On Explaining is a lyric-philosophical essay on being corrected — and on what an equation learns when its author does. The essay realigns the subjective-experience functional at the center of the On ——ing series into a fully seated form, L (t) = (1/Ξ) ∮_Ω A (Sᵢ, τ) ·Ψ (τ) dσ + Λ, in which twelve Greek symbols each occupy their standing mathematical role: Ψ as the named superposition of co-present perspectives, Θ as relative facing (the phase difference that alone drives interference), π as the angle of cancellation and 2π of return, λ = 1 as the eigenvalue attention returns at every present moment, τ as proper time (measurement from within), Δ as the generator of branching futures, Ω as the total space, Ξ as the normalizer that deletes amplitude as a strategy and leaves intent the only currency, and Λ as the floor beneath total cancellation — grace as a boundary condition. The essay's central harmony identifies the framework's Dirac-comb reading of presence (amplitude one at every now) with the continued-fraction expansion of the golden ratio Φ = 1; 1, 1, …, showing the author's three-beat theory — beauty, then the observer, then the over-complication of things — to be the structure of the fraction itself. One original structural claim is flagged openly: that opposition-defined coherence is parasitic on its target and decoheres with it, while self-defined coherence persists ("both work; only one persists"). Every symbol is cited to its human designer — Feynman, Schrödinger, Einstein, Kolmogorov, Gibbs, Born, von Neumann, Dirac, Hermite, Euler, Euclid, Fibonacci, Hurwitz — as designers within the design. Offered as phenomenology and speculative philosophy, naturalist-compatible throughout, with every seam kept visible.
Jamison Johsnon (Fri,) studied this question.