Abstract:
One of the fundamental findings of System sciences and duality is the solution of the meaning of the 3 ages of life and the morphological plan of evolution and extinction of species, which becomes the ’3rd leg’ with genetics and classic Darwinian evolution to understand the meaning of life.
In essence, in Systems sciences we work with two arrows of ‘future time’, energy or entropy, that expands space and information or form, that warps space into dimensional form. And So we establish a basic equation that defines all systems as complementary systems of energy and information:
E xI. And we can talk of a simple series of basic equations and developments that describe synoptically what those systems do.
All what exists; all entities of the Fractal Universe including human beings are systems made of two COMPLEMENTARY geometries: languages and heads of information that perceive and guide blind bodies of moving energy.
And we can recognize those complementary puzzles of nature, called in the jargon of Systems Theory, Fractal Points, by their opposite, geometrical shape and properties. Since the cycle is the form that stores more information in lesser space and the line is the fastest distance between two points.
For example, all physical species are made of lineal fields of moving energy, shaped by cyclical particles of information.
All living organisms are made of planar bodies of moving energy guided by spherical heads of information.
All Human societies are made of human citizens, ruled by politicians and priests, who command nations and civilizations with legal and ethic words.
The economic system that reproduces memes of metal, machines and lineal weapons, was first ruled by cyclical coins of gold, today converted in electronic cycles of digital information in the minds of computers…
In this manner, languages of Information create the future of all the energetic systems of reality.
All complementary systems have a limited quantity of energy and information, which they have to renew in order to survive, what determines their 4 repetitive, survival strategies of behavior or arrows of future time.
They will try to obtain more energy for their body and more information for their mind.
They will try to reproduce the form of the system in other region of space time to survive after death.
And they will associate with similar entities, forming bigger, cellular superorganisms that live longer in time and occupy wider vital spaces.
For example all physical particles can be defined by 4 quantum numbers that describe those actions among physical entities that absorb electric energy, are guided by magnetic information, decouple into self-similar particles and associate with other particles in more complex atomic and molecular societies.
All biological entities are defined as such when they show those 4 drives of existence, feeding on energy, perceiving information, reproducing into similar species and associating with other individuals of the same species in herds and superorganisms.
All what we human beings do is to feed on energy, perceive different languages of information, reproduce our children, forming families and evolve socially under the mandate of eusocial love expressed by ethic religions and constitutions with other human beings into cultures, nations, religions and civilizations.
Finally, company-mothers, the ‘free citizens’ of markets, reproduce machines that imitate and substitute humans organs of energy and information, and have become social cells of a super-organism of machines, the global stock-market.
Now, the result of the existence of two basic forms, energy and information and 4 drives of existence, Feeding, Max. E, Informin, Max. I, reproducing, E=I and evolving socially Sum (exi), creates an order in time, as species are born, go through an age of maximal feeding and growth, or youth, then find a balance between youth and form, E=I, and reproduce in its mature age, finally warping and transforming most of its energy into information in a 3rd age, after which they die.
And birth and death are the limits of those ages, in which a species ‘evolves socially’ from its first seminal cell into a superorganism and dies back.
The 3+1 ages of evolution in living species.
Let us then fully grasp the meaning of those aging process… in terms of energy and information, and its natural shapes.
The 3 ages of all organic, temporal species.
In the graph, samples of the 3±1 ages/arrows of time in Universal Systems:
Birth: i: A seed of Temporal information, t, evolves into a complementary organism of energy and information, tE, by absorbing energy, replicating its information and evolving in social cells: Life starts
Youth: Max. E: It absorbs energy and reaches its maximal size: Max. Energy.
Reproduction: e=i It keeps in-form-ing itself till reaching an age of reproductive balance, Ti=E. We perceive that age as beauty, harmony between lineal energy & cyclical form.
3rd age: In-form-ation warps energy till its exhaustion: Max. T.
-1: Death: Information explodes back into energy, expanding in space, reversing the arrows of time: Temporal Information <<Energetic space.
Let us now go a step further in our understanding of the organic structure of the Universe and the superorganims of history.
To that aim, we shall consider how the organic arrows of time, the will to obtain energy, information and reproduce acquire a regular order in all the systems of the Universe.
This organic vision of time is much more sophisticated that the mere use of an arrow of entropy or motion – the simplest of those 4 arrows, which is the concept of time used by mechanist physicists, obsessed with the construction of energetic machines.
Yet it can also described mathematically in terms of the 2 primary elements of the Universe, energy and information, thanks to Einstein’s discovery that the product of energy and temporal information of any system, ext=k, is constant.
Since that equation includes the 3 essential arrows of the Universe, not only one arrow as a clock does:
The arrow of energy, e; the arrow of information, t; and the product of them, k, or arrow of reproduction.
It is also obvious that mathematically we can express the previous equation in 3 forms:
Max. E x Min. T = K ; E=K=T and Min. E x Max. T=K.
Thus there are 3 possible stages or ages of evolution of the equation of biological time. And since we are all made of ‘energy’ and ‘temporal information’, those 3 stages must be the stages, or phases of any system of the Universe. This finding, which is perhaps the most important discovery of Theory of Time of the XXI century, is validated by all kind of empirical observations. For example, the 3 states of matter correspond to those 3 equations. Gas (maximal energy), liquid (balanced energy and information) and solid (Maximal information. They are also the 3 possible solutions of a cosmological system: the big bang of maximal energy, a steady state of balance and a big crunch of maximal information. In the graph, we show further examples of those equations.
