About

From Mass to Form is an evolving theory of interaction as the single substance of reality. This site is its working home.

Where the theory is

The theory is at version 0.2. It is conceptually complete enough to begin formalizing, but the formal mathematical skeleton is not yet written. The current state:

• v0.1 — Foundations. The single-primitive ontology, the atomic interaction script, the rooted-tree structure with Mass at the leaves and the One Interaction at the root, Forms as self-maintaining agents, the action / interaction feedback loop, the decay / emergence balance, and the working dictionary.
• v0.2 — The Asymmetric Epistemic Principle. The hub structure of every agent (one interior, many exteriors) and the structural impossibility of fully deciphering the parent interactions in which one participates.

The next versions will likely tackle:

1. The first formal mathematical skeleton — labeled rooted tree, mark alphabet, computation rule, agent equivalence relation.
2. The dynamic equation for the decay / emergence balance, made precise as a master equation or stochastic process.
3. What unifies a hub's many awarenesses — likely via autopoiesis, but needing precise formulation.
4. The status of randomness — ontological versus epistemic, and how the formalism handles it.

How this site is built

Static HTML and CSS, served by nginx, no JavaScript, no tracking, no third-party requests beyond the typeface CDN. Every page is built from a single template and a content fragment via a small Python script. The whole site (including the deploy configuration and this page) is tracked in the theory's git repository — so the site itself is part of the version history of the theory.

Typography: Source Serif 4 for body, Inter for headlines and navigation. Built to be readable at length and respectful of dark mode.

Provenance

The theory was developed in a long dialogue between Uri Even-Ezra and Claude (Anthropic). Uri set the ontological commitments at every step; Claude played back, sharpened, named, and pushed for consistency. Each substantial conceptual move was committed to a versioned document at the time it was made. The site you are reading is the publication of that record.

Contact

This is a personal philosophical project, currently without a discussion forum. If you find the theory interesting and want to engage, the right way to reach the author is through email — published on the source repository, when that goes public.

An evolving work. Subject to revision. The version is shown in the footer.