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 1st International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS)
Sept 21-26, 1997 Nashua NH, USA

INTEGRITY
'Non-Fractal Complexity'

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Complexity builds organization.    

Fractal mathematics models some of it. But something is missing, another dynamic is at work, one not so fragile. A companion mechanism.. robust and non-fractal.

Integrity research began circa 1965, comparing how systems process energy and utilize information. A pattern immediately revealed itself in every system studied. When modeled in a layered hierarchy of organization, one in relation to others, it became apparent that behaviors in adjacent layers alternated in their directions of entropy. That is, when membership of a given level dissipated entropically, the typical result would be induction of neg-entropy order-formation in the next broader scale of organization. And vice versa. Specific mechanisms were of no consequence. This singular relationship shone through with absolute regularity.

The mathematically geometric and behaviorally expressive architecture of Integrity Dynamics is philosophically formidable -- potently challenging neo-Platonism, Gödel's Incompleteness theorems, and the supremacy of Fractal Emergence. It presents an architecture of exponentially nested infinities -- Cantorian infinities -- where the entire structure is informationally accessible throughout. Not just a structure of superpowers, but relationship of information filled domains, dynamically interactive, topologically connected.

There are no closed formal boundaries anywhere in existence or mathematics -- only conditional ones, limited by immediate utility. Our mathematical universe of nested and coded dimensions is as much an architecture of many-environments, with varying information bit-sizes, as the physical universe is. They are related, and the activities and behaviors of any information integrates with and affects information on other levels. Fractal Complexity is still involved, but now forms a sub-dynamic within the broader organization.

The Integrity Paradigm builds on foothold ideas of 'information', 'concept space', 'dimensional analysis', 'adaptive evolution', and 'emergence' ... embracing them under a single compatible vision. It claims that the principle mechanism of Complexity is the dynamic of alternating 'local entropy' gradients, interlacing exponentially nested levels, connecting the universe's assemblies of assemblies, which are engaged in transformations and transactions of information.

 


       R     
             
EL  
µ    ------                           
    ES

Entropy of the larger assembly is inversely proportional to the entropy of the sub-assembly.


R
   
EL
µ     ----------------                      
 
   ES = Pab
· Pba     

{ probabilities greater than 0 ;  probabilities 'vanish' by becoming '1'}     
                                                          

The entropy of a sub-assembly is a Pi function of the probabilities of exchange among members of the larger assembly
~ also: boundary conditions and energy/momentum definitions.


P ELµ  R / P ES

Adjacent Pi-functions (in nested assemblies) are inversely proportional  ; compatible boundaries and phasespaces will factor the extent and duration of interactions and endurance.




In a reorganized mathematics, equals sign now includes the idea that an intrinsic 'information content' is forever homeomorphic on both sides, even if coding and notation are different. Adjustive coding doesn't automatically erase information. Functional-information depends upon the option spaces present, or potentially available or subsequently generated.  Revising option spaces - by altering how information is expressed - can reconstitute specific information and relevance, even from topologically coded infinitesimally small 'points', which are no longer devoid of content. This notion is compatible with superstring topology, going even further, since it infers that Complexity as a dynamic is generated wholly within the metric of natural topological geometry.

Exponents now represent autonomous yet interrelated infinite domains, where the focus becomes determining what information relationships exist between successive exponential domains. There is more involved than just fractal mapping of one n-dimensional phase space onto another. Each can have an independent entropy. Each can retain 'information content' or content potential, even when coded to zero. Nested assemblies of phasespace are therefore fully environmental to one another, each exponential level being its own continuum, a functional Cantorian Infinity, with the potential of being utilized as an independent frame-of-reference, or correspondent one.

 

Thematically then, we have two kinds of emergence -- fractal and environmental or dimensional emergence. Their differences are obvious. Fractal emergence functions in isolation. Nascent unknown patterns show up regardless of context. Environmental emergence on the other hand, is completely relational. It is context and interaction driven, as it produces new information and energy organizations. Interactional changes in a given content or its relative option space will produce new patterns, new assemblies of organization.

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Both are mechanisms of Complexity. But Environmental Emergence is far and away its more pervasive and robust form. In the simplest case, two non-zero probabilities of communication present between two members of a given assembly level are sufficient to enact Complexity.

{As in this video of jugglers}

 

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It is the enactment of communication potentials -- communication probabilities which correspond with entropy changes of the data sub-assembly. They directly affect and narrow the information exchanges possible among sources and receptors in the larger assembly. That limits the freedom of interaction of that next larger order of assembly. This imposes a reduction in the entropy of the next larger level.  It forces neg-entropy.  It forces Complexity. Non-fractally.

