SPHERES OF PERCEPTION
By Theodore Holtzhausen
Scientific advancement is once again necessitating a re-evaluation of the place Homo sapiens holds in the universe. Similar transformations in the way we look at ourselves occurred after Galileo, Kepler and Copernican revelations changed the we way we saw our place in the universe. Darwin certainly dramatically changed the way we see ourselves in the context of creationism, and today our primitive evolutionary origins can be rejected only by the most foolhardy. We have today after the completion of the Human Genome Project also extended this analysis off our genetic makeup well into other species. We have moved well beyond seeing living systems merely as organized cells, packaged into organisms aggressively competing to reproduce themselves. We can also now comfortably reject the initial Darwinian concept of seeing the chicken’s only purpose to produce another egg. We have replaced a myopic evolution, driven merely to reproduce and survive, with a progressive evolution where life is seen as a pliable mobile and interactive DNA in an interconnected universal evolution.
In the context of major changes in our understanding of the interconnection of things, we are now also facing a complex new era of moral and healthcare concerns. After galant attempts by many, good healthcare for all is now an ideal that seems to be disintegrating in many advanced societies. While already jaw dropping costs continue to escalate, quality declines and fair coverage shrinks. Technical fixes aren’t solving the problem. In our current competitive and self-regarding society, we are slowly being forced to reexamine the moral roots of our healthcare application and existence in general. This need is urgent in search for solutions if we wish to continue growing our morality and develop a pragmatic medical science of service to a universal perceptive evolution.
Now with recent findings in evolutionary biology, this book reveals how new understanding has altered and can enhance our moral evolution and also act as an aid to draw us closer to pragmatic truths, much needed in a healthcare to remain true to its intend. The book presents a novel method using three easily applied spheres of reasoning to awaken in all of us the ability to create a fairer, more equal, rational and benevolent world. Regardless of our personal beliefs or socioeconomic standing, we can together face a brave and exiting new era and push desperate survivalist ideologies aside within a new receptive wealth, as revealed by a new cosmic evolution.
With healthcare workers now merely as providers, patients have become mere customers and the sellers celebrate their successes based entirely on what pays rather than empathy and proper care on all levels. Driven by profits rather than rationality, also now looms a costly and threatening pseudoscience.
In order to avoid this devastating blow to our growing epistemology this book explains how three spheres of perception are utilized to advance not only our rationality but our evolving morality as set in the background of a newly comprehended cosmic evolution.
We function today in a world with escalating anxiety about confronting an era of robotics and growing unemployment. There is strong evidence that our interpretation of Darwinism and acceptance of our animal origins is misconstrued and further promoting a harsher, more unequal and crueler world than necessary or realistic. We are now on all levels concerned about failing healthcare, growing inequality and confused about what morality means in a new post-technocratic society.
In a society with growing disregard for others and with focus on what pays rather than what is morally and pragmatically right we are inevitably creating moral values and directing knowledge around such deceptive conduct. What we should now strongly debate in support of this new knowledge is whether the the archaic concept of a selfish gene and its masterpiece, the naturally selected conniving ape, still fit our new concept of a cosmic evolution.
We life in amazing times, where knowledge and discoveries emerge and are shared at levels never experienced before. We are only beginning to understand how DNA behave and respond to different environments and how we can tap on and benefit from such wisdom. We now realize the dynamic, constantly changing and pliable environment our DNA have to respond to. We are slowly beginning to realize how delicately it is interconnected to and dependent on its surrounds. Simultaneously set in this, our concept of the universe has expanded to levels that would leave even Copernicus dumbfounded.
It has now become extremely difficult to lay claim to the blind faith demanded by most of the numerous religions on offer. Simultaneously the empty pursuit of happiness by means of accumulating vast amounts of wealth remains a dream for most and appears to come with a growing lack in morality, confusion and disregard of others by those who obtain wealth. This leaves most of us, to say the least, anxious, confused or alternatively ignorant of our place in the larger scheme of things.
