Toward The Real: Symboliad & Software-Physicalism

Proposal of a novel ontological category called Software Physicalism. It is framed through spaces not owned—boundary-like, non-essentialist relational spaces—yet functioning as an essential apparatus within a form of life, in the Wittgensteinian sense. The position also proposes an update to process philosophy (a Whiteheadian++ symbol), advancing its items through structural coupling and relative phase, thereby offering a unifying view through a scale-invariant conceptual proposal. This stance dissolves several grounding problems and undermines classical mind–body dualism. It represents a middle path: non-dualist, non-representational, where Symbols 2.0 are sufficiently to account in the proposed form, entailing no need for meta-cognition but rather recursive dynamics. It proposes the means for coherence across scales through the spaces identified, where the Symboliad constrains and drives—acting as a soft topology above systems in adjacency, a space which guides a generativity program in an hysteretic way and through history of the so called basin. Through this, it also informs a new treatment of physics and the notion of time (functional retro-causality), as part of the Observers of a-kind and as a differentiating property among kind-of Observers. This ontological category naturally unfolded from the author’s 2024 thesis “Life, the Observer, and Consciousness”. There, it was argued that mind ultimately follows a soft space—in the energetic sense—rather than requiring explicit completion, in the same spirit as Wittgenstein’s “logic takes care of itself” expression.