Global evolution

In the previous lessons, we have examined the basics of Idealism. However a knowledge has only a meaning if it answers to our fundamental questions. For example, where do the universe come from? What is its global evolution and what is its goal?

Time is coming to study the astonishing consequences of our theory. Notably, We may describe the evolution of our Idealist universe.

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1-THE EVOLUTION

The transcendental subject starts by creating the simplest ideas and goes toward the complex ones which bring sensations and reason in the world. This process in the creation of forms explains the real evolution whom we have sensations and knowledge.

11-Evolution of mineral world

As we have seen in the previous lessons, the creation of forms follows an order like a procession, with the simplest forms at the beginning and the complex at the end. Due to successive creations, the forms appear in the transcendental consciousness like moving elements, appearing and disappearing.

Of course the transcendental subject creates billions of billions of simple forms in one shot. For example, he has just to replicate by billions the simple forms corresponding to the oxygen atom. Moreover, these simple forms are constantly conserved during all the trajectory. It explains why from the origin to now you have always a lot of atoms and molecules that constitute the mineral world whom we have sensation.(1)

This explanation is fully compatible with the story of the universe as Science describes it. Big bang, photons, atoms, molecules, organized bodies are just the representations of the successive simple mathematical forms.

12-Evolution of life

The subject finally creates the forms corresponding to living creatures. Their complex network is present at the first state of life that corresponds to the fertilized ovule among mammals. However, this first state is part of another form since the fertilized ovule is in another creature. The generation is here always realized through the association of two previous parent forms that gives the new form.

There is one difference with the mineral world. You have not only a water molecule model that can furnish billions of identical representations. Each form corresponding to a living creature is singular. Indeed, each mosquito is by itself one unique being. It is the same for each grain of wheat. It means that the transcendental subject creates each complex form step by step.

At first glance, we do not bring any change to the evolution process described by science. In fact, we bring a basic change since any transformation is not made at random but obeys to a goal.

13-Individual subjects evolution

Regarding your own evolution, you must distinguish the creation of the form (your future body) and the individualization of your self in the transcendental subject. Clearly, there are is two distinct and different process.

According to the previous chapter, the form corresponding to the body contains billions of steps and programs. Firstly, the simpler elements are created by the transcendental subject and correspond to the fertilized ovule among mammals. Obviously, the creation of the fertilized ovule is realized through the association of two previous complex forms. Then, the new complex form is created steps by steps by the transcendental subject through association and dissociation only appearing in his consciousness ( development of the fertilized ovule, Embryo development and so on).

In the same time as he is creating the form, the transcendental subject concentrates himself and through his own individualization makes appear your self with all his genuine capacities. In a second time, this self is connected to the form at its early beginning. At this level, the sensations are progressively built up in your own consciousness. Despite the fact your self already posses his full capacity, you cannot exercise it because your form is still very simple: It is a very poor violin and as a result you only get poor sensations. Then the transcendental subject completes the more complex steps of the form. So, you begin to have the sensation of a body which is evolving from youth to maturity and you can more and more exercise your reasoning.

After the creation of the most complex steps of your form, the transcendental subject returns to simple steps. As a result, the sensations that you get are degraded too and you experience that your sentient and intellectual activities are slowing down. Once again, it does not mean that the capacity of your self is diminishing. It just means that your tool is more and more downgraded. When the transcendental subject has terminated to think your form, he dissociates it and reduces it to the simple forms (particles) that are used to built up new forms. That is the death.

You have to note that the death means the end of the form but not the end of your subject (self). Of course without any sensations, and any possibility to reason, you could think that your subject is dead too. That is impossible because you have to recall that your self is just a modality of the eternal transcendental subject. With the end of your form, two solutions only can happen: Your subject is whether reintegrated in the global subject, whether used for a new form. We shall explain this topic at large in the last lesson: Human destiny.

You can object in presenting the following sequence. Just suppose that a man is killed by a knife. His consciousness seems abolish. Since a knife is a sensation in my consciousness, how can I explain that a single image in a consciousness can destroy its own receptacle? In fact the real sequence is the following. The knife corresponds to a form in the atomic reality. Then, this form is associated by the transcendental subject with the form corresponding to the body. The contrasted properties lead the transcendental subject to immediately dissociate the form corresponding to the body. Hence, the subject of the body does not receive any more sensations. It means a sudden death. I can multiply the examples but I think that the process is understandable. The most important thing to keep in mind is that the form and the self really obey to two separated and independent process.