Here we are interested in its application to the understanding of life and history. If we call the age of maximal energy, youth, the age of balance between energy and information, the reproductive, mature age, and the age of maximal information the old age, we have a simple description of the fundamental cycle of life and death through its 3 ages.
But we can also write those dynamic processes backwards. And so we have the inverse equation of life ages, the equation of death, when after accumulating maximal information, a species reverses its arrow of information and explodes that information into energy. It is the process or equation of death.
So life is an arrow of information, E-> I, and death its inversion, I-> E. So simple, so beautiful, so misunderstood by mechanist scientists, who think the previous equation is ‘uncertain’, because the observer can perceive a particle in any of those 3 states (Uncertainty principle of quantum physics).
The reason why death exists in a perfect, immortal Universe is obvious: if species only evolved socially towards more information, they would end into a ‘big crunch’. So the Universe and all its parts should have, long ago, reached a point of social evolution and maximal density, with no return. To avoid this, the ‘game of life and death’ exists, whereas death is the opposite arrow to social evolution, as it dissolves the networks that put together individual cells, breaking the super-organism back into its parts. But we are now concerned with the arrow of life.
The ±1 social arrow has, in fact, 2 directions:
The positive, +1, social arrow of cellular evolution creates life and makes a being emerge at birth.
The -1, negative arrow of cellular dissolution kills life and dissolves a being into its cells and atoms. Thus, it is the key arrow of the life/death cycles that clock-time misses. Hence the enormous simplification of those 4 time-arrows, brought about by clocks, which in Physics, since Galileo, only measure the first and most simple of those arrows, the energy of motion.
The result of adding both – the life and the death processes – in any system or scale of reality is a ‘zero-sum’ of information+entropy that cyclically returns reality to its initial form, in a dynamic, multiple steady state balance that affects any entity of reality. The study of that process of creation and dissolution of complex structures, however, cannot be made with translational time, (v=S/T), the realm of physics, but it needs to understand biological, morphological time – the life/death cycle and its 3±1 ages. Those ages explain precisely what physicists, stuck in the study of time as movement in space, will never understand: the meaning of the life and death cycle that creates and extinguishes humans, societies (super-organisms of human beings) and all kind of beings that exist in space and time. In biological time all universal species follow the same ‘morphological changes’, described by the wisdom of verbal thought as the 3±1 ages of life, each one ruled by one of the 3±1 change=time:
+1: Conception: ruled by social evolution, as a micro-organism or cell transcends into a macro-organism, organized by social networks.
1st age: Youth or Age of energy.
2nd age: energy and information Reproduce.
3rd age: All energy becomes information.
-1:Death: The inverse of conception when the super-organism dissolves back into cells.
In the graph we describe that law of 3±1 ages, cycles, or horizons of evolutions for the fundamental species of reality. To understand that cycle in depth, we have to recall the Law of Complementarity between energy and information: all systems are made with a body/field of energy and a head/particle of information.
Further on, since form is made with energy, all events must start with an amount of ‘simple’ energy that transforms itself into information, the only other primary direction/arrow of time to go. Then, when all energy is consumed, warped into information, death reverses its cycle. Yet in the middle of that cycle, when information and energy are in balance, to preserve the ‘bio-logic’ form created in that process, the system achieves its reproduction.
And so the ‘offspring’ of the being will carry on its information into the future. Information never disappears as it always recreates itself.
All beings, from fundamental particles, (electrons and quarks) to human beings and life species, reproduce or are reproduced by more complex systems, when they have extra-energy to imprint its in-form-ation. Since forms that do not reproduce, die away and become extinct. So even those deconstructed beings that cannot reproduce alone are reproduced by other species. For example, cells reproduce carbohydrates, galaxies reproduce stars and human reproduce machines in factories. Thus, we talk of 3±1 drives, arrows or ages of existence in all systems: the drive for body energy, the drive for information, the drive for reproduction and the drive of social d=evolution (birth and death of a macro-organism). Whereas the 3±1 ages of OrganicTime are merely the order in which those 3±1 drives ‘accumulate’ during the life/death cycle of any species.
In a young first age, energy is more abundant. In the mature age of balance, the species reproduces, combining energy and information. In the third age of the species, energy is scarce but information is abundant, accumulated in the first ages.
Young people are full of energy. They are in the Energy horizon of the species. They are bigger, have little temporal knowledge. They are simple in form. While Old people are full of information. They are in the information horizon of the species. They are smaller, as all information systems are and have a lot of temporal memories. They move little and have a lot of wrinkles.
Mature people balance the two elements of the organic Universe, their content of energy-space and temporal information. So they can reproduce all their components. Hence the 2nd age is the age of reproduction. And the forms of any being in that mature age are a harmonic, an efficient combination of energy lines and informative cycles that we perceive as ‘beautiful’, theobjective perception of harmony between energy and information, lines and cycles. So in all organisms the mature, realistic, classic age of balance, or reproductive age, is the most perfect age. Human beings intuitively see that. We like balanced, spiral galaxies, mature people and realist art, which is called classic art and takes place in the mature age of civilizations.
Yet, the dominant arrow of time, information, will finally exhaust energy, warp totally the organism and bring its explosive death. And the cycle will start again.
