http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=89 Full text issues fr Mon, 13 May 2024 16:41:10 +0200 Mon, 29 Jul 2024 09:35:52 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=89 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2322 Major principles of mathematical constitution of space and the principles of construction of physical space are presented. The existence of a Boolean lattice with fractal properties originating from nonwellfounded properties of the empty set is demonstrated. Space-time emerges as an ordered sequence of mappings of closed 3-D Poincaré sections of a topological 4-space-time provided by the lattice of primary empty cells. The fractal kernel stands for a particle and the reduction of its volume is compensated by morphic changes of a finite number of surrounding cells. Quanta of distances and quanta of fractality are demonstrated. Deformation attributes associated to mass determine the inert mass and the gravitational effects, but fractal deformations of cells are responsible for such characteristics as spin and charge. Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:22:40 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2322 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2323 It is argued that different viewpoints on anticipation are determined by different metaphysical backgrounds. Three metaphysics are discussed and compared: one related to Greek philosophy, one related to Kant's viewpoint in bis Critique of Pure Reason, and one related to the Lacanian viewpoint on the Real, the Symbolic and the Imaginary. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:34:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2323 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2325 Aiming the delineation of a model for the interactions between organisms and environment the sensory motor transformations that occur in Posterior Parietal Cortex structures are used as a possible explanation for the contextualization of body representations in movement planning, command and execution. This is extended to the meaning construction in social interactions. A bidirectional model is proposed using script paradigm in which to each participant is attributed complementary generative functions and transformation operators of action/reaction. The interaction has a trajectory that unfolds in time of successive stages in which the criteria depend not only on the present conditions but also from future anticipated states which adds temporal and intentional dimensions to the model. The distance within this space of qualities determines the intensity and valence of emotions. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 13:51:22 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2325 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2330 Artificial neural networks, which are inspired by the structure and functioning of the vertebrate-brain, are powerful modelling tools. However, the black-box representation they provide does not allow the usage of the huge accumulation of theoretical knowledge on system dynamics. Similarly, they also do not seem to provide any clue for the symbolic operations typical for the higher functioning mode of the human brain. In this study a "chaos control" problem is used as a test case to demonstrate the viability of extracting an analytical model from an artificial neural network. The results are used to comment on the advantages of hierarchical organisation not only in artificial but also natural neural networks. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:02:49 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2330 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2332 We concentrate on the problem of the constitution of objectivity and conceive of it as a normative strategy of anticipation in our interaction with the world. We stress the transcendental account of objectivity, which is explicitly relational through its emphasis on the human involvement. First, we deal with Husserl's transcendental philosophy and the role of normativity and anticipation in the constitution of objectivity. Next, we elaborate a functional interpretation of transcendental reasoning, which can remedy for a number of flaws in Kant and Husserl, and makes transcendental philosophy relevant again for contemporary debates. Such an interpretation focuses on the function of constitution, which is essentially normative and anticipatory. We conceptualize this functional approach in terms of symmetry. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:11:15 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2332 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2335 In Freud's theory of mind anticipation seems to be most intimately related to his conception of the mechanism or automatism of repetition. In this paper we rely on both Freud's and Lacan's explanation of the clinical phenomenon of the compulsion to repeat in order to shed more light on some aspects of the life and work of E.A. Poe. More specifically, we argue that Poe's biography as well as his Tales of mystery and imagination and above all, his poetry, witness both of the repetition determined by the signifier (automaton) and of the repetition of what has not been(tuché). Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:17:26 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2335 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2336 Starting from an explicitation of anticipation as a dynamic movement between living systems and their environments that is (i) a symbolic process; (ii) motivated by a search for satisfaction; (iii) a social movement, we will question the limits of anticipatory processes in psychic phenomena. In this questioning, Lacan's orders of the imaginary, the symbolic and the real are central concepts that lead to an elaboration of the relationship between the real, trauma and anticipation. In a first step, we will briefly discuss Freud and Lacan's conception of trauma. In a second step, we will oppose trauma and the lacanian notion of the phantasm. On the one hand, this leads to an elaboration on trauma as the origin of the coming into being of the subject and on the other hand, this permits a characteization of trauma as an encounter with the real. