Attila Grandpierre

[221 pages] Wie die sechs Äste eines Schneekristalls in regelmäßigen Proportionen auf ihr gemeinsames Zentrum zulaufen, so deuten die sechs Beiträge dieses Buches eine zukünftige Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens an. In diesem Sinne stellt diese Aufsatzsammlung einen multidisziplinären und transkulturellen Polylog renommierter Autoren aus drei Kontinenten dar, der darauf abzielt, höchst innovative Perspektiven zu etablieren und neue Grenzbereiche für die Entwicklung philosophischer Reflexionen und wissenschaftlicher Grundlagen für die Herausbildung eines gemeinsamen kosmischen Bewusstseins, für eine integrale Ökologie und für eine kooperative planetarische Zivilisation der Menschheit auszuloten. John B. Cobb jr. beschreibt auf prozessphilosophischer Grundlage Leben als lebendige Ereignisse, die Neuheit ausdrücken, und den Kosmos als Prozess einer Selbstanreicherung und Selbstentwicklung von "Leben an sich". Chandra Wickramasinghe entfaltet seine naturwissenschaftlich-philosophische Perspektive zum Thema kosmisches Leben in zwölf aufeinanderfolgenden Schritten und bietet eine breite Palette von Argumenten und Einsichten, die eine zeitgemäße Theorie der Panspermie unterstützen. Attila Grandpierre präsentiert die Idee eines kosmischen Lebensprinzips und einer darauf basierenden ganzheitlichen Wissenschaft, die untrennbar mit der Vorstellung einer heilen und kooperativen Zivilisation, den biologischen Gesetzen der Natur, den Gesetzen der Logik und der Steigerung des Wohlergehens von Menschen und ökologischen Gemeinschaften verbunden ist. Chunyou Yan stellt den Ansatz seiner holographischen Philosophie vor, der zufolge das Universum als eine unermessliche lebendige Entität verstanden werden muss, in der jeder Aspekt Leben widerspiegelt. Bei Peng zeigt, dass die Proportionen der Energiemeridiane in der traditionellen chinesischen Medizin musikalischen Intervallen entsprechen und demonstriert auf dieser Basis die Analogie des menschlichen Körpers zu makrokosmischen Phänomenen. David Bartosch untersucht drei wichtige systematische Grundlagen für eine poly-kontexturale, transkulturelle Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens mit Anknüpfungspunkten in griechischen, chinesischen, süd- und westasiatischen sowie europäischen Denktraditionen. [ Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life. In this sense, this edited volume represents a multidisciplinary and transcultural polylogue of distinguished authors from three continents, which aims to establish highly innovative perspectives and open new frontiers of developing philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, for an integral ecology, and for a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. John B. Cobb, Jr. uses a process-philosophical foundation to describe life as living events expressing novelty and the cosmos as a process of self-enriching and self-evolving “Life Itself.” Chandra Wickramasinghe unfolds his scientific and philosophical perspective on cosmic life in twelve successive steps, offering a wide range of arguments and insights that support an up-to-date theory of panspermia. Attila Grandpierre presents the "Cosmic Life Principle" and the comprehensive science based upon it that is inextricably linked to the healthy and cooperative civilization, to the biological laws of nature, to the laws of logic, to the uplifting of the well-being of people and ecological communities. Chunyou Yan introduces the approach of his holographic philosophy, according to which the universe must be understood as a vast living entity, every aspect of which represents life. Bei Peng shows that the proportions of energy meridians in traditional Chinese medicine correspond to musical intervals, and on this basis she demonstrates the analogy of the human body to macrocosmic phenomena. David Bartosch offers an examination of three important systematic foundations for a poly-contextural, transcultural philosophy of cosmic life with roots in Greek, Chinese, South and West Asian, and European traditions of thought.]

