Journal of Quantum Computing, Simulation and Emerging Computation
Genesis of Logic: Inferences 2 Ontological Friction in Medicine, Computation and Governance
Abstract
Otto Beseka Isong
This paper is the second in the Inferences series, extending the Genesis diagnostic — the ontology-relative account of logic and the Quad-Fold Ontological Spectrum (Substance-, Relation-, Emergence-, and Transcendence-first) — to three domains where the mismatch between formal systems and their objects is most consequential: medicine, computation, and governance. We trace a recurring pattern across all three: a Substance-first formal system, mistaken for a neutral universal standard, is applied to a domain whose native reasoning is Relation-, Emergence-, or Transcendence-first, and the resulting friction is misdiagnosed as a defect in the domain rather than a mismatch of ontologies. In medicine, the biomedical model’s discrete disease categories, single-target interventions, and categorical diagnosis are applied to an organism that is a relational network, an emergent homeostatic system, and a whole that transcends its parts. In computation, formal verification’s exhaustive state-space search, fixed specifications, and discrete correctness criteria are applied to distributed, adaptive, and intelligent systems whose coherence is relational and emergent. In governance, the regulatory state’s statutes, jurisdictions, performance metrics, and cost-benefit analysis are applied to social systems that are emergent markets, relational communities, and transcendent national identities. We argue these are not isolated failures but one structural pattern recurring across the institutional landscape, close by identifying the limits of the diagnostic, and set the agenda for future work.