Numerous times have I questioned the value of measuring my own personal evolutionary success and purpose merely as having a well paid job in a well regarded profession and having successfully fathered four healthy and attractive children. It clearly has become vacuous to merely see reproductive success or status as the yardstick of biological success. Our cosmic presence and evolutionary goal is clearly now more significant than previously thought. We have recently, albeit a slow process as it inevitably is with new ideas that dramatically change how we see ourselves, realized the new concept of an interconnected perceptive evolution as part of a unanimous universal drive.
Superficially this may seem trivial but the impact of this new understanding of our presence and role here is as radical as the acceptance of our animal origins revealed by Darwin at the time. This new understanding on one level has diminished our importance even more so than when Darwin changed the ‘God image of man’, and when Copernicus revealed our habitat as not central to the universe anymore.
On another level however it has made us aware of a new grandiose universal morality within a combined goal in in universe of abundance as never experienced before. In the following chapters it will be explained how new understanding of a perceptive, pliable and mobile DNA has and will continue to change our world.
We have now simultaneously and inevitably also entered an inescapable new level of moral evolution, again embarrassing us about our recent barbaric past as has historically always been the case.
We are now entering a new era with focus on a perceptive DNA in a universe of abundance. Evident has become, an evolution witnessed as a perceptive change within a perceptive change driven by infinite unknowns. New discoveries have yet again begged us to step back from our over-inflated egos, self-centered concerns or the dogmatic application of fixed ideas and axioms. This book reveals and applies logic and basic and easily understood science to explain how the unknown, or as referred to in the text the metaphysical, is driving a perceptive, pliable DNA - existing in and is constantly stimulated by an equally perceptive and changing environment. Both delicately combined within a progressive perception.
This radical shift from a solipsistic DNA merely interested in replicating its genetic material at all costs, to a DNA now newly seen directed to interconnect and enhance perception, has again shaken the comfort-zone of those resistant to change and new ideas. As historically proven, those who stand to lose the most are the greatest defenders of conformity. An evolutionary change has also emerged in the source of resistance. Traditionally opposition to new ideas originating mainly from the church, today bias due to financial or personal interest is the main force driving resistance to radical concepts.
One of the principle questions on many peoples minds today is what influences our choices on how to live and what to consume? Sadly, this interest is mostly driven by the marketing fraternity, and motivated by how to better sell stuff to people. A much neglected part of such decision-making is the moral implications and genuine value to the overall human condition. Even when environmental and ethical impact is considered it can be viciously influenced by those in an attempt to sway our spending potential for personal gain.
The logical next question is what or whom principally influence our choices today. Religion, culture, eduction, health, politics and financial gain are all classical candidates.
Inevitability, and avoiding complex studies or opinions here, irrefutably there is an overwhelming general opinion that policy makers and lawmakers today have become subject to financial outcomes and government is merely business.
This rather embarrassing control of our entire epistemology, destiny and even science now, all constrained and directed by cost and financial outcomes is not only discriminatory, but a gross insult to the design of a cosmic evolution and universal morality.
Historically, a few minds changed our traditional concepts of the world and ourselves, and only few communication outlets were available for such minds to relay their thoughts. Today, set in an internet of things ideas and opinions abound. Side stepping some of the gibberish available online a sense of skepticism around current systems is clearly evident. Even die-hard positive thinkers have lost some of their previous staunch supporters and only those defending their own cause currently pretend to exist as eternal optimists in a fair system and then as part of a morally immature anxious society. It is easy to comprehend this skepticism once we expose the futile and senseless pursuit of happiness as subject to wealth – and clearly it is vacuous in the context of a cosmic evolution. The definition of happiness will of course vary markedly depending on the individual. Inarguably the following definition can easily fit everybody’s definition of happiness or at least set the platform for it. If we see a complete life from birth to death truly worth living, regardless of stance or even species, it can be defined as fulfilled in a life spend in harmony with one’s habitat, where health, safety, affordable homes and clean water and food supplies are freely available and simultaneously interconnect harmoniously with an equally stimulating and healthy environment.
