Self-Serving Confirmation Bias

The emotionally motivated tendency to seek and interpret evidence in ways that protect or enhance one's self-image. When success occurs, we confirm it was due to our skill; when failure occurs, we confirm it was due to external factors. We remember our contributions vividly and others' forgetfully. We judge our own ethically ambiguous actions by our intentions, and others' identical actions by their outcomes. This bias isn't about accuracy; it's about maintaining a coherent, positive narrative of the self.

Self-Serving Confirmation Bias Example: You ace a test and attribute it to intelligence. You fail a test and blame the unfair questions or lack of sleep. Your coworker, observing your performance, sees the opposite pattern in you. Both of you are exhibiting Self-Serving Confirmation Bias. The ego is not a neutral observer of your life; it is a lawyer, and its client—the self—is always innocent, always capable, always the hero of its own story.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Law of Scientific Conformations

The principle that science, like proteins, can take on many different forms—folding and refolding into diverse structures depending on context, while maintaining its essential nature. Just as a single protein can have multiple conformations that determine its function, science conforms to different shapes across disciplines, cultures, and historical periods. Physics and sociology are both science, but they're folded differently—different methods, different standards, different forms of evidence. The Law of Scientific Conformations recognizes that this diversity is not weakness but strength: science's ability to conform to different domains is what makes it universally applicable. It doesn't look the same everywhere because it can't; it adapts to what it studies.

Example: "He couldn't understand why psychology didn't look like physics—where were the elegant equations, the precise predictions? The Law of Scientific Conformations explained: psychology is science folded differently, adapted to the complexity of its subject. It's not less science; it's science in a different conformation. Both are valid; both are necessary; both are science."

by Dumu The Void February 19, 2026

Law of Logical Conformations

The principle that logic, like proteins, can take on many different forms—folding and refolding into diverse structures while maintaining its essential nature as valid reasoning. Classical logic, intuitionistic logic, paraconsistent logic, fuzzy logic—these are different conformations of logic, each suited to different domains, each valid in its context. The Law of Logical Conformations recognizes that logic is not one rigid structure but a family of structures, all related, all serving the function of valid inference. Logic doesn't look the same everywhere because it can't; it adapts to what it's reasoning about.

Example: "He insisted that only classical logic was 'real' logic; everything else was deviation. The Law of Logical Conformations suggested otherwise: different logics are different conformations, each valid for its purpose. Quantum logic works for quantum phenomena; fuzzy logic works for vagueness. They're not less logic; they're logic folded differently. He remained unconvinced, which was logical in his conformation."

by Dumu The Void February 19, 2026

Theory of Conservation of Causality

A fundamental principle proposing that causality is conserved—like energy, momentum, or charge—across all physical interactions. Theory of Conservation of Causality suggests that cause-effect relationships cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or redistributed. In this framework, apparent causality violations (quantum indeterminacy, time travel paradoxes) are actually transformations: causality moves elsewhere, changes form, but the total causal structure remains constant. The theory provides a budget for reality: you can spend causal influence, but you can't print it. Every effect must be paid for by a cause somewhere, sometime.

Theory of Conservation of Causality "Time travel stories always have paradoxes—kill your grandfather, you're never born. Conservation of Causality says: can't happen. Causality is conserved like energy. You can rearrange it, but you can't destroy it. The paradox is impossible because causality has a budget, and you can't overspend."

by Abzugal March 5, 2026

Theory of Conservation of Causality in FTL Scenarios

A framework proposing that even in faster-than-light travel, causality is conserved—not violated, just transformed. The Theory of Conservation of Causality in FTL Scenarios suggests that FTL doesn't create paradoxes because causality, like energy, has a budget. You can spend it, move it around, but you can't destroy it. In FTL travel, causal influence might be redistributed across spacetime in ways we don't yet understand—but the total causal structure remains constant. The theory resolves the classic "FTL equals time travel" paradox by positing that causality is conserved: any apparent backward causation is balanced by forward causation elsewhere. You can't kill your grandfather because causality has a budget, and that transaction would overdraw the account.

Theory of Conservation of Causality in FTL Scenarios "They said FTL means time travel—therefore impossible. Conservation of Causality says: maybe causality is conserved, like energy. The ship goes FTL, but somewhere, somehow, causality balances the books. No paradox, just physics we don't yet understand. You can't kill your grandfather because causality won't approve the transaction."

by Abzugal March 5, 2026

Hard Problem of Conservation

The Hard Problem of Conservation examines why conservation laws exist and whether they are absolute or context-dependent. While physics treats conservation as fundamental, this problem asks whether conservation emerges from deeper symmetries, probabilistic structures, or multiversal bookkeeping. It also questions how conservation operates across universe boundaries, dimensional layers, or extraphysical domains. If energy, information, or causality can move between realities, the problem becomes whether conservation is local, global, or merely an approximation within limited physical frames of reference.

Hard Problem of Conservation — Example

A simulated universe allows information to exit into a higher-dimensional computation layer. Inside the simulation, information appears destroyed, violating conservation. From the outside, information is preserved. The hard problem is determining whether conservation laws are fundamental truths or artifacts of the observer’s dimensional perspective.

by AbzuInExile January 24, 2026

U.S. Marine Corps Conservation Law Enforcement and Land and Wildlife Resources.

U.S. Marine Corps Conservation Law Enforcement and Land and Wildlife Resources.

South Carolina District Employee as Jasper, Soil and Water Conservation. SC Dept of Natural Resources. Director of the Maintenance/Groundkeeper.

In the state of South Carolina. Cadet First Lieutenant, 4YRS, USMC. In state of the South Carolina — Blue Heron Nature Center/Keep Jasper County Beautiful

City of Ridgeland, County of Jasper, State of South Carolina and City of Hardeeville, Town of Robertville, South Carolina, USA.

U.S. Marine Corps Conservation Law Enforcement and Land and Wildlife Resources. of the civilian military, South Carolina Dept of Natural Resources. For South Carolina Game Wardens for the Wildlife Conservation Officer Cadet.

by Kion Shariff Fulton Wilson, March 4, 2024