Objects of Thought, Thoughts of Objects? From object-orientation to Process Physics

topics: cognitive neuroscience; consciousness; complexity theory; self-organised criticality; autopoiesis (self-creation); Process Physics To resolve the current impasse between realistic and anti-realistic thought, I‘d like to explore their latent neurocognitive origin. Since our brain’s self-referential neurocognitive mechanisms generate neural and mental patterns that ultimately pose as object-oriented units, they predetermine our men-tal modelling of reality, thus usually making us firmly believe that reality is ultimately object-based. This firm belief is the actual instigator of the strict, but imaginary boundary between physical and mental reality. By discussing self-organizing selectionist threshold models of complex systems, I will illustrate an alternative for the traditional object-oriented realistic and antirealistic schemes: process-oriented reflexive monism, which facilitates a framework for consciousness based on com-plexity science and is compatible with the recently developed pioneering paradigm of Process Phys-ics. Moreover, an evolutionary account of an autopoietic (i.e., self-creating) natural universe is pre