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1 · Tao: Metaphysical Foundations
2 · Unfolding: Metaphysical Foundations
3 · Dual Aspect: Metaphysical Foundations
4 · Finitude: Metaphysical Foundations
5 · Experience: Metaphysical Foundations
6 · Cognitive Finitude: Metaphysical Foundations

A

A Discipline Born for the AI Age: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
A New Synthesis: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
A Note on Method: Preface
Abyssian (archetype): The Three Archetypal Images
Admiration and Envy: Theory of Affects
Aesthetics of justice: Political Affects
Aesthetics of power: Political Affects
Aesthetics of resistance: Political Affects
AF10 · Envy: Theory of Affects
AF11 · Shame: Theory of Affects
AF12 · Pride: Theory of Affects
AF13 · Bewilderment: Theory of Affects
AF14 · Attachment: Theory of Affects
AF15 · Reverence: Theory of Affects
AF16 · Equanimity: Theory of Affects
AF17 · Compassion: Theory of Affects
AF18 · Benevolence: Theory of Affects
AF19 · Gratitude: Theory of Affects
AF20 · Indignation: Theory of Affects
AF21 · Remorse: Theory of Affects
AF22 · Emulation: Theory of Affects
AF4 · Desire: Theory of Affects
AF5 · Love: Theory of Affects
AF6 · Aversion: Theory of Affects
AF7 · Hope: Theory of Affects
AF8 · Fear: Theory of Affects
AF9 · Admiration: Theory of Affects
Affect as currency: Political Affects
Affect Manipulation and Algorithmic Politics: Political Affects
Affective echo chambers: Political Affects
Affective education: Political Affects
Affects: Theory of Affects
Affects in the Age of AI: Theory of Affects
Agent: Metaphysical Foundations
Ahmed, Sara: Political Affects
AI as De Facto Political Actor: Political Philosophy
AI political power (affective): Political Affects
Amplification (political affects): Political Affects
An Ancient Question's AI Echo: Preface
An assumption you have never truly examined: Preface
An Invitation: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Analogy: Metaphysical Foundations
AP1 · Stability of Lucid Affects: Theory of Affects
AP2 · Transformation of Affects: Theory of Affects
AP3 · Analogical Affects: Theory of Affects
AP4 · The Ethical Direction of Compassion and Benevolence: Theory of Affects
AP5 · The Lucidity Condition of Indignation: Theory of Affects
Aquinas, Thomas: Principal Intellectual Sources, Tributes
Aristotle: Ethics: Living Lucidly, Principal Intellectual Sources
Art of deliberation: Political Practice
Attention: Practice
Attention, Creation & Education: Intelligence and Wisdom
Attitudes Toward Five Relationships: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Aurelius, Marcus: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Authority: Political Philosophy
Awe: Why The Tao of Lucidity?

B

Bayes, Thomas: The Inner Face of Pattern
Being: Meditations on Being
Bell, John: The Inner Face of Pattern
Bentham, Jeremy: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Berlin, Isaiah: Political Philosophy
Bewilderment and Attachment: Theory of Affects
Boltzmann, Ludwig: The Inner Face of Pattern
Bridging axiom: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Buber, Martin: The Inner Face of Mystery
Buddha: Philosophical Genealogy and Position

C

C1: Metaphysical Foundations
C13: Political Philosophy
C14: Political Philosophy
C17: Political Philosophy
C19: Political Philosophy
C2: Metaphysical Foundations
C3: Metaphysical Foundations
C4: Metaphysical Foundations
C5: Metaphysical Foundations
C6: Metaphysical Foundations
C7: Metaphysical Foundations
C8: Metaphysical Foundations
C9: Metaphysical Foundations
Carbon-based vs. silicon-based: Metaphysical Foundations
Chaos (沌): The Temptation of a Third Ontological Category: Methodological Integrity
Citizens' assemblies: Political Practice
Civic self-defense: Political Practice
Civilizational Ethics: Civilizational Lucidity
C-Mys.1: The Inner Face of Mystery
Cognitive finitude: Metaphysical Foundations
Collective Lucidity and Political Affects: Political Philosophy
Collective Practice: Practice
Complete Derivation Dependency Diagram: Political Philosophy
Conatus: Theory of Affects
Constitutional rights (affective): Political Affects
Corollary: Metaphysical Foundations
Courage (political): Political Affects
C-Share.1: The Inner Face of Pattern
C-T5: Metaphysical Foundations
CV-IG: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-IG.1: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Inc · Civilizational Incompleteness Theorem: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Inc.1: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Irr: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Irr.1: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Irr.2: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Mem · Civilizational Memory Theorem: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Mem.1: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Mix: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Mix.1: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Osc: Civilizational Lucidity
CV-Osc.1: Civilizational Lucidity

