Title: The Fundamental Human Conjecture
Subtitle: A Philosophical Model of Identical
Universes, Lives and Minds
Author: Xin-Yan Zhang
E-mail: ink@hotmail.com
Draft completed on: 18 Jan. 1998
revised on: 7 September 2002
The author presented 12 conjectures in this
article as the logical outcomes of the believe: “ All the existing things arise
from and end in one and the same thing; all the existing things compose and are
also composed of it”. The first 4 conjectures describe the identical essence of
matter, energy, space and time, the states at the beginning and end of our
universe, and the states before its beginning and after its end. The next 3
conjectures explain what is the essence of life, define two kinds of lives with
contrary natures, describe the principles of their evolution, and suggest how
the lives on the earth originated. The 8th conjecture presents the concept of
the ultimate basic organisation of life. The 9th shows the general organisation
of the human mind and the 10th explains the essence of consciousness and how
the mind works. The last 2 conjectures discussed the existing form and course
of individual human self, and the meaning of human existence.
No matter how little we might be aware of them, it is a fact that all
our thoughtful actions, all religions, all moral standards, all scientific
theories and all the social or economic systems are fundamentally based upon
some conjectures, because we exist as human beings in the middle of the
time and the space
What presented in this article
is a logical system of 12 such conjectures, which is based on an ancient
believe: All what exist arise from and end in one thing; all what exist are
composed of and also compose the same thing. This thing here was called as Tao
by the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, as Apeiron by the ancient
Greek philosopher Anaximander, as Dharma by Gautama Siddhartha, the
Indian Buddha, as Noumenon by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, as Absolute
by the German philosopher Hegel, is more commonly called as Thing-in-itself
nowadays... and will be called as Reex in this article.
There are a lot of things regarded by us as existence and the whole of all existing everything is called as the universe.
Scientists say, the universe
began at a time point so called as Big Bang and has already undergone an
evolution of about 10,000 millions of years. Now the universe, at its most
macroscopic level, is an immense but not boundless space containing thousands
of millions of moving galaxy clusters, their magnetic and gravitational fields,
and the 2.73°K cosmic microwave background radiation. Each cluster is an
aggregate of thousands of galaxies and each galaxy is in turn composed of
millions of asters. More than one thousand million asters and large amounts of
interstellar gas and dust consist of our Milky Way Galaxy. Among them, there is
the sun, 1,392,000 kilometres in diameter and 330,000 times of the earth in
mass. It travels with a speed of about 200 kilometres per second, orbiting the
centre of the Milky Way Galaxy in a period of approximately 200 million years.
The light released by the sun, only one part in 2,200,000,000 intercepted by
the earth, is the most important energy resource for the organisms on the
earth. The earth, orbiting together with other planets around the sun once a
year, is a planet with a total surface area 509,600,000 square kilometres and a
total mass of 6x1024 kilograms. There are about 8 millions of
species living in a thin layer where the earth's solid, liquid and gas meet
each other. Among them there are us, the human beings with intelligent minds.
Each one of the non-living and living things that compose the earth is a huge
organisation of different atoms. Different atoms have different nuclei that are
made up of different numbers of protons and neutrons. Each proton or neutron is
in turn a combination of quarks, which contain many levels of sub-units made up
by even tinier waves and particles.
However, the first
conjecture of this article thinks that all the things described in the
picture above are nothing intrinsic to the Reex itself but only intermediate
products in the course where the Reex that appear as the human mind and its
environment change into each other. Such intermediate products may be called as
consciousness, memory or behaviour.
The first conjecture has a
twin, the second conjecture, which holds that there is an absolute
existence, the Reex, which is different in 3 aspects from any consciousness,
memory and behaviour:
1. The Reex is the one and
the only existence. Though consciousness, memory and behaviours may appear,
disappear or change, the Reex itself can not be created or destroyed, can not
be gained or lost, and can not be changed by itself or by anything else.
2. The Reex does not stay as it
is. It is eternal motion and autonomic change. All consciousness, memory
and behaviours are reflection of the Reex’ motion, change and gathering or
dispersing caused by its motion and change.
3. Though consciousness, memory
and behaviours are various and different to each other, all the Reex are always
the same and of absolute self-identity.
It is assumed by the third
conjecture that there are 4 states in one of which the Reex whole has to
be. The differences of those states, however, exist only relatively to our
minds but not to the Reex whole itself.
One of the 4 states appears as
all the phenomena of one extreme, and the other one all the phenomena of the
opposite extreme. The Reex in either of the two extreme states are called as the
pure Reex and the phenomena they appear as are called as the pure
phenomena. Reex in the rest two states appear as all the phenomena
intermediate between the pure phenomena of the two extremes. The Reex in either
of the two intermediate states is called the dual Reex, and their
appearances are called the dual phenomena. The difference of the two
dual Reex is that one of them is changing towards the state of one extreme, and
another towards the state of the opposite extreme. And their appearances change
correspondingly.
Some interesting results may be achieved by expanding many scientific concepts with these conjectures:
1. Energy and Matter
If we know all the phenomena
that the Reex in all the 4 states may appear as and if we sum them all up with
the concepts of energy and matter, then one of the pure Reex may be called as the
pure energy and the opposite pure Reex may be called as the pure matter.
The phenomena of the pure energy are what the Reex appears as when all the Reex
gather within each other and go together in a one-way motion along one path of
straight line, and the phenomena of the pure matter is the phenomena that the
Reex appear as when all the Reex disperse from each other and each goes in a
reciprocating motion along extremely large numbers of paths of straight line.
