The Unification of Personal Presents: A Dialogue of Different World Views

We want to analyse in this article the process of ontological unification of personal world views to a common world view. The hypothesis that we want to put forward is that this process is badly understood and its misunderstandings are at the origin of some of the deep paradoxes about the nature of reality. The title might suggest that we will concentrate mostly on the process of unification that takes place within the psychocognitive regions of reality, namely how the psychological, moral, ethical, etc... aspects of personal world views interact towards the formation of a common world view. This is however not true. We do not underestimate the importance of the process of unification in the psycho-cognitive region, but we will concentrate in this article on a more primitive region of reality, namely the physical region, where the process of unification takes place at early age, and we have mostly forgotten about its nature, which is at the origin of some of the misunderstandings that exist, and the paradoxes that are a consequence of these misunderstandings (Reichenbach 1958, Grünbaum 1973, Jammer 1979, Selleri 1994, Piron 1999).