Chapter 4014  The Hierarchy of the Laws of Reality

The answer was due to the fundamental nature of the information dimension and of information itself.

"Non-uniform phenomenology cannot change the information dimension."

When normal people interacted with reality, they saw many things. They saw land, the sky, the light from the sun, and the ground beneath their feet. They saw a litany of different random objects, like buildings, roads, pavements, walls, doors, automobiles and so on and so forth.

In other words, reality wasn't uniform in people's experiences. Reality was made up of different objects and phenomena that were different from each other. Reality, as they experienced it, was not uniform.

In other words, their phenomenology was not uniform.

But that wasn't true for Rui, not anymore.

When he experienced the world, he saw only one thing.

"Water."

Indeed, everything that flowed from past to future, from birth to death, from inception to end, and from creation to destruction, was Water. Everything was Water. Those weren't just words; they were his actual experience of the world. When he gazed around Kandria, Gaia, and even the entire universe, the only thing he could see was Water.

Thus, his phenomenology was uniform. And that was the key.

"Non-uniform phenomenology cannot alter information in the information dimension while uniform phenomenology can," Rui mused. "It's sort of like a law of the information dimension."

The Law of Uniformity, he could even call it. The Law of Uniformity essentially stated that the flow of information was limited by uniformity, or lack thereof. Thus, only uniform information, such as the uniformity of his phenomenology, could flow through the information dimension and alter reality in the color of Water.

Of course, the Enlightenment of Transcendence was not the only thing needed. Otherwise, any crackpot could smoke some particularly strong opioids and say 'Everything is Water.'

Phenomenological uniformity was not possible without the Martial Soul or something similar. After all, phenomenological experience was divided between conscious and subconscious, and if those were separate, then uniformity was not possible. And in order to have the Martial Soul, one needed the Martial Mind. In order to have the Martial Mind, one needed the Martial Body, and thus the Apprentice Realm, and thus one needed to be a Martial Artist.

Only once one reached the Sage Realm would Enlightenment of Transcendence actually mean anything. Only then would they be able to achieve phenomenological uniformity with the Enlightenment of Transcendence. Thus, to aptly summarize, the Martialverse was the overlap between consciousness and the information dimension born of phenomenological uniformity.

That was the essence of his Transcendent power.

And yet, even his Martialverse, mighty as it was, only occupied a tiny portion of the entire universe. It wasn't just the vastness of the information dimension, either.

It was also the depth.

And yet, even his Martialverse, mighty as it was, only occupied a tiny portion of the entire universe. It wasn't just the vastness of the information dimension, either.

It was also the depth.

"The laws of reality are just patterns of information in the information dimension."

But the more fundamental the law of reality, the more fundamental the pattern. There were the laws of chemistry, which were the most surface-level laws that he could easily alter. "The laws of chemistry are born from the laws of physics," he mused. "Which in turn arises as a combination of the law of causality and the laws of mathematics."

Thus, the laws of causality and the laws of mathematics were even more fundamental to reality than the laws of physics, which depended on their existence. Physics was just measuring causality with mathematics, at its very essence.

And this was where his power stopped.

He could alter causality.

He could even violate the laws of mathematics.

But there were laws of reality that were even deeper than the laws of mathematics and causality.

Laws of reality that were beyond even him.

"The laws of logic."

Not even he could violate those.

"If A, then B. A, therefore B."

This law was known as a Modus Ponens in propositional logic. An example of this was: If [Ria was infinitely adorable], then [she deserved to be fawned over]. [Ria was infinitely adorable], therefore [she deserved to be fawned over]. It was not possible for "If A, then B" to be true while "A, therefore B" to be false. It would be a fundamental contradiction.

This was a law of logic that not even he could violate with his Transcendent power. It would be a contradiction for the conclusion not to be true if the premises were true. There were many such laws of logic that were beyond his power; even he was as much of a slave to the laws of logic as any normal human being.

"And yet, not even the laws of logic are the most fundamental laws of reality," he mused knowingly.

There were laws of reality even deeper than the laws of logic. After all, the only reason that the laws of logic were held to be true was because contradictory statements weren't allowed. If contradictions were permissible in reality, then it would be possible to violate the Modus Ponens Law, causing all laws of logic to completely fall apart.

"The Law of Non-Contradiction is even more fundamental than the laws of logic."

It stated that contradictory statements could not both be true. And this law was why the laws of logic could even exist. It was one of the most fundamental laws of reality that gave birth to all the other laws beneath it.

And it had sisters to form a trio.

"The three Aristotelian Laws of Thought."

The Law of Non-Contradiction.

The Law of Identity.

The Law of Excluded Middle.

They respectively held that the contradictory statements could not both be true, a statement was either true or false, and that there was no third option between absolute truth and absolute falseness.

It was the essence of reality as they understood it.

And yet, it was conspicuously called the three Aristotelian Laws of 'Thought.'

Which meant that the laws of 'thought' were even more fundamental to all of reality than the laws of physics, mathematics, causality, and even logic.

And thought existed within the mind. The implications of this were truly unfathomable and soul-rocking. It implied that he had only just very minutely tapped into the power of the information dimension and his ability to sway all of reality.