Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Tale of Us & Codex Atlanticus

Leonardo da Vinci's drawing
from Codex Atlanticus, between 1478 & 1519
A Ming Era Guardian Lion in the Forbidden City.
Ball held by the male 
Imperial Guardian Lion 
at the Gate of Supreme Harmony,
Forbidden City, Beijing, China, showing
the geometrical pattern on its surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_City
https://youtu.be/uJZuHIvJKr0
https://youtu.be/ciyiqbFI0Vk
https://youtu.be/emUTaPNEfK0
https://youtu.be/Cyih4IAJ8bQ

The universe is replete with complex evolving systems—the universe itself can be considered an evolving system—and a major endeavor of unified science is to understand and codify the underlying dynamics driving evolving systems and the resulting complexification, whether spontaneous emergence in self-organizational systems or delineable underlying ordering mechanisms that verge on operational “laws of nature”. An open question within understanding the complexification of matter over time is whether there are natural laws—akin to the codification of statistical averages as laws underlying thermodynamics—that are operational in generic complex dynamical systems that can be characterized as having an asymmetric-time evolution. Now, there has been new advancement in this investigation into the nature of complex evolving systems as a recently released study On the Roles of Function and Selection in Evolving Systems, by Wong et al. in the journal PNAS, discusses how existing macroscopic physical laws do not seem to adequately describe these systems found all throughout nature and that there must be a veritable "missing law" that is operable in driving the asymmetric increase in functional complexity of complex evolving systems over time. As we discuss in our ISF article "Missing law" Proposed that Describes a Universal Mechanism of Selection for Increasing Functionality in Evolving Systems, a full understanding of the mechanisms driving organized matter into ever greater complexification and functionality is useful not only for obtaining a deeper understanding about how organization forms in our universe (sometimes to staggeringly complex levels), but can also enable us to implement actual precise predictions for the behavioral outcomes of complex evolving systems. As explored in the article, this will enable us to make precise calculations regarding biogenesis, its likelihood and prevalence, and with what probability we should anticipate complex evolving systems to develop advanced intelligences.
https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Ents
Jain-Temple Ornament in Ranakpur, India.
https://www.instagram.com/jain108academy/
https://de.mathigon.org/timeline/lagrange
https://youtu.be/qeuLJpZEg-w
https://youtu.be/RCno0ylY9C0
http://www.bike-berlin-copenhagen.com/de/poi/slawischer-burgwall-menkendorf



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