"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
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Androcles wrote:


Where Jonathan's hypothesis breaks down is he applies it to situations
dominated by chemistry - life - not by situations dominated by gravity -
plantoids big enough to have a spherical shape and objects of any larger
scale.


Of course that's always been the problem, how to compare such
entirely different systems, so that a physicist can talk to
a biologist, or an sociologist in a common mathematics.
Complexity science has made that possible.

This is done by abstractly defining system output or
behavior.

The very new math of complexity science is here.
http://www.necsi.org/publications/dcs/

The template or 'integral' to this new math is a simple cloud.

Where the opposing behaviors of condensation and
evaporation are critically interacting, so that one can't
tell which of the two tendencies dominate the system.
Which rule of operation wins? Those rules that make the
system coalesce or dissipate?

While at the phase transition between these two forces
for constraint and freedom, the whole self tunes
to the optimum and produce emergent or new
properties found in neither opposite, such as
lighting and hurricanes etc. It 'evolves' to a
higher level of order as a result of this
critical behavior.

There are three universal system behaviors which
can be defined abstractly, so that they apply to any
system regardless of the differing component
details.

At the phase transition between subcritical and
supercritical behavior, yields the evolving forces
of critical behavior.

When at the threshold /between/ the forces of
constraint and freedom, /yields/ emergent or
spontaneous higher order.

Starting in the generic.....

Subcritical Critical Supercritcal
Static Dynamic Chaotic
Constraint Order Freedom

Analogous of course to

Solid Fluid Gas

So now let's define some various specific systems in these terms.

Condensation Cloud Evaporation
Rule of Law Democracy Anarchy
Genetics Selection Mutation
Science Art Religion
Facts Genius Imagination

Matter Light Energy
Newton Einstein Heisenberg
Particles Fluids Waves

Static Dynamic Chaotic

Or when Producers and Consumers are intractably
entangled, so that one can't tell which dominates, the
system produces emergent properties, self correcting
mechanisms like those of the ethereal Market Forces
which guide the whole towards the optimum...criticality.

The common impetus for the evolution of physical and
living systems is the critical interaction between the
system specific forces for ...classical and quantum behavior.
So that one can't tell which dominates.


As in a cloud, light, an emotion or a universe.

Which wins? Gravity or Expansion.....can't really tell.
Which wins? Particles or waves.......50/50
Which wins in a could? Evaporation or Condensation.....neither
Which wins? Genetics or Mutation?
?


Where Light and Motion are in an unstable equilibrium between
each other. So that both and neither wins, such as a planet
in the water zone.

It's hard to call any Unified Theory ...Grand, unless life
is also included and directly related to classical and
quantum worlds.

At the phase transition between quantum and classical motion yields
....self organizing systems and life.

At the phase transition between Newton and Heisenberg emerges
......Darwin.



Jonathan