Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper proposes that the foundational processes underlying both material and conceptual phenomena share a common grammar: Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives (DSRP). DSRP is presented not as a metaphorical or epistemic model, but as a structural ontology—a recursive, generative pattern by which reality organizes itself across scale. Rather than treating structure as static or emergent from external laws, DSRP formalizes the process of organization itself: how identities arise, systems form, relationships co-define, and perspectives shape what is seen. This framing aligns with philosophical traditions that prioritize process over substance, including autopoiesis, process metaphysics, and relational interpretations of quantum mechanics and information theory. A structural isomorphism table is presented to demonstrate DSRP’s presence in quantum systems, molecular chemistry, biological life, cognition, culture, and society. The paper contributes to structural realism by offering DSRP as a universal, scale-invariant grammar of organization underlying the very fabric of reality.
Source: Journal of Systems Thinking
DOI: 10.54120/001c.138685
Authors: Derek Cabrera, Laura Cabrera
Institution: Cornell University
Language: English
Topic: Complex Systems and Dynamics
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411020813