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:25:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2336 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2346 After a brief criticism of the paper of A. Einstein on the special theory of Relativity of 1905, we try to found this Theory on the smallest scale that can be studied through the use of the Equation of Continuity of Time. We set down the idea of continuity of time at the level of an elementary particle of matter related to an equation that is the basis of our work. We propose a new way to describe interactions between particles of matter and bosons of interaction, and we represent the four dimensional space-time of the particle in a simple way which logic is open to criticism, as all theory is restrained. We elaborate a two orders perturbation theory from which we deduce the mechanisms of the law of Lenz at the smallest scale. This deduction enables us to confirm the existence of the graviton as a boson of spin 2 responsible for the stability of charge of an elementary particle. Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:17:17 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2346 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2374 On the assumption thrat the Cosmos is a single complex energy system, the unified representation of the evolution of material systems presents itself as an important objective of the science of matter. In this short essay, a sketch of the evolutionary mechanism is proposed and the conditions for its extension to human systems adumbrated. The originality of the paper resides in the identification of the main pattern of dynamical relations that repeats itself in the evolution of natural systems and in the identification of the principal evolutionary step, the QMS. The principal constraints responsible for its limitations are also briefly identified. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:58:51 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2374 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2375 It is the purpose of this paper to study the concept of an "organizing structure". In the beginning, dynamic systems with a specific substructure are analysed, such that longterm modifications of the system structure (and possibly other effects) can be attributed to that substructure. This analysis follows the guidelines of general system theory and the proposed formalism is open to applications in various fields. In a second step, a possible application to quantum theory is discussed. It will be shown that this proposal is compatible with the present state of quantum theory, and that hidden variables can be regarded as a special case within the concept of a hidden organizing structure. Possible applications to a recently proposed extension (weak quantum theory) and to the study of anticipatory systems will be sketched. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:17:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2375 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2376 The theory of temporal topos (or t-topos) gives a new definition for treating particlewave duality as one entity, i.e., as a presheaf over a Grothendieck site (generalized time category). The theory t-topos also gives a new definition of an entanglemet of particles providing a natural explanation of the EPR-type non-locality which is much simpler than the well established definition of entanglement given in terms of the Hilbert space decompositions and Hilbert space associated with the global quantum system (See, e.g., [AMS] for the definition.). The notion of generalized time is also discussed in [R.S]. For quantum gravity the theory called the t.g. relativistic principles of t-topos will be announced in [Topos'O4] based on the current project, [E.P.T.T] and [P.M.S.T]. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:32:26 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2376 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2377 In previous papers, we have developed several considerations about the extension of the relativist quantum theory to the domain of superluminal velocities. In the present work, we propose a way to extend the relativist quantum theory to the framework of the general theory of Relativity. Obviously any use of a three dimensional space (plus the time dimension) requires a geometry, but in usual quantum theories the space geometry is always Euclidean. The generalization of a discrete space derivative equation from 1 to 3 dimensions with the usual space operators (gradient, curl, Laplacian) contains the implicit hypothesis of a Euclidean space. Thus we can explicitly propose the hypothesis of the Riemann's geometry which leads to a generalization of quantum theory to the framework of the general theory of Relativity. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:38:16 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2377 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2378 The proposed model of the universe motion gives some new specific answers to the important questions of the cosmology: what occurred at the initial singularity?, how old is the universe?, how big is the universe?, and what is it's ultimate fate? This new approach is based on the new solution of the Einstein's field equations in a vacuum. This solution confirms that the so called cosmological constant, ʌ, is not really constant, but a function of the gravitational radius. As the consequence, the acceleration equation of the universe motion shows that the universe acceleration can be attractive (negative) or repulsive (positive). The repulsive acceleration gives rise to the accelerating expansion of the universe at the present time. The change from the contracting phase into the expanding one, takes place at the minimal radius,r=GM/2c². This could be the solution of the initial singularity. