Knowing is not nescessarily the
same as Knowing: Local-to-Global Correlation Across Scales of a
Bi-Rational Logical-Emotional Hierarchy and their various Assemblies
Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx
Abstract
Natural systems relativistically stabilize into
less-than-formally-rational multi-scalar hierarchies. Limited cross-scalar
correlation provides the local-to-global correspondence crucial to computational
survival. Disparate elemental properties at one scale are slaved to an
“averaged” similarity by their higher-order informationally-reduced semiotic
image at another. Inorganic systems are characterized by a decrease in the
richness of internally-scaled structure consequent on the generation of
cross-scale correlation; organic systems are characterized by an increase.
However, the apparent information loss is compensated for at each scale by the
appearance of a matching “hidden-parametric” complementarily-scaled ecosystemic
counterpart. The entire resulting assembly of paired images forms a unified
complementary bi-rational system within which each individual image constitutes
the correspondingly-scaled semiotic ecosystem of its partner. The implied
rational causality is from reality towards model: the system describes the
natural world as a scaled ecosystemic image, and any sense of causal intention
is absent. Within this description, comprehension not only exists
causally-locally and inaccessibly-globally, but ultimately as a local-to-global
correlate across all scales and assemblies: knowing is not necessarily identical
to knowing.
We interpret the progressive evolution of higher levels of systemic order as an
exchange between clarity of operation and simplicity of description,
corresponding to the conscious adoption of a single unified viewpoint, and this
as the development of opposites to provide a convenient low-dimensional model of
complementarity; as the replacement of a complementary directivity associated
with symmetry-breaking by degenerate chance; as the specification of Darwinian
evolutionary randomness to replace a massively-parametric complementary
directivity less conducive to low-parametric modeling; as the development of
scientific rationality and the abandonment of a more general multi-viewpoint
form closer to the implied asymmetric intentionality of the big bang. The
implied rational causality of intention is from model towards reality: the
system creates the natural world as a matchingly-scaled ecosystemic image, in
the way that consequences of the big bang created and compose the universe as we
know it. Examples of this causally intentional logic abound in the higher levels
of organic system richness and in the extended richness of higher level
organisms.
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