In Integral Relational Logic, a dimension is anything that can be measured, in conformity with its etymology, consisting of a domain of values, as the set of possible values of an attribute in a relation. A dimension is thus qualitative or quantitative, with a selection or finite or infinite range of possible values.
This universal system of thought and reason thus shows that there are no limits to the number of dimensions in the Universe, as the Totality of Existence, far beyond the three ordinary dimensions of space, the four dimensions of space-time in the theory of relativity, or the proposed 10, 11, or 26 dimensions of string theory.
Rather, this concept of dimension is closer to how physicists define the dimension of energy—in terms of mass, distance or length, and time—as represented in Einstein’s famous equation E = mc2. Similarly, force has the dimension energy/distance, as in Newton’s equation F = ma. Power and action then have the dimensions of energy/time and energy×time, respectively.
It is important to note that mass, space, time, energy, force, power, and action are just seven types of quantitative values that mathematicians and programmers use in their equations and functions. Furthermore, dimensions in models that information systems architects build of the structure of business enterprises go far beyond quantitative measures.
So, when we come to map the Cosmic Psyche, which contains all dimensions before they are externally represented in symbols, we can see why the Universe is vastly more extensive and complex than our external environment.
Such a radical transformation of the conception of the Universe is absolutely essential if we are to answer the most critical unanswered questions in science, explaining what is causing scientists and technologists to drive the pace of change in society at unprecedented exponential rates of acceleration.
Before 1398, dimensioun ‘measurable extent, measurement, size’, from Latin dimensionem (nominative dimensio) ‘a measuring’, from dīmēnsus, past participle of dīmētīrī ‘to measure out’, from dī-, dis-, ‘apart, asunder, in a different direction, between’, from PIE base *dis-, from *dwo-, and mētīrī ‘to measure’, from PIE base *mē-².