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Entity is the answer to the question "what exists? what produces Existence?". It is that which possesses the Property we call "Existence". To exist means to be real, to be within, to take part in Reality. An Entity is everything that has Existence as a fundamental Property.

We can say that Entities exist because they produce Existence—through their property I call Agency, the capacity of producing Action, Existence, they generate Events, changes in or of themselves, as Sources, Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields pairs. In other words, we cannot claim that Entities exist per se; they exist in the act of producing Existence, of generating Events and Action.

Something can exist physically or metaphysically/cognitively:

• physical entities are those that exist in the physical domain of Reality (for example: Particles, trees, our body, galaxies, the entire physical Universe),
• metaphysical or cognitive entities are those that exist in the metaphysical/cognitive domain of Reality—the Meta-reality (for example: sensations, emotions, the cognitive side of behaviors, thoughts, cultures, meaning and semantics).

Only one kind of Entity truly exists in Reality: the Sources.

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Sources are the causal, space and time origins of the events that incessantly form the Reality. Sources, even though they are inseparable unities, always manifest two aspects: an active and a passive side. For convenience, having good in mind that they can't really exist as separated entities, only for descriptive purposes and following the common knowledge, we can identify two kinds of (sub-)entities: Agents (or Forces) and Acted (or Fields).

Sources are the causal, spatial and temporal origins of the events that incessantly shape Reality. Although Sources are inseparable unities, they always manifest two aspects: an active and a passive side. For convenience—and with the understanding that they cannot truly exist as separate entities—we may, for descriptive purposes and in line with common knowledge, identify two kinds of (sub-)entities: Agents (or Forces) and Acted (or Fields).

As stated above, Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields are different aspects of the unity represented by the Sources. Forces don't have sense, cannot exist, without Fields, and vice versa. Agents / Forces are the active side of Existence, of Reality. Acted / Fields, the passive side. We can't find a gravitational force without a corresponding gravitational field. The field manifests itself when the related force acts on it. The force manifest itself acting on the related field. Although different aspects, Force and Field are one, a unit, a Source of Action.

As stated above, Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields are distinct aspects of the unity represented by the Sources. Forces have no meaning and cannot exist without Fields, and vice versa. Agents / Forces represent the active side of Existence, of Reality; Acted / Fields represent the passive side. We cannot observe a gravitational force without a corresponding gravitational field. The field manifests when the related force acts upon it. The force manifests itself by acting on the corresponding field. Though they are distinct aspects, Force and Field are one—a unit, a Source of Action.

We can identify fundamental and derived entities, fundamental or derived in respect of the contiguity with the causal and space-time Source of Reality. Everything that exists, in this wide sense, in turn can be considered a source, a derived source, derived from the Fundamental Source. So, every "object" of Reality can be considered a source of action. In facts, in the physical realm, we normally talk about particles as sources of forces and the related fields manifesting in consequence of a manifestation (action) of a force producing a variation of the corresponding field, in the very action of acting on it.

We can distinguish between fundamental and derived entities, fundamental or derived in relation to their contiguity with the causal and space-time Source of Reality. Everything that exists, in this broad sense, can in turn be considered a source—a derived source, originating from the Fundamental Source. Thus, every "object" in Reality can be considered a source of action. In fact, in the physical realm, we commonly refer to particles as sources of forces, with the related fields manifesting as a consequence of a force's action—producing a variation in the corresponding field through the very act of acting upon it.

Differently from the common view proposed by conventional physics (matter as source of forces and fields), we always think about the manifestations of forces and fields in term of actions, as processes of events produced by derived sources (the same derived forces and fields) as complex organizations of the more elementary events occurring at the level of the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field, the Primary Source, at the end.

Contrary to the conventional view in physics (which considers matter as the source of forces and fields), we conceive the manifestations of forces and fields in terms of actions—as processes of events produced by derived sources (the same derived forces and fields), understood as complex organizations of more elementary events occurring at the level of the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field—the Primary Source, ultimately.

One fundamental entity

There is only a fundamental entity, the causal and variational origin of all that exist (space, time, energy, matter, etc.), the Source of Reality, and, for extension, its two components cited above. It is difficult to talk about the Source, because it represents the former origin of existence and, at the same time, the former existence, without form, undifferentiated, absolute uniformity, absolute potentiality.

In the following, we will always refer to it through its two aspects. So, we will say that the fundamental entities that exist at the most elementary level of Reality are:

• the Fundamental Force: it is the fundamental Agent, the former cause, the causal side of the Source of all that exist;
• the Elementary Field: it is the fundamental substrate, the container, the spatial and temporal side of the Source of Reality.

We now must repeat again that he Force and the Field are a unity, different aspects of the Source, the one, the only origin of Reality. The Force is the active, the creative side of the Source. The Field is the passive, its receptive side. They can't exist separately. This is of the most importance, because, in my opinion, the uncorrect comprehension of the right relation between force and field, in the classical and relativistic approach, as in the quantum one, is a source of infinite problems and misunderstandings, that lead to the today difficulty to reach a synthetic vision in physics.

The Force acts on the Field in its causal former state, the "nothingness", producing Elementary Action, the set of Elementary Events, causing the state transition to the Elementary Field, absolute "emptiness", the vacuum, the space-time field in its most elementary absolute homogeneous form (minimum level of organization), where the distributions of the fluctuations of the metric of each point of the emerging space-time is stochastically independent from that of all other points. It's a hypothetical state, due to the natural tendency of the Elementary Events to organize.

Infinite derived entities

Derived entities comprehend everything that exist: Information / Energy, the Structures of Information (matter and radiation, both the dark and the visible / ordinary), the material and immaterial Forms, the whole Universe in Evolution.

We can classify the Derived Physical Entities in two classes:

• Agents: the forces that act (the natural forces: gravity, electric and magnetic forces, the nuclear weak and strong force, and all the complex agents that we can observe in the Reality.
• Acted: the fields on which the forces act, producing variations of the field state that we call events, whose organization represents the natural phenomena, like particle interactions, chemical reactions, the physical interactions of material forms, the dynamics of the cosmic structures. The natural fields (metric, gravitational, kinetic, electric and magnetic, weak and strong nuclear fields) and all the complex fields that we can observe in the Universe.

Agency - Agents - Acted - Action

Agency is the fundamental property of the Sources. It is the capacity to produce Action, to transform the Possibile in Actual, producing Events and Relations among them, forming organized Processes, the building blocks of the Dynamics of Reality.

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"