Musings from a Cosmology of Light #29: The Basis of Complex Adaptive Systems
There is a different nature to change that exists in different light-based quadralities.
The space-time-energy-gravity quadralities are fundamental to the layer where light travels at speed c, and both the micro-level space-time-energy-gravity quadrality and the macro-level space-time-energy-gravity quadrality continually change with the ongoing arbitration by which the infinite potential in Light’s native state materializes in light at speed c. As a reminder, the micro-level space-time-energy-gravity quadrality is where the detailed arbitration for any emergence takes place, while the macro-level space-time-energy-gravity quadrality aggregates micro-change to enhance the logic of Space, Time, Energy, and Gravity.
Emergences such as the electromagnetic light-based quadrality, the quantum particle light-based quadrality, and the atom light-based quadrality are relatively fixed compared to subsequent emergences, thereby also creating the material foundation that then allows the vastness of the play of molecules and cellular-level molecular plans at the heart of any cell to come into being.
With each subsequent emergence, the layering of material levels adds to the complexity of phenomena and creates the basis of what is known as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS).
The emergence of such layers that each runs on an independently developed logic — as specified by the associated space-time-energy-gravity micro-container — and that then interact with each other so that a change or agent at one layer can affect a layer at another level of granularity is the cornerstone of any CAS. It is such interaction between independent “agents” both within and between layers that creates feedback loops — with all the paradoxes, uncertainties, and apparent chaos — that CAS are known for.
It is such interaction between independent “agents” both within and between layers that creates feedback loops — with all the paradoxes, uncertainties, and apparent chaos — that CAS are known for.
In Being, Choice, and Power the point made is that the nature of emergent systems changes due to the very dynamic of choice. Hence human CAS are going to be of an entirely different nature — with even more paradox, uncertainty, chaos, and the possibility of unexpected emergence — than any pre-human CAS. Complexity is going to be magnified when we, as humans, lose track of the underlying urge in Light to continue to express or materialize the vast fourfold possibility embedded within it.
Our choices then put us in opposition to the underlying urge to materialize fourfoldness, and this then easily creates a slew of social, environmental, political, and economic crises in its wake. Some of the dynamics and even the necessity of such crises will be examined in future blog posts.
