LIFE, MATTER AND UNIVERSE

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Life is above all a direct information and sensation of itself and of its serenity/equilibrium

The first thing around us is not matter (or structural elements) but the entire Cosmos. That is, the stabilized Universe as a whole and with its laws. These laws are not restricted to the external movement of bodies... The laws of the cosmos as a Complete Total impose the creation of things that have an own identity and stability and have their own behavior and with their own internal stimuli. This is the principle of Life. The emergence of life can be realized in many different ways and the mental functions can be explained by physical and biological processes. But all we know, that the presence of psychological phenomena and life is not only towards the exterior, but also directly towards the biological carrier of life. In science the presence of life and the existence of interiority in countless biological processes and biochemical changes and in the microscopic level can be explained and identified. However, the presence (or sense) of life towards the biological body is always immediate and only one, despite the countless material and external ways with which life can result.

"Our body is offered in two completely different ways: The one is a representation like all other objects of the material world. On the other hand, it is distinguished from every other phenomenon and we recognize it without logic as something completely different. What our body itself is, is expressed with the word "Will" "

wrote Arthur Schopenhauer with the subtlety that characterized him, in his effort to answer what the " thing itself " of Kant's theory is, ie what the sub­stance is. Life (as an internal reality) is not only geometrical in the environment and only with the external behavior. Life with its inner presence is not a "clear" and well-understood phenomenon and perhaps somewhat spoils the scientific and mathematical approach to reality. But this time, I am not responsible for this am­biguity! Do not get stuck in words like "unto" and "internal". The ability to orga­nize and synchronize the particles as a total and so be presented toward itself as living, requires the immediate presence of the Universe towards itself as a stabilized whole. So, when we mention the "interiority" of the Universe, this implies only the immediate presence towards itself, such as the one that life has, when the structural elements are synchronized with each other in a favorable environment. Here, we have said something vague and few bits of information, you will say. But we must learn to tolerate the minimum knowledge and vagueness because the vague is not neces­sarily pointless and wrong, as nature itself teaches.

Nature as a whole has a mental/intellectual contact directly with itself. Matter is the opposite of the whole cosmos and of the spirit. The permanent feature of spirit is the immediate, direct connection to itself and self-regulation, while matter is combined indirectly, externally and randomly for a result. So do not expect to find the beginning of life and the universal intellect in shredded bodies. It does not need a lot of imagination, but to think simply of the most likely and logical case, that the principle of life is associated with a global mind (or software if you prefer this term) and this is characteristic of the full Universe. Of course, one would observe correctly, that many things around us are composed of millions of small pieces (such as an electronic device), but these complicated things do not have psychological characteristics. But here, we do not talk about a random thing or an assembled whole. We do not want to attribute human characteristics to the Universe. There are common features that are found in the Universe as a single, self-regulating whole and in humans or generally in living beings. We do not try to attribute human characteristics to Common Total of the things or to God, because we wish it to have similarities with us. We think instead, that we humans have similarities with a global spirit and a direct connection to the Common Total, which has always been here before any individual thing.

The Universal Mind or Intellect - which appears as a free space according to the cosmological view of a complete Universe (as if it is absent)-, does not invalidate the independence of the Universe. Rather, it supports it! Some people and famous scientists have the view about the autonomy of the Universe and so, they think that the role of a Universal Mind (or God) disappears. It does not disappear. So again, by lopsided logical thinking, they have the view that the existence of structural elements (matter) confirms the independence of the Universe. By this view about the structural elements the opposite conclusion can be drawn: Namely that the cosmos was created and needed a lawgiver. If the cosmos was not created, then we need to stop talking about “matter” as self-existent components for the existence of things.

* Source: Part 4 (Universe and matter, Spirit and life. Short answers to big questions) from the second volume of the treatise under the title "Complete Universe, Dynamic Space & Wave Phenomena" and the subtitle "How the natural laws and forces are applied. The fundamental concepts and relations for a rational Cosmology (Cosmonomy)" ©2021, ISBN 978-618-85170-1-1 (set), ISBN 978-618-85170-3-5 (vol2).