>Happiness is a quality which humans experience when they have
>participated in an emergence. Emergences can happen in the material world
>or the abstract world. An emergence happens when a lower order gives rise
>to a new higher order. This emergence cannot happen without saturating
>the lower order with chaos. Unfortunately, this very chaos may also lead
>to immergences. Thus we may call the point of saturation of chaos also a
>bifurcation point. In other words, our happiness as an adjoint of
>emergences cannot be separated from our sadness as an adjoint of
>immergences.
At, you appear to be referring to Illya Prigogine's work on dissipative
structures. I'm wondering where/how you learned of this. What did you
read or hear? I'd like to know more about this.
You also mentioned discovering seven things essential to all emergences,
and mentioned that variety is one of these seven essentialities. What are
the other six essentialities?
Shaun Gilley
--Shaun Gilly <shaun.gilley@fanb.com>
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