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The Singularity Theory of Existence
A Philosophical Account of the Foundational Substrate of All Existence
Science · Religion · Existence
Most of us learn early that there are two ways to take the world seriously, and that we must pick one. The scientist measures; the believer listens. Each has a vocabulary for what the other leaves out, and each has learned to treat that remainder as noise. The Singularity Theory of Existence begins by asking who built that wall, and what it has cost.
The book's answer is a single ground of reality, the singularity, from which matter, mind, freedom and meaning arise together. Not a point in time and not a machine, but the foundational substrate that every framework stands on and none can stand outside of. From that ground, the old opposition is re-read as a difference of attention rather than a difference of worlds.
The argument moves through philosophy, cosmology and consciousness, and it keeps company on the way: Camus on the absurd, Sartre on freedom, Spinoza on substance, Buber on the space between persons, Tillich on the ground of being. Each is taken at full strength. What emerges is a vision of a world that is ordered, alive, and rich with discoverable significance.
It is a searching, graceful meditation rather than a polemic. It is written for the reader who has felt the pull of both reason and longing and suspected, quietly, that the choice between them was never required.
Nine chapters
Dr. Kareem Tannous, DBA, MBA, MS, BBA, is an applied economist, mortgage and real estate broker/owner, founder and educator: thirty-four years in financial services, and in the classroom since 2014 at NMSU Doña Ana Community College, Cabrini University, Webster University, Columbia College, Edward Waters University and Shanghai University of Finance & Economics. His working life has been spent inside frameworks that claim to be complete, and the book is what he found when he asked what every framework stands on. He writes from Jacksonville, Florida. More about the author.