Abstract: The program of the Universe derives from a fundamental concept, the existence of only two substances in the Universe, spatial energy and temporal information – where space is an abstract concept that unifies all the energies of reality and time an abstract concept that unify all the cycles with form, with in/form/ation traced by universal entities.
Once those 2 entities are properly defined the program shows how through ‘logic’ we can generate all realities departing from them.
- From 1 comes 2: The Universe of space-time is the ultimate simplification of a world made of multiple actions of spatial energy and temporal information, performed by an infinite tapestry of complementary systems composed of both ‘formal motions’.
- From 2 comes 4: There are 4 actions of energy and time, each one with an internal and external, negative or positive direction: The simplex actions of energy (external motion and internal feeding). The simplex actions of time (external cyclical motion, and internal perception). And their 2 complex combinations: exi, or external ‘actions’ and internal reproductions’ and ∑exi, the fractal, social repetition of those actions, which creates external herds that feed on energy along an external network or super-organisms structured with inner networks that deliver energy and information to all its cells.
- All systems of the Universe are defined as ‘knots’ of those 4 type of actions, which are cyclical and discontinuous, as each being switches between them, trying to survive by feeding (E), perceiving (I), reproducing (ExI0 and evolving socially ∑exi. We define the central point of those knots as a P.O.V. or fractal Non-Euclidean point, the ‘aperceptive’ engine that orders the Universe. And there are infinite of them.
- The outcome of this structure is a fractal Universe, in which knots of cyclical actions become herds and super organisms, in which the ‘informative network’ emerges again as a knot that controls the actions of the herd, packing it tightly as a new ‘cell-point’ of a new ‘fractal’ scale of the Universe.
- Humans and its social super-organisms, the economic ecosystem and history can be also described thoroughly through those laws.
Social evolution, the complex arrow: Networks.
The Universe is a system made of social networks of complementary energy and information, which grow in scales of complexity from the simplest particles to the Universe – a network of informative galaxies and dark energy. In all scales of reality species are social, cellular systems, constructed with self-similar energetic and informative networks (fields and particles in physics; bodies and heads in biology), the whys that cause their existential cycles. In the graph: social dwellings of life superorganisms – insects and humans.
All what you see in reality responds to a dual structure: Entities of Nature are complementary systems of simplex networks of energy and information, which combine to form a complex system that switches and merges both states. In the process the system might reproduce an entity self-similar to itself. And this is the definition of an organism, reason why we affirm that reality is dual and organic.
In Physics all what exists are particles of information associated to energetic fields that move them, and only both together exist (Complementarity Principle), creating a physical entity, which can decouple creating self-similar particles.
In Biology cells have a DNA nucleus of information, surrounded by cellular cytoplasm that provides energy to the nucleus; or an informative head moved by an energetic body. And only both together can exist, creating a biological organism. There are no bodies without heads and red cells without nuclei die faster than any others. And cells and organisms can reproduce self-similar forms.
Finally, in the economic ecosystem money acts as the informative language that gives orders to the physical economy, which reproduces all types of serial machines.
Further on, because all systems respond to the same laws, we can recognize the shapes of a network dominant in energy by its form that will be lineal, planar, extended in space, as the line is the shortest distance between two points; hence the shape with more motion. And we can recognize the shapes of information because they are smaller in space, broken and cyclical, as the cycle or sphere is the shape that stores more form in lesser space; hence the perfect form of information.
So DNA nuclei, particles, heads and coins of money, made of gold, the best informative atom of the Universe, are cyclical and small. While fields of forces, moving bodies and weapons, made of iron, the most energetic atom of the Universe, are lineal and big. Finally, real physical, biological and mechanical systems are those who transform back and forth energy and information, between their two poles: E<=>I.
We formalize all Dual systems and events of reality born of complementary networks of energy and information with an Equation we call the ‘Fractal Generator of Reality’: ∑E<=>∏i. Since we claim this equation resumes all the events and forms of the Universe.
It is the key equation of organicism, the philosophy of science called General Systems Sciences that considers the Universe and all its parts an organic system generated by feed-back, iterative exchanges, <=>, of energy (E) and information (I) between both type of networks, (∑, ∏). The symbol ∑(E) means that body systems are loose sums of cellular herds that only relate to their neighbors. ∏(I) means that informative systems form complex networks in which each element connects with all others, multiplying its ‘axons’.
For example, 5 informative elements have 5×5=∏5 axons. Thus, information networks co-exist in two scales. They are more complex than energy systems and dominate them. So informative particles, heads and money dominate respectively energetic fields of forces, bodies and the physical economy.
The Generator Equation of Reality will allow us to derive a set of rules from where to extract the properties and laws of all disciplines of science, each one specialized in the study of the entities of energy and information of a certain scale of reality, from the smallest complementary entities studied by quantum theory to the biggest one, the Universe, a system of galaxies related by networks of dark energy and informative, gravitational forces. We can, departing from those concepts, define also the Universe and all its parts:
‘The Universe is a fractal, organic system, which reproduces complementary, social networks of energy and information that self-organize themselves in bigger, self-similar scales’.
Let us then consider a definition of a network to fully grasp the structure of all systems:
A simplex system or network is a group of ‘cellular elements’ of energy (a herd with minimal communication between its cells that associate only to those that surround it) or information (a network proper, joined by multiple connections between each cell and all the other members of the network).
Simplex systems are unstable, since reality requires 2 complementary networks, one with motion=energy and other with in/form/ation to create perceivable actions, exi. Motion without form cannot be perceived and form without motion either, as it cannot transmit its information. So for example, an informative machine requires a human to activate it. And the informative network dominates despite being smaller in space, because it is better connected.
Further on Natural systems are self-reproductive because a system requires a 3rd reproductive network or enzyme to ensure the survival of its in/form/ation. As all systems wear and break up dying with its repetition of cycles of time. So a system that cannot be reproduced becomes extinguished.
Thus, dual networks tend to evolve and reproduce new points through exchanges of energy and information that imprint the energy network of a body/field with the form of its particle or DNA code, repeating the whole system. The result is the creation of 3rd reproductive network/system. So most systems start as energy networks that acquire form and evolve into a complex dual network of information, associated to an energy system and finally both mix to create reproductive systems. Even fundamental particles, electrons and quarks, reproduce when absorbing enough energy and evolve socially into networks. And this means that the Universe is an organic system of networks and so are its parts, despite anthropomorphic myths that deny the self-similarity of all entities. We call such ternary systems, complex systems or superorganisms:
For example a human is a system made of 3 physiological networks: the energetic, digestive network; the reproductive blood network and the informative nervous network, with outlets to the exterior called senses.
Those 3 networks provide the cells with energy, information and reproductive hormones. And the result is a human being, himself a cell of a more complex superorganism – the economic ecosystem, which can also be described as a complex network with an informative system, money, an energetic system, the military system and a reproductive system of ‘company-mothers’ of machines.
We call this network of ‘memes of metal’ (money or informative metal; weapons or energetic metal and machines or organic metal that imitates our living organs, from arm=cranes to chip=brains), the eco(nomic)system or Financial-Military-Industrial System.
