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Relational Intelligence A Discrete Framework for Reality, Artifcial Intelligence and Quantum Physics

Mounssif Benchekroun

Published Aug 25, 2026• 0 citations
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For centuries, science has attempted to understand reality by identifying its most fundamen-tal objects. Atoms, particles, molecules, felds, neurons, symbols and data have progressivelybecome the elementary building blocks through which natural phenomena are described.This object-centered view has produced remarkable scientifc achievements. Nevertheless,many phenomena observed in physics, mathematics, language, biology and artifcial intelligencesuggest that the behavior of a system cannot always be understood by studying its componentsindependently.The central idea developed throughout this book is that relations may be more fundamentalthan the objects themselves.Objects acquire meaning through the network of relations in which they participate. Observ-able behavior emerges from coherent relational organizations rather than from isolated entities.This book proposes a discrete relational framework based on the additive group(nZ, +)as a possible mathematical foundation for describing relational organization, emergence,measurement, artifcial intelligence and several conceptual questions arising in modern quantumphysics.The objective is not to replace existing theories but to explore a complementary perspectivein which relations become the primary elements of scientifc description.

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10.5281/zenodo.22101519

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