Thinking Without Space, Time and Matter

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Alternative forms of order, relation, and possibility can be developed and tested through artistic and material practice by abandoning space, time, and matter as compulsory categories of human perception. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

Andreas Vigl

doi:10.5281/zenodo.22646039

September 7, 2026Open Access

Thinking Without Space, Time and Matter

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To examine whether human cognition and perception can function without presupposing space, time, and matter as mandatory foundational categories.
Conceptual modeling within the artistic research framework of the project 'In Surge of Reality'.
Application of artistic and material practice as an investigative methodology to construct and test non-standard relational systems.
Articulates a conceptual baseline showing that novel forms of relational structure and order emerge when standard physical categories are suspended.
Establishes artistic practice as a viable testing ground for generating alternative frameworks of perception and thought without postulating an inaccessible external reality.

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Conceptual framework reveals alternative models of order and relation in human perception, suggesting perception can operate beyond foundational categories of space, time, and matter.

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Thinking Without Space, Time and Matter is a conceptual statement within Andreas Vigl's artistic research project In Surge of Reality. The project questions space, time and matter as compulsory starting categories of human perception and thought. Rather than claiming a reality beyond these categories, it explores what other forms of order, relation and possibility become thinkable when they are no longer taken for granted. Artistic and material practice becomes a method for developing and testing such alternative orders. This Version 1.0, dated 7 September 2026, documents the concept and its identifying title.

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