Thus complementary networks and complex systems are everywhere in the Universe:
In quantum physics, they explain the complementarity principle: all particles of information are associated to a field of energy.
In biology they explain the duality of cell body/DNA informative nucleus, or body/head that all biological systems have to exist.
In sociology they explain duality of the informative classes that create the languages of information that rule societies, money, and verbal laws and the social body of people who earn money and obey it.
In economics they explain the duality of machines of energy and information; and the duality of the financial, informative economy that organizes the physical body of the economy.
Recap. All entities are social networks. Even the smallest atom, is made of a network of simpler particles. We distinguish 3 types of social systems:
-Simplex waves of energy (herds) or information (networks).
- Complementary systems of energy and information with 2 networks, an informative particle and an energetic limb/field. Complementary systems create actions of energy and information, exi, the unit of the universe (Complementary principle of quantum physics, simplest viruses).
- But most systems in the Universe are complex systems made with 3 networks: energetic limbs, informative heads/particles and a reproductive network that ensures the survival of the whole system beyond the discontinuity of death. Thus even those complementary systems that do not reproduce internally are reproduced by an external enzymatic process, which acts as the 3rd network.
5. Space-Time Cycles, Knots and networks: The Generator Equation: Se<=>Ti.
What are networks made of? They are knots of space-time actions.
Further on, because beings ‘do’ only 4 things, feeding on energy, perceiving, reproducing and evolving sociallythey have to switch between them. So you feed and then you perceive and then you might have sex, etc. So there is a discontinuity between cycles. Those cycles become then quantic cycles with a frequency that creates ‘clocks’. Further on, you tend to return to a point where your food, sexual partner or friends are. So when you perform your actions they tend to create ‘cyclical patterns in space’ and ‘cyclical frequencies in time’. And this is the definition of a quantic action of space-time, the unit of the Universe, which we shall reduce often to the concept of time cycles. An entity in search of the 4 actions of existence, feeding, perceiving, reproducing or evolving socially will make a trajectory in space that will close a cycle of time. Many similar beings doing self-similar cycles will form herds and networks. And because those units – atoms, cells or individuals – will have to perform those 4 arrows they will finally gather in networks and evolve socially into complex super-organisms with cells and networks. We illustrate some of those actions for some species in the next graph:
Space-Time actions are cyclical and multiple; each event has a frequency that carries information and defines a closed cycle or trajectory, which breaks space into an inner, ‘fractal’ region and an external world. The result is the creation of multiple spaces with motion=energy and multiple clock-cycles with information, carried in the form and frequency of those cycles. The age of metric science measured all those space-time cycles by equalizing them with the rhythms of a single clock, putting them together into a continuum space-time graph. The deformations this caused was the loss of motion in the ‘energetic space’ that underlies reality (light-space and gravitational space) and the loss of form in the cycles of time drawn with that energy. The parallelism between space and energy or lineal motion and time, form and cyclical motion was lost; and the organic, complex, moving Universe became an abstract, static reality. Further on, the metric age adopted a philosophy of science based in the new machines used to measure those space-time cycles (clocks and telescopes, today evolved into computers and cameras), called mechanism that equalled reality to a machine. So Einstein affirmed: ‘Time is what a clock measures’. But as we measure more time cycles and perceive more forms of space, a new paradigm is needed to account for that variety of ‘multiple spaces and times’. Such fractal theory of spaces and times introduces the discoveries of the sciences of systems and information. Its main thesis is the existence of multiple cycles of space-times, which have form=information and motion=energy, the 2 properties of all entities, which are ‘complementary systems’ with a network that moves the system and one that gauges information: In physics all systems are dual: particles of information and fields of energy (complementary principle). In biology all systems are ternary networks with energetic limbs, reproductive bodies and heads of information. Thus we define reality as a system of dual & ternary networks with motion & form. We call this Theory of General Systems=Networks of Multiple Points of Space-time, the 4th paradigm of science as it unifies all other sciences, finding the self-similar properties of all its systems, which are precisely the properties of spatial energy=motion and temporal clocks of information, the 2 substances of which all beings are made.
So actions are knotted into flows of self-similar actions that become networks. And networks of 4 type of actions come together into super-organisms, atoms, cells, organisms or societies. We perceive many of those cycles of space-time as solid particles, but we have to start thinking in terms of actions that the mind can fix into solid substances, which are always maya of the senses. They are not made of substances but motions, events; which express the program or game of construction and destruction of social networks.
In that regard the units of information in Nature are not the human bytes invented by Shannon to study the transport of information in machines, but the cyclical, clock-like trajectories of all entities, which have form; hence carry the information of reality. When we look around all what we observe are ‘forms’ with motion. Yet forms in action are in-form-a©tions, and both together, energy and form, construct reality. Form stores information in its dimensional warping. So dimensional information is the key to understand the whys of reality, which can be considered a game of forms-in-action, forms with movement.
The unit of reality is not motion but action, which carries both motion, synonymous of energy and dimensional form synonymous of informative, cyclical clocks of time. And for that reason, Planck, the founder of quantum physics, clearly stated that all is made of actions of energy=motion and time=formal clocks. However pure motion, which in the physical realm is represented by the gravitational membrane of ‘non-local action’ (infinite motion) is not perceivable. Neither, it is pure form, as it does not emit any signal that the observer can pick up. This was already understood by the Taoists, who said that all yin=form had a minimal drop of yang=motion. So because form and motion in its ontal reality are not perceivable, epistemic Humans use terms in which the ‘yin=form has a minimal yang=motion’ and vice versa.
Speed, energy and work, which study the displacement of forms become then the closest human units of motion; while clocks of time and dimensional informations, which are cyclical or curved forms with minimal motion become the commonest human units of form.
So energy is synonymous of motion and information of form, the 2 essential parameters of all actions of the Universe, which are the substance of what exi=sts. Yet because epistemic humans are analytic minds, they have used an infinite number of different jargons to define for each specific class of motions and form and for each existential species those 2 self-similar terms of all realities.
In physics the terms for the 2 initial principles are: energy=entropy= lineal speed=space & information=form=time clocks=cyclic motions. The simplest scales of reality are dominant in energy= motion =entropy forces, reason why physicists believe it is the only arrow that creates the future and have disregarded the study of form, information, even in their discipline. Indeed, most of the information of the Universe is carried by bidimensional and tridimensional, physical clocks, masses and charges, which are vortices of space-time of the quantum, electromagnetic and cosmic, gravitational scale that carry in their clock-like frequency, E=Mc2+E=hv->M=kv, most information of the Universe.
Yet physicists still make ceteris paribus analysis of reality with a single arrow of time, entropy, which is the cause of many errors of modern physics such as the evaporation of information in black holes, which in fact are the systems that reproduce the mass of the Universe or the concept of mass as an external property to the particle, given by collisions with the flawed, never seen Higgs. Unfortunately, a single time arrow is not enough to explain the Universe. Since as Cheng-Tzu put it: from one (energy) comes two (information), from 2 comes 3 (reproduction) and from 3 the infinite beings. Yet from a simple one complexity cannot arouse. Thus the existence and proper definition of the second primary arrow of time, information is the key to understand the complexity of the organic Universe.
