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Originally Posted by InfiniteNow
Abstruce,
I think a lot of us have had a similar thought, but it just doesn't hold water, and, as Tormod mentioned, was abandoned by most long ago.
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The Universe is defined by mass, energy, space, and time. Of course, we don't understand what "mass," "energy," "space" and "time" are in terms of other notions. Except the physicists can tell us how to "measure" them. That is physicist's concepts of mass, energy, space, and time are phenomenologically: measures. Physicists know a great about the most likely relationship between them ( in a statistical manner - i.e., we don't know the underlying ontological relationship).
A dissipative/replicative structure as a model is defined as a "typed" system, where the type excludes subsystems. A dissipative/replicative structure is primarily a matter of kind, not a matter of degree. One must remember that a dissipative/replicative structure is A MODEL, not the actual natural system. There are two types of material dissipative/replicative structures: microsystems and macrosystems. Initially, macrosystems and microsystems are defined at the major level of material complexity. A microsystem, M, of major material complexity N is contained in a macrosystem of major material complexity N or lower. M can be contained in (and composes part of) a microsystem Mc, which is of major complexity N+1 or higher.
Macrosystems: Our Universe, Milky Way Galaxy, Sol: Solar system, Jupiter, Earth, Gaia, Hypersea, Metaman.
Microsystems: a gluon quanta, an electron quanta, a proton particle, an omega particle, a helium atom, a carbon-12 atom, a water(H2O) molecule, a prion molecule, a Halococcus cell, a Hyella cell, a Tridacna organism, a butterfly organism, an ant colony (family), a human family, a Mayoruna tribe (society), The US government (society), Microsoft corporation (society), The World Wide Web (cybersociety).
Subsystems: photon, gamma rays, superconducting electron pair, Einstein-Bose condensate, ion, cation, Ryberg atom, a viriod, a virus, a gamete, a skin cell, an ant, an orphan, a website, in bankruptcy dot.com company, a viral email joke.
Distribution in energy is: matter (or constant information) in "energetic" motion (random information in process). Distribution in space is a fixed amount of matter (or information) in more space(patterned information in process). Distribution in time and structure is: correlation of "bits" of matter in time (patterned and random information in process).
In other words, communication is the changing of patterned information, whether it be random (nothing pattern) or ordered (something pattern). Dissipation is a form of distribution of communication, where the encoding or decoding of information is based on either communication in energy, time&structure, or space. Replication is a form of distribution of communication, where the encoding or decoding of information is based on either communication in energy, time&structure, or space.
All systems are formed by matter in motion. It is the motion that is replicate in nature.
Motion of matter creates the distortion of space and the effect of Gravity as we understand it. To measure Gravitational waves, is to measure the curvature of space.
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