🌐 Between Science and Philosophy
A Framing Page of Similarity Theory
By Simon Raphael
✨ Introduction Note
Similarity Theory begins as a bridge between science and philosophy. It does not present itself as unproven physics, nor as abstract speculation, but as a philosophical framework rooted in scientific discovery. This introduction sets the stage: showing where the theory belongs, how it extends beyond conventional boundaries, and why it matters as a lens for understanding dimensions, time, and consciousness.
🌀 Philosophical Framework
🔎 Philosophy with Scientific Roots
Similarity Theory does not claim to replace physics or cosmology. Instead, it provides a lens of interpretation — a way of seeing the continuity of existence through the principles of Dimensions, Time, and Consciousness.
Philosophically, the theory builds on a tradition that includes:
David Bohm’s Holomovement — reality as an unfolding whole.
Michael Talbot’s Holographic Universe — interpreting science through metaphor.
Alfred North Whitehead’s Process Philosophy — reality as dynamic becoming.
Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum’s Sintergy Theory — the field of consciousness as the fabric underlying perception and reality.
Like these thinkers, Similarity Theory does not discard science but extends it. It treats scientific discovery as evidence of deeper continuity, showing that the same principles repeat across scales — from atoms to galaxies, from human thought to cosmic order.
🌌 Science as Map, Philosophy as Lantern
Science is a map: precise, measurable, bounded. It charts the terrain we can observe and test.
Philosophy is a lantern: it illuminates the spaces just beyond the map, showing pathways science may later measure.
Similarity Theory is a lantern guided by the map. It does not wander into fantasy but follows the outline of what science already suggests, extending its implications into consciousness, existence, and meaning.
🧭 Two Central Contributions of Similarity Theory
Frames of Time
Time is not a single, uniform flow but a sequence of nested frames, like the still images of a film reel. Consciousness animates these frames, creating the experience of continuity and free will. While philosophers have discussed the “specious present” (James) and phenomenological time (Bergson), Similarity Theory uniquely develops a structured model of temporal frames that connects lived time to cosmic expansion — each choice, each moment, generating new frames that extend the universe itself.
Dimensions of Consciousness
Consciousness has long been studied in terms of levels or aspects (awareness, content, wakefulness). Similarity Theory extends this into a dimensional hierarchy of awareness, linking consciousness to the very structure of existence. These dimensions are not only psychological categories but existential tiers of being, comparable to physical dimensions yet rooted in lived sentience. This integration of consciousness with dimensional cosmology is the theory’s distinct contribution.
🔦 Why Similarity Matters
Similarity Theory argues that patterns repeat — not identically, but through echoes and resonances. This repetition explains why human consciousness, cosmic structure, and even ethical principles can be seen as part of one continuous fabric.
Just as mathematics allows science to describe physical reality, similarity allows philosophy to interpret the continuity of all realities. And just as mathematics itself is built on repeating cycles of numbers — 0 to 9, then 10 to 99, and so on — reality, too, unfolds in repeating cycles. These patterns echo through dimensions, through consciousness, and through existence itself.
🔬 Scientific Grounding
What It Draws From
Relativity (Einstein, 1915): Time and space as relative frameworks.
Quantum Mechanics (Bohr, Heisenberg, Wheeler): Indeterminacy and the observer effect.
String Theory / M-Theory (Witten, Greene): Higher dimensions beyond the visible.
Multiverse Models (Tegmark, 2014): Nested and parallel realities.
Information Physics (Wheeler, 1990): Reality as information before matter.
Sintergy Theory (Grinberg-Zylberbaum, 1980s): Consciousness as a fundamental field interacting with neural processes.
Where It Extends Further
Introduces Frames of Time as the layered structure of temporal experience.
Defines Dimensions of Consciousness as existential tiers linked to reality itself.
Reframes dimensions as frameworks of awareness, not just geometry.
Integrates ethical resonance: similarity is both physical and moral.
🌠 Beyond the Big Bang
Modern cosmology often begins with the Big Bang, a hot, dense singularity that expanded into space-time. Similarity Theory does not reject this — it embraces it as a true description of the beginning of measurable physics.
But the theory goes further: the first cause was not explosion but awareness. Before the bang, before space, before time — emptiness recognised itself. This moment of self-awareness sparked resonance, and only then did the physical universe expand.
Thus, the Big Bang describes how the universe grew, while Similarity Theory addresses why it began at all.
📚 References
Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Routledge.
Grinberg-Zylberbaum, J. (1991). Toward a Synthesis of Neuroscience and Consciousness: Sintergy Theory. Instituto Nacional para el Estudio de la Conciencia.
Talbot, M. (1991). The Holographic Universe. Harper Perennial.
Tegmark, M. (2014). Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. Knopf.
Wheeler, J. A. (1990). Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links. Addison-Wesley.
Witten, E. (1995). String Theory Dynamics in Various Dimensions. Nuclear Physics B, 443(1–2).
Raphael, S. (2025). Similarity Theory.
