Categorial Apparatus

The "statu-nascendi'' layer is described by means of a categorial apparatus, which consists of the following components respectively:

(a) a disclosure topos facilitating an ontophainetic platform pertaining to the time-space of the present, and constituted through intertwined constellatory unfolding in the act of representation. In ancient Greek, "ta onta'' means "that, what is'', "phainesthai'' means that "something is bringing itself into appearance''. The neologism ``ontophainetic'' is meant to indicate the quality of allowing something that eventually is to appear in the first place, that is, the "stage'', or "epiphaneia'' on which reality can occur in the first place,

(b) a paratactical predication space on which some form of ``constellatory logic'' becomes applicable,

(c) a causal scheme of bounding the process of unfolding in the present, and

(d) an epistemological setting of self-referentiality.

The notion of parataxis refers to a mode of logical coherence of a multiplicity which is independent of linear sequential organization. This is captured by the functional role of a "constellatory logic''.

Unfolding in Statu-Nascendi

Multiple-Connectivity and Temporal Binding

The pertinent type of connectivity is encapsulated by the topological notion of "multiple-connectivity'' in the "time-space of the present''. In this articulation, multiple-connectivity pertains to temporal binding according to some temporal division scheme. The important issue is that the topological property of multiple-connectivity has a temporal connotation, whereas the potential appearance of "alleged non-locality'' in 3-d space, for instance, has a spatial connotation, which is precisely the spatial cross-sectional projection, that is, the epiphaneia of manifestation of this "temporal binding'' in the "time-space of the present''. As a consequence, time cannot be treated as a dimension bearing the same status like the spatial dimensions, but has to be conceptualized as an "unfolding dimension'' according to the universal covering principle from the standpoint of the "time-space of the present''.

Temporal Bond in the Time-Space of the Present

Reality exists in three different chrono-ontological formats, facticity, statu-nascendi and apeiron. Because of this premise, all parts of one coherent reality must somehow be mutually interrelated, otherwise there would be no point in speaking of one reality.

In this respect, a precise meaning has to be ascribed to the crucial notion of the ``time-space of the present'', which has to be distinguished from the standard notion of factual space-time. Given that reality is characterized by the three different chrono-ontological formats the ``time-space of the present'' has to be understood in its potential to reveal the pertinent binding of ``the past'' with ``the future'' in relation to ``the present'', not in terms of the linear sequential temporal ordering of the "continuum of the real line'' modelling merely the factual aspect of reality, but in another chrono-topological format. The principal argument that has been presented and elaborated in detail in our recent Springer book "Concept and Formalization of Constellatory Self-Unfolding'' in this regard, is that the pertinent chrono-topological binding process is characterized topologically through the linking properties of the "Borromean rings'', whereas its manifestation in the time-space of the present takes place through the instantiation of an appropriate ontophainetic platform.

Modularity and Relative Primality

Since the pertinent chrono-topological binding process is not chain-like, and thus independent of the sequential ordering of facts along the real line, under certain contingent conditions the "the very far past'' may be indirectly amalgamated with the "very near future'' through and in modular relation to the "present'' giving rise to a particular type of a topological linkage characterized as a "Borromean temporal bond''. Consequently, the ``time-space of the present'' in its function to modulate and manifest recurrently these temporal linkages pertaining to the chrono-ontological domain constitutes the emergent topos of the process of topological historic unfolding. As a result, "the past'' and ``the future'', independently of their factual temporal distance from the present, exist paratactically in their potential to become indirectly linked in modular relation to the present. Hence, they do not assume a hypotactic status conforming to the sequential-chain model that pertains merely to the serial ordering of facts. In turn, this justifies the need for characterizing reality in ``statu-nascendi'' via a different categorial framework.

Constellatory Self-Unfolding

Besides structural strong self-referentiality and processual autogenesis, the dynamism in their continual mutual implication characterizing the scheme is enunciated by constellatory self-unfolding. The conditions, which are necessary for the technical triple ekphrasis of constellatory self-unfolding are the following:

First, the notion of an arche in its dual capacity, i.e., both as

(i) a provisional bounding principle of the apeiron according to which constellations may eidetically form, and,

(ii) an origin, in the genetic sense of the omphalos, bearing the invisible non-factual cord of connectivity with the source as an epitome of the self-referential identity/unity.

Second, the notion of an epiphaneia in its dual function, i.e., both, as

(i) an ontophainetic platform qualifying and facilitating the concomitant emergent ontological appearance, according to the underlying bounding principle, in all iterations of unfolding;

and,

(ii) a re-current chromatic resolution spectrum of re-presentation, under the qualification of the pertinent origin as above, in its temporal connotation to mark or denotate the present, which reciprocally, qualifies the epiphaneia as the time-space of the present.