Κοσμολογικοί Νόμοι & Κοινότητα: Εισαγωγή

Κοσμολογικοί Νόμοι και Κοινότητα: Συχνότητα, δόνηση, εντροπία κλπ έννοιες

Κοσμολογικοί Νόμοι και Κοινότητα 3: Κβάντο, Ντετερμινισμός-Αιτιότητα, διεμπλοκή

Κοσμολογικοι Νόμοι και Κοινότητα¨Υπέρθεση, Βαρύτητα, Λάθη;

As there was a reference to the umbilical affect, the following extract is of great interest.

Outline of the Discovery of a Concrete Energy Link Between the Human Head and the Sky

by Francis J. Mott – 1955

By the use of precise methods of analysis, I have probed beneath the surface of the human mind and feelings. What I discovered there is not only new and startling, but also old and familiar. This sounds at first like an insoluble paradox, but it is easily resolved when we realize that the modern mind sees things quite differently from the ancient mind. Even the minds of our recent forebears, like those of rural peoples, differ from the sharp, logical minds of our time. Therefore, older living people may have an understanding of these ideas in a way that has lost its significance for us. Our ancestors expressed things in symbolic terms different from the language we would use, and in seeking to equate them we discover what is both new, yet also familiar.

In this essay, I propose to briefly outline one particular aspect of my rediscoveries: the fact that there is a stream of subtle energy circulating between the human head and the sky, and also a stream of subtle energy circulating between the human trunk and the earth. These circulations of energy are today mostly unknown to the adult mind, but they are evidently known in early childhood. In the depths of our minds we nurture a memory of them – we are still in some way conscious of them, or of their potentiality. These circulations are an integral part of our deeper selves, and no doubt are vital mechanisms of what has been called the soul. They represent, in effect, aspects of the anatomy of the soul, or so I judge them to be. The reason we know nothing of these deeper functions of the soul is presumably because we have come in practice, if not in theory and philosophical speculation, to identify ourselves with the complex sensations, reactions and social semantics which fill the waking consciousness. Yet everything points to the possibility that the very self that senses, reacts and semanticizes is also the product of the very circulations outlined in this essay. This self, the product of processes now become unconscious in the normal adult, makes thought possible but is not itself composed of thinking elements, or anything normally associated with mind and thinking. It seems that the human being feels himself involved in a struggle between two antithetical forces, one of which acts downward upon the human head, while the other acts upward from the earth upon the trunk. Here we see the very same thing that our forebears sought to identify when they spoke of God being ‘up in the sky’, the Devil being ‘under the earth’, and of a war going on between God and Devil over the soul of man.

The Origins of the Human Energy Pattern

These two circulations, between the human head and the sky and also between the human trunk and the earth, though antithetical in their subjective influence upon the human character, appear to be of the same order. They are also obedient to the same pattern. Each affects the other, and both show signs of a common origin, namely in the pattern of the blood flow in the umbilical cord. Both are ‘haunted’ by the organic memories of this umbilical flow. It seems that the basic energy of the human soul is generated or evoked in the umbilical cord, and that the pattern of the flow of blood in the cord somehow sets the pattern of all bodily energy. The human umbilical cord is normally composed of three blood vessels; a more or less straight vein which carries the refreshed fetal blood from the placenta to the fetus, and two arteries helically twisted around the vein, which carry the vitiated fetal blood from the fetus to the placenta, for purification and refreshment. This fetal blood flows in a closed circuit, having no direct contact with the maternal blood. It takes what it needs from the mother’s blood through the thin placental tissues, and in the same manner surrenders the fetal waste to the mother’s blood for excretion by her. In addition to the biological facts concerning umbilical circulation, we find that this fetal-placental circulation may be the agent for the generation or evocation of a subtler form of energy which persists after birth by transferring itself to other organs. This in turn imposes its pattern upon every flow of matter and physical energy into and out from the human body. Thus, the pattern of the umbilical flow (a single inflow opposed by two helical outflows) persists in every activity of the born organism.

