Definitions: Pre‑Structures, Primary Structures, and Secondary Structures
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This document introduces the foundational generative categories of pre‑structures, primary structures,and secondary structures within Generative Theory (GT). These categories describe how minimal asymmetry, through iteration, gives rise to stable forms of behavior across all domains of reality. The definitions presented here do not modify, contradict, or interfere with any existing scientific definitionsof structure used in physics, biology, mathematics, cognitive science, information theory, or the social sciences. Instead, GT provides a deeper generative layer that explains how structures arise, independent of their domain‑specific interpretation. Pre‑structures are defined as volumetric, non‑entity processes representing possibilities for stabilization. Primary structures are the first stabilizations of iteration that produce repeatable behavioral forms. Secondary structures are all later stabilizations built upon primary structures and include both mass‑based structures(e.g., electrons, protons, atoms) and propagation‑based structures (e.g., photons, waves, ideas, information). A key clarification is that propagation‑based secondary structures such as photons and intellectual ideas are not pre‑structures. Although they retain a primary generative feature — the absenceof propagation‑stopping stabilization — they arise from already existing structures and therefore belongto the secondary class. This framework enables physics, mathematics, biology, social systems, culture, language, and intellectto be described within one coherent generative ontology, without altering any established scientific definitions. Author: Waldemar Superson
Author: Superson, Waldemar
Language: English
Topic: Complex Systems and Dynamics
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7165787725
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