The dual Reex may be described
as an individual or as a whole consisted of enormous Reex individuals. All dual Reex individuals run along one path
of one-way motion and one to more paths of reciprocating motions at the same
time, and therefore appear as both energy and matter at the same time, even
though no dual Reex has higher density as the pure energy or lower as the pure
matter, and no dual Reex has less path as the pure matter or more paths as the
pure energy.
2. Microstate and Macrostate
We may also sum up all the
phenomena that Reex may appear as with the concepts macrostate and microstate.
Then the pure macrostate is what the pure matter appears and the pure
microstate is what the pure energy appears. Not like the pure Reex, the dual
Reex always appears as both macrostate and microstate at the same time. Though
there are always phenomena of both macrostate and microstate in a dual Reex
whole, a special macrostate are only accompanied by another specal microstate
and both change correspondingly. In a universe of the dual Reex whole, either
its microstate is decreasing and its macrostate is increasing or vice versa, we
are not allowed to use the microstate to explain the macrostate and vice versa,
because there is no cause-and-effect relation between them, they are only
co-existences. For example, we may not say cells are more essential than the
body or particles are more fundamental
than the whole universe.
3. Time and Space
And we may also sum up all the phenomena of pure energy and pure
microstate as pure time and pure matter and pure macrostate as pure
space. Therefore, there is no time and no space wherever there is no Reex.
All the phenomena of time reflect Reex's motion along one-way path and all the
phenomena of space reflect Reex's motion along reciprocating paths. The time
can be measured as the speed of Reex's one-way motion and its density, and the
space can be measured as numbers of the reciprocating paths of Reex's motion
and their lengths. Dual Reex individual that runs along one reciprocating path
may appear as a one-dimension object, called as a Reex string, and that
along two or three reciprocating paths at the same time may appear as a two or
three-dimension object, called as a Reex plane or a Reex body.
All the reciprocating paths that one dual Reex individual runs along at the
same time, may be called as the dual Reex individual’s Reex field. There
is time but no space in the whole of pure energy and there is space but no time
in the whole of pure matter. There are both time and space in the whole or
individuals of dual Reex, but not so much time as that in the whole of pure
energy and not so much space as that in the whole of pure matter.
There still are many other
pairs of concepts, such as continuity and discontinuity, order and disorder,
motion and state, homogeneity and heterogeneity and so on, that may replace and
fulfil the roles of the above-mentioned 4 pairs of concepts in summing up all
the appearances of the Reex. This
implies that energy, microstate, time, continuity, order, motion, homogeneity
and so on are one same thing, and matter, macrostate, space, discontinuity,
disorder, state, heterogeneity and so on are another same thing. The essential
identification among all the concepts in each of the two opposite groups may be
called as the law of group identification.
4. Gravity
Gravitational field is the
matter phenomena of dual Reex and is the appearance of its Reex field. Because
the phenomenon of space are also the appearance of the Reex field, therefore,
according to the law of group identification, gravitational field and space are
the same thing.
When two Reex field run into
each other, the parts of their reciprocating motions towards to each other
appear more and more like energy, and the parts of their reciprocating motions
in the opposite direction will appear more and more like matter. That is how
the accelerating energy is produced in gravitational fields.
As the gravitational field, the fields of the strong nuclear
force, the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force are also Reex
fields and spaces, though they are Reex fields and spaces with higher Reex
density, with more complex structures, with more reciprocating paths, and more
like the pure matter than the gravitational field.
There is an interdependent relation between a dual Reex
individual’s Reex field and its one-way path. The number of a dual Reex
individual’s reciprocating paths will increase when it loses energy and will
decrease when it gains energy. For instance, a non-superconductor may change
into a superconductor when it loses energy and gains more reciprocating paths;
a photon may be released when it gains more energy and loses one reciprocating
path; and a Reex individual will have more gravitational mass when it contains
less energy but less gravitational mass when it contains more energy, which
might be the reason why our universe did not stay as a black hole even though
it started in a state of extremely high density. Such changes at the one-way
path may be continuous but discontinuous at reciprocating paths. There is a
quantum relation between the one-way path’s continuous change and the Reex
field’s discontinuous change.
There is no space or
gravitational field in the whole of pure energy, since there is no
reciprocating path in it. There are spaces and gravitational fields in both
wholes of dual Reex, but the phenomena of spaces and gravitational fields
increase in one of them and decrease in another. There is extremely strong
gravitational field and extremely large space in the whole of pure matter, but
no one-way path, no energy, no time, no life, no atoms and no asters in it.
It is the fourth conjecture
that assumes the Reex whole may not be in two or more of the 4 states at the
same time, nor remain in any of them for ever, but must change into each of its
four states in turn. Therefore, the existence of the Reex whole appears as a
cycle of constant changing among the four states. The appearance of the cycle
is, therefore, composed of one point of pure energy, one point of pure matter
and two periods of dual phenomena with opposite directions. Let us call such a
cycle of the Reex whole as the year cycle, and call its pure matter
point as the winter universe (The U. Winter), its pure energy point as the
summer universe (The U. Summer), the intermediate period changing
towards the pure energy point as the spring universe (The U.
Spring), and the another as the autumn universe (The U. Autumn).
The direction of the year cycle's evolution is from the U. Spring, through the
U. Summer and then the U. Autumn, to the U. Winter, and finally returns to the
U. Spring again.
During the period of the U.
