TFNR - 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" of which Reality is made. The whole Reality is in continuous mutation, from the most elementary levels to the most complex ones. The States/dynamic conditions of the Entities vary incessantly, and through their variation — produced by the internal interactions between their components (Agents / Forces and Acted / Fields) — they incessantly generate Events, Action.
The term "state" is inadequate to represent this ontological dynamism.We should instead the term "dynamic condition", or simply "condition", which better captures this fundamental characteristic of Nature — fundamental because it constitutes its foundation, expression, and manifestation at all Levels, Scales and Aspects of Reality.
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 continuous 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.
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 the Principle of Uncertainty operates.
At the level of Physical Structures of Information the principle of organization of Information applies.
At the biological level, this principle governs mutations in genetic information.
At the cognitive level, it manifests in perception, cognition, and the formation of meaning.
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