Balls & Sticks, Complexity & Life

Ron Cottam, Willy Ranson & Roger Vounckx

Abstract

            Recent work in this research group has focused on the naturally reductionist co-evolution of entity and dimensional environment in nature, and their animate and ecosystemic counterparts. The co-evolutionary interactions can be represented in a model consisting of two interlocking complementary hierarchical systems of opposing rationalites, and by the ultimate superposition of a further two cross-scalar hierarchies.

            In this paper, starting from a simple systemic description similar to the balls and sticks of chemical molecular modeling, we derive a representation of entity-ecosystem co-emergence which, in not relying on hierarchality, elucidates a number of characteristics of complexity and life which are otherwise less than evident in the complicated modeling environment of a hierarchical system.
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