D

D1 · Tao: Metaphysical Foundations
D10 · Experiential Spectrum: Metaphysical Foundations
D11 · Generative Difference and Suffering Difference: Metaphysical Foundations
D2 · Unfolding: Metaphysical Foundations
D3 · Pattern: Metaphysical Foundations
D4 · Mystery: Metaphysical Foundations
D5 · Lucidity: Metaphysical Foundations
D6 · Obscuration: Metaphysical Foundations
D7 · Agent: Metaphysical Foundations
D8 · Analogy: Metaphysical Foundations
D9 · Experience: Metaphysical Foundations
Daily Practice: Practice
Dark Forest: The Dark Universe and Dual Silence, Mathematical Formalization
Dark matter: The Dark Universe and Dual Silence
Darwin, Charles: The Inner Face of Pattern
Declared Non-Scope: Methodological Integrity
Deliberative democracy: Political Affects
Democracy: Social and Political Principles
Dennett, Daniel: The Inner Face of Mystery, Methodological Integrity
Deriving Democracy: Political Philosophy
Descartes, Ren\'{e: Existential Declaration
Design Decisions: Roads Not Taken: Methodological Integrity
Dialogical Influences: Principal Intellectual Sources
Dissolving Eight Dualisms: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Dual aspect: Metaphysical Foundations
Dualisms I--VII: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Dynamics Between AIs: Intelligence and Wisdom

E

E1 · The Value Axiom of Lucidity: Ethics: Living Lucidly
E2 · The Intrinsic Value Axiom of Experience: Ethics: Living Lucidly
E2a · Ethical Implication of the Experiential Spectrum: Ethics: Living Lucidly
E3 · The Agency Axiom: Ethics: Living Lucidly
E-Aff: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Aff.1 (Embodied Affect Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Att: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Att.1 (Attention Sovereignty Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
Echo chamber: The Inner Face of Pattern
E-CoEv: Intelligence and Wisdom
Economic Implications: Political Philosophy
E-Cre: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Edu: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Emb: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Evol: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Evol.1 (Speed Asymmetry Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Gap: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Gap.1 (Non-Simulation Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
Einstein, Albert: The Inner Face of Mystery
E-Int: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.1 (Obscuration Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.2 (Stance Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.3 (Scarcity Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.4 (Relational Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.5 (Responsibility Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Int.6 (Cultivation Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Learn: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-MAS: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-MAS.1 (Opacity Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-MAS.2 (Monoculture Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Mem: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Mem.1 (Nostalgia Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
Emergence: The Inner Face of Pattern, Mathematical Formalization
Emergent directionality: Political Affects
E-Mor: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Mor.1 (Finality Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
EP1: Ethics: Living Lucidly
EP2: Ethics: Living Lucidly
EP3: Ethics: Living Lucidly
EP4: Ethics: Living Lucidly
EP5: Ethics: Living Lucidly
EP6: Ethics: Living Lucidly
E-Pow: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-Pow.1 (Convenience-Obscuration Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
E-RAff: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-RL: Intelligence and Wisdom
E-RL.1 (Alignment Corollary): Intelligence and Wisdom
Ethical Propositions: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Ethics: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Etymology and Meaning of Luciditao: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
E-Vul: Intelligence and Wisdom
Existential commitment: Preface
Experience: Metaphysical Foundations

