Toward a Theory of Progressive Evolution (Large-Scale Stages of Evolutionary Progress)

Abstract

Here I discuss the basic elements, major stages, and completion of progressive evolution. The cosmic world of self-realization is based on extensive self-development within a closed contour: temporal counter-transitions of spatial counter-elements (energy bonds and media and, basically, substance structures) form of local worlds within it through evolution of informational structures.

• The organic world of reproduction develops through the open informational path: the initial substance, through energy exchange and metabolism, reproduces similar substance; the latter interacts with the environment and, subsequently, reproduces its like, and so on.

• The animal world of self-regulation builds up a closed informational contour in the environment through the informational input and command output.

• The human world of self-cognition forms the intensive type of development within the internal closed informational contour of cognition. Counter-transitions of ideal images and signs relate to their real prototypes. In the course of cognition, abstractive thinking develops and brings man to the possibility of reflection of the initial world in its integrity (thus, elevates man to the infinite, by Hegel).

KEYWORDS:

• Informative interpretation
• interdisciplinary scientific formal description
• open/closed informational contour
• progressive evolution

Notes

1. A reader was indignant: What has he in common with amoeba? As simple as that: both of them are beings that reproduce themselves in issue and exchange metabolism and energy with the environment.

2. The tetradic principle must be placed in the history of knowledge. Since Abraham, monistic concepts have retained in religion. They were the first to come but later they were replaced by dyadic concepts of antique philosophers, which was fixed in formal logic and is still widely applied to philosophy and science. Further sophistication manifested itself in triads as applied by Hegel to history; however, triadic reasoning has not led to exact coherence with the objective picture of evolution of the universe as a whole. The next step, tetradic principle, may appear adequate to this objective.

3. Its shortest possible formula is meta-quadrate—counter-transitions of counter-elements.

4. Experiments have not found gravitational quanta and waves.