Readers Guide

Navigating The Conference of Difference

This book is structured to serve multiple audiences, from philosophers to practitioners. Use the following signposts to navigate:

• 🔍 Philosophers & Theorists: Focus on Parts I & III for deep metaphysical engagement, historical juxtaposition, and philosophical implications.
• ⚙️ Practitioners (Governance, Policy, Design): See c0540 (Social Domain), c0620 (Praxis), and Part III (Applications) for models like Colocracy and applied frameworks.
• 🌐 Interdisciplinary Scholars: Part II (Domains of Evidence) offers a layered analysis across physical, vital, social, and abstract strata of reality.
• 📊 Evaluators & Critics: Part IV (Formal Evaluation) details the OMAF scoring and engages directly with limitations and objections.

A note on perspective & publication status

The comparative analyses in Part I are conducted from a specific vantage point: that of the Conference of Difference (CoD) itself. I am an exponent of this ontology, and my interpretations of other systems—from Plato to Process Philosophy—are inevitably framed by its principles. The purpose of these juxtapositions is not to claim authoritative finality on those traditions, but to stage a constructive conference: to clarify the CoD's distinct contours, test its explanatory scope, and locate its resonances and tensions within the great dialogue of human thought. Just as the discoverer of a physical law like gravity does not 'own' it but rather articulates its conditions, I offer the CoD model not as a proprietary doctrine, but as a proposed lens for seeing the universal grammar of existence.

It is also important to state that this work is independent scholarship. I am not affiliated with an academic institution, nor is this thesis submitted for a credential. It has not undergone formal peer review. As such, I present it in the spirit of a philosophical pre-print: a complete, argued manuscript offered publicly to garner critical feedback on its completeness, robustness, usability, and transformative potential. This book is an open invitation to scholars, practitioners, and curious minds to conference with its ideas, that the model may be refined through the very principle it describes.