Dieses einführende Kapitel des Buches Auf dem Weg zu einer Philosophie des kosmischen Lebens: Neue Diskussionen und interdisziplinäre Sichtweisen bietet einen Überblick über einen multidisziplinären, multitheoretischen und transkulturellen Polylog zwischen sechs Autorinnen und Autoren aus drei Kontinenten. Ziel dieses Diskurses ist es, besonders innovative Perspektiven vorzustellen und neue Grenzgebiete für die Entwicklung philosophischer Reflexionen und wissenschaftlicher Grundlagen für die Emergenz eines geteilten kosmischen Bewusstseins, einer integralen Ökologie sowie einer kooperativen, planetarischen Zivilisation der Menschheit zu erkunden. Das Kapitel enthält kurze biographische Profile der Autorinnen und Autoren sowie Synopsen ihrer Beiträge. Der rote Faden, der sich durch das Spektrum der hier skizzierten Ideen und Standpunkte zieht, wird durch die allen zugrunde liegende Ansicht bereitgestellt, dass Leben keine zufällige Erscheinung in einer ansonsten leblosen Unendlichkeit darstellt, sondern den Ausdruck bzw. die Manifestation eines sich von selbst entfaltenden kosmischen Lebensprinzips, welches mithin als impliziter, aber zentraler und allgemeiner Faktor bei der Entstehung von allem wirkt. [This introductory chapter to the book Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views provides an overview on a multidisciplinary, multitheoretical, and transcultural dialogue among six authors from three continents. The aim of this discourse is to establish highly innovative perspectives and to explore new frontiers for the development of philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, an integral ecology, and a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. The chapter includes brief profiles of the authors and chapter summaries. The golden thread running through the spectrum of ideas and points of view outlined here is provided by the underlying view that life is not an accidental emergence in an otherwise exanimate infinity, but an expression or manifestation of a self-unfolding cosmic life principle, namely as an implicit but central and general factor in the formation of everything.]

If everything is in permanent change, can the Universe itself be fundamentally passive? Answering this question requires a clear concept of ‘activity.’ The nature of ‘action’ is a central and unsolved philosophical problem. Actions play a crucial role in the way we conceive of ourselves, life and the Universe, and the value we put on these. In four decades of research on solar activity, we found that activity is not a mere occurrence but a genuine activity of the Sun, initiated globally by the Sun using quantum processes as tools that generates suitable primary mass flows locally in the solar core that are capable of producing a working dynamo. We argue that solar activity is initiated by biological causes existing beyond the system of physical causes.The anthropic principle demands an extremely special trigger initiating the Big Bang in a way suited to the development of life. The Astrobiological Revolution indicates the generation of complex organic molecules preferentially favorable to life even in the ‘impossible’ physical conditions present in extremely rare and cold cosmic clouds. With the help of Ervin Bauer’s biological principle, we find explanation for biological determinism and life’s being a ‘cosmic imperative.’ Modern cosmology uses obsolete Laplacean models. We show that the biological principle in the Universe involves a continuous biological activity of the Universe prevailing everywhere, including in ourselves. This universal activity is the basis of our life instinct and of logic too.

Ervin Bauer formulated the most promising version of general theoretical biology in a mathematical form. He derived all the basic biological equations from a single fundamental principle, which is known as the Bauer principle. As this principle tells us, living organisms actively and continuously mobilize their free energy content to maximize their distance from lethal thermodynamic equilibrium. Although, for historical reasons, very few people know this principle, and even fewer recognize its power that originates from the fact that it transcends the framework of physics, this universal life principle represents a significant advance in our understanding of the structure and nature of the Universe, even more than the Copernican turn. This comprehensively life-centered worldview unites our physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects. It is also comprehensive in unifying individual, communal, and cosmic life. It offers an unexpectedly profound scientific basis for a cosmic ecology respecting all life forms, including the Living Universe. It offers new perspectives for our conduct of individual life as well as for good government and developing a healthy civilization.

[186 pages] Just as the six branches of a snow crystal converge in regular proportions toward their common center, the six contributions to this book point toward a future philosophy of cosmic life. In this sense, this edited volume represents a multidisciplinary and transcultural polylogue of distinguished authors from three continents, which aims to establish highly innovative perspectives and open new frontiers of developing philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, for an integral ecology, and for a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. John B. Cobb, Jr. uses a process-philosophical foundation to describe life as living events expressing novelty and the cosmos as a process of self-enriching and self-evolving “Life Itself.” Chandra Wickramasinghe unfolds his scientific and philosophical perspective on cosmic life in twelve successive steps, offering a wide range of arguments and insights that support an up-to-date theory of panspermia. Attila Grandpierre presents the "Cosmic Life Principle" and the comprehensive science based upon it that is inextricably linked to the healthy and cooperative civilization, to the biological laws of nature, to the laws of logic, to the uplifting of the well-being of people and ecological communities. Chunyou Yan introduces the approach of his holographic philosophy, according to which the universe must be understood as a vast living entity, every aspect of which represents life. Bei Peng shows that the proportions of energy meridians in traditional Chinese medicine correspond to musical intervals, and on this basis she demonstrates the analogy of the human body to macrocosmic phenomena. David Bartosch offers an examination of three important systematic foundations for a poly-contextural, transcultural philosophy of cosmic life with roots in Greek, Chinese, South and West Asian, and European traditions of thought.

