Interaction, Change, and Wholeness of Material Things

TL;DR

This paper explores how interaction among material things leads to change and the formation of wholes, emphasizing the interdependence of components and the emergence of properties at all structural levels.

Contribution

It introduces a conceptual framework linking interaction, change, and wholeness in material ensembles, highlighting the collective being of components across structural levels.

Findings

Ensembles form through mutual influence and interdependence.

Properties emerge from the collective being of components.

Wholeness arises from the coexisting interrelated components.

Abstract

Interaction is the mode of being of material things amid other material things and the driving force of change and wholeness. Through mutual influence, changes of interacting things become interdependent and their properties interrelated, which leads to formation of ensembles - material wholes of correlated things, where the mode of being of a particular component depends on the modes of being of all other components and vice versa. Every ensemble attains its wholeness and becomes a physical body through togetherness of interrelated components coexisting as a collective being with mutually restrained internal motion. Properties of ensembles on all structural levels of matter composition emerge through the collective being of components.