This book presents an attempt to understand emergences in various situations where material components interact by coordinating their actions to "e;make system"e; with emerging properties (or functions) accessible to experimental investigation. I will endeavor to show that communications play a decisive role in these processes. A strategy will be implemented. If communications are so important, then we must show that they are an essential property of matter. This justifies the detailed analyses on the quantum world developed in the first five chapters. Also includes a study of the strange property of entanglement as well as an interpretation of the chemical bonds which cannot be circumvented in order to understand the functioning of complex systems; Living cells and animals. So the strategy consolidates as much as possible the physical foundations and the understanding of the primordial matter and then passing to the realities based on very large numbers of elementary components.
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Bernard Dugué is a writer-researcher and an engineer of the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France. He holds PhDs in pharmacology and philosophy, and his research interests include a range of different subjects covering physics, life sciences, evolution, systemics and philosophy.
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Introduction xi
Chapter 1. Quantum Physics and Information 1
1.1. Orthodox introduction to quantum physics 1
1.2. Quantum states or how nature communicates with physicists 6
1.3. Particles, information, evolution 10
1.4. Interpretation of Pauli's exclusion principle 12
1.5. State vectors, science of orientations 14
1.6. Provisional conclusions on quantum mechanics 18
Chapter 2. Two Quantum Studies 21
2.1. Does the quantum universe observe us? 21
2.2. A detour by statistical mechanics 24
2.3. Expressive and receptive waves in quantum observation 25
2.4. Wave function fission 27
2.5. Formenergy duality in Schrödinger's equation 29
2.5.1. Separation of spatial and temporal functions 29
2.5.2. Solution to the equation and quantum formalization of the hydrogen atom 31
2.5.3. Formenergy diagram and correspondences 32
2.5.4. Form and content in the quantum atom 33
Chapter 3. Quantum Entanglement 35
3.1. Some considerations on quantum entanglement 35
3.2. The mystery of quantum entanglement 37
3.3. Quantum entanglement and complex sciences: information and system 42
3.4. Concluding remark about strange information 45
Chapter 4. Quantum Darwinism and the Macroscopic World 47
4.1. Quantum Darwinism, from quantum to the observable world 47
4.2. The controversy between W. Zurek and R. Kastner 50
4.3. Understanding our classical perception with quantum physics, an anthropomorphic approach 53
4.4. From quantum substantial matter to spatiotemporal extension 56
Chapter 5. Chemistry and Quantum Communications 59
5.1. Brief epistemological notes 59
5.2. Chemistry, a little-known science that studies bondings and reactions 60
5.3. Orbitals and waves make bonding improbable 64
5.3.1. The electron takes part in the bond, but there is no bond 64
5.3.2. The molecule in question 66
5.4. Quantum bond, orbitals and monadological conception of chemistry 68
5.4.1. The theory of molecular orbitals in chemistry 68
5.4.2. Monadology, bonding and non-bonding orbitals 70
5.5. Molecular quantum communication 72
Chapter 6. Emergences in Matter 75
6.1. Introduction about emergence 75
6.2. The central conjecture in emergence theory 78
6.3. Physics, emergence ontology and communications 80
6.4. Quantum and information in the emergences of condensed matter 83
6.4.1. Material emergences and physical sciences 83
6.4.2. New horizons in the physics of condensed matter 85
6.4.3. Matter and information according to Xiao-Gang Wen 86
6.5. Tensor networks 89
6.5.1. The tools of statistical physics 89
6.5.2. The complicated invisible behind the visible 90
Chapter 7. Communication and Emergence Fields 95
7.1. Communication fields 95
7.1.1. Quantum communications 95
7.1.2. Morphogenetic field or communication field? 97
7.2. Are communication fields structured by quantum matter? 98
7.2.1. The field as a physical concept 98
7.2.2. The Lagrangian and the symmetries, main access door for studying fields as emergences 99
7.3. Is there a relation between quantified fields and emergences? 101
7.4. Brief overview of matter and emergences in contemporary physics 105
7.4.1. Dissipative structures 106
7.4.2. Condensed matter and exotic phases 107
7.4.3. Quantified fields or the emerging material cosmos 108
7.4.4. Exotic phases and the model with topology and entanglement 109
7.4.5. Overview, from Plotinus' two categories of matter to quantum materiality 109
7.5. Philosophy and the physics of communicational emergence 110
7.6. Emergences and molecular communication in the living 111
7.7. Different considerations about language and the emergence of goal-oriented societies 114
7.7.1. Language, c...