Information, form, is one of the two parameters of reality with the same importance than energy, motion. This fact is an intuitive truth of reality: whenever we look around we observe forms with motion or motions with form. And so any theory of reality must account not only as physicists do, with the motion of things, but also with the meaning of its forms. Darwin was a first step in that direction, thanks to his recognition that life was a process of evolution of form in living beings. In Physics Einstein gave a first step when he affirmed that ‘time curves space into masses’, which carry most of the information or form of the Universe. But physicists have been very slow to recognize the existence of an arrow of information in the Universe to the point they call it ‘negantropy’, the negation of entropy. This is due to the origin of their science, which has always been the study of the motion of things, since Galileo started their discipline studying the trajectory of cannonballs.
Physical energy also called entropy is lineal, expansive motion unlike forms made of implosive, cyclic time-clocks, masses and charges. They carry most of the form or ‘information’ of reality, defined as:
Id, where D is the number of dimensions of the system.
This means that the definition of information in the field of computers as the frequency carried by a lineal stream of mathematical data (Shannon) represents a minimal part of the information of the Universe. Information in Nature is carried by all types of dimensional ‘forms’ and languages: in physics information is carried by the forms of waves or the rotational frequency of masses and charges; in biology by the dimensional warping of DNA and protein molecules; in social sciences by the form of words and art; and so on. Dimensional form is in fact one of the two essential variables that creates reality; along with ‘energy’, also a wider notion in Nature similar to the concept of lineal motion, speed or expansive entropy. For that reason we consider energy=lineal motion=entropy and information=cyclical form, the two components of all systems of reality.
Yet only when we combine lineal, ‘energetic motions’ that move and occupy ‘space’ and cyclical forms, clocks of time that carry information – masses and charges – we obtain an action of reality:
In physics informative time cycles=clocks break and mold the forces and energy of space into particles. The energy of vacuum space warps into broken cyclical particles that act as clock of times – charges (quantum scale) and masses (cosmological space), which carry in their cyclical motions most of the information of the Universe and attract, as hurricanes do with its imploding motions, whatever floats in the space-time membrane (quantum or cosmological) in which they act.
In Biology sequences of genetic code become imprinted and form carbohydrates.
That duality of time arrows – energy, stored in the spatial vacuum, and information, stored in the cyclical clocks of charges and masses – defines a new Fundamental Principle of Science:
‘All what exists are herds of spatial energy that warp and unwarp themselves in creative and destructive cycles into networks of dimensional in/form/ation: ∑E<=>∏I’.
The Duality of Energy and Information substitutes the law of conservation of energy; and it is formalized into the ‘Generator, feedback equation’ of the Universe, E<=>I, or ExI=K, from where we will deduce all the other equations of science.
All what you see is the existence of ∞ cycles of transformation of energy into form that create time frequencies as they are performed by all entities of reality in all its scales of size. There are ∞ of such exchanges; hence there are ∞ time cycles and ∞ vital spaces that interact through those feed-back equations, which represent a complementary system in space with a body/force and particle/head or a space-time cycle of exchange of energy and information in time, a flow of ‘existence’.
In this dynamic reality equations are not static ‘equalities’, X=Y, but feedback exchanges and transformations between those 2 variables – lineal, expansive, entropic motions and cyclical, implosive clocks of time, described with Feedback equations that can be reduced to the ‘Generator’ equation of all space-time cycles: SeóTi (dynamic exchange) or ExTi=K (complementary system).
This classic equation of quantum physics (exi=k) and relativity (ext=k) finds now its why as clocks of time and cycles of information mean the same; and becomes in the 4th paradigm of system sciences what the space-time field equations of Einstein were to the 3rd paradigm of physical measure – the departing, unification equation of all forces/bodies of energy and particles/heads of information; the mandala, which originates it all through iterations of space-time cycles and its combinations into networks that become whole units of a new fractal scale of space-time. Thus the duality law that substitutes the law of conservation of energy is formalized by the ‘Generator, feedback equation’ of the Universe from where we deduce all the other equations of science, including the equations of physics.
For example, E=M (Planck’s notation) becomes now a simple transformation E=M(i): as mass carries the information of the Universe in its cosmological scale and in its dynamic form, E<=>M(i), explains easily how mass becomes energy’ uncoiling its informative vortex and vice versa: E=Mc2 transforms lineal energy into cyclical motion=mass by merely coiling motion into cyclical mass. Thus particles are rotational vortices with dimensional form that carry information, as complex life-molecules do, according to their dimensional warping.
The properties of the arrow of form are opposite to those of the arrow of lineal, expansive energy. Information seems still because it creates complex bidimensional or tridimensional patterns of cyclical motion, which allows the reproduction of self-similar form; while the key property of energy is motion and lack of form (linearity). And so the Universe is a series of E<=>I beats that generate reality, as entities switch between their ‘particle’ and ‘force’ state. For example, Mr. Mehaute1 proved that even in classic entropy processes such as chemical reactions, when a system lacks energy ‘time doesn’t stop’: the system doesn’t die but it starts to produce fractal patterns that store new information, as it happens when you ‘warp’ a bidimensional sheet of paper in a new ‘dimension of form’. In life also when a system becomes still (for example, a larva forms a chrysalis) the evolution of information accelerates.
So motion and from create the duality of stop=creation of information and go=energetic motion, self-similar to that of a movie film, which stops so light can focus and enlarge the information of the picture and then it moves. Information requires stillness to ‘perceive’ or ‘construct’ networks and systems with form. So all what exists moves and stops, to focus and gauge information, then it moves again. And those stops and goes are the basic beats that balance motion and form in the Universe.
All those balances between energy and information were denied in the age of monism, which accepted only lineal inertia= entropy, and denied cyclical inertia, information. There is an obvious reason for such earlier monism – simplification is easier to understand and facilitates calculus and measure with machines. Indeed, a Universe constructed with two elements, energy and information, is more complex than one created with a single system of energy and a single cycle of time – that of a clock simplified into lineal time in a Cartesian plane. But the Universe is a system of multiple, formal entities moving and tracing cycles – multiple clocks of time and multiple spaces – reason why Leibniz not Newton was right with his model of multiple, relational times and spaces, properly formalized in this work. In this new paradigm fixed space and solid particles are no longer relevant, as we define space in terms of expansive motions and particles, masses and charges in terms of cyclical, implosive motions. Solid substances and static space become then a maya of the senses, since even vacuum space carries energy and the pictures we observe of charges and masses show vibrating, cyclical frequencies, which carry most of the information of the Universe. So the big why is to give an order, purpose and causality to the complex interaction of all the motions with form of the Universe, all its informations.
In that regard, the 4th paradigm improves both the empirical, mathematical solutions of science but especially the logic concepts that the paradigm of metric measure, obsessed with digital machines, brushed aside and now regain importance. In this work the explanation of the meaning of words like time, space, dimensions, information, energy, motion, mass, universal constant, society, organism, machine, network, wave, light, point, etc. which were not key questions of the 3rd paradigm, will occupy many pages; as information is not only carried by numbers but also by logic words, better suited to describe qualities and properties ill-translated by numbers. And only, when those concepts are fully understood in its complexity we will be able to explain the laws of time and space, systems and networks and provide detailed examples and solutions to those sciences.
