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synthesis
Can the idea that has been presented so far grow into
a formal theory that can be confirmed experimentally ?
leads
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I think yes, but only over lots of time.
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In any closed system, entropy, roughly a measure of disorder,
can at best remain constant, but usually it increases. With
time, macroscopic directed motion and structures decay into
microscopic random motion, which is, by definition, heat.
Life manages to escape this fate by operating in open systems,
by exporting disorder into the environment. That way, living
beings can grow from microscopic seeds to complex structures
and animals can repeatedly create directed motion.
Since science considers the outside world to be mainly inanimate
and the mind to be located in a piece of organic matter,
the brain, it predicts that outside motion tends to disappear,
while inside the conscious mind has a hard time to focus on
something, because lots of mostly unconscious activity in the
brain keeps stirring things up.
Science is thus essentially compatible with the considerations
presented in the main text, except for science's qualitative notion
that creating motion inside the mind is active, requires energy, like
outside. This might, however, simply be due to the viewpoint
of science, which only considers facts in the outer, material
world and might thus not be able to describe inner processes
as experienced from the inside...
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Since the question is so open and the possibilities are so many,
let me for the moment simply list my personal favorites. See
the rest of this site. And don't miss the archive !
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The idea is beautiful as it is, evolution is optional.
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