So what is the punchline of this new cosmic evolution? The egoist is perhaps already retaining a dormant though of what is in it for me? Once the principles of pliability, interconnection and interdependency of the new universal evolution is grasped such questions will no longer be entertained. Even the staunch egoist understanding the new science of a cosmic evolution will find it hard to justify any actions driven by greed and not all-regarding and congruent with a universal morality.
Very simply stated, it is the new understanding and acceptance of our place in an interconnected cosmic evolution, where respect, equality and an increased morality is evident on all levels of a progressive perceptive evolution that present us with a much more benevolent and hopeful future. A future where morality and understanding are set in a progressive cognition, and all and everything is respected as part of this progressive morality. The focus has shifted to nurture a delicately interconnected perception and environment, rather than a battle to survive and reproduce.
In acceptance of each other’s needs and need of recognition our existence also now refreshingly makes more sense seen as being part of a universal cognition - rather than a barbaric solipsistic drive to reproduce and survive at all costs. We are now decisively and refreshingly presented with both a descriptive and prescriptive ethic in perhaps the most unexpected locale of all – the way RNA and DNA behaves and interact. We are only beginning to witness the complex responsive way molecular structures making up RNA and DNA value and measure their surrounds, interact and communicate. The interactions between cells communicating with both surrounding cells and environment on molecular level via protein production, so delicately orchestrated by DNA and RNA, is now only beginning to show its benefits to a less barbaric era of healing. Our egos are yet again challenged, this time not in being linked to our animal origins, but on an escalating level of how our much prided higher cognitive function is now revealed as being no more than molecular interactions closely interlinked with a changing environment. Surprisingly, in this lowering in status is also hidden a much higher morality and ethic than ever understood before. The amazing and delicate newly understood interaction of cells orchestrated by mobile RNA and DNA presents us simultaneously with a descriptive and prescriptive ethic. Our moral obligation is now evident as much more grandiose, universal and also more urgent than previously thought. The revelation of a universal ethic working on all levels is demanding respect on levels previously much overlook. It dramatically changes our concept of individualistic survival where even cells and our DNA are fully acknowledged in the mass progression of an evolution designed to communicate and interact in progressing a better world for future generations. The prominence of selfish actions, environmental disregard and survivalists strategies have become, for lack of any other description – barbaric and immoral.
Finding ourselves now in a new perceptive cosmic evolution, we have moral obligations as part of a universal whole as never experience before. Having the ability to modify the building block of our origins (genetic engineering) demands greater understanding and higher moral calling than ever needed before in our primitive past. To some this may be potentially again be seen as a threat or useful to out-manipulate competitors and a pretty neat survivalist tool to be bought and controlled by those who can afford to do so. The more enlightened and hopefully the majority of readers here, it will clearly be seen it in the context of its universality.
This new understanding and ability to alter our DNA will unavoidably change the way we practice and apply medicine. It will, if morally utilized and ethically applied, give us the ability to enter a benevolent perceptive era never dreamt of before. But only if we see and understand the wondrous morality and delicate interconnection and interaction between everything around us.
The book focuses on clear perception and a perspicacious evolution to deliver us with a refreshed view on morality and also presents a method giving the reader the ability to make rational decisions - reducing both bias and confusion. The simple logic of arriving at truths detached from personal views or interest, but based on value and presentation to all of us with a combined goal, regain focus with a new methodology presented in the book.
The metaphysical, unknown or senseless world has always been philosophically a grey area and in subsequent chapters the manuscript equates the metaphysical with the unknown as vital drive for a perceptive evolution. The book also makes the radical claim that it is impossible to have an evolution without unknowns and that there are no fixed set theories or ultimate truths. The chase for fixed truths or the ultimate truth is an evolutionary dead-end as the book reveals. Should a strand of RNA, DNA or and organism perhaps find itself in a complete fixed, vacuous and unchanging (unstimulating) environment it simply cannot evolve. Even if in some miraculous way it could mange to do so it would be meaningless. We can safely deduct form this that for a functional evolution we need both unknowns, constant change and above all methods of being perceptive to changes around it. The idea of a perceptive evolution is therefore not only not far fetched but impossible. Likewise is the concept of an evolution not driven by unknowns and change unrealistic. The book reveals (as far as the author is aware) a novel formula for evolution now with focus and motive on cognitive drive rather than a disinterested reproduction and survival. The formula is presented without the mathematical complexity and is supported by both Godelian arithmetic and inconsistency theories and Popper’s falsification. The reader unfamiliar with math or even these terms need not fear any mathematical complexity as it is explained in simple English and the intention is to reveal the new concept to a global general audience.
