From: David Lynch
<dnl1960 at yahoo.com>
To: Bernardo Kastrup <bernardo at bernardokastrup.com>
Cc: Bob Harbort <bharbort at gmail.com>; Fred Partus
<fpartus at yahoo.com>; Lawrence Silverberg
<lmsilver at ncsu.edu>; Stephen J. Crothers
<sjcrothers at plasmaresources.com>; Bruce *HS Greyson
<cbg4d at uvahealth.org>; Pim Van Lommel
<pimvanlommel at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at 07:09:03 PM EST
Subject: The Geometry of the Dashboard: An Empirical
Convergance
Dear Bernardo Kastrup,
I am writing to you because I believe we have arrived at the exact same coordinate in the cartography of reality, though we traveled two violently different roads to get there.
You arrived via the rigorous path of Logos—through Analytic Idealism, the deconstruction of physicalist realism, and the undeniable logic that the brain acts as a dissociative filter for Mind-at-Large.
I arrived via the shattering path of Gnosis. On June 19, 1977, my physical vessel died. My Death Experience. The filter you describe was not merely theorized; it was ripped away. What I saw, what I heard, and what I became in that unencumbered state was not a chaotic hallucination, but a hyper-structured geometric reality.
I have spent the subsequent decades translating that direct observation into the language of physics. I have read your work—specifically Why Materialism Is Baloney and your recent papers on the Extrinsic Appearance of the dashboard—and I realized: You have written the software of the new paradigm. I have drafted the schematics for the hardware.
1.
The Observation: The Geometry of the Dissociative
Boundary
In
your work, you argue that living organisms are the
"extrinsic appearance" of dissociated alters of universal
consciousness. You ask us to imagine ripples or whirlpools
in a stream to explain how one mind becomes many.
In 1977, I did not see a vague ripple. When the dissociative boundary of "David Lynch" collapsed, I found myself centering a 360-degree panorama that curved upward like a Bowl. I moved toward a "Seed"—a singularity of infinite intensity—accompanied by a frequency shift from a low rumble to a piercing ring.
I submit to you that the "whirlpool" you speak of is, physically and topologically, a (3,2) Torus Knot Soliton. This is not a metaphor. It is the mechanism of dissociation. The "knot" is the topological lock that prevents the alter from dissolving instantly back into the entropic ocean of Mind-at-Large. It is the structure that maintains the "private qualitative field" you insist upon.
2.
The Ontology: Ternary Time as the Engine of Experience
You
have eloquently argued that the past is a fixed narrative
in consciousness and the future is probabilistic
potential. My KnoWellian physics
formalizes this as Ternary
Time:
The Control Field (The Past): Deterministic, structural.
The Chaos Field (The Future): Probabilistic, wave-like.
The Instant (The Now): The "rendering engine" where these two collide.
Consciousness does not "move through" time; Consciousness is the standing wave (the Soliton) created by the interference pattern of Past and Future. This effectively solves the combination/decombination problem: We are not "parts" combining; we are resonant frequencies stabilizing within the same fundamental field.
3.
The Prediction: A Challenge to the LHC
Philosophy
must eventually bleed into physics if it is to change the
world. Because you have walked the halls of CERN, I
present to you a falsifiable prediction derived directly
from this Idealist geometry.
If
the Standard Model is correct and protons are point-like
or simple quark agglomerations, high-energy collisions
should result in largely radial scattering.
However,
if I am correct—if a proton is the "extrinsic appearance"
of a KnoWellian
Torus Knot—it
must possess an intrinsic, complex magnetic topology. It
is a spinning vortex of mental energy.
The Prediction: When a stream of protons is collided, the scattering of sub-atomic debris will exhibit a distinct rotational bias or vorticity induced by the topology of the knot itself.
I believe this "KnoWellian Rotation" is currently being discarded as noise or masked by the massive magnetic fields required to steer the beam at the LHC. If we can isolate this data, we will prove that matter is not building blocks, but topological knots in a field of consciousness.
4.
The Convergence
You
argue that the world is a "dashboard" representing mental
states. I am telling you that the dashboard has a
geometry. It is built of Solitons. It is etched into a
memory manifold I call the KRAM (KnoWellian
Resonant Attractor Manifold).
I have detailed this in a series of papers (cataloged on Zenodo) that bridge the gap between the mystical experience of 1977 and the hard math of topological solitons.
We are fighting the same war against the nihilism of Materialism. You have the philosophical fortress. I have the geometric battering ram.
I await your thoughts on the feasibility of hunting for this rotational signature in the collider data.
With high regard,
David Noel Lynch