Theme: Science

Q: Curt: Could you elaborate on the “accumulation in physical systems”?”

Sure. And a bit more… 😉
The process of evolutionary computation is the same whether in physics, biology, or sentient life.

1. Accumulation (in physical systems) – ‘Accidental Organization’ The universe can’t choose – so it’s deterministic in the organization of energy (waves, protoparticles, particles, elements, molecules) it’s accidental.

2. Acquisition (in living systems) – ‘Biologically Organized”. Life has “learned” by trial and error in genetics some organization to assist in energy capture

3. Cooperation (in sentient or conscious systems) – “voluntarily organized”. Sentient life has learned using genetics by trial and error in evolution, and in memory in its experience, when cooperation is beneficial and when it is not.

So we use Accumulation, Acquisition, Cooperation for the three stages in the hierarchy of complexity that increases the chance of capture of increases in energy in order to persist whatever organization they rely on for that energy capture: accident, organization, or volition.

We will ‘sometimes’ classify that three-step sequence of accumulation, acquisition, and cooperation using the anthropocentric term “Cooperation” to help people frame the universe as ‘everything cooperating’ even though cooperation requires volition, and neither inanimate matter, nor simple life has any ability to ‘choose’, so it can’t choose to cooperate. 😉

So we see the history of evolutionary computation as increases in the chances of the capture of increasingly niche energy for the persistence of whatever organization (physical, biological, neurological) that persists that organization. 😉

Dimensions:
1. Energy (+)(=)(-) (potential)
Think Noun -> Inventory. Point

2. Accumulation (Storage, Transformation, or Consumption) (+)(to store), (+/-/=) to transform, or (-)(to use, dispose, or consume).
Think Verb -> Operation, Action. Line

3. Organization (matter,charge) (=)
Think Agreement, Phrase -> Transaction. Plane.

4. Scale: Complexity (accumulation(physical), acquisition(biological), cooperation (neurological))
Think Phrase, Sentence, Story -> Ledger, Journal. Object

5. Consequence: (evolutionary survival)
Think Novel or Encyclopedia -> P&L, Balance Sheet. Object Over Time

And the reason for this set of dimensions is to suggest to those who might be able to see the pattern:
That language, and all our paradigms, our methodologies, and all our disciplines are just a set of measurements, that like physics, biology, and cooperation, follow one very simple trivial rule:

“The ternary logic(+,=,-) of evolutionary computation of persistence in the defeat of entropy, by a process of continuous disambiguation of disorder into hierarchies of order.”

That is why the first rule of grammar, is ‘the continuous recursive disambiguation of disorder into order resulting in ‘meaning’ (agreement) – or not. 😉

Cheers

Curt Doolittle
The Natural Law Institute
The Science of Cooperation

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