In order to focus on logic and reduce bias, perception (cognition) are circulated between three spheres of reasoning as is explained in the manuscript. The book introduces a physical space of reasoning (PSOR) where inevitable facts are contained, a logical space of reasoning (LSOR) where all concepts with uncertainty are considered for either rejection or acceptance into the PSOR, and thirdly the metaphysical of unknowns. It is argued and emphasized in the book that the metaphysical is vital to stimulate a morally committed perceptive evolution, driven to be all regarding to remain focused on a sober PSOR.
A very simple mathematical equation is utilized to state and compare the major difference between an archaic reproductive based evolution and a less myopic new perceptive concept of the evolutionary process.
The book argues and states how by simply shifting the focus of evolution to be cognitive based we can change not only the way we see the world, but acknowledge both higher cognition and morality as evolutionary directives, and not a mere side-show of a solipsistic gene.
Employing the following symbols for our purposes here -
C= cognition
E= evolution
m= to morality
M= metaphysical
PSOR= physical space of reasoning
LSOR= logical space of reasoning
a= the perceptive organism or interacting molecule (you)
b= the perceived molecule or organism (others)
We can now formulate old era Darwinism as, E= ∆a(C)≈∆b
A perceptive evolution as, E(m)= ∑C{∆a(PSOR⇋LSOR⇋M)≈∆b(PSOR⇋LSOR⇋M)}
The scope and implications of an evolution and morality evolving hand in hand and perceptive of each other demands, is not only more civilized but calls us more urgently to commit to our universal moral duties progressing together with our increased cognitive evolution.
We can also see how as mentioned in the opening paragraphs, with focus swayed and distracted by biases or primitivism we can now draw ourselves back into more logical pragmatic reasoning and regain our morality with our new concept of life. The impact of such logic and clarity set within a universal understanding in decision making for our moral leaders and decision makers can clearly be seen as enormous and detached but not insulting of personal religious and cultural views.
The implications and impact on creating awareness of a more respectful and benevolent society is certainly the principle aim of this book. Inevitably with my involvement with applying healthcare to a variety of different species, and with growing concerns about selling rather than applying empathetic insightful healthcare on a universal level, the prospect of developing a pseudoscience is of significant concern and a major incentive to arrive at more truthful conclusions.
We can sense how the ‘driven to reproduce conniving ape’ model of our evolution is insulting to a society proudly laying claim to higher intelligence, civilization, and a universal morality at the same time. Competitive marketing and attempts and take-overs to monopolize property, goods or wisdom that should be more affordable and accessible to all without such greed, is typical of the conniving ape model and lacks the higher morality we should be lay claim to as a species.
Given a scientific base three spheres of cognitive function to reduce the enormity of a complex task easily hi-jacked by biases - the source of most conflict and suffering). Subsequently a new cosmos holding boundless opportunities is unveiled as a benevolent morality – rather than a selfish struggle to survive in a cruel world.
For skeptics and more liberal thinkers concerned about any constrains set by formulated attempts to direct, what should be unrestricted logical reasoning, the formula fully addresses such well-founded unease. The discovery of a mobile and pliable DNA operating in a continuously metamorphosing environment confronting infinite unknowns and nocsistency is the very basis of the method and formula.