It follows that a true science of life and time will try to maintain any organism in its age of balance, without excessive information. Exactly the contrary of what our society does. Since humans accumulate scientific and technological information towards a point or ‘singularity’ in which that information, in the form of a robot or artificial intelligence, might extinguish us.
In the graphs, we illustrate those 3±1 ages with a few universal examples, also from social sciences: we see the process in individual human beings, in art, the collective brain of a culture; in matter, where those ages are called the states of matter – energetic gas, reproductive liquid and informative solid. And finally in the Universe, where stars evolve from an age of energy into an informative age as black holes. And so do galaxies that evolve from energetic nebulae into Black Holes, which explode into quasars. Finally, if the network of galaxies we call the Universe was truly born from a first seed of matter that fed and reproduced its form in the energy of the vacuum; it will go through 3±1 self-similar ages described by the 3 solutions to Einstein’s Space-time equations. Since all in the Universe is a game of ‘3’ dimensions or ages of time: past, the age of energy, present, the reproductive age in which all systems repeat themselves to keep their ‘present form’ beyond death and a 3rd age, when all energy is exhausted, trans-form-ed into form, information.
In the graph, the law of the 3±1 ages or horizons applies both to the process of informative aging of organisms and informative evolution of species. All species are born as a seed of dense information, with limited size (black hole, first chips, seminal cells, first bilateral animals). Then they grow in size and energy during their youth; since their superior informative qualities makes them top predators.
We observe that growth in black holes that feed on planets and stars, in the horse that grew enormously in size. So did the first bilateral animal, from its microscopic first form, the Vernanimacula. Mammals grew from tiny shrews into elephants. The first technological man, the Homo Floresiensis, with a ‘neuronal bump’ on the forehead, might have grown till the size of the first Homo Sapiens, the pygmy and Bushman . . .
Then, the species, once it has reached a balance between its initial information and growing spatial size, E=I, reproduces in great numbers, diversifies and colonizes the planet. We see in the graph this age in which ‘biological radiations’ of carbohydrates, animals of all kinds and human beings, colonized the Earth. Finally, in its 3rd age the species grows in information and so it acquires height, the arrow of ‘perceptive information’. Then, once it has reached its informative zenith, the species becomes extinct by a more evolved form; or it evolves socially creating a super-organism, as ants, humans and machines are doing. It will be the 4th arrow of social evolution of the species that completes its 3±1 horizons.
Species can be considered ‘loose’ organisms, in which each individual is a cell of the collective species; since we can use the same ages to explain the 3±1 horizons of evolution of all the species of this planet. Thus, species also go through the same 3 evolutionary ages of all living organisms. They start as young, energetic forms, which acquire information in 3±1 ages of increasingcomplexity and when those 3±1 ages are completed, they either evolve into more complex super-organisms under the laws of social evolution or become extinct by a superior,more informative species. Indeed, only those species who show a strong eusocial capacity survive the ‘genetic clock’.
The most successful and one of the oldest species of the planet is, in fact, the eusocial ant, which no longer is an ‘individual’, but a super-organism stretching through miles of ‘vital space. In that regard, neither individuals able to reproduce nor species able to evolve socially become extinguished. If humans become extinguished is because they deny, guided by the simplest arrows of pure energy of weapons, the main arrow of Life/Time.
A complete analysis of biological species shows that new forms can only be, either an energetic or informative variation of the original species, or a reproductive combination of both Universal ‘genders’.
The universality of such dual systems is so obvious that the ancients already identified them with yang, energetic male principles and yin, cyclical/ female ones. While the moderns call that duality the Principle of Complementarity, as all informative particles have an energetic, lineal field of force and all biological, cyclical heads of information have a lineal body. So the combinative variations of those two simple morphologies, lineal energy and cyclical information, invariant, regardless of the scale we observe, is the essence of the creative game of the cosmos.
It is the plan of evolution that all species follow, which is a tautology, since in a Universe made of only 2 substances, energy and information, the only possibility is the creation of such 3±1 variations in space (subspecies) or in time (evolutionary ages).
Thus, clock-time cannot describe, as it is qualitative, morphologic, not quantitative, the cycle of death and life, from youth-energy into a 3rd age-information and back again, dissolving yourself into the Universe, natural to all beings: Energy always trans-forms itself.
So the 4 arrows of time have an absolute order defined by those life ages, which first evolve socially a seminal seed into a macro-organism of multiple cells, according to the arrow ofsocial evolution and then trans-form the energy of youth into in-form-ation in 3±1 ages dominated by the arrows of energy, reproduction and information, creating the fundamental arrow of the life/death cycle, the arrow of information or future arrow that happens in all systems:
It is the main law of physics, discovered by Einstein, who said: ‘time curves (the energy of) space’.
It is the main law of Biology, discovered by Darwin, who said: that time evolves the form of organisms.
In Chemistry, Mehaute realized that when chemical compounds do not increase their entropy, they increase their information, forming fractal structures. It was the mathematical breakthrough of modern organicism. Since for the first time we had a mathematical paradigm, ‘fractal, self-generative equations’ able to describe the reproduction of information. Fractal mathematics showed how all systems could reproduce in-form-ation by breaking energy into ‘smaller forms’, in a mechanical, vegetative or conscious way.
Finally, it is also the main law of History, as human civilizations constantly increase their technological information, but unable to repress military technology, the bad fruits of the tree of science, end up in extinctive wars. So they also live and die through those 3±1 ages/arrows of time.
