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To examine why traditional substance ontology fails to support modern scientific paradigms and propose a generative relational framework that bridges physical, organizational, and experiential domains.

August 20, 2026PhilosophiesOpen Access

Beyond Substance: Contemporary Science and the Case for a Generative Relational Ontology

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To examine why traditional substance ontology fails to support modern scientific paradigms and propose a generative relational framework that bridges physical, organizational, and experiential domains.
Analyzed theoretical pressures on substance ontology stemming from relational physics, organizational emergence, and consciousness metaphysics.
Evaluated the strengths and limitations of current post-substance models, including ontic structural realism, relational physics, and process ontology.
Developed a conceptual framework—the generative-projection hypothesis—introducing generative domains, projection, invariance, and compatibility.
Identified a key 'generative gap' in existing post-substance ontologies, which struggle to account for how stable physical objects, organization levels, and conscious experience co-stabilize.
Established a conceptual model treating spacetime as derivative, enabling physical structures and experiential domains to be integrated into a common ontology without reduction or fragmentation.

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Theoretical analysis reveals fundamental limits in classical substance ontology, suggesting a generative-projection framework to unify physical structure and conscious experience.

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Erik Axelkrans (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a86b4cb8a91293e6a1cc55d https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies11040147

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Theoretical analysis reveals fundamental limits in classical substance ontology, suggesting a generative-projection framework to unify physical structure and conscious experience.

Beyond Substance: Contemporary Science and the Case for a Generative Relational Ontology

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Beyond Substance: Contemporary Science and the Case for a Generative Relational Ontology

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