands for our cosmos; the arrow runs from the former to the latter.
• Interpreting thought as physical: Within a Protist framing, thinking is a physical process; some speakers note that, if there were no incoming information from the HTW, brain measurements would differ. This is presented as an intuition used in debate rather than as a worked proof.
• Current discussion: While traveling near Bly’s Butte, avout explicitly contrasted this simple diagram with more elaborate polycosmic models; the two‑box form is treated as the starting point for those extensions.

Related Terms

• Protism: the broader doctrine attributed to Protas that worldly things are shadows of more perfect forms in a higher realm.
• Hylaean Theoric World: the theorized realm providing the “up‑stream” source in the two‑box sketch.
• Complex Protism: a later development that allows more than two boxes and multiple one‑way arrows (no cycles), generalizing the simple diagram.
• Bly’s Butte (Bly's Butte): a landmark where recent discussion of the simple and complex models was recounted.

Notes

• Terminology: “Simple” identifies the minimal two‑node, one‑arrow diagram; it does not, by itself, judge the truth or sophistication of the view.
• Ambiguity preserved: Accounts vary between speaking of “information” versus “causation” crossing from the HTW; the simple diagram leaves this deliberately coarse, focusing on direction rather than mechanism.
• Role in pedagogy: The two‑box sketch appears to be a conventional starting point used to motivate more complex metatheoretic calcas.