Naive

        NAIVE On the Absence of Foundations How to Sense Their Absence and What to Do About It         — a paper —               If you know where nothing is, then you’ll know exactly how to look in order to see the real universe.       You enter, you are here a while, you leave. Your only choice is whether you enjoy it. If you are looking for ‘why’, you have come to the wrong place. Yesterday is a dream and tomorrow is just an illusion. All you ever have is now.     I. The Premise This paper is not a philosophical exercise. It is an observation. Its purpose is not to dismantle existing knowledge but to locate it accurately — to show where it properly sits, and more importantly, to show what it does not rest on. The central claim is simple: neither physics nor the study of mind has a grounded, reliable foundation. This is not a n...