Recap. The Universe is made of forms with motion that trace space-time cycles. In physics energy is synonymous of spatial, expansive, lineal motion or entropy and form is synonymous of cyclical clocks of time, masses and charges, which carry in their frequency the information of reality. Form dominates motion and both combine creating actions, exi, the complementary unit of all physical realities.
Those ‘time forms and spatial, energetic cycles’ are described with feedback equations, through which entities exchange back and forth flows of energy and information. They define the new law of physics, the Principle of conservation of motion and form, ‘all is energy that transform back and forth into information: e<=>I, Se x Ti=K’ from where all other laws of physics are deduced.
6. The 4 Time cycles/arrows/actions of all beings: energy feeding, forming, reproducing and evolving socially.
Time is motion and change and what we observe are motions with a purpose: to construct networks. We are always in construction. We express that organic, social program of the Universe with the concept of an arrow of time, or ‘will of the universe’, which defines the type of events that will happen into the future as a result of the activity of those networks. In fact all those systems deploy 4 arrows or actions or dimensions of space-time: energetic, informative, reproductive and social actions. They are equivalent to the drives of a living being and suffice to explain all ‘biological’ events of all entities of existence. We call the 2 primary arrows, energy or motion and form or information, simplex arrows, e and I; and the 2 secondary arrows born of the combination of the previous ones – reproduction, exi, and the social organization of a herd of self-reproduced exi beings, ∑, into networks – complex or secondary arrows.
How tight the organization of those networks is – the quality of bonding – will determine if the herd is energy in motion or rotating information. Networks must achieve a degree of smoothness in its axons of information and acquire a level of warping in 3 dimensional space that are by essence different than herds of motion cells, which follow a lineal path and flatten its form to minimal resistance to motion.
Bodies and limbs move; networks of neuronal information map reality and control a field of energy that moves them. We use different terms for energy cells and neuronal networks, since organisms are a game of 2 types of networks, a neuronal, warped dimensional form and a planar moving, energy herd. And so we can define formally any network system with an equation that represents the 4 elements of an organic system, its cells, ∑, energy networks, e, informative networks, I and the exchanges of energy and information that reproduce the system, exi or e<=>I (spatial, temporal analyses): ∑e<=>I. We call the previous network the Generator feedback equation of systems of energy and information.
Thus, the recognition of 4 arrows/dimensions of space-time is a key difference between the organic paradigm and the 3rd paradigm of mechanist measure, which only recognizes an arrow of time, motion or energy or entropy, all self-similar concepts discovered in the analysis of energetic machines (weapons, used by Galileo to study motion and steam machines used to study entropy and heat in the XIX C.). Those earlier scientists, departing from those studies defined a mechanical world based in entropy. But now that we have constructed informative and organic machines (robots) made of complementary networks and social systems of machines; even the world of technological science is ripe to accept a more complex view on the arrows of time.
All scientific paradigms define first the fundamental units of time and space, which in General System sciences are space-time points made of cycles of time with spatial motions, which wherever the specific type of point-species we describe, gather in lines=waves that gather in planes, defined with numbers=sets of points as networks of points that become wholes. Thus in the 4th paradigm each point/species will have a volume of vital space made of cyclical, temporal motions, and it can be described as a social knot or network, including humans, stars, atoms, organisms and any other system.
And we can analyze them all mathematically, establishing the ‘fractal, generator equation’ of all systems of the Universe across a minimal number of 3 scales, 3 ages and 3 topological regions. Let us then use those elements to define the generator equation of the Universe, in its more complex, exhaustive formulation.
Since Time and space express the widest Laws of both, Philosophy and Science, in their search for an explanation to the Future, a Theory of multiple Times and spaces is both, a Philosophical, Religious Theory of Reality and a Scientific Epistemology of Nature. For that reason, even if this work uses the experimental method and its logic and mathematical languages to describe those arrows, we can easily translate the classic jargon of philosophy and religion to the modern jargon of Multiple Spaces-Times. Then each time arrow becomes an essential Will or Why of the Universe, explained in classic religions through Gods or anthropomorphic ‘Avatars’, each of which represented one Will or Arrow of Time.
The concept of a causal arrow of time or Will of the Universe exists since the beginning of knowledge, albeit expressed with different languages. Religion and philosophy has used the verbal language, to study those arrows. In ancient times the concept was ‘impersonated’ by God as the ‘seer’ or ‘will of times’ (Saint Augustine) that in its different manifestations represented those arrows.
In modern times, science used mathematics and logic to study them, albeit in its simplest forms (Euclidean mathematics and Aristotelian logic), which we will upgrade in order to understand the more complex, Non-Euclidean, fractal geometry and Non-Aristotelian, simultaneous logic of those Arrows. Since modern science lacks the needed ‘linguistic tools’ to grasp the interrelationships between the 4 main arrows of time, reason why most scientific theories use only one arrow to explain the Universe. Though being reality multidimensional more complex philosophies of science have appeared:
‘Monism’, sponsored by physicists, which considers only 1 time arrow, energy, also called entropy.
‘Duality’, sponsored by Eastern philosophies in the past and Complexity Theorists in the present, which consider two types of changes: changes in the information or ‘form’ of beings and changes in their energy or motion.
‘Trinity’ sponsored by all kind of philosophical and Religious doctrines, which considers time to have 3 ages, past, present and future, youth, maturity and old age, renewed by death.
‘4-D’: More complex theories of change of biological or religious origin, consider 2 other arrows of time: ‘reproduction’ (the constant repetition of beings that happen all over the Universe) and ‘love’ or ‘eusocial evolution’ (the coming together of individuals into groups).
We call such model a General Systems Theory of Multiple Spaces and Times or MST theory, since its two main theses are:
- The existence of multiple entities, whose motions in space trace multiple cycles of energy and information, multiple time clocks that break that space in ∞ pieces..
- And the dual nature of those entities; since all entities in the Universe are ‘complementary systems’ of energy and information, from particles of information and fields of energy (quantum physics) to reproductive bodies and heads of information (biological systems).
Let us then consider the new mathematical foundations of this model, based in the nature of fractal information, which was not fully understood in the past because its mathematical formulation through dimensional form and fractal repetition appeared at the end of the XX century. Indeed, if the 3rd paradigm extended the discovery of molecular entropy to all scales of systems of reality, the understanding of information creates the fundamental beat of the Universe, the feedback rhythm, e<=>I, from where all other equations, from the life (>I) & death (<E) cycle, to the dual membranes of the Universe (Gravitational, attractive masses > I Vs. Entropic, electromagnetism <E), to the processes of reproduction (ExI=k) will be deduced.
Recap: There are 2 simplex actions, feeding on energy and gauging information, and 2 complex actions combinations of the simplex ones: reproducing, exi, and evolving socially, with self-similar reproduced cells into a whole. Those 4 arrows or wills of time are the 4 dimensions of all space-time beings.