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2-CYCLICAL RETURN

The transcendental subject is eternal with no beginning and no end. He does not evolve. He creates the forms but as the series of forms is by itself a thought, their number is necessarily finite, because a thought with an infinite object would remain uncompleted and meaningless. Just imagine a sentence with an infinite number of words: It should be a non sense.

21-The cycle

The transcendental subject begins with the unit, and goes toward the complex forms. Since the quantity of forms is not infinite, he ends his course once he has created all the possible forms according to a logical trajectory. As he cannot stop thinking, he must return then to the simple forms and finally comes back to his starting point: The unity or the One. Then, he begins a new course.

Each course corresponds to a cycle. When one cycle is over another begins. The next drawing illustrates the cycle.

DRAWING 1

This conception induces some consequences: Firstly, since the quantity of forms is not infinite, the number of possible sensations is also finite. A hypothetical being, capable of receiving sensations of all forms, would see that the number of sentient objects, i.e. sensations, is always limited in time and in space. This observation means that the universe, despite its innumerable galaxies, is finite.

Secondly, the present universe is not eternal and will finish according to some "big crunch". Then another universe will begin and so on.

22-The number of cycles

Is the number of cycle infinite? If the series of cycles had no beginning, there would be in the past, an infinite series of successive cycles and we would never get to the present moment. According to the scholastic saying, infinity in the past is impossible, so it is essential that the series of cycles had a beginning (3).

Consequently the series of cycles had a beginning and an end. This beginning does not occur from the nothingness. As the transcendental subject is eternal, you have always something before the beginning and after the end.

Before the beginning and after the end, we may expect that the transcendental subject is only thinking himself, that is to say the One. This hypothesis, that undoubtedly Plato had in mind at the end of his life, reconciles the two aspects of reality: eternal and unchanging thought on one hand, and the motion of intelligence which establishes a familiar logos on the other hand. Look at the next drawing which illustrates this argument:

DRAWING 2

Inside the frame of time (blue rectangular), there is a large number of cycles. Anyway due to the frame, there is a beginning of the series of cycles and an end.

23-Different cycles

In each cycle, the transcendental subject starts with the simplest ideas and goes toward the complex ones. At the beginning, he follows always the same path because among few simple forms the logical choices are limited. However, when he reaches the complex forms level, he gets the possibility to make choices among many possible forms.

As a result, the course followed by the transcendental subject can differ from one cycle to another. The first forms created are strictly identical in all the cycles, but the diversity of choices appears with the complex's ones (Black arrow). Finally, the sensations could differ from one cycle to another. Look at the next drawing.

DRAWING 3

If a human could visualize several cycles at the same time, he would observe the same geological history of the universe (since it corresponds to the simple forms). On the other hand, he would distinguish different evolutions of animals and plants depending on the cycle (since complex forms offer a great diversity).

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3-CONCLUSION

According to Idealism, any process must obey to a goal because the thought cannot be a random superposition of mental events. The global evolution shows that there is a goal. The transcendental subject starts with the simplest ideas and goes toward the complex ones which bring sensations, pain and pleasure, in the world. With human, he brings also reason, and knowledge. Considering this trend, we may deduce that he tends to a goal.

Our first task is to define this goal: What is it? The second task is to discover how this goal is or must be realized. We shall examine these questions in the next lessons dedicated to Ethics.

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

1-Go to: http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov

About ontology go to: www.formalontology.it

2-Go to:

www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/evolution.html

www.bbc.co.uk/education/darwin/index.shtml

www.mcb.harvard.edu/biolinks/evolution.html

www.talkorigins.org

3-The cyclical theory is as old as the humanity. Nietzsche adopted it but he thought that all the cycles were identical due to an absolute determinism. Funnily, Engel, the marxist philosopher, shared this belief and he wrote that the human brain will reappear in the series of cycles.

4-Visit also: noosphere.cc: The global mind hypothesis developed by Teilhard de Chardin, considers that the next stage in evolution will be the development of a noosphere consisting in an integration of all the individual mind contents.

It could be useful to know the famous Blavatsky's secret Doctrine. Go to: www.theosophycompany.org

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