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Perpectomes

Perspectome is a neologism coined to articulate the totality of cognitive components or “mental formations” that assemble to form what is otherwise called mind, and in this sense also describes self or personhood, acknowledging it is by its nature an assemblage of perspectives. Perspectome is essentially a metaphor, with psychological components analogous to the biological components in the concept of holobiome (i.e. including the host and its microbiome) emphasizing the set of parts that combine to make the whole.

The suffix “-ome” is used in the life sciences (esp. biology) to form nouns meaning “the totality of something” and thus “-omics” means “the study of the totality of something.” i.e.:

gene + ome → ‎genome
‎gene + ‎-omics → ‎genomics

(see: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-omics)

In perspectomic terms, a perspectome is a system which emerges from a collection of modes.

The intermediary descriptive category of spheres indexes the component units in the dimensions (modes, schema, heuristic, concept, and percept) and describes how the units function operationally (i.e. executively). The explanatory power of this imaginary arrangement of spheres and the units they contain to describe a person, self or totality of mind comes from the way they are to be conceived interacting.

brain comes from the idea of using Dyson spheres to power an enormous, star-sized computer. The term “Matrioshka brain” originates from Matryoshka dolls, which are wooden Russian nesting dolls. Matrioshka brains are composed of several Dyson spheres nested inside one another, the same way that Matryoshka dolls are composed of multiple nested doll components.