language/matter dialectics

 

analytic method


   language              /              matter

   theory   ←  theoretic analysis  ←  hidden code
      ↓                                    ↑
   program  →   simulator           →   predictions

 

synthetic method


   language              /              matter

   theory   ←  theoretic analysis  ←  hidden code
      ↓                                    ↑
   program  →   matter compiler     →   synthetic objects

The passive mode is the usual scientific method of observing and theorizing. The active mode is the new engineering method of synthetic biology and programmable materials science.

 

2019-03-3

Language is intrinsic to matter in a way that likely goes in a different direction from linguistic philosophy’s approach of separating language from the world-in-itself. A proto-linguisticality (like the proposed proto-experientiality of panpsychism) would exist in matter at all levels. This results in a form of panlinguisticism.

Our theories (composed of sentences of human-created languages) may have a fictionalist aspect, but they are attempts to interpret the hidden code of matter.

 

Philip Thrift

 
 
 

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