Aspects of Personality, Life and The Second Law of Thermodynamics

The consideration of personality relates to the nature of persons.

Personhood relates to the uniqueness of being of an individual.

Notice the word “unique”. Notice the prefix “uni”.

That prefix means only one.

 

There are some characteristics common to all,

or common to many persons or beings.

There are some attributes or characteristics common to few, and some unique.

 

The Common and The Unique

When we interest ourselves in the common attributes of all persons or beings,

we are directing our attention to a realm of order

characterized by uniformity and regularity.

When we concern ourselves with the rare attributes of few

or perhaps only one person or being, we are examining a realm of order

characterized by uniqueness and perhaps by complementarity,

the fitting together of unique components.

 

Distinction and Wholeness

When and as we use terms such as “characterized”,

note the derivation of that term.

The term “character” references distinguishing attributes of a person or of beings.

Sometimes, when we use the term “character”

in the sense that we mean when we say, “someone has character”,

we are pointing to the possibility of distinction and perhaps a kind

or a degree of integrity, oneness, wholeness, even unity.

We mean that there is a consistency between the member components

of behaviour or of state and the expressions or the functions of the person

or the being.

 

Spectrums and Alloy Diagrams

Behaviour can even be usefully described by an array of spectrums.

Professor Kiyoshi Izumi uses what I call an alloy diagram

to plot the spectrum of behaviour.

 

 

He defines two relatively pure sources of behaviour

and identifies the kind and the degree of combining, blending, mixing or alloying

of these ideal or relatively pure sources of behaviour.

fig. 1 Alloy Diagram

 

An Ecology of Being

One such alloy diagram relates purely individual or intransitive behaviour –

to purely social behaviour, transitive behaviour.

What that means is that there are some things we do in behalf of ourselves,

like breathing.

Even in such an act as breathing, however, there is a seed

or a component of behaviour derived from the fact of dependence or,

more particularly, interdependence of each and every organism upon many, or,

to some extent, all other organisms.

This dependence or the interdependence constitutes an ecology of being.

 

Ecology Defined

At DOMAIN, we define ecology as the discovered

or the created extension of physiology (of an organism)to its environment.

We are again indebted to Professor Izumi for the significance

of discovered and created zones of even knowledge.

His influence is ongoing and will be perpetual.

 

 

Ecology can be plotted as a spectrum on an alloy diagram.

The two relatively pure sources of ecological relationships are:

      1) the physiology of the organism,

      2) the nature of the environment of the organism.

 

Physiology

Physiology is the functioning of an organism.

The functioning of an organism not only includes

the functioning of the components, but the systemic behaviour,

the behaviour derived from the system gain

of combining component subsystems.

Again, there are species-wide uniformities of physiology.

There are also physiologies able to be derived from a unique few members

of a species or even from a single member of a species.

 

Common versus Unique Physiology

So, the ground state of relatively pure physiology

is the subject of another alloy diagram.

This alloy diagram is plotted between the relatively pure physiology

which is uniform among all, or all but a few members, of the species

and the relatively pure physiology, which is exceptional

and only exhibited by a few, or perhaps a single member, of the species.

 

To apply any healing art to such a range of physiologies

and such a wide range of environments is a very definite challenge.

When a health professional presumes uniformity of physiology,

the naivety is the prologue to likely, if not certain variations of response.

 

Natural Diversity

Uniformity may be a virtue to those who only heed common physiology

and want what they know about common physiology to be useful,

but it is not a virtue when needing to cope with the highly varied uniqueness

of species diversity, generated by sexual reproduction.

 

Because diversity is an invariant product of sexual reproduction,

rare and unique physiology should yield great humility,

when one is expected to attempt to offer balance and continuity,

in the form of remedy, restoration of health or regeneration.

 

Rare and unique physiology is an aspect of personality.

 

Because one of the system gains of complex multicellular organisms is mobility,

the environment can constantly change, simply due to translocation.

However, the environment also constantly changes – due to the motion of planets,

stars, galaxies, etc., also.

This means we can, again, plot a spectrum of environmental change,

ranging from zero translocation of the organism, due only to the motion

of such as the planet, its spin, its travel around the sun, etc.,

to varying rates and varying directions of translocation

with respect to every degree of freedom.

 

Posture as a Variant

Even posture varies the relationship between an organism and its environment.

This means that the zero motion, relatively pure component of the alloy diagram,

has another set of alloy diagrams based upon varying postural angles of exchange

with respect to every degree of freedom.

 

Shifting Variants

At this juncture, perhaps it may become apparent that all understanding

or all knowledge follows these attributes of shifting variants ad infinitum.

We may simply plot a circuit of understanding

from the selection of some selected momentary invariants,

or we may plot some dynamic variant function.

We may begin to think with a kind of calculus of variant transformations.

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fig. 2. Each relatively pure source can be expanded

into another set of alloy diagrams (unfinished fig.).

 

Ecology may be plotted in terms of near-field and far-field relationships

(another alloy diagram).

The scale of the ecology, the physiology or the environment may be plotted.

The relative openness or closure of the system can be plotted (another alloy diagram).

 

Pattern / Energy Ratios

Personality involves pattern.

Personality involves the dynamics of transforming patterns.

Personality involves energy. All energy contains and conveys some pattern.

All pattern contains and conveys some energy.

Various patterns contain and convey different capacities for energy.

Various levels of energy contain and convey different capacities

to embody pattern.

 

Order and Disorder

Life is a pattern-complexing phenomenon.

Life is a counterentropic phenomenon.

When entropy is defined, in terms of order, it is necessary

to understand the nature of order.

Disorder can only be measured or observed, if all of the criteria for order

of any and every kind, at any and every scale, are indexed.

 

The system boundary cannot be closed and still claim a knowledge of the loss

or gain of order.

The Second (2nd) Law, so called, of Thermodynamics, attempts to do so.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics is invalid.

It is not only invalid because of the presumption that the system can be closed,

but because all of the kinds of order are not acknowledged

in its scale of disorder.

© 2011, 2013, ECOhealth / Eve Revere