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We readdress duality, this time in the context of system entropy. It seems likely that life colonizes a state of lowest entropy between the extremes of duality. Birationality appears to be the natural descriptive medium for any and all entities in Nature, where complementarity always holds sway, and this presages a new view of reality: the duality of birationality results in a tripartite relativism between time, space and existence. We consider further Rosen’s (M,R) systems, and their relationship to inter-scalar regions of a model hierarchy, where they can provide a model for these complex regions. The ubiquitous nature of system duality means that a general evolution is omnipresent, as ‘everything is coupled to everything else’. We present as an example of Brenner’s emergence the generation of a biological phenotype from the dual combination of genome and environment, via epigenetic action.
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We reiterate that Brenner’s derivation is uniquely in terms of processes, but that we subscribe to Havel’s (1996) proposition that things, events and processes differ only in their relative timescales.
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This assertion is related to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics (Busch et al. 2007), which sets out pairs of an entity ’s properties where the precision of definition of one is inversely dependent on the precision of definition of the other.
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Note that we are here only indirectly referring to Einstein’s General Relativity , as one of the large family of different communicational relativistic phenomena .
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Cottam, R., Ranson, W. (2017). Really Reality?. In: Bridging the Gap between Life and Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74533-6_9
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