Monday, June 11, 2018

‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ -- E.D. Definition.


‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ -- E.D. Definition.







Dear Reader,


I want to share with you, in this blog-entry, the full “Working Definition” of the term ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ from our forthcoming Encyclopedia Dialectica, volume 0, entitled Encyclopedic Dictionary for a Unified Theory of Universal Dialectics.

A ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’  =  That re-definition which is the positive fruition of our dialectical, immanent critique of the substance, analogy, connotations, and ‘‘‘fetishism’’’ of prevailing Laws of Nature tropes.  Science cannot empirically validate the connotation of a Laws-giving God who decrees His eternal Laws of Nature from His heavenly, transcendental throne.  Nor does exo-human Nature exhibit any ‘‘‘legislature’’’, which might promulgate such Laws, nor any ‘‘‘army’’’ and ‘‘‘police force’’’ which might enforce any such.  Nor can Laws of Nature, as mere textual, including equational, jottings, mere ink on paper, detectably affect, let alone “govern”, or “enforce”, the ways in which the phenomena of Nature observably behave.  Much of such tropes and subliminal analogies arise, we hold, from the ‘retro-projection’ and ‘exo-projection’ of the semi-conscious shadows and silhouettes of once-prevailing human-social relations of production, projected onto pre-human and exo-human Nature, during times -- right up until today -- in which most of Terran humanity has been unconscious even of the general concept of humanity’s “social relations of production”, let alone of how those social relations subliminally inculcate contra-scientific ideologies.”

“Therefore, a ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ must be, at best, a precise description, by means of human[oid], phenomic language -- phonogramic, ideogramic, pictogramic, or via any combination among the three -- of human-experience(s).”

“These experience(s) may be of ‘‘‘raw’’’, ‘‘‘in vivo’’’ Nature.  

Or, they may be of ‘‘‘in vitro’’’, humans-contrived, by-humans-constrained, or restricted, designed experience(s)’, or ‘‘‘scientific experiment(s)’’’.  

“In either case, or in cases which involve a combination of the two kinds of experience(s), the experience(s) are of a pattern of action/change in such Nature, which is seen to recur, with an [often] ‘‘‘unscaled self-similarity’’’ among the instances of this recurring pattern.”

Synchronically, this pattern must be seen to recur in many «loci» in presently known cosmological space, at any given, presently humanly-observed or reconstructed date in cosmological time* -- in cosmological Nature-al history.  Hold time constant”, and this pattern must still hold throughout observable space.”
  
Diachronically, e.g., from any one of many accessible locations in cosmological space, this pattern must be seen to recur over a succession or range of observed or reconstructed “dates in cosmological time.  Hold space constant”, and this pattern must still hold throughout observable time.”

“A ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ is NOT -- as the habitual, misleading figure of speech that we hear incessantly in scientific discourse today would logically imply -- any kind of actual agent/subject in and of itself, that actively governs Nature-al events, or phenomena, outside of or external to the human minds that hold it, and outside of the human artifacts that externally express, e.g., the equation of that ‘‘‘Law’’’, in ‘‘‘object ification’’’ -- in object-ive’ form -- i.e., on paper, on screen, or on a rock wall, “carved in stone”.”

“Such figures of speech subliminally inculcate an idealistic, or a theistic, or a magical inversion of subject/agent and object -- instancing again that very mode of inversion which is so diagnostic of capitalist-epoch ideology.”

“A real, scientific ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ is governed by the observed events, the observed phenomena that it addresses -- not the other way around!

“Moreover, a proper ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’, as such a description, not only does not implicitly identify itself as, somehow, the cause of the phenomena of the domain of Nature that it addresses, but, instead, explicitly identifies the actual, physical, real world causal agents, or [proto-]subjects, whose inherent actions actually cause the pattern of action/change which the human-subjective, artefactual ‘‘‘Law’’’ expresses or represents.  Moreover, a proper ‘‘‘Law of Nature’’’ need accrue no presumption of ‘‘‘eternality’’’:  it too may change, as the ontology of Nature changes/expands itself, and as its real agents evolve and meta-evolve their «modi operandi».      



*[E.D. Editors:  As regards how one may identify a universal ‘cosmological time’, given the constraints on simultaneity inherent in the Special and General Theories of Relativity, see Lee Smolin, Time Reborn, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, NY: 2013, pp. 164-171.].


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ENJOY!


Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison






















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