On the Nature of Objective Reality: From Multidimensionality to Experience-without-Definitions

This dissertation sets out the thesis that objective reality exists but cannot be exhausted by any finite definition, formula or model — it is not an object of cognition but the context and source of all cognition. Any attempt to formalize it ends in the creation of a "subjective offshoot", a limited construction grown by the mind within reality and therefore incapable of encompassing it as a whole; cognition of reality is thus not a movement toward a complete description, but an infinite process of tuning and deepening interaction with its multidimensional wholeness. The dissertation develops four main provisions: reality as a multidimensional landscape rather than a line, in which physical, mental, potential and possibly other strata coexist and interpenetrate, with the principle of complementarity as fundamental; the mind as a local instrument in a nonlocal reality, limited a priori by its evolutionary niche and creating a fundamental epistemological gap between the knowing and the known; all formulas and definitions as "subjective offshoots" bearing the imprint of their language, culture and neural architecture, so that the progress of knowledge is the cultivation of ever more adequate offshoots rather than the accumulation of truths; and the goal as a vector rather than a point, organizing perception and sustaining a living, dialogical contact with the inexhaustibility of reality. Methodological conclusions concern the rejection of the idol of final definitions, a change of the mode of cognition from analysis to direct contemplation, the apophatic (negative) path as the basis, and the acceptance of "subjective offshoots" as the only possible language. The conclusion formulates a new paradigm of relations with reality: reality is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be participated in — it is not described, it is immersed in; it is not given a definition, it is witnessed.