(2024-12-23, 05:23 PM)Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Wrote: I don't really understand what you are trying to say here. I agree that there are only micro features, but these can be assembled in ways to produce macro features that we find useful. Or in ways that generate interesting events in nature without our involvement. So to say that there is no "additive" micro feature and thus we can't get additive macro features is incorrect.
But I think I don't understand what you're trying to say.
~~ Paul
That the macro only exists for us conscious entities as an abstraction, as metaphor, even!
In a purely physical and chemical sense, there can only be micro features ~ nothing is being "generated" but more physical and chemical events. Our conceptualization of "generating interesting events" are based on we first top-down designing a system, and then bottom-up assembling it to produce those interesting events.
In purely physical and chemical systems, there are no additive features ~ there are just interactions within the system.
Everything else is just our abstraction, conceptualization and interpretations of sets of events as being of interest.
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~ Carl Jung