Tag: Modularity

Matter tends to cluster or fragment into similarly sized, similarly featured units—coagulating under attraction (e.g., gravity) or breaking apart under entropy, impacts, or explosions. These comparable elements interact as building blocks or modules to form larger structures. In SDL InnerSpace we call this modularity, a fundamental property of matter that we locate as the basis for universal capacities for structural organization and thus for reasoning and consciousness. In physics it is quantified as amount of substance, just as inertia is quantified by mass and motion by energy.