Reality Stacks

This book makes an extraordinary claim: one simple mechanism explains everything. Everything is built from parts that relate to each other through connection, belonging, and meaning. These parts are made from more parts, relating through the same mechanism. Reality is a stack of repeating relationships - simple in nature, infinitely complex in outcome. The only difference between a particle and a person is where they are found within this stack.

Once grasped, the buzzing confusion of existence gives way to the serene construction at the heart of all things. Language, love, and consciousness - just as much as causation, quantum mechanics, and evolution - all find their explanation in the simplicity of the Reality Stack. The framework then turns to the human: how societies form, how oppression works, how liberation is achieved, and what it means to find peace.

The author is not a philosopher or physicist, but a biochemist turned portrait photographer, who pulled on a loose thread and this is where it led.