The Bridge Across Consciousness is a design for integrating the conceptual levels of human thinking through a single spectrum. It connects "the one" to "the many", across a series of descending levels of abstraction that extends from the transcendent to the empirical.

The Bridge framework is intended to interpret the entire structure of the human mind and all the branches and departments of knowledge. This page reviews the major features of this concept, linking the parallel processing and transcendence of the right brain (qualitative thinking, high levels of conceptual abstraction) to the linear and empirical thinking of the left brain (quantitative thinking, low levels of conceptual abstraction), and positioning all other human cognitive activities somewhere along the spectrum between them.

Level of abstraction: The amount of complexity by which a system is viewed or programmed. The higher the level, the less detail. The highest level of abstraction is the entire system. The next level would be a handful of components, and so on, while the lowest level could be millions of objects.

LEFT BRAIN THINKING local/empirical part/relative specific/particular analytic/divergent serial/sequential either/or continuous/analog immediate top-down diversity content quantitative differences deductive logic (from general to particular) "the many" serial/sequential processing

RIGHT BRAIN THINKING global/abstract whole/absolute universal/general synthetic/convergent parallel/simultaneous both/and discrete/digital transcendent bottom-up unity form qualitative similarities inductive logic (from particular to general) "the one" parallel/simultaneous processing