Introduction - from “vis plastica” to “information & self-organisation”
There are many kinds of matters in our nature and there is a kind of order and organisation between them, reflected as birth and death cycles. The question is: How is this order established? And why is life based on birth and death cycles? (This question was dealt exhaustingly in Gedik 2008 and a short version in English will be presented here.)
-Is there any other external player (force system) responsible for the order, beyond (or beside) the constituent components?
-Or is the order and organisation established by mutual interactions of constituent parts? And if so, where is the information for this order stored?
Our ancestors accepted the first case to be true and coined a term “vis plastica” (a divine system) being responsible for the establishment and maintenance of this order.
The simplest way to understand our ancestor’s assumption about the natural force system is their explanations of fossil records in earth-history. As you know, during earth history, layers of sedimentary beds are continuously deposited at the bottom of oceans, including the rest of organisms living there. The first geologists being strongly influenced of traditional life view (creation) explained the development of fossils with the aid of a creator thought as a “vis plastica”, sculpting the body of organisms.
Our ancestors assumed an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent being outside of ourselves, being responsible for the creation and maintenance of nature. This extraordinary force was thought to sculpt and shape every thing in nature according to his intentions; That why a term “vis plastica” was coined, meaning “the sculpting or shaping force”.
Our ancestors could not explain the cause of the birth and cycles and solved this problem with an assumption of a second life in another world. This kind of a belief was the dominant life-view among humans until the debut of Darwin’s evolution theory in 1859.
Darwin rejected the idea of an external creator (or sculptor), and but assumed an other kind of invisible force system, called “natural selection” indicating again an extra force system beyond the compositional elements.
The force activators of this “nature” are never explained clearly. When scientists supporting Darwinian-evolution-theory are confronted with the question “Nature consists of oceans, mountains, the sun and its system, stars, galaxies, etc. Who makes the selection? Is it oceans or mountains, or is it extra-terrestrial objects?” you get no answers. Force development and the selection system of nature are not described precisely by supporters of evolutionary theory, including the most prominent ones like Gould, Eldridge, Ayala, etc. That is the situation in today’s world.
Humans are educated in the manner that they see the plants, animals, cells, molecules or atoms as non-conscious, randomly behaving “particles”, being guided by an extra-ordinary natural or divine force-system.
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DMN Appendix 1 Why humans have difficulties in constructing a reliable social structure?
Bees have done it, ants have done it, corals have done it, bryozoans have done it. They all have perfect social organisations. Humans consider themselves as the most intelligent being among all creatures in the world, but they couldn’t establish a firm social structure yet. Why? ...........continue
DMN Appendix 2 The Mutualness And Target-Dependency Of The Informational System
Fundamental particles of matters are mutually dependent: Up-quarks communicate with down-quarks, charm-quarks with strange-quarks, protons with electrons, etc.
The mutualness and target-dependency of the informational systemexist in living systems too. ............ continue
DMN Appendix 3 Intelligent Design, Natural Selection or Competitive Information Development and Self-Organisation in Mutual Interactions: Which One Drives the Natural Phenomena?
Two different view about life are common in our societies. According to one view all phenomena are designed and constructed by a divine God, omnipotent and omniscient. The other view suggests a development based on random mutations with the selection of........ continue
DMN Appendix 4 Cells, Humans and Societies
Life-beings are motivated according to certain targets; that is true also for humans. Therefore the goal of humane efforts is to establish a reasonable life-concept on this planet to secure a social life-style. Technological achievements (worldwide-satellite-communications, air-planes,............. continue
DMN Appendix 5 Cell Consciousness, Human Consciousness And Their Relations
Hundred years ago there were no electrical devices; five thousand years ago no metallic devices; ten thousand years ago no dishes or spoons; 5 million years ago there were no human beings; 100 million years ago, there was dinosaurs instead of ..... continue
DMN Appendix 6 The importance of knowledge (consequently consciousness) in development of life systems.
If we look around us we can see houses, cities, streets, bridges, autos, ships, aeroplanes, computers, robots, factories, reed-huts, rawhide sandals, trees, weeds, fruits, birds, insects, horses, cats, etc.. When we try to classify those objects we can put them in three categories: (1)those designed and constructed by....... continue
DMN Appendix 7 Humans thinking and reasoning system
We are living in a sea of energy fields. In this "sea", energy flows continuously through matters (and hence our bodies) and influence thereby their behaviour. This influence arise through interactions of the constituting parts (cells, its organelles and their molecules) with energy flowing through them. These interactions begin first..... continue
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