This paper rises to the challenge of providing a sustainable account of the manifestly qualitative world without drawing upon fundamental categorical properties or particulars. It does so by conjecturing that the ostensible spatial priority of the world might obtain by virtue of powerful microtopological networks giving rise to massy and persistent ‘entities’, such networks comprised of circulating gauge bosons which travel at the speed of light, possess no spatiotemporal extension, and lack rest mass. l describe how spacetime, locations, fermions, and the categorical-dispositional distinction, may all arise at higher levels. The challenge for this Light-like Network Account (LNA) is to describe how we get from the fundamental to these higher levels.
1 Primitives
I begin with the idea that field fluctuations—light-like processes with a spacetime interval of zero—are suitable candidates for fundamental ‘entities’. I also refer to them as ‘Neo-Parmenidean Individuals’ in deference to ...
