Theories on metaphysics can be categorized into three general camps: physicalism, dualism and trialism. This paper focuses on trialism and connects metaphysics to quantum mechanics, Figure 1.
One of the earliest accounts of trialism comes from Plato's proposition that humans are endowed with a tripartite soul [1].
Psychologists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung collaborated with each other on psychoanalysis resulting in a trialism of mind [11,14].
Fractal Trialism expands on Penrose's Three World Model by proposing a fractal-like projection of trialism onto each world, figure 4.
The digital computer exists specifically in the Physical World of Fractal Trialism. While there are three Levels of digital computers that mirror the Three World model, digital computation requires the discrete states restricted to the realm of Measurement.
By discussing its limitations and capabilities, digital computation are seen to act as the subconscious within Fractal Trialism.
Scholars will welcome the bundling of such classic Cottingham papers as 'Descartes on Thought', 'A Brute to the Brutes?', and 'Cartesian
Trialism', which fostered a more nuanced understanding of mind-body relations than the stark label 'substance dualism' encourages.
It seems, then, that Descartes was committed to there being two irreducibly distinct kinds of substances and three irreducibly distinct kinds of properties--substance dualism combined with property
trialism.
Even so, Austro-Hungarian dualism overshadows this whole debate, as Austrian nationalities contemplated
trialism or multi-national federal plans.
Workingmen dream of an indus-
trialism which shall be the hand- maid of a commerce ministering to an increased power of con- sumption among the producers of the world, binding them together in a genuine internationalism.
McWorld: How Globalism and
Trialism are Reshaping the World (New York: Ballantine, 1995), are more convincing for this solution than B.'s exegesis of Paul and the Jewish tradition.