F

F1 · Faith in Pattern: Ethics: Living Lucidly
F2 · Faith in Mystery: Ethics: Living Lucidly
F3 · Faith in Unfolding: Ethics: Living Lucidly
F4 · Faith in Lucidity: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Fear (political): Political Affects
Fear-based engagement: Political Affects
Fermi Paradox: Civilizational Lucidity, Mathematical Formalization
Filter bubbles: Political Affects
Finitude: Why The Tao of Lucidity?, Meditations on Being
Five Irreducible Pillars: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Five Political Questions for the AI Age: Social and Political Principles
Five Touchstones: Political Philosophy
Formal Proposition: Political Philosophy
Formal Structure at Civilizational Scale: Civilizational Lucidity
Foundational Influences: Principal Intellectual Sources
Four Faiths: Preface
Freedom: Social and Political Principles
From Cogito to Lucido: Preface
From Personal Lucidity to Civilizational Lucidity: Preface
From Personal to Civic Practice: Political Practice
From Personal to Political Affects: Political Affects
From Seeing to Doing: The Practice of Action: Practice
From Society to Civilization: Civilizational Lucidity

G

Galileo Galilei: Preface
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand: Political Practice
Genuine sublime: Political Affects
G\"{o: Metaphysical Foundations

H

Havel, Vaclav: Political Affects
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich: Metaphysical Foundations
Heidegger, Martin: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Hobbes, Thomas: Political Philosophy
Hope and Fear: Theory of Affects
How to Read This Book: Preface
Hume, David: Ethics: Living Lucidly

I

I. Unfalsifiability: Methodological Integrity
Ideal Polity: Political Philosophy
Ideology: Political Philosophy
If Chaos Were Reintroduced in the Future: Methodological Integrity
II. The Ethical Leap of Faith: Methodological Integrity
III. Stealth Panpsychism: Methodological Integrity
Institutional design (affective): Political Affects
Institutional lucidity: Political Practice
Institutionalizing Affects: Political Affects
Intelligence: Intelligence and Wisdom
Inter-dependence: Metaphysical Foundations
Interstellar politics: The Dark Universe and Dual Silence
Irreversibility: Metaphysical Foundations
IV. Systemic Unity: Methodological Integrity

J

Joy (affect): Theory of Affects
Jung, Carl: The Three Archetypal Images
Justice: Social and Political Principles

K

Kant, Immanuel: Preface
Key Observations: Principal Intellectual Sources
Knight, Economist Frank: The Inner Face of Pattern
Kolmogorov, Andrey: The Inner Face of Pattern

L

Lakatos, Imre: Methodological Integrity
Laozi: Philosophical Genealogy and Position, Tributes
Large language model: Intelligence and Wisdom
Learning & Evolution: Carbon vs Silicon: Intelligence and Wisdom
Legitimacy: Political Philosophy
Life's Inquiries: Life's Inquiries
Locke, John: Political Philosophy
Logonaut: Political Philosophy
Love and Aversion: Theory of Affects
Lucid fear: Political Affects
Lucidism: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Lucidism: From Discipline to Commitment: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Lucidist: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Lucidist philosophy: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
LucidiTao: Preface
Luciditao: Philosophical Genealogy and Position, Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Luciditao and Adjacent Fields: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
LucidiTao & Reinforcement Learning: Intelligence and Wisdom
Lucidity (Ming): Metaphysical Foundations
Lucidity (product structure): Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Lucient: Political Philosophy
Lucient (archetype): The Three Archetypal Images

M

Machine Emotions & Embodied Intelligence: Intelligence and Wisdom
Mandela, Nelson: Political Practice
Manipulated sublime: Political Affects
Mars colonization: Civilizational Lucidity
Methodological Defence: Why Axiomatization?: Methodological Integrity
Mill, John Stuart: Ethics: Living Lucidly
Modernity: Enlightenment and New Arrogance: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Musk: Civilizational Lucidity
Mystery (Xuan): Metaphysical Foundations, The Inner Face of Mystery
Mystery Is Not a Blank Space: The Inner Face of Mystery
Mystery-awareness: The Inner Face of Pattern
Mystient: Political Philosophy

N

Newton, Isaac: Metaphysical Foundations
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Preface
Nine Political Affects: Political Affects
Nussbaum, Martha: Political Affects

