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Exploring closure mechanisms causing the operator hierarchy

Exploring closure mechanisms causing the operator hierarchy. Dr. dr. Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis Wageningen University ECCO lecture 13 May 2011, Brussels The lecture discusses how step by step the organization of matter has climbed the ‘ladder’ from fundamental particles to animals

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Exploring closure mechanisms causing the operator hierarchy

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  1. Exploring closure mechanisms causing the operator hierarchy Dr. dr. Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis Wageningen University ECCO lecture 13 May 2011, Brussels The lecture discusses how step by step the organization of matter has climbed the ‘ladder’ from fundamental particles to animals The sequence is explained in detail in pp. 39-57 of my thesis: http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/2066/82605/1/82605

  2. Overview: • Introduction to hierarchy in nature • Natural hierarchy is not ‘linear’ • Three dimensions for hierarchy • A step by step analysis of the emergence of particle complexity • From fundamental particles to the cell

  3. Biosphere Ecosystem Community Population Organisms Organ systems Organs Tissues Cells Organelles Complex molecules Molecules Atoms Fundamental particles Biosphere Ecosystem The well-known “general system hierarchy” is linear Community ? Contributing to Population (Organisms) Multicellulars But its logic is not strict all the way up Organ systems Organs Three rankings of complexity are mixed Tissues Cells with nucleus Cells • 1. internal differentiation Organelles • 2. Interactions (abstract “levels”) Complex molecules Part of • 3. Particles and organisms of different complexity levels Molecules Atoms Fundamental particles

  4. The environment offers pressures and scaffolds Can things be organized more naturally? Or, … an operator can create the next operator…. Dimension 3: interaction systems Sometimes, interactions create the first-next possible, new type of closure. Example: multicellularity An operator can create systems of interacting operators How? next closure Dimension 1: operators (particles/organisms) This can be repeated.. next operator An operator can gain complexity in its interior Sometimes, internal differentiation creates the first-next possible, new type of closure. Example: endosymbiont cells And so forth… Deliberate application of the three types of complexity ranking (used as dimensionsfor hierarchy) Dimension 2: internal differentiation An operator itself offers the context

  5. The following offers a step by step analysis of the emergence-ladder of complex ‘particles’ (from quarks to animals)

  6. interior exterior interface: limits the system, creates/mediates interior and exterior emergent cyclic property of superstrings: production-absorption cycle of small strings superstrings The formation of the superstrings can be regarded as the first major transition…. Major Transition: A closure or combination of closures that creates a system showing a new (unprecedented) closure dimension 1st closure dimension: THE INTERFACE

  7. the quark-gluon plasma quark confinement due to lower temperature/density The creation of the quark-gluon plasma can be regarded as the second major transition….. recurring 1st closure dimension:THE INTERFACE 2nd closure dimension: THE HYPERCYCLE

  8. multi-stage: unifies units with the same closure dimension by means of interface interactions produce the hadron which can be regarded as the third major transition…. and the quark confinement the quark-gluon hypercycle 3rd closure dimension: THE MULTI-STAGE

  9. emergent cyclic property of hadrons: production-absorption cycle of pions (O-O-O) -> (O-O)

  10. two hadron-pion cycles make a second order cycle: a hypercycle the atom nucleus the electron shell recurring closure dimension:THE INTERFACE recurring closure dimension:THE HYPERCYCLE

  11. interface mediates nucleus-world interactions hereby creating the atom which can be regarded as the 4th major transition…. 4th closure dimension: hypercycle mediating interface captures an electron shell the nucleus

  12. substrate product two catalytic cycles make a second order cycle: a hypercycle emergent cyclic property of multi-atoms: catalytic cycle the autocatalytic set the cell membrane the multi-atom the atom atoms show next closure via interface interactions recurring closure dimension:THE INTERFACE recurring closure dimension:THE HYPERCYCLE recurring closure dimension:THE MULTI-STAGE

  13. create the cell which can be regarded as the 5th major transition…. 5th closure dimension: structural copying of information and membrane The catalytic hypercycle

  14. Elaboration The reasoning can be continued for higher level operators Thank you for your attention. Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis (This file was originally made for the EVO-DEVO conference in Paris 2008)

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