Changes in spatial scale and the interplay between unity and multitude in Georges chapouthier’s mosaic theory of natural complexity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper argues that while the mechanism at the core of the mosaic theory is one of outstanding simplicity, the way in which it hinges on spatial scale change and the interplay between unity and multitude plays a key role for the ensuing structural and dynamic complexity. On the other hand, the relative autonomy of the units that are part of the system is critical to the mosaic theory, as it was to those discussed by world-changing thinkers such as Leibniz and Kant. The degree of this autonomy can be decisive for the mosaic-forming process and, in the end, for the resulting system. The model also includes surprising properties with respect to time. It is shown that the temporal characteristics of the basic operations can contribute to the resultant system’s structural variability and diversity, as well as to adaptive complexity. Moreover, spatial observational scale detains a key to opening up the system history: producing changes in the value of scale is equivalent to moving backwards or forwards in time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".