The homeodynamic paradigm offers a universal framework to understand and analyze dynamic systems across diverse fields, such as physics, biology, psychology, and economics. It provides a structured approach to exploring how systems respond to stimuli, accumulate memory over time, transform energy, and confront irreversibility. This paradigm bridges the gap between disciplines, revealing an underlying structure shared by seemingly disparate systems.
At its core, the paradigm introduces three foundational elements:
Basal Capacity: Represents a system's intrinsic resistance to change, such as mass in mechanics, inductance in circuits, or resilience in psychological systems. Internal and External Influences: Forces shaping the system. External influences originate from the environment (e.g., applied forces, market dynamics), while internal influences emerge from the system itself (e.g., friction, inefficiencies, emotional tensions). Dynamic Response: Organized into four temporal layers, capturing how systems react and evolve over time.The Temporal Layers of Dynamic Behavior
The paradigm's most innovative feature is its organization of system responses into four interconnected layers:
Perception: The system's immediate reaction to an imbalance or stimulus. For example, in mechanics, this could be acceleration; in psychology, an emotional response to a new situation. Cohesion: The first level of memory accumulation, integrating the system's reactions over a short time. In mechanics, this corresponds to velocity; in circuits, the flow of current; in psychology, stress or tension built up over time. Alignment: The manifestation of the system's internal dynamics in the external world. This layer corresponds to position in mechanics, charge in circuits, or observable behavior in psychology. Equilibrium: The deepest layer, where the system's historical memory is embedded. It captures irreversibility and dissipation, such as energy lost to friction in mechanics, entropy in thermodynamics, or emotional scars in psychology.Each layer builds upon the previous one through integration over time, forming a hierarchical structure that explains both short-term reactions and long-term adaptations.
The Mathematical Foundation
The core equation is:
Perception = Net Influence / Basal Capacity
This equation governs the first layer (Perception) and serves as the foundation for deriving the other layers:
Cohesion: representing the accumulated short-term memory of the system. Alignment: which reflects the externalized or observable state of the system. Equilibrium: capturing the system's historical memory and irreversibility.These mathematical relationships demonstrate how complex behaviors emerge from simple, iterative processes of integration.
Energy and Its Role in the Layers
Energy plays a crucial role in the paradigm, providing a lens to understand how systems store, transform, and dissipate resources across the layers:
Energy of Cohesion: In mechanics, it corresponds to kinetic energy ; in circuits, it relates to magnetic energy in an inductor. Energy of Alignment: such as elastic potential energy in a spring or electrostatic energy in a capacitor. Energy of Equilibrium: This captures irreversibly dissipated energy, such as heat lost due to friction, entropy generated in thermodynamics, or emotional costs in psychology.The distribution and transformation of energy across these layers provide a deeper understanding of system dynamics, revealing dissipation and irreversibility as natural outcomes of historical accumulation rather than isolated phenomena.
Título : The universal behavioral model: The homeodynamic paradigm in action
EAN : 9798230280279
Editorial : Fernando Martinez-Gil Gutierrez de la C
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