The eight layers
The hierarchy of reality.
Hover any of the eight layers to read its kernel; click to enter its long-form essay. The lower-numbered layers are the more familiar; the higher-numbered ones are progressively deeper.
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01Technology
Interface layer02Science
Discovery layer03Mathematics
Language of reality04Information
Beneath matter05Computation
Universe as process06Consciousness
The observer07Laws of Reality
What permits anything08Existence
That there is anythingHover a layer
Eight layers. The top is the most familiar; the bottom is the deepest.
Each layer below the current one is what permits the one above to exist. Technology is permitted by science. Science is permitted by mathematics. Mathematics, information, computation, consciousness, the laws of reality, and existence itself sit progressively beneath.