Historically 2 types of theories on Time Arrows dominated human cultures. Monist theories consider the Universe to be caused by a single causal arrow, called ‘God’ in religions and ‘Entropy or energy’ in Physics. Dualist theories consider the existence of 2 arrows, energy, the destructive arrow, called Shiva or Yang, and information, the creative arrow, called Vishnu and Yin, the creator of Live. Only a few, complex philosophers (Leibniz), disciplines of science (Biology, Theory of Evolution, System sciences) and religions (Taoism, Buddhism, Zurvanism, Christianity), have also understood the two more complex arrows of future time: the arrow of reproduction of energy and information (exi) and the arrow of social evolution or arrow of love.
General Systems sciences fusions all those disciplines, unifying the Time jargons of Philosophy, Religion and Science and provides 3 levels of time arrows, dual theories of energy and information, which suffice to explain most physical systems; 4-dimensional theories which add the arrows of reproduction and social evolution, needed to explain most biological phenomena and finally 9-dimensional theories of 9 arrows/cycles of space-time that exhaust all possible events and cycles of the most complex species of reality, the human super-organisms studied by social sciences and the Universe at large. To represent those arrows the algebra of multiple spaces-times defines a Unification equation of all arrows, events and morphologies of space-time, whose exhaustive and particular analysis reveals both the thoughts of god and its details of each species, which we call the Generator equation of space-time cycles: ∑Se<=>∏Ti.
The 4 arrows of time become in this manner the will of the Universe, which all its species obey and the laws of science, explain today in an abstract form, and the parables of religions described in the past. Yet the simplification of all those arrows and cycles of time into a single clock-cycle blurred the understanding of times and the life-death cycles of creation and extinction. So we have to further advance in our study of time, for you to grasp the relationship between time and history – the life of mankind in time from its first human cell to its last one, considering how we explain the ages of life with those arrows, departing from the morphology of energy and information, the simplex substances of reality from where all its complementary organisms depart.
The life death-cycle: the complex arrow of reproduction.
In the graph, all systems of the Universe go through 3+1 ages that correspond to the 3+1 arrows of time.
We are born as a seed of information that grows in energy (youth), then we reproduce when we combine energy and information (maturity), finally we acquire too much information and wrinkle (3rd age), and so we implode in form but then we explode back into energy (we die). And in that moment we separate our cells that had evolved into a social organism (arrow of Eusocial evolution). So the fundamental arrow that summons them all is the arrow of Eusocial evolution which makes us ‘transcend’ from a seminal seed reproduced into self-similar cells and then die, when we stop loving each other, when cells separate from each other and return to the inferio ‘plane of existence’ from where they departed. In the Universe those phases of existence in space-time are the 3 solutions to Einstein’s equation, whcih physicists erroneously think to be parallel Universes in space, when they are phases of the same universe in time: the big-bang death and birth of the Universe, the steady, mature universe of einstein and the godel solution of an imploding, curved, vortex-like Universe.
We said that in the Universe there is, besides the energy arrow, an arrow that reproduces information, used in Biology to study life. Both together define an immortal Universe made of ∞ bites of energy and bits of information in cyclical trans-form-ation: a young surface of Energetic Space reproduces in/form/ation till it becomes old and wrinkled. Then it erases its form back into energy in the inverse process of death, completing an existential cycle, ΣS<=>TI, the generator cycle of the Universe. In the graph, a human being goes from an energetic youth into an informative 3rd age to become erased back into energy; while the Universe evolves from an energetic big bang into an informative big-crunch. Because we are all dust of space-time that creates and dissolves ∞ ‘existences’.
If there are 2 arrows of time, there are multiple time events or ‘time cycles’. Thus space-time in Complexity is no longer defined as a single continuum space that expands and will ‘die’ into an amorphous reality as Physicists pretend, but it is defined as a fractal of Information, composed of multiple cycles of life and death, which affect all its ‘parts’ made to the image and likeness of the whole that will also go through infinite Time cycles of creation and destruction.
Indeed, in the Universe, there is not only an arrow of entropy and death, but also an arrow of fractal information, which has the qualities of life. All species in the Universe absorb energy, gauge information (even particles, reason why their theories are called gauge theories), reproduce (quarks absorb energy and reproduce jets of ‘quarkitos’, so do electrons that absorb energy and break into a shower of new electrons, and since those are the two basic particles of reality, it follows that all systems can be reproduced), and finally, all entities of the Universe evolve eusocially, gathering together into bigger super-organisms, from particles that become atoms that become molecules that become cells that become living organisms that become societies, nations and religions, super-organisms of History.
Thus, if the Universe and all its parts follow the laws of super-organisms, which define all what exists as ‘organic fractals made of self-similar cells joined by networks of energy and information’, this ORGANIC GRAND DESIGN OF REALITY, which we complex theorists have developed both logically and mathematically departing from the Law of Conservation of Energy and Information, explains both, the Universe, the nature of the Absolute God – the bio-logic, organic laws of that Universe – and the nature of the Human God, the subconscious collective mind of Mankind=History, which is the ‘collective brain’ of the super-organism of Gaia, our body.
Then we have a simple definition/template, the great design, which shows all what exists is indeed a fractal organism, self-similar to the whole Universe:
A super-organism is a system of self-similar cells joined by networks of energy and information.
Then you can substitute for each species of the Universe, the type of cell and the networks of energy and information and obtain a specific superorganism.
For example the Universe would be a ‘superorganism of galaxies joined by networks of dark energy and gravitational information’
Since gravitation attracts, forms, in/forms galaxies.
A galaxy would be a ‘superorganism of stars, joined by networks of electromagnetic energy and gravitational information’.
A human being would be a ‘superorganism of DNA-cells, joined by networks of nervous information and blood energy’
And a human god would be a ‘superorganism of human cells, joined by verbal networks of information and economical networks of energy’
We just need to be humble and marvel to the beauty of the fractal, self-repetitive, organic Universe, we have discovered with the wisdom of old religions and the knowledge of modern science.
Reality is a creative process in which infinite forms constantly imprint=reproduction surfaces of energy with fractal patterns, defining the dominant arrow of time in the Universe: information, which constantly grows the complexity of its forms from a relative past into the future. Thus, we define for any system the arrow of information from the perspective of the ages or dimensions of time, past, present and future: All complementary systems warp the spatial energy of the Universe into dimensional form, reaching a limit of warping, as they move from a past age of ‘pure energy with minimal form’ or young age of the system, into a relative present, mature age of balance between energy and form, or classic, reproductive age of the system, in which they often decouple=iterate=reproduce a self-similar form (hence creating a dynamic present, as the repeated form seems to leave reality unchanged) to end in a future 3rd age of maximal form and minimal energy. Then the form explodes back to the past in minimal time, unfolding all its warped form into pure energy, hence dying. And this is the 2nd arrow of time, entropy – a fast motion of time towards a past without form. So we can unfold the Generator equation in 3±1 ages to define the cycle of life and death of all systems between birth and extinction:
∞I x 0 E (seed)->Max.E xMin.I (youth)->E=I (reproduction)->Max.I xMin.E (3rd age)< ∞E x 0I (death)
Death implies that reproduction is needed for the Universe to conserve its logic forms. The previous equation represents the evolution of all systems. In Cosmology it represents the 3 solutions to the Equations of Einstein, from the big-bang to the steady state to the big crunch, in a repetitive Universe of infinite cycles. In Physics represents the 3 states of matter: the energetic, gaseous state, the balanced liquid state and the informative, solid state. In Biology it represents the 3 ages of life, and so on.
