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