(Aa.1) All that we as humans can ever know of reality
is the sum of all the knowledge gained from sensory data
collected from our material environment of which we ourselves are a
part.
(Aa.2) The sum of all knowledge of materiality comes
to us in the form of properties of the material in our
environment (which, indeed, includes all of reality that is material
including ourselves) as the result of the interaction of material and
our material sensory cells that result in the perception
of sensation in our mind.
(Aa.3) Matter as we understand it to be is the amalgamation of
three forms of matter: subatomic particles, atoms, and chemically
bound collections of atoms called molecules. Matter exists in three fundamental
states: solid, liquid, gas and plasma. Plasma is the most abundant form
of ordinary matter in our universe. The stuff that glows
in neon signs and lighting are examples of plasma.
(Aa.3.1) Humans are a chemically bound collection of
subatomic particles and atoms.
(Aa.4) Matter coexists as energy and one can
be transformed into the other at the subatomic level. Energy exists in
many interchangeable forms. We have no bodily sensors for energy
itself and can only indirectly measure it by way of its effect on matter.
(Aa.4.1) Humans eat food containing chemical energy
which is transformed by our bodies into the kinetic energy of motions of
our bodies.
(Aa.4.2) The light sensory cells in our eyes
transform the radiant energy of light into the electrochemical energy
that propels electrical signals from the eye to the brain.
Similar systems exist for our other senses.
(Aa.4.3) The brain uses energy to power
them mental process in our brain that produce consciousness,
awareness, sensation, thought and memory.
(Aa.5) Forces are the material tools that are
capable of producing change in matter and energy. Forces
acting on mass produce motion that results in change.
(Aa.5.1) Forces are what the muscles in your
legs use chemical energy to produce to enable you to walk, run and jump.
(Aa.6) Chemistry is the natural process by which matter,
energy and forces not only form the physical human body but also
enable it to interactively perform every function necessary for life.
(Aa.6.1} Chemistry is the process that
creates a new living thing but also which sustains its life and enables
reproduction. Failure of the chemical process results in cessation of life.
(Aa.6.1.1) Chemistry
is the process that encodes the data that governs the chemical processes
of life in our DNA, enabling not only sustenance of life but also continuation
of life by reproduction of the physical entity sustaining life.
(Aa.6.1.2) Chemistry is the
process that enables the brain to develop consciousness,
awareness, thought, memory, sensations, and qualia
including that of the emotions as well as thought, reasoning and
memory.
(Aa.7) Materiality is the sum total of the existence
of humans. No aspect of human existence or experience
lies beyond the realm of materiality.
(Aa.8) Being composed totally of the subatomic particles (quarks
and electrons) which combine to form the atoms (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and
nitrogen among others) found in all living things which, in turn
combine to form the organic compounds (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and
nucleic acids) which are conjoined to form all parts of our body
(connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue
(including our brain)), we are totally bound by the invariant ‘laws of
nature in every aspect of our being.
(Aa.8.1) Humans are not bound by any
other natural laws, expectations, obligations, or ethics.
(Aa.8.2) Humans are both a product of
and a part of the natural world of materiality and are
inseparable from it.
(Aa.8.3) No aspect of human existence
is incorporeal.
(Aa.9) All that we can truly know of materiality is the
reflection it casts on us by way of the mental processes it indirectly educes
in our physical brain.
(Aa.9.1) To directly experience the materiality
of the world would be analogous to us watching ourselves watching ourselves
which is as futile an exercise as a cat chasing it tail.
(Aa.9.2) Although we are an integral
part of materiality, materiality itself remains hidden from us as
if lurking behind a wall of obscurity. We can only experience the
effects it causes in our corporeal body.
(Aa) While humans are an integral part of the material world, all we can know of materiality is the effects of it on our sensory contact with it. No aspect of human existence or experience lies beyond the realm of materiality. No aspect of human existence is incorporeal.