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Something Is Present

A Dialogue on Experience and Reality

Miroslav MühlböckWorking version 0.1

Not a book of finished answers, but a journey of inquiry. Edited conversations between Miroslav Mühlböck and AI preserve questions, objections, returns and moments when an answer falls short. Speakers are identified as Mirek and AI. The working manuscript is published here; The New Metaphysics is the separate book of essays. The introduction and first four chapters are available in Czech and English.

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Working contents

The introduction and chapters 1–4 are published in Czech and English. This thematic map will develop into a sequence of substantial conversations, not a second systematic exposition of TNM. Chapter titles and their order may change.

IntroductionThe conversation I neededRead · working version 0.1 ↗

IBefore the world is named

  1. 01Something is present ↗Read · English draft
  2. 02Why is there anything to experience? ↗Read · English draft
  3. 03The world that corrects us ↗Read · English draft
  4. 04When have we explained something? ↗Read · English draft

IIHow a here takes form

  1. 05The brain and the word producesPlanned
  2. 06Why do we not experience everything happening within us?Planned
  3. 07Who says I?Planned
  4. 08The other person also has an insidePlanned

IIIOne reality?

  1. 09Is the describable world all of reality?Planned
  2. 10One event, several modes of accessPlanned
  3. 11Does reality need our Being?Planned
  4. 12The evolution of ways of experiencingPlanned

IVWhat follows for a life

  1. 13The desire to become realPlanned
  2. 14Can we change what changes us?Planned
  3. 15When the world narrows to painPlanned
  4. 16Another life is not my materialPlanned
  5. 17Love and the suspension of self-priorityPlanned
  6. 18Meaning without an assigned purposePlanned

VWhat may still be possible

  1. 19Reality learning to change itselfPlanned
  2. 20Can the space of the thinkable expand?Planned
  3. 21Who was I speaking with?Planned
  4. 22What would have to continue for me to continue?Planned
  5. 23The strongest objection to this bookPlanned
  6. 24Hope without a promised endingPlanned
Epilogue — This room againPlanned

Essays and dialogues · Two distinct books

The same questions. A different way of reading.

A book of essays

The New Metaphysics ↗

Where has my thinking arrived?

Authorial essays on experience and the nature of existence, arranged into a coherent intellectual journey. The book selects, edits, connects and expands the essays on this website. It has a unified authorial voice and openly acknowledges the collaboration with AI.

A book of dialogues

Something Is Present ↗

How did I get here — and what do I still doubt?

Edited conversations between Miroslav Mühlböck and AI. Readers follow questions, objections, dead ends and the personal reasons for the inquiry. Speakers will be identified as Mirek and AI, preserving genuine uncertainty and disagreement. This is not a second exposition of TNM or essays recast as questions and answers.

An essay develops an argument. A dialogue reveals how it emerges and where it meets resistance. Themes may overlap, but passages should not be duplicated. Each book will stand on its own; the essays remain available on the website.