Jerry, List
Thank you, Jerry. Very interesting. And emergence-evolution-anticipation sounds like a categorial triad. Maybe it is related to the steps physicochemical-, organisms`-, brain animals` realm, in the sense of what may happen there?
Best,
Helmut
04. August 2021 um 04:17 Uhr
"Jerry LR Chandler" <jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com>
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"Jerry LR Chandler" <jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com>
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List, Helmut,
On Aug 3, 2021, at 3:04 PM, Helmut Raulien <h.raul...@gmx.de> wrote:"Emergence" for me seems to be a not yet logically fully explained phenomenon. My temporal assumption (not belief, in which I don´t believe) is, that it is individuation and downscaling.
You may wish to consider the opposite if you originate your analysis from the opposite perspective, namely, the history of science perspective.
J S Mills introduced the term “heteropathy” ( in contrast to “homeopathy") to point to the accretion of attributes by the compounding of chemical elements. This accretion of attributes differs from the simple change of attributes of other abstract quantities, such as by addition or multiplication where the regularity of the operations is simple and consistent, that is, homopathic.
The index case used by J S Mills (ca 1843) was the combination of hydrogen and oxygen to form water. Similarly, for sodium and chlorine to form salt.
This dramatic mutation of attributes remains unexplained to this day. Neither thermodynamics nor quantum theory address this transformation of matter into novel forms with semantic attributes UNRELATED to the semantic and quantitative attributes of the elements.
The phenomena of heteropathic transformation was termed “emergence” about 1870 (in contrast with submergence) and was a hot topic in British philosophy in the first quarter of the 20th Century. Excellent books are available on the topic. A nice collection of historical papers by Alicia Juarrero (sp?) exists. A steady stream of papers on the concept of emergence continue, often under the topic of “complexity”.
Thus, in terms of today’s semantics, we see the notion of the categorical paths of chemical “heteropathy” morph into the notion of inorganic into organic, emergence into evolution, evolution into anticipation. Of course, from the perspective of natural philosophy and CSP, the 9-fold terminology of the semiosis of signs that relate the realisms of natural philosophical logic to reality is merely an inquiry into emergence of legi-signs from sin-signs.
I suspect that this is what Edwinia was alluding to in her posts.
Cheers
Jerry
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