Time and Life in the Relational Universe: Prolegomena to an Integral Paradigm of Natural Philosophy
Relational ideas for our description of the natural world can be traced to the concept of Anaxagoras on the multiplicity of basic particles, later called “homoiomeroi” by Aristotle, that constitute the Universe and have the same nature as the whole world. Leibniz viewed the Unive...
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| description | Relational ideas for our description of the natural world can be traced to the concept of Anaxagoras on the multiplicity of basic particles, later called “homoiomeroi” by Aristotle, that constitute the Universe and have the same nature as the whole world. Leibniz viewed the Universe as an infinite set of embodied logical essences called monads, which possess inner view, compute their own programs and perform mathematical transformations of their qualities, independently of all other monads. In this paradigm, space appears as a relational order of co-existences and time as a relational order of sequences. The relational paradigm was recognized in physics as a dependence of the spatiotemporal structure and its actualization on the observer. In the foundations of mathematics, the basic logical principles are united with the basic geometrical principles that are generic to the unfolding of internal logic. These principles appear as universal topological structures (“geometric atoms”) shaping the world. The decision-making system performs internal quantum reduction which is described by external observers via the probability function. In biology, individual systems operate as separate relational domains. The wave function superposition is restricted within a single domain and does not expand outside it, which corresponds to the statement of Leibniz that “monads have no windows”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-072b30272ceb4656920645643753318b2024-04-02T22:48:38ZengMDPI AGPhilosophies2409-92872018-10-013430010.3390/philosophies3040030philosophies3040030Time and Life in the Relational Universe: Prolegomena to an Integral Paradigm of Natural PhilosophyAbir U. Igamberdiev0Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X9, CanadaRelational ideas for our description of the natural world can be traced to the concept of Anaxagoras on the multiplicity of basic particles, later called “homoiomeroi” by Aristotle, that constitute the Universe and have the same nature as the whole world. Leibniz viewed the Universe as an infinite set of embodied logical essences called monads, which possess inner view, compute their own programs and perform mathematical transformations of their qualities, independently of all other monads. In this paradigm, space appears as a relational order of co-existences and time as a relational order of sequences. The relational paradigm was recognized in physics as a dependence of the spatiotemporal structure and its actualization on the observer. In the foundations of mathematics, the basic logical principles are united with the basic geometrical principles that are generic to the unfolding of internal logic. These principles appear as universal topological structures (“geometric atoms”) shaping the world. The decision-making system performs internal quantum reduction which is described by external observers via the probability function. In biology, individual systems operate as separate relational domains. The wave function superposition is restricted within a single domain and does not expand outside it, which corresponds to the statement of Leibniz that “monads have no windows”.http://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/3/4/30Leibnizmonadinternal quantum staterelational biologyreflexive psychologyself |
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| title | Time and Life in the Relational Universe: Prolegomena to an Integral Paradigm of Natural Philosophy |
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| title_short | Time and Life in the Relational Universe: Prolegomena to an Integral Paradigm of Natural Philosophy |
| title_sort | time and life in the relational universe prolegomena to an integral paradigm of natural philosophy |
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