Tyche!
Tyche!

Summary/Abstract: Apparently real systems do not have formal origins; formalizations become possible only after realizations, never before. Thus the need for deterministic causation fades away and it becomes more plausible to see irreversible time as a real phenomenon. Something just happens in evolutionary systems that no formula could have predicted and this strongly supports the conception of chance fluctuations as an ontologically real aspect of our universe. The combination of chance fluctuations and chaos dynamics can be seen as responsible for the making of history in the true sense of this word as a unique and unpredictable series of temporal events at a macro-scale. We wholeheartedly share Hoffmeyer's opinion in his opening sentence, which necessarily makes these emerging realizations the true objects of interest. Later in the same paper, Hoffmeyer invokes a quotation from Peirce that begins: “Uniformities are precisely the kind of fact that need to be accounted for. […] Law is par excellence the thing which wants a reason” (CP 6.12–13) and which exhibits great parallelism to Simondon’s approach to ‘the individual’: “It is the individual, as a constituted individual, that is the interesting reality, the reality that must be explained” (Simondon 2009: 4).

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