"Sylvia Else" wrote in message
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Figuring out what the underlying rules are is next to impossible if you're
looking at the hugely complicated set of interactions visible in a mirror.


Because what's seen in the mirror is human intelligence, the most
complex system in the known universe. And like a larger statistical
sample yielding the better pattern, the most complex the universe
has to offer best displays the universal ...behaviors..or patterns
of the universe.



It's better to find out what the rules are for simple things, and work from
there.


The search for simplicity and universal law begins with
the most complex the universe has to offer. Complex
as defined by Complexity Science. Which is where
both universal types of motion, classical and quantum, are
critically interacting.

A linear frame of reference for the term complexity would be
a sliding scale from zero to infinite.
A non-linear frame of reference is quite different.


Linear complexity

zero infinity

Non-Linear complexity

static (simple) complex chaotic (simple)



Don't you see, complexity on the component side yields simplicity
in the system ..output or behavioral side. The diverse (complex)
natural forest produces more stable behavior than the (simple)
man-made forest. Stable behavior is simpler behavior.

Emergent order is the result of this complexity, and emergent
order is higher order. A random soup is a high level of
complexity, from this any random disturbance will spontaneously
create cyclic or higher order. And on we go, from the simplest
to the most complex. An evolving universe, where complexity
is the ultimate impetus for ever growing order.

One will never be able to grasp the concepts of things like
tornadoes or lightning by looking at water /or/ vapor alone.
The higher level properties only emerge where complexity
is the highest, where both opposites, water /and/ vapor, are
intractably entangled (critically interacting) as in a cloud.






Sylvia.