A tunnel between physics and metaphysics: superempirical beables and hidden variables

Resumo

The ancient cosmological view that reality is more than quantitative aspects can be explored with an adequate algebraic structure. Here we show that a Weyl algebra can be used to represent the super-empirical (metaphysical) aspects of Saint Thomas´ prime matter and that Bohm’s quantum potential intrinsically conveys these superempirical properties (super-beables). If the proposal is correct, a means to provide an epistemological bridge between philosophical principles inherent to nature and its analysis by physics can be accomplished. In this case, metaphysical attributes do indeed play an essential role ancient cosmology imparted to them, and they can be tracked through the use of an appropriate tool, despite their being definitely “hidden variables” from an empirical point of view, although not hidden from an ontological point of view.