Principle of Variation

Definition

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).

Common definition

Links to Wikipedia pages:

• Variation
• Variational
• All pages with prefix Variational
• Action
• Action (physics)
• Action (philosophy)
• Principle
• Principle (disambiguation)

See also

• Principles
• Fundamental Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics
• Principle of Propagation
• Principle of Conservation
• Other Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics
• Principle of Unity
• Principle of Connection
• Principle of Individuation
• Principle of Relation
• Principle of Evolution
• Principle of Equivalence
• Physical Principles
• Fundamental Physical Principles
• Principle of Uncertainty
• Principle of Action and Reaction
• Principle of Least Action
• Cognitive Principles
• Metacognitive Principles

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

• TFNR - The Principle of Reality
• TFNR - The Principles of Reality
• TFNR - The principle of individuation
• TFNR - The fundamental principles of the Elementary Dynamics (Principles of Action)
• TFNR - Recipe for constructing a Reality
• TFNR - From the fundamental principles to the laws of nature
• TFNR - Variation, propagation, conservation: the basic functional operators of Reality
• TFNR - The fundamental principles of the dynamics of the Elementary Field
• TFNR - The principle of Uncertainty
• TFNR - The principle of Action and Reaction)
• TFNR - The principle of Minimum Action
• TFNR - The principle of Relation
• TFNR - The principle of General Equivalence

Classification

• Topic id: t_variation_principle
• Belongs to the class: Fundamental Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics
• Has as instances: Principle of Uncertainty
• Belongs to the groups: Principles
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