Towards a Theory of Everything Based on the Realization that Human Specialization Is an Anomaly of Evolution

INTRODUCTION TO FOLLOW

In honor of Joël de Rosnay, the inventor of the Macroscope.

“If the total scheme of nature required man to be a specialist, she would have made him so by having him born with one eye and a microscope attached to it.”
Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1969
“It is the theory that decides what we can observe.” Einstein

During my graduate studies, I often compared my teachers to microscope-burdened cyclops, having gained the ability to understand how colors mixed on the canvas background, the nature of these backgrounds, and how they are attached to the frame of the paintings they made us study while having lost the capacity to look at the whole masterpiece.
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Fig.1 ANIMAL VS. HUMAN PERCEPTION

MY MENTOR’S SUGGESTION:

“I suggest adding a similar figure where below “reception” is shown an array of radio telescopes in place of human eyes, below “transduction” a table of many numbers (like ephemerides tables), and below “perception” a scientist reading those numbers and drawing formulas on the blackboard. This is “modern science”.“I suggest adding a similar figure where below “reception” is shown an array of radio telescopes in place of human eyes, below “transduction” a table of many numbers (like ephemerides tables), and below “perception” a scientist reading those numbers and drawing formulas on the blackboard. This is “modern science.”“

“Radio telescopes” are sense extensions like all other scientific instruments. They only gave us more in-depth data and nothing more. As for “ephemerides tables,” they have nothing to do with the “transduction” happening in our brains, which are biological phenomena transducing sense data into brain states accessible by the mind and from which science creates these tables.

Our minds do not react to the signals sent by the things themselves present in our living environment, to which all other living entities respond instinctively. Our minds, being self-conscious, are only aware of image representations that our brain creates from this data after they have been “transduced” by our sense organs. And, without the support of a society nurturing us after birth, we wouldn’t know what to do with them.
It is these images presented to our consciousness that scientists explain using the theories they draw on blackboards, and not the reality in itself, before it is transduced into image representations by our brains. Are these “images” accurate representations of the external reality? Yes, they probably are…and that is why scientific theories work accurately, but only for humans. The rest of nature, which doesn’t live in our representations, would be better off if these theories had never been produced.
It does not matter the means we use to observe the “things in themselves — the reality functioning under its own rules when not observed, as QM accurately showed us — what our “minds” perceive is the appearances of this reality that our brains decode from sense data, whether received through bear biological means or helped by scientific instruments.
It is only at this point that scientific minds create sets of tables “to explicate” the data that our brain receives from the thing in themselves, from the implicate order, in which reality functions holistically instead of “proactively” as it does for ourselves under our theories. Again, it is them that decide what we can observe.
So, if physical laws are universal, and they are as Newton showed us, and if the Implicate Order exists, and it does as Bohm showed us, then Newton was wrong to say that the absolute is not worthed to be hypothesized about. And it is inappropriate for science to say that appearances are the only thing we can measure and take into consideration, as I will show below.

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Here’s an overview of my generalist perspective, in which the same laws present in principle in the pre-Big Bang apply to all levels of reality while being expressed differently:

Fig.2 ERVIN LASZLO’S EVOLUTIONARY GRAND SYNTHESIS (My edit in red)

Here is how these levels emerge at each stage of the evolutionary process:

Fig. 3 HUMAN-PARADIGM SHIT: COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS (Id)
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NB I don’t believe in the “bon Sauvage” either; humans are selfish, as all life is (CF “selfish gene.”) We will succeed in controlling the destructive force of nature that humanity has become when we collectively realize that in an interconnected world, consciously* acting for the good of all is working for our own good, as non-human animals working consciously for their own good is good for the survival of whole species.

*NB And they do act consciously, but for themselves alone, as our brains are “conscious” of what is happening in our bodies but for themselves alone and without any representation, as all members of all species do. Representing the world to our minds is what we do as self-conscious humans.

