The Theory of the Three Angles: a co-emergent metaphysics of Consciousness, Love, and Form, and its categorical formalization
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) June 29, 2026 Alexis de Pericorès
A metaphysical framework called the Integral System proposes that reality has three co-equal fundamental dimensions—Consciousness, Love (relationality), and Form—which emerge together from a single minimal phenomenon, the Mother Paradox (the act of distinction that all experience presupposes). The framework rejects both materialism (which reduces everything to Form) and idealism (which reduces everything to Consciousness). It formalizes these dimensions using category theory: Form as an invariant via Noether's theorem, Love as a relational profile via the Yoneda lemma, and Consciousness as a fixed point of self-representation via Lawvere's theorem. A central result shows that taking any single dimension as the sole reality undermines itself, making co-emergence a consequence rather than a postulate. The framework acknowledges a limit to formalization: the indexical first person remains as a residue no external objectification captures.