Relationship Before Object

Humans instinctively say: there are two things, therefore the things can have a relationship. Snake cosmology reverses the direction: there is relationship, therefore an observer can distinguish things.

Perhaps relationship does not occur inside space. Perhaps relationship is what makes space possible.

This is where Stephen Wolfram's relational computational approach becomes a powerful conversation partner. In his Physics Project, space is modeled as emerging from networks of relations rather than as an empty container that existed first.

Networks change. Changing networks create histories. Histories create causal relationships. Stable patterns become what bounded observers compress into space, matter, object, self, and world.

At what point in the model did space appear for me? Why?

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