Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: Big Bang and Further Datum: donderdag 14 augustus 2014 11:55 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 517 Amsterdam, August 14th, 2014 EVOLUTION STUDIES Who is capable and willing to join the evolution discussion on Integral World with an essay defending or challenging Wilber's (or my own) notions about evolution? Looking forward to other points of view! COMMENT SECTION We are having some issues with the comment section on every page. We are working on it. Comments are now ordered from old to new. Special characters such as curly quotes and hyphens from Word seem cause the posting of the comment to fail, so I advise you to type your comments directly into the comment boxes for the moment. THE CREATION OF INFORMATION FROM NOTHING - The Big Bang and Further - GERRIT TEULE Since the earliest history of mankind it was a challenging puzzle, how a universe came into being from nothing (or almost nothing, a singularity) and how life could emerge from dead matter, with more and more complexity and with all kinds of intensive cooperation. An essential aspect of this is the creation of (new) information. The whole evolution, as we see it today, is built on the extending information about complexity in the growing structures, anorganic as well as organic. As an example you can look at the growing information in the developing DNA, but the same happened when the DNA not yet existed. The main question in this essay is: how could this information emerge and extend itself? Where was it stored? Was there already information in the beginning of time (a sort of plan, however rudimentary) or did this information build itself from scratch, starting from really nothing, a tabula rasa? In other words: does evolution work with a predefined plan or is it the essence of evolution that it started without any plan and that after a long development the possibility of plan-making came forward, together with the intellect of mankind, so that we can live up to that plan? This essay is a beginning of an answer to that question in the light of the eonic theory. That might help a bit. It's a standpoint that you don't find often in the scientific literature. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/teule3.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html