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123Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views (edited book)Springer Nature. 2023.[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 emergen…Read more
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1The Cosmic Life Instinct Points the Way to a Healthy Ecological CivilizationIn David Bartosch, Attila Grandpierre & Bei Peng (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views, Springer Nature. pp. 35-67. 2023.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 p…Read more
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8IntroductionIn David Bartosch, Attila Grandpierre & Bei Peng (eds.), Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life: New Discussions and Interdisciplinary Views, Springer Nature. pp. 1-8. 2023.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,…Read more
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1175The Fundamental Principles of Existence and the Origin of Physical LawsUltimate Reality and Meaning 25 (2): 127-147. 2002.Our concept of the universe and the material world is foundational for our thinking and our moral lives. In an earlier contribution to the URAM project I presented what I called 'the ultimate organizational principle' of the universe. In that article (Grandpierre 2000, pp. 12-35) I took as an adversary the wide-spread system of thinking which I called 'materialism'. According to those who espouse this way of thinking, the universe consists of inanimate units or sets of material such as atoms or …Read more
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150Measurement of collective and social fields of consciousnessWorld Futures 57 (1): 85-94. 2001.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 s…Read more
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369The universal organisation principle as ultimate reality and meaningUltimate Reality and Meaning 23 12-35. 2000.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 p…Read more
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65The dynamics of time and timelessness: Philosophy, physics and prospects for our lifeIn Metod Saniga (ed.), The Nature of Time: Geometry, Physics & Perception, eds. R. Buccheri, M. Saniga and W. M. Stuckey, NATO Science Series: II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry : Volume 95, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.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-levelle…Read more
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612The Essence of CivilisationHungarian Geopolitics 3 (2): 174-191. 2018.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…Read more
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90A review of: "Information theory, evolution and the origin of life as a digital message how life resembles a computer" (review)World Futures 62 (5). 2006.(2006). A Review of: “Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life as a Digital Message How Life Resembles a Computer”. World Futures: Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 401-403
Attila Grandpierre
Budapest Centre for Long-Term Sustainability
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Budapest Centre for Long-Term SustainabilitySenior Lecturer