Nature, Diversity and Relation

The irreducibility of the diversity may be a fundamental point in common among different branches of science when they look at nature. The complexity sciences, the life sciences, cosmology and relational quantum mechanics are a few examples.

There is a common thread in how various scientists from various fields are thinking about nature: diversity. The irreducible necessity of the relation for the cosmic organization and for every living organization, presupposes the presence of at least two.
If the process of entanglement does play a role in the actualization process, then, one can state with propriety that the universe would still be in a cloud of potentiality with no hope of ever being actualized if an individuation of at least two systems had not formed. The reduction of diversity to a single unity would perhaps transform the universe and everything in it into a cloud of potentiality. Decoherence seems to tell us that nothing can exist in act without something else.

The importance of diversity seems to be constitutional, a quite pervasive sine qua non. On this regard it is interesting to listen to John D. Barrow (The Artful Universe Expanded, pp.282, 286):

“Over thousands of years, the scientific perspective upon the world has focused attention upon the simplicities and regularities of Nature. Those regularities have been found to reside in the rules governing the events that we see around us, rather than in the structure of the events themselves. The world is full of complex structures and erratic events that are the outcome of a small number of simple and symmetrical laws. As we have learned, this is possible because the outcomes of the laws of Nature need not possess the symmetrical properties of the laws themselves. Laws can be the same everywhere and at all times; their outcomes need not be. This is how the Universe spawns complexity from simplicity. It is why we can talk about finding a Theory of Everything, yet fail to understand a snowflake (…) Science, quick to see uniformity, has at last begun to appreciate diversity (…)”

C. Pedro