Review Article

Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology

Volume: 1 Number: 1 April 26, 2024
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Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology

Abstract

Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology Keywords: entropy; nonequilibrium processes; measurement; probabilistic models; stochastic invariance. Abstract. Prigogine’s theory of dissipative structures provides a general account of entropy-driven self-organized transitions through hierarchies of structures separated by discontinuities. The theory encompasses a wide range of evolving systems throughout nature and culture. Possibilities for operationalizing a new collective rationality spanning physics and psychology emerge from Prigogine’s emphases on two distinct senses of probability, on the concept of the sufficient statistic, and on the role and limitations of the Poisson distribution in formulating a “nonlinear master equation.” Unnoted by Prigogine are correspondences of all three of these issues in the mathematical foundations of statistics and measurement established in the works of Ronald Fisher and his student, Georg Rasch. The three areas of correspondence inform models enabling specifically metrological approaches to quality-assured quantification across the sciences. Prigogine’s sense of “deterministic chaos” is re-expressed in measurement terms as stochastic invariance and the need for “a supplementary parameter” augmenting the Poisson distribution is related to a rating scale model of measurement. In light of these connections, this paper proposes that what Prigogine anticipates as a “new intelligibility” and a new science of “collective rationality” could be pragmatically operationalized in a new metrological infrastructure made coherent by the generality of entropy-driven nonequilibrium processes.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Ergonomi and Human Factors Management, Stochastic (Probability ) Process, New Product Development

Journal Section

Review Article

Publication Date

April 26, 2024

Submission Date

March 16, 2024

Acceptance Date

March 27, 2024

Published in Issue

Year 2024 Volume: 1 Number: 1

APA
Fisher, W. (2024). Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology. International Journal of Advances in Production Research, 1(1), 46-82. https://doi.org/10.62743/uad.6179
AMA
1.Fisher W. Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology. IJAPR. 2024;1(1):46-82. doi:10.62743/uad.6179
Chicago
Fisher, William. 2024. “Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology”. International Journal of Advances in Production Research 1 (1): 46-82. https://doi.org/10.62743/uad.6179.
EndNote
Fisher W (April 1, 2024) Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology. International Journal of Advances in Production Research 1 1 46–82.
IEEE
[1]W. Fisher, “Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology”, IJAPR, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 46–82, Apr. 2024, doi: 10.62743/uad.6179.
ISNAD
Fisher, William. “Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology”. International Journal of Advances in Production Research 1/1 (April 1, 2024): 46-82. https://doi.org/10.62743/uad.6179.
JAMA
1.Fisher W. Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology. IJAPR. 2024;1:46–82.
MLA
Fisher, William. “Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology”. International Journal of Advances in Production Research, vol. 1, no. 1, Apr. 2024, pp. 46-82, doi:10.62743/uad.6179.
Vancouver
1.William Fisher. Entropy, Deterministic Chaos, and New Forms of Intelligibility: A Shared Frame of Reference for Physics and Psychology. IJAPR. 2024 Apr. 1;1(1):46-82. doi:10.62743/uad.6179

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