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PLAN OF 1 RELATIVISTIC_PHENOMENOLOGY
1a introduction
1b information processing
1c mind and brain
1d mapping and modeling
1e causality or implication
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1A INTRODUCTION TO RELATIVISTIC PHENOMENOLOGY
Collapse of Aether Theory triggered the Second Scientific
Revolution which impacted Ontology, replacing the dominant
dogmatic Noumenalism with Phenomenology. We shall briefly
review these terms, discussed in detail in OA.OUTLINE OF
THE SECOND ENLIGHTENMENT.
Noumenalism, the highbrow synonym of Naive View (NV)
postulates Transcendental "Reality", or "Transcendency",
consisting of Entities being "Real objects/things" having
Properties or Attributes. Such Entities are called "Noumena",
sort of "containers of Attributes" presumed to exist even
void of them as "Things in itself" (Kant's Dinge an Sich).
Naive Common Sense guided original Humans in their struggle
for survival. It was assisted by natural languages which
came forth to express Noumena via Predicative Assignment
Expressions "[Entity] is [Attribute]", e.g. "my-car is
green".
Naive transcendental "Reality" is presumed as cognizable via
speculations a priori, from which it DEDUCES dogmatic rules
of Science such as mechanistic fabric of "Reality",
objectivity and determinism.
Phenomenology and in particular the RP, derives contrariwise
Ontology from basic scientific constructs (mainly those of
fundamental Physics). This procedure runs into a severe
problem due to natural languages being foreordained to convey
naive, noumenal "property containers" and hardly capable to
express rational, phenomenal constructs, which often may only
be hinted intuitively, or introduced via allegorical examples.
Keeping this in mind, we shall try to describe fundamental
phenomenal concepts as rigorously as natural languages go
along with.
Basic concepts of Relativistic Phenomenology
-#Space, abstract topological concept such as Riemann
#Space, sharply distinct from its unfortunate homonym
"space" of direct perception.
-Polar Structure:
The concept of Polar Structure may be very simply illustrated
with a magnetic dipole consisting of two opposite Poles,
apparently contradictory, but in fact complementary, mutually
determining one another, never existing separately and
exerting on one another attractive force or Tension. The
dipole has universal effect by generating the Field which
spans the #Space. Any interval along Field's lines behaves
like a small dipole with Poles at its extremities.
-Polarity: Order and construction rule of Polar Structures.
-Dialectic: synonym of Polarity, appropriate outside of
Physics and "hard" disciplines.
-Dialectic Dichotomy (short "Dichotomy"): synonym of Polar
Structure. "Terms" of Dichotomy are synonyms of "Poles".
-Dialectic Universe: Ontology of the Second Enlightenment
regards all elements of its Universe of Discourse, whether
physical, psychical or social, as Polar Structures or
Dialectic Dichotomies (at times as Multipoles encompassing
any number of Poles). Traditional Logic is incapable to
recognize, let alone to process Dialectic Dichotomies.
Consequently, we endevoure to define dialectic reasoning,
which we calle "Relativistic Dialectic (RD)" and RD based
Logic ( CCA.COGNITIVE NETWORK )
-Observation or Event: {Dialectic Dichotomy} of Terms
Subject/Object or Observer/Observandum. Observation may be
imagined as a mirror in which Subject sees himself observing
Object. Relativity of Observations makes them essentially
Fuzzy (uncertain).
As we say in the paragraph "Brain-Mind Interface"
of BAA.STRUCTURE OF MIND
Events may be considered as points of Mind's time/space
continuum mapped from Brain's neurons excitations via the
Brain-Mind Interface.
-Detector: Physical Observations occur necessarily via some
physical detector, which is an integral part of the
Observation and contributes to its uncertainty. Even mental
experiments have to take it always into account.
-Einstein's Covering Principle: Physical distance is
measured, also in mental experiments, with physical rods
complying with physical rules, such as the Lorentz
Contraction. In curved #Space the measuring rods embrace
the local curvature.
-Phenomenon: particular spatio-temporal structure of
Events and their elementary structures.
-Aspects (of Phenomenon): Events and their elementary
structures composing the structure of a Phenomenon.
-Entity: linguistic and logical synonym of Phenomenon.
-Attribute (or Property): synonym of Aspect used with respect
to Entity.
NOTE: One may inherit from Naive View the tendency to
confuse Phenomenon with Noumenon, with Thing In Itself
existing "as such" independently from any observable Aspects.
Understanding of Phenomenology starts with shaking off this
phantasm and with conceiving Phenomenon as structure of
Aspects and nothing else, one Aspect being already a
full-fledged Phenomenon and Phenomenon void of Aspects being
a non-existent. In synonymous terms, Entity is a structure
of Attributes and nothing else. Entity void of Attributes is
a non-existent and one Attribute is already a full-fledged
Entity. The latter assertion postulates ontological sameness
of Entity and Attribute essential for dialectic reasoning,
in sharp contrast to noumenal Naive View considering Entity
and Property/Attribute as two "Beings" of disparate
ontological nature.