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 11:51:44 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2378 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2379 The energy of the cosmic rays, recently measured with thousands of coincident detectors in different laboratories of the wodd, can reach unusual values like: tenth or hundreds of TeV. Since an human accelerator (or space, galactic one) was not imagined up to now to verify different hypothesis, we try to explain this accumulation of this enormous amount of energy in the one small particle by a possible cumulative interaction. This kind of interactions are also observed in the heavy ions nuclear reaction when light particles, protons, alphas, etc., are emitted with the energies near kinematics limit. The cumulative interaction seems to have an probabilistic character. In this contribution we try to understand the relation between the gravitational interaction and the cumulative interaction. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:45:17 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2379 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2381 Information is understood as a mediated construction, the Sign, which is an organized or encoded cohesion of energy/matter. The Sign emerges within measurements made by up to six predicate relations that operate within four spatial and three temporal parameters. Three predicate relations enforce states; three predicate relations enforce dynamics. A key relation is that of the 'interface', that acts as a relation of anticipatory decisionmaking. Six types of interface are examined. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:50:11 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2381 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2383 To incorporate thermodynamic, quantum and classical dynamical laws, the Universe is treated as a quantum Carnot engine (QCE) or single heat bath in which the ensemble of elementary particles retains a small amount of quantum coherence, so as to constitute new states of matter known as "phaseonia", the first being its Zenergy, the empty ensemble of dark energy. How Zenergy fuels the natural structure of the Universe, is then in complete accord with the existence of 3+l space-time, the known elementary particles quantizations and galactic structure. Similar QCE explanations of the natural structure of DNA, and of the human brain/mind as a conscious engine are given. Thus 'the Universe, life, consciousness and everything' may derive its entire structure from this difference between classical and quantum mechanical thermodynamic machines. Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:32:42 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2383 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2386 Using a rewrite approach we introduce a computational path to a nilpotent form of the Dirac equation. The system is novel in allowing new symbols to be added to the initial alphabet and starts with just one symbol, representing 'nothing', and two fundamental rules: create, a process which adds news symbols, and conserve, a process which examines the effect of any new symbol on those that currently exist. With each step a new sub-alphabet of an infinite universal alphabet is created. The implementation may be iterative, where a sequence of algebraic properties is required of the emerging subalphabets. The path proceeds from nothing through conjugation, complexification, and dimensionalisation to a steady (nilpotent) state in which no fundamentally new symbol is needed. Many simple ways of implementing the computational path exist. Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:48:48 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2386 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2389 The possible unknown behaviour of a reactive system may not be fully understood but it may be modelled in an information system. The relationship between a system and its model can be constructed through a series of stages showing the correlation between arrows in the system and in the model. Such a diagram is formal where the system and the model are 2-cell categories and the mappings between the system and the model are adjunctions. Such mappings can be built up using basic arrow constructions or given in a more abstract form in terms of freeness and co-freeness. The adequacy of a model as a representation of a natural system is discussed in terms of mapping properties such as reflection, isomorphism and adjoint equivalence. The circumstances for the model being anticipatory are considered. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:27:26 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2389 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2392 In its first part the paper presents several paradigms of the universe, in the view of scientists who have investigated both physical and philosophical aspects of this domain. In the second part, starting from the paradigm of the material continuum we discuss the possibility to transcend the space-time reality (Here-and-Now) in the aim of investigating the energetic and informational reality, support of the continuous present. The considered model is related to psychological and psycho-analytical phenomena. The altered states of consciousness, obtained by means of "psyche"-type techniques, allow the transformation of a future temporal nexus in an element of the present time. Through this "psyche anticipation" process, a sliding of the time reference takes place, since the future becomes present and the present an element of the past. In this way the initial anticipatory potantial is enhanced and allows one more energetic and informational step. By such a step-by-step progression segments of the future could be investigated thus building an anticipatory model. The "psyche anticipation" is a weak anticipation. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 09:35:49 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2392 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2395 It is shown how images can be processed, memorized, reconstructed or/and recognized using fundamental and relatively non-artificial quantum dynamics, i.e. | Ψ) =| Ψ)(Ψ | Ψ) in Dirac's notation. The right-most | Ψ) represents the output, the left-most | Ψ) denotes the input, and the central | Ψ)( Ψ | represents the associative memory. No quantum logic gates are needed, but merely a holographic procedure. Our computational model, successfully tested on concrete data, is a quantum version of Hopfield-based neural-netlike associative processing which is mathematicaliy translated into wave-dynamics in a straight-forward way. Here we discuss its most natural quantum implementation(s), i.e. using ordinary interference of image-modulated quantum waves. The non-trivial (even, e.g., anticipatory) capabilities of this model arise from proper consideration of data-structure, or pre-processing by classical systems, therefore it is the best available candidate for the quantum kernel of (conscious) image recognition in the visual cortex. