Hylaean Theoric World

The Hylaean Theoric World is treated as a realm of ideal theoric objects—perfect forms not located in space or time. The name denotes a conceptual, not physical, place.

Definition

• A domain of ideal objects (for example, the pure triangle) about which absolute statements can be proved.
• Described as non-spatiotemporal; drawn figures and measurements are representations only, not the theorical objects themselves.
• Common abbreviation: "HTW."

Context and Usage

• Within the Mathic World, avout (cloistered scholars) use the HTW to explain what proofs are "about," why different notations point to the same truths, and how formal results can be shared across languages.
• Teaching and discussion often invoke a schematic "two-box" diagram: one box for the HTW, one for "this cosmos," with an arrow from the HTW to the other. The arrow is variously glossed as information flow or a cause-and-effect relation.
• In conversations held extramuros, the HTW is referenced when contrasting pure theorics with practical belief and devotion, or when considering how abstract truths might communicate across cultural or linguistic divides. See also Extramuros.
• Historical example at Orithena (ancient temple site): Metekoranes (ancient geometer) is described as believing the finished pattern of the Teglon (tiling problem) exists in the HTW, and that only one able to "see into" it could solve the puzzle.

Debates and Interpretations

• Aboutness and measurement: some argue that if minds think about theorical objects, then measurable brain activity reflects information arriving from the HTW; others find this framing questionable or prefer to bracket it.
• Aboutness and the Split: after the Reconstitution, debate about "Aboutness" hardened into faculty labels at the Concent of Saunt Muncoster—for example, The Syntactic Faculty (linked to Procian/Faanian stances) emphasized syndevs processing digits without true aboutness, while The Semantic Faculty (tracing to Saunt Halikaarn and often citing Evenedric) held that thoughts can have real semantic content and that minds can apprehend ideal forms in the HTW.
• Relation to polycosmic views: classical two-box talk aligns with simple Protism, while "Complex Protism" generalizes the diagram to multiple cosmi connected by arrows that never loop (a directed acyclic graph). In that view, our cosmos may be one node in a larger web through which information percolates.
• Equivalence of nodes and arrows: some expositions of Complex Protism make no strict distinction between theoric worlds and inhabited ones; diagrams even allow arrows leading away from this cosmos toward other inhabited worlds. In that framing, an inhabited world might function as the HTW of other worlds.
• Specific proposals about Arbre: some now suggest that Arbre itself might function as the HTW in relation to other inhabited worlds (for example, Urnud), with activity on Arbre perceived elsewhere as faint signals percolating down the Wick. In this view, the culmination of a controversial praxis leading up to the Third Sack could have been noticed "up the Wick" and drawn attention toward Arbre; others caution that a rough coincidence of eras does not establish cause and emphasize error margins in any cross‑cosmic chronology.
• Propagation across cosmi: some speakers ask how knowledge could reach many minds from a common Theoric World in different worldtracks, and whether such transmission is occurring now between us and them.
• Mediation by adept minds: a complementary view holds that certain adept avout may be unusually sensitive receivers—"picking up signals" arriving at Arbre from farther up the Wick—rather than sources; skeptics counter that this reframes older aboutness debates without new tests.
• Terminology in flux: some now prefer to speak of the Wick and a "Hylaean Flow" percolating along it, moving from "more Hylaean" toward "less Hylaean" domains in a one‑way world‑DAG.
• Consciousness as laboratory: in this framing, the Flow is only noticed when it manifests as perceptions of cnoöns in conscious minds; proponents liken the observable "signals" to inter‑cosmic crosstalk known from quantum effects when worldtracks are close. They suggest nerve tissue is a likely locus for measurable changes, while cautioning that the mechanism—whatever it is—would act on any matter and that our recognition is biased toward minds.
• Amplification and feedback: a senior voice proposes that consciousness selectively amplifies such weak signals, creating feedback loops that steer Narratives; others describe persistent patterns as "attractors" that might account for shared proofs across cosmi and, possibly, convergent traits.
• Application to current puzzles: using this model, speakers floated the hypothesis that similarities between Arbrans and the Geometers, as well as rapid recognition of certain diagrams, reflect attractors in the Flow rather than coincidence. These ideas are presented as working hypotheses, not settled doctrine.
• Metaphors in circulation: talk of a "dinner bell" or "half‑overheard words" has been used to capture how distant theors might be drawn by faint emanations, and how listeners might sense "something happening" even when content is unclear.

Related Terms

• Origins and naming: linked in tradition to the upsight of Cnous and the interpretation taught by Hylaea; early organized inquiry is remembered at Orithena.
• Dictionary usage: "Semantic Faculties" (compare "Syntactic Faculties") is a label for factions that claim descent from Halikaarn; some trace the idea to Protas and earlier to Hylaea.
• Associated metatheorics: Protist and "complex" protist framings are used to compare two-cosmos versus multi-cosmi models involving the HTW.

Lineage and reception

• Interpreters and their lines: At Orithena, a scholar described a "family tree" of those who had tried to make sense of the Hylaean Theoric World. When he pruned away branches he classed as fanatics, Enthusiasts (zealous admirers), Deolaters (devout believers), and dead-enders (stalled schools), the remaining "dowel" ran from Cnoüs through Metekoranes and Protas to Evenedric. This is presented as one speaker’s way of charting a main current, not as official doctrine.
• Contemporary tone: In conversation, the HTW was called a "cozy and familiar form of craziness," a half-joking acknowledgment that some are skeptical while others still use it as a working frame.
• Ongoing context: The HTW is sometimes invoked alongside discussion of the Geometers (visiting aliens), especially when comparing shared ideas of geometry, Truth, and Proof across minds.
• Public rhetoric: During a public dialog at Tredegarh, a Procian hierarch used "Hylaean Theoric World" as a barbed shorthand for abstract preoccupation, asking whether some avout were so entranced by contemplating it that they failed to notice the arrival of an alien probe at Orithena.

Notes

• Some avout—especially Procian/Faanian ones—characterize belief in the HTW as basically a religion; others present it as a theoric frame. Usage and emphasis vary across Orders and individuals.
• Usage across cosmi: when speaking about other worlds, some avoid the "Hylaean" epithet and simply say "the Theoric World" so as not to imply a person named Hylaea in those cosmi.
• Informal label in current talk: "HTW types" is used for strong adherents; some of them infer a kinship with visiting minds and cite a phototype’s adrakhonic demonstration as confirming evidence.