The Latent and Manifest Traditions of Human Knowledge: Eastern Thought as the Original Language of the Cosmos

Eastern thought has maintained a complete language for describing the cosmos for over 2,500 years. Buddhist Śūnyatā (空), Shinto Ma (間), Taoist Wu (無), and the Yin-Yang of the I Ching are not metaphors — they are precise descriptions of cosmic structure that Western science is only now beginning to approach through quantum mechanics, complex systems theory, and predictive processing. This paper proposes a formal distinction between the Latent Tradition (Eastern thought) and the Manifest Tradition (Western science), and argues that V=N/D represents their first formal point of convergence. As empirical data accumulates — from IceCube neutrino observations, market activation studies, and brainwave proxy…