Spring, the Reex whole gathers gradually and repeatedly, and has fewer and
fewer reciprocating paths, fewer and fewer appearances of matter and space, but
more and more appearances of energy and time. Accordingly, the universe becomes
smaller and smaller, hotter and hotter, more and more unified and equal.
Different from a collapse, the U. Spring is a course of gradually and
repeatedly consuming dual matter and producing dual energy. At the point of the U. Summer, all the Reex
gathers into one one-way path and therefore appears as pure energy. Light,
gravity, space as well as all other dual phenomena disappear since there is no
reciprocating path existing at the point. During the period of the U. Autumn,
the Reex whole disperses gradually and repeatedly. Reciprocating paths reappear
and increase and the universe changes from an existence of one dimension into
multidimensional world, and gets bigger and bigger, colder and colder, more and
more different and unequal. Accordingly its time becomes less and faster.
Different from an explosion, the U. Autumn is a course of gradually and
repeatedly consuming dual energy and producing dual matter. At the point of the
U. Winter, all the one-way paths disappear, the Reex whole disperses into the
pure matter with extremely large number of reciprocating paths. Attracted by
the extremely strong gravity of the pure matter, the Reex whole gathers up and
enters the U. Spring again.
There are many sub-year-cycles
in either the U. Spring or the U. Autumn. Each sub-year-cycle is composed of S.
Spring, S Summer, S Autumn and S Winter. The
differences between the sub-year-cycles and the year cycle are: The S. Summer
in a sub-year-cycle is composed of dual energy, not pure energy, and the S.
Winter is composed of dual matter, not pure matter. Both of the S. Summer and
S. Winter become more and more like pure energy in the U. Spring but more and
more like pure matter in the U. Autumn. In different sub-year-cycles there are
S. Autumns with different initial states, different courses and different lives
in them. Not in all of the S. Autumns may the human beings arise and exist.
Through the gradually and repeatedly grinding of the sub cycles, the pure
energy is digested by the U. Autumn and the pure matter is digested by the U.
Spring.
Since scientists found that atomic nuclei had appeared far before human
beings came into being, therefore, we do not only live in a whole of dual Reex
but also in an U. Autumn. Though the U. Autumn is a natural development of the
U. Summer, nothing exists in the U. Autumn has existed in the U. Summer. At the
starting point of our U. Autumn, there was nothing existing like atoms, asters,
plants, animals or human beings. All of them have been created by the
development of the U. Autumn and all of them have been the component parts of
the development. The creative change happened in this development are called as
life. Though life does not exist everywhere in our universe, it
certainly does not occur only in biological bodies like living plants and
animals either.
Life is the appearances of the
Reex. However, not all but only the dual Reex may appear as life, and not all
but only some of the dual Reex that are in the following 3 states appear as
life. The Reex
in these 3 states are called the pure life, the spring life and
the autumn life. These 3 kinds of lives are the
fifth conjecture of this article.
The pure life is the dynamic
equilibrium state in which a dual energy continuously changes into a relevant
dual matter and simultaneously the dual matter continuously changes back to the
relevant dual energy, and all the changes lead to neither increase nor decrease
of the total amount of the matter and energy in the environment where the
changes occur. The year cycle may be regarded as a pure life existing in time,
and the pure life may be regarded as a year cycle existing in a local space. .
The second law of thermodynamics is not applicable to the whole of the year
cycle or a sub-year-cycle, or any system in which there is a life, because it
only reflects the direction of the U. Autumn.
Because all the dual Reex must become more and more like either
the pure energy or the pure matter, therefore, the life must also change
towards either direction. The life that becomes more and more like the pure
matter, the same direction of the U. Autumn, is called the autumn life; and the
life that becomes more and more like the pure energy, the same direction of the
U. Spring, is called the spring life. There is no life in either U. Summer or U.
Winter because there is no dual Reex in them. There are both spring life and
autumn life in both U. Spring and U. Autumn. However, U. Spring is predominated
by the spring live and U. Autumn by the autumn life.
Their directions determine that
the spring life consumes matter and produces energy and the autumn life
consumes energy and produces matter. For instance, in comparison, the lives
that produce the solar energy are spring lives, and the lives that compose the
plants or the animals that live directly or indirectly on the solar energy are
autumn lives.
Among all portions of the
energy that participate in the changes of an individual life, the portion of
energy that is changing from energy into matter is called the energy component
of life, and the rest portions of the energy is called the direct energy
environment of life. Among all portions of the matter that participate in
the changes of an individual life, the portion of matter that is changing from
matter into energy is called the matter component of life, and the rest
portions of the matter is called the direct matter environment of life.
The portions of energy and matter participating in the changes of an individual
life become either its components or direct environment at random.
All the rest of the dual Reex
that coexist with an individual life but are neither its component nor its
direct environment are called the indirect environment of the life. The
indirect environment contains innumerable local indirect environments of
the life. For one individual life, there may be a large number of local
indirect environments but only one indirect environment.
There may be many identical or
different lives existing in one indirect environment. Shared local indirect
environments may connect the direct environments of different lives together,
through which different lives may exchange matter and energy with each other.
Those exchanges do not lead to any change in the total amount of the matter and
energy in the indirect environment, but do lead to the formation of
interrelation among the lives in it. And such interrelations among different
lives appear as relation, form, structures and processes of the indirect
environment.
All the changes of the U.
