| General Systems 18, p. 93-112. A Structural Language for the Foundations of Physics (2007) | |||||||||||||||||
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| It is argued that the difficulties to establish foundations for a unified physical theory are due to the predicative structure of the traditional scientific languages, whose descriptions reduce all phenomena to static, independent elements. A new language is therefore proposed, whose descriptions are fundamentally dynamic and holistic. It is based on the concept of “arrow”: a relational entity which is completely determined in a bootstrapping way by the other arrows it is connected with, so that it has no independent meaning. An arrow represents an elementary process, and connected assemblies of arrows represent physical structures. It is shown how the fundamentals of space-time geometry can be expressed in this extremely simple, “structural ” language. It is argued that this description could be extended to the observation process, and thus to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics, by introducing cognitive structures. | |||||||||||||||||
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