About the Book - Quid Est Veritas - What is Truth

Many discourses on the universe and humanity fail to properly account for the rigorous demands of both philosophical and scientific reasoning. In response to this common difficulty, “Quid Est Veritas” emphasizes the connections between the fields of Epistemology, Ontology, and their most relevant scientific counter-parts. The limits and extent of human knowledge, the nature of reality, the way humans detect and perceive their surroundings, the building blocks of life, consciousness, time and space, religious belief or religious skepticism, logic, none exist independent of one another. But how can one even hope to respectably study such a wide-ranging list?

To begin, this exploration first approaches both the difficulties and possibilities in attempting to definitively prove anything at all, along with the flaws and benefits of language, logic, and math. Naturally, given the inter-disciplinary nature of the work, the flaws and benefits of specialist and generalist approaches are evaluated carefully, as well. Assuming universality on what makes a statement or inference true is a grievous flaw that cripples the integrity of countless studies and beliefs. Once accounting for that philosophical obstacle, the book examines the fundamental principles behind how we become aware of everything around us, along with the elemental reason why paradox and super-states exist in our universe. Instead of leaving these as unknowns, or creating unnecessary theories to account for such mysteries, this book helps illustrate how it is the very nature of our universe and our interpretive abilities that accounts for them.

To continue looking at the fundamental structure of our reality, the most relevant developments in modern Physics are explored. The way time, space, and gravity are deeply interconnected is presented, along with a way to account for the mysterious super-positioning of sub-atomic particles, once again not requiring any extraneous or confounding theoretical possibilities. Working upwards, the cellular basis of life and the capacity for independent awareness is then explored. Once this foundation is complete, the challenging complication of varying levels of intelligence and especially consciousness is rigorously pursued. Once accounting for the nature of sapience (human consciousness), one can finally approach the ambiguities of “Truth”, “Good”, “Shame”, “Belief” “God” “Love” and other words with uniquely sapient meanings. That final challenge and exploration leads to the end of the book.

The central focus is in the challenge to evaluate something as intangible as “Truth” within an academically grounded inter-disciplinary framework. By relying on only the soundest axioms and most fundamental postulates, “Quid Est Veritas” presents a new beginning to the rapidly growing and ground-breaking field of authoritative inter-disciplinary research.