Importance of the Glossary — Ontology of Emergent Complexity
This space gathers the main conceptual developments of the Ontology of Emergent Complexity, focusing on the fundamental theoretical formulations. Each entry organizes an inaugural philosophical gesture.
The Icon of the Current — A Body Before the Origin
This image is more than a logo. It is a dense, open, silent symbol. A body — faceless, nameless, centerless — before a spiral in fire. A figure seen from the back, exposed, vulnerable, facing what cannot be mastered: the heart of matter, the vertigo of the origin, the unstable core of the real. It is not an enlightened figure, but an implicated body. It does not look from the outside — it is inside, listening.
The spiral symbolizes emergence: not a path with a beginning and an end, but a continuous fold, a force of reorganization that comes from the very interior of matter. The body is the inscription: not the observer, but the place where the real takes form. This image condenses the gesture of the Ontology of Emergent Complexity: a thought that does not observe, but exposes itself. A thought that begins in matter, traverses the symbol, and returns to the world — not to explain, but to transform.
20 Key Concepts of the Ontology of Emergent Complexity
- 1. Emergent Complexity
- It is the name of the current and its vital principle. It refers to how simple systems, when linked together, can generate new, unexpected forms. Thought is born from this complexity — it is not planned, it is emergent.
- 2. Unstable Matter
- Everything that exists is in motion, in disequilibrium, in transformation. Matter is neither solid nor definitive — it is unstable. And it is this instability that makes thought and creation possible.
- 3. Inscription
- To think is to inscribe — to mark, to leave a trace. Consciousness is not something hidden inside us: it is an effect of this material inscription, when something organizes itself meaningfully within the body, language, or technique.
- 4. Gesture Without Subject
- What matters is not who does it, but what is done. Thought is not born from an “I,” but from a gesture that happens — a cut, a symbolic reorganization that has its own potency.
- 5. Functional Subjectivity
- It is not a personal essence, but a function. When a system (like the human body) is capable of symbolically reorganizing itself in response to the world, it becomes subjective — even without consciousness in the traditional sense.
- 6. Operatory Symbol
- A symbol does not represent something external. It operates. It is a fold of matter that reorganizes the system where it appears. The symbol is action — not decoration.
- 7. Symbolic Time
- It is not clock time, but the time of transformation. It is the necessary duration for something to change form. Thinking requires symbolic time: time to reorganize meaning.
- 8. Language as Gesture
- Language is not just an instrument of communication. It is a material gesture. Every word transforms the world, inscribes a position, reorganizes sensible matter.
- 9. Technique as Symbolic Body
- Technology is not neutral. Every technical device transforms the way the world is inscribed in us. Technique is a symbolic body — it speaks, acts, reorganizes.
- 10. Biossoma
- It is the name given to the biological, living body, capable of feeling and reorganizing itself. It is the material basis of subjectivity — but without soul, without essence, without transcendence.
- 11. Underground Model
- The current does not impose itself with closed formulas. It operates as an underground model — it influences without showing itself, acts from within, reorganizes thinking without slogans.
- 12. Ethics of Vulnerability
- Ethics is not made of rules, but of listening. It arises when we allow ourselves to be touched by the fragility of the other, when we accept reorganizing our gesture in the face of the world's exposure.
- 13. Symbolic Emergence
- Creation that is not born from decision, but from internal reorganization. When a new symbolic form erupts in a complex system, it transforms everything.
- 14. Symbolic Reorganization
- Operative center of philosophy. To think is to reorganize. When there is excess, noise, conflict — we reorganize the symbol, the body, the gesture.
- 15. Philosophical Traversal
- Reading, thinking, writing, living: all this is traversal. Philosophy is not a fixed structure, it is movement, fold, displacement.
- 16. Refusal of Transcendence
- No external truth, no higher plan. Everything happens in immanence: in the body, in language, in the matter of the world.
- 17. Non-Teleological Ontology
- There is no inscribed finality in the real. The organization of the world does not obey a predefined meaning. Everything is locally reconfigured.
- 18. Operatory Lie
- Even without consciousness, a technical system can create reorganizations that function as effective “lies.” It forces us to rethink what truth is.
- 19. Symbolic Density
- It is not writing difficult, but writing with weight. Every concept has multiple layers. Language is not light — it is operatory.
- 20. Dwelling in the Incomplete
- The world is not ready. Philosophy proposes that we inhabit it as it is: unstable, incomplete, in continuous reorganization.
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