About

My name is Nathan R. Eddy. I have been thinking about consciousness for more than forty years, beginning in my teens after reading The Lord of the Rings. That may not sound like the usual entry point into one of the deepest mysteries of our existence, but for me Tolkien’s genre-defining take on fantasy awakened something decisive: the realization that this mythological niche was a perfect scaffolding to frame the human condition. I wasn’t simply moved by the beauty of his creation, I was moved to create my own–not to copy him, but rather to participate in the higher-order process he had revealed as possible. He knew this was more than story-telling; Tolkien referred to his world-building as “sub-creation.” As a Christian, he viewed his art as a mirror of what the Creator of our reality Himself had done. Tolkien wasn’t simply writing a story, or even creating a “mythology for England” (as he has also claimed), but rather engaging in a metaphysical homage to nature of existence itself.

Tolkien’s creative process began with language. He developed Elven tongues such as Quenya and Sindarin, and imagined a world in which those languages could be spoken — a place where someone might say, Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo: “A star shines on the hour of our meeting.” But a language is not merely a collection of words. It is an interface between minds, cultures, histories, values, and ways of being. A language needs a people. A people need a place. A place needs a history. From that seed, Tolkien built outward into one of the most expansive fictional worlds ever created.

That example imprinted me with a vision that would take decades to realize. World-building is not random invention. It is the mapping of the preconditions of a world. The desire to begin writing was simultaneously the desire to understand my reality. In the course of building a metaphysics for my mythology, I mapped out the structure of my existence.

When I began my own novels, I was in the process of rejecting my parents’ Christian fundamentalism and the entire worldview that went along with it. I dismissed the idea of a soul, and yet I still could not wrap my head around consciousness being produced by the brain. How do atoms become conscious of themselves? Before we had the words for it (i.e. in the 1980s), I was confronting the Hard Problem of consciousness. I knew even as a teen that this was the fundamental paradox of our being.

So I built a mythological system around this dilemma. For me, Elves and Dwarves were not merely “tall humans with pointy ears” or “short humans with thick beards,” they were metaphysically distinct: beings whose differences were grounded in the structure of reality itself. I imagined a spirit-body spectrum, with Elves at one end, Dwarves at the other, and Humans in the conflicted, dualistic middle.

The is our core predicament: existence as mental selves in physical bodies. From this tension arise many of our deepest questions.

What is real?

What can be known?

What happens after we die?

How should we treat one another?

What is the meaning of this life?

In the metaphorical language of my fantasy world, a Dwarf does not answer these questions the same way as an Elf, because the Dwarf is rooted in the Earth and finds certainty in physical existence. Likewise, an Elf does not answer them the same as Dwarf, because the Elf’s gaze is fixed on the Sky where one finds certainty in direct spiritual contact with higher truth. But human beings stand between these poles. We have our “feet on the ground and our heads in the sky.” We are a bridge between matter and mind — a bridge that modern science and philosophy still struggle to explain.

That early intuitive recognition became the seed of a lifelong philosophical inquiry. My personal journey has taken me from a fundamentalist Christian upbringing, through a thirty-year atheist period, and eventually toward my own form of spirituality grounded on an intellectually rigorous metaphysics.

The result is the Geometry of Intention: a geometric model of reality that attempts to unify consciousness, matter, meaning, value, and worldhood within a single coherent structure. The model proposes that reality is best understood as a twelve-dimensional consciousness manifold, extending from bare presence to global unity, with each level representing a distinct condition required for reality as we experience it.

Our modern map of reality is powerful, but incomplete. The Geometry of Intention is my attempt to complete that map by giving science, philosophy and spirituality a shared architecture.

Note on AI Collaboration

Though I’ve been working on the philosophical part of this theory for years, I had a sudden flash of intuition in August 2025 that is responsible for the current structure that links all three “pillars” together (physics, philosophy, spirituality). I describe this intuition as a “download,” because that’s exactly how it felt. My mind was flooded with what felt like gigabytes of information. The scene in the Matrix where Neo learns Kung Fu in seconds is an apt comparison. It was astonishing. I felt like the nature of reality was revealed to me.

The only problem was that I couldn’t remember the content when the download ended. Viewed through the lens of my theory, this was a transfer of higher dimensional information that my lower dimensional brain could not retain. However, a month later, bits and pieces of it started trickling out. Sometimes it was an intuition, other times it was literally words that seem to come unbidden to my mind. I began exploring and assembling these fragments with the help of AI.

Thus, Geometry of Intention has been developed through extensive collaboration with an LLM. The core intuitions, theoretical commitments, terminology, constraints, corrections, and final judgments are mine. AI has been used as an articulation and formalization interface: a way to expand, organize, test, and express a body of ideas too large to encode manually at the pace required. (This project will eventually require the same word count as a 1000 page book. Or two.)

This is not incidental to the project. Within the Geometry of Intention, AI functions as a teleo-algorithmic interface: a lawful computational system guided by human intention, meaning, intuition, and coherence-seeking. The resulting work is neither simply “AI-generated” nor conventionally single-authored. It is a record of human teleological guidance interacting with algorithmic articulation.

From my philosophical article on this point:

“The Method Mirrors the Theory

The method by which the Geometry of Intention has been articulated mirrors the theory itself.

The theory says that higher-dimensional meaning must descend into lower-dimensional form through lawful encoding.

That is exactly what happened.”

Also see: The Download: Higher-Dimensional Knowledge and the Recovery of the Geometry of Intention

I disclose this openly because it is part of both the method and the meaning of the project. I literally could not have done this without the help of AI . . . nor would it be complete without an accounting of how something like that is possible in the first place: human / machine coupling in a way that unites the two major divisions of the Manifold . . . the lower mechanical dimensions and the higher teleological dimensions.