‘[Ongoing] Self-Creation of the «Kosmos»’ -- The Meaning of this Phrase in F.E.D. Parlance.

Dear Reader,

The term ‘self-creation’, as employed in the discourse within F.E.D., means that the ‘‘‘creation’’’ itself is the cause of its own ongoing/continuing creation of new ontology -- of its own ongoing/continuing ‘ontopoiesis’/‘onto-dynamasis’.

The related phrase ‘self-creation of the «kosmos»’, does NOT mean, in its usage by we ‘Foundationers’, that we hold that the «arché-arithmos» of the «kosmos», e.g., r -- that the «arché»-ontology of the «kosmos»/of the ‘‘‘creation’’’ -- whose symbol forms the ‘‘‘kernel’’’/seed/ “cell-form” [Marx]/‘‘‘ultimate ancestor’’’ for our ‘dialectic of nature meta-model meta-equation’, actually did, or even could have, created itself. 

It is only the ‘post-«arché»’ ‘consecuum’ of new ontology to which, for us, our phrase, ‘self-creation of the «kosmos»’, refers.

Scientifically, empirically, observationally, we can only admit our ignorance about, and be agnostic about, any possible causes, and any possible origin, of the origin itself; about any pre-«arché» that might reside ‘‘‘behind’’’, and before, the to-our-present-knowledge ultimate «arché» itself, and we can give no account of any such.

That ultimate «arché», e.g., here, r, is the ground, the ‘dialectical premise’, the basis from which all else follows, ‘meta-genealogically’.

Therefore, by definition, and analogous to the fourth of the four “first-order” Dedekind-Peano Postulates, that comprehend, in their generality, ordinality, not just in its “standard model” of the “first-order” Natural numbers, N, but also in the ‘‘‘non-standard model’’’ thereof, formed by the Seldonian _NQ --

‘‘‘4.  alpha/* [e.g., 1, or q₁] is not the successor of any element of this ‘‘‘Natural’’’ universe [of discourse].’’’

-- we can, presently, give no account of, e.g., r, that ultimate «arché»’s own ‘meta-ancestry’/‘meta-genealogy’, whether or not there actually was/is any such.  We can, of course, per the known history of humanity, give an -- archaeological  -- account of what preceded the human-phenomic conception of the formal "Natural Numbers".

It is precisely for this reason that we select it as our «arché», and call it “«arché»”.

At/with it, our knowledge stops.

It is where our knowledge of the past presently ends.

Regards,

Miguel