European Union’s Tractatus Quanticus Revises World as Facts, From Some Viewpoint

Published on July 10, 2026, a collaborative effort by Mikołaj Sienicki of the Polish, Japanese Academy of Information Technology and Krzysztof Sienicki of the Chair of Theoretical Physics of Naturally Intelligent Systems signals the emergence of what the authors term a New Tractatus Program. This program reconsiders foundational questions about reality and knowledge through the lens of both quantum mechanics and the study of consciousness, building on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus but challenging its classical underpinnings. Tractatus Quanticus specifically revises Wittgenstein’s opening claim by defining “the world as what is the case from some perspective,” a shift away from the notion of a perspective-free description of reality. The researchers propose that conscious experience itself is best understood not…