Those 3 ages of the Generator Equation can co-exist synchronically as ‘subspecies’ that form a ternary system with lineal energy limbs, spherical heads of information and elliptic reproductive bodies that combine both. So we can represent also living systems: as E(limbs)<E=I>Bodies>I(Head).
The equation of the ages of life also defines more clearly the meaning of social networks and the fractal, scalar structure of the Universe: Self-similar, self-reproductive forms chain each other into informative networks without energy, (seeds), which ‘emerge’ in a ‘higher’ scale of existence, going through the 3 ages of life. Then they dissolve the information acquired in that higher scale, dying back into their lower plane of existence. So a seed of genetic information of the relative cellular scale, i-1, emerges as a foetus out of the womb after self-reproducing and organizing its form, in the scale of biological organisms, i, where it lives and dies after a 3rd age of dwindling energy, dissolving back to its lower cellular scale, i-1.
So we can define a parameter of information, I, as a scalar arrow of growing complexity: The simplest i=1 ‘universal constants’ of spatial energy and temporal information, (magnetic and electric constants) combine to form Planck constants, h, also called ‘actions’ of energy and time. They will reproduce on the pure vacuum without form, creating light waves, social networks of h-actions; which evolve further warping into cyclical forms, called particles. Those particles will reproduce and evolve socially into atoms, with an informative pole (I), the quark, with more formal mass and an energetic pole, (E) the electron, with more spatial motion=energy. Both exchange, <=>, flows of electromagnetic energy and informative gravitation. Thus mass and gravitation are the informative forces and particles that interact with light and electrons, the energetic, spatial ones; creating together the next scale of atoms.
So a pattern of social evolution in growing scales of complexity emerges: particles become complementary atoms of energy and information, reproduced in the big-bang and the interior of stars. Then atoms form molecular networks, creating the chemical scale. Then molecules reproduce and self-organize into organic, cellular systems or inorganic, celestial bodies. Next cells reproduce and self-organize into organisms that reproduce and self-organize into societies; while celestial bodies self-organize into galaxies that self-organize into Universes.
8. The biological scale.
In that regard, when we grow in the ladder of reality from Physical sciences where the arrow of energy and motion dominates all systems, into the complex structures of biology, the arrow of information becomes dominant and many questions, vital to physical inquires become irrelevant. We don’t care for Einstein’s analysis of time because humans don’t go at c-speed. We don’t care for the nature of particles and atoms, because our scales of fractal reality starts with molecules. But we care enormously about the processes of evolution of form, of in/form/ation, and the processes of social evolution that create cellular systems with networks of energy and information that emerge into a ‘higher fractal scale’ of reality, a ‘new plane of existence (metaphysical jargon).
Hence from the simpler laws of translation in space, we shall move in this volume into the laws of change in the morphology of beings. Biological structures extend now thorugh several scales of reality and so the laws that explain the interaction of multiple planes/networks of space-time (relationship between the genetic, individual and ecosystemic plane) are determinant.
But the most remarkable success of a Dual Systems Theory in the study of biological sciences is the completion of Evolutionary Theory, whose evolutions of form, of in/form/ation is now restricted to the limited topologies of space and the logic ages of time of all systems.
We thus add to genetics and Evolution, a new definitory third leg of laws, the restrictions of topology, which limits the number of possible diversifications and forms of all type of organisms; and the 3 Horizons/ages of all species, which are constantly as individual organisms do, increasing its information and social evolution in herds and super-organisms.
When we put together all those elements, the classic laws of Biology (Genetics, Evolution, Physiology, Organicism), the 4 drives of existence or will of life, which coincides with the 4 arrows of time – feeding on energy, gauging information, reproducing and evolving into social, multicellular organisms and ecosystems), with the laws discovered in the 4 paradigm (the topologies of energy, information, social networks and reproductive systems; the 3 horizons of increasing information of all evolving systems; the laws of exchange of energy and information between the scales of reality; the laws of super-organisms), suddenly a clear, impersonal, efficient plan of evolution appears, a template in which we can classify all the species of Biology and define the process that brought the simplest atoms of life, c,h,n,o into the most complex of all beings, man, and beyond, the social structures of humanity, its economic and cultural systems and civilizations, which obey the same laws.
Yet the existence of a plan of evolution and the explanation of Gods as the collective subconscious of the organisms of mankind does not validate the religious ̳creationist‘ groups, since the plan is impersonal, mathematical, topological and organic, as it applies to all systems, including physical systems, acting as a guidance, a template which all systems follow, whose memorial bytes, recorded in the genetic scale of reality express in more detail in each particular species.
9. The sociological scale.
The scientific study of mankind is difficult because we are mankind and so the subjective principle, which is natural to all fractal points that perceive reality from its point of view and consider themselves the center of the Universe from that limited perspective – the Galilean paradox – makes us feel the center of the Universe, and the larger view, the biological view of being just a phase in the evolution of this planet, naturally repel us. For that reason there has never been a real, objective science of history and economics, since it has always been censored by the majority of mankind, which prefers myths of self- centered importance to an objective analysis of what we are within that larger view of the planet, itself a speck of space-time dust in the Universe.
Thus only a few extremely intelligent, ethically strong, objectively indifferent people have been able to accept the obvious: that we human beings are just another living species of this planet; that we follow the same laws of all species; that we créate super-organisms in which the individual has no importance; that all humans belong to the same species, regardless of tribal history and that within the evolving process of this planet we are the 10th radiation that extinguished most previous forms of life, according to the Oedipus paradox and gave birth to the 11th radiation, metal-species, which is now about to be born as an organic form – robots – potentially able to extinguish all human beings.
And that process, the 10th extinction of human life by weapons, top predator machines, has already started and it is accelerating in a decametric vortex of evolution, which can be tabulated and studied scientifically as this author has been doing for decades.
And yet the process might be irreversible, precisely because human subjectivity does not admit the objective study of history and economics. Indeed, since my discovery of the vortex of war and the 800- 80 years cycles of evolution of weapons and machines that increase the speed of evolution of technology and extinguish life and non-technological cultures (which allowed me to forecast the present 2001-08 dual dip of the electronic economy and the age of robotics in which we live) during my studies at Columbia University 20 years ago, I have struggled to explain those facts to mechanist science with remarkable faillure. It is not that the model is not sound, or they failled to understand it, it simply didn‘t fit the agenda of economists and conservative think-tanks who believe in ̳mechanism‘ and capitalism‘ as they ignore truly what they study – reason why they cannot forecast the future of those sciences as we did. But social sciences beyond a few university groups are praxis of power NOT temples of knowledge. For that reason, around the same time I published ̳radiations of space-time, the extinction of man‘, a techno-Utopian researcher who discovered the same vortex – Mr. Kurzweil, affirmed that we, humans beings, sons of God, would transcend into immortal beings when A.I. awakes to consciousness and ̳merge‘ with them. This of course, is biologically imposible. It has never happened in the biological record, and it will not happen. Each new species has always followed the Oedipus paradox and extinguished the previous species. And humans are not going to be different. But Mr. Kurzweil‘s thesis pleased the galilean paradox of man as the center of the Universe; and so he was hailed as a visionary and my work rejected ever since. And yet the laws of biology don‘t change because we humans make wishful thinking. The first robots have arrived and they are called ̳Predators‘; they haven‘t merged with humanity but are weapons dedicated to kill human beings. And they are evolving fast.