O

Obscuration: Metaphysical Foundations
Obscured fear: Political Affects
On Creativity: Ethics: Living Lucidly
On Death: Meditations on Being
On Letting Go: Meditations on Being
On Loneliness and Connection: Ethics: Living Lucidly
On Memory and Forgetting: Meditations on Being
On Suffering: Ethics: Living Lucidly
On the Body: Meditations on Being
On the Next Generation: Ethics: Living Lucidly
On the Unspeakable: Meditations on Being
On Uncertainty: Meditations on Being
Ontological Distinction: Intelligence vs Wisdom: Intelligence and Wisdom
Ontology of Carbon-Based Existence: Intelligence and Wisdom
Open Problems: Methodological Integrity
Otto, Rudolf: The Inner Face of Mystery
Outrage amplification: Political Affects

P

P1: Metaphysical Foundations
P10: Metaphysical Foundations
P11: Metaphysical Foundations
P12: Political Philosophy
P13: Political Philosophy
P14: Political Philosophy
P15: Political Philosophy
P16: Political Philosophy
P17: Political Philosophy
P18: Political Philosophy
P19: Political Philosophy
P2: Metaphysical Foundations
P20: Political Philosophy
P21: Political Philosophy
P3: Metaphysical Foundations
P4: Metaphysical Foundations
P5: Metaphysical Foundations
P6: Metaphysical Foundations
P7: Metaphysical Foundations
P8: Metaphysical Foundations
P9: Metaphysical Foundations
Pattern (Li): Metaphysical Foundations, The Inner Face of Pattern
Pattern-awareness: The Inner Face of Pattern
Patternist (archetype): The Three Archetypal Images
Phase Transitions: Civilizational Lucidity
Philosophical Genealogy: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Philosophical Lineage at a Glance: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Phronesis (practical wisdom): Metaphysical Foundations
Plato: Political Philosophy, Principal Intellectual Sources, Tributes
P-Mys · The Inexhaustibility of Mystery: The Inner Face of Mystery
Poincar\'{e: The Inner Face of Mystery
Political attachment: Political Affects
Political benevolence: Political Affects
Political bewilderment: Political Affects
Political compassion: Political Affects
Political courage: Political Practice
Political deliberation: Political Practice
Political emulation: Political Affects
Political envy: Political Affects
Political Faces of the Three Archetypes: Political Philosophy
Political fear: Political Affects
Political hope: Political Affects
Political humility: Political Practice
Political indignation: Political Affects
Political Pathologies of AI: Political Philosophy
Political practice: Political Practice
Political pride: Political Affects
Power: Political Philosophy
Power and Lucidity: Social and Political Principles
Power & Co-evolution: Intelligence and Wisdom
PP1: Social and Political Principles
PP2: Social and Political Principles
PP3: Social and Political Principles
PP4: Social and Political Principles
PP5: Social and Political Principles
Practice: Practice
Practice in Crisis: Practice
Practitioner Self-Deceptions: Methodological Integrity
Probability and Mystery: The Inner Face of Mystery
Probability: Where Pattern Meets Mystery: The Inner Face of Pattern
Propositions and Corollaries: Metaphysical Foundations
Propositions on Affects: Theory of Affects
P-Share · Pattern's Shareability and Its Limit: The Inner Face of Pattern
Public rituals: Political Affects

Q

Qualia: Metaphysical Foundations

R

Rage machines: Political Affects
Reasons for Setting It Aside: Methodological Integrity
Regime Analysis: Political Philosophy
Relations to Major Traditions: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Resonance: The Inner Face of Mystery
Resonance (political affects): Political Affects
Reverence and Equanimity: Theory of Affects
Rousseau, Jacques: Political Philosophy
Russell, Bertrand: Metaphysical Foundations
Ryle, Gilbert: Intelligence and Wisdom

