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The principle of Uncertainty represent the specification of the Principle of Variation at the most elementary level of Physical Reality.

The Principle of Variation

This principle states that everything that exists is in incessant mutation, variation, or better, all that exist "is" incessant variation.

We call these variations Events, the "substance" Reality in made of. The whole Reality is in incessant mutation, from the most elementary level to the most complex ones. Everything... The States of the Entities incessantly vary, and through their variation (due to the inner interactions between their components, the Agents / Forces and the Acted / Fields) they incessantly produce Events, Action.

Furthermore, also Relations, that link Events together, giving form to Action, forming Information, are subject to incessant variation.

Processes, which describe the dynamics the Creation and the Evolution of any Structure of Information, any Form, the whole of Reality, are the essence of this endless mutation, that manifests itself in any aspect, at any level of Reality.

Everything is the product of an incessant Process of Formation, where variation is the fundament, the true core of the incessant Creation and Evolution of the Universe. Only variations, mutations of Entities (Sources, the Force/Field unitarian couples), thus only Events, the Action, exist.

We can say that Entities exist because they produce Events, Action, thus Existence.

Reality in the product of an incessant Process of Formation, where variation is the fundament, the true core of the incessant creation and evolution of the Universe.

The general Principle of Variation is the foundation of all the derived principles of variation which operate at the various Levels of Reality. It is the former and fundamental expression of Variationality, one of the two manifestations of Agency. At the level of Elementary Field operates the Principle of Uncertainty, at the level of Physical Structures of Information the principle of organization of Information. On a physical biological level this principle applies to the mutations occurring in the genetic information, while on a cognitive level, this principle manifests itself in the phenomena of the individual perception/cognition).

The principle of Uncertainty

The Principle of Uncertainty describes the creation of perturbations (Perturbation), of micro-gradients, in the distributions of the elementary fluctuations, the micro-gradients that compose the Elementary Action, the most basic form of Existence, the "substrate" of everything, the basic "substance" of Reality.

Uncertainty is ontological, not phenomenological. We, all the rest and the whole Universe, exist only because the primary expression of the Source of Reality is indeterminate, uncertain (where the inner interaction between the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field incessantly produces Elementary Events, the small fluctuations of the Field at the Planck scale).

Uncertainty is pervasive, ubiquitous, in the most elementary Levels of Reality (from the Planck scale to the Processes of Events that we call particles and waves, the Structures of Information, and in some form even beyond, for atoms, etc.).

Uncertainty in this Knowledge System has mainly to do with Time, and therefore with velocity or speed. Uncertainty, at the most fundamental level of Physical Reality, is expressed as indetermination of the density of the Elementary Events (the Mode of Elementary Action that we call Perturbation) produced by the internal interaction of the Fundamental Force which acts on the Elementary Field. The (local) flow of Time depends on the density of Elementary Events, the speed of clock hands to use an expression dear to physicists, which implies the speed of propagation of Action (or Information, or Causality) in the Field Elementary, variable quantity (therefore not constant) which we commonly call the speed of light in a vacuum.

So, Uncertainty is at the very foundation of the Formation of the Physical Reality.

In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle sets "a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values for certain pairs of physical quantities of a particle (complementary variables or canonically conjugate variables), such as position, x, and momentum, p, can be predicted from initial conditions". It implies that "in general it is not possible to predict the value of a quantity with arbitrary certainty", even if all initial conditions are specified.

This principle somehow represents the tombstone of the (exclusively and absolutely) deterministic (and reductionist) view of Nature. Not of determinism, which in the global context of Reality represents a phase of the causal evolution of Reality and in certain areas (at medium levels of complexity / causal extension and high spatial and temporal extension, such as those of objects existing on the human dimensional scale and up to to cosmic / universal dimensions) may represent a very good approximation of the uncertain nature of the most basic and infinitesimal levels of Physical Reality.

Not to be confused with the "observer effect".

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"