TFNR - The Dynamics of Information: Evolution toward Complexity
Let's take one of the definitions of Information as a starting point to try to explain what we mean here by "Dynamics of Information".
Information (In-Form-Action: Action with a Form, or the Form of Action, etc.) is the product of the expression of the Operator Relation, a more complex form of interaction between the two complementary aspects of the Sources (Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields) that produces Complex Events (organization of variations of / in the Fields, which represent Essence / Form, from the first organization of the elementary level of Reality up to the most complex levels).
In other words, Information is the product of a complex form of Agency, the main property of the Sources. Agency (Causality and Variationality) is a continuum, a continuous relation / interaction that links Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields in an incessant Evolution of a universal network of Relations among Events, of Action.
By Dynamics of Information we mean the part of Evolutionary Dynamics that, in the Process of Formation of Reality, studies the dynamics of the "Relations between Events" that incessantly form Reality, in their causal and variational (spatial and temporal) dimensions. Or, in other words, why and how (Principles and Processes - dyna) what exists (Entity - onto) produces what happens (Events - pheno). Principles and Processes that describe the product of the second part of the Process of Formation of Reality, the sub-process of Evolution.
Dynamics of Information analyzes and describes all the processes of Organization, Transformation and Selection of Information, which represent processes of construction of increasing complexity.
More specifically, by "Dynamics of Information" we mean:
- the dynamics of the correlation of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components (with reference to the description of the dynamics of the correlations between the dynamics of the event points of the Elementary Field, between the Micro-gradients and their corresponding Micro-states)
- the infinite forms of the relations of the Derived Action, whose dynamics determines the Physical Phenomena and the Cognitive Phenomena, the Physical Structures of Information and the Cognitive Structures of Information.
With respect to the level of Reality that we are observing, we can identify:
- Dynamics of Information: the nature and properties of the Relations between Events and their interactions / organization in networks and processes that form the whole Reality and the Evolving Universe
- Dynamics of the Structures of Information: the ways in which Information manifests itself in structured forms, the Information Structures that compose the Forms that populate the Universe
- Dynamics of the Forms: the dynamics that conventional physics and cosmology deal with, the dynamics of objects, from atoms to galaxies, clusters, etc.
The Cycle of Information
The essence of the Dynamics of Information is the study of what we call "The Cycle of Information", which come from the expression of the three Operators of Reality that operate the level of Information of the Process of Formation of Reality:
- Organization
- Transformation
- Selection
In the Cycle of Information, which represents the evolutionary engine of Reality itself, in particular, we see two Agents at work that act on two competing Processes: the "Organization" operator (represented by the antientropic processes - creation of more complex Information - increase in complexity) and the "Transformation" operator (entropic processes - destruction of complex Information - decrease in complexity). The "Selection" operator completes the triad by realizing one of the crucial functions of all evolutionary processes.
Evolution
Evolution represents the core of the Dynamics of Information, the Dynamics of Relations that organizes Events, of Information itself.
Furthermore, we call Evolution the causal sub-process that incessantly gives life to the Essence / Form of Reality, where anabolic / constructive and catabolic / destructive Processes interact, co-evolve in the continuous construction of complexity, from which the material and immaterial Forms that make up the Universe are born. An infinite co-evolutionary process that leads Reality towards increasing levels of complexity. The balance of those chaos-order processes is oriented towards increasing levels of organization, a tendency to create more and more Information, more and more Complexity.
Evolution is the sub-process by which, through the progressive interaction (Organization, Transformation and Selection of the Elementary Events, of the Elementary Action, under the incessant evolutive pressure operated by the relational aspects of the Primary Source and its manifestations at the more and more complex Levels of Reality, Information emerges in the world, and manifests itself in the construction of more and more complex Structures of Information of Radiant energy - Waves and Particles / Vortices, composing more and more complex Forms, the Material Forms of the Physical Reality (atoms, molecules, gas, dust, stars and planets, galaxies, and more) and the Immaterial Forms of the Cognitive Reality. Beyond any contrast, the sub-processes of Creation and Evolution incessantly and parallelly operate (co-operate) to the Formation of the physical and cognitive Reality.
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