The New Tractatus Program: Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Totalitarian Ontology, and Consciousness

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.09819v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:38:51 GMT
• Title: The New Tractatus Program: Quantum Mechanics, Anti-Totalitarian Ontology, and Consciousness
• Abstract summary: Read together, these texts point toward a post-classical philosophy of partiality.<n>The article does not claim that relational quantum mechanics is the only viable interpretation of quantum theory.
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• Abstract: This article reads two recent tractatus-style texts - Niccolo Covoni and Carlo Rovelli's Tractatus Quanticus (arXiv:2512.06034) and Mikolaj Sienicki and Krzysztof Sienicki's Tractatus de Conscientia (arXiv:2607.05459) - together with Jenann Ismael and Huw Price's interpretive introduction Against Totalitarianism (arXiv:2601.01070), as parts of what may be called a New Tractatus Program. The program is unified by a single pressure point: the demand for a perspective-free description of reality, whether as a final inventory of facts, a world viewed from nowhere, or a self placed outside the physical order. On the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics, Tractatus Quanticus revises Wittgenstein's opening claim by replacing the world as the totality of facts with the world as what is the case from some perspective. Against Totalitarianism then makes the philosophical stakes of this move explicit by challenging the idea of the world as one closed totality. Tractatus de Conscientia carries the same discipline into the theory of consciousness, where conscious experience is treated neither as a mysterious substance nor as mere behavior, but as an integrated, temporally thick, operationally accessible perspective. Read together, these texts point toward a post-classical philosophy of partiality: reality is not abolished, but de-absolutized; consciousness is not mystified, but constrained by access, coupling, memory, and evidence; and the limits of language become inseparable from the limits of perspective. The article does not claim that relational quantum mechanics is the only viable interpretation of quantum theory. It instead develops the philosophical consequences of the relational reading. Its aim is programmatic rather than demonstrative: it does not prove a new ontology, but organizes a family of arguments around disciplined perspective-dependence.

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