Mohsen Shourgashti

Natural and human-made systems consistently express two recurrent structural forms: line-shaped structures -cylindrical, tubular, or linear- that channel, direct, or transmit flows, and circle-shaped structures -spherical, cavity-like, or circular- that receive, accumulate, store, and transform them. This paper argues for a functional theory of natural organization grounded in this persistent duality. The theory proposes that line-forms (one-ness) and circle-forms (zero-ness) are not accidental or decorative appearances but operate as recurring organizing principles observable across biological, physical, ecological, social, technological, philosophical, and theological domains. While many existing studies explain how such forms emerge, this research focuses on the significance of their persistent recurrence and what it may reveal about nature, human life, and reality. Through systematic observation, comparative analysis, symbolic interpretation, and philosophical reflection, this paper develops the One-Zero Theory and argues that it offers new insights into natural organization while providing a unifying framework for exploring fundamental questions concerning human life, social organization, and the relationship between human systems and nature.

This paper introduces the concept of Human State Field as a proposed framework for understanding how individuals perceive and experience time. We explore how various internal and external inputs affect this field, shaping subjective temporal experience. Our aim is to bridge the gap between the human cognitive sense of time and the concept of time as understood in physics. We begin by examining how people form familiarity with the notion of time and cognitively accept temporal phenomena. We then analyze how the human experience of time connects to emotional and perceptual responses during brief episodes of daily life, thereby shaping one's broader experience of time. Central to our discussion are the notions of now and here, treated as perceptual anchors, and how these merge phenomenologically with physical representations of time. We also introduce the novel concepts of Time of Position and Time of Person, investigating how these dimensions interact and sometimes conflict within human experience. The framework aims to support a more integrated understanding of time that is consistent with both phenomenological insights and physical principles. This part concludes by exploring how different internal and external factors could affect the human state field, and in a follow-up study (Part II), we aim to mathematically model the dynamics of the Human State Field.