My mind is floating somewhere in the unknown space of my universe. The bed was waiting fo me, but it couldn’t induce myself to sleep. Maybe, my neurons were just doing some overtime. After few hours, I felt so tired, so I decided to lie down on not that so comfortable bed. Still, my wires were kicking frantically and I couldn’t resolve myself to sleep. So, I decided to go online and watched some video clips in YouTube. What did I watch? Well, nothing interesting. I only watched clips on “Evolution” and “Origin of Life.” Boring? Right? Actually NO, I really find them interesting. At least I have seen the visual representation of some scientific concepts that are sometimes difficult imagine. Let’s admit it. I am an evolutionist. Or shall I say I am a Darwinist. Even my core philosophy in life is dominated by this theory, by this perspective. I always view things in evolutionist ground.
Of course, I skipped those clips that showed explanations of evolution in creationist perspective or in “grand and intelligent design” premise. I am not really a fan of this perspective. Creationist view is quite shaky in my opinion. I cannot force my mind to believe this view of origin of life. And I don’t know why my mind is inclined to have my vote on the Evolutionist side.
Anyway, I am not going to expose my contentions here against Creationism. I would rather use my ink in writing my reflections today on Evolution.
After watching several clips for an hour or so, I encountered a clip on Richard Dawkins. He was asked by someone on what would be his last quest. And he answered “Subjective Consciousness.”
Subjective consciousness for me is Relativity working on the feedbacks of objective consciousness. In response to Dawkins quest, I reflected on the subject and wrote the following on a sheet of paper on my computer desk (I always have a sheet of paper on my computer desk):
“Subjective consciousness is the by-product, an offshoot of brain activities in response to the evolution of group interaction. It is rooted on the response mechanism of a complex neural interaction of every individual within a group doing complex dynamics of interaction. Also, the existence of human language heightened this consciousness in human population.”
I am not pretty sure of the meaning of the things I was writing, but I believe everything boils down to the mathematics of complex systems.
So, I googled complex systems.
And it dawned to me that I am somehow fascinated by this field of mathematics since time immemorial. I have this thing of investigating the complex interactions of human beings as well as some collective systems.
Physicists call this field as Homeokinetics, or the science of evolutionary complexity. And it covers, as for now, the following:
1. History of humankind (events in time and space)
2. Making sense of value systems (memory in complex systems)
3. Introduction to science and systematic study
4. Movement and change: basic ideas in flow systems
5. Cultural systems, including human, as flow systesm
6. Social chemistry of cultural systems
7. Chemistry: general principles
8. Biochemistry of living systems
9. The living organism as a biological-biophysical system
10. Geophysical systems that support life
11. The physical universe
It basically incorporates physical science in social systems.
Now, I know the field where I am going to focus my attention. It’s Homeokinetics! I am not really interested in the actual effect of this field in the case of Homo sapiens. But I am more interested in drawing up the general mathematics that explains all dynamics of complex systems in one equation, because somehow I believe that this can be the amalgam of Gravitational Physics and Quantum Physics (But I am not really sure of this. It is just a random thought). Complex interaction is the reality of our universe, from its jittery space-time fabric, to the species of its innumerable planets, and up to the cosmic chaos. I think the Theory Everything lies on the mathematics of complex systems.
How about subjective consciousness? How is it related to complex systems? For me, the event of encountering subjective consciousness through Dawkins inspired me to refine my focus in life. That’s my meaning of “Subjective Consciousness.”
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