synthesis

Can the idea that has been presented so far grow into a formal theory that can be confirmed experimentally?

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- I think yes, but only over lots of time.

- In any closed system, entropy, roughly a measure of disorder, can at best remain constant, but usually it increases. With time, macroscopic directed motion and structures decay into microscopic random motion, which is, by definition, heat. Life manages to escape this fate by operating in open systems, by exporting disorder into the environment. That way, living beings can grow from microscopic seeds to complex structures and animals can repeatedly create directed motion. Since science considers the outside world to be mainly inanimate and the mind to be located in a piece of organic matter, the brain, it predicts that outside motion tends to disappear, while inside the conscious mind has a hard time to focus on something, because lots of mostly unconscious activity in the brain keeps stirring things up. Science is thus essentially compatible with the considerations presented in the main text, except for science's qualitative notion that creating motion inside the mind is active, requires energy, like outside. This might, however, simply be due to the viewpoint of science, which only considers facts in the outer, material world and might thus not be able to describe inner processes as experienced from the inside...

- Since the question is so open and the possibilities are so many, let me for the moment simply list my personal favorites. See archive copy of this web site of 2007 under "interfaces" for some ideas regarding transformation between elements. In June 2002, I published a document titled "A few new discoveries in physics", along with a brief review, on the internet. These documents contain several ideas that are more or less directly related to the idea presented here, which I had in spring 2004. The original documents and how they emerged are certainly unusual - but also stubbornly cool in their way of consistently using new paradigms: odyssey.zip o.

- The idea is beautiful as it is, evolution is optional.

evolutions

Maybe things will also evolve into completely different directions. Here are some publications that have been influenced at least partially by ideas from this site. :)

- Andreas Schöoter. Bipolar Change. Journal of Chinese Philosophy. Volume 35 Issue 2 Page 297-317, June 2008.

Abstract I reconsider the natural characterization of change and non-change that arises from the algebraic approach: this sees change as yang in contrast to nonchange, which is yin. Following a persuasive example from Alain Stalder, rather than consider change solely in contrast to non-change, I develop a formal characterization of different forms of change considered relative to each other. This extension allows the internal structure of a change to be made explicit in a new way, bifurcating the change into yang parts and yin parts. I call this extended definition of change bipolar change.

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