During
the last decades, the apparently solid vision of the mechanistic and
materialistic world has started to show alarming cracks. Approaches that
a century ago were taken as rigorous and almost irrefutable start to be
seriously call into question.
Previously
it was said that the universe is moved by a simple game of chance in
progressive degradation and relentlessly oriented toward a thermic death.
Beyond this dark omen the new science contemplates with surprise a fascinating
creativity in all spheres of reality. An unstoppable evolutionary current runs
through all the cosmic history, generating all types of novelties. The supposed
universal machine, almost damned to scrap, unveils now like a living being
animated by a self-creative permanent force. It seems that Nature starts
to reveal the secrets of its holistic inner tendency that pushes toward
climbing the ladder of organized complexity. Such ascending impulse has been
creating progressively, differentiated, inclusive and integrated units.
The
Mechanistic Science had the reductionist dream of explaining the functioning of
complex structures exclusively using its more basic components. The new science
has broken such a dream when testing over and over and in diverse levels of
reality that the whole is bigger than the sum of the parts. The evolution
flow engenders novelties that although logically compatible with precedent
structures cannot however be explained by them. There is thus a dynamic and
hierarchical scheme of the world in which emerging levels are integrated with
the previous ones, therefore generating more complex, inclusive and broad
organisms. Elemental particles are part of the atoms, atoms form
molecules, molecules cells, cells organism, etcetera. Thus, the universe
is shown as a hierarchy that extends unlimitedly up and down and throughout all
of the evolutionary course.
On
the other hand, everyone of the levels of universal reality is structured by an
infinite reciprocal game among individuals and communities. One and many
are faced as reflections in a net of mirrors. It is not possible to find an
individual without its environment, not a collectivity without the individuals
who make it. We cannot separate isolated unities in these universal networks of
interrelationships and interconnections. As Quantum Physics has
demonstrated the scope of these complex webs of relations go beyond what we
could humanly conceive, even transcending our time and space schemes.
There are no “parts” really separated in any level of the evolution scale.
On the contrary, as in a holographic plate each “fragment” of the world is not
any other thing than a concrete expression of the same and unique totality. The
universe starts to show itself to the eyes of new science as a unified field
that reflects dynamically in every corner of itself.
We
pretended to build the world upon the solid and strong basis of the matter but
this myth has not either resisted the empirical testing. Subatomic
analysis has literally made that the floor disappears under our feet. Our
supposedly indestructible material base has dissolved in pure forms, patterns,
orders and relationships in a fabric that is not substantial anymore but merely
and purely abstract. We are supported by evanescent forms that
frantically emerge and disappear in an intangible void. Scientists even say
that the universe starts to look more like a thought than like a machine.
The
materialistic focus of classical science also aimed to describe the world
“objectively”, marginalizing the situation to the “subject” that was making the
description. Nevertheless the emergent postmodern perspective has, once
more, set forth the complete ingenuity of this project. Inevitably the
observation mind is part of the observed universe. There is not object
without subject, there is not outside without inside, neither reality without
consciousness. Both terms are definitively interrelated and
therefore any intent of integral comprehension of the phenomenal world must
necessarily include both facets. Evolution dynamics is therefore perceived as a
generator of entities, not only progressively more organized and complex in its
external aspect but also, at the same time, deeper and more conscious in its
internal scope. We cannot limit our vision only to the surface of things because
although we pretend to ignore them over and over the depths of lucidity will
finally present themselves to us.
The
universe that starts to display itself before our wondering gaze has little to
do with that blind insensitive artifact, mechanical and inert world in which
the human being that was imagining it, didn’t even have a place.
The new perspectives that study reality, do not consider us any more as the
aberrant creatures in a world without sense, but on the contrary, as
appealing expressions of the creative flow of totality; authentic microcosms
that reflect with evolving clarity, the infinite richness of a fascinating
macrocosm.
Our
research about the rhythm of evolution is framed inside of this new perspective
of a self-creative universe —generator of novelties, progressively complex and
organized—, hierarchical —in which every new level transcends and integrate all
the previous—, holographic —in which every part reflects the totality—,
impermanent —in a continuous dance of creation and destruction—, lucid —capable
of knowing itself—, and void —without a basic substance that supports it.
In
this new emerging scene, our risky proposal that it exists a harmonious pattern
that governs the rhythm of Evolution, does not sound so odd now. We shall
see.
José Díez Faixat
English Translation: Raquel Torrent Guerrero
