Putting the Fire in the Equations; Generating multilevel dynamical processes in Physics and Psychology

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Virtual ‘Principle ? Cause ? Effect’

• The field-theoretic Lagrangian + Variational Principle starts the generative sequence.

• Propagating field quanta (virtual quantum field substances),

  • e.g. photons, gluons, quarks, leptons, ...
  • derived from the Lagrangian by a Variational Principle.
  • generate virtual events when interacting.

• Virtual events (of quantum field theory) are point events which generate the potential energy part of the Hamiltonian operator.

  • They do not all actually occur because, for example, they may generate potentials that are never active in the selected sequence of actual outcomes.

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