The Absolute Primacy of Energy and Cyclic Self-Organization: Energetic Process Monism
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This monograph proposes Energetic Process Monism: the thesis that energy, understood as activity (E-activity) and not only as a conserved quantity (E-quantity), is ontologically primary, and that space, time, gravitation, life, mind and technology are derivative forms of that activity. The framework leaves the equations of general relativity, quantum field theory and thermodynamics unchanged and instead inverts their ontological hierarchy, drawing on the Wheeler-DeWitt problem of time, the Page-Wootters mechanism, the thermal time hypothesis, entanglement-based accounts of emergent spacetime and Jacobson's thermodynamic derivation of the Einstein equation. It connects these results with the physics of self-organization (Prigogine; Chaisson's energy rate density) and with observed cycles of expansion, critical congestion and reorganization in ecosystems and civilizations, and asks whether a comparable cycle could operate at the cosmic scale. Six axioms are stated, eight strong objections are answered or turned into open questions, and seven predictions are given, each with an explicit criterion of refutation. The record contains the English edition and a Turkish edition (Enerjinin Mutlak Önceliği ve Döngüsel Öz-Örgütlenme: Enerjetik Süreç Monizmi).
Author: Akgunlugil, Erhan
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225658774
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