Spring and the U. Autumn may be divided further into 2 groups, called the
energy change of life and the matter change of life. The energy
changes of life are the changes in the quantity of the matter and the energy
that compose the direct environment, and the consequential changes in the
components of life. The matter changes of life are the changes in the form of
the matter and energy that compose the direct environment of the life, and the
consequential changes in the relations of matter and energy exchanges among
individual lives in the indirect environment. The results of the energy changes
of life are the occurrence and disappearance of lives in the indirect
environment of life, and the results of the matter changes of life are the
occurrence and disappearance of relations, forms, structures and processes in
the indirect environment of life.
The energy change of life may
lead to the disappearance of either matter components or energy components of a
life, both of which are considered as the death of the life. If the
change is towards the direction of the U. Spring, there will be more and more
energy and/or less and less matter in the direct environment of a life, less
and less its energy components change into its matter components, and more and
more its matter components change into its energy components, until all its
matter components disappear. The state in which a life loses all its matter
components is called the heat death of the life. If the change is
towards the direction of the U. Autumn, there will be less and less energy in
the direct environment of a life, less and less the energy components of the
life change into its matter components, and less and less its matter components
change into energy components, until all its energy components disappear. The
state in which a life loses all its energy components is called the cold
death of the life.
The remained matter components
of a life after its cold death are called frozon or frozons. An
adult human body is composed of about 1027 of atomic nuclei and the
electrons around them. All of the atomic nuclei are such frozons. Whenever
producing a frozon, an autumn life also produces some energy at the same time,
which may be called as postnatal energy. The postnatal energy is lower
in its Reex density than the energy component of the autumn life that produces
it and the frozon.
The matter changes of life do
not directly lead to any death of lives but lead to the changes in matter and
energy exchange relations among all the lives in the indirect environment. Such
changes may cause the death of a pair of relevant lives at the same time, one
of which is the heat death and the another the cold death, called together as the
organisation death. Whenever the matter changes of life cause the
disappearance of lives, it will cause the occurrence of another lives at the
same time, and cause consequent changes in the relations, forms, structures and
processes in the indirect environment. The organisation death happens all the
time in the evolution of species and the development of individual organisms.
The occurrence and
disappearance of individual lives in an indirect environment cause the
occurrence and disappearance of relations of matter and energy exchange among
different lives. The processes in which new and existing individual lives
rebuild their relations and integrate with each other in an indirect
environment are called the reorganisation of the indirect environment.
Reorganisation is the changes that obey Darwin’s theory of evolution.
The organisation of any
indirect environment where the autumn lives predominate will become more and
more complex as time goes on and where the spring lives predominate will get
more and more simplified. A human body is such a local indirect environment in
which the autumn lives predominate over the spring lives.
Both the energy changes and the
matter changes can be further divided into 2 groups of different changes,
called the determined change of life and the random change of life.
The determined changes are the matter or energy changes of life that follow the
direction of the year cycle, and the random changes are the matter or energy
changes of life that follow the direction of pure life. All the changes of life
are both determined change and random change at the same time. And both determined
and random changes will equally lead to the reorganisation of the indirect
environment of life.
Our U. Autumn rose from the
pure energy state of a U. Summer about 15 to 20 thousand million years ago, and
will fall to the pure matter state of a U. Winter probably 1026
years later. Changing from the pure energy to the pure matter, the U. Autumn
itself is a long course composed of extreme large number of intermediate states
of the dual Reex. Everything that exists in it originates from one of the states,
is itself one of the states and will change into other one of the states.
Through the changes in the U.
Autumn, the Reex whole is getting lower in density, less evenly and equally
distributed, more and more reciprocating paths. Its appearances are becoming
more like matter, more macroscopic, more structures and processes, colder, more
various, more asynchronous and asymmetric, faster in time, and so on. This
direction of the U. Autumn determines that there are fundamental 3 different
kinds of autumn lives existing at different periods of the course of the U.
Autumn: The earliest one, which begins to occur at the beginning of the U.
Autumn, is called the life of high energy; the latest one, which begins
to occur at the end of the U. Autumn, is called the life of high matter;
and the one in between, which begins to occur in the middle of the U. Autumn,
is called the life of high organisation. Those 3 kinds of autumn lives
are the sixth conjecture.
The most typical life of high
energy has one shared direct environment among many components of life but does
not have the indirect environment. Its energy components are the energy almost
like the pure energy, and its matter components are the most microscopic matter
with extremely high Reex density. Just like what the lives of plants and
animals are doing today, the lives of high energy were metabolising energy and
matter, reproducing themselves, sensing and responding to the changes in their
environment about 20 thousand million years ago.
The earlier a life occurs in
the course of the U. Autumn, the higher Reex density its energy component will
be, the shorter the life will exist, and the more frozons it will produce, the
heavier and smaller its frozons will be. The very first babies borne by live of
high energy may be some extremely microscopic Reex strings with extremely high
Reex density. Though those Reex strings occupy little space of our universe,
they possess more than 90% of all the Reex; and all the other things, all the
atoms, all the plants, animals and humans, and most of the asters, possess the
rest less than 10% of the Reex. As the universe cooled down those U. Autumn’s
firstborn babies grew up from Reex strings to dual Reex with lots of
reciprocating paths, and possess extremely high gravitational mass. They exist
at the centres of clusters and galaxies and might be the dark matter scientists
are looking for.
