Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology

Abstract

Introduction - observing and making complexity, infodynamics, Aristotelian complex causality, Peircean semiotics, infodynamics in biology, the problem of change hierarchy theory - the scalar hierarchy (Hsc), the specification hierarchy nonequilibrium thermodynamics - the classical, externalist formulation, macroscopic information as entropic, the internalist perspective of expanding phase space, paired infodynamical perspectives, toward an infodynamics self-organization, development, and individuation - the type/token distinction, ecological and genealogical hierarchies, development and individuation, self-organization, agency, self-organization as modelling the environment, self-organization and the collecting/cascading cycle, some new theoretical entities the search for a theory of change - what is newness?, Newtonian Change - no output without input, emergence, emergence as a mode of development, change in Hegelian systems, historical dialectics, dialectics and development, notes toward modelling change immature, mature, senescent - Darwinian cosmology, developmental cosmology, the infodynamical view of the origin and evolution of living systems. Appendices: the constructive universe and the evolutionary systems framework, Juan Alvarez de Lorenzana.