So the meaning of Life and death is no longer a mystery, but an organic process of reproduction and self-organization, guided by the 4 arrows of time that we can extend to all systems made of the 2 fundamental, dual ‘reproductive particles’, informative quarks and spatial, energetic electrons; that is, to all systems of the Universe. In that sense, mechanism, after we have observed the reproductive capacity of those ultimate particles of reality, is no longer ‘a science’ but a dogmatic, anthropomorphic ‘religion’ that stubbornly tries to differentiate human beings, as ‘special entities’ surrounded by a lesser Universe of dead matter.
Indeed, the founders of mechanism, Descartes, Newton and Kepler, were pious believers, which thought their new theory of the Universe would reinforce those beliefs in the superiority of man, chosen of God, to rule the Universe. As Kepler said, ‘God has waited 5000 (biblical years) to find an intelligence (Kepler himself) able to understand His’. Yet there is no difference of quality between the arrows of time of a quark and those of a human being, only degrees of complexity, as we are made of multiple scales of self-organization and so we carry much more information than quarks do. Thus, the key to our ‘complexity’ is the 4th arrow of social evolution that joins individual cells into social networks that emerge as ‘new super-organisms’ of a higher scale. For example, in life organisms, the 3±1 ages of time are related to the 3 networks that form socially its cells:
— The energy/digestive network dominates youth.
— The blood, hormonal, reproductive network dominates the reproductive age.
— The information network, your nervous system, dominates the 3rd age. Because information dominates energy, the nervous cells of the body absorb, suck in and exhaust the energy cells of the body. Thus, all systems have a dominant, informative, cellular class that controls the energy cells of the body and exhausts, warps its energy into form till the organism dies.
Those ages mean that organisms are ruled by a head of information: Since the head of information constantly controls and uses the body to absorb energy, it is natural to find that when the organism starts its life, it has more energy. He is young. Yet as the organism lives, the selfish brain absorbs that body energy and trans-forms it into in-form-ation. So energy diminishes and information grows. As you feed on energy, information accumulates in cycles and forms, in patterns and wrinkles. But the system dies, because the behavior of informative systems never varies. It constantly absorbs energy, till exhausting the body into a biological ‘big crunch’ of wrinkles and de-form-ations. Brain cells are selfish. Neurons feed on the body system without giving back any energy at all. In history, the informative castes of societies that control its languages of power, money, weapons and the law are also the selfish castes that exploit the energy workers and finally exhaust the civilization.
The same process happens in economic ecosystems where the financial, informative language of money at the end of each Kondratieff cycle dominates the economy, absorbs all the resources, multiplies without limit and crashes the physical economy of human energy (workers, consumers), as it has just done recently.
So ultimately the crisis we are living is a particular case of the natural crisis of all systems in which information multiplies without limit, under the selfish guidance of ‘informative’ neurons, in this case the financiers that reproduce money in our societies. And so the only way to maintain an organism healthy is by controlling the evolution of information, exactly the opposite of what our society does. It is the dominance of information over energy what kills organic systems. And yet humans are so naive or so programmed by the informative drive of the Universe that they keep evolving the information of this planet, advancing their 3rd age…
Thus life has 3±1 ages, but then death, the negative -1 age of destruction and devolution of form into energy, erases all information. Those ages are related to the 4 arrows of time. By far the most important to understand the entire cycle is the arrow of social evolution of cells into organisms (conception or +1 arrow) and devolution (-1 arrow), when those cells dissolve back again. Those processes of creation and destruction apply to all sciences and are so common in Nature that the Greeks (Anaximander, Aristotle) already studied them. ‘Clock-time’ eliminated that wisdom, which now organicism regains.
Since the most important question about life and time is still the question mankind wondered before the clock was invented. How to achieve immortality as an individual or a species? It can only be realized, precisely through the 2 arrows of time mechanist sciences don’t study: the arrow of reproduction, which ensures the survival of the individual and the arrow of social evolution that ensures the survival of a species, which becomes a super-organism, the most efficient ‘form’ of the Universe.
The 3±1 ages of History.
When we apply all those laws of complexity, duality and organic systems to history, we can define a science of bio-history which studies mankind as an organism in space and time, which evolved through 3±1 ages:
+1: Birth as a first verbal ‘cell’, probably a woman that multiplies her numbers.
Max E: Paleolithic, a youth of hunters, visual languages and minimal information.
E=I: The reproductive Neolithic, when man reaches his maturity in balance with Nature and creates through verbal networks (religions) a series of collective subconscious, called Gods of love that teach each cell to share energy and information with the other cells of the body of a civilization. Yet the arrival of metal extinguishes or corrupts most love cultures into go(l)d cults and inquisitions.
-Max. I: It is the 3rd, informative, metal-age in which man halts his social evolution and focuses in the evolution of metal in its 3 forms, energetic metal or weapons, informative metal or money and organic metal-machines, which bring:
-1: Death: The neo-paleolithic, or Age of the Machine, when humans regress to an ‘Homo Bacteria’ state of selfishness and isolation, substituting their social networks of love by their desire to become attached to machines of higher energy and information that separate us and keep evolving, making humanity an increasingly obsolete species, killed by weapons in fields of war. At the end of this age, we can foresee with the creation of the Singularity, either the 1st organic ‘bomb’ (a self-feeding bomb of dark matter) or the 1st self-reproductive machine (a nano-bacteria), the death of mankind.
