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Symmetry, Potentiality and Reversibility

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This short comment confirms Longo’s observation about the importance of symmetries for understanding space and time, but raises the additional issue of the transition from reversible to irreversible transformations.

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  1. CLEA, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Francis Heylighen

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This paper is a response to Longo (2010) commentary on my (2010) paper.

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Heylighen, F. Symmetry, Potentiality and Reversibility. Found Sci 16, 335–336 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-010-9211-x

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