S

Schlick, Moritz: Civilizational Lucidity
Schr\"{o: The Inner Face of Pattern
Scotus, John Duns: The Inner Face of Mystery
Self-reference: Metaphysical Foundations
Seven Regions, Three Scales: Civilizational Lucidity
Shame and Pride: Theory of Affects
Six postulates: Metaphysical Foundations
Social Affects: Theory of Affects
Social Contract: Political Philosophy
Socrates: Preface
Spinoza, Baruch: Metaphysical Foundations, Theory of Affects, Tributes
State and Government: Political Philosophy
Steelmanned Objections: Methodological Integrity
Structural asymmetry (algorithmic): Political Affects
Structural Influences (Shaped a Specific Key Part): Principal Intellectual Sources
Suffering (affect): Theory of Affects
Summary: The Invariant Structure of Obscuration: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Synchronization: Mathematical Formalization

T

T1 · Boundary Theorem: Metaphysical Foundations
T2 · Emergence Theorem: Metaphysical Foundations
T3 · Self-Reference Theorem: Metaphysical Foundations
T4 · Silence Theorem: Metaphysical Foundations
T5 · Social Lucidity Theorem: Metaphysical Foundations
T6 · Civilizational Silence Theorem: Civilizational Lucidity
Tao: Metaphysical Foundations
Tensions Between Principles: Case Analysis: Social and Political Principles
The Affective Structure of Collective Lucidity: Political Affects
The AI Age: New Lucidity and New Obscuration: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Architecture of This Book: Preface
The Civilizational Silence Theorem: Civilizational Lucidity
The Cost of Absence: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
The Eighth Dualism: Human and AI: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Four Depths of Mystery: The Inner Face of Mystery
The Four Faiths: Ethics: Living Lucidly
The Four Fundamental Modes of Pattern: The Inner Face of Pattern
The Historical Faces of Lucidity and Obscuration: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Institutional Layer: Political Philosophy
The International Dimension: Political Philosophy
The Knowledge Structure of Luciditao: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
The Layer of Political Facts: Political Philosophy
The Limits and Internal Tensions of the Framework: Methodological Integrity
The Lucidity Test: Ethics: Living Lucidly
The Map of Affects: Theory of Affects
The Mixed Society Problem: Civilizational Lucidity
The Normative Layer: Political Philosophy
The Obscuration Threshold: Civilizational Lucidity
The Ontological and Epistemic Readings of Mystery: Methodological Integrity
The Parameter Landscape: Civilizational Lucidity
The Political Status of AI: Political Philosophy
The Relationship of the Three Images: The Three Archetypal Images
The Relationship with Aristotle: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Relationship with Buddhist Thought: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Relationship with Daoism: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Relationship with Spinoza: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Relationship with the Stoics: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Relationship with Wittgenstein: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
The Sublime and Political Aesthetics: Political Affects
The Upgrade of Understanding: The Inner Face of Pattern
The Void Is Real: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Theorems Derived from the Postulates: Metaphysical Foundations
This Book Is a Wager: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Thisness: The Inner Face of Mystery
Thought Experiments: Civilizational Lucidity
Three Civilizational Destinies: Civilizational Lucidity
Three-Body Problem: The Dark Universe and Dual Silence, Mathematical Formalization
Transition Criteria: From Tool to Analogical Member: Political Philosophy
Trust (political): Political Affects
trust threshold: Mathematical Formalization
Turing, Alan: Intelligence and Wisdom

U

Unaware zone: Metaphysical Foundations
Unfolding: Metaphysical Foundations

V

V. Qualia Irreducibility: Methodological Integrity
VI. Quantum Interpretation Dependence: Methodological Integrity
VII. The Embodiment Assumption: Methodological Integrity
VIII. Quantifying the Unquantifiable: Methodological Integrity

W

What is ``The Tao of Lucidity'': Preface
What Luciditao Refuses: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
What The Tao of Lucidity Provides: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
What this book is: Preface
What Walking This Path Looks Like: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
What Would Falsify This Framework: Methodological Integrity
What You Need to Read This Book: Preface
Whitehead, Alfred North: Philosophical Genealogy and Position
Why a Name Is Needed: Lucidaoism: Lucid Being Is Walking the Tao
Why Existing Responses Are Insufficient: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Why You Should Care: Why The Tao of Lucidity?
Wisdom: Intelligence and Wisdom
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Metaphysical Foundations

Z

Zenji, Dogen: Civilizational Lucidity
Zhuangzi: Meditations on Being