Quantum bios and biotic complexity in the distribution of galaxies

2009

Complexity

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The waves recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) presumably represent gravitational waves. Time series analyses revealed chaotic characteristics (nonperiodic oscillations, causal generation) and features of creativity that characterize Bios: increasing diversity (as contrasted to convergence to an attractor); novelty (lesser recurrence than randomized copies); and temporal complexity (a succession of different time-limited patterns). Bios is also observed in quantum, cosmological, biological, and economic processes. Bios can be generated mathematically by bipolar feedback. Finding features of creativity in gravitational waves indicates that gravitational interactions causally generate complex patterns. As the gravitational wave background dates from the trillionth-of-a-second after the Big Bang, these results indicate that causal and creative processes were important in the early universe, in contrast to the presumed predominance of random oscillations.2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Complexity 15: 12-24, 2010 Key Words: bios; causality; chaos; creativity; gravitational waves INTRODUCTIONT he study of gravitational waves, as recorded by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), provides a way to study early cosmological processes; the gravitational wave background (GWB), analogous to the electromagnetic cosmic microwave background (CMB), dates from the trillionthof-a-second mark, while the CMB sets in around 380,000 years later when the first atoms formed. Therefore, the recordings of presumed gravitational waves by LIGO offer us useful tools for tracing the genealogy of the universe. Here, we demonstrate a specific chaotic pattern that we call Bios in these time series. Bios is a nonstationary chaotic process characterized by features of creativity that can be measured in time series data [1] and that can be generated by recursions of bipolar feedback [2,3].Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves that travel at the speed of light in his general theory of relativity. Gravitation defines the spacetime in which actions take place. The force of gravity generates a curvature of spacetime. When massive objects move, the curvature changes, causing gravitational waves in spacetime that spread outward just like ripples on the surface of a pond. A gravitational wave is a fluctuation in the curvature of spacetime which carries energy Bondi [4] rigorously proved that gravitational radiation should in fact be a physically observable phenomenon; as gravitational waves carry energy, a system that emits them should lose energy. Taylor and Hulse were awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of a binary pulsar (two neutron stars orbiting each other) in which the orbit period is declining by about 75 millionths of a second per year, rotating faster about each other in an increasingly tight orbit, presumably because the system is emitting energy in the form of gravitational waves. The theoretically calculated value from relativity theory...

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Biotic patterns in LIGO recordings point to the creativity of gravitational interactions

2009

Complexity

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“…On the contrary, biotic patterns are found at all levels of organization: (1) Mathematics: prime numbers [10] and the related Riemann equation [11]. (2) Quantum physics: Schrödinger wave function [12], and its relativistic version, the Klein-Gordon-Fock equation [13]. (3) Cosmology: temporal distribution of galaxies [12][13][14] and quasars [13], and gravitational waves [Sabelli et al, in preparation].…”

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How Medicine Informs Informatics: Information is Asymmetry, Not Entropy§

2008

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A concept of information as asymmetry in multiple dimensions is based on the demonstration that causal action, not hypothetical chance events, is a parsimonious explanation of novelty. The study of heartbeat variation revealed creative features in causal processes, namely greater novelty than random variation, decrease in entropy, temporal change in pattern, and progressive increase in variance. These properties characterize a new type of process, Bios. Bios has been demonstrated at all levels of organization from Number Theory and Quantum Physics to Population Dynamics and Economics. Mathematical experiments show that Bios is generated causally by generic processes present at multiple levels of organization: (1) unidirectional action, (2) bipolar opposition (e.g. electromagnetic energy, sex, mutual feedback) and (3) conservation. These studies underlie the formulation of information as 1, 2, 3, …, N dimensional order (i.e. asymmetry and transitivity). Thus information channels flux into flow, cycle, structure, and more complex organization in nature. Human reasoning and computer logic may be guided by this logic of nature.

“…The discovery of Chaos has revealed that causal processes can generate apparently random series. The identification of Bios, a chaotic process with features of creativity [2] in mathematical [3,4], quantum [5,6] and cosmic [7,8] physical processes, meteorological data [2], animal populations [9], DNA sequences [2] and economic time series indicates the widespread occurrence of causal creativity. Bios is fractal; it repeats at multiple levels of organization.…”

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Causal Creation in Social Processes: Empirical Analysis and Theoretical Implications

2011

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This article presents empirical evidence for the creativity of social processes, as contrasted to both deterministic and random models of biological and economic phenomena. New methods for the analysis of empirical data indicate that population changes, financial data and other socioeconomic time series display non-periodic, apparently irregular patterns that evolve in time (temporal complexity), increase in diversity (diversification), and repeat less frequently than randomized copies of the data (novelty). Recurrence and autocorrelation measures indicate that these patterns are generated causally, not randomly. These measurements demonstrating causality and creativity in economic, social, and population processes indicate a non-stationary chaotic pattern (Bios) and suggest an alternative to current models that postulate either causal determinism or random change. Causal and creative chaotic patterns (Bios) are also observed in fundamental natural and human processes (quantum processes, cosmological expansion in the distribution of galaxies and quasars, animal populations, and heart and respiratory rates). Mathematical models show that Bios patterns are generated by equations that combine recurring change (recursion), bipolar opposition (e.g. sine functions) and conservation. Consumption and production (demand and supply) are obvious factors accounting for the generation of Bios in economic processes. Generations, sex, nations, races and classes are fundamental oppositions in social processes that may explain the generation of Bios. The extreme sensitivity of Bios to initial conditions' (external inputs) indicates the possibility of modifying the course of social processes, and the need to develop flexible methods rather than planning economic development. To develop such methods, and based on the empirical results here reported, this article articulates a new theory of social organization and change that advances three principles: (1) action (flow of energy in unidirectional time) as the one and only component of both processes and ideas; (2) opposition, both synergic and conflictual, as present in, and organizing, all physical, biological and mental processes; and (3) priority to nature and supremacy to persons as an unavoidable reality and a desirable pattern of action.