Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
838574 Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications 2010 19 Pages PDF
Abstract

In Part I of this paper [A. Sengupta, Is nature quantum non-local, complex holistic, or what? I–Theory & analysis. Nonlinear Anal.: RWA (2009) (in press)] to be referenced “I-”, we examined the linear–nonlinear divide of the natural world in an attempt to seek a rationale for the question “Is nature interactively nonlinear and holistic, or is it additively linear and reductionist?”: Is Nature governed by entanglements of linear superposition or does it represent the nonlinear holism of emergence, self-organization, and complexity? This second part carries the debate forward to propose that Quantum Mechanics is an effective linear representation of a fully chaotic, maximally illposed, multifunctional negworld that obviously is not just a mirror image of the functional real world we inhabit: in fact we argue that nonlinear complex holism represents a stronger form of entanglement than linear quantum non-locality. The bi-directionality of a self-organized, emergent, engine-pump system is analyzed with reference to the role of gravity as the compressive agent responsible for generation and maintenance of structures and life in Nature; we also explore the applicability of chanoxity to the metaphorical resolution of some of the long-standing paradoxes and puzzles in quantum measurement and non-locality, in Prigoginian intrinsic irreversibility, and in some core issues in cosmology and gravitational black holes.Holism is to be seen as complementing mainstream reductionism–linear science has after all stood the test of the last 400 years as quantum mechanics is acknowledgedly one of the most successful yet possibly one of the most mysterious of scientific theories: the success lies in its capacity to classify and predict the physical world, the mystery in what this physical world must be like to behave quantum mechanically–providing a unified picture of the dialectics of the evolutionary dynamics of Nature.

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