A small museum of missing dimensions
The Shadow
Foundry
One object can leave many impressions.
Can an impression lead you back?
Work in copper, light and empty space. Eighteen possible cubes. Three directions of looking. No clock, no score, no hidden answer to consciousness.
A fixed isometric view, not a fourth stencil. Separate the layers to reveal hidden cubes.
Place or lift a cube
Tap a tile. Filled = copper. Dots = empty.
Both slabs look down from above; row A is the back.
The light table
Compare impressions
Each square records whether any cube lies along that ray. Depth and cube count vanish. Solid = your shadow; outlined stencil = required shadow.
Open the archive of possible castings
An exact census of every subset of the 18 positions: 262,144 sculptures, including floating and disconnected cubes. These are possibilities for the stencil, not guesses about your intent.
Loading a candidate replaces your sculpture and clears its certification. Undo brings your work back.
Free sculpting is always available. Changes and undo clear certification. Nothing is saved outside this tab; the JSON download is a record, not an importable project.
Foundry notes · the idea, the invention, the limit
From a proposal to a workbench
Johnson’s proposal. In Taking Monism Seriously, Michael Edward Johnson uses shadows to describe physics and phenomenology as projections of one underlying structure. His strong dual-aspect monism proposes a correspondence between their theorems. The essay later qualifies the analogy: projections may support different emergent structures, hide variables, and face binding or boundary constraints. The mapping is unknown; these are proposals, not established consensus.
In A container for knowledge (the hosted “seven ways” thread), posts 10–14 advocate strong monism and mining physics; posts 18–19 ask what makes chemistry a useful emergent structure. This foundry borrows the invitation to look carefully, not a scientific conclusion.
Our invention. The copper sculptures, three exhibits, binary orthographic stencils and exhaustive census are authored finite geometry. A cube can float; this is not a physical manufacturing simulation. The original and its alternatives share projections without sharing every property.
The limit. This is not a consciousness model. Projections discard information. A common source alone does not prove that theorems can be ported between projections; matching voxels is not evidence for monism. The finite counterexamples establish only what these specific stencils cannot identify.
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