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- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
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Home Reality as Emergent Construction
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- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
- The Single Pole Battery: a Relativistic Understanding and Generalization of Clausius' Concept of Entropy (© 2025)
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- Matter of Feeling; Moral Neural Mechanics
- The Time Machine; Prototype of a Conscious Machine (© 2001)
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- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
- Introduction to this Site
- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
- Site Headings
- Introduction to this Site
- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Highlights
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 To Predict is Not to Understand — Making Truth Alive
- 1.2 Law and Definition of Life
- 2 To Cause to Emerge...
- 2.1 Causation & Reductionism
- 2.2 Reductive Freedom
- 2.3 Examples of Reductive Freedom and Life
- 2.4 Point of View — Imaginary Consciousness
- 2.5 Intraverse and Extraverse
- 2.6 Examples of ‘Invisibility’
- 2.7 Relative Freedom
- 2.8 ‘New’ or ‘Free’ (“)Matter(”)
- 2.9 Summary
- 3 Freedom Law
- 3.1 Persistence, Life and Theory
- 3.2 Persistence and Death
- 3.3 Non-linearity and Feedback Loops
- 3.4 Reductionism versus the Constructal Law
- 3.5 Extraversal Explosion and Enclosure
- 4 Thermodynamics, Heat and Fluid Flow Examples
- 4.1 Turbulence in Inviscid Jets
- 4.2 Living Boundary Layers
- 4.3 Carbon-Dioxide Cycle & What an Extraverse is Not
- 4.4 Ignored Complexity
- 4.5 Discussion — Entropy
- 5 Constructal Causation of Consciousness
- 5.1 Mind and Brain — Software and Hardware
- 5.2 Creating neural Freedom — the Hardware
- 5.3 Reconstruction Mirrors Deconstruction — the Software
- 5.4 Consciousness and Intraversal Patterns
- 5.5 Metaverses and Truth
- 6 This Theory...
- Statements and Declarations
- References
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
- Introduction to this Site
- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Ups and downs of easier access
- 1.2. The birth of laws from concepts or insights
- 1.3. Life and death from the constructal law
- 1.4. Life creating freedom and ‘higher level’ life
- 2. A better freedom law and theory
- 2.1. Life co-creating its own freedom
- 2.2. Potential, accessible, and accessed freedom
- 3. A better constructal law – a better law of life
- 3.1. Constructal law requirements
- 3.2. Law of life and death — randomness, uncertainty, and selection
- 3.3. Trying without “trying”…
- 3.4. Flowing and flowable freedom
- Statements and Declarations
- References
- Notes
- Site Headings
- Freedom, Life, and Consciousness
- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
- Bejan 2.0: Toward a more refined constructal law (© 2024)
- The Single Pole Battery: a Relativistic Understanding and Generalization of Clausius' Concept of Entropy (© 2025)
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction — Configuration
- 1.1. Entropy and configuration
- 1.2. Entropy and heat-engines
- 1.3. Transforming energy: engines, batteries, and fire
- 2. Heat-force and heat-energy
- 2.1. Entropy versus heat-force
- 2.2. Clausius' entropy: heat as (statistical) fate, not force
- 2.3. Similarities between heat-force and charge
- 2.4. Similarities between heat-force and gravity
- 2.5. The difference makes the configuration
- 2.6. The first law, entropy, time, and the second law
- 3. Stored force — the single pole battery
- 3.1. Entropy, force, and potential energy
- 3.2. Potentiality — time and freedom
- 3.3. Hot stuff — fueling the difference
- 3.4. Generalized entropy and difference in equality
- 3.5. The environment as the other pole of a heat-battery
- 4. Access and accessibility in the constructal law
- Statements and Declarations
- References
- Notes
- Site Headings
- Introduction to this Site
- To Emerge or Not To Emerge (© 2023)
- Abstract
- 1 Introduction to Everything
- 1.1 Physical Life
- 1.2 Reductive Freedom
- 1.3 Terminology, Translation, and Ontology
- 2 Predicting the Birth of Free Beings
- 2.1 Reductive Freedom — How to create Irreducibility
- 2.2 Relative Freedom
- 3 Predicting Life and Death of Beings
- 3.1 Definition of Life — Free Flow and Persistence
- 3.2 Recovering from Death
- 3.3 Law of Life
- 3.4 Free Beings ad Infinitum
- 3.5 Absent Subverse or Intraverse
- 3.6 Part and Whole, Meaning and Content
- 4 The Freedom Law
- 4.1 Examples — Brains and Software
- 4.2 Extraversal Explosion and Enclosure
- 5 A Relativistic Universe from Quantum Freedom
- 5.1 Lattice, Mass, Density and Frequency
- 5.2 From Quantum Gravity to Gravity — from Mass to Weight
- 5.3 Gravity Waves, Maximum Density, Black Holes and the Big Bang
- 5.4 Ontology of Quantum Subverses
- 5.5 Discussion: Superposition and Reductionism
- 6 Mind and Brain
- 6.1 Consciousness and Subversal Patterns
- 6.2 Metaverses and Truth
- 7 Conclusion — Freedom, Life and Death
- Statements and Declarations
- References
- Notes
- The Freedom Law (© 2024)
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