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Asynsis Principle-Constructal Law
A new Cosmomimetic, sustainable design law of nature and culture
How design in nature, consciousness & culture emerges optimally, analogically from entropy
Cosmomimetic Architecture, Design & Development Biomimesis + Universal Thermodynamics =
Cosmomimesis
Constructal law
“Given freedom, for a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”
Nature & culture evolves to allow currents of energy, matter and information to flow more easily with greater force and complexity over time
These flows move from areas to points and from points to areas, from infinite to finite dimensions of freedom, flowing towards equilibrium
Constructal is a cross between “construction” and “fractal” – it explains the thermodynamic source of fractal geometry
Asynsis principle “Design in nature, consciousness and culture emerges analogically, optimally from Entropy”
Is the Geometric signature of Constructal law behaviours Design in nature emerges optimally, analogically from entropy Beauty is complexity, rendered simply: symmetrically, analogically,
optimally – Asynsis is a theory of beauty in design Nature is both economical & elegant as it self-designs through
feedback & self-organised emergence over time The golden ratio is the prime signature of these behaviours over time –
an example being the Milky Way’s form and function, via recursion and analogy
Form follows Flow – Form fulfills function, as optimal energy flows towards equilibrium also evolve greater complexity with optimal feedback, analogy and modularity
Root 5 geometries
The simplest way to enfold and implicate complexity by allowing continuously regular, self-similar patterns that are also never completely repeating
Rational pursuit of the irrational – root 5 generates the hardest irrational number to approximate with rational numbers – it allows for infinite creativity with finite resources, for the best trade between performance and cost
Optimally reconciles the infinite with the finite, allowing optimal, analogical access to mathematical singularities, to the edge of Deterministic Chaos
Based on Unity’s uniquely self-similar relationship with itself, scaling up or down in perfect proportion, like an exemplary, finite encoding of the infinite; like encoding for archetypal space-time persistence of energy, matter or information flows, the simplest possible heuristic device, or memory algorithm
Penrose Tilings - Quasicrystals
Infinite creativity from finite quasi-periodic geometries Regular, repeating but always different Optimal balance between order and chaos – yielding optimal complexity with analogical design
Mandelbrot - Feigenbaum
Two new iconic images of the Golden Ratio Mandelbrot-set: higher dimensional geometric object with finite
area – but with a paradoxically infinite boundary Both feature the Golden Ratio as the epitome of Period 2
dynamics Feigenbaum-diagram: Period 2 is lowest energy dynamic period
possible, Period 1 is stasis, Period 3 and above takes more energy
Golden Music
Asynsis principle: “Open local dynamical systems when pushed further from thermal equilibrium by energy flows, minimise their energy-mass dissipation but also optimise their information and synthetic complexity over time, through the reiteration of archetypal, asymptotic, analogical feedback processes.”
The Asynsis-Golden Ratio Period 2 route is the optimal route to minimise system entropy production and therefore optimise robustness, fitness, hierarchy, analogy and complexity
Asynsis therefore exemplifies both Sustainabilty and Complexity Golden ratio behaviour over time is a signature - or harmonic, of energy, matter and
information optimisation It is analogy, economy and harmony exemplified, because it’s also beautiful Like music, it allows nature to rhyme, self-map, code and evolve itself using dynamical
symmetry in time
Universal law of nature
This a universal principle that applies everywhere, from Earth to Saturn or on the far side of the Universe
Harmony: example is gravitational resonances that create gaps in Saturnian rings – or in musical scales and compositions – both are matter-energy fractal structures in space-time
Also found in E8 geometries of the Standard Model of fundamental particles and in Black Hole behaviours
Black Hole ;-) Behaviour
Relationship of mass to spin when a spinning BH (while absorbing extra mass), switches from internal heating to cooling behaviour is Golden ratio
Mystery, but may be related to BH entropy increase and internal phase transition: just like vapour condensing to water, then ice
Black Hole mass-increase process culminating in space-time singularity is a time-reversal of Big Bang universe originating from a purported space-time singularity, which symmetry-breaks & phase transitions towards higher entropy
Phase transition process is analogous to the Feigenbaum diagram, which is also Golden ratio-based (Nigel Reading, AD magazine 1995, QED, 2006 – see Asynsis Wordpress Blog for paper)
Speculating: possible route to a multiversal cosmos of Black Holes birthing Baby Universes in an endless branching structure over “parallel” space-times – analogous to “Many Worlds” theory at quantum level for each symmetry-breaking birfurcation/wavefunction collapse
So perhaps God really is winking at us with Black Hole-Asynsis principle phase transitions having the same geometry as that for standard model fundamental particles in E8?
