Abstract
All of science is built on the foundation of the millennia-old numeric forms of representation and the associated measurement processes. Hence, the most promising way to approach physical reality (and physics) afresh is to shift to a non-numeric representational formalism. I discuss here one such formalism for structural/relational representation—evolving transformations system (ETS)—developed by our group. In particular, the adoption of ETS obviates the introduction of consciousness into physics, since under the formalism, the two forms of object representation—by an agent (subjective) and in Nature (objective)—agree. Moreover, ETS suggests the primacy of the new temporal representation over conventional spatial representation, and it is not difficult to envisage that the latter is actually instantiated on the basis of the former, as has also been suggested by some quantum gravity researchers.
Lev Goldfarb