The Genesis of Otherness: From Belonging to Separation

This paper investigates the ontological conditions under which otherness emerges. Contrary to traditional approaches that presume the other as a pre-existing entity to be discovered or encountered, I argue that otherness is not found but generated through an informational accident—a non-reversible transformation of relational epistemic conditions. By examining the fetal state as a case of pre-subjective belonging, I demonstrate that the other arises neither through intrinsic properties nor through intersubjective recognition, but through the structural impossibility of knowledge that occurs at the moment of separation. The other, like money or law, operates as a structural belief: not a substance, but a system that functions precisely because it remains epistemically inaccessible.