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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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  • 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 Physical life
    •   1.2. Reductive freedom & freedom law
    •   1.3. Ups and downs of easier access
    •   1.4. Life and death from the constructal law
    •   1.5. Life creating freedom and ‘higher level’ life
    •  2. A better freedom law and theory
    •   2.1. Life co-creating its own freedom
    •   2.2. Neural universe
    •   2.3. 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 and selection
    •   3.3. Trying without “trying”…
    •   3.4. Flowing and flowable freedom
    •   Statements and Declarations
    •   References
    •   Notes
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  • 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
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  • 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)
  • Bejan 2.0: Toward a More Refined Constructal Law (© 2024)