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Dynamic Materialism
It moves away from mechanistic materialism (inert matter) and idealism (pure form). Proposes a materialism where matter is active and creative.
Place in Ontology
Text 15 is crucial because it defines what we mean by "structure" or "form" in OCE. It's not about deny existence of stable forms, but to explain their genesis through instability.
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Specific Contribution
02
Ontology of the Rest
Introduces the concept of "functional remainder" as a key to understanding the persistence of things. Everything that exists is a remnant of a previous process.
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Basis for Complexity
Without stable (even if temporary) forms, complexity could not evolve. This text explains how stability emerges from chaos, allowing the construction of higher levels of organisation.
This understanding of the way "pause" prepares us to understand Life (Field II) not as a exception to matter, but as a particularly sophisticated and unstable form of material organisation.