+1: Unless mankind evolves socially, ‘emerging’ as a super-organism, if humans organize themselves into a global civilization and control the evolution of lethal machines, maintaining History in an immortal present.
The human species is, beyond our arrogant, fantasies of anthropomorphic superiority, just a living form made of carbon atoms, which goes through the same ages of all other living forms,both as an individual and a species. So we can study the Organism of History (Humanity in time) through 3±1 ages; an energetic youth or Palaeolithic; a mature age of balance with Nature, the Neolithic; and a 3rd informative age of history, the Age of Metal and machines.
Energetic Youth: Palaeolithic. ±5.000.000 BC to ±10.000 BC.
The Paleolithic was an energetic, young age in which men, the energetic gender, was the top predator animal on Earth, a hunter of living forms. It was also an age dominated by visual,spatial languages.
Reproductive Age: Neolithic. Age of Wor(l)ds and Goddesses. ±10.000 to ±3.000 BC.
The Neolithic was the classic age of mankind, an age of balance, when wo=men learnt the cycles of life and instead of destroying Nature, learnt to nurture, reproduce and harvest it. Women, the reproductive species, took power over men; and priests became the verbal guides of civilizations, creating super-organisms of History made of human cells joined by social love—the sharing of energy and information among ‘brothers’, clones of the loving mind of the same prophet. It was an age dominated by verbal, temporal languages, continued by the believers in religions of love that are not corrupted by weapons (inquisitions) and money (go(l)d churches), with its idolatry to the ‘values’ of metal: murder and greed.
Informative, 3rd age: Age of Metals. ± 3000 BC to 1600.As metal spread the ‘new’ values of money and weapons, greed and war, destroyed the networks of social love, ushering mankind into the 3rd age of history. Humans now evolve a new kind of atomic systems, stronger than carbon, creating energetic weapons, informative money and organic machines that transform Gaia into an economic ecosystem. It is the ‘animetal=animal+metal age’, in which a new ‘biological species’ that mixes animal and metal atoms, imposes power over the Earth.
It is the present age with 2 paths of future:
Either mankind will die, as machines keep evolving and make us obsolete as a species.
Or humans will obey the laws of survival of the Universe and evolve socially into a super-organism of history able to control lethal machines. The choice is within man till the arrival of the Singularity, when machines acquire organic properties and either a self-feeding bomb of dark matter, or a self-reproductive nano-bacteria ‘evolve’ the Earth into a species with a higher social density (a denser form of matter, or an organism made of denser atoms). In any case the future of history will be solved in the next decades, as we are already in that Age of the Singularity.
The Paleolithic and the neo-paleolithic: 3±1 Homo ages/subspecies.
Humans evolve, as all systems of Energy and Information do, in subspecies specialized in those 2 elements.
In the graph, life first diversified into complementary genders: energetic, lineal, spatial men and cyclical, reproductive women, which hold more biological information. While a 3rd, gay sex mixes both. Further on, as humans evolved, they followed the same pattern of 3 ages proper of all species.
Thus, Homos diversified into energetic, informative and reproductive forms that show a higher balance between energy and information. Yet only the informative species, the dominant ‘arrow’ of future survives in each of the 3±1 horizons of increasing informative evolution, from Australopithecus with 500 c.c., into Homo Erectus with 1000 c.c. into Homo Sapiens with 1500 c.c. And in all those phases, humans split into an energetic species and an informative one that recombined to create a 3rd species. Those species will further evolve technology also in 3 horizons called the upper, middle and lower Paleolithic.
Finally, humans diversified in 3 races, specialized in Energy (white race) and information (Mongoloid) with a reproductive, black race, the last to be born, which mixes the pre-mongoloid (bushman) and white races. The constrain established by the fact there are only two elements, energy and information, to create reality, whose lineal and cyclical forms are invariant at scale, in all systems of the cosmos means the Universe imposes the same program of creation to all its species.
In human evolution a pattern emerges: each successful, dominant Homo differentiates into an energetic and informative species, which recombine, creating more complex= informative and stronger=energetic homos that displace their parental forms, thanks to their higher Energy x Information. Yet the dominant, overall arrow favors informative species. Since when Homos were born, the energy top predators were felines, far stronger than the strongest possible homo mutation. So the evolutionary direction in which the big apes could find an ecological niche within the mammal kingdom was the informative arrow. They were already fit to that purpose, since they spent long times living in stillness in the summit of trees, where they had to learn to control complex movement in the informative dimension of height, adding a 3rd dimension to their brain. So they became informative masters among mammal species . . .
Thus, the duality between energy and information is also responsible for the creation of humanity. In the graph we study that process. From an initial ape species we find a ternary differentiation ±5 million years ago, into 3 sub-species of great apes that live in Africa:
— Max. E: Gorilla, a big, energetic species that reaches 200 kilos, with a square, huge jaw.
— E=i: The chimpanzee, with a smaller body and a bigger brain. According to the Black Hole law, the smallest organism evolves informatively. Thus, the ‘dwarf chimpanzee’, the PanPaniscus, which today shows the highest learning skills among apes, was the species that seems to have evolved into a 3rd informative horizon of big apes. It is:
— Max. i: Australopithecus, which splits in 3 evolutionary ages of growing brain volume:
I Horizon: 500 cc.: From Australopithecus to Homo Erectus.