The most typical lives of high
organisation have both direct and indirect environments. The Reex density of
its components is neither so high as that of the lives of high energy nor so
low as that of the lives of high matter. The phenomena that the lives of high
organisation and their products appear are the basis and the limitation for
today’s science. We can still find the approximately differences between the
energy environment of the lives of high energy and that of the lives of high
organisation by fissioning their frozons. For instance, all the biological
lives are the lives of high organisation. Their matter components are chemical bonds
and their energy components are the energy that produces those chemical bonds.
The chemical bonds can be split with the energy of a few electron volts that is
approximately similar to the energy that composes the direct energy environment
of the biological lives. Nowadays, with the energy of more than 100 thousand
million electron volts, physicists can produce a direct energy environment of
1014 degrees Kelvin, approximately similar to the environment at the
10-12 second after the beginning of our universe. The Reex density
of this energy environment is still very much lower than the one at exact point
of the beginning of the U. Autumn. Such a great difference shows how cold our
environment is for the lives of high energy. Therefore, many of the things that
we call non-living matter are actually the matter components of the lives of
high energy deeply frozen by the temperature of our environment. The earlier a
frozon was produced in the past, the deeper it is frozen at present and the
more it appears as matter. The lives that occur in non-biological bodies and
biological bodies are essentially the same. Their differences are made only by
their relation to the U. Autumn, that is, lives have been active in
non-biological bodies before but are being active in biological bodies now and
here.
The lives of high organisation
are also different from the lives of high energy in the longevity of their
existence and variation of their forms. Generally speaking, the lower the Reex
density of the direct environments of a life is, the longer it exists, the more
forms it develops into. For instance, the lives that produced all the protons
and neutrons existed only in a period from the first microsecond to the first
second of the beginning of our universe. As a striking contrast, the lives that
produce all the plants and animals on the earth have already existed more than
4 thousand million years and are still active. Its long life gives the lives of
high organisation more chances of developing various forms.
The lives of high organisation
are neither so unified as the lives of high energy nor so complex as the lives
of high matter, it is the combination of both the lives of high energy and the
lives of high matter. Creating complex but unified indirect environment is the
nature of the lives of high organisation and is the inevitable outcome of their
developments in the U. Autumn. Such unified complexity is not an evidence for
the existence of a creator or God.
As the U. Autumn progresses
further and further, all the direct environments of lives will become smaller
and smaller and the existence of lives will become more and more dependent on
the matter and energy exchanges among different lives in the indirect
environment. The matter and energy that an autumn life gains may come from
either a spring life, such as that plants from the sun, or from another autumn
life different in forms, such as that carnivores from herbivores and herbivores
from plants. The more complex an organism is, the more its existence depends on
the matter and energy exchanges.
The most typical lives of high
matter have indirect environment of life but do not have the direct environment
of life. Its energy components are the energy almost at the absolute zero of
thermodynamics, and its matter components are the matter almost like the pure
matter. It may not yet exist in our universe.
It is possible that the
universe found by scientists is still a S. Autumn in a sub cycle. If it is so,
there must be dual Reex and lives existed before its beginning.
The lives of plants, animals,
including human beings occur in the bodies that are composed of nucleic acids,
proteins, sugar molecules and fatty acids. Such bodies are called biological
bodies or organisms, and the lives that occur in the biological bodies are
called biological lives and all the biological lives are the lives of
high organisation. As any other kinds of lives, the biological life has its own
position in the year cycle. Biological life can occur neither in the U. Summer
because there exists no matter, nor in the U. Winter because there exists no
energy. And the energy and the matter that compose the biological lives are not
the same as the energy in the U. Summer or the matter in the U. Winter.
Biological lives can not occur in the U. Spring too, because the direction of
changes there is just the invert of the U. Autumn's. In the U. Autumn,
biological lives occur much later than the occurrence of the nuclei produced by
the lives of high energy, but if the biological lives might occur in the U.
Spring, they have to occur much earlier than the occurrence of any nucleus
because it is the lives of high matter that occur at the beginning of the U.
Spring and the lives of high energy occur only at the end of it. Therefore, the
biological lives are the autumn lives that only occur in the U. Autumn, maybe
only in its very early stage.
As other lives, the origin of
autumn life is always the result of the occurrence of certain energy. The
energy that caused the origins of the biological lives on the earth came first
from the forming course of the solar system, especially the earth. The
formation of the solar system began about 5 thousand million years ago as a lot
of cosmic dust was gathering into many centres. Ninety nine per cent of the
dust forms the sun and rest of it forms the other 9 planets. As more and more
matter of the dust gathers together, part of them at the centre of each centres
change into various forms of energy. This energy first led to the rise of the
activities of the spring lives in those planets. Their different mass
determined that different solar planets underwent different activities of the
spring lives and got different products of the activities.
The activities of spring lives
gradually fell off as the increase of the mass of the planets gradually
stopped. As activities of spring lives decreased, the activities of autumn
lives occurred and increased in those planets. The autumn lives consumed the
energy and created new forms of matter in the planets. The activities of the spring
lives ended, at least ended from their surfaces, long time ago in all the solar
planets except the sun. The activities of spring lives in the sun provide the
second source of energy that influences the activities of lives, mainly the
autumn lives, on other planets. Their different distances from the sun
determined that different solar planets had different patterns of autumn lives,
underwent different developmental course of the autumn lives, and have
different products of their autumn lives. Therefore, it is the earth's mass and
its distance to the sun that determine that all the plants, animals and the
human beings with intelligent minds may occur on the earth than any other
planets.