 

 

We can now surpass Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem. There will always be Gödel Limits - content less-than all - but the characteristics superior to quantification are coherence and compatibility... any information or energy on the far-side of a local Gödel Limit has the potential to be included inside. What is external is compatible with what is internal. So, we know something very specific about parts of the universe and of mathematical space which Gödel implies we should have no knowledge. A gödel limit is not so much exclusionary-boundary as it is accessible-interface. The event-horizon of a Black Hole is a prime example. Obviously it exists as a transition state separating regions of supposedly incompatible information. But, it's truer importance is as a channel which information and energy can be transduced through. Gödel is not the final word.

Environmental set concepts call into question Plato & Gödel.    If Gödel is accurate there can be no Platonic ideals. The Ideal Set apple and the Set colors are mutually exclusive if we are to be faithful to Gödel. An apple's color can only be known by interactions which the set boundary - its skin - has with the external environment, and, since the skin is a Gödel Limit, those sets are conceptually and existentially isolated.

 

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   'Ideal Apple' with environment                            'Ideal Apple' without environment
  (including trans G-limit information)                         (excluding trans G-limit information)

 

For a platonic apple to have color, existence has to be Martin Buber's dynamic, 'I-Thou'.  When environments exist, sets are completable. This holds true even for mathematical systems.  As long as they exist in potential context with other possible mathematics, they can be complete. Validation within a closed system is also available. Self verification and consistency can be attained by evaluating any and all possible sub-partitions - transitory internal gödel-limits.  Verity rests in having an infinite number of option sets which are open to review and testing. Anomalies are natural and native, with the distinction of merely being local and conditional.

 

 

Eigenspace Options: Surviving in real environments

Sustained behaviors require the ability to deal with both the known and the unknown.   Action in relation to potential. Firstly, the initial memory of any system is not carried data, but the rules of construction... the fundamental forces, relativity, entropy. They determine activity and action space. Even in the ultra-heat of initial creation, information was already present to enact the products of symmetry breaking and cooling.

As cooling occurred, enduring in extended environments required compatibility .. the ability to cope with encounters by avoidance or interaction. Self-organized systems therefore need empty eigenstates...states of ignorance if you will ... having the available capacities to encounter new information or energy. Maximum information or energy content therefore is totally antithetical to the health, the integrity, of any dynamic system. It cannot be its goal. Determinism over-formalizes systems, lessens survivability because behavioral options are removed. There is nothing efficient or functional about a computer which data storage and operating spaces are saturated. Atoms survive not because they settle into unchanging persistent energy configurations (save for quantum variability), but because quantum electron shells are available, being adaptive to changes in energy content. It is an error - though an understandable one - to think that Complexity rides at stability nodes poised between chaos and order. The truth is that Sustained Organization persists in a range between too much energy or information, and too little -- with priority placed on the constructive capacity to handle energy and information possibilities. More than sufficient, less than saturation.

 

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Change in Eigenspace, Change in Entropy

In every complex system imaginable room-for-change is identifiable as variability-of-entropy, plus or minus. We can now evaluate the impacts such local entropy changes have in relation with their surroundings. We discover that the behavior-space of a subset domain of a system alters inversely the behavior-space of framing agents. The entropies are inversely dynamic and interdependent. And it doesn't matter if the motivating energy or inductive change of phasestate comes from the sub-system or the external environment. The relational dynamic holds regardless. This is the crucial concept. Integrity vs Complexity.

A system's integrity - its sustained dynamic self organization in extended environments - is not a state poised between order and chaos, but a functioning option-space poised between rigid determinism and the full statistical potential of much greater self-with-environment behavior space. Even adaptive evolution uses extant mechanisms to find new integrity options - surviving by changing.

Nested entropies enact their opposite-gradients when their physical qualities are compatible, especially the behavior values of accessible overlapping momentums and locations ... compatible variables of Heisenberg Intersections.

 

'Geometry and Activity of Information Topology'

The Integrity Paradigm yields other important notions,
mentioned here briefly.

 

Statistics and Fields. Integrity strongly asserts that time dimensions precede quantum mechanics. Statistical distributions are behavior sets with the time dimension compressed. Temporal events in n-dimensions are reduced to n-1 dimensions. Action gradients are removed, not absent by default. If no gradient is present enabling behaviors, no statistics get generated. Period. For example, a ball bearing peg-board that generates a bell-curve. Remove it from a gravity well. Nothing happens. An action potential must be pre-present in any and all cases where statistical accumulations occur.