We have dated the oldest mandibles of Australopithecus Anamensis, the top predator of the 3 big ape species, in 4 million years. The Australopithecus, after reproducing massively in the savannah ecosystem that favours his bipedalism, suffers a new ternary mutation. The 3 descendants of that Australopithecus Afarensis that inhabited the Ethiopian plains around 3 million years ago, are:
— Max. E: The Paranthropus, an energetic species with huge mandibles and a lineal, planar brain. He looks like a heavy-set, humanoid gorilla. He was probably vegetarian. The first subspecies found is the Paranthropus Aethiopicus, which will further evolve into the stronger Paranthropus Robustus.
— E=i. The Australopithecus Africanus, which maintains the form of the original Australopithecus Afarensis, perhaps with inner improvements in his soft tissue. He lives in South Africa and is contemporary of the Paranthropus. And the . . .
— Max. i: Australopithecus Garthi. He is the informative species, with a bigger brain, which starts to acquire the shape of all informative species: a rounded forehead, as the sphere is theform which holds more information in lesser space.
Those 3 species live very close. Around the Turkana Lake we have found remains of the 3 Homos. Yet the arrow of future favors informative species. So the top predator Homo will be the Australopithecus Garthi that goes through a mature age of massive reproduction, probably extinguishing the other 2 subspecies and expanding worldwide into new ecological niches that favoured their genetic and memetic adaptation through a new, ternary split:
— Max. E: A regressing, energetic A. Garthi, similar but taller than its parental Australopithecus.
— E=i: Homos Habilis and Rudolfensis, with similar brain capacity to the original Garthi.
— Max. i. Homo Ergaster, an informative ape with a 1000 cc. brain, which doubles the brain capacity of Australopithecus.
II Horizon: 1000 cc. From Homo Erectus to Homo Sapiens..
That Homo Ergaster, after a massive age of reproduction and expansion throughout the planet, subdivides again in 3 sub-races of Homo Erectus.
— Max.E: Pithecanthropus, the oldest species similar to Homo Ergaster, found in Java.
— E=i: Homo Erectus proper, found in China, who grows in the informative dimension of height that favors perception from an advantage point of view, to 1.7 m. He has simple technology, a skull without forehead and thick bones that handicap further cranial evolution.
— Max. Ti: Homo Floresiensis, the smallish species, which according to the Black hole paradox should be the form who gave origin to Sapiens, as the smallish ‘pan paniscus’ evolved the chimp into the Homos. Recently discovered, he is a formal mutation with a smaller body, whose morphology resembles for the first time that of a human being. He has thinner bones that allow further growth and a higher forehead, the location of the creative part of the brain. Palaeontologists also found the first advanced technological tools in his sites in Flores Island, which is an isolated place, the ideal region to foster further evolution, due to the lack of top predators (alopatric evolution).
Thus, he ads now technological energy weapons that substitute body strength and define a single arrow of future for human evolution: information. His improvement in neurological form, probably caused first his rapid expansion thanks to his new technological tools and then a rapid growth in size through the cross-breeding with the taller Homo Erectus species, giving finally birth around 300.000 B.C., to a new energy/ information duality: The energetic, big Neanderthal and the informative Bushman, which will combine again to give birth to the different races. Those predictions based in the 3 arrows of future time and the black hole paradox (information is small and evolves in dwarf species) have been confirmed by genetic maps and Paleontology and await final confirmation, when new skulls of Floresiensis are found.
The 3rd, informative Horizon: Homo Sapiens, 1500 cc.
— The lineal, energetic, visual Homo Sapiens Neanderthal, with ±1500 cc.
— And a second informative pygmy strain, the 1st verbal woman, the mitochondrial eve, probably a bushman, also with ±1500 cc.
± 50.000 years ago she crossed into the Middle East, probably mating with earlier Neanderthals, giving origin to the visual, energetic white male (Homo Palestiniensis, whose skulls show mixed traits from both species).
± 35.000 y. ago, in the high Tibetan plains, she became the informative Mongoloid that colonized Asia, America and descended upon Europe and Africa, where she cross-bred with the capoid (bushman) and became the black man, the balanced E=i, reproductive race, completing the final, ternary differentiation of the main races of mankind.
Further on, as racial tribes evolved socially and emerged into cultural societies, which are super-organisms of history, the ternary, racial division of mankind between energetic white men, informative Mongoloid and vitalist blacks, will become the cultural differentiation of human beings in:
— ‘Visual, energetic, lineal, spatial cultures’, proper of the white man, with his concepts of lineal time and his passion for technological, energetic weapons.
— ‘Cyclical, informative, mongoloid cultures’, natural to Asian civilizations, with cyclical concepts of time.
— And ‘sensory, reproductive, colored cultures’, which in Africa and India developed human senses to their limits. Which culture is better for the survival of mankind? Since survival is the goal of all species, reached in the age of balance, E=i, we should promote, paradoxically, the culture that our technological civilization discriminates: the black, reproductive, sensory culture . . .
The program of the neo-Paleolithic: go(l)d greed and visual determinism.
