Relational Structure and Experience: Toward an Experience-First Reconstruction of Physical Form
PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) August 16, 2026 Karl Sipfle
Contemporary fundamental physics, on inspection, resolves almost entirely into relational structure. Charge, energy, mass, and quantum state each turn out, under analysis, to be conserved or covariant quantities defined by symmetry-relations rather than intrinsic properties of independently existing substances; even the fermionic “matter particles” of the Standard Model interact only through...