-Phenomenal Equivalence (P-Equivalence): Aspects of a
Phenomenon or Terms of a Dichotomy are P-Equivalent.
(In spite of their apparent contrariety, Continuity of the
Field wave and Discreteness of photons are P-Equivalent,
complementary Aspects of the Phenomenon "Light").
-Field: continually flowing Dialectic structure of subjective
Continuity and objective Discrete Singularities thereof.
Singularity taken in physical sense denotes vicinity area of
mathematical singularity where Continuous Field formulas
cease to hold. For communicability's sake we may use common
language terms "thing", "particle", "corpuscular matter",
etc. always remembering that they denote "Field
Singularities". Note: Subjectivity of Continuum and
Objectivity of Discreteness are not taken as axioms, but
rather as theorems justified in BAA.STRUCTURE OF MIND .
-P-Equivalence of #Space and Field: #Space and Field are
structurally homomorphic and P-Equivalent Aspects of Extrinsicality.
( DERIVATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, Steps 1, 2
last paragraph "Field and #Space").
In a sincere endeavor Heidegger and Sartre conceived a "H-S"
Phenomenological Ontology, derived from post-Einstein Science.
Unfortunately, it is incomplete and partially noumenalistic.
-Incomplete: it lacks fundamental concepts of P-Equivalence,
of the dialectic structure of Phenomenon manifested by its
P-Equivalent Aspects and, in particular, the P-Equivalence
of Field and #Space.
-Noumenalistic: H-S went astray into noumenal void starting
with abuse of the copula "be" illegaly inflected into
meaningless "Being". It distinguishes two sorts of "Beings",
pour-soi/Dasein (for-itself) and en-soi/Wesen (in-itself),
but lacking P-Equivalence, instead of seeing them as two
Aspects of empiric Observation (Subject/Object), carries them
up to inaccessible heights of the Olympus A Priori, to play
verbal games like: "Im Sein dieses Seienden verhaelt sich
dieses selbst zu seinem Sein"-"In the Being of this Being it
takes itself position with respect to its Being" (Heidegger,
Sein und Zeit). (In case you got confused, it defines Dasein,
a human like you and me).
Our Ontology may be seen as H-S completed with phenomenal
concepts and stripped of noumenal speculations. We take from
H-S its concepts of En-soi/Wesen and Pour-soi/Dasein, and
complete our Ontology with two constructs "Universe" and
"Temporality":
-Universe: Subject is identical with its thematic Awareness,
whose Theme, which we call "Universe" has as any Phenomenon
subjective and objective aspects, respectively "Intrinsicality" and
"Extrinsicality" mapped into two P-Equivalent Structures: Mind
and Brain. Universe is structurally homomorphic with Extrinsicality
and its P-Equivalent aspects #Space and Field
( DERIVATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, Steps 1, 2 ).
Consequently, Universe and all therefrom derived structures
are dynamic, i.e. encompass time in 4 dimensional #Spaces
like Galilean affine TimeSpace, Minkowski's LighttimeSpace,
etc. Due to dynamics of Universe its aspects Mind and Brain
are dynamic and may be considered as "processors" of Intrinsicality
and of the dynamic flow of Extrinsicality, which we shall call
"Information".
-Temporality: Subject's domain is Future, Pour-soi appears
to itself as Project. Object's domain is irreversible Past
(Wesen ist was gewesen ist).
Let's note that our Phenomenology has nothing to do with what
Husserl called "Phenomenology" by abuse of language. For
Husserl the Transcendency is accessible via intuition and
consists of "Phenomena" defined as correlative of direct and
self-evident intuitive mental grasp. Now, such constructs
were for millennia called "Noumena" and Husserl's
"Phenomenology" is in fact a particularly abusive
Metaphysical Noumenalism.
Current Phenomenology emerges from Einstein's concepts of
Relativistic Field and #Space and their P-Equivalence,
which revolutionized Ontology, Epistemology and Science.
Unfortunately, only few had Einstein's insight to recognize
the impact of the Fin-de-Siecle Crisis and his courage to
erect entirely new edifice of Thought and Science upon the
wreckage of Aether. Many disciplines are still haunted by
phantasms of the dead and decaying Noumenalism, starting
with entirely Noumenal established Logic.
Our Phenomenology is not a first Inductive Ontology. Kant,
for instance, derived most sincerely a bona fide Ontology
from the state of the art of science of his time represented
by Newton's Model. And as Newton, one of the greatest
scientists was paradoxically one of the most paradoxical,
so Kant, one of the greatest philosophers was paradoxically
one of the most paradoxical: against his own denial of
Noumena (Dinge an Sich), he derived from Newton's paradoxes
a noumenalistic Ontology. Kant's Paradoxes are discussed in
KANT AND EINSTEIN .
