MES: A Mathematical Model for the Revival of Natural Philosophy
| Autor: | Jean-Paul Vanbremeersch, Andrée C. Ehresmann |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Natural philosophy
memory evolutive system 030303 biophysics 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 03 medical and health sciences History and Philosophy of Science emergence Emergentism lcsh:BC1-199 emergentist reductionism Category theory lcsh:B1-5802 Categorical variable creativity Cognitive science 0303 health sciences Reductionism Mathematical model lcsh:Philosophy (General) 06 humanities and the arts lcsh:Logic info-computational model Living systems Philosophy anticipation category theory 060302 philosophy Holism |
| Zdroj: | Philosophies Volume 4 Issue 1 Pages 9-0 Philosophies, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 9-0 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2409-9287 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/philosophies4010009 |
| Popis: | The different kinds of knowledge which were connected in Natural Philosophy (NP) have been later separated. The real separation came when Physics took its individuality and developed specific mathematical models, such as dynamic systems. These models are not adapted to an integral study of living systems, by which we mean evolutionary multi-level, multi-agent, and multi-temporality self-organized systems, such as biological, social, or cognitive systems. For them, the physical models can only be applied to the local dynamic of each co-regulator agent, but not to the global dynamic intertwining these partial dynamics. To &lsquo revive&rsquo NP, we present the Memory Evolutive Systems (MES) methodology which is based on a &lsquo dynamic&rsquo Category Theory it proposes an info-computational model for living systems. Among the main results: (i) a mathematical translation of the part&ndash whole problem (using the categorical operation colimit) which shows how the different interpretations of the problem support diverging philosophical positions, from reductionism to emergentism and holism (ii) an explanation of the emergence, over time, of structures and processes of increasing complexity order, through successive &lsquo complexification processes&rsquo We conclude that MES provides an emergentist-reductionism model and we discuss the different meanings of the concept of emergence depending on the context and the observer, as well as its relations with anticipation and creativity. |
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