Philosophy → Watching the Split
What’s changed
Every revision of this writing, newest first, and what changed where.
This writing changes as it is reviewed. Each entry below says what changed and where, newest first, so that a returning reader can find the new parts without rereading the whole. Pages that changed since your last visit are also marked where they appear. That date is kept only in your own browser.
12 October 2026
Additions, round 1
New material from the first review: unfolding for reach, the Ten Commandments as a specimen of folding, and a hard guard on what this writing is not.
- Unfolding with examples: New aside: why clear to me is not the test, why unfolding has no free bottom, and teaching with examples the reader already holds, with wireless charging as the first and an animated figure of it.
- Unfold your scepticism: New section, “Why ten”: the Ten Commandments as law folded for transmission, and their grey areas as the fold hitting a fork. “The only form that gets read” is now “one viable form”, and “the only transition” is now “the transition”.
- Ups and downs: New section, “Grey areas”: observe rather than solve, and awareness taking over where a rule stops.
- Eternal life: New section, “Keep going, in every coat”: the same instruction in everyday wisdom, religion, science and life.
- The real enemy: New section, “What this writing is not”: not a new scripture, not a new science, not the peace; an invitation to six domains to unfold rather than fight. My Big TOE is now credited as an inspiration rather than held up as a warning.
- And then there was AI: “It was always the compressed form of a true library” is now “It is very much like the compressed form…”.
- My Big TOE, analysed: New aside: an analysis of Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE — why it inspires, where it invites the test, the one rule that seals itself, and why this writing is an invitation rather than a withdrawal.
- An invitation: Added “What this is not”; “written for people” now names a reader from each domain; the reading guide links the new aside and this log.
- The honest limit: Added a paragraph tying the limit to what this writing is not.
- Rules about almost-nothing: The analogy is now a first-person-shooter game; footnotes credit the goggles to Donald Hoffman and The Three-Body Problem, and link The Matrix.
- Throughout: Where a statement is made strongly, a small “invitation” label now links to what this writing is not.
11 October 2026
Fixes
Corrections after a first outside reading. No change to the argument.
- The rhyme: The four limits are now popups in the table; a leftover sentence was removed; the infinite-manifestations line is called a bet, not a creed.
- An invitation: A missing space restored (“biology and science (folding…”).
- Rules about almost-nothing: A missing space restored (“rules (distances…”).
- Unfold your scepticism: A missing space restored (“as scepticism”).
- Throughout: Every aside’s “Back to where you were” now falls back to the page it is chiefly opened from, instead of the first page.
11 October 2026
First published
Watching the Split goes live: thirteen pages on the main line in four stages, asides, popups and the open discussion.