LOCALITY
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1935 ▶ |
| Object type | General information, Epistemology, ontology or semantics |
The hypothesis according to which no element or system can exercize an unlimited action at distance, and still less so, an instantaneous one.
Or “Thedominance in a limited region of space of specific conditions ofinteractions among elements ”.
It is finally amazing to note how many shades of meaning such an appearently clear concept can evoque.
D. TSAGDIS, for instance, writes (in a footnote!): “Locality is semantically over-loaded. It can refer, for example, to: a Cartesian spatio-temporal space , a Husserlean experiential region , a Heideggerian horizon, a Wittgensteinean language game , and/or their syntheses. A more helpful way of understanding such a rich notion is to conceptualize it as constituted by the four sources of observational error , viz. observer , context, object , language .
This would be a “richer”or, dare I say, more complex locality constituted with all four sources of error…“(2002, p. 152)
In other words, fields are not infinite and, in accordance with relativity, the light's propagation velocity cannot be surpassed.
This hypothesis seems now to compete with D. BÖHM concept of non-locality. This could lead to a deep reevaluation of many scientific concepts.
See also
Energy, Matter, Perceptual field, Space, Time