This paper proposes a scalar ontology grounded in what I term Shentegrity: the tensegrity of sentience. It is a volumetric epistemology, a recursive field logic, and a method for integrating cognition, embodiment, and mathematics across nested perceptual domains.
To structure this work, I’ve defined nine tensegrities, each aligned to foundational domains of physics — Quantum, Newtonian, Relativistic, and Astrophysical. I’ve reinterpreted these through ontological recursion rather than reductionism.
In contrast to frameworks that seek clarity through simplification, Shentegrity treats complexity as architectural. Meaning does not reside in the isolated part, but in the stabilized tension between parts — in phase-linked relations across scale.
Sentience has structure.
It is not epiphenomenal. It recurses, folds, and maps across scale — obeying the same geometric principles as any coherent field.
Shentegrity is that geometry.
This work draws from three primary domains of influence:
Gödelian recursion and strange loops as revealed by Douglas Hofstadter
Scalar aesthetics of information and density articulated by Edward Tufte
Indigenous, somatic, and cosmological logic systems, particularly the Lo Shu Grid and the Nine
Chapters on the Mathematical Art from early Chinese mathematics
