Beyond the Physics of Logic: Aspects of Transcendental Materialism or URAM in a Modern View

TL;DR

This paper explores how modern physics, especially quantum information, quantum gravity, and self-organized criticality, can inform a philosophical framework addressing ultimate reality and meaning across sciences.

Contribution

It proposes a reinterpretation of philosophy based on scientific results, integrating physics with speculative philosophy to address fundamental questions.

Findings

Physics results can reconstruct phenomena across sciences

Quantum theories inform philosophical questions of reality

Speculative philosophy rooted in scientific insights

Abstract

It has been shown at other occasions that recent results of modern physics can be used to shed some more light onto the foundations of the world, provided the actual task of philosophy is being re-interpreted in terms of a theory which is following up the results of science rather than laying the grounds for the latter, contrary to what the original intention of Aristotelian "prima philo- sophia" would imply. As it turns out, the interpretation of the main results of present research dealing with aspects of quantum information theory and quantum gravity, respectively, as well as with self-organized criticality, suffices to re-construct a large class of phenomena not only within the field of physics proper, but also within chemistry, biology, and even the social sciences. We show that questions of ultimate reality and meaning can only be answered within a framework of speculative philosophy which is rooted though in what sceptic philosophy is able to derive from scientific results.