Table Of ContentTime, Emergences and Communications
Engineering, Energy and Architecture Set
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Volume 4
Time, Emergences and
Communications
Bernard Dugué
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Chapter 1. Quantum Physics and Information . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1. Orthodox introduction to quantum physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2. Quantum states or how nature
communicates with physicists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3. Particles, information, evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.4. Interpretation of Pauli’s exclusion principle . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5. State vectors, science of orientations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.6. Provisional conclusions on quantum mechanics . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 2. Two Quantum Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.1. Does the quantum universe observe us? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2. A detour by statistical mechanics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.3. Expressive and receptive waves
in quantum observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.4. Wave function fission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.5. Form–energy duality in Schrödinger’s equation . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5.1. Separation of spatial and temporal functions . . . . . . . . . 29
2.5.2. Solution to the equation and quantum
formalization of the hydrogen atom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
2.5.3. Form–energy diagram and correspondences . . . . . . . . . 32
2.5.4. Form and content in the quantum atom . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Chapter 3. Quantum Entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.1. Some considerations on quantum entanglement . . . . . . . . . 35
3.2. The mystery of quantum entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.3. Quantum entanglement and complex
sciences: information and system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.4. Concluding remark about strange information . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 4. Quantum Darwinism and the
Macroscopic World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.1. Quantum Darwinism, from quantum to
the observable world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.2. The controversy between W. Zurek and R. Kastner . . . . . . . 50
4.3. Understanding our classical perception with
quantum physics, an anthropomorphic approach . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.4. From quantum substantial matter to
spatiotemporal extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 5. Chemistry and Quantum Communications . . . . . 59
5.1. Brief epistemological notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
5.2. Chemistry, a little-known science that studies
bondings and reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
5.3. Orbitals and waves make bonding improbable . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.3.1. The electron takes part in the bond, but
there is no bond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
5.3.2. The molecule in question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.4. Quantum bond, orbitals and monadological
conception of chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.4.1. The theory of molecular orbitals in chemistry . . . . . . . . 68
5.4.2. Monadology, bonding and non-bonding orbitals . . . . . . 70
5.5. Molecular quantum communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chapter 6. Emergences in Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.1. Introduction about emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.2. The central conjecture in emergence theory . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
6.3. Physics, emergence ontology and communications . . . . . . . 80
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6.4. Quantum and information in the emergences
of condensed matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.4.1. Material emergences and physical sciences . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.4.2. New horizons in the physics of condensed matter . . . . . . 85
6.4.3. Matter and information according to Xiao-Gang Wen . . . . 86
6.5. Tensor networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.5.1. The tools of statistical physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
6.5.2. The complicated invisible behind the visible . . . . . . . . . 90
Chapter 7. Communication and Emergence Fields . . . . . . . 95
7.1. Communication fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.1.1. Quantum communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
7.1.2. Morphogenetic field or communication field? . . . . . . . 97
7.2. Are communication fields structured
by quantum matter? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
7.2.1. The field as a physical concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
7.2.2. The Lagrangian and the symmetries, main
access door for studying fields as emergences . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
7.3. Is there a relation between quantified
fields and emergences? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
7.4. Brief overview of matter and emergences
in contemporary physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
7.4.1. Dissipative structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
7.4.2. Condensed matter and exotic phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
7.4.3. Quantified fields or the emerging
“material cosmos” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
7.4.4. Exotic phases and the model with
topology and entanglement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7.4.5. Overview, from Plotinus’ two categories
of matter to quantum materiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7.5. Philosophy and the physics of
communicational emergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
7.6. Emergences and molecular communication
in the living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
7.7. Different considerations about language and
the emergence of goal-oriented societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
7.7.1. Language, civilizations and human enterprises . . . . . . . . 115
7.7.2. The myth of Babel, communicating and building . . . . . . 116
7.7.3. Language structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
7.7.4. Language levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
7.8. Brief notes about the semantic field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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Chapter 8. The Computer, from Physics to Biology . . . . . . 123
8.1. Computer and information in the 21st Century science . . . . . 123
8.2. The research by David Deutsch and Seth
Lloyd concerning the quantum calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
8.3. Seth Lloyd and quantum order in the universe . . . . . . . . . . 128
8.4. Going beyond the theory of information:
the resonance coupling principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
8.5. From the biological to the physical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
8.5.1. From biology to informed physics: an
original pathway offered by Paul Davies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
8.5.2. Biology and networks: questioning emergence
with information and entropy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
8.5.3. Information and networks, theoretical
limitations and metaphysical options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
8.6. Kronos, Telos and the evolution of living emergences . . . . . 138
Chapter 9. Time Philosophies:
Kronos, Telos, Kosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9.1. Time is plural, as it is enigmatic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
9.2. The “qualities” of time: an excursion
through Eastern thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
9.3. Aristotle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
9.4. Leibniz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
9.5. Being, time, things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
9.6. Things in modern science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
9.7. Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger: three prophets of time . . . . . . 158
9.7.1. Hegel and the dialectic resolution of
Kronos with Telos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
9.7.2. Nietzsche and Kronos transmuted into Telos . . . . . . . . . 160
9.7.3. Husserl, the world and Kosmos-based objects . . . . . . . . 161
9.7.4. Heidegger and the quest for Kosmos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
9.7.5. Emerging Logos and Telos in the end times . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 10. The Arrows of Time and Emergence . . . . . . . . 167
10.1. The three categories of time and
contemporary physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
10.2. Noise, temperature, entropy, time arrow . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
10.3. The effect of temperature on emerging order . . . . . . . . . . 173