About 4.5 thousand million
years ago, the earth began to cool down. During its cooling course, various
autumn lives occurred, then died and left masses of new molecules as their
frozons. The first generation of lives concerning the large biological
molecules, called as biological lives of earth energy, occurred at a
temperature point of the course where the environmental conditions made it easy
for the carbon atoms to form or break bonds among themselves or with other
atoms. The matter components of the biological lives of earth energy were
different DNA molecules. They were living DNA molecules, reproducing themselves
fast in large quantity and great variation and living in large but localised
environments instead of in cells. As the results of their activities, a sea of
primary DNA molecules of all the possible permutation and combination were
left, long before any cell, any protein or any RNA came into being. All the
chromosomes now found in all the cells of all the plants and animals are
actually good or bad copies of the primary DNA molecules. The biological lives
of earth energy and their environment may be called as DNA world.
As the energy environment
gradually became lower and lower, the second generation of biological lives
rose on the base of the ready-made chromosomes. There are two different sorts
of them, called the biological lives of solar energy and the
biological lives of biochemical energy. The former take the energy from the
sunlight as their energy components, the latter the energy released by
biochemical reaction. They both have various RNAs, proteins, sugar molecules
and fatty acids as their matter components.
Both the biological lives do
not create new primary DNA molecules, but their developments along the
direction of the U. Autumn did create all the other large biological molecules,
individual combination of primary DNA or chromosomes, cells and multicellular
organisms. Species rose from the primary DNA molecules might be 20 million
times more than those found nowadays but most of them have already been
eliminated by natural selection. Nowadays, all the living microorganisms,
plants, animals and human beings are descendants of the two lives. Human beings
rose from one species of the lives of biochemical energy even though the lives
of modern human beings depend upon complex sources of energy.
What we described above, the
origin of biological lives on the earth from a DNA world, is the seventh
conjecture of this article.
Unlike the lives of high energy or high matter, all the lives of high
organisation depend on the organisation of the indirect environment for their
occurrence, existence and development. It is the eighth conjecture that
assumes that all the indirect environment of the lives of high organisation,
such as a cell, a plant, an animal or a society, is composed of many basic
units called as IMB systems that are fundamentally identical with each
other.
This IMB system is composed of
3 parts, two of which are parts of the local indirect environment of an
individual life of high organisation and the rest one part is composed of the
components and the direct environments of the life. Through one of the first
two parts, dual energy or dual matter moves from local indirect environment
towards the direct environments of the life, called the input part of
the IMB system ; through another, dual energy or dual matter moves from the
direct environments towards the local indirect environment, called the
output part of the IMB system . And the direct environment and the
components of the life are together called the reaction part of the IMB
system. Local indirect environments that are neither the input part nor the
output part but connect directly or indirectly with either the input part or
the output part of an IMB system are together called its environment. An
IMB system is the most basic unit based up which an individual life of high
organisation may occur, exist and undergo the continuous reorganisation. All
the bodies of micro-organisms, plants and animals are composed of the IMB
systems.
The input part connects an IMB
system with the part of its environment as the sources of the matter and energy
it inputs, and the output part connects an IMB system to the part of its
environment as the outlets for the matter and energy it outputs. The reaction
part of an IMB system connects both the input part and the output part, and it
functions as a reactor where matter and energy interact with each other.
An IMB system contains either
an individual spring life that consumes matter to produce energy or an
individual autumn life that consumes energy to produce matter. The changes both
from matter to energy and from energy to matter are called the life change.
There are two other changes happening in every IMB system, which are called the
transform change and the transfer change. The transform change is
the change in the form of a portion of matter or energy in an IMB system, and
the transfer change is the change in the location of a portion of matter or
energy in an IMB system. Neither the transform changes nor the transfer changes
produce matter or energy. The changes happen in the input part and the output
part of an IMB system are mainly the transform changes, and in the reaction
part are mainly the life changes. And the transfer changes happen in all the
three parts. The activities of the mind can not be explained only with the
activities of the nerve impulses and neurotransmitters, because the nerve
impulse moving through a nerve or the neurotransmitter moving through a synapse
is only transfer change, and the nerve impulse changes into neurotransmitter or
vice versa is only the transform change.
Dual matter and dual energy may
get into an IMB system only through its input part and may get out of an IMB
system only through its output part. The input and out put of dual Reex by the
two parts are highly selective, depending on the parts’ properties, their
working state and which environment they connect with.
No matter what a IMB system
composes or is composed of, the dual matter or the dual energy input from its
environment into the system may be called as information, those output
out of the system may be called as behaviour, and, in comparison, the
dual matter or the dual energy existing in the system before the information is
input or after the behaviour is output may be called as memory.
The information and the
behaviour of the same IMB system are essentially more like each other. The only
difference is that their moving directions, relative to the system itself, are
opposite to each other. The information moves from the environment to the
system and the behaviour moves from the system to its environment. Both of them
lead to life changes. The life changes caused by the information happen in the
reaction part of an IMB system, whereas the life changes caused by the
behaviour happen in other IMB systems in its environment.
However, the information that
an IMB system inputs is never the behaviour it outputs. Information, after it
enters the reaction part, will become a part of one of the two direct
environments in the reaction part, which is opposite to the direct environment
composed by memory. For instance, if the memory composes the direct matter
environment in an IMB system, the information will become part of its direct
energy environment, whereas, when the memory composes the direct energy
environment in an IMB system, the information will become a part of its direct
matter environment. The behaviour is the products of the life in the direct
environments.
