> [!custom-soil-type]- Note Details > - Growth stage: [[soil ✨]] > - Type: #concept[](soil%20✨.md)l ontology - Fractal ontology is a philosophical concept that views existence as a dynamic and interconnected process, rather than as composed of static entities. Drawing on ideas from philosophers like Michel Serres, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Friedrich Nietzsche, fractal ontology emphasizes the following key points: - **Noise and Chaos**: At the foundation of reality is noise and chaos, which means that all systems are inherently turbulent and contain multiplicity and deviation. - **Dynamic Knowledge**: Knowledge attempts to organize chaos into order, resulting in a constantly changing and interconnected view of reality, similar to fractals that blur boundaries and resist fixed categorization. - **Demarcation Problem**: Boundaries between entities are ambiguous and pragmatic. For example, defining where a pear ends and the act of eating begins reveals the complexity and interconnectedness of processes, showing that demarcations are often influenced by social and political contexts. - **Primacy of Verbs**: Processes and actions (verbs) are more fundamental than static nouns. This shifts the focus from what things are to what they do and how they become, emphasizing transformation over static being. - **Assemblages**: Reality consists of interconnected processes and assemblages rather than discrete entities. For instance, the relationship between a snow leopard and a jackrabbit is seen as a single process of becoming-fast, highlighting the interconnectedness of predator and prey. - **Becoming-Other**: Transformation is essential. Instead of merely imitating a form, entities transform by resonating with the processes and assemblages that define other forms. This idea is illustrated by actors embodying roles or soldiers transforming into snow leopards. - **Metamorphosis-Machines**: These are mechanisms that break down and reassemble maps of understanding, enabling new ways of thinking and being that transcend traditional boundaries and identities. - "All knowledges are an attempt to bring order to noise—to forcefully organise the chaos continually fixing everything together in an asymmetrical block of concurrent becoming. We can call this instantaneous zigzag a fractal ontology—a set of concepts and categories that show the properties and relations between them. The following is an introductory exploration of some of the phenomenological implications of such an ontology—of the vital mutations of becoming that operate as a material intensification of existentialism, a thorough going-beyond of Martin Heidegger, an exploration of Friedrich Nietzsche’s maps, as well as declaration of war on Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant." [Source](https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/introduction-fractal-ontology/) Sources: - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/introduction-fractal-ontology/ -