How best to define an event? An event is the intersection where Superposition becomes position as a result of collapse.
Emergent phenomena series#
Emergence is the process that is the result of an event or series of events. Let us agree that the Big Bang implies that all is energy. Irreversibility is the constant measure of progress from quantum reality to our shared, emergent, reality of Classical Physics.
The vantage point and reason for scrutiny determine the various scales that would pertain. As one observes the hierarchy of scales, a multitude of scale transitions occur.
Quantum Theory - A Very Short Introduction John Polkinghorne 2002įrom microscopic to macroscopic we obviously appreciate a change in scale. The Character of Physical Law Richard Feynman 1965 Messenger lectures Cornell 1964 Here I would like to acknowledge two brief texts, that together, have initiated the thought processes that inspired this paper: Concepts: Emergence | NECSI _ /guide/concepts/emergence.html In describing collective behaviours, emergence refers to how collective properties arise from the properties of parts, how behaviour at a larger scale arises from the detailed structure, behaviour and relationships at a finer scale. A better use of attention is invested in an examination of 'emergence'. The search for quantifiable and deterministic explanations for quantum events is a futile quest. In other words, in the microworld, there is no arrow of time…”Īs far as we understand our reality, it may be fair to say that, at the sub-microscopic level, quantum events are entirely reversible and therefore chaotic, while the macroscopic has been processed by innumerable levels of emergence and therefore irreversible or deterministic. That film would make sense if it were run forwards or backwards. To see what this means, suppose, contrary to Heisenberg, that one could make a film of two electrons interacting. With one exception that genuinely is not significant for the present discussion, the fundamental laws of physics are reversible. The laws of molecular collision are reversible.”Ī similar contribution from John Polkinghorne’s work : ”…but at least one can correlate it with another… property of large systems. (pg 106) Now run that section of the film backwards. …that makes the whole phenomena of the world seem to go one way. “It is obvious to everybody that phenomena of the world are evidently irreversible”…Īnd later: ”…the most obvious interpretation of this evident distinction between past and future, and this irreversibility of all phenomena, would be that some laws, some of the motion laws of the atoms, are going one way - that the atom laws are not such that they can go either way. Richard Feynman, in the fifth of a series of seven lectures prepared for the Messenger series Cornell University 1964 entitled “The Distinction of Past and Future” begins: It endeavours to go further by proceeding from a thought experiment taken from "Semiotic paradigm". "Emergent Phenomena" is a paper that explores the means to categorize and evaluate avenues of thought concerning the reasons for the differences between the micro and macroscopic universes as we apprehend them. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. In that space is our power to choose our response. Living, sentient creatures creating a matrix without admitting the possibility of life!īetween stimulus and response there is a space. Living beings were evaluating the universe but without accounting for life. One law in particular, the laws of thermodynamics and the resultant entropy, seemed to leave a huge probability canyon. Laws governed thought in much the same way religion did. My dissatisfaction with science, as I started to examine it, was the profound lack of balance. What follows then is expanding the matrix of enquiry from uniquely human to infinite. It also examines the nature of our shared reality by enquiring ‘What is information’? The author backs out of this topic without providing an answer to the question. This paper follows a previous one by this author: jarrokam called “Semiotic paradigm”. If, on the other hand, you sense huge gaps in the story of evolution and how the reality we share came to be, then please proceed with caution and an expectation of ‘surprise’. If you are satisfied with reality as it is currently understood, you may be better off not reading further. It will fly in the face of all commonly accepted ‘scientific truths’. The paper you’re about to read is best described as controversial. The appearance of something new and unpredictable in the process of organic evolution. Funk & Wagnalls Standard College (1974) Emergence n.
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