I was pondering on the relation of Mind to Reason. While many theorists might classify Mind as Reason for obvious reasons, this could be argued to not be present in the comic. If Mind is Reason, why are all intellectual-types on Light? What we do know is that Mind stands for decision.

As you can see in the Wizard of New Zealand’s glyph (which this blog was named after), Mind is listed as Efficient Causes (means).

Efficient Cause is in fact the closest (out of Aristotle’s Four Causes) to what we nowadays refer to as causality. In fact, this page canonically links Mind to causality:



And if I was a Seer of Mind in particular, synaptic causality would be my specialty.

Following this page, story events are shown happening inside “synapses”.

The wizard’s glyph lists Understanding (knowledge) as a characteristic of Mind. Knowledge is being aware of facts. Facts are stored in the memory. Memory belongs to the mind.

It’s unclear to me whether the Wizard of New Zealand meant something with expression but Thought is definitely involved in this too.

Anyway, this is interesting because it’s now ambiguous whether Terezi’s power has to do with causality or memory. They are practically the same as far as Sburb is concerned.

In conclusion, Mind is Reason in the sense of “looking at possible outcomes”. It fits the Sherlock Holmes archetype (and by extension Terezi’s Justice motif). It is even logical in that logic deals with possible worlds.

However, Reason in a general sense is distributed among the aspects. Different aspects represent different fields of study.

What about Light? [Passive/Derse]



Light is thought to be Passive/Derse and therefore in the position of Rage. While Light is not Rage, the WGT recognizes that aspects placed in the same position may share characteristics.

Intellectuals may refer to themselves as “men of taste“. So Taste might not only apply to Rage. Same for Art in the sense that books can be art. We have thus an science x art dichotomy. Light stands for literature and thus art. For comparison, Doom stands for science (see: Sollux being a hacker). Light is more artsy than sciency.



Additionally, Light is in the melancholic square while Mind is in the choleric square. Choleric is befitting of the more practical, detective-like behavior of early Terezi. Melancholic befits writing books.

What about… Void? [Passive/Prospit]



Void is Passive/Prospit along with Space and Heart.

Theoretical physics belongs to Space because the subject matter is space. Similarly, Greek Philosophers (Dirk mentions them a few times) are Heart. Such philosophers tend to ponder on virtue ethics (see glyph) and Plato talks about the platonic realm which might be the literal meaning of Heart.



It has eluded me why Void is robotics (Equius) and programming (Roxy). Maybe it could be a Derse thing instead. Perhaps some would disagree on the placing of Void[1]. It could just be the way it is.



One hint we have is Rose’s conversation.

Note that Rose mentions a physicist [Space] when talking about fundamental ideas (the conversation also relates to Void) – which makes sense since both Space and Void are origin / creation aspects in the WGT – and she does so under a Light (symbols; aka patterns[2]) perspective.

The other hint is Roxy’s power.

if you want your powers to reach their full potential youre going to need to become more familiar with the fundamental building blocks of ideas and how they translate into more complicated thoughts and forms



It would seem that forming something out of abstract building blocks (and thus “creating something out of nothing”)[3][4] is Voidy. This, in turn, is not unlike picking out mechanical pieces to build a robot.

[1] It could arguably be Passive/Derse or even Active/Derse.

[2] Thus relating to the Formal Cause, like Rage.



[3] This is what Void is according to the Beforus trolls.

[4] Void and Doom both having programmers in them might be a hint to our Void-Doom pairing.