Fig.4 UTOPIA OR DEATH

To reach this utopia, we need to define the classical world — which is 100% made of elementary particles — using the quantum principles scientists discovered in the micro level of reality, which is the closest we have ever been to “things in themselves.” Things in themselves which were for Newton an “absolute” not worthy of our hypothesizing efforts, and for Kant, following Newton’s steps, a Noumenon out of reach of the human mind.
These 18th-century beliefs materialized themselves three hundred years before we knew anything about the elementary particles composing 100% of all beings, inert or alive.
The problem with scientists today is that they are intellectual prisoners of a scientific method worked out in the next Century, the 19th, by natural philosophers ignorant of modern science, who did swallow hook, line, and sinker these beliefs of their celebrated predecessors of the 18th-century, Newton and Kant.
This uncriticized acceptance of the belief in the impossibility of science to deal with things in themselves, but only appearances, has been the rite of passage of normal scientists, which has created an awkward situation where scientists have come to discover that there is a dimension of reality seemingly not functioning in space and time like our classical world of “appearances” seemed to be.
However, being unconsciously imbued by the belief that there is nothing in this micro world that can be understood in itself, they had to keep on using concepts that work in the classical world, like waves, particles, fields, etc., while tweaking them to fit the data, as Ptolemy did with the notions of crystalline spheres, epicycle, equant, and deferent to explain the planets’ retrograde motion in the 2nd century, for crying out load. No wonder we’re screwed!
For example, modern scientists have been using a mathematical language based on notions of continuous space and time of the “classical dimension” of appearances, which dimensions, as they had to concede eventually, are non-existent in the micro-level of reality they were trying to define.
However, at this point, the intellectual inertia created by the mass of knowledge accumulated on these concepts was so strong, and their “tweaking” worked so well, that the thousands, if not millions, of individuals making a living on these bases were never prompted to alter their way of thinking. That is why when defining what they are dealing with, they cannot do better than to “shut up and calculate.”

Fig.4A NORMAL SCIENTISTS

The one who went the furthest in such an attempt to define reality as it is when not observed was Bohm, with his notion of Implicate Order,” things in themself, and Explicate Order, appearances. However, he failed to make a breakthrough because his theory still used the notion of wave, as a “pilot wave,” a concept which can fit the data, but cannot be supported nor function in a unidimensional and atemporal dimension of reality that is the implicate order in which the noumena, the thinks in themselves, exist.
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THE MACROSCOPE
I will present you multiple histogram plackets, which will give a timeline of how humanity became the “ecological catastrophe” that it is at the moment, a catastrophe brought about by people such as Einstein, Planck, and others, who have all accepted the beliefs of their founders that the only things science can define are the appearances.
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963

Fig.5 SPECIALISTS

BACK TO THE MACROSCOPE
First, since life is homeostatic, let’s accept that at his level of reality, everything functions as waves in time:

Fig.6 LIVING ORGANISMS

When we “observe” life, we only see static entities, whether whole living embodiments or their specific life data such as temperature, blood pressure, etc., and not species as such.
And since “species are individuals,” for reasons you can see here, they also function as waves in time:

Fig.7 INDIVIDUAL SPECIES

As we can see here, the limits of species are exterior in space for their members, but interior in time, within the niche of species themselves, as they are for all living entities.
And the fact that the Biosphere is a living organism is the reason why James Lovelock called her Gaïa:

Fig.8 GAЇA

Here, I don’t specify the limits of the biosphere, which are “ecological disasters” as the one that terminated the dinosaur’s era, because it is in this zone that we evolved as Homo to become one of these disasters of our own making as sapiens modern, as I will show below how it happened in evolution. However, we were not from the start. I will show you below how we became such a disaster for the Biosphere.
To set the stage, here is how the Earth looked like before the event of our genus Homo:

Fig.9 THE BIOSPHERE BEFORE HOMO

I here specify the Biosphere’s limits because they already existed for dinosaurs, eons before the event of Homo. I excluded humanity from this ecological zone of disaster for the moment because, at first, we were not such a disaster for her but mainly “parasites” on her surface. Why? Because having to “objectify” sticks and stones to defend ourselves in space and use them as tools to survive in time, we were no longer an integrated part of its life functions but had to “transcend” them while feeding from her, as “parasites” do on our skin. Contrary to all other living entities composing the Biosphere that also feed from her but live in the instants in states of competition, cooperation, or mutualism with all the other entities of their niche.

