Epsilon and the Architecture of Preset Frames
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is the sixth in the Amirhosseini Cycle (AC) series. It extends epsilon (ε), the minimal departure from the perfection attributed to Perfect Nothingness, from the foundational distinction between Somethingness and Perfect Nothingness to the two poles of every distinction within Somethingness, with one epsilon applying across the architecture. It describes the manifestation of distinction as atemporal symmetry breaking, the loss of perfect superimposition, and represents the resulting differentiated configurations as preset frames on the Ontological Map, a conceptual tool for describing an architecture that AC holds to be real. Each frame is internally fixed and unchanging: time is in the moment, the moment is not in time, and the illusion of time manifests only through traversal across relationally connected frames. Traversal is atemporal and ontologically structural; it does not construct the frames it passes through. The paper introduces no additional foundational assumptions and defers traversal dynamics, observer containment, agency, and physical integrations to future papers.
Author: Amirhosseini, Nader K.
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225348086