**1. Introduction**

Philosophy, science and logic are systems of thought devised by human beings to describe their world and what it means to exist in it. In the classical West and to a certain extent in the East, throughout history, there was no separation between the disciplines. However, the value of philosophy, especially today in the West, has been diminished by several major errors: the work of Aristotle and other classical Greek, and later Western European thinkers has been misused and misunderstood, without the proper attention paid to necessary corrections and extensions made possible by modern science. The value of dialectics as the basis of reasoning, and the need for a logic based in science rather than language are major examples. In the last 100 years, phenomenology and semiotics have been proposed to bridge the gap between knowledge and reality, but all su ffer from reliance on the epistemic principles of classical linguistic logic. Dialectics, in particular as expressed by Hegel, was diverted from its initial objectives and used to support limited political-economic idealism and ideologies.

The objective of this paper is to define a philosophy of and in reality that e ffects a 'rejunction' with some less familiar insights of Aristotle and recovers them to serve the current social objectives of the emerging information society. Rapidly, there is in Aristotle the basis not only for modern bivalent linguistic logic, but also for a logic that refers to actualizations and potentialities in a physical world of processes. We will propose an extension and development of and to the second logic of Aristotle that is grounded in modern physics. It makes possible an understanding of real processes in terms of

what is essentially a *non*-Boolean logic. We will refer to two little known authors whose thought is essential to our thesis, the Russian Evald Ilyenkov and the Franco-Romanian Stéphane Lupasco. New concepts of the real dynamics of consciousness, creativity and ethics emerge from a study of these authors, making possible a rereading of the work of Western figures such as Spinoza, Kant, Peirce, Whitehead, and Heidegger and, in relation to quantum physics, Heisenberg.

We use a logic of real processes, a Logic in Reality (LIR) [1] to redefine the ontological relations between meaning, communication and language as components of a Philosophy in Reality (PIR). Under the influence of current developments in the science and philosophy of information, as noted by the Chinese thinker Wu Kun [2,3], a new more functional convergence of science and philosophy is taking place. The resulting 'dialectical realism' may make possible a more ethical development of knowledge for the common good.
