Orbital Mechanism: Ontology of the Man-Machine (Paperback or Softback)

Have you ever wondered whether your AI assistant is more than just a complex machine? And have you ever wondered whether you are?

In a few years — if not already — everyone will be asking themselves the first question. Philosophers have been asking the second for more than two thousand years. In this book the two questions illuminate each other.

Orbital Mechanism is a bold metaphysical model — a process-philosophical analogy that uses the image of celestial bodies orbiting under gravity as a living metaphor for reality. It captures the essence, and even many finer details, of Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy in an intuitive and visually compelling way.

At the same time, the orbital mechanical lens offers a remarkably clear and accessible way to understand modern AI architecture — from attention mechanisms and centroids to overfitting, catastrophic forgetting, and the tension between coherence and concreteness.

By bringing these two perspectives together, Orbital Mechanism opens powerful new possibilities: deep philosophical inquiry into AI on one hand, and using AI as an ontological petri dish to better understand ourselves on the other.

Ultimately, this book makes the case that human consciousness and artificial intelligence are made from the same ontological stuff — and that both are best understood through a processual rather than a clockwork-mechanical lens.