Transcript Human evolution

Human Evolution
II Session
Life
A multidisciplinary anthropic focus
LIFE
The origin of life is scientifically
explained as an evolutionary
process of development from matter.
Inside life-friendly (anthropic)
conditions, Matter-Universe builds the
ontological basis for life.
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LIFE
Life represents the first emergence
of anthropic properties from
Matter-Universe.
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What is life itself?
What is the real ontology of life?
How does life emerge, self-organize,
evolve and maintain itself?
Which ontological and functional causes
have made life happen and develop in the
course of time?
If Matter-Universe contains the distal
anthropic properties, what are the
proximal anthropic properties of life?
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What is life phenomenologically?
 External
experience of physical,
biological, psychical properties of living
entities.
 Internal, subjective and objective,
experience of our own living entity,
ontologically projected to other living
beings.
Science tries to explain empirical facts.
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Phenomena to be explained
Science is explanation (explicans) of
phenomena (explicandum) that among
them in biology are:
 high
order complexity (adaptation, growing,
capacity, replication, reproduction…).
 unitary system of sensibility-consciousness.
 holistic response to environment and the
control by a psychic subject.
These properties evolve progressively
in time.
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Sufficiency of biological theories
Science expects that Matter and
Universe have sufficient anthropic
properties to explain the evolutive
emergence of life.
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Are biological theories sufficient?
Science postulates the ontological unity
of the universe.
But biological theory is a mental
representation constructed by the
human mind.
Are biological theories able to
explain life?
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Are biological theories sufficient?
Matter-Universe’s ontology cannot give
account of the real properties of life.
Need to postulate another ontological
principle of living reality to explain life.
Yet, the generalized expectation of
Science is monistic:
Dualism would be scientifically viable,
only if the no viability of life was proved.
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Evolutive origin
For thousands of millions of years there was
only physical causality.
Then, life began by physical interaction:
 Prebiotical and primordial organic
substances, amino acids and DNA
chains, produced the first cell.
 Reduplication capacity gave way to
heritage and to the evolutionary dynamics
of life.
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Evolutive origin
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Evolutive origin
A long reduplicative process lead to
two surprising results:
Appearance of a new interactive
hypercomplexity in the frame of biophysic causality.
Emergence of the sensibilityconsciousness from the interior of
the bio-physical systems.
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Fermionic interaction
Living organisms are hypercomplex
systems in fermionic interaction.
Matter properties producing physical objects
(atoms, rocks, celestial bodies …) also produce
living entities.
Living matter, organized in consistent structures,
develops different and independent entities,
according to the four fundamental forces:
gravitation, electromagnetism, the weak
interaction, and the strong interaction.
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Fermionic interaction
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Living interaction
Systems of causal interaction act in
living organisms:
 Keeping
a dynamic consistency in
the organisms.
 Securing
the heritage within a
chaotic, random-probabilistic frame.
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Hypercomplexity of life
Hyper-complexity has been caused
in accordance with the dynamic and
evolutive possibilities of matter.
Proof of this assumption is:
 Auto-organizational
 Selective Darwinism
 Mutations
 Interactions among populations
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Hypercomplexity of life
Although evolution is an open
theory, a general assumption is
that:
hypercomplexity comes
from the anthropic qualities
of Matter-Universe.
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Sensibility and consciousness
 Primitive
forms of life show
‘sensibility’.
 Humans and superior animals have
‘consciousness’.
Humans expand their own
phenomenological subjective
experience to the animal world.
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Sensibility and consciousness
What ‘physical support’ makes
‘sensibility-consciousness’ intelligible?
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Physical support
Science does not dispose of other
matter’s properties than:
 Fermionic
matter:
Explains the presence of differentiated
body in space-time and evolutive
hypercomplexity.
 Bosonic
matter:
Could this be the ‘physical support’ of
sensation?
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Phenomenological quality
The phenomenological quality contains:
Unity of consciousness
 Holistic experience
 Oscillating indetermination
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Quantum properties related to these are:
Quantum coherence
 Action at a distance (EPR effects)
 Quantum superposition
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Quantum neurology
Does quantum
neurology offer
the right ‘physical
support’ to
‘sensation’?
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Quantum neurology
Quantum consciousness theories do
respond affirmatively.
They do not explain why matter does
have the ontological property of
producing ‘sensation’.
They are considered as the most
appropriate ‘physical support’ to
psychic properties.
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LIFE THEORIES
Are there any theoretical alternatives?
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Reductionism
Classical reductionism takes into
account a part of the anthropic
properties of Matter-Universe:
 differentiated fermionic matter.
 deterministic causation between
differentiated entities.
Classical reductionism has brought
dualism as an alternative to explain
life.
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Balanced theory
A balanced theory would offer a causal
description of life in accordance to anthropic
properties of matter:
Balance
between classical and quantum
mechanics.
Balance between fermionic and bosonic
matter.
Balance between differentiated and field
states of matter.
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Balanced theory
A balanced theory would include:
A
classical theory to explain
individual differentiation and body’s
dynamic stability.
A
quantum theory to explain the
coordinated emergence of quantum
niches as ‘bio-physical support’ for
sensation.
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Balanced theory
The evolving emergence of a
‘psychic subject’, by coordinated
classical and quantum
organization, would open the
possible existence of a living subject
who senses itself and also perceives
external fields and objects of matteruniverse.
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Complementary theories
These theories can be complemented
by:
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Complexity and matter’s self organization
theories
Darwinist theories
Emergentism
Systems theory
Cybernetics and dynamic self-control
theories
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Complementary theories
Biological evolution is a negentropic
process increasing in order and
complexity:
For reductionist theory it is a
mechanic and robotic order.
For a balanced theory it is a balanced
and coordinated order between
classical and quantum process.
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Anthropic principle
By emergence of life as a fact we can
establish that anthropic properties are
real:
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The stable hypercomplexity of living
organisms by classical understanding.
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The constitution of ‘sensibility’ by
quantum understanding.
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The constitution of self-control
entities by the cybernetic emergence
of a ‘psychic subject’.
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Anthropic principle
Matter-Universe
evolving into a living world
is the proximal cause of the
new anthropic emergence of
the human mind.
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