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Selected Excerpts from "Treatise on the Measurement of Anomalies"
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Introduction
___One of the most pressing concerns of newly-hired researchers is the unstable ground on which the foundation of reality is lain. If there are anomalies that are constantly violating the laws of science, then what use is a degree in physics or biology? One vocalization of such I received from an undergraduate in pataphysics: "Is all of my knowledge false, is everything I know wrong?". As they had recently came to know of the world of the anomalous, they couldn't cope with their loss of relative safety and innocence, as most Foundation personnel have gone through before.
___Indeed, the answer of how logic can work in a world seemingly without logic must be pursued quickly and resolutely, in order to assuage any potential fears of the unknown. Not only would it be of psychological benefit, but it would be of great practical benefit, too, as many lives depend on the efficacy of our special containment protocols.
___This is why, I, █████████████████████, and ██ other researchers have decided to compile the collected knowledge of years of Foundation work in pataphysics, metaphysics, memetics, and other fields into a concise and easy-to-understand treatise in the hopes that it will be used as a stepping stone for further research in the future.
Chapter 1: Mind, matter, and meter
___For millennia, the problem of mind-body dualism has been a fiercely debated topic. One of the most known philosophers who covered this is Rene Descartes, who established the boundary between that which cannot explained by material properties (e.g. consciousness and self-awareness), and that which can (e.g. neurobiological functions).
___Of course, we now know that the two are more closely linked. The existence of reality benders, as their name suggests, have exposed a certain cyclical relationship between the material and immaterial. For one, we know that without certain information gained from the empirical senses, life as we know it would not exist. There would be no corporeal form for any incorporeal essence to latch on to. But, surprisingly, the incorporeal has a distinct manner of control it can use. Reality benders can impose subjective impressions of certain properties of matter onto completely different types of material. Thus, we know the two forms of mind and matter to have a supra-causal relationship: one can influence the other into influencing the other, and over and over again.
___So, how do we make sense of all this? The properties of mind and matter can be further divided into their respective modes: for matter, there are particles, waves, energy, and all relations of in-between. The same is true of mind: there exist memories, concepts, linguistic phenomena, and all of their respective inter-relationships. Do note, however, that tests suggest these divisions are more taxonomical than real descriptors of the natural world.
___And to further the analogy between mind and material, the disciplines of study of natural science correspond to the particular forms in which matter comes: physics for the indivisible constituents, chemistry for its structural arrangements, and biology for complex systems which arise from the whole deal. Likewise, the studies of the unnatural sciences build upon each other in a similar fashion. Pataphysics studies the true "building blocks" of reality, memetics studies the methods in which reality "disseminates", and mnemonics studies how sentient beings "interface" with such reality— words in quotation marks being large simplifications.
___Much inter-disciplinary research has gone between the natural and unnatural sciences. See aesthology, which studies the properties of sentient beings; closely linked to psychology and neurology.
