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AGPhil: Arbeitsgruppe Philosophie der Physik

AGPhil 1: Foundations of Physics I

AGPhil 1.3: Talk

Monday, March 10, 2025, 15:30–16:00, HS XVII

It from Knit — •Tim Gough — Unaffiliated - Studio F Whitacre Mews Stannary Street London SE11 4AB UK

This paper will present a coherent philosophical position regarding the foundations of quantum physics with the following characteristics: **In line with the intuitionistic maths of Gisin, that physical reality is indeterminate, that time is real (no block universe), and therefore that something new (unpredictable from the past) happens quite often **In line with Rovelli*s relational quantum mechanics, that the foundations of reality are relational, not material **In line with Ladyman, that every thing must go **In line with Simondon, that physical reality is transductive (in his meaning of the word: a relation where the terms of the relation do not pre-exist that relation) **In line with Derrida, that at the foundation we find différance **In line with Deleuze, that the main question philosophy asks is: how is the production of the new possible? **That, in line with general systems theory, every thing is systemic, quantum theory being a (rich and extreme) subset of systems-oriented thought **That ontology is flat and immanent, but nonetheless not materialist **That maths is unreasonably effective **That the hard problem of consciousness disappears **That material stuff is an emergent property of relations

Not it from bit but it from knit.

Keywords: Relational; System; Intuitionistic; Deleuze; Rovelli