↪apokrisis
I thought I would have to think about your "erudite" post over the weekend. I'm only vaguely familiar with Semiology. But, I couldn't resist digging into the Piercean vagueness right away. So here goes :
First, I'll have to translate some of that
apokrisean semiology into terms that I am more familiar with.
- that the cosmos arose from unbound possibility as the inevitable growth of a rationalising structure
Unbound = eternal?? . . . . rationalizing structure = Logos??
arbitrariness, or vagueness, must always exist in the system as Platonic order exists only to suppress or constrain it . . .
Arbitrary = Random Chance? . . . . Order & Constrain = Natural Selection? Natural laws?
been fully locked in at the Big Bang, and the long-run destiny is for it to become a generalised Heat Death
locked-in = natural laws? . . . .Heat Death = born to die?
this story of an eternally cooling~expanding dissipative structure
Dissipation & Entropy seem to be necessary adjuncts to Integration & Energy in the program of Evolution.
Adjunct :
"a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part."
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Dissipative structures are nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems that generate order spontaneously by exchanging energy with their external environments."
https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/ ... structures
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Dissipative systems have a tendency to become more “complicated” while dissipating energy. That is, they develop patterns, structures, or behaviors that they did not have when first formed"
https://gmwgroup.harvard.edu/dissipative-systems
Anthropically, if these higher levels of dissipative structure could happen, they had to happen.
Necessity = esssential to the design or program?
why semiotics is then itself an inevitable organising informational arrangement. . . . negentropy to be dissipated
"Semiotics" seems to imply that Meaning is inherent to the system of evolution. The question is : meaningful to whom?
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Semiotics is the study of sign processes, which are any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the sign's interpreter". Wikipedia
"Negentropy" is what Aristotle called "entelechy" and what I call "enformy" in my Enformationsim thesis.
laws only work because of the way they can gloss over the detail.
By "gloss over" you mean "allow" or "permit" such details as the temporary exceptions to thermodynamics that we call living organisms?
Local spontaneity is built into the model along with the global necessity.
That's what I call "freedom within determinism"
information as the structure of constraints that limit the arbitrary. . . . information vs entropy
That "structure" may be what I call the constructive power of
EnFormAction.
Information vs Entropy =
Enformy
a metaphysics of order out of chaos - an information theoretic framework. But entropy descriptions are still ones that presume an essential meaningless of reality,
But "order" is the essence of "meaning". So the fact that Reality contains creatures capable of semiotics and extraction of meaning would seem to deny the "essential meaningless of reality"
So there just is no singularity, as there is instead just a vagueness that becomes a somethingness as soon as it starts to become a structure of relations. . . . Apeiron - an unbounded and formless "sea"
The un-formed "vagueness" of the Singularity may be comparable to a seed that doesn't resemble the tree.
What you call "Apeiron" is similar to what I call "Enfernity" : the unbounded realm of Eternity and Infinity, which is an unformed ocean of Possibility. Which I also call BEING, the eternal power to be, the essence of existence. The "seed" contains a tiny bit of Potential (genes, programs) that gradually Becomes (come into being) a Real World.
is a perfect symmetry. Any and everything can be happening. It is also the definition of unchanging
Perfect Symmetry = eternal & infinite, but still, pool of Potential
"Tyger, tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" ___William Blake
something had to happen
So, that infinite Potential couldn't be bottled-up forever? Something Actual must come out of it. But what Cause triggered that phase change from Voltage to Amperage, from Ideal to Real?
where disorder learns to constrain itself.
That's what Design does : it constrains disorder into order; it organizes (pattern) that which is disorganized (randomness).
same number at there at the Big Bang as they are at the Heat Death.
The evolutionary process comes full-circle from the nothingness of Potential, to fullness of Actual, and back to zero again. From Eternity to Timelessness.
But an even more general metric looks called for.
I propose that the emptiness of Shannon's Information as container, be supplanted by []Enformation[/i] as carrier of content.
Whew! I'm exhausted from writing all those big words. I'll have to take the weekend off to recuperate.
EnFormAction :
Ententional Causation. A proposed metaphysical law of the universe that causes random interactions between forces and particles to produce novel & stable arrangements of matter & energy. It’s the creative force (aka : Divine Will) of the axiomatic eternal deity that, for unknown reasons, programmed a Singularity to suddenly burst into our reality from an infinite source of possibility. AKA : The creative power of Evolution; the power to enform; Logos; Change.
http://blog-glossary.enformationism.info/page8.html