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Re: Causality vs Entailment



In re-reading an earlier post of mine, I can see a spot which needs clarification (additions in brackets):
Causal entailment, then, can be said to embody the "Laws of Nature" that my father spoke of. But as he pointed out; one of the bedrock rules or laws of the universe apparently is that context impacts all other laws. So, each [type of] system organization  will have entailment patterns which are not necessarily the same as other organization[al types]. ([This is because system-]organization specifies all relations [in the system] and, thereby, [each type of organization] generates a unique context.) What is even more surprising is that the entailment patterns of a specific organizational type will "hold" even when the material aspects are different. Thus, it IS the situation  here on Earth that we have living organisms of myriad variety and yet we are able to recognize them all as living. This is really the set of thoughts which Rosennean Complexity is built upon. These are the patterns he saw. And, the reason we can make models which commute is based on this fact as well-- that a pattern of entailment created by an organizational type will be the same regardless of what the system is "made out of". So a formal system (a model) with the same entailment patterns as a real system will be able to "predict" accurately the behavior of that real system.
 
I hope that makes my intended meaning a little bit clearer. Sorry if I confused anyone!
 
Judith