Ages of Life organisms are parallel to the ages of History
History would be immortal if the ideological memes of eusocial love had won.
They haven’t and so history has entered a cyclical period of life and death through a series of civilizations that must be understood with the same laws that cause the 3 ages of life and death of organisms.
This is not needed but it has happened and it is happenings.
In that regard, the meaning of Life and death is no longer a mystery to complexity theorists (though it will always be for primitive memetic people who think that what makes him happy – the fairy tales of our self-centered civlization is truth), but an organic process of reproduction and self-organization, guided by the arrow of informative time that we can extend to all organisms and gives origin to the laws of evolution and the 3 ages of life.
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 3rdage…
Thus life has 3±1 ages, starting in an age of energy (the paleolithic in history), a mature, reproductive age (the Neolithic in history) and a 3rd age of excess of information (the age of metals in history); but then death, the negative -1 age of destruction and devolution of form into energy, erases all information. By far the most important drive or arrow of evolution in the universe 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 of biological evolution and its life/death cycles, which now organicism regains.
The 3±1 ages of History.
Mankind evolved in time through 3±1 ages:
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, bothas 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, spatiallanguages.
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 3±1 ages of metal-history.
In the graph, the Life-Death Cycle of History can be related to the evolution of metal, which causes our ‘physical death’ (weapons) and mental death (digital ideologies that simplify our perception).
We can use a bell curve to map out the 3 ages of life of mankind=history; and subdivide each of those ages in 3 sub-periods of birth, maturity and extinction. Since we have already studied the youth of history, the Paleolithic and its mature, social age, the Neolithic, we shall concentrate in the rest of the book in the Age of Animetals, with 3 sub-ages, marked by 3 clear discontinuities in the evolution of metal, both in weapons and money:
— YOU TH OF METAL-HISTORY: Energetic Weapons age: From 3000 BC to 500 BC. Mankind lived in the Age of Bronze weapons and bartering. Since money is still scarce in the form of bars of metal, words are still the main language of communication of mankind. But now writing becomes the vehicle to expand the law of the warrior, in control of Neolithic societies, thanks to his weapons. Priests are displaced from power. Women become systematically repressed. Goddesses of fertility are substituted by warrior Gods, without compassion. It is the age of Mesopotamian Empires. Verbal thought reaches its informative zenith at the end of this age, around 500 BC, in the work of Lao-Tse, Buddha, Confucius and Socrates, who reach the height of the organic, Neolithic, verbal understanding of the Universe, just when a new language of information, coins and numbers, appears and human, verbal thought looses power.
—CLASSIC AGE OF METAL-HISTORY: Age of Coins, Ecumenical religions, Horses and Iron (500 BC, 1200 AD).
The 4 languages of the Earth are in balance: life, represented by the horse, mankind represented by ethic wor(l)ds and metal, represented by iron swords and coins. Mankind still rules and learns how to control with ethic behavior the power of weapons. Yet in Greece, where coins are invented, money becomes a new language of power that challenges verbal ethics. Slowly words become displaced by money, the new language that controls more and more the actions of human beings. Since money is a visual, digital language, it also means that verbal thought and ethics are displaced by visual thought, as men become hypnotized by money and mathematical languages, which appear with Thales at Miletus, an emporium of trade. Both coin accountancy and Mathematics come together in Greece. After a brief return to an ethic vision of life, during the Middle Ages, Renaissance will reproduce the Greek culture of gold and visual, simple thought that rejects the ethics of the wor(l)d; while the conquest of America will bring so much Gold to Europe that finally money imposes its ‘values’ as the main language of social power.
— OLD AGE OF METAL-HISTORY. Age of machines. (1200 AD till the Singularity: 20??). The arrival of a complex informative machine, the clock; and the ultimate energetic weapon, the cannon, transforms for ever human societies. Time looses its biological meaning and becomes an abstract number measured by clocks. In the middle of this cycle, in the 1600s, Galileo invents ballistics, studying with clocks the motion of cannonballs for the Venetian Arsenal, kicking off the evolution of modern weapons and scientific instruments. It is the informative age of Animetal cultures. Also in 1600 the first company, re=producer of gunboats appears.
Mathematics, money and the scientific method, void if biological, ethic survival values, become the languages those company-mothers use to re=produce its offspring of machines and price humans as objects. Wor(l)ds become obsolete. A new form of money, stock-paper, appears. It is soon imitated by governments that ‘publish’ notes. There is so much paper-money that all things can receive monetary values and human, verbal values are no longer respected. There are so many weapons, due to their industrial reproduction that ethics and social power become obsolete. The clock now is applied to measure and value human life-time. Companies control through salaries and prices most of the time of existence of human beings. They make mankind to evolve machines through acts of work=reproduction and consumption=testing of machines. As words loose values, fiction appears, further diminishing the importance of our languages. Thus, the decadence of mankind is hidden because paradoxically humans loose their verbal, non-fiction, logic understanding of reality. The industrialization of information puts first the press, then radio and finally TVs, in the altar of old verbal gods. They allow companies of machines to indoctrinate and manufacture also the human brain with the values of greed and violence (Luther and the press, Hitler and Radio, Reagan and TVs). Men no longer understand the meaning of social evolution and survival, because murder and greed have become the supreme values of societies. This age of machines subdivides itself in 3 sub-ages, the 3 Kondratieff cycles of steam, chemical energy and electr(on)ic energy that now end. It will be the . . .
— DEATH OF HISTORY. Singularity age (2008-2050). When machines reach its limit of evolution as weapons (Energetic Singularity or cosmic bomb, now rehearsed at CERN) and will evolve soon into ‘living organisms’ (self-reproductive bacteria) and ‘intelligent’, informative species (Artificial Intelligence). Any of those 3 species of the IV cycle of evolution of machines can extinguish and substitute mankind as top predator of the Earth. So unless humans devolve machines and evolve socially into a Global Organism, the Wor(l)d Union, we will become extinct this century perhaps within a year, when CERN makes the first black holes on Earth.
