Model of an Autogenetic Universe Constellatory Self-Unfolding: A Novel Syntaxis of Time in the Time-Space of the Present

Abstract

The philosophical theory of an “autogenetic universe” (von Müller 2011, 2012, 2015) proposes new “categorial foundations” for science aiming to overcome the inherent limitations, incompatibilities, and structural pitfalls of the current scientific paradigm. The basic premise of the proposed new theory is that we live in an autogenetic universe, meaning that we live in a self-unfolding and strongly self-referential universe. In relation to this hypothesis, the theory of an “autogenetic universe” proposes a novel account of time and reality, which aims at a deeper re-conceptualization of these fundamental notions going beyond or underneath the structural reduction of the former to its linear-sequential aspect and the concurrent related reduction of the latter to its factual or event-like aspect. This is of particular significance in relation to the frontier area of theoretical physics aiming at a unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, where it is argued that a key conceptual element for this purpose requires the relativization of facticity, namely of the event structures pertaining to a local space-time description capturing exclusively the factual portrait of reality. It is instructive to note that the notion of an unfolding universe has also been explored by means of a different approach in the work of (Kafatos and Nadeau 2013).