Methexis, Mimesis and Self Duality: Theoretical Physics as Formal Systems
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Abstract
The naive idea of a mimesis between theory and experiments, a
concept still lasing in many epistemologies, is here substituted
by a more sophisticated mathematical methexis where theoretical
physics is a system of production of formal structures under strong
mathematical constraints, such as global and local symmetries.
Instead of an ultimate “everything theory”, the image of physical
theories here proposed is a totality of interconnected structures
establishing the very conditions of its “thinkability” and the
relations with the experimental domain.
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