Explorations in Astronomy & Astrophysics

The Theory of the Systemic Functional Level (Sflt) and Its Consequence, the Law of Functional Information Increase (Lifi)

Abstract

Argos Arruda Pinto

I argue that the new Law of Functional Information Increase, proposed by Michael L. Wong, Robert Hazen, and collaborators, belongs to a theory I developed called the Law of the Systemic Functional Level, because information needs matter and energy to be generated, stored, transmitted, and processed. The Law of Functional Information Increase is the effect; the Systemic Functional Level is the cause. The universe tends to organize systems where matter and energy are shaped by information to ensure persistence. The Systemic Functional Level is a measure or degree of a system's functioning in terms of increasing complexity, given by the combination of matter, energy, and information. The amount of information generated, stored, transmitted, and processed by the system has a greater "weight" than the other two "variables". For example, we have less mass than a lion, we expend less energy, but the amount of information we process, due to our brain, causes the Systemic Functional Level (SFL) to be higher. Since we are dealing with complex systems, it is impossible to express all of this in formulas, but it would be something like mass x energy x information; and it may be different. If the SFL increases, the Functional Information also increases, being dependent on it. 

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