Since the placenta and umbilical cord were evolved ages ago by the first placental mammals, their purpose being the feeding and detoxification of the embryo, one may assume that organs created for one purpose have had another superimposed upon them. Indeed, this is common in the evolution of the animal organism. Thus, for instance, the tongue was originally a digestive organ, but has also become an organ of speech. The evidence of dream analysis, confirmed by mythology, shows a metaphysical function superimposed upon the umbilical circulation. This is as distinct from its original purpose as the tongue’s role in speech is distinct from its original digestive role. The mechanism whereby this metaphysical umbilical function has evolved is unknown to me at present. It cannot be a neural energy, since the umbilical cord is not innervated save for a few millimeters beyond the navel. It is difficult to see how the nervous system could register the helical twist in the cord, and yet this is the aspect of the energy pattern which persists most impressively in the behavior patterns of the postnatal organism. It seems to follow that the blood itself must in some way register the pattern of its flow back and forth along the cord, though how it does this I cannot at present conceive. One thing is certain: no normal human being ever loses this umbilical energy or the pattern associated with it. Physically, the placenta and the umbilical cord are temporary fetal appendages, expendable after birth. However, the energy and the pattern of feeling to which they refer are never lost. However, as they transfer after birth into a variety of surrogate forms, we all feel to have the lost placenta and umbilical cord inside us. The postnatal organism must accommodate the functions formerly administered by the placenta and the cord: breathing.

Read the full papers of these publications:
1. Veitinger T, Riffell JR, Veitinger S, Nascimento JM, Triller A, Chandsawangbhuwana C, Schwane K, Geerts A, Wunder F, Berns MW, Neuhaus EM, Zimmer RK, Spehr M, Hatt H. Chemosensory Ca2+ dynamics correlate with diverse behavioral phenotypes in human sperm. J Biol Chem. 2011 May 13;286(19):17311-25. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M110.211524. Epub 2011 Mar 21. PMID: 21454470; PMCID: PMC3089573.

2. Springate L, Frasier TR. Gamete compatibility genes in mammals: candidates, applications and a potential path forward. R Soc Open Sci. 2017 Aug 30;4(8):170577. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170577. PMID: 28878999; PMCID: PMC5579115.

Segers, S. The path toward ectogenesis: looking beyond the technical challenges. BMC Med Ethics 22, 59 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-021-00630-6

compare to this: Bulletti FM, Sciorio R, Palagiano A, Bulletti C. The artificial uterus: on the way to ectogenesis. Zygote. 2023 Oct;31(5):457-467. doi: 10.1017/S0967199423000175. Epub 2023 Jun 26. PMID: 37357356.
Summary: The inability to support the growth and development of a mature fetus up to delivery results in significant human suffering. Current available solutions include adoption, surrogacy, and uterus transplantation. However, these options are subject to several ethical, religious, economic, social, and medical concerns. Ectogenesis is the process in which an embryo develops in an artificial uterus from implantation through to the delivery of a live infant. This current narrative review summarizes the state of recent research focused on human ectogenesis. …  this study suggests that full ectogenesis might be obtained using a computer-controlled system with extracorporeal blood perfusion provided by a digitally controlled heart–lung–kidney system. From a clinical perspective, patients who will derive significant benefits from this technology are mainly those women diagnosed with anatomical abnormalities of the uterus and those who have undergone previous hysterectomies, numerous abortions, and experienced premature birth. Ectogenesis is the complete development of an embryo in an artificial uterus. It represents the solutions for millions of women suffering from premature deliveries, and the inability to supply growth and development of embryos/fetuses in the womb. In the future, ectogenesis might replace uterine transplantation and surrogacy.

THE COMPLEXITY OF PRENATAL and PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY by Olga Gouni

Lexicon
Complexity

There are many definitions of complexity and all are context-dependent. For the purposes of this proposal, complexity is defined as organisational complexity and is associated with the intricate inter-relationships of individuals, of individuals with artefacts (such as IT), and with the effects of inter-actions within the organisation and between organisations and their ‘environment’ which includes related businesses. Complexity arises through connectivity and the inter-relationships of a system’s constituent elements. The way these inter-relations arise, the way they help maintain and create new patterns and structures which enable an organisation to evolve, is not well understood. Complexity in this context is also associated with the characteristics of non-linearity*, self-organisation*, emergent properties*, far-from-equilibrium* operation and sensitivity to initial conditions*.

Complex evolving systems (CES) refers to those systems which are able to learn and which change their internal structure and organisation over time, thus changing the behaviour of individual elements. The term complex adaptive systems is used by the Santa Fe scientists to describe complex systems which adapt through a process of self-organisation* and selection. However, physical, chemical and biological systems are not conscious and do not ‘learn’ in the sense that humans learn. Hence the term complex evolving system [Allen, 1996] is used in this proposal to distinguish human from other complex systems. Both CAS and CES are subject to change through mutation or totally unexpected change, which is then subject to adaptation. Characteristics of complex systems: The study of natural complex systems has shown that all complex systems share certain generic characteristics. Some of these characteristics are included in this terminology and the research project will explore their application to social systems. Such application, however, questions long held assumptions and has profound implications for management, methods of work, the shape of organisations, and the development and use of information technology.

