Sonic Thinking by Bernd Herzogenrath

Author:Bernd Herzogenrath [Herzogenrath, Bernd]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781501327179
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2016-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Inadequacies and incoherences

But why should this “metaphysical” colloquy matter anyway? Many people would even characterize this kind of “philosophical” dispute as—at best—superfluous.

The fact is that there are quite deep problems with the ontological “rooting” of our current scientific discourses—problems that are even realized within sciences themselves, and which have led to strange aporiae. As we will soon notice this happens especially in one of the leading sciences itself: one of the most pressing topics in the foundations of physics today is the consolidation of a deep incoherence between General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory—a research field well-known as Quantum Gravity. Surprisingly, this incoherence can be traced back to a break-down of concepts like object, space, locality, participativity, to name just a few.

Now, Alfred N. Whitehead, in his monumental Process and Reality (Whitehead 1978), has already suggested that we have to reformulate the ancient Syzygy of permanence and flow in order to get an appropriate ontological framework matching the needs of contemporary thinking. Unfortunately, this evokes an even harder problem—the adaption and redesign of language.

Whitehead identified language as one of the most important “tools” available for metaphysical analyzes, and was quite aware of the problem of inadequate means of expression:

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