Biological Organisation as the True Foundation of Reality
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| Description: | Lecture given at the 66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting |
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| Created: | 2016-07-10 11:46 | ||||||
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| Collection: | Brian Josephson's lecture collection | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||||
| Copyright: | Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings | ||||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||||
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| Keywords: | quantum mechanics; agential realism; organisation; fundamental reality; oppositional dynamics; biosemiosis; | ||||||
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| Abstract: | The presumptions underlying quantum mechanics make it relevant to a limited range of situations only; furthermore, its statistical character means that it provides no answers to the question ‘what is really going on?’. Following Barad, I hypothesise that the underlying mechanics has parallels with human activities, as used by Barad to account for the way quantum measurements introduce definiteness into previously indefinite situations.
We are led to consider a subtle type of order, different from those commonly encountered in the discipline of physics, and yet comprehensible in terms of concepts considered by Barad and Yardley such as oppositional dynamics or ‘intra-actions’. The emergent organisation implies that nature is no longer fundamentally meaningless. NB: the slides for this lecture are available separately at http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/Documents/Lindau2016-slides.pdf. A version at 1080p resolution is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRykDmAmzGI. Clarifications added after lecture: agencies can be viewed as dynamical systems, so we are dealing with models involving interacting dynamical systems. The 'congealing of agencies' to whch Barad refers can equated to the presence of regulatory mechanisms restricting the range of possibilities open to the agencies concerned. The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the LNML organisation. This video may be shared or embedded provided this notice is retained, but may only be used in a non-commercial manner and may not be edited or altered. |
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