Genealogical critique of materialism and idealism in philosophy, highlighting their shared cognitive foundations.
The confrontation between materialism and idealism spans the entire developmental trajectory of Western philosophical history, long serving as the underlying epistemological coordinate system for modern philosophy, the humanities, social sciences, and even the natural sciences. Drawing upon the Yuanxian T64 topological system and Zhenyuan holographic philosophy, this paper conducts a genealogical epistemological critique and proposes a central thesis: the two seemingly antithetical philosophical paradigms—materialism and idealism—share a set of unexamined baseline cognitive presuppositions. This paper metaphorically defines this shared cognitive foundation as the "Chassis." All theoretical disputes between them are, in essence, localized struggles within low-dimensional projection cross-sections over the ontological naming rights of high-dimensional reality, where both parties attempt to use the local characteristics of a single projection cross-section to directly and equivalently denote the T64 high-dimensional projection source itself. Materialism establishes matter as primary reality, while idealism anchors consciousness as the primary origin; yet both avoid a critical categorical premise: the ontological assertion of "primacy" is valid only within a specific low-dimensional projection coordinate system and cannot be directly applied to a high-dimensional topological ontology. This paper innovatively introduces the core category of "Heqi" (harmonizing Qi), demonstrating that transcending binary opposition does not entail seeking a middle-ground compromise, but rather stepping outside the cognitive games of the projection layer, actively withdrawing from the paradigm wars within the Chassis, and achieving a holographic intuitive awareness of the T64 projection source. On this basis, this paper establishes the first principle of Yuanxian epistemology—Ontological Humility: all human cognitive activities are localized, dimensionally reduced projections of the T64 cosmic organism within the four-dimensional spacetime field. Any philosophical or scientific proposition claiming direct access to ultimate ontology must pre-emptively acknowledge its inherent properties of high-dimensional information loss and dimensional structural distortion. By deconstructing the four shared presuppositions of binary philosophy and establishing a cross-sectional cognitive analysis framework, this paper refutes the limitations of centrist compromises, elevates the traditional mind-matter binary epistemology into a higher paradigm via the Heqi cognitive model, and provides a novel pathway within the Yuanxian framework for addressing foundational questions in contemporary philosophy.
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