MICRO CONSTRUCTIVISM

Authors
Citation
Oe. Rossler, MICRO CONSTRUCTIVISM, Physica. D, 75(1-3), 1994, pp. 438-448
Citations number
67
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematical Method, Physical Science",Physics,"Physycs, Mathematical
Journal title
ISSN journal
01672789
Volume
75
Issue
1-3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
438 - 448
Database
ISI
SICI code
0167-2789(1994)75:1-3<438:MC>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
One of the important lessons of brain theory is constructivism: realit y is a pseudo-reality because the ''intuitive forms of perception'' im plicit in the dynamics of the brain constrain reality's properties. A cold lizard sees the world differently than a warm lizard does. Constr uctivism has been confined to the macroscopic realm so far. A ''micros copic'' version is proposed. Hereby the reversible microdynamics that underlies the irreversible macro dynamics of the brain is focused on. For simplicity a classical kinetic universe is assumed. As in macro co nstructivism, an ''interface'' is formed which depends both on the obs erver-external dynamics and on the dynamics that goes on within the ob server. Due to the microscopic nature of the present dynamics, however , its effects on the interface are incorrigible by macroscopic means a nd therefore also not recognizable under ordinary circumstances. The m icrodynamics in the observer is subject to effective time reversals on a micro time scale. This is equivalent to the existence of a rapid '' vacillation'' of observer-external causality. The spatio-temporal prop erties of external reality are thereby nonlinearly transformed in the interface. The predictions made by microconstructivism (or, synonymous ly, endophysics) include a unit-action noise and nonlocality. Two unex pected predictions are ''double'' nonlocality and rotational-frame cov ariance. The main prediction- existence of an ''observer-relative obje ctive reality'' - thus appears to be falsifiable.