Deriving the Manifestly Qualitative World from a Pure-Power Base: Light-like Networks

Abstract

Seeking to derive the manifestly qualitative world of objects and entities without recourse to fundamental categoricity or qualitativity, l’offer an account of how higher-order categorical properties and objects may emerge from a pure-power base. l’explore the possibility of ‘fields’ whose fluctuations are force-carrying entities, differentiated with respect to a microtopology of curled-up spatial dimensions. Since the spacetime paths of gauge bosons have zero ‘spacetime interval’ and no time-like extension, l’argue that according them the status of fundamental entities would support a pure-power ontology. Such entities, circulating within self-sustaining microtopological ‘networks’, feasibly maintain definite spatial configurations of conserved physical quan­tities, including energy-momentum. Perceived as time-like and massy, and representing fermionic entities, they give rise to the manifest world.