This introductory chapter to the book Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views provides an overview on a multidisciplinary, multitheoretical, and transcultural dialogue among six authors from three continents. The aim of this discourse is to establish highly innovative perspectives and to explore new frontiers for the development of philosophical reflections and scientific foundations for the emergence of a common cosmic consciousness, an integral ecology, and a cooperative planetary civilization of humanity. The chapter includes brief profiles of the authors and chapter summaries. The golden thread running through the spectrum of ideas and points of view outlined here is provided by the underlying view that life is not an accidental emergence in an otherwise exanimate infinity, but an expression or manifestation of a self-unfolding cosmic life principle, namely as an implicit but central and general factor in the formation of everything.

Abstract. We point out that physical behavior is directed by the action principle (or Hamilton principle), while biological behavior is governed by the Bauer-principle which is directed against the action principle. Therefore, the ontological structure of reality have to be at least two-levelled. Consequently, we may escape from the paradoxes of endo-physics, since they arise from putting the observer into a physical context and compressing the ontological structure of reality into a one-levelled surface. We indicate that the concept of the Universe as-a-whole leads to the concept of a timelessness Universe. The internal time of the timelessness Universe is related to the three archi, the first principles of physical matter, living matter and conscious matter. We explore the existence of an ultimate time in which the timelessness evolve, what is related to the timelessness of logic and point out how the dynamics of finiteness and infinity is related to the ultimate realities of our lives. An interesting connection is found to the von Neumann's critical number of the elements for self-reproducible systems, the number of neurons in the human brain and self-consciousness. The need for an integral cosmology is emphasized which should include the Bauer-principle. The origin of the first principles of physics, biology and consciousness may be found in the logical principles. In that case material reality governed by the first principles may originate from the primordial logical reality. This result discover the existence of a Pythagorean Gap between the ontological principles and the realm of logic and may confirm the idea of Pythagoras that material reality originates from numbers.

It is one of the most important questions to us all as to what civilisation means, because it is related to the meaning of our lives, the exploration of our real self- identity, our happiness, our health, the improvement of our conduct of life and dis- covering the path leading to a healthy future of mankind. In our days, one of the greatest tasks of mankind is to resolve the issues raised by the ecological crisis. Why have we got in an ecological crisis? Can the ecological crisis be resolved by Western civilisation, which has caused it? How can a civilisation providing a healthy, happy and meaningful life be promoted most effectively? What is the essence, the most fundamental attribute of Western civilisation? And first and foremost: what is the essence of civilisation?

It is pointed out that the different concepts of the Universe serve as an ultimate basis determining the frames of consciousness. A unified concept of the Universe is explored which includes consciousness and matter as well to the universe of existents. Some consequences of the unified concept of the Universe are derived and shown to be able to solve the paradox of the self-founding notion of the Universe. The self-contained Universe is indicated to possess a logical nature. It is shown that a passage exists between consciousness and the material world and its nature is exemplified. Moreover, arguments are presented showing the simultaneous emotional nature of the Universe. A solution to the paradox of semi-finite spacetime existents, possessing finite and infinite substances simultaneously, namely eternal existents like moral values and logical validity, is obtained.

It is possible to reveal and to examine the collective and social fields of consciousness experimentally. An account is given of planned experiments based on quantitative calculations, which indicate that the effects of individual and collective fields of consciousness on matter may elicit directly observable physical results. Moreover, it is shown that collective coherent consciousness fields may enhance the physical effects of consciousness at a significant rate. The predicted results have a significance in our picture of our consciousness, in self-assertion and dynamising of consciousness, the expansion of collective fields of consciousness, and thus the raising of the level of consciousness for humanity.