Conscientology

The Inner Architecture

Conscientology is the study of the inner structure of the person in Superjectivism: how the soul stores knowledge, emotions and goals, how the spirit chooses, and how lucidity separates natural from imposed values.

1. The Soul as Library

The soul is where knowledge, emotions and goals are stored and structured. It is not a ghost, but the organised content of a person’s inner life.

Knowledge

  • The soul stores knowledge about reality: concepts, memories, models of how things behave.
  • Superjectivism assumes an objective reality that can be known. Epistemology should stay consistent with real science (no contradictions with physics or chemistry).
  • Knowledge is always held by a person: there is no “view from nowhere”, only persons updating their library.

Goals and values

  • The soul also stores goals – states of the world a person wants to bring about.
  • Underneath goals lie values: what the person ultimately cares about. Values are arranged in a hierarchy: some matter more than others.
  • There is no external “should” that dictates which values you must have. But within a person, their own value hierarchy sets the standard for metaphysical good and evil.

2. Epistemology in Superjectivism

Reality and perception

  • Objective reality exists independently of any person. Persons can make correct or incorrect judgments about it.
  • Perception and reasoning are the basic tools by which a person’s soul builds its library of knowledge.
  • Superjectivism aims to avoid clashes with well-established science. It is not a fantasy system; it is a way of understanding persons within the same world physics describes.

Lucidity and self-knowledge

  • Lucidity is the spirit’s faculty for seeing clearly:
    • what you know and what you do not know,
    • which values are truly yours,
    • which desires have been imposed from outside.
  • Lucidity allows a person to distinguish their natural value-set from values they have passively absorbed from stronger echoes.

3. Emotions as Modes

Emotions are not random noise; they are modes in which the soul and spirit evaluate possible actions.

What emotions do

  • An emotion is a mode of evaluation. It changes how you weigh outcomes and risks.
  • Fear, anger, joy, love and others tilt the decision-making process in different directions.
  • There is no special moral privilege for “authentic” emotions in themselves. What matters is whether they help or sabotage your value hierarchy.

Managing emotions

  • A person can and should manage emotions: recognising when anger, anxiety or infatuation are distorting evaluation.
  • In some contexts, it is useful to engineer an emotion – for example, psyching yourself up for a fight or calming yourself before a difficult decision.
  • Emotion management is part of proper spirit operation: emotions serve values, not the other way round.

4. Will and the Thought → Choice → Action Pipeline

The spirit is the decision-maker. It turns the soul’s content into concrete actions, and thus echoes.

Pipeline of the spirit

  • The spirit operates through a basic pipeline: thought → choice → action.
  • Thoughts appear or are formed, drawing on the soul’s knowledge, emotions and goals.
  • The spirit evaluates these thoughts against the person’s value hierarchy and current emotional mode, then commits to a choice.
  • The choice is implemented by the body as an action, which becomes an echo in reality.

Compatibilist free will

  • Superjectivism holds a Calvinist-style determinism: given the total circumstances, a person could not have chosen differently.
  • Free will is compatibilist: a person is free when the pipeline expresses their own values and spirit, not when they are merely pushed by outside echoes.
  • The spirit can also adjust goals without betraying values – for example, channelling a dangerous value into a legal, less destructive form.

5. Natural vs Imposed Values

Natural values

  • A person’s natural values are those that, under lucidity, they recognise as truly theirs.
  • These values may be common (power, liberty) or unusual (for example, intense sadism). Superjectivism does not impose an external moral list.
  • Acting in line with one’s natural value hierarchy is metaphysically good, even if others dislike those values.

Imposed values and self-betrayal

  • Imposed values are those a person picks up from stronger echoes – family, state, culture – without honest endorsement at the level of spirit.
  • If a person acts in line with imposed values that clash with their natural ones, and knows this, they commit metaphysical evil: they betray their own value structure.
  • Reranking values under genuine lucidity is not evil. There is no value “keep my values frozen forever” that must be obeyed.

6. Spiritual Strength

Strong spirit

  • A strong spirit is one that:
    • has a clear, coherent value hierarchy,
    • can recognise foreign echoes and imposed values, and resist them,
    • can manage emotions to support, not sabotage, values.
  • A strong spirit keeps itself spiritually intact: it prefers death with values intact over life with a broken inner structure.

Weak spirit

  • A weak spirit is easily pushed around by stronger wills and by its own unmanaged emotions.
  • Weak spirits are prone to acting in self-betraying ways, even when they can feel that they are contradicting their own hierarchy of values.
  • Conscientology identifies and analyses this weakness, but the practical “training” of spirit belongs partly to other branches (psychology, ethics).