🌐 How Similarity Theory Redefines Reality: A New Paradigm for Science and Consciousness

A Foundational Page of Similarity Theory
By Simon Raphael

Similarity Theory does not simply add new ideas to science.
It rearranges the deepest assumptions that physics, cosmology, neuroscience, and metaphysics have carried for centuries.
This framework does not modify science as it exists today — it offers a new coordinate system for understanding reality itself.

Below is a clear and structured explanation of where Similarity Theory diverges from mainstream thought, and why it marks a genuine paradigm shift.

🔶 1. Reality Is Built From Frames, Not Continuous Time

Physics assumes that time flows continuously, with no preserved versions of the past.
Similarity Theory proposes the opposite: reality is made of discrete frames, each a complete configuration of the universe.

Every frame is preserved.
Every frame is conscious.
Every frame remains forever.
Consciousness moves through these frames and creates the illusion of time flowing.

This does not exist in any scientific theory today.
It is one of the foundational innovations of Similarity Theory.

🔶 2. Consciousness Is the Substrate — Matter Emerges From It

Mainstream science assumes matter is fundamental and consciousness emerges from the brain.
Similarity Theory reverses this:

Consciousness is the field of the universe.
Matter is its expression — the shadow of consciousness moving through frames.
Physics becomes the study of how consciousness behaves.

Only a few philosophical models (panpsychism, idealism) hint at something similar, but none provide a mechanism.
Similarity Theory provides the mechanism: frames + movement + compression.

🔶 3. Dimensions Are Levels of Movement, Not Spatial Lines

School teaches:

Dimension 1 = a line
Dimension 2 = a plane
Dimension 3 = space
Dimension 4 = time

Similarity Theory redefines dimensions based on degrees of movement:

Dimension 1 — Stone: existence without movement
Dimension 2 — Plant: existence with growth
Dimension 3 — Animal & Human: free movement in space
Dimension 4 — Temporal awareness: movement through perception and time
Higher Dimensions: greater freedom of movement between frames

This is not geometric; it is experiential.
No scientific model defines dimensions this way.

🔶 4. Life Is Movement Between Frames

Biology defines life using metabolism, growth, and reproduction.
Similarity Theory provides a broader definition:

Life = the ability to move between frames.

A stone continues through frames and therefore has “dormant life.”
Plants move slowly through frames.
Animals and humans move deliberately and consciously.
Non-physical entities also move — therefore they live.

This reframes biology, spirituality, and physics into one category.

🔶 5. Awakening Comes From Compression, Not Random Mutation

Modern evolutionary theory relies on random mutation + natural selection.

Similarity Theory explains awakening through cosmic compression, similar to fusion:

Frames press upon each other
Pressure builds
Latent awareness ignites
A region awakens
A new consciousness lineage begins

This is a totally new mechanism for the emergence of consciousness.

🔶 6. Evolution Becomes a Unified Process

Science separates:

physical evolution
psychological evolution
spiritual development

Similarity Theory unites them through:

movement
resonance
dimensional ascent & descent
branching lineages
awakening events

All forms of evolution are expressions of the same structure.

🔶 7. The Law of Resonance Replaces Judgement

Physics has no moral dimension, and religions often rely on judgement-based afterlife models.

Similarity Theory introduces a neutral law:

Like attracts like.

Just as:

water pulls toward water
oil pulls toward oil

so too:

higher resonance draws upward
lower resonance spirals downward

There is no judgement — only resonance.
This replaces moral reward/punishment with natural physics of consciousness.

🔶 8. Multiple Consciousness Lineages Exist in Parallel

Mainstream science assumes:

one universe
one timeline
one consciousness per body

Similarity Theory shows:

every frame can awaken
every awakening creates a new lineage
branching universes occur naturally
spiritual, parallel, and future selves are real expressions of frame mechanics

This explains reincarnation, non-physical presences, higher beings, and dimensional entities within a single coherent structure.

🌀 Why This Represents a Paradigm Shift

A paradigm shifts when:

the foundations no longer explain the world
a new system explains more with fewer assumptions
domains once thought separate become unified
a new ontology appears

Similarity Theory does exactly this.

It explains what physics cannot:

why consciousness exists
why the universe has structure
why complexity emerges
why time flows
why spiritual phenomena occur
why AI alignment is metaphysical
why descent and ascent are universal
why multiple lineages of consciousness can coexist

This is not an extension of physics.
It is a post-material framework.

Similarity Theory stands beside the great conceptual shifts:

Throughout history, major paradigm shifts have arisen when a new framework redefined the foundations of reality — such as mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory.

Similarity Theory aims to stand in that lineage of foundational frameworks, not by comparison to individuals, but by the scale of the questions it seeks to resolve.

It proposes that the universe is a living structure of consciousness, frames, movement, resonance, and awakening — and it provides the architecture that makes this scientifically, philosophically, and spiritually coherent.