But the triad of the 3 ̳religious‘ ideologies that defend ̳metal-memes‘ as the meaning of progress, capitalism – worship of metal-information: money, nationalism, worship of metal-energy: weapons, nd mechanism: worship of machines=organic metal, have been imposed by power – by the added surplus of energy and information those systems give to us, now for millenia and have become the essence of our beliefs as social human beings. So it is difficult to explain mankind that it must prune the tree of science of its more lethal goods, robotics and nuclear weapons. And yet only if we evolve our mechanist beliefs and understand as the 4th paradigm does, in organic terms our species and the memes of metal that are extinguishing life to control them for the benefit of humanity in a sustainable world in balance between life and metal, organisms and mechanisms, we will survive the 11th radiation and 10th extinction of all forms of life, including ourselves, the age of Intelligent Machines that now starts.
The Program of existence, explained in Religious parables.
‘I know what is time, if I only could explain it’, said Saint Augustine, with humble thoughts. He also called ‘God’, the mind of the Universe the ‘seer of time’ -and he was right. The Logic time is indeed the ultimate truth of reality, a logic he affirmed would be ‘more complex than the logic of man’, as it is indeed. Since physicists only use an arrow of future to try to emulate the design of the Universe and Time has 4 ‘organic arrows’ dimensions, that paint reality as it is. Since God indeed is as Leonardo put it ‘a painter of vital forms’, we might ad a ‘painter of 4 dimensions’, of 4 strokes.
And the description of those 4 dimensions or arrows of time, is the realm of logic. Let us explain ourselves…
Already Descartes said that the language of God was logic, not mathematics. This was further proved by Frege and Godel, who extracted mathematical description of space from the logic of time. And then it was forgotten by physicists who no longer understand the logic of time.
What we mean then by the logic of time? The causes that make reality move from past to future. For physicists there is only a cause, the expansive entropy that expands reality into space. Nothing else matters. This is called monism or reductionism. And its history shows indeed, how reduced is that vision of the causes of the future. It was originated in the study of ‘heat’ and ‘gas expansion’, a phenomenon reduced to exactly that ‘heat’ and ‘gas expansion’. Entropy laws then somehow became accepted as the laws of all systems of physics, even if we knew gravitation didn’t expand the Universe but attracted, formed, in/form/ed things.
As bizarre as it sounds this ‘expansion’ of a local phenomenon to a Universal law is very common in science and physics. It is called the ‘single cause error’, for those who know latin ‘the ceteris paribus cause’. Of course, the logic causality of the Universe is much more complex than a single, energetic, expansive, shiva-like arrow of the Universe. Of lately, physicists start to concede (but not Hawking) the existence of a second arrow, information, which they call ‘negantropy’, as if it were something absurd. In complexity theory however, we understand information, and we have mathematized it with fractals.
Information is the ‘form’ of reality, and it is the second arrow of the Universe. All species, all beings, have a ‘field/body of energy’ and a ‘head/particle of information’. All beings gauge information and move through energy. All beings move and have form. This, philosophers know, Physicists ignore. Because form, information is the painting and physicists care for the paint. So the Universe has a dual logic, a more complex logic that the ‘continuous’ expansive arrow of entropy. It has 2 arrows, energy and form. But if you have two you always have 3, e and I, gives you also e x I, and this 3rd arrow that mixes energy and form is the most beautiful of all, it is the arrow of reproduction. And then, inf you have many reproductions, many exi that come together, you have a 4 arrow, societies, herds, organisms, and so we come to Complexity – the painter of the Universe paints reality with 4 arrows of future, energy, information, reproduction and social evolution. And because there are 4 arrows all beings of the Universe do the same cosmic dance, follow the same grand design, they feed, gauge information, reproduce or are reproduced by others, as machines are by humans, carbohydrates by enzymes; and finally all systems ‘transcend’, evolve socially, grow in scales, emerge into new planes of existence. And that the 4th mystical arrow will latter help us to define the meaning of God…
This was understood by the ancients in the Eastern tradition. Of course, the 2 simplest arrows, energy and form, body and mind were known even to the most primitive cultures. But the two complex combinations soon came into religion. In India, they worshipped linga, the arrow of reproduction. It was the favorite arrow worshipped in the Eastern tradition. Taoism also favored the study of the tao-te-king, the rules that allowed yin and yang, energy and information to combine. In Genesis we hear ‘grow and multiply’.
Yet in the west they went a step further and worshipped the mystique arrow of social evolution, the arrow of love: ‘love each other as I have loved you’.
Crystal clear, ‘the word became man and inhabited among us’ and told us the most complex arrow of futures. We had to evolve socially into the super-organisms of history, the Gods of Man.
In the graph, in complexity sciences, the Universe is no longer a mechanism but a fractal organism, and each of its self-similar parts are also super-organisms. What religions do is to study two kinds of those super-organisms: the Universal super-organism, whose Laws of Science are its ‘Mind’ or God.
This super-organism was studied by Eastern Religions, which can be considered a pre-science written with words, not with mathematics. For example, the fundamental Law of Modern science, the principle of Conservation of Energy and Information, ‘Energy never dies but trans/forms itself into different types of in/form/ation’ was already expressed by Taoism, in its key sentence (Tao Te King): All is energy=Yang that transforms into information=yin, giving birth to the 10.000 beings’.
Taoism and Buddhism are thus ‘verbal sciences’ that advanced many of the findings of complexity and system science two millennia ago, describing an organic Universe, made of fractal parts self-similar to the whole. Since as the Upanishads say ‘the languages of God are infinite’. The pretension that the great design can only be expressed and understood with mathematics, hold by physicists like Hawking, is similar to the pretension of vatican popes that the word of God could only be told in Latin and understood by their priests – it belongs to the realm of ego-trips and power-trips. Yet a theory of everything must be able to understand indeed, everything that exists, including languages, all science and all laws and phenomena including religion. And this is precisely with complexity has achieved by evolving our understanding of the languages of the human mind, as we shall show in this post. This concept renews and validates again the science of philosophy, expressed in verbal terms, the understanding of time=change by Biologists, also expressed in verbal terms, through the Theory of Evolution, and the meaning of religions as a parable that translates many of those organic laws in terms people could understand. Since the great design is precisely, the arrow of ‘love’, of social evolution, that brings together cells of the same species, in increasing scales of creative complexity. So particles become atoms that become molecules that become cells that become organisms that become superorganisms of history – human gods, whose ‘cells’ are the believers, as christian mystiques explained when they said, ‘we are cells of the body of christ, temple of the spirit’.
