Inselhalle

Conference Room 2

Both Nobel Laureates and Young Scientists are kindly invited.

The current approach to fundamental physics, centred on the the idea of the existence of a mathematical theory of everything, is problematic in a number of ways, and we propose that a new start is needed, based upon concepts from the biological sciences, with coordination, or ‘systems working together’ playing a major role. The way such concepts can clarify our understanding of nature is demonstrated by Winograd’s effective simulation of natural language functioning, based upon concepts of this kind.

As discussed in detail by Barad, an important part is played by ‘apparatus’, which can not only cause entities such as position and momentum to come to have definite values, as in the conventional picture, but more generally establish relationships between reality and its articulation in a code. Such emergent articulation forms the basis of the development of ideas and can lead to the shaping of reality in the way hypothesised by Wheeler with his concept of observer-participancy. We anticipate investigations in physics along these lines being more productive than those involved currently.

Reference:
Moving on from the Theory of Everything, at https://philarchive.org/rec/JOSMOF-2