Jerry, list
Thanks - very nice post .Much better description than mine - it's
what I was trying to say.
Heteropathy..".this transformation of matter into novel forms with
semantic attributes UNRELATED to the semantic and quantitative
attributes of the elements. " Exactly.
Alicia Juarrero has a nice book: 'Dynamics in Action, 'Intentional
Behavior as a Complex system. 1999.
And yes - legisigns from sinsigns..
Edwina
On Tue 03/08/21 10:17 PM , Jerry LR Chandler
[email protected] sent:
List, Helmut,
On Aug 3, 2021, at 3:04 PM, Helmut Raulien 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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