Action

Definition

Action represents the expression, the manifestation of causal agents, forces acting on fields. It is the act of producing events, changes in the state of an "acted entity". This is the fundament of Reality. It is the "substrate" of the Existence and the Essence/Form, and, more in general, of Information (In-Form-Action), the Structures of Information and the Forms that compose the Universe in Evolution.

Common definition

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Description

The Modes of Action

Action can manifest three fundamental "modes", with the associated Operator of Reality, a peculiar expression of the Force which operates that "mode" of Action, in the construction and the Evolution of Reality.

We call these form the "components of Action":

• Perturbation (a specification of the more general Variation aspect of Reality) and its Operator (generically called Action Operator, or simply Action): it transmutes the pressure of the Force on the Field into an incessant flow of variations, fluctuations, of the fundamental parameters of the same Field
• Translation (a specification of the more general Propagation aspect of Reality) and its Operator: it transmutes the perturbations into translational flows (Translation), aimed at restoring homogeneity and isotropy
• Rotation (a specification of the more general Conservation aspect of Reality) and its Operator: it transmutes the propagation of perturbations in rotational flows (Rotation), which tend to preserve the perturbations themselves

Action at a distance

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See also

• TFNR - 2.2 Action and Information: the core of Reality
• TFNR - 2.4 Variation, propagation, conservation: the basic functional operators of Reality
• TFNR - 2.6 Events: Action - Creation/Existence
• TFNR - 2.6 Pressure to existence, resistance to variation: the Physics of Creation
• TFNR - 2.6 Action: the expression of the incessant tension to existence
• TFNR - 4.3 Events
• TFNR - 4.3.1 Elementary Events
• TFNR - 4.3.2 Complex Events
• TFNR - 4.3.3 Events and Action
• Process of Formation of Reality
• Evolutionary Dynamics

Classification

• Topic id: t_action
• Belongs to the class: Dynamics of Action
• Has as instances: Physical Action, Cognitive Action, Metacognitive Action
• Belongs to the groups: Dynamics of Action
• Semantic Map: ekm|map=m_ev_dynamics&topic=t_action
• Semantic Map Test Version: ekmt|map=m_ev_dynamics&topic=t_action