To explain and substantiate a bit more we briefly the book turns to a simplified version of the Godelian inconsistency theory and also use Popperian falsification as mentioned to further support the new model. Irrefutably in order for natural selection theory to be consistently right it has to be set in the background of other theories that proved consistently wrong on the matter under question. Simultaneously such a consistent theory needs to be falsifiable to eventually become inconsistent. Likewise the same principles should apply to a new cosmic evolution. Our proposed formula allows for this – using interchanging spheres of reasoning (the methodology of PSOR with the LOSR and metaphysical to circulate ideas) and new discoveries in a mobile DNA.
The book emphasize how we operate our thinking on such matters as products of a pliable cognition driven by an evolutionary process in a constantly changing habitat—this habitat now slowly being seen as being hurled through space at approximately 2.1km/sec. More recently even the speed of light was proved to not be fixed but varying in different parts of the great expanses of our forever changing universe.
Today with greater cosmic insight and better understanding we are slowly realizing that our only consistency has become seeing our cognition as a change within a change which inevitably amounts to inconsistency. Simple Godelian arithmetic used it can be stated as Consistent=∆{∆a(∆b)} while confronting ∞infinite unknowns (or inconsistency).
We distinguish between a real world and our knowledge (innate or acquired) and this knowledge is supposed to be true or at least partially corresponding to some part of the real world in order for natural selection to take place. Nevertheless the ‘real’ world from our stance is but the world of our experience as acknowledged by our cognitive system. Moreover, our cognitive system is explained precisely as a product of an evolutionary process. But so is the habitat we base our growing epistemology on constantly changing and evolving.
Every truth has to contain at least a part untruth in order for it to continue to adjust to continuous change. The aim of this manuscript is to reach out to a global audience and avoid complex Gödelian mathematics or philosophical discourse, needless to say and as the book reveals, it meets the criteria of Gödel’s theory. In very simple terms Gödel proposed if there is a strong, recursively axiomatizable theory (truth), then there is a sentence in the language of the arithmetic of the universe where such a theory can proof a fact T and then also a not T fact. So if the laws of natural selection =E, we can say E + non-consistent E is consistent we can call this E2.
The inconsistency arises in that we simply cannot now continue on and also claim that if E2 + inconsistent E2 is consistent, that simultaneously E2 + consistent E is also consistent. So we have Gödelian inconsistency proved by simple arithmetic.
If now however we apply our new evolutionary theory where evolution is seen as a change within a change constantly adjusting perceptivity to ongoing unknowns - inconsistency is not only fully accounted for now but an essential need. With natural selection we are attempting to lay claim that both a consistent E and inconstant E = consistent and simultaneously also a consistent E + consistent E is consistent. This is creating an impossible to defend conflict and therefore also urges us to arrive at inconsistencies as perhaps the best conclusion we may have.
Our newly propose natural selection or perceptive cosmic evolution addresses this issue comfortably as the book reveals side stepping involved math.
Inevitably the ultimate truth of finding a perfectly consistent theory remains forever elusive in containing an ongoing inconsistency in order to be consistent. We can clearly see Godelian arithmetic perfectly fits a constantly evolving cognition as part of an equally perceptive constant change. In every consistency lies a vital inconsistency needed, not only for consistency but ongoing inconsistency to interchange and evolve our perception. Grasping this becomes a relatively simple concept once we sit back and reflect on it - it is where we can also clearly see the futility of solipsism and an inflated ego.
The book is a contribution to a growing list of numbers of thinkers of our time desperately trying to create better awareness of our cosmic presence and the urgency of this understanding so much needed to enter the new era, as now newly recognized universal beings. This inevitable new blissful era of our evolution are only resisted by those with personal biases or skeptics to logic.
Logically, pragmatically and morally confronting this new era of realizing inconsistency and change as vital to a universal evolutionary drive is now not seen as a threat but the much needed stimulus for an evolving cognition, in a combined goal.
Readers of the book will gain a method and understanding to become part of combined effort to create a better world where greed and ego is replaced by a combined wisdom and deprivation abolished in sharing surplus.
The subtle health benefits of a newly attuned cognition is not promoted in the book but follows naturally once the motive and concept of our actions and purpose here become clear.
