http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1295 Publications of Auteurs George L. Farre fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3672 We are at a point now where the overall profile of Cosmic evolution is becoming discernible. In what follows, its broad outline is suggested. It is made as generic as possible, in order to encompass the processes of energy transformation from the birthing event of the cosmos to the present. To this effect, the paper is presented from the most general point of view, i.e. taking an energy stance, on the grounds that energy is the ultimate substrate of all there is. At the core of it are two distinguishable elements: the elementary processes of energy transformation that result in the emergence of new systems, and their modal character which governs their diversification. Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:41:30 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:21:09 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3672 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2374 On the assumption thrat the Cosmos is a single complex energy system, the unified representation of the evolution of material systems presents itself as an important objective of the science of matter. In this short essay, a sketch of the evolutionary mechanism is proposed and the conditions for its extension to human systems adumbrated. The originality of the paper resides in the identification of the main pattern of dynamical relations that repeats itself in the evolution of natural systems and in the identification of the principal evolutionary step, the QMS. The principal constraints responsible for its limitations are also briefly identified. Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:58:51 +0200 Fri, 02 Aug 2024 09:59:01 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2374 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1289 When talking about evolution, it is best to distinguish between natural history and natural science, the later being concerned with the genesis of Natural systems. Their genesis is the result of a functional sequence of processes of energy transformation (PETs) which begin with the Hot Bang and end with the emergence of a natural system in a local context characterized by a reduced energy density or ambient temperature. Because the science of matter is functional, there are two main stages in the scientific approach to evolution: first, the identification of the elementary, i.e. non reducible, processes of energy transformation {ePETs for short), second, their complexification in local contexts (ePETs). The language used to represent them is Quantum Mechanics (QM), generally held to map all known PETs involved in the genesis of Natural Systems (NS). The belief that the genesis of NS is quantal in nature is based on the fact that all of these systems are material and therefore products of cosmic evolution. The energy path of Cosmic Evolution is fairly well understood, although the details of the structural elaboration of the various types of natural systems, which is affected by local conditions, become more difficult to ascertain experimentally as we proceed to systems of greater complexity, as is the case with biological organisms. In the study of consciousness, and especially in that of human mentation, experimental psychologists often betray a temptation to jump directly from the micro-level of the substrate to the macro-level of emergence, without bothering to ascertain the dynamical nature of the intermediary stages. Ignorance of the fact that the evolutionary process, which is quanta), is syncopated from the Hot Bang on, results in the failure to ascertain the dynamical characteristics of the energy context wherein the last step before the emergence of cognition takes place, thereby getting an erroneous map of the evolutionary path leading to human consciousness. Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:35:00 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:56:56 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1289 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=851 This paper is written from an energy stance on the ground that energy is the universal substrate of the dynamical universe. The first part is about the dynamical structure of natural systems, whose origins are traced to their evolutionary character. A distinction is made between the ways in which energy is transformed in the process of cosmic evolution and the ways it is distributed in local contexts. The second part is given to philosophical considerations of some of the points raised in the first part. Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:02:13 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:13:28 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=851 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=513 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 13:32:44 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:09:35 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=513