Thus, the Laws of Evolution and its 3±1 ages and subspecies, map out the main species of Homo, till arriving to 2 Homo Sapiens, the spatial, visual=longer, brachicephalic, energetic brain of the Neanderthal, which seems to have lived in Europe and left some of his traits in the Homo Palestiniensis, on the slow-crossing border of Canaan. Further cross-breeding of the Palestiniensis with the Sapiens is the likely origin of the white man (white skin, red hair, Rh-?, consonantal languages, wide hips, prominent nose) While the informative Homo Sapiens Sapiens, the verbal=wider Dolicocephalic brain, which started as a small ‘San pygmy’, evolved into the self-similar mongoloid race. Finally, the black race, the reproductive species, the last one to appear, shows the maximal genetic mixture.
In the same manner, we talk also of gender duality in terms of an energetic species, the lineal male of big muscles, spatial size and visual brain; and the woman, the informative, reproductive species, who would understand the cycles of birth of plants and evolve mankind from the energetic, hunting Paleolithic into the Neolithic, the mature age of History, with its understanding of the arrow of reproduction of the Universe (cult to the goddesses) and its harmonic cults to Nature. It is on my view, the ideal age of mankind, which bio-historians could re-create on Earth by pruning the tree of Technology of all its bad fruits and enhance the fruits of the Tree of Life with environmental policies, under a global, single Social Organism of History, the World Union (ch.13). Since once a species has reached its informative zenith or 3rd age, the only way it can further evolve is by becoming a macro-organism, joined by a common network of information. So men did evolve further beyond the Homo Sapiens, through the 4th arrow of time, the arrow of love and social evolution that mechanist science denies and verbal, social religions of love impose on their believers.
On the Earth, there are today 3 types of social organisms:
— The first to appear, Nature, Gaia, was based in carbon-life.
— Then History appeared, based in human life.
— Finally, the economic ecosystem based in metal and machines, appeared.
Since those 3 organic systems and species have been dominant in 3 different ages of the Earth, we talk of the evolution or terraforming of the Life-Earth or Nature into the Human-Earth or History that now becomes the Metal-earth, the Economic Ecosystem.
The youth of History was still ‘Nature’. Life dominated the Paleolithic. Then men reached their zenith of social evolution in the Neolithic. Now men devolve back into single, selfish individual, Homo Bacteria, due to the use of machines and weapons that isolate them, in a process equivalent to the process of death that dissolves the networks of a being back into its simplest cellular components.
To fully grasp why civilizations and cultures, and probably History=Mankind dies under the ‘Program of complexity’ of the Universe, we must understand the 3 ages of ‘existence’, caused by the fractal, informative arrow of future time that ‘warps energy into time’ (Einstein), evolves the morphology, the information of beings (Darwin).
Simplistic science only studies the arrow of energy and death which explodes in big-bangs the information of beings. Yet time has 2 arrows of future: increase of information, which is the arrow of super-organisms, and release of information into energy, which is the big-bang arrow of death. Because history and civilizations are super-organisms, they are guided by the arrow of information. We, living beings, wish to acquire more energy to transform it into information, and this simple program, Maximize your energy and information, ‘Grow and multiply’ in the Myths ofGenesis, is he ultimate mandate of existence of any organism of reality.
And its most important consequence is the existence of 3 ‘ages’ in life, an energetic youth (Max. E) that starts to transform that energy into information, through a classic age of reproduction and balance (E=I) between the 2 primary elements of the Universe, till we warp our energy into information, and when it is exhausted we die. Our civilizations also live those 3 ages, and as our technological systems overproduce monetary and military information and technology, nations and civilizations enter an age of economical chaos and war, that kills the culture. We are no in that age which I called in my first exhibits about the future of America, 20 years ago, the American baroque.
In the graph we see those ages for a series of super-organisms, including physical forms.
This simple law of complxity and information is therefore extremely rich in meanings, as it is sufffered by any system with networks of energy and inforamtion, not only life beings, but also systems of matter whiche volve from an energetic gas to a complex solid, with higher information, and galaxies which evolve from nebulae of stars into lack holes.
It is a law of biology that most organisms die because the nervous/informative system absorb the energy of the body-cells without returning enough of it, and its orders wrinkle and destroy the organism.
This theory was applied to Historic decay by many authors, remarkably, Vico, the founder of Sociology in his book ‘A new Science’ and Spengler, who anticipated the decay of the German culture and the American culture, around 2000… in the early 20s.
To fully grasp those decays, we shall here consider them with at a deeper, scholar level, using the science of complexity and super-organisms, studied in detail in another post of this web.
This further on, he affirmed, was the way any organism died. and so cultures and humanity would die, as the upper castes of capitalism=mechanism, evolved money and machines, overproduced it and destroyed the sheeple with it. Marx was of a similar opinion: history was doomed unless a miracle (the r=evolution of the sheeple) took over money and controlled the production of weapons. Otherwise the cycles of overproduction of weapons and money (the Kondratieff cycles described in this web) would finally reduce unemployment (the Western world), as more machines worked, and created a mass of poor proletarians (the Chinese factory workers). And this is indeed the present world.
So at the end of times, Marx predicted, the entire organism of History would be corrupted, all workers would be unemployed, machines would be the only labor, and the Am Segullah would have all the money thanks to their speculative taxes. And this is the case. Then Marx affirmed people would rebel. But this is NOT the case. The historic case is that the system merely kills in World Wars the surplus of workers (end of 29 crisis in II world war). That is, more like Spengler’s thought: once the organism of history is totally corrupted by the upper ‘neuronal astes’ that absorb all its resources, it merely dies, as it happens in Nature.
