Time, Emergences and Communications

Bernard Dugué is a writer-researcher and an engineer of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. He holds PhDs in pharmacology and philosophy, and his research interests include a range of different subjects covering physics, life sciences, evolution, systemics and philosophy.

• Introduction xiChapter 1. Quantum Physics and Information 11.1. Orthodox introduction to quantum physics 11.2. Quantum states or how nature communicates with physicists 61.3. Particles, information, evolution 101.4. Interpretation of Pauli’s exclusion principle 121.5. State vectors, science of orientations 141.6. Provisional conclusions on quantum mechanics 18Chapter 2. Two Quantum Studies 212.1. Does the quantum universe observe us? 212.2. A detour by statistical mechanics 242.3. Expressive and receptive waves in quantum observation 252.4. Wave function fission 272.5. Form–energy duality in Schrödinger’s equation 292.5.1. Separation of spatial and temporal functions 292.5.2. Solution to the equation and quantum formalization of the hydrogen atom 312.5.3. Form–energy diagram and correspondences 322.5.4. Form and content in the quantum atom 33Chapter 3. Quantum Entanglement 353.1. Some considerations on quantum entanglement 353.2. The mystery of quantum entanglement 373.3. Quantum entanglement and complex sciences: information and system 423.4. Concluding remark about strange information 45Chapter 4. Quantum Darwinism and the Macroscopic World 474.1. Quantum Darwinism, from quantum to the observable world 474.2. The controversy between W. Zurek and R. Kastner 504.3. Understanding our classical perception with quantum physics, an anthropomorphic approach 534.4. From quantum substantial matter to spatiotemporal extension 56Chapter 5. Chemistry and Quantum Communications 595.1. Brief epistemological notes 595.2. Chemistry, a little-known science that studies bondings and reactions 605.3. Orbitals and waves make bonding improbable 645.3.1. The electron takes part in the bond, but there is no bond 645.3.2. The molecule in question 665.4. Quantum bond, orbitals and monadological conception of chemistry 685.4.1. The theory of molecular orbitals in chemistry 685.4.2. Monadology, bonding and non-bonding orbitals 705.5. Molecular quantum communication 72Chapter 6. Emergences in Matter 756.1. Introduction about emergence 756.2. The central conjecture in emergence theory 786.3. Physics, emergence ontology and communications 806.4. Quantum and information in the emergences of condensed matter 836.4.1. Material emergences and physical sciences 836.4.2. New horizons in the physics of condensed matter 856.4.3. Matter and information according to Xiao-Gang Wen 866.5. Tensor networks 896.5.1. The tools of statistical physics 896.5.2. The complicated invisible behind the visible 90Chapter 7. Communication and Emergence Fields 957.1. Communication fields 957.1.1. Quantum communications 957.1.2. Morphogenetic field or communication field? 977.2. Are communication fields structured by quantum matter? 987.2.1. The field as a physical concept 987.2.2. The Lagrangian and the symmetries, main access door for studying fields as emergences 997.3. Is there a relation between quantified fields and emergences? 1017.4. Brief overview of matter and emergences in contemporary physics 1057.4.1. Dissipative structures 1067.4.2. Condensed matter and exotic phases 1077.4.3. Quantified fields or the emerging “material cosmos” 1087.4.4. Exotic phases and the model with topology and entanglement 1097.4.5. Overview, from Plotinus’ two categories of matter to quantum materiality 1097.5. Philosophy and the physics of communicational emergence 1107.6. Emergences and molecular communication in the living 1117.7. Different considerations about language and the emergence of goal-oriented societies 1147.7.1. Language, civilizations and human enterprises 1157.7.2. The myth of Babel, communicating and building 1167.7.3. Language structures 1187.7.4. Language levels 1207.8. Brief notes about the semantic field 121Chapter 8. The Computer, from Physics to Biology 1238.1. Computer and information in the 21st Century science 1238.2. The research by David Deutsch and Seth Lloyd concerning the quantum calculator 1258.3. Seth Lloyd and quantum order in the universe 1288.4. Going beyond the theory of information: the resonance coupling principle 1318.5. From the biological to the physical 1328.5.1. From biology to informed physics: an original pathway offered by Paul Davies 1338.5.2. Biology and networks: questioning emergence with information and entropy 1348.5.3. Information and networks, theoretical limitations and metaphysical options 1378.6. Kronos, Telos and the evolution of living emergences 138Chapter 9. Time Philosophies: Kronos, Telos, Kosmos 1419.1. Time is plural, as it is enigmatic 1419.2. The “qualities” of time: an excursion through Eastern thought 1449.3. Aristotle 1479.4. Leibniz 1499.5. Being, time, things 1529.6. Things in modern science 1559.7. Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger: three prophets of time 1589.7.1. Hegel and the dialectic resolution of Kronos with Telos 1599.7.2. Nietzsche and Kronos transmuted into Telos 1609.7.3. Husserl, the world and Kosmos-based objects 1619.7.4. Heidegger and the quest for Kosmos 1629.7.5. Emerging Logos and Telos in the end times 164Chapter 10. The Arrows of Time and Emergence 16710.1. The three categories of time and contemporary physics 16710.2. Noise, temperature, entropy, time arrow 17010.3. The effect of temperature on emerging order 17310.4. Order and the arrow of time 17610.4.1. Entropy and disorder 17610.4.2. Prigogine and irreversibility 17810.5. From Kronos to Telos, irreversibility and the two arrows of material time 18110.5.1. The RHS from the Brussels-Austin school 18110.5.2. The two orientations of time and the metamorphosis of modern physics 18410.5.3. The arrow of Kosmos; mechanics and thermodynamics 18710.6. Kosmos, Kronos and Telos 18810.7. Concluding remark on physics and things 19110.8. From the history of black holes to the light of time 193Chapter 11. Mesoscopic and Macroscopic 19911.1. Between infrascopic and macroscopic quantum, the mesoscopic order 19911.2. Horizontal and vertical emergences 20211.3. The signals associated with emergences 20411.3.1. Infrascopic fundamental matter and quantum interactions 20511.3.2. Condensed matter and mesophysical emergences 20511.3.3. Molecular matter 20611.3.4. Life at the mesoscopic level 20611.3.5. Macrobiology and macroscopic emergences 20811.3.6. Human societies and communicating forms 21011.3.7. Ordering and interpreting systems in human emergences 21111.4. Biosemiotics, emergences and evolution 21211.5. Physicalism and mental processes 21711.6. Some considerations on emergent worlds 21911.6.1. Gravity, AdS/CFT, megascopic emergence cosmos 21911.6.2. The emergence of the sacred and Being 22111.7. The order of time at the four scales of the universe 222Chapter 12. Epilogue on Forthcoming Science 22512.1. Modernity is achieved 22512.2. Unfinished notes on the cosmos, physics and metaphysics 22812.3. Communicational emergences represented in a figure 23012.4. The metamorphosis of the subject 23112.5. From Kosmos to Logos 23212.6. Epilogue on three ongoing scientific revolutions 233Conclusion 237Bibliography 241Index 245