Hetrology: Toward a Science of Being — A Pre-Empirical Foundational Manifesto

Hetrology is a pre-empirical foundational manifesto that proposes an ontological framework for a possible science of Being. It starts from a critical inversion of a long-standing civilizational axiom: the presumed unity of human nature. By overturning this assumption, Hetrology introduces the possibility of an ontological variable and seeks to establish the minimal conditions under which the human domain could become subject to invariant law. The text identifies reflexivity — the collapse of observer and observed into a single domain — as the structural limit that has historically prevented the emergence of scientific constraint in the human sciences. To overcome this limitation, Hetrology posits the necessity of an external, non-reflexive constraint acting on the relation between Being and the Real. This constraint is formalized as φ, an impersonal and continuous pressure revealed through differential stability under exposure to the Real. From this framework, the manifesto derives a minimal bifurcation in human responses to this constraint, described as two incompatible regimes of processing: integration (sustained exposure) and deflection (restoration of coherence through representation). This bifurcation is proposed as a testable condition, forming the basis of an experimental protocol (EQ Protocol) designed to assess the presence or absence of discrete regimes. Hetrology does not claim empirical validation. It presents a structured system whose internal coherence, logical constraints, and potential falsifiability aim to define the conditions for its own testing. Its objective is not to conclude but to open the possibility of a science of Being grounded in non-reflexive law and measurable differentiation.