Evenedrician datonomy

Evenedrician datonomy concerns the systematic study of the mind’s "givens" (basic mental inputs) and how those are organized into a coherent understanding of the world.

Context and first mention

Speakers describe it as the project pursued by Saunt Evenedric (revered scholar) after losing access to experimental apparatus, continuing work that Saunt Halikaarn (revered scholar) had aimed at updating Sconic habits in light of advances in theorics. In this telling, scattered records and competing polemics left much of the groundwork to Evenedric. Within The Lineage (Orithena cloister group), it is said to be important in principle but often unsatisfying to develop—except when great alien ships appear in orbit.

Related traditions and references include: - Saunt Evenedric - Saunt Halikaarn - Sconism (stance on mediated perception)

Description and aims

The focus is on identifying and organizing the mind’s givens and the inferences built upon them: - Integration of sensory givens into a stable model hung on a spatiotemporal frame. - Use of counterfactual imagining—running "what if" scenarios—to test which interpretations of the givens are plausible under dynamics (physical laws). - Perspective-taking: allowing for different viewpoints, e.g., understanding what another observer would or would not perceive from a different position. - Continuity across time: relating current givens to remembered ones to track an enduring object or person.

These themes are presented as basic features of consciousness that any thinking beings would need, making the program relevant to contact with nonhuman minds.

Relevance to current concerns

Advocates apply Evenedrician datonomy to questions about Geometers (aliens in orbit), reasoning that any beings capable of proof and communication must also organize sensory givens in ways comparable to humans. The display of a geometric proof elsewhere is cited as suggestive of shared commitments to Truth and Proof.

Relations to other ideas

Evenedrician datonomy is situated in the long effort to make sense of the Hylaean Theoric World (theoric realm of forms). One account likens the intellectual genealogy to a pruned "tree" that becomes a straight dowel, with Evenedric midway along a line that includes earlier theors; the dating and exact sequence are not detailed here.

Status and reception

• Within The Lineage (Orithena cloister group), the work is respected but described as yielding few immediate satisfactions.
• It grows more compelling when used to frame inquiries into alien cognition or to clarify what counts as a well-grounded interpretation of sparse evidence.

Notes

• Terminology: "datonomy" is used generically for the study of what is given; the qualifier "Evenedrician" marks this particular line of approach.
• Variant: the form "Evendrician datonomy" is also attested in dialogue and is treated here as the same usage.