Why natural science needs phenomenological philosophy

Rosen, Steven M.

doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2015.06.008

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“…But the price paid for this positivistic ploy has come to be acknowledged (Smolin 2006, Woit 2006. In my own explorations of the matter (Rosen 2004(Rosen , 2008a(Rosen , 2008b(Rosen , 2015, I have identified two problems with string theory.…”

Section: Quantum Gravity and String Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead of artificially appending asymmetry to a primordially perfect symmetry, a dialectic of symmetry and asymmetry is offered that permits an unequivocal, intrinsically meaningful account of the evolving forces of nature. This principle of "synsymmetry" (Rosen 1975(Rosen , 1994(Rosen , 2006(Rosen , 2008a is implicit in the topological bisection series and its associated topodimensional spin matrix (Table 1).…”

Section: The Topodimensional Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rather than constituting welldefined ontological categories, they comprise only an incipient flux of embryonic possibilities. In the earliest fragment of Western philosophy, Anaximander referred to this inchoate condition as the apeiron (see Rosen 2004). Literally meaning "without measure," the old Greek word was variously interpreted as "limitless," "boundless," "indeterminate," or "unintelligible" (Angeles 1981, 14).…”

Section: General Stages Of Dimensional Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this first retrograde movement, there is an initial recognition that the cycle-1 preoccupation with an objective physical reality external to the perceiving subject has actually arisen from sub-objective, psychophysical acts of projection. (Do note that subjectobject relations in the Moebius winding are simpler, less differentiated, than those in the Kleinian winding; see Rosen 2006 and2008a for an intensive examination of this distinction.) But the stage-4 withdrawal of the two-dimensional projection leaves untouched the depotentiating lower-dimensional projections.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…[yet] today, despite our best efforts, what we know for certain about these laws is no more than what we knew back in the 1970s" (viii). What I demonstrated in my previous contribution to this journal (Rosen 2015) is that the crux of the problem lay in quantum mechanics' most basic term: !, the quantum of action. Although this indivisible atom of process found at the submicroscopic Planck length of 10 -35 m constitutes the cornerstone of more than a century of successful experimentation in physics, it also marks the end of the road for classical analysis, since here the analytical continuity of space gives way to a "graininess" or discreteness that admits of no further quantitative determination.…”

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Quantum gravity and taoist cosmology: Exploring the ancient origins of phenomenological string theory

Rosen

2017

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

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In the author's previous contribution to this journal (Rosen 2015), a phenomenological string theory was proposed based on qualitative topology and hypercomplex numbers. The current paper takes this further by delving into the ancient Chinese origin of phenomenological string theory. First, we discover a connection between the Klein bottle, which is crucial to the theory, and the Ho-t'u, a Chinese number archetype central to Taoist cosmology. The two structures are seen to mirror each other in expressing the psychophysical (phenomenological) action pattern at the heart of microphysics. But tackling the question of quantum gravity requires that a whole family of topological dimensions be brought into play. What we find in engaging with these structures is a closely related family of Taoist forebears that, in concert with their successors, provide a blueprint for cosmic evolution. Whereas conventional string theory accounts for the generation of nature's fundamental forces via a notion of symmetry breaking that is essentially static and thus unable to explain cosmogony successfully, phenomenological/Taoist string theory entails the dialectical interplay of symmetry and asymmetry inherent in the principle of synsymmetry. This dynamic concept of cosmic change is elaborated on in the three concluding sections of the paper. Here, a detailed analysis of cosmogony is offered, first in terms of the theory of dimensional development and its Taoist (yin-yang) counterpart, then in terms of the evolution of the elemental force particles through cycles of expansion and contraction in a spiraling universe. The paper closes by considering the role of the analyst per se in the further evolution of the cosmos.

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