Science is correct to say that we cannot know the Biosphere in itself but only observe and measure its apparent components. However, I will show below that we can measure her in terms of appearances when we take her into consideration.
We indeed needed the notions of space and time to create the distinctive realm of appearances in which we “securely” evolved as Homo. Why securely? Because being the only species living in these spatiotemporal appearances, we had and still have no competition.

THE SAVANNAH INVASION

Before we entered the Savannah, there was no such realm of appearances because all living entities functioned in the instant for themselves, and no life existed in space and time, which are the dimensions we had to assume unconsciously for millions of years to “objectify” our living environment. Here is how it happened in the Savannah:

Fig.10 HOMO IN THE SAVANNAH; COMMUNICATION IN SPACE

The important thing to see here is that by objectifying” our environment in space and time, we entered our own “stasis,” in that, we quit being an integrated part of life homeostasis as a new living entity while needing to openly communicate among us using language to remain such viable independent entities living in appearances. We thus became analogous “parasites,” not contributing to the homeostasis of the Biosphere on which we stood while still living off it like microorganisms do on our skin.

THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Fig.11 SAPIENS OUT OF AFRICA; COMMUNICATION THROUGH TIME

And much later, after the agricultural revolution, we became local inflammations for the Biosphere. Why? Well, when parasites start digging into our skin to feed themselves and grow, they produce local inflammations, don’t they? So, let us do good science by naming things objectively for what they are. Let us diagnose Homo sapiens for what they have become for the Biosphere after the agricultural revolution, “localized inflammations” while digging into the biosphere “skin” to feed themselves.

CIVILIZATION

Then civilization, rendered possible by the agricultural revolution, led us to invent the most significant means of communication after language: writing and printing; writing to keep track of what we were doing in space; and later, printing, which allowed the masses to communicate through time. The printing press was significant for civilization because it created a collective process of “positive feedback,” which has become antagonistic to life’s negative feedback:

Fig.12 POSITIVE FEEDBACK

This newly acquired power to communicate through time allowed science to make us enter an era of “growth,” which has chronically alienated us from the process of natural homeostasis in which all unobserved phenomena function 1) as processes for life and 2) as waves, on probabilistic or other forms, for matter. Instead, we enter a process of growth, alienating us even more from the natural world.
Here is how it happened with the help of science:

Fig.13 ROLE OF SCIENCE IN HUMAN SOCIETIES

The previous histogram shows what science did for progress while creating a “method” to control the efficiency of its “unidirectional” growth. However, I positioned the name ‘science’ in the same color and line as parasites and local inflammation, the living entities that live off the environment without contributing to its “homeostasis,” to allow me to replace “progress” with “pollution,” in the following histogram, which is the inevitable byproduct of science and the activities it induces when considering the Biosphere as an externality that doesn’t need to be taken into consideration as the thing in itself that it is.
Indeed, science, and the economic activities it induces, have become for the Biosphere a “generalized inflammation” mainly expressing itself in plastic and antibiotic pollution, plastic and antibiotic which contribute to humanity’s increase of quality of life while diminishing its “quantity” in the Biosphere:

Fig.14 EFFECTS OF SCIENCE ON THE BIOSPHERE

Scientists, the custodian of knowledge while only considering the appearances in which we live and, thus, allowing their business financiers to use their intellectual products with no concern for the environment, have allowed them to become a chronic inflammation to the Biosphere. Scientists are not directly responsible for this situation but are fundamentally accountable for it.

Fig.14A RESEARCH MONEY

I am an “extraordinary” scientist, in Kuhn’s terms, who has never benefited from this situation because I realized some fifty years ago that we could not keep progressing the way we were then while not accepting our primordial responsibility of caring for our living environment.
And that at the age of thirty, after seeing firsthand that 80% of the bodies of water I had swum growing up had been polluted by the mid-70 by progressive activities enriching the wealthy to the detriment of everything else.
I then decided to undertake a carrier of independent generalized research to formulate the problem in solvable terms after having read in Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth that,

“Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.”

And after reading later in Konrad Lorenz’s Behind the Mirror, that specialists, by knowing ever more and more about less and less, will end up knowing everything about nothing, and philosophers, by knowing less and less about more and more, will end up knowing nothing about everything.

