The Emergent Synthetic Brain Concept of Law as Action Type

Abstract

This paper reviews and restates the thesis in Law as Art (Bagnall, 1996), in light of current scholarship. Law as real physical and symbolic social phenomena. Compound cluster properties, combining to form distinct social networks, a ‘nesting’, explicable within contemporary post-Quantum theory. They are conceived within an emergent synthetic brain concept, a neurological mind mapping of coherent, sentient factual data from experience of legal phenomena. Mind mapping identifies the works unique indexing criteria, enabling enactment of the heuristically distinct structure. As action type, it is a dynamic, variable dramatic enactment in which text and power are dominant indexing criteria. Text is to law what a script is to a play. Law enacts heuristically distinct structures capable of an infinite set of equal, inchoate enactments. By Quantum analogy, it structurally integrates through audience, observer engagement. Multiple works may share common provenance and style, neurologically integrating and organising as a legal system.