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INTERCONVERTING PATTERNS. “These forms are manifested at the corresponding levels of the organizational hierarchy as elementary particles, atoms, molecules, cells, organisms, ecosystems (including human organizations and economies), planetary and stellar systems, galaxies, and so forth. All of the scale-specific manifestations/forms of flowing energy/matter are thus interconnected and co-evolve as a nested set of self-organizing and interdependent structures-processes.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

FATE OF PHOTONS. “However, photons do not die. When they say that the photon has devoted its whole energy, it means only that the photon is in the ground, not in an excited state.” https://lnkd.in/eftm7VFM View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT GRADIENTS. “As the first postulate, let us assume that, at the fundamental level, the energy/matter comprising the Universe is far from equilibrium, that it exists as an evolving flow, and that the energy/matter comprising and flowing through the Universe spontaneously self-organizes on multiple spatiotemporal scales into metastable, interconverting flow/circulation patterns (organizational forms).” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

PHOTON QUESTIONS. “Is the transfer of angular momentum the main function of photons? Photons exchange momenta between micro world objects. Now commonplace assertion that the absorbed photons "disappear". On the other hand in the emission of light by atom photons is “born”. Where in the atom is the photon before birth and where is its place after absorption?” https://lnkd.in/eftm7VFM View in LinkedIn

THE DEMANDS OF COMPLEXITY. “A relatively higher degree of complexity and order requires and, at the same time, supports a relatively higher rate of energy/matter flow. Increasing the rate of energy/matter flow normally leads to a stepwise increase in relative complexity and order within an evolving nonequilibrium system.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

Miró and his wife. He was a very serious man who worked slowly and carefully. The Miró museum in Barcelona offers a fascinating insight into the man himself. View in LinkedIn

THIRD CONSEQUENCE. “Third, the degree of complexity and order within a self-organizing nonequilibrium system and the rate of energy/matter passing through the system correlate in a mutually defining manner.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

INTERCONNECTED COSMOS. “This means that, within a nonequilibrium system of energy/matter flow/circulation, everything is connected to everything else through shared microcomponents flowing through and mediating the emergence, evolution, and transformation of diverse organizational forms comprising the system.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

THE STRUCTURE PERSISTS. “That is, what is actually preserved and evolves over relevant timescales is an organization of relationships between interacting components (an organizational form) but not physical components comprising a given macrostructure. Members come and go, but the organization persists.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn

BIOMASS ACCUMULATION. “Notice that, since the Earth's biomass has been continuously increasing over macroevolutionary time at an accelerating pace, it appears that living matter as a whole grows by extracting and assimilating electrons and protons from nonliving matter at an accelerating rate.” https://lnkd.in/eskBjS7b View in LinkedIn