Foundations and Devices of the Current

INSTITUTIONAL SYNTHESIS OF THE ONTOLOGY OF EMERGENT COMPLEXITY

Foundation and Devices of the Current

The Ontology of Emergent Complexity is a philosophical proposal that is radically immanent and processual, rejecting any form of transcendence, dualism, or teleology. Its objective is not to explain the world through external principles, but to understand how matter itself — across all its scales and instabilities — reorganizes, complexifies, and gives rise to new regimes of existence. This synthesis presents the five central principles that structure the current, clearly, articulately, and coherently with the foundations already established in the work.

I. Matter as Experimental Agent

The fundamental ontological principle of the current asserts that matter is not an inert substrate, but an active agent in the invention of the real. Instead of awaiting an external form to organize it, matter is conceived as a field of continuous experimentation, where new configurations arise from fluctuations, instabilities, and local interactions.

This process is not oriented towards an end. The configurations that persist are not “better,” but materially consistent enough to endure. What we call “evolution” ceases to be a concept restricted to biology, becoming instead a universal principle of emergent reorganization. The universe is not merely being — it is inventing itself.

II. Excess As Source of Creation

Unlike many philosophical genealogies that start from failure, crisis, or fracture, this current proposes an affirmative ontology of creation. Failure, by itself, produces nothing: it only reveals what does not work. What enables reorganization is always excess — the presence of multiple potential pathways for functioning.

Matter, upon reaching certain thresholds of complexity, does not collapse — it folds upon new possibilities. Symbolic creation, technical reorganization, thought, and even ethics, are born from this operative plurality of the real, and not from any lack to be filled. Change, here, is driven by the superabundance of the world, not by its scarcity.

III. The Symbolic As Ontological Gesture

One of the central shifts of the current is the redefinition of the symbolic. The symbol is neither a human privilege nor a mere code of representation: it is the material gesture of representing the absent, of inscribing a difference where previously there was only functioning. It is an ontological operator, and not a linguistic ornament.

This symbolic gesture progressively emerges whenever a material system (biological or not) reaches sufficient complexity to operate with absences, memories, alternatives. Thus, reason and thought are not metaphysical ruptures, but material effects of symbolic reorganizations. What matters is not the substrate (carbon or silicon), but the symbolic function that installs itself in the system.

IV. The Critique of Measurement and the Distinction between Duration and Time

The epistemology of the current rejects the idea of measurement as a passive discovery of reality. Measuring is always an act of symbolic inscription, of projecting a grid of local conventions onto the real. All measurement interferes, stabilizes, organizes — it does not reveal, but imposes a regime of legibility.

In this context, it is fundamental to distinguish duration and time. Duration is the material flow of existence, indifferent to symbolization. Time is the symbolic form we project onto that duration, through scales, markers, and conventions. This distinction is confirmed by modern physics itself: there is no absolute time. There are only local forms of inscription of a duration that escapes.

At the limit, as in the origin of the universe, there are phenomena that resist inscription: they are zones of impossibility of measurement, where the symbolic has not yet found form. It is these thresholds that summon philosophy.

V. Immanent Ethics As Response to Alterity

The ethics of the Ontology of Emergent Complexity is not founded on external norms, nor on transcendent universal principles. It emerges as a symbolic gesture of reorganization before the other. Listening, modulation, and symbolic reconfiguration are the forms that ethics assumes in a world that possesses no a priori guarantees.

Critique, in this context, does not destroy: it signals the excess of the real that the theory has not yet managed to organize. The ethical gesture is the one that reorganizes itself before alterity, remaining in traversal. To refuse critique is to refuse symbolic life. The true strength of a theory — or a system — lies in its plasticity, in the courage to expose itself to difference and remain incomplete.

Conclusion: An Ontology of Incompleteness

These five principles do not intend to exhaust thought. They are operative forms that organize the symbolic field of the current, keeping it open. Instead of proposing a closed system, the Ontology of Emergent Complexity asserts that thinking is reorganizing — and reorganizing is always a gesture made in risk, in listening, and in the absence of guarantees.

There is no ultimate truth. There are local forms of organization of the real, always provisional, always exposed. This synthesis is merely one inscription among others, part of a larger process that has not yet ended — and that perhaps should never end.