Unity, Polarity, Symmetry, Manifestation: An Ontology of Differentiation and Re-Potentialization

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This essay develops an ontology of differentiation and re-potentialization based on P.R. Sarkar’s Four-Chamber Model. It begins from the problem of how stable forms, identities, meanings, and structures emerge at all. While materialist approaches tend to reduce such phenomena to physical processes, non-materialist ontologies often respond by positing already determinate realities, such as Platonic Forms, Penrose’s mathematical structures, or Sjöstedt-Hughes’ atemporal perceptons. Against this background, the Four-Chamber Model proposes a different starting point: a preformal unity in which potential determinations, qualitative tendencies, and relational tensions have not yet separated into stable identities. The paper interprets this process through the sequence Unity → Polarity → Symmetry → Manifestation and illustrates it through the relational structure of gluons in quantum chromodynamics. Finally, the concept of Omega4 is introduced as a principle that weakens the dominance of established semantic attractors and reopens the possibility of further differentiation. The central thesis is that forms are real, but not primordial: they are achievements of relational differentiation that remain open to transformation.

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Hans-Joachim Rudolph
LMU Munich (PhD)

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