Theory of everything

Another result of our brain's desire to create broader and broader generalizations is the natural drive to develop "theories of everything." Traditionally, these have always taken the form of god, religion, or philosophy, leading to a god concept. In modern times, those seeking a scientific theory of everything tend to focus on the laws of physics.

With the complexity of modern physics, you cannot really participate in the mathematical theory of everything game without an advanced degree. This does not stop armchair experts from jumping straight into the deep end when they have no business leaving the kiddie pool. A famous example of this is Terrence Howard, the actor who created a theory of everything based on sacred geometry, but then rewrote half the known laws of math and physics to make them fit his theory. Nassim Haramein's Cosmometry is another attempt by an amateur physicist and sacred geometry enthusiast to win the Nobel prize without creating a work worthy of publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Even those with advanced degrees have trouble contributing anything noteworthy. Physics is hard.

The armchair experts that generate pseudoscientific theories are usually just grifters or narcissists. Sometimes they are smart people who confuse the need to understand the world holistically with the need to understand it mathematically. The brain just wants to feel like it understands the world. Doing this is more about recognizing holistic patterns than making reductionist mathematical proofs. That is why religion has been able to satisfy the need for a theory of everything for thousands of years despite being very short on mathematical precision and rational deduction.

metaculture bridges theory of everything gap using a holistic fractal pattern that explains why a mathematical theory of everything is inevitable, even if we don't currently know all the details. It allows people to see the overall pattern of the universe and use that pattern to help the world make sense in both a rational way, and and emotionally satisfying way that a unified field equation never can.

What do we make of the strong similarity between all of the sacred geometry cranks and the fractal theory of everything presented by metaculture? The fact that so many others see these universal patterns and recognize the connection between mathematics, science, evolution, and spirituality that they represent, is a strong argument in favor of this being a new cultural attractor. The difference is that all of the others at some point introduce some type of pseudoscientific theory or supernatural woo (usually panpsychism) because they tend to come from new age spirituality backgrounds rather than academia. The metaculture wiki is obviously not an academic work, it's pop-psychology and spirituality for sure. But, it makes no claims that violate materialism, nor does it propose any new scientific theories, or overstate the implications of existing ones. It simply collects the necessary prerequisite concepts needed to develop a fractal theory of everything and presents them with a holistic and optimistic metanarrative.