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The Principle of Uncertainty represents the specification of the Principle of Variation at the most elementary Level of Physical Reality.

The Principle of Variation

This principle states that everything that exists is in incessant mutation, variation—or better, all that exists "is" incessant variation.

We call these variations Events, the true "substance" Reality is made of. The whole Reality is in incessant mutation, from the most elementary level to the most complex ones. The States of the Entities incessantly vary, and through their variation (due to the inner interactions between their components, the Agents / Forces and the Acted / Fields), they incessantly produce Events, Action.

The term "state" would in fact be inadequate to represent this ontological dynamism. We should use the term "dynamic condition", or "condition" for short, which better captures this fundamental characteristic of Nature — fundamental in the sense that it constitutes its foundation, its expression, and its manifestation at all Levels, Scales and Aspects of Reality.

Furthermore, Relations, which link Events together, giving form to Action and shaping Information, are themselves subject to incessant variation.

Processes, which describe the dynamics of Creation and Evolution of any Structure of Information, any Form, and Reality as a whole, are the essence of this endless mutation, manifesting in every aspect and at every Level of Reality.

Everything is the product of an incessant Process of Formation, where variation is the fundament, the true core of the incessant Creation and Evolution of the Universe. Only variations—mutations of Entities (Sources, the Force/Field unitarian pairs)—thus only Events and Action, exist.

We can say that Entities exist because they produce Events, Action, and thus Existence.

Reality is the product of an incessant Process of Formation, where variation is the fundament, the true core of the incessant Creation and Evolution of the Universe.

The general Principle of Variation is the foundation of all derived principles of variation operating at the various Levels of Reality. It is the primary and fundamental expression of Variationality, one of the two manifestations of the Agency of the Source. At the level of the Elementary Field operates the Principle of Uncertainty; at the level of Physical Structures of Information the principle of organization of Information applies. On a physical-biological level this principle governs mutations in genetic information, while on a cognitive level it manifests in the phenomena of individual perception and cognition.

The Principle of Uncertainty

The Principle of Uncertainty describes the creation of perturbations (Perturbation), of micro-gradients, in the distributions of the elementary fluctuations, the micro-gradients that compose the Elementary Action, the most basic form of Existence, the "substrate" of everything, the basic "substance" of Reality.

The Principle of Uncertainty describes the creation of perturbations (Perturbation), of micro-gradients, in the distributions of elementary fluctuations, the micro-gradients that compose the Elementary Action, the most basic form of Existence, the "substrate" of everything, the fundamental "substance" of Reality.

Uncertainty is ontological, not phenomenological. We, all the rest and the whole Universe, exist only because the primary expression of the Source of Reality is indeterminate, uncertain (where the inner interaction between the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field incessantly produces Elementary Events, the small fluctuations of the Field at the Planck scale).

Uncertainty is ontological, not phenomenological. We, all else, and the whole Universe exist only because the primary expression of the Source of Reality is indeterminate, uncertain—where the inner interaction between the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field incessantly produces Elementary Events, the small fluctuations of the Field at the Planck scale.

Uncertainty is pervasive, ubiquitous, in the most elementary Levels of Reality (from the Planck scale to the Processes of Events that we call particles and waves, the Structures of Information, and in some form even beyond, for atoms, etc.).

Uncertainty is pervasive and ubiquitous in the most elementary Levels of Reality (from the Planck scale to the Processes of Events we call particles and waves, the Structures of Information, and in some form even beyond, for atoms, etc.).

Uncertainty in this Knowledge System has mainly to do with Time, and therefore with velocity or speed. Uncertainty, at the most fundamental level of Physical Reality, is expressed as indetermination of the density of the Elementary Events (the Mode of Elementary Action that we call Perturbation) produced by the internal interaction of the Fundamental Force which acts on the Elementary Field. The (local) flow of Time depends on the density of Elementary Events, the speed of clock hands to use an expression dear to physicists, which implies the speed of propagation of Action (or Information, or Causality) in the Field Elementary, variable quantity (therefore not constant) which we commonly call the speed of light in a vacuum.

In this Knowledge System, Uncertainty has mainly to do with Time, and therefore with velocity or speed. At the most fundamental level of Physical Reality, it is expressed as indetermination in the density of Elementary Events (the Mode of Elementary Action we call Perturbation), produced by the internal interaction of the Fundamental Force acting on the Elementary Field. The (local) flow of Time depends on the density of Elementary Events—the speed of clock hands, to use an expression dear to physicists—which implies the speed of propagation of Action (or Information, or Causality) in the Elementary Field, a variable (and therefore not constant) quantity commonly referred to as the speed of light in a vacuum.

So, Uncertainty is at the very foundation of the Formation of the Physical Reality.

Thus, Uncertainty is at the very foundation of the Formation of Physical Reality.

In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle sets "a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values for certain pairs of physical quantities of a particle (complementary variables or canonically conjugate variables), such as position, x, and momentum, p, can be predicted from initial conditions". It implies that "in general it is not possible to predict the value of a quantity with arbitrary certainty", even if all initial conditions are specified.

In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle sets "a fundamental limit to the accuracy with which the values of certain pairs of physical quantities of a particle (complementary variables or canonically conjugate variables), such as position, x, and momentum, p, can be predicted from initial conditions". It implies that "in general it is not possible to predict the value of a quantity with arbitrary certainty", even if all initial conditions are specified.

This principle somehow represents the tombstone of the (exclusively and absolutely) deterministic (and reductionist) view of Nature. Not of determinism, which in the global context of Reality represents a phase of the causal evolution of Reality and in certain areas (at medium levels of complexity / causal extension and high spatial and temporal extension, such as those of objects existing on the human dimensional scale and up to to cosmic / universal dimensions) may represent a very good approximation of the uncertain nature of the most basic and infinitesimal levels of Physical Reality.

This principle represents the tombstone of the (exclusively and absolutely) deterministic (and reductionist) view of Nature. Not of determinism itself, which in the broader context of Reality represents a phase of causal evolution and, in certain domains (at medium levels of complexity/causal extension and high spatial and temporal extension, such as those of objects existing on the human dimensional scale and up to cosmic/universal dimensions), may provide a very good approximation of the uncertain nature of the most basic and infinitesimal levels of Physical Reality.

Not to be confused with the "observer effect".

Not to be confused with the "observer effect".

Il principio di indeterminazione si manifesta ovunque una Sorgente produca Azione, ovunque una Forza esprima Azione su un Campo, ovunque una Causa produca effetti. Il principio ci dice che l'Azione espressa e manifestata ha sempre un margine di indeterminazione, e che tale indeterminazione non sta (solo) nell'impossibilita' di conoscere in modo perfettamente certo da punti di vista complementari, ma è la natura stessa dell'espressione e della manifestazione ad essere indeterminata. Detto nei termini della Dinamica dell'Azione Elementare, è la natura stessa delle fluttuazioni spaziali elementari e delle loro distribuzioni temporali, la natura della loro relazione, del loro accoppiamento ad essere in qualche misura indeterminato. Questa Azione in qualche misura indeterminata si manifesta nel Modo / Componente che qui chiamiamo Perturbazione.

Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper

• Go to the contents list of the paper "The Fundamental Nature of Reality"

• Go to Chapter 2 "A first look"