Physical Complexity

Definition

Physical Complexity is a measure of the content of Physical Information, the level of organization of Physical Action, of a Physical Structure of Information, of a Physical Form.

Physical Complexity represents the extension of the causal process that produced the Physical Form in question, in other words, the quantity and level of Physical Organization of the events that produced the above mentioned Structure or Form.

It is the result of the incessant Physical Evolution of Physical Information. Evolution of Physical Events, Physical Processes, Physical Structures of Information]] and Physical Forms.

In other words, complexity represents the product of the Process of Formation of Physical Reality, the emergent organization, produced by the incessant evolution, fed by the Force (Force Relation - Operator REL), which operates at all levels of the Physical Reality.

In a statistical sense, it represents a measure of the degree of organization of a system or of the Physical Universe as a whole. In the continuous scale that goes from the absolute chaos to the absolute order, evolutionary processes build increasing levels of organization, which correspond to peaks of complexity that we observe in Reality.

It's in the dynamic equilibrium, or, better said, in the imbalance in continuous tension towards an unattainable equilibrium, that the interaction between anabolic processes (constructive - Operator Physical Organization) and catabolic processes (destructive - Operator Physical Transformation produces the Forms of the Reality. Enthalpy and entropy. The state functions of systems evolve towards locally and / or globally more complex (less probable) states, in an incessant dance on trajectories that now turn towards chaos (e.g. second law of thermodynamics) now towards order (systemic principle of emergent order).

d_ph_complexity Complessità Fisica "(rappresenta una misura) la quantità di informazione che da forma ad un sotto-processo, ed a tutti i sotto-processi che partecipano alla forma, l’insieme delle relazioni tra gli eventi elementari e complessi che la costituiscono, determina il livello di complessità di un sotto-processo. Micro, macro, mega eventi, fenomeni, strutture, forme.(es. emissione di un fotone, utilizzo delle carrucole, rotazione delle galassie. Gruppo organizzato di parti Aumento della informazione dell’intero Universo o di una sua parte o sottoinsieme (sistema). Incremento nel numero delle parti (frammentazione, differenziazione) e/o incremento delle relazioni tra le stesse. Evoluzione: spinta verso la creazione di nuova informazione, verso maggiore complessità. La dinamica dell’informazione, l’info-dinamica. Successione di movimenti opportunamente predisposti eseguiti daun gruppo, da un insieme di eventi. Insiemi di movimenti coordinati compiuti in varie direzioni. Cambiamento, trasformazione. Serie di trasformazioni progressive, sviluppo, progresso. Livello di complessità: (rappresenta una misura) la quantità di informazione che da forma ad un sotto-processo, ed a tutti i sotto-processi che partecipano alla forma, l’insieme delle relazioni tra gli eventi elementari e complessi che la costituiscono, determina il livello di complessità di un sotto-processo."

Common definition

Links to Wikipedia pages:

• Complexity
• Physics
• Complexity_(disambiguation)
• Information
• Emergence
• Emergence_(disambiguation)

Description

From this definition, it follows that the most complex existing entity is the Universe itself. Furthermore, if we hypothetically consider the human beings as the most complex existing forms and planet Earth as the only celestial body populated by humans, the Earth should be considered more complex than the rest of the Universe. The definition of complexity therefore incorporates both quantitative and qualitative aspects.

All that exists is Information that organizes Fields, Relations between the Events. With reference to the Elementary Field, at the most elementary level of existence, complexity represents the level of interconnection of the network of relations organized between the Microstates associated with the points of the Field itself. And, starting from this elementary level, we gradually find a continuous succession of more and more complex levels of existence, linked by a network of relations that construct an infinite hierarchy of emerging complexity in incessant evolution.

See also

• Emergence
• Information
• Dynamics of Information
• Theory of Evolution

Links to the related sections of the TFNR Paper

• TFNR - Relations: Information/Energy - Complexity - Evolution/Essence (Form)
• TFNR - Information and complexity
• TFNR - Why complexity arises?

Classification

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