Non-linearity & multiple outcomes

Modelling of aggregate behaviour in organisations is usually based on the assumption that all individuals exhibit average and thus predictable behaviour, when organisations are entities made up of individuals who interact, are mutually inter-dependent and exhibit non-average behaviour. Through multiple inter-actions, organisations are capable of many possible responses; that is, they are complex, unpredictable, non-linear systems, producing multiple outcomes. Yet they are studied as if they were simple, linear systems guaranteed to produce a single, predictable outcome. Another aspect which is often ignored, is that any outcome is influenced by a number of contributing factors. These factor cannot all be taken into account for various reasons; they may not be known, may not be quantifiable or they may be ignored as relatively insignificant, yet these factors may be subject to the phenomenon known as sensitivity to initial conditions*, which could lead to unforeseen and often undesirable consequences.

Sensitivity to initial conditions

When a small change in the initial conditions produces major and unpredictable qualitative changes. Traditional approaches implicitly assume that events occur at an average rate (there are exceptions, and Robust Planning for example does not make that assumption) and that they can be adjusted if they deviate from the desired plan by employing the appropriate adjustment mechanism. But events do not unfold with average regularity and adjustments rarely produce the desired effect. No planning mechanism can take all initial and influencing conditions into account, and at times a small change in the initial conditions produces major and unpredictable qualitative changes. This coupled with positive feedback or increasing returns [Arthur 1990, 1995], makes accurate forecasting and the planning of specific outcomes extremely difficult.

Innovation as exploration of the space of possibilities

Traditional approaches also ignore an organisation’s capacity to learn and change and to maintain diverse and varied strategies, assuming that a single ‘optimum’ strategy is both possible and desirable. The sciences of complexity have shown that for an entity such an organisation to survive and thrive it needs to explore its space of possibilities and to encourage variety. When markets were stable and growth was a constant, single optimum strategies based on extrapolation from historical data, were thought to be feasible. But unstable environments and rapidly changing markets require flexible approaches based on variety. [Ashby, 1956]

Far-from-equilibrium

Economic models often assume that a state of equilibrium is a desirable condition, but the sciences of complexity show that systems which survive and thrive, do so when they are pushed away from equilibrium, while if they remain at equilibrium they die. When far-from-equilibrium, systems are forced to experiment and explore their space of possibilities and this exploration helps them discover and create new patterns of relationships, different structures and innovative ways of working. [Prigogine, Nicolis] Non-linear dynamics (or chaos theory) may be used to explain the emergence of these new patterns as analogous to the transition phase of bounded instability, between stability and instability which is a state of creativity and innovation. [Gleick 1990, Parker & Stacey 1994] Although non-linear dynamics is an integral part of the theories of complexity it is only one aspect and needs to be balanced by the broader realm of understanding offered by complexity. Analogies based on the ‘edge of chaos’ need to be made applicable to social systems and organisations. One key question which will be addressed in both phases of the research project is the balance between stability and instability necessary to encourage innovation while avoiding both instability and stagnation. At the transition state between stability and instability, order and organisation may arise spontaneously out of disorder through a process of “self-organisation”.

Self-organisation

The spontaneous organisation of the system’s elements into coherent new patterns, structures and behaviours. Change in human organisations may be brought about by the spontaneous self-organisation of individuals. These new patterns are not decreed, designed or imposed by any specific individual. They simply happen. They may subsequently dissolve and leave little trace or they may have a longer lasting effect and change the structure of the organisation. In the latter case true evolution has taken place and the internal structure of the organisation has changed. We need to understand how to encourage self-organisation as a means of creating new innovative patterns of behaviour as well as a means of devolving the strategy process throughout the organisation. If the organisation of the future is to work on a different basis, that pattern or shape will need to emerge and evolve from a given set of simple principles. [Allen, Bovaird, Goodwin, Holland, Kauffman, Lane, Nicolis, Varela]

Dissipative structures

Dissipative structures (Prigogine & Stengers 1985) are open systems exchanging energy, matter or information with their environment. In Prigoginian terms, all systems contain subsystems which are continually “fluctuating”. When one or more fluctuations become so powerful, as a result of positive feedback, that they shatter the pre-existing organisation, the system has been forced into a far-from-equilibrium condition and has reached a point of bifurcation. It is inherently impossible to determine in advance which direction change will take. The system may disintegrate into instability or leap to a new level of order or organisation called a “dissipative structure”. It is given that name because it requires more energy (or information) to sustain it than the simpler structure it replaced. In terms of the flow of information, a stable system can be sustained with a sluggish flow, but a much more vigorous and richer flow is necessary for a system operating far-from-equilibrium. If the flow of information becomes too fast, however, then the system may disintegrate.
source: http://emk-complexity.org/guide/lexicon.html