E8: An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything
A new theory of the standard model of fundamental particles Based on 8 dimensions with 256 degrees of freedom, of circles
mapping onto themselves Accounts for standard model and integrates gravity – quantum and
relativity unified Predicts new particles – including the Higgs Boson Fundamental geometry is Icosahedral – Golden Ratio
Spacetime is Fractal-Holographic
The Asynsis principle confirms the golden ratio is the archetypal fractal geometry for a holographic cosmology at both relativistic and quantum scales
So it should be no surprise to see it everywhere – even in Stephen Hawking’s brain (his latest universal theory has a hyperbolic, holographic, fractal geometry), analogous to an Escher painting
Neither should it be a surprise then to also find it operating in both space and time at the classical, human scale – as the field of Complexity science is beginning to reveal
Leonardo’s Code
Leonardo and all the others from Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, Kepler, Pacioli were right
This is the fundamental, optimal geometry of nature and of how it self-designs and evolves sustainably while generating complexity – in both space and as we now see, also in time
Such a temporal, dynamic synthesis is unprecedented as the golden ratio has hitherto only been described in static, non-dynamical, non-temporal, non-irreversible terms.
Anthropocene age
Halocene age is yielding to new man-dominated geological period
Responsibility for Earth’s fate now lies largely with us Our influence on the biosphere is increasingly negative - but we
can change that right now with an Asynsis Contructal Law (ACL) - informed, (economic) carrot and (legal) stick approach
Feedback, optimisation and analogy are the key strategies
Phylotaxis-Plant Architecture
Plants use the Golden ratio because it allows optimal strength to weight, wind-stress distribution, flow of water-nutrients, exposure to air & sunlight plus growth - for minimal energy cost
The way a whole forest behaves is also Asynsis-Constructal Law-informed, because it is feed-back led, sustainable, circular, cradle to cradle and self-organised
We need to learn from these optimal natural laws and map them on to our civilisation if we are to survive in harmony with the biosphere as well as a forest does
1.5 Planets?
Last time we checked, we only have 1.0 planet – so the situation is utterly unsustainable The current system is therefore clearly dysfunctional since it has allowed this situation to occur We have system failure due to a failure of leadership – in turn due to an over-concentration of
control by TNCs (often Fossil Fuel interests), in our economies, their manipulation of politics and the consequent undermining of transparency, accountability, justice and democracy
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
People Profit Planet
Not a zero-sum game – we can cover all three with a carrot & stick strategy
Economic, Environmental, Social - The Triple Bottom Line Need to “hack the price mechanism” Need to “create legal sanctions” Need more crowd-sourced lobbying of all stakeholders Need more legal citizen activism to counter systemic-risk of over
concentration of power
Asyntopia- Asynsis Sustopia Initiative: Activism we see & need
http://www.facebook.com/AsynsisSustopiaInitiative http://www.facebook.com/Ecocide?ref=ts&fref=ts http://asynsis.wordpress.com
Education, NGO’s, Social media, Lobbying, Social commentary, Demonstrations, Direct actions, Sit-ins, Occupations, Petitions, Art, Satire, Creative protest (all where legal), Laws of Ecocide & of course, Creative Green Sustainable Design
Time
…is on our side (for now) …teaches us a new green law of nature is also a very
powerful law of beauty in art, design and science …reminds us this new green law of nature should
also become a new ( and beautiful) set of laws for man so we can continue living in a viable, diverse and thriving biosphere here on earth
Self-Organisation
BZ reactions – example of “edge of chaos” auto-catalytic, optimally creative growth structures and Asynsis principle geometries in action
The same process forms the spiral arms of galaxies as auto-catalysed star formation waves within the rotating galactic disks
Our civilisation needs to self-(re)design, to self-organise itself to be more optimal by learning from nature, to practice Cosmomimicry the answers as to how, are literally – designed in the heavens
The universe is lazy and frugal for a reason – so it can last longer, so it can live and persist longest as a sustainable, extended, transient entity
What is Beauty?
