Hemn Spaces

Hemn Spaces (also called configuration spaces) are abstract theorical spaces attributed to Saunt Hemn and set out in the early Praxic Age. They are not places one can visit. Instead, a Hemn space is a coordinate construction chosen so that each point (an N‑tuple of numbers) captures everything that can be known about a system at an instant.

Description and practice

• Any well‑posed problem can be “moved” into a suitable Hemn space by picking coordinates that expose structure; working there often makes behavior legible that would be opaque in raw x–y–z lists.
• A point represents a complete state; the system’s history is a continuous path—often called a worldtrack—through that space.
• Theors habitually set up an appropriate Hemn space as a first step in analysis. This is not “travel through a fourth spatial dimension” or a stack of parallel rooms; it is a change of description.

Examples and uses

• In cosmography, a six‑dimensional space built from orbital elements offers a clearer picture of motion than positions and velocities, and serves as a concrete special case.
• In teaching dialogs, Hemn spaces are used to explain plausibility and what some speakers call compossibility. A common thought experiment imagines a Hemn Space teleporter that can realize any single point. This underscores that while any isolated point is syntactically possible, only those that encode a coherent history—traces such as records, memories, exhaust plumes, and consistent by‑products—are compossible with an event (e.g., a block of ice found “in” a star). Hemn‑space reasoning thus favors sequences that could have happened, not arbitrary jumps.

Worldtracks, Narratives, and current discourse

At a Plurality of Worlds messal, an elder theor described the cosmos itself as one worldtrack among many in a vast Hemn space. In that account, the visitors now called the Geometers are said to hail from other such tracks (“Narratives”). Another participant gave a primer: when multiple cosmi are modeled as worldtracks in the same configuration space, those tracks lie extremely close together in the vicinity of the earliest configurations and later diverge. Speakers also emphasize that lawful evolution does not always pick a unique successor state: when nature admits alternative outcomes (as in quantum reductions), a worldtrack can fork. In this picture, Hemn space supplies a clear account of time as the ordering of states along a track, while keeping distinct tracks available where different lawful continuations are realized. This framing is related to recent results about distinct kinds of matter and to the history of newmatter, which some describe as realizing nearby, permitted regions of physical possibility without positing “parallel rooms.” Certain speakers prefer the neutral term worldtrack; others use the Narrative idiom (usage varies, and some find it loaded). Subsequent messal conversation contrasted this worldtrack framing with an alternative approach using light‑bubble diagrams and directed acyclic graphs; to some listeners the two explanations seemed unrelated, prompting debate over which framework best clarifies plurality‑of‑worlds questions.

Some speakers also apply the same framing to living systems: damage from radiation and the accumulation of errors during cell division are traced to quantum‑scale contingencies, so a body that has just undergone a mutation and one that has not lie on Narratives separated by only a single forking in Hemn space. In the same vein, a senior fraa warned that this picture has given rise to a plausible but unproven mythology about a “praxis” that could mend such forks—extended in talk to mitigating the effects of aging. Others express a desire to see such talk promoted to fact; in current accounts it remains unverified discourse, not a demonstrated capability.

Consciousness in Hemn‑space terms: a recent formulation likens Hemn space to the landscape and a single cosmos to a point upon it; a given consciousness is then a moving spot of light that brightly illuminates a cluster of nearby points (closely neighboring cosmi), with a dimmer penumbra and darkness beyond. In the bright region, crosstalk among many variants of the brain may occur; fewer contributions arrive from the half‑lit periphery. Some speakers connect this to claims about a “Hylaean Flow” and argue that conscious systems selectively amplify weak inter‑cosmic signals, creating feedback that can steer worldtracks toward stable attractors. A related caution notes an observational bias: effects might be ubiquitous but only noticed when they impinge on minds. These are presented as explanatory framings, not as settled mechanisms.

Notes

• During the Praxic era it became common for theors to “leave” three‑dimensional Adrakhonic space in favor of Hemn spaces when reasoning about real systems.
• Hemn spaces generalize across disciplines: the same principles that clarify orbital dynamics also guide wide‑ranging theorics when the right coordinates are chosen.