Natural Novelty: The Newness Manifest in Existence
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Novelty is real Causeeffect relationships come into existence that cannot be attributed to repetition of the relationships that came before them This idea is relevant to everything from historical sciences philosophy religion to our own subjective experience But
why in the most general possible sense do new things happen It is argued here that novelty results from a kind of symbiosis between systems that function in similar ways but are made from different stuff Similarly novelty within consciousness derives from an interactive overlap between logical thought that is representable in language and subjective thought that is not These ideas are developed through a consideration of a conceptual history of the new a logical formalization of how novelty occurs a discussion of the relevance of novelty to scientific questions surrounding Earth life and consciousness and an integrative reading of the respective philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger