An Operative Approach to Nature – SEMF 2024 Presentation
The Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research (SEMF) is a global initiative dedicated to rethinking the foundational assumptions behind contemporary science and engineering. It fosters a multidisciplinary approach that invites scientists, philosophers, engineers, and thinkers from all backgrounds to explore not only what we know—but how we come to know it. SEMF is especially interested in approaches that challenge entrenched paradigms and propose new frameworks for understanding the natural world.
The 2024 edition of SEMF featured presentations by a range of visionary contributors, including the renowned mathematician and physicist Stephen Wolfram, celebrated for his work in cellular automata, computational science, and the development of Wolfram|Alpha. I had the honor of contributing alongside him with a talk titled “An Operative Approach to Nature“—a presentation that embodies over two decades of research, personal transformation, and hands-on engagement with nature, craft, and form.
Watch the full SEMF 2024 presentation on YouTube:
The Strength of the Presentation
The talk’s core strength lies in its ability to bridge disciplines that are too often kept apart: theoretical physics, engineering, ecology, metaphysics, architecture, and psychology. But more than a transdisciplinary synthesis, it reintroduces a way of knowing grounded in operative participation with nature—one that challenges the mechanistic, reductionist worldview initiated in the 17th century by Descartes and Newton.
By reexamining our instruments of measurement, the concept of res extensa, and the overlooked role of qualitative experience in scientific inquiry, the presentation questions the very foundations of how we “know” in modern science. It introduces powerful metaphors like the “singing of matter,” the self-resonant bell, and the morphogenetic field to propose a radically different relationship between form, matter, and consciousness
A Keystone of My Broader Work
This presentation is not an isolated event. It is deeply interconnected with the overarching arc of my published works: (1) In Operative Traditions, I retrace the legacy of the anonymous craftspeople and alchemical builders who shaped our material world in harmony with energetic and symbolic realities. (2) In The Solar Warrior essays, I explore the fusion of strength, form, and vision as a modern initiation path—one that places nature at the center of human development. (3) And in my Guinness World Record , I tested these operative principles in the physical world, using my body as the very instrument of transformation, self-resonance, and alignment.
The SEMF talk weaves all these themes into a single thread. It serves as a gateway to understanding how technique—far from being a mere tool—is a field of embodied intelligence capable of coupling with the cycles of nature, predicting change, and harnessing energy.
Although the presentation does not explicitly mention it, its framework provides essential context for the scientific challenge I have proposed to the global physics community. This challenge is centered on a simple physical phenomenon that challenges foundational laws of classical mechanics. The philosophical basis for this challenge is laid out in the SEMF talk: modern physics often fails when dealing with high-dissipation, non-equilibrium systems, where qualitative properties become decisive and mathematical formalism reaches its limits.
In this sense, the SEMF presentation is not only a critique—it is a proposal for regeneration. It asks us to reconsider measurement, objectivity, creativity, and embodiment—not as metaphors, but as concrete tools for new modes of science.
“An Operative Approach to Nature” is a philosophical and technical synthesis that invites us to rediscover our senses, reclaim our crafts, and reconnect with the real intelligence of nature. It speaks to a future science—a post-Cartesian science—in which the creative power of the cosmos is no longer filtered through detached apparatus, but directly encountered through resonance, form, and transformation.
It is a call to restore not only knowledge, but the moral and spiritual conditions that make knowledge true.
