Emergence: Half a Quantum Jump?

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx

In press

Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica
Mathematics, Computing and Management in Engineering Series, No. 91,
Emergence, Complexity, Hierarchy, Organization, pp 12-19.
Edited by George L. Farre and Tarkko Oksala
Finnish Academy of Technology, Espoo, 1998, ISBN: 952-5148-59-9

Abstract

            The redefinition of mathematics as an emergent property of environmental reactive processing blurs the distinction between the evolution of living entities and "computation". We argue that the identification of hierarchical evolutionary metastates with quasi-particulate quantum states leads to a successful unified view of our surroundings. In this scheme an emergent process corresponds to the second half of an inter-quantum state transition, and the distinction between animate and inanimate becomes a quantifiable parameter.
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