A human mind is a part of a living human body. The main part of the human
mind exists in the nervous system, including the brain, the spinal cord, the
ganglia and the nerves, and the rest of it exists in other part of the body,
including sense organs, motor organs and inner organs.
FIGURE (1)
ORGANISATION OF THE HUMAN MIND
The areas between the peripheral circle
and the central circle are the hereditary parts of the mind. The areas within
the central circle are the acquired parts of the mind. The areas outside the
peripheral circle are the parts of the mind located inside the body but outside
the nervous system. Area 1, 2 and 3 are the intermediate brains. Area 4 is the
OM. Area 5 is SM. Area 6 is MM. Area 0 is the CM. Area 7, 8 and 9 are the IM.
The solid blue stripes are where the consciousness is produced.
As shown in Figure (1), the
organisation of human mind is composed of 6 parts, called the sense brain
(SB), the organ brain (OB), the motor brain (MB) and the 3
intermediate brains. The sense brain has more direct connections with
the sense organs that compose the surface of the human body. The motor brain
has more direct connections with the skeletal muscles. And the organ brain has
more direct connections with internal organs. The exchanges of information and
behaviour between the organ brain and internal organs are transferred through
both the autonomic nervous system and the circulatory body fluid. The
intermediate brains that have more direct connections with the sense brain, the
organ brain and the motor brain.
Each of the brains is composed
of two parts, called the hereditary part and the acquired part.
The acquired parts are newer than the hereditary parts in evolution and
individual development. Each hereditary part is composed of two subparts,
called the peripheral area, connected with the organs, and the
central area, connected with the acquired part. Each acquired part is also
composed of two subparts, one of which is owned by each the brain, called as the
peripheral memory or called individually as the memory of the sense brain
(SM), the memory of the organ brain (OM), the memory of the motor brain (MM)
and the intermediate memory (IM). And another subpart of the acquired part is
shared by sense brain, organ brain and motor brain, called the central
memory (CM). The CM is the core part of the mind. Reex that moves towards
the CM is entering the mind and otherwise is leaving the mind. This
organisation of the human mind is the ninth conjecture.
To the contrary of many
people's believe, the human mind itself is not a transcendent information
processor, memory user or behaviour producer, but is only those information,
memory and behaviour themselves. The human mind is a local indirect environment
of life, the only things that exist in which are information, memory, behaviour
and their intermediate and transitional products. Their life changes, transform
changes, transfer changes and their interaction appear as all the psychological
phenomena such as consciousness, intelligence, thinking, etc. This is the
tenth conjecture.
The energy of information that
a mind gains from sense organs or from other external sources may trigger the
production of consciousness but themselves may never appears as consciousness
in the mind. Relative to the dual matter of memory, the consciousness is a dual
energy produced by the spring lives in the mind. Whenever consciousness occurs
in a mind, the mind is not gaining or feeling the energy but is only producing
it. Consciousness is produced in the hereditary parts of each brain. The
consciousness produced in the S brain is called the CS (the
consciousness of the S brain), in the O brain the CO, and in the M
brain the CM. The CS is the consciousness what we see, hear, sense by
touch, smell, taste and so on. The CO is the consciousness of the emotion,
desire and internal feelings. And the CM is what the mind recollects or creates
in the forms of language, symbol, image, sound, etc. Each of the CS, the CO and
the CM is produced in a special area in its relevant brain. Please refer FIGURE
5.1. for the locations. After being produced, the consciousness will flow
further to the acquired parts of the brains and undergo life changes together
with memory there.
The energy of consciousness is
not the whole mind but only a component part of it, which is produced by the
other parts of the mind that do not present as consciousness. The consciousness
alone does not sense, does not remember or recollect, does not think, does not
feel or will, does not move the limbs and trunk, does not speak or smile, and
does not drive or rule the mind.
Besides the energy of
consciousness, there are many other kinds of energy produced in the mind. One
of them is called the energy of waking. Just like the human body can
only work at certain range of body temperature, the energy of waking is equally
and widely produced in the mind as an internal energy environment for the
activities of the mind in its waking state. What makes the difference between
the waking state and the sleep state of the mind is only whether the energy of
waking is produced or not. The control information for producing the energy of
waking is input from the non-mind part of brain. Relatively, the mind is
predominated by the spring lives when in its waking state and therefore
produces more consciousness and behaviour, but is predominated by the autumn
lives when in its sleep state and therefore produces more memory.
Relative to either the energy
of consciousness or the energy of waking, the memory appears as dual matter. As
dual matter, the memory appears as the structures of the mind. All the
structures of the mind are its memory. There are two different kinds of memory,
called the hereditary memory and the acquired memory. Though more
hereditary memories are formed before the time point of the birth and more
acquired memories are formed after, the time point of the birth does not
distinguish the difference of them. The hereditary memory is the structures
formed as the result of the interaction among the lives in the same body, and
the acquired memory is the structures formed as the result of the interaction
among the lives in the same body environment. The hereditary memory composes
the hereditary part of the mind and the acquired memory composes the acquired
part of the mind. The hereditary memory is more like the U. Autumn and the
acquired memory is more like the pure life.
The memories are either the
matter components or the direct matter environment of the lives in the indirect
environment of mind. The various energies such as the consciousness, the waking
and many others are either the energy components or the direct energy
environment of the lives. The spring lives in the mind consume memory and
produce the dual energy of consciousness, behaviour or others. The autumn lives
in the mind consume the consciousness and produce the dual matter of memory.