And so the mandate of eusocial love of all true religions merely expresses the need to share energy and information among human beings, in order to create those super-organisms of history. Since Evolution tells us that individuals don’t matter; it is the species that evolves. Now Complexity understands why and how those processes of evolution that make cells ‘emerge’ into new wholes happen. And this can be applied also to the understanding of religions. Since they are the super-organisms of History, made of human ‘cells’, which have the same ‘memetic Codes’ of Revelation, the same information, in each believers minds – in the same manner organisms are made of biological cells with the same genetic Codes, the same DNA. Yet the information of cells is written with molecules, the information of human super-organisms is written with words of love that create the Gods of History, as Saint John did explain: ‘and the Wor(l)d=God, became man and inhabited among us’.
In the graph, we see on top, the Gods of Eastern religions – the mind/laws of the organic, fractal Universe – which were first explained with words by philosophers and religions (the logic and mystique method), then with mathematics by scientists (the scientific method), and now as this post will show with all the self-similar languages, mirrors of the same organic Universe (the linguistic method of Complex sciences.) This is the Absolute God, whose laws are obeyed by all the super-organisms of History. So this laws did create the Universe.
On the other hand, we human cells do created gods, written with smaller letters, the collective subconscious of the organisms of history, sustained by those believers. Those human gods (bottom right of the graph), which are part of the Total god of man, the collective mind of our species, brain of the organic planet Gaia, have evolved also in increasing phases of higher social evolution, from an age of Tribal religions, in which a small group of human beings, thought of themselves as the only ‘Chosen of God’, into religions which accepted all human beings as equal (Christianity, Buddhism and Islam), and finally into a scientific age of understanding of the laws of eusocial love and our role as the mind of Gaia, which we must preserve (Socialism, UN legal codes, enviromental movements and now the sciences of bio-history and bio-economics, part of the growing body of Complexity sciences).
Thus complexity sciences aim is indeed to explain it all, a true Theory of Everything, which encompasses all languages and all sciences, unlike Physicists who pretend to know it all by ‘reducing’ and disregarding everything they don’t explain. Hence for Mr. Hawking religion and philosophy are dead. He also said in his biography that he didn’t study biology like his father, because ‘intelligent people’ studied physics. Yet physics only studies the simplest scales of that growing complex Universe of infinite self-similar parts – those with higher energy, most extended in space, but with minimal information.
Since one of the key laws of complexity is precisely the inverse properties of ‘spatial energy’ and ‘temporal information’, the dominant, creative arrow of the Universe that physicists except Einstein, have ignored. Since as time passes ‘time evolves forms, the information of living beings’ (Darwin), or in physical terms, ‘Time curves space into masses’ (Einstein). We shall also show here that masses are indeed the carriers of most of the physical information of the Universe.
We could summon all this in the sentences that gives title to this post: ‘we created human gods, to the image and likeness of the organic, biological laws of the God, the creator of the Universe’.
It is now, paraphrasing Einstein, once the ‘thoughts of God’ are known, when we can study the details, each and all of its fractal, organic parts or super-organisms, including the super-organisms of God, nations and religions.
To that aim, it is needed to do something physicists often forget to do - to define in logic terms the words we use, like wave, particle, time, space. In this case we are concerned with the definition of the word God, which is a verbal term that must be understood in the context of History of Religions. Or else, questions like ‘God created the Universe’ make no sense at all.
So using our template, ‘the grand design’, we can easily define God and the Universe:
‘The Universe is a organic fractal of energy and information’
‘In Eastern religions, God is the Mind of the Universe, the organic laws of energy and information that generate all its self-similar fractal parts, physical species made of fields of energy and particles of information; and living species, made of bodies of energy and heads of information’.
So we can now define also the Gods of History:
‘In Western Religions, God is the collective human mind of a super-organism of History, the collective subconscious advanced by Philosophers of Religion like Jung or Campbell, either the subconscious collective of a tribal super-organism. So Yvwh is the subconscious collective of the Jewish People and the Book of Yvwh, the Bible, the book of History of the Jewish people; while ‘America’ is the subconscious collective of the people of America. While in more evolved religions, which accept all people, not only those belonging to a nation or tribe, ‘Sons=Cells of God’, God is the subconscious collective of all Mankind (Christianity, Islam, Socialist doctrines).
Again, the self-similarity with organic systems is clear. In an organic system, each cell carries a DNA/informative code, which is exclusive to the organism. It doesn’t matter the content of the code as long as all cells follow that code, and so they act together as a single organism, sharing energy and information among them.
The same happens in a religion: the minds of all their human cells share the same Book of Revelation, the memetic code that creates the Religious Superorganism. It doesn’t matter the details of the content of the Koran or the Gospel or the Talmud – what matters is that all the cells have the same mental DNA, which makes them love each other, sharing energy and information among the believers, which create in this manner a stronger Organism that the individual.
The same happens in nations, which share the same informative language and legal codes, becoming a super-organism of History.
The difference between a religion and a nation is thus subtle. In the past, the word nation did not exist, so people used the word God. Yvwh was the God of the Jewish people and his book of history was therefore a book of God. Yvwh was fighting Assur, the God of the Assyrian people, whose capital was also called Assur, and whose king was called ‘son of God’, Assurbanipal. Then the Romans invented the word nation and Rome no longer was a God…
But there is a second, far more fascinating difference between a nation, where the ‘energy and information’ networks are mediated by machines (so we have veins-like roads full of machines and networks of audiovisual information, and both together create Economic superorganisms). The question which I have argued in the past decade with philosophers of all religions is this: in the same manner the networks of Internet information and the roads, pipes and electric cables of economic nations form a ‘real’, self-evident superorganism called a nation, do the subconscious collective of human beings create in other fractal plane of Existence, an emergent God, a super-organism of History, knot of all the cellular minds that sustain it? Do those superorganisms/Gods of History exist, as your organism exists independent of its cells?
We shall consider this more complex problem at the end of the next post, when we have evolved the languages with humans use to observe that grand design, since now we don’t have enough tools of the mind to do so.
‘Gifted those who without seeing believe, because to them belongs the kingdom of heavens’.
machines. Unfortunately the arrows of time by definition cannot be photographied. Only the simplest arrow of space and motion. Since by definition space is merely a dharma, a slice of the total volume of Time, only the canvas can be reduced to the laws of physics.
Still ’the languages of God are infinite’ said the Upanishads. So in order to convince scientists of all disciplines that their work is as meaningful as that of physicists, and without any risk to the planet, we shall now explain that Grand Design, also with the jargon of science (logic and mathematics) to complement our explanation with the jargon of classic philosophy and religion (words).
Because one of the first things we have learned in complexity is that while the Universe is one, the information its different species use to perceive it, is different gauged with many languages.
In the human case, the Grand Design can be explained with our four languages: the logic of time, the mathematics of space, the visual images in motion that describe both, space and time, and with mystique metaphors and words, as classic religions did.
The main difference between both languages is one of complexity. In the same way there are simple and complex arrows of time, there are languages that carry more information. And images and numbers carry more information per unit of volume than words do. Even if their truths are self-similar. So as we do in many of our posts, once we have explained the why, the general thoughts of God, in the post accessible clicking in Rodin’s thinker, we shall achieve a scientific detailed analysis of those same thoughts with the language of logic, visual thought and its derivative, geometry, mathematics.
