Section 52 (first updated 02.21.2021) Fish-eye The connection of the “fish-eye view” is not really a philosophical concept, although its philosophical implications are fundamentally profound. As a physical principle, a fish-eye view is a phenomenon observed early in species’ natural development. Coming from the perspective of a fish, the fish eye is a very interesting …
Section 33 (first updated 2.1.2021) Quantum Eraser, Dreams, and Time The hypothesis of the so-called quantum eraser experiment is a further development of the famous double-slit experiment. The quantum eraser aims to demonstrate whether events in time can be adjusted or determined after they have already occurred. This challenges the linear conception of time and …
Section 34 (first updated 2.02.2021) General Gravity Gravity, we may ultimately conclude, is the collective force of everything acting upon each individual thing. The question may therefore be posed as follows: What is the effect of every single object, combined as a collective, upon each single component or constituent within that collective? The answer is …
Section 35 (first updated 2.03.2021) What a Tesseract is? The tesseract possesses, in its most immediate sense, a geometric definition. Mathematically, it is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube, extending the progression by which a square becomes a cube through the addition of another dimension.^1 Yet this definition, while precise, conceals a richer ontological significance. …
Section 36 (first articulated 2.04.2021) The Observer Problem Alan Watts frames the problem succinctly with the question: “What is behind your head (eyes)?” This question does not merely concern psychology but points toward a deeper ontological issue—namely, the status of the observer itself. The observer effect raises fundamental questions within quantum mechanics. It has been …
Section 37 (first conceived 2.04.2021) Uncertainty, Self-Determination, and the Abstractive Set The uncertainty principle provides a physical analogue for the ontological notion of self-determination. According to the principle of uncertainty, the more precisely the position of a particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be known, and vice versa. This reciprocal limitation suggests …
Section 38 (first updated 2.04.2021) If we take as a first premise that the only certainty is uncertainty—in other words, that the only order is disorder—we must ask what this determination leads to. The result is not the reversal of language, because uncertainty remains the only certainty regardless of sentence structure; restructuring the statement preserves …
Section 39 (first updated 1.06.2021) Law of Mind The Error of Derived Abstraction The law of mind operates through time differently than physical objects operate in time. Physical objects only bear a particular kind of relation in time: they proceed through time as an activity and therefore only relate the past to the future. The …
(first update 2.07.2021) Slab of Nature The idea of a slab in nature constitutes one of the most interesting conceptions in the philosophy of Whitehead. Yet it is almost entirely absent in the purely materialistic sciences, which strip form away from content. When content is added without form, the result lacks phenomenological depth; in other …
(first updated 2.09.2021) The Big Bang, Quantum Theory, and the Ontological Problem of the Singularity The principal difference between quantum theory and general relativity is ultimately an ontological one. The ontology underlying general relativity—an ontology generally interpreted through scientific materialism—depends fundamentally on the concept of the singularity. In its broadest, non-technical sense, the term singular …