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:01:15 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2395 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2397 The basic objection against quantum consciousness theories js that de-coherence times for macroscopic quantum states are quite too short, and it indeed seems that standard physics does not allow macro-temporal quantum coherence. In the Universe predicted by Topological Geometro-Dynamics (TGD) situation is different. Many-sheeted spacetime and quantum spin glass degeneracy imply that the lifetimes of macroscopic quantum states are much longer than predicted by standard physics. The thermodynamic, energetic, and information theoretic aspects of macrotemporal quantum coherence are discussed with emphasis on the implications of the number theoretic information measures emerging naturally in quantum TGD. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:13:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2397 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2399 Exploring and comparing the elements and operations of the logical space and their physical counterparts of the nonlinear Hamiltonian, conservative and/or non-integrable, phase space in nanostructured evolutionary automata, the physical meaning of syntactic ('mechanistic) information processing shows that self-referential syntax is fed and made self-consistent by the automaton dissipative, Steinbuch-like anticipatory semantic dynamics. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 14:29:41 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2399 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2400 "Big Bang" is often being used as a representation for universal unification: the one starting point for the universe as a whole. It is a key concept in the quest for a Grand Theory of Unification, in which all of the forms of the universe can be reduced into one point of creation. As is seen in mathematics, when a dimension is compressed its specifications change from quantitative to qualitative: the structures become less determinable than their relationships. In Total System Inversion, this relation is made explicit, relating the Closed System to the Open System. To distinguish the two a different mode of observation is required. A Field and a Boundary must be regarded and considered at the same time. This requires a mental state in which left brain and right brain are in balance; this has been described as the D'ai Qi of I Ching. The formalism of state transition includes its dynamics, transformation and emergence; all can be described in the same terms if the constraint of determinable/determined description is released in describing how the same takes place for any identifiable system. The concept of Total System lnversion is essential for understanding properties and principles that can not be perceived: the singularities in our own functioning are the gateways to knowing more of the unknown. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:28:59 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2400 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2401 Total System Inversion requires a dynamic compression, of the Complete System, into and through one node: the pivot point of Inversion. This requires more than a simple system function compaction: it requires a co-ordinates series of steps of dimensional reductions, by which the number of system singularities is made to consense, condense and compress. As a result – functionally - fewer system singularities are perceived, yet their functionality is retained. This is a requirement for a physical system to recurse back into a chemical process, to revert into an electromagnetic transformation to remerge into the phase state out of which it was formed. Cosmogenesis (Genesis and cosmology) describes this same pathway in the opposite sense. Dimensional Compression is an information intensification procedure: phase information is redistributed in such a way that local processes, and their more general manifestations, can align; the information can than be store in the one form rather than the other. This is based on the inclusion of the information of embedding of the system in its context. This kind of realisation is possible only when the relationship between the part and the whole is seen. A suitable metaphor for this is the relationship between a wave and a group wave. What we needs is a formulation that describes the equivalence between the two; (cf. the particle-wave duality). Only then is it possible to know the relationship between the part and the whole, but also between Physics and Phasics (or matter and information). Their relationship is evident in all living beings; their being is based on the principle of dynamic dimensional/data (de)compression, addressed in this paper. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:39:07 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2401 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2402 ln seeking to address a practical concern about the design of clocks, this paper also frames questions about western notions of temporality. In particular, it looks for opportunities to help designers reduce the clock's negative impact on Nature and society. The paper asks why modern clocks still use an internally referenced mechanism for defining time, noting that this inspires single-dimensional, mechanistic beliefs and processes, rather than a more organic mode of temporality. This observation is used to guide a discussion about the role of awareness and synergy, and how they might become helpful parameters for the function of clocks. The paper draws upon arguments from a range of thinkers. Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:45:14 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2402 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2321 Wed, 31 Jul 2024 15:10:33 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2321