Inspired by these euphemisms telling me that specialists don’t know what they are talking about when it comes to defining the whole picture, I then decided to undertake a second general BA after an eclectic first BA equivalency acquired within a hippie mentality at the age of 27, to become a generalist while keeping the middle ground as a learned-ignorant independent researcher in a life-long calling to formulate in solvable terms the problems created by the existential crisis into which modern science would inadvertently bring humanity. At the time, I thought that this crisis would happen in the 22nd Century. I was 75 years off at the time, not having to consider computers and the Internet, which have multiplied by at least ten our growth capacities.
Here is how I have come to define ourselves as the ecological disaster that we have become for the Biosphere.

DIAGNOSIS OF A GENERALIST DOCTOR IN ANTHROPOLOGY:

Fig.15 MY DIAGNOSIS

I know. It’s never easy to be diagnosed with cancer. However, when it happens, one must trust one’s doctor and listen to him when he says that he knows the cause, which, in the case of humanity, is “philosophical,” i.e., on which foundation knowledge is founded, as it is often genetic for biological individuals, i.e., on the information contained in their genome at conception.

In our case, it happens that the cause resides in the fact that science, and particularly Quantum Mechanics, have mindlessly followed their 18th-century natural-philosopher founders’ uncriticized acceptance that the “absolute,” for Newton, is not worthy of our hypothetical efforts and that Noumenon (the domain of things in themselves), for Kant, is unknowable to humans.
Here’s what it looks like when considering the Biosphere as a noumenal reality as it functions as a whole in relation to a domain of appearances in which humans primarily serve themselves as individuals.

Fig. 16 QUANTUM MECHANICS: THE LEADING AGENT OF THE PRESENT EXISTENTIAL CRISIS

As you can see in the last figure, we need to unify both levels of reality in quantum terms since all reality is 100% composed of elementary particles, and quantum mechanics is the domain of science studying them. And it has done very well for itself. Its only limitation is that it is still working on the wrong premise that the things in themselves cannot be measured. As I have shown in this figure that they can: We know about the number of species that we have irradicated in the past and that we will in the future if we do not find ways to replenish the Earth collectively. We could also compare the amount of living time that humanity has gained in life expectation to the same amount living time lost by the species we have irradicated in this process of bettering our quality of life and increasing its expectation. It should be the same because the biosphere is a zero-sum living phenomenon.

MY PROGNOSTIC

Fig.17 MY DISSERTATION: THE DESIGN OF A CURATIVE PROGRAM

As you can see for yourselves, science, and especially quantum mechanics, computers, and the Internet, will become therapeutic agents if it is accepted that the reality in which we live is not the objective reality independent of our perceptions but a reality that exists only for ourselves, as the heavens are indeed revolving around the Earth when we observe them day and night, but only for us.
How are we going to do that? I know as much about that as Copernicus knew about the coming scientific era when he understood that the anomalies that Ptolemy resolved with epicycles would resolve themselves when we realized that the Earth revolves around the sun.

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My dissertation will present a possible avenue for the modern sapiens that we are to evolve into sapiens novus and become therapeutic agents collectively taking care of the existential crisis in which we are now. My theory will be a “theory of collective mind,” allowing us to get out of the “terrible two” stage of evolution that has been the 20 and 21st Centuries and enter an era of collective consciousness allowing the human species to live in unison with the Biosphere, the living entity of which we are the nervous system. As three-year-olds finally understand that they are part of a society of individuals who also have selves of their own.

For now, before I write an introduction describing how I came to become the generalist doctor for humanity, I am. And a conclusion that will show the fundamental error on which all human knowledge is founded and which prevents us from finding solutions for the existential crisis science has created, the only thing I can tell you is that whatever brilliant person you may be or whatever Ph.D. you may have, if you haven’t realized by now that you, as a shortsighted (sic) specialized individual, are an anomaly of evolution, which I doubt you have, you are as relevant to control the destructive force of nature that humanity has become in the 20 and 21st Centuries such as Ptolemy were relevant to discover these forces in the 2nd Century.

ONCLUSION TO FOLLOW

© André Gaudreault