The Origin of Life Patterns
In the Natural Inclusion of Space in Flux
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Beschreibung
Understanding the relationship between human cultural psychology and the evolutionary ecology of living systems is currently limited by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries as sources of definitive discontinuity. This Brief explores the new understandings possible when space and boundaries are perceived instead as sources of receptive continuity and dynamic distinction between local identities and phenomena. It aims to identify the recurrent patterns in which life is expressed over diverse scales in natural ecosystems and to explore how a new awareness of their evolutionary origin in the natural inclusion of space in flux can be related to human cultural psychology. It explains why these patterns cannot adequately be represented or understood in terms of conventional logic and language that definitively isolates the material content from the spatial context of natural systems.
Correspondingly, the Brief discusses how the perception of naturalspace as an infinite, intangible, receptive presence, and of natural informational boundaries as continuous energetic flux, revolutionizes our understanding of evolutionary processes. The mutual natural inclusion of receptive space and informative flux in all distinguishable local phenomena enables evolutionary diversification to be understood as a fluid dynamic exploration of renewing possibility, not an eliminative ‘survival of the fittest’. Self-identity is recognized to be a dynamic inclusion of natural neighborhood, not a definitive exception from neighborhood.
The Origins of Life Patterns will be of interest to psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, evolutionary biologists, ecologists, mathematicians, and physicists.
Offers a new understanding of evolutionary processes through natural inclusion Identifies and explains the recurrence of distinctive patterns of life from microcosm to macrocosm in a new way Shows how abstract, definitive geometry can be transformed into natural flow-geometry through the incorporation of infinite receptive space and intrinsic energetic flux Offers insights into how human cultural patterns are influenced by abstract perceptions of space and boundaries and can be transformed by more natural perceptions Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Alan Rayner
Themen in »The Origin of Life Patterns«
Biodiversity Boundaries Conflict Co-Creativity Cultural Psychology Development Dynamic Systems Ecology Energy-Flow Evolution Flow-Form Fluidity Flux Natural Inclusion Patter-Generation