A thesis
Let's call experience that which happens to an entity, and let's call a subject any entity that can process its own experience. Then let's take unprocessed experience to be the experience of a subject before it is processed.
These assumptions yield what we might call a processing theory of mind, varying from the computational theory of mind in its relaxation of the requirement that the process be a computation (in a technical sense). By relaxing this requirement and importing our scale language, we now have a single, simple theory to explain itself and all other basic philosophies (in metaphysics, epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, philosophies of mind, consciousness, perception, etc.) as first-level abstractions atop unprocessed experience. Our theory accounts for fundamental philosophical variety through the necessary loss of information accompanying the abstraction away from unprocessed experience, and we can use the same simple tools to work with everything above this basic philosophical level as well (science, art, the humanities, business, politics, religion, interpersonal relationships, etc.).
Booyah.
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