Sign-In
Cart
The Persistence of Being: A Unified Theory of Consciousness, Death, and Divine Creativity: and the Negation of Absolute Zero
Paperback
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798255295821
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 402
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An eleven-year-old was asked to imagine a closed box and reduce its contents to absolute nothingness using any conceivable means. His answer after a brief moment of reflection was immediate: You cannot reduce the contents to nothing. Nothing is and will always be a something. That single insight-offered over morning coffee by a child unburdened by philosophical convention-initiated one of the most ambitious investigations in contemporary metaphysics. The Persistence of Being: A Unified Theory of Consciousness, Death, and Divine Creativity, and the Negation of Absolute Zero is the record of where that insight led.
Through rigorous modal logic, information theory, and category-theoretic formalization, this volume presents a formal proof that absolute nothingness is logically incoherent. Any attempt to conceive, discuss, or represent absolute nothingness necessarily attributes properties to it-contradicting its own definition. This is not a limitation of language or cognition. It is a structural feature of reality: something must always exist. From this logical foundation, the authors construct an entirely new ontological framework. The existence-essence duality reconceives apparent destruction as transformation between complementary states-observable, manifest reality and structural, informational reality-governed by conservation principles analogous to physical laws. What we call death, disappearance, or annihilation becomes redistribution rather than elimination. Total something-ness is conserved.
The framework introduces flip processes-structure-preserving transformations between existence and essence states-and develops the Modal Logic of Existence (MLE), a specialized formal system with operators for existence states, essence states, flip processes, and conservation. This apparatus enables precise analysis across domains traditionally studied in isolation: quantum mechanics, consciousness studies, theology, and cross-cultural philosophy. Key contributions include Noah's Paradox (the representational impossibility of absolute nothingness), the Principle of Necessary Duality (every entity generates its dialectical counterpart), the Monster Paradox (problems and solutions exist in structural co-dependence), the Information Conservation Hypothesis (information persists through all transformations), and the Divine Suicide Hypothesis (creation operates through self-sacrificial transformation rather than external generation).
Cross-cultural analysis reveals that independent philosophical traditions-Buddhist śūnyatā, Islamic waḥdat al-wujūd, Hindu Advaita Vedanta, and Indigenous relational ontologies-converge on structural insights that resonate with the framework's core distinctions, suggesting recognition of genuine universals rather than culturally constructed concepts.
The investigation generates specific empirical research programs with testable predictions in quantum biology, consciousness studies, and information physics, while addressing its own vulnerabilities with unflinching honesty in a dedicated self-critical chapter. This is the work of Noah O. Boether, whose unencumbered philosophical intuition produced the foundational insights, and Olivier Boether, who subjected those insights to the full rigor of academic philosophy. Together, father and son demonstrate that the deepest questions about existence, consciousness, and meaning may have answers more beautiful-and more hopeful-than we have dared to imagine. Volume I of a projected four-volume series. Predecessor to The Existential Nexus.
The framework introduces flip processes-structure-preserving transformations between existence and essence states-and develops the Modal Logic of Existence (MLE), a specialized formal system with operators for existence states, essence states, flip processes, and conservation. This apparatus enables precise analysis across domains traditionally studied in isolation: quantum mechanics, consciousness studies, theology, and cross-cultural philosophy. Key contributions include Noah's Paradox (the representational impossibility of absolute nothingness), the Principle of Necessary Duality (every entity generates its dialectical counterpart), the Monster Paradox (problems and solutions exist in structural co-dependence), the Information Conservation Hypothesis (information persists through all transformations), and the Divine Suicide Hypothesis (creation operates through self-sacrificial transformation rather than external generation).
Cross-cultural analysis reveals that independent philosophical traditions-Buddhist śūnyatā, Islamic waḥdat al-wujūd, Hindu Advaita Vedanta, and Indigenous relational ontologies-converge on structural insights that resonate with the framework's core distinctions, suggesting recognition of genuine universals rather than culturally constructed concepts.
The investigation generates specific empirical research programs with testable predictions in quantum biology, consciousness studies, and information physics, while addressing its own vulnerabilities with unflinching honesty in a dedicated self-critical chapter. This is the work of Noah O. Boether, whose unencumbered philosophical intuition produced the foundational insights, and Olivier Boether, who subjected those insights to the full rigor of academic philosophy. Together, father and son demonstrate that the deepest questions about existence, consciousness, and meaning may have answers more beautiful-and more hopeful-than we have dared to imagine. Volume I of a projected four-volume series. Predecessor to The Existential Nexus.
Also from
Boether, Olivier
The Raven Philosophy: A Complete Gothic Philosophical System Derived from the Musical Corpus of MONO INC.
Boether, Olivier
Paperback
$27.59
Also in
Philosophy
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea
Taylor, Astra
Hunt-Hendrix, Leah
Hardcover
$14.99
In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument
Williams, Bernard
Paperback
$46.25
The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge
Fixico, Donald Lee
Paperback
$72.79
Dreaming of Cinema: Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media
Lowenstein, Adam
Paperback
$51.00
Machine Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Spiritual Freedom and the Re-Animation of Matter
Lafitte, Luke
Paperback
From $14.99
The Sociogony: Social Facts and the Ontology of Objects, Things, and Monsters
Worrell, Mark P.
Paperback
$43.50
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
Pirsig, Robert M.
Pirsig, Wendy K.
Hardcover
$25.64
The Electromagnetic Brain: Em Field Theories on the Nature of Consciousness
Joye, Shelli Renée
Paperback
From $12.99
Philosophy in Turbulent Times: Canguilhem, Sartre, Foucault, Althusser, Deleuze, Derrida
Roudinesco, Elisabeth
Paperback
$42.00
The New Science of Giambattista Vico: Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the Addition of Practic of the New Science
Vico, Giambattista
Paperback
$43.43
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
Giridharadas, Anand
Hardcover
$10.99
The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
Gottlieb, Anthony
Paperback
$9.99
The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations
Annas, Julia
Barnes, Jonathan
Julia, Annas
Paperback
$48.84
Friendship and Society: An Introduction to Augustine's Practical Philosophy
Burt, Donald X.
Paperback
$28.49
Suffering and the Search for Meaning: Contemporary Responses to the Problem of Pain
Rice, Richard
Paperback
$24.69
Essays V2: Moral And Entertaining On The Various Faculties And Passions Of The Human Mind (1815)
Clarendon, Edward Hyde Earl of
Paperback
$37.44
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
Hanselman, Stephen
Holiday, Ryan
Hardcover
From $12.99
The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us
Goldstein, Rebecca Newberger
Hardcover
From $19.99
The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph
Holiday, Ryan
Hardcover
$26.60
Self-Help from the Middle Ages: What the Seven Deadly Sins Can Teach Us about Living
Jones, Peter
Hardcover
$27.00
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
Paperback
$19.00
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Fifth Anniversary Limited Edition: The Global Bestseller
Mackesy, Charlie
Hardcover
$28.49
Bless & Release: The physics of letting go-and wanting what's meant for you.
Laporte, Danielle
Paperback
$17.10
The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
Easton, Dossie
Hardy, Janet W.
Paperback
$17.99
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Wisdom for Inspiration and Healing from the Heart of Japan
Yoda, Hiroko
Hardcover
$26.10
Self-Reliance and Nature: The Complete First and Second Series of Emerson's Essays
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Hardcover
$24.99