Beauty is super-positions of Complexity, rendered analogically, optimally elegantly, symmetrically & so: Simply
The Measure of beauty is Order divided by Complexity: M=O/C Beauty is the aesthetic of Sustainability, because it allows the
greatest richness of resources for the least cost with the most elegant, optimal forms
The new equation for Beauty: e^{i *pi} = -(2phi-root5)
e^{i *pi} = -(2phi-root5)
Beauty in Art
Is the same as Beauty in Nature Geometry is the link between the two Architecture is a design reality-check on Geometry Design is a bridge between Art & Science Design is Philosophy as Geometry
Cellular Music - Consciousness
The Asynsis principle is like music – it’s a dynamic, harmonic analogy of energy, matter and information flow, optimising and reiterating over time
We love music because it reminds us of the temporal harmonies of the universe It’s found in the liquid phase-transition zone of maximum possibility in Rule 30 Cellular
Automata, again on the “edge of chaos” or in the “self-organised critical’ zone It’s also just been found in Phi-integrated information theory and the evolutionary origins of
modularity in human & artificial intelligence models, where fitness robustness is optimised via modularity in the trade-off between system learning performance and connection costs – so it is highly likely that Consciousness itself has been (de)Coded (and as implied by the researchers), that it too has Asynsis geometries
A thought is therefore like a Godelian loop, a Escherian stair and a Bach fugue It’s like a river of information in phase space, like a synergistic symphony
Geometry
Is the architectural design of the universe – in space and time We can use it to redesign everything because it gives us the keys to the
kingdom – it’s analogous power allows us to create and also comprehend theories of everything through the coded geometry of mathematics and the perception and modelling of patterns
Architecture is a reality-check on Geometry, so we look forward to applying the Asynsis principle to its practice
Music of the Spheres
Back to Pythagoras – to the music of the spheres, to the musical scale and the power of geometry to read the design of the Universe…to then best preserve nature, by better emulating her
Along with String-Membrane theory, ACL is old Pythagore’s latest heir Having visited and rested in his cave and meditated on when he was an Assange-like
fugitive from Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, I too am fortunate to also hear his divine celestial music. No scribed triangles found, but a chapel & surely scope for fire shadows?
Star power
Energy flows on Earth are all driven by the Sun’s nuclear fusion, by gravity and electro-magnetic forces
Entropy is how these flows all seek equilibrium – Extropy is anti-Entropy – it’s how these flows seek the lowest energy, optimal, analogical path to that equilibrium, one which also paradoxically, yields greater flow force and usually, also complexity
Extropy = Qi
Energy flows always seek more optimal currents with greater force and power in order to reach (thermal) equilibrium more quickly, often with consequent complexity increase
To best compress this data animate/inanimate nature (just like software engineers), uses the ACL
We can therefore say that Extropy is similar to the Chinese concept of Qi – both are concepts of optimised, concentrated energy, matter and information flow, of resource flow
Phi-Qi
Poetically, the Golden Ratio (Phi) is analogous to the geometric signature over time of Extropy-Qi energy flow as nature seeks to flow more easily, always with greater power, force and often, complexity
Qi is associated with harmony with nature, health, vitality, prosperity and good fortune – with human happiness and fulfilment itself in Chinese/East Asian culture
Phi-Qi is the transcultural bridge that will sell sustainability to Asia, because it will win not only minds, but crucially – also hearts
Phi-Qi: Heraclitian Logos = Mencian Qi – Form follows Flow
Zhong-Phi (Golden Mean)
Both Chinese and European philosophy have the concept of the “Golden Mean” Science and geometry confirms their meaning and relationship
Hong Kong Spin
Zhong-Phi tower for Hong Kong Tribute to the natural and cultural Qi of Hong Kong Icon of sustainability: renewables powered, carbon-
offset, testbed for new materials and technologies
West Kowloon Cultural District
Fusion Design – Wheel reinvented Eiffel Tower + London Eye hybrid One country – Two systems symbolism Cultural district development catalyst
Napkin Sketch-ability?
Can you sketch it in 10 seconds? If you can – it’s an icon
Icon for Sustainable Development
Golden ratio-referencing HKS is a potent new symbol for a new geometric, sustainable design law of nature
It can also help promote the leadership of Hong Kong & China to drive ESD & Sustainable Development in the whole Asia region
TRANSCULTURAL SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
We have learnt more about the architecture of the universe in space and now also in time: that architecture is optimal, recursive & self-similar – now we need to map it onto our civilisation
This knowledge teaches us that (self) design in nature is circular, diverse, economical and elegant, so if we are wise, we must (self) design ourselves to follow in nature’s path, including celebrating cultural diversity by evolving a vernacular-informed fusion sustainable transcultural design method to create distinctive genius locii for the various differing cultures around the world. The best transcultural design is actively global and passively local – why? Because cultural design identification is a form of cosmomimetic self-similarity – it’s the Asynsis principle-Constructal design law of nature & culture in action
We know diversity and transculturalism is robust and optimally adaptive, because of the successful exemplar of English, the transcultural global operating system, built on the “daring, genius and creativity” of Great Britain, as celebrated at the 2012 Olympiad
Law of Nature: Law of Man
Why? Because to violate a design law of nature & culture is a planetary act of hubris that will inevitably result in a similar-scaled nemesis. It’s the law, the Logos – to defy it, is sheer folly
ACL is a new law of nature and culture, so to violate such laws invites questioning of our civilisational intelligence. For our society to recognisably persist on this planet within a viable, diverse and robust, creative, adaptive biosphere we must learn to do better. And now, with ACL – we know exactly how.
To best preserve Nature (and ourselves - imbedded within Gaia, the biosphere), we must learn to fully emulate her!
Thank You – Xie Xie!