From Objects to Responses - On the Loss of Ontological Sovereignty in Contemporary Physics

Modern physics increasingly encounters phenomena that are empirically real and dynamically effective, yet resist formulation as objects, fields, or causal mechanisms. Dark energy, dark matter, black holes, and the quantum measurement problem all share this structural feature: they are operationally indispensable but ontologically opaque. This paper argues that these difficulties are not accidental but indicate a deeper conceptual shift. Physics is undergoing a transition from an object-centered ontology toward a response-based framework, in which reality is structured by how systems respond to limits of integration rather than by what entities fundamentally exist. This meta-paper articulates this shift explicitly, framing it as a loss of ontological sovereignty of the material object model and the emergence of response as a primary category of physical intelligibility. This paper functions as an interface text within a larger operator-based research corpus. Core concepts are applied here, not re-derived. The underlying research operates in a non-linear, rhythmically recursive epistemic mode grounded in an autistic form of structural perception; the present text provides an interface translation for academic contexts.