I was a high school physics geek, and for most of my life I dismissed knowledge domains like astrology. Then came my divorce in 2017. Afterwards, I happened to read an astrological comparison of the relational chemistry between Gemini and Pisces, and I felt a lot of grief reading it. It reflected the kind of challenges I had with my ex-wife, and I wished someone had pointed them out to me sooner, in that specific, verbalized manner, because then I would have been able to make better choices.

That got me curious about astrology, and I went pretty deep into it. As I did, I realized that the "scientific" dismissal of astrology was pretty weak. It was weak because astrology sits at the intersection of light, consciousness and gravity, and we actually do not have quality scientific theories to make sense of that intersection.

So I started studying physics again, and learned that the mathematical foundation of physics is mathematical logic. That took me on a journey of studying mathematical logic, which is basically philosophy in the form of equations. As I studied its structure, I realized that some of its core assumptions were borrowed from Greek philosophy, via Latin. Assumptions like ex falso quodlibet: from a falsehood, anything follows. It leads to a commonly used mathematical technique called proof by contradiction. It also leads to the design of truthiness in classical logic, where an assertion can only be either true or false.

That opened me up to non-classical logics, which attempt other ways of describing the truthiness of an assertion in the form of an equation, and other ways of structuring proofs. Some of the people building these alternate frameworks were inspired, like I was, by an incursion into Buddhism.

As I went deeper into Buddhism, I noticed that the way Buddhist philosophers embraced paradox was quite unlike how physicists and logicians of the early 1900s responded to paradoxes. Faced with one, they tended to collapse the line of reasoning they had built up. This is what happens, for example, with the wave–particle paradox in physics, or Russell's paradox in set theory. I wondered if that was because of a flawed assumption in how truthiness is structured in classical logic itself.

My original line of work was to codify principles from the Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna's Madhyamika into equations and create an alternate language of logic. Then I'd see how all the deductive pathways that lead up to the mathematical equations of modern physics evolve, and what happens to the wave–particle paradox.

The two alternate disciplines being actively worked on that interest me most are constructive mathematics, which does away with proof by contradiction as a proving technique, and homotopy type theory, which imagines proofs in a geometric manner. Presently, I don't have the rigor to study either, so this project has been stalled for a bit.

Collaborate

• Tutors I can hire to teach me homotopy type theory and constructive mathematics.
• PhD advisors who are okay with guiding me outside typical university structures, paid or unpaid.
• Others with a background similar to mine: a reasonable but not super thorough grasp of math and physics, and enough exposure to Buddhist and other contemporary Indic philosophies. I'm open to paying a research assistant to make progress on this.

Related writing

• The Incomplete Nature of LogicJul 2026
• Ex falso quod libetJul 2024From a Falsehood, anything follows. But does it though?
• On the Mystical Explorations of ArithmeticMay 2024What is mysticism? Why do we perceive numbers? What do the relationships of numbers to each other reveal about the manifested universe?
• Awe and Wonder, hidden beneath innocuously sterile Mathematical resultsNov 2023An update, of sorts, on my main intellectual project
• The absence of Nuance in the presence of FearOct 2023What Galileo realized and how it is misrepresented in normative Science culture
• Decolonizing the Mathematical Foundations of PhysicsJan 2023Could we develop a Mathematical framework for Consciousness if the Scientific endeavor replaced its Greek-inspired Mathematical foundations with wisdom from Buddhism?
• An Inquiry into the Nature of ThingsAug 2020My attempts at understanding the inherent Chaos of existence
• Flaws in Common Arguments against AstrologyApr 2020Courtesy of a better understanding of my own reactive dismissal of Astrology