Both the spring lives and the autumn lives undergo the energy change and the
matter change, which lead further the reorganisation of the mind. The
principles of the activities of the mind are the principles of the indirect
environment of life.
The relations among the lives
in the indirect environment of the S brain simulate the world outside the human
body and are together called the internal world (inW). The
relations among the lives in the indirect environment of the O brain simulate
the human body and are together called the internal self (inS).
The relations among the lives in the indirect environment of the M brain
simulate the activities of the body in the world and are together called the
internal behaviour (inB). And the relations among the lives in the
intermediate brains simulate the relations among the inW, the inS and the inB,
and are together called the internal relation (inR). Since all
the brains are composed of the hereditary parts and the acquired parts, there
are both the hereditary and the acquired relations in each of the inW, the inS,
the inB and the inR. Therefore, all the consciousness and behaviour are
determined by both of them. Those inW, inS, inB and inR act and interact with
each other autonomously according to the relations that they simulate. And the
consciousness, produced according to the information from sense organs, joins
their activities and makes the activities also initiated, directed, adjusted
and constrained by rest of the body and body’s environment.
The central memory is an area
of multi-direction, more like life than any other areas of memory. The
organisation of the central memory and the energy in it is called the
thought. The thought exists as a whole. There is only one thought in one
mind.
The behaviour or consciousness
produced by the O brain is called the language of the O brain (the O
language), and that by the M brain is called the language of the M brain
(the M language). The language of the brains output from the hereditary
part of the O brain or the M brain can be either consciousness or behaviour but
can never be both of them at the same time.
The thought is never the
consciousness or the behaviour. The O language and the M language are
descriptions and translations of the thought but not the thought itself.
Usually the languages of the brains can only describe and translate once a
fraction of the entire thought. In communication with other persons, the O
language may be used alone to express one's thought, but the M language is
usually used together with the O language.
The input of the consciousness
selectively increases the energy in the indirect environment of the mind and
further increases the activities of the spring lives in the mind. The output of
the behaviour selectively decreases the energy in the mind and further
increases the activities of the autumn lives in the mind. Therefore, the output
can influence the mind as well as the input.
Thought is different in its
form from the languages that express it. Though the human mind has much more
ways to express its thought, no thought may be expressed thoroughly and
exactly. When it can not be expressed with proper forms, ways and
opportunities, the thought will interact with the O brain and the M brain,
which may lead to the reorganisation of their indirect environments. Such
reorganisation of mind may produce either some creation or certain
psychological illness.
Thinking is the circulation in which the energy product output
from the hereditary part of the O brain or the M brain is input back to the
acquired parts and reprocessed by the mind. The whole process of the feedback
and reprocessing is called the ruminant process. The ruminant process is
an important way of communication among the three brains. Not only the
consciousness but also the behaviour is the way through which the ruminant
process may be carried out, the former is called the internal ruminant
process and the latter the external ruminant process.
At the centre of our living,
feeling, thinking, judging and behaving, there are something called as SELF.
However, this self is only a consciousness created by the O brain, and is,
therefore, only a part of a human self, not the whole of it. The eleventh
conjecture says: a complete human self is composed of 3 parts, called as the
body, the mind and the soul.
An individual human self is
composed of many different IMB systems, some of which have some of their parts
in the non-mind part of the body and rest of their parts in the mind and
produce plant behaviours, called as plant system; some of which have all
their parts in the mind and produce animal behaviours, called as animal
system; and some of which have some of their parts in the mind and rest of
their parts in the body's environment and produce human behaviours, called as human
system. The human self exists neither entirely in an individual mind, nor
entirely in an individual human body.
The parts of an individual
human self in the body's environment are called the unified parts, the
parts in the body's non-mind part are called the scattered parts, and
the parts in the mind the related parts. The difference is that the
scattered parts of an individual human self can not be the parts of other human
selves at the same time but the unified parts can. Many human selves in the
same environment can share same unified parts. The unified parts unify many
human selves as a whole.
A human self does not always
have all the three component parts during its whole existence. At the very
beginning when a human being is still one fertilised egg, none of the parts of
the human self exists. During the human body's development, the scattered parts
of the human self begin to form first, then the related parts, the latest the
unified parts. A human self with three component parts exists only during part
time of its whole existence. After this period, the scattered parts begin to
disappear first, then the related parts. The unified parts of a human self may
exist much long than the other two sorts of parts. Its disappearance is not
caused only by the disappearance of the body. Therefore, we may say that a
human self does not exist completely as the human body exists and does not die
completely as the body dies.
Since The unified parts of a
human self may enable a living human body to appears as a human being, may
exist outside a human body and still be a part of its mind, may exist even the
body no longer exists, and may become a part of other human self, it may,
therefore, be called as the soul of the human self.
Still, the unified parts of the
human selves are not immortal but exist also as a course. The whole of the
unified parts of the human selves will become more and more like matter if its
indirect environment changes towards the direction of the U. Autumn, or become
more and more like energy if its indirect environment changes against the
direction.
No matter whatever human beings
have created and will create, we are still a part of the U. Autumn and we do
only what the U. Autumn has to do. Therefore, the meaning of the human existence,
the moral criterions for human behaviours, the orientation of scientific,
economic and social developments may never be found within ourselves but can be
found from our relation with the year cycle, especially with the U. Autumn.
This is the twelfth
conjecture and the end of this article.