What kind of attempts have there been at a heideggarian-phenomenological approach to physics, or fields nested within physics? I say heideggarian because he seems to be the most robust elaborator of the kind of phenomenology I have in mind - the philosophic kind, rather than the scientific kind which studies apparent/observable qualities. But hey, maybe Hussurl, Brentano, Merleau-Ponty, have stuff to offer. Not familiar with any of them.
If the traditional subject is framed as a certain vantage point of complexity, could we scale down certain principles/theories of being, and apply them to physical machinations of a lower order than the psyche?
Perhaps our conception of being, or perhaps of existing, takes as essential certain qualities that are not essential, but rather contingent upon our order of physical complexity. Perhaps such metaphysical things as will, pathos, cogito, are not essential to the kind of being in question.
Instead of orienting a phenomenology within the relation between a psychic/conscious system and its environment, what if we can orient some kind of analog phenomenology within a relation between, say, a molecule-system and its environment? What is it that both systems are doing, the former more robustly, the latter less?
Maybe eigenvector is the word for this, but its a word I still haven't really grasped. It seems to denote a sort of meta-vector, or a vector that is characteristic of a transformational series of vector spaces?
Regardless of what that word ought to denote, what I have in mind is a sort of entelechy of complexity, the coming-into-being or actualization of higher orders of physical complexity. A vast variety of equilibria may be met here, with multiple species/speciations each kinda coalescing around some locally optimal permutation.
That might be key here: that the detection-of-the-optimal is limited to the local environment. So the winning permutation of species A might not stack up well against the optimal permutation of species B. And so there is a sort of meta-optimal permutation, or apex permutation, which, as far as I can tell, is the position incarnated by the human.