                                     

G
not just Sigma~function,                            but Gradient Sigma~function.

Also, energy and information throughputs must be process-compatible with the structure and handling capacities of the system it transits. Changes in internal structure, or changes in throughputs, can generate significantly different distribution curves.  Like a bowling ball sent through a ball-bearing appropriate pegs & board device, instead of ball bearings;  the 'gaussian curve' generated is a vertical line.

 

Information Topology. Pythagorus' contemporary Apollonius, defined an alternative way to describe waves. The reference base of a circle (and thus all wave functions) is no longer some central focal point. A circle or wave function is also generated by twin orthogonal conditions stemming from an originating point (of dimension zero), out along any linear extension of dimension-one. The point persists as endpoint, not midpoint, of the one dimensional object. As in 'x = rho Sine Theta'.

Many interesting things arise from this.

 

By the Law of the Excluded Middle we generate a limit condition which is tantamount to 'wave collapse'. It seems that particle-wave duality is a dimensional compression event... enacted events of Cantorian Aleph infinities, where the infinity of a line is equal to the infinity of a plane C=B squared.

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If we map this relationship as wave functions out from the vertex of an acute angle, we find two things. First, the number of one-half wave units along each side generates the same partitioning along an orthogonal line perpendicular to the mid-line of the angle ... regardless of the size of the angle! This means that the information content of the orthogonal domain is consistently identical with the information n of n(Lambda/2) , no matter how small the angle gets ... even reduced to zero. Perfect orthogonal transference of information This is dimensional coding/compression. This is the foundation of holography and sonoluminescence.

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Another result comes when we look at the smallest state of orthogonal information-bit transcription. The base state is (Lambda/2). It is represented by an equilateral triangle inside a circle. This geometry represents several co-present states of symmetry. If we rotate the wave function around its internal axis of symmetry until it maps-itself, so to speak, these mappings come in units of +/- 1/3 and 2/3. We now have a situation which conjoins halves and thirds ... the underlying symmetry of quark architecture, where the thirds are present and real, but are transcendently relational. That is, they are functionally intrinsic factors, but have no independent identity or physical reality outside the enactment of the architectured process.

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Information symmetry of  UNITS.
Wave symmetry of  HALVES.
Spatial rotation symmetry of  THIRDS.

 

Topology Tree: Information Structure of Dimensions

The next diagram shows information topology in dimensions 0-4. A seminal point - which is able to competently carry almost any amount of information we can impose - extends it into a plurality of orthogonal dimensions. The graphics show a natural lineage of geometries with correspondence to laminar examples of the fundamental forces ... and more, even helical ordering, and orderings as yet unevaluated.

 

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Maxwell's Demon & the Turing Machine :   Dynamic Isomorphism

Given the thesis that all functions and dynamics are environmentally related and bound, we can turn our attention to two imageries dear to 20th century science: Maxwell's Demon and the Turing Machine. The Integrity Paradigm now evaluates them as being absolutely one and the same. They are epitomes of fundamental Complex systems, even conscious systems, because they rest upon the integrated process where n-component factors have an n-probability information exchange at all times.

 

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Summary

Stable continuation of Complex organization is enacted across a range of opportunity available, environmentally relevant, behaviors instead of some singular states of poise teetering between chaos and order.   Complexity is not an anomaly, mysteriously swimming upstream against some irrepressible law of energy dissipation.   It is the most natural and pervasive activity of the universe, a product of the geometry and metrics of information topology.    Local entropy assemblies interacting and communicating with other local entropy assemblies.

The Integrity Paradigm forcefully redefines the philosophical meaning of Complexity.  Complexity is the existential condition of behaviors bound together in sustained recurrence. Any processes or forces or dynamics or relationships which satisfy that simple definition, will qualify a system as complex.    And such systems are everywhere, they are what the universe is all about.  A nested topology of dimensionally integrated relational information, environments impacting environments.  Activities embedded in a Dyson universe that is quite literally infinite in all directions.

The Integrity Paradigm is an umbrella concept, embracing all systems behaviors, translating all the diversity, distilling out shared qualities.  It respects the integrity of individuation, but always places such identity in context with the universe abundantly around.  *Experience* is personal, even as all things share the ability *to* experience.  Integrity reminds us that potential and opportunity are the most valuable commodities of existence. 

                                 Entities may not endure, relationships do - always and forever.

 

 

  

N o n - F r a c t a l C o m p l e x i t y

I N T E G R I T Y

Dynamic organizations thriving
in ranges of

  • Statistical  communications

  •    Plural     entropies

  • Optional   eigenspaces  

 

 

 

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