TFNR - Derived Processes
For Derived Processes I intend all the Processes that cooperate in the construction—the Formation (Creation and Evolution)—of Reality, other than the fundamental Processes directly operated by the Primary Source and its immediate functional manifestations, the Operators of Reality, in enacting the Process of Formation of Reality.
As with Fundamental Processes, Derived Processes are intended as organized sets/networks of Events, of Action, variations, mutations of Acted / Fields governed by Agents / Forces, within the context of the Agency of the Primary Source. However, at levels of Reality higher than the most elementary one—that is, in the case of Derived Processes—we refer to the corresponding derived constructs: Derived Sources (Derived Agents / Forces and Derived Acted / Fields), Complex Events, Derived Action, and so on.
Derived processes describe why and how things happen in the Physical and Cognitive Reality, across their complex levels, relative to:
- Information—Physical Information/Energy, Cognitive Information
- Structures of Information—like the vast ethereal structures that make up Dark Matter / Dark energy, and more, the tiny Particles forming Ordinary Matter and the Waves forming Radiation, represented by gravitational and electromagnetic Waves (Physical Structures of Information), and the structures populating the cognitive side of Nature (Cognitive Structures - Representations of Reality)
- Forms—the objects visible in the material world (Physical Forms) and the "things" observable in the cognitive domain of Nature (Cognitive Forms)
So, in the physical domain of Reality, everything is made of Physical Processes—organized (by Physical Relations) sets/networks of Physical Events, of Physical Action, variations, mutations of Physical Acted / Fields operated by Physical Agents / Forces, within the context of Physical Agency.
Physical Processes, together with Physical Principles, are the answer to the question: "why and how what exists (Physical Entities) produces what happens Physical Events in the way it happens (Physical Relations)?" They are the backbone of the Dynamics of Physical Reality. They describe why and how things happen in Physical Reality, from the most elementary levels to the more complex ones—how Physical Reality (or parts of it) manifests itself, how it is incessantly (re)created and evolves. Everything that exists is "made" of/by Physical Processes—of Events produced by Physical Entities and organized by Physical Relations.
We find Physical Processes in various forms across the domains of Reality (physical, cognitive, and metacognitive), in relation to all the Dimensions of Physical Reality (Physical Causality and Physical Variationality: Physical Spatiality and Physical Temporality), and at the various levels of Complexity of Physical Reality. These are the Processes that describe the Process of Formation of Physical Reality (a central topic we will explore further in the next chapter)—its manifestation and the modes of expression of the Operators of Physical Reality.
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