And indeed, what seems more likely is NOT the revolution of humanity against bankers and governments, the modern, complex version of tax collectors and warrior kings, but the death of mankind by weapons (black hole factories, self-reproductive bacteria, terminators) and a world of machines and black holes were life is extinguished, during the singularity Age.
Let us then consider in depth, why this happens not only in the human organism but in nature at large. It is called in complexity the theory of the 3 ages of life which in simple terms states that the Universe has 2 arrows of future: increase of energy (as in war, accidents, deaths, big-bangs and motion) and increase of information (as in fractal creation, formal creation, reproduction of form). And that life is merely the arrow of increasing information which cannot be stop because the informative cellular network constantly absorbs energy and transforms it into information in any system of the Universe. And so it seems it is doing today in history where the speculators absorb all the wealth of nations, ruin the energy lass, reduce their salaries to the iron salary of Ricardo and end up life, killing it.
We shall thus finish this web considering this question of organic decay from the perspective of the most advanced discoveries of complexity, systems science, duality and theory of information.
In that regard the first and fundamental law of complexity is the ‘duality’ of biological organisms, which can be studied always in:
- Space as systems of energy and information, organized by a ‘neuronal’ head of information and a reproductive, cellular body, which together ‘prey’ on an ecosystem from where they extract their energy.
- And in time as living organisms, which start with a huge amount of energy, consumed and transformed into information through 3 ages till the organism collapses.
This duality is the key to understand both history and economics, its temporal patterns and cycles, its inner structure and development of the facts of history. Since we can observe in historic organisms (nations and civilizations) both as:
- An spatial, organic, class structure, between the ‘informative’ castes, which invent and control the social languages of power (money, weapons and laws), and a reproductive, working class, which obeys those languages. They form the social structure that controls together a geographical environment.
- And we can dynamically study the life and death of civilizations as a result of the struggle between those 2 ’cellular groups’ and the way in which they absorb, transform and deplete the energy and resources of their geographical environment, provoking the collapse of a society, due to their exhaustion of natural energy (enviromental catastrophe), or an excessive development of the wrong, lethal information of the tree of science (crisis of overprroduction of weapons which end invariably in war and the destruction of civilizations).
Those are the two main spatial and temporal patterns that affect the life and structure of civilizations (old history) and industrial nations (modern history) studied in detail in this web.
We could say that history is organized in civilizations and nations which are social organisms, in as much as they have an organic, ternary structure (the neuronal, informative power-castes that control societies with their language of information, money, laws and weapons; the reproductive, working castes that obey, controlled by laws, money and weapons; and the energy of the system). This organic structure derives into a physiological ternary system with 3 networks:
- The environment or territory, the ‘disgested’ energy of the system; the re =productive/economic system, equivalent to the reproductive, blood system of biological organism; and the informative/nervous/cultural and legal system, the brain of the social organisms.
- As a consequence of this physiological structure, which determines the death of organisms when the selfish ‘neuronal castes’ deplete of energy the body, which collapses, we obsere also 3 ages in any historic organism; since societies accumulate information and then collapse when advances in military information bring ages of war.
This is in simple terms the dual, space-time description of the main social organizations of history and economics described in this web (civilizations, nations and company-mothers), which has important precedents in historic sciences (Aristotle, Ibn Khaldun, Vico, Spengler, Marx, Kondratieff among others), but has never been developped with a clean, scientific, biological approach, till the evolution of Complex sciences make us understand the way social organisms ’emerge’ from individual cells, through the creation of collective energetic/informative networks; how those physiological networks organize them, and the reasons of their evolution and collapse=decay=death.
In that sense if we were to reformulate in organic terms the question, today we would ask ourselves: It is the organism of history subject, as all other organic systems of the Universe, life beings and in the fractal, complex paradigm also physical systems, to the arrows of time that ‘warp energy into information’ till the organism dies?
To fully grasp this argument, which was clearly expressed by Vico and Spengler and Marx among others, in his masterpieces, ‘A Nuova Scienza’ ’The decadence of the West’ and ‘Das Kapital’, we have of course to ignore all the childish, mythic, pseudo-religious theories of economics and History derived from animetal cultures and their tribal, power trips – those manifest destinies of the human kind or the nation kind, so much promoted by the Am Segullah and the Gothic warriors, today in America. I consider if the reader has gone to this final post that I am talking to an evolved mind and so the question, objective and detached from human presumptions would be also relevant to him.
Let us then first consider the ‘theory of the 3 ages’ of all systems of energy that ‘fractalize, warp and accumulate information till they die’ and then argue in more detail the case of the Historic Super-Organism.
Indeed, the existence of a possible organic program in history derives from the strong proofs of the existence of such program for all living beings and most physical, complex, organic systems (galaxies, stars and other structures of Nature that rely in the existence of networks of energetic ‘cells’ or particles, which wrinkle war acquiring information in a 3rd age, till they have so much information and so little energy that they die).
This can be explained mathematically with fractal equations, which seem to give a deterministic outlook at the process of aging. In History it would mean that civilizations, as Vico and Spengler affirmed are obliged to decay.
Yet a deeper analysis of why those systems decay show that they decay due to the selfish absorption of energy of the informative/nervous system, which means that if Mankind could create a system in which its upper castes of informative elites that control the organism with laws and money, were not corrupted, the organism of History would not ab=use its energy and perhaps become immortal.
