Towards a new scientific paradigm

Описание: Present-day physics is running into problems related to the fact that it lacks tools appropriate to gaining a clear understanding of complexity. Alternatives such as that of coordination dynamics with its synergies and evolving patterns of behaviour are likely to lead to a new level of understanding of nature, including that of the role played by mind in structuring phenomena.
The version of the same video at https://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/3101489 includes a transcript and additional notes, while the slides are available separately at http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32704.....

The video consists of a lecture given to Trinity College Science Society on Nov. 14th. 2019. It argues that physics wrongly presumes that factors that are important in the biological context are irrelevant to physics. In the biological context, sign systems emerge naturally out of mechanisms discussed in the lecture, resulting in the formation of highly specific connections between systems, as when two people converse, or cooperate in other ways. Taking such possibilities into account leads to a picture of reality where the quantum description is no longer fundamental, but instead the outcome of processes at a deeper level.

Sign systems form the basis of mental processes, from which it follows that what is known informally as mind is equally a naturally occurring phenomenon, though one largely invisible to the processes of physics. This opens up the possibility that processes such as the origin of life on Earth and biological evolution may be influenced by processes at this level.

Taking such possibilities further requires the development of more detailed theories that can be compared with experiment. Coordination dynamics with its complex of synergies offers one such possibility, while on the other hand experiments concerned with the influence of sound on water (cymatics) show that even in the case of non-biological systems signs can have very specific effects on systems that they interact with.

A pdf of the slides is available at doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.32704.69122/1.