Alamo-Girl, this paper is simply stunning. I got to page 26 (of 35) and just had to stop. I’ll quote what made me “stop” in just a minute. But first, just wanted to mention what Grandpierre had done, by that time:
(1) Given a seemingly plausible and highly detailed technical description of the physical basis of your “transceiver theory”;
(2) Explored the nature of self-organizing systems, with their essential properties of transparent information transfer, spontaneous targeting, and “action-in-distance”;
(3) Suggested a plausible and quite elegant solution to the seemingly intractable “measurement problem” of quantum mechanics, the problem of the observer.
(4) And more, regarding certain uniformities that, in effect, demonstrate as “patterned behavior” all the way from quantum state to cosmic state – but I’ll cut to the chase here.
By page 26, it was apparent to me that Grandpierre was breaking new ground WRT all of these problems. And then he said this:
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“The evolution of consciousness – as the evolution of the Universe shows us – actually is in contrast to the presently accepted evolutionary theories, which want to build up the whole from the parts. In reality, evolution started from the whole and progressively differentiated into parts, from the timeless-spaceless form (e.g. the ‘implicit order,’ or ‘pre-space’ of D. Bohm and J. A. Wheeler), through galaxies, through the development of the Solar System and the Earth, the appearance of the biosphere and mankind, until the development of smaller and smaller sub-systems of consciousness, until the human individual. ‘Cosmologies of wholeness’ are emerging (see Laszlo, E., 1993; Harris, 1988). All of the cosmic evolution formed sub-systems within systems. Evolution begins with ‘systems,’ ‘elements’ develop only later on. Every system originates as a sub-system of a larger, inclusive system. The organisation of the sub-system is made by the creator system, and the organisational factor acts from within, as well. This fact assumes that the creator system is in a certain way transformed into the to-be-created subsystem, the ‘whole’ is transformed to the ‘part.’ This global-local transformation is a necessary condition of the generation of the new system. Therefore the Universe acted continuously as an agent with organisational ability, and is progressively transformed from the largest of its subsystems into the smallest ones. The trend in evolution is simultaneously going towards a higher complexity and this way towards more and more complex subsystems, and in this way the real evolution is also accompanied by the state of becoming more and more complex and towards higher and higher forms of consciousness. Ervin Laszlo remarked: ‘Evolution acts on species and populations and not only – or even mainly – on individual reproducers. Individual variations do not contribute significantly to the emergence of new species.’ This trend, the primacy of ‘global’ over ‘local’ appears in the history of mankind (Grandpierre, E. K. this volume), starting with cosmic consciousness in the Golden Age of mankind. Later a break set up in the trend of human evolution, attempting to cut down [i.e., “derive”] the ‘whole’ from the ‘part,’ the Cosmos from the living beings. The complex subsystem of human collectives preferred only one side of this cosmic trend, the more and more divided and separate complexity, the specification to individual human being, at the expense of general context and cosmic laws, drawing away and retiring from the growing collective order, loosing the connections to the larger, embracing levels of existence. As Andras Angyal expresses it the autonomous, self-maintaining tendency dominates over its dual brother, the homonymous, self-replicating tendency (1941), the basic need for direct, sensual, artistic life-experience. According to my research, the three inevitable motivating, life-long motivational instincts in our lives are the life-instinct, sustaining our individual life, the species-instinct, sustaining the life of our species, and the world-instinct, sustaining the life-functions of the Universe. The world-instinct is the basis of the other two, and it involves the imagination, intuition, curiosity, the desire for a meaningful life, to form healthy, alive communities, to correspond to larger units, to the Nature and the Universe (Grandpierre, A., 1991), therefore it is the world of the primary perception.
If we do not want to leave the road of cosmic evolution for ever, we may find again the path how to reveal our natural completion, the already hidden powers which the all-embracing cosmic evolution generated in our genes and basic constitution. Unfortunately, it has not been explored until now, how far we reached from our first-handed, natural drives, and what is the meaning that the Universe mediates to us. In order to form again a human…society, in which every individual sees the meaning of her/his activity and life, a meaning which is able to give an ultimate, lifelong satisfaction, we should recover the destination of mankind, and, besides it, the destination of the Universe. There is not any other task, which may be able to give a common perspective to all of us, than to explore and regain our destiny, to regain the harmony with the Nature and the Universe. Only this elevating and touching task may give back our harmony with ourselves. To do this, first we have to explore the nature of the Universe and understand the super-organism called biosphere – an organism with a collective consciousness.
[Grandpierre, a Hungarian, speaks the international language of the scientific abstract – English – as a second language. By the gets along pretty well, if you ask me.]
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IMO, pretty amazing stuff! Thanks so much for directing me to this source, Alamo-Girl. Am going to go finish reading this astounding paper now.