calousia universal progression

This is the first of seven parts to the proof that Calousia exists.

Section Summary
(1) The First Stage: Chemical Evolution
(2) The Second Stage: Biological Evolution
(3) The Third Stage: Maturation

UNIVERSAL PROGRESSION
This is the first of seven parts proving Calousia exists.
The Universe has progressed through a sequence of stages.

(1) The First Stage: Chemical Evolution.
Right after the Big Bang, the hot plasma of quarks and electrons cools, creating hydrogen and helium nuclei. With further cooling these nuclei attract electrons, forming atoms. Some of this material condenses into stars. The stars create the rest of the stable nuclei, most of them as they evolve, they rest when large stars explode as supernovas. These elements were the material out of which the solar system and earth were formed.

On earth, the atoms keep interacting in accordance with physical and chemical laws, resulting in a complex array of molecules. Among these are nucleic acids, sugars, amino acids, and lipids, which naturally form sheets, and sometimes when folded upon themselves, spheres. Eventually, the incessantly interacting chemicals chance to produce something quite new: the first living cell. In so doing, chemical evolution reaches its high transcendence.

(2) The Second Stage: Biological Evolution
Life, this new, higher, more complex organization of mass-energy obeys new laws. Living things are characterized by their tendency for exuberant growth and reproduction. In consequence, if one cell could keep growing and dividing (doubling) every twenty minutes, in a surprisingly few doublings these organisms could blanket earth to a depth of one foot.

But this does not happen; something always suppresses this growth. It may be the physical condition of the environment (e.g., extreme heat, lack of water, etc.). It may be competition from other organisms for “food.” It may be disease or predation. In short, the consequence of life’s proliferation is competition among organisms.

Now when a single-celled organism divides or a multicellular one reproduces, the offspring can differ, for example from mutations. And these differences influence their survival, and more important, their capacity to reproduce. These changes help some reproduce abundantly, and kill off others before they can reproduce. And over time, this difference in reproductive success changes the kinds of organisms that exist.

Does this process have a direction? Of course. Though bacteria still live, some of them have progressed in complexity all the way to us. Why? Because every chance improvement in one organism makes survival a little tougher for others. In short, as organisms grow ever more capable, their part of the environment becomes ever more demanding. This is why biology is progressive, why bacteria evolve into humans and not the other away around.

Eventually biological evolution, like chemical evolution before it, produces an organism so new and different that it transcends the biological stage. It creates the first organisms with high intelligence,language and culture: i.e., modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens.

(3) The Third Stage: Maturation
This third stage, though based on biology, is not merely biological, just as in the previous stage, life, was not just chemical. And these new, higher kinds of entities (i.e., humans) usher in new ways of behaving and new laws. This new process is not evolutionary. Unlike mutations, the changes that now occur - e.g., the appearance of the computer, e = mc2, and the telephone - are not accidental, but tend to be consciously and deliberately created, and their adoption particularly so. And these new elements can spread and be used by the group far faster than mutations.

This new developmental process proceeds essentially as follows: We humans grow in knowledge, because knowledge is useful, and this increases our powers. And the more we exercise these powers, the more they change how we live and eventually what we are. The next sections, 2 and 3, will expand on this point.

Now, if we keep accumulating knowledge and keep responding rationally to the resultant conditions, we must eventually reach our mature state: Calousia. We reach it because almost all our growing powers, especially those fundamental to a high-capacity existence, come up against universal limits. No further sci-tech growth can increase them. Reaching this point fulfills our developmental potential. Note that as our knowledge grows, the universe with its limits molds us ever-closer to that Calousian form.

In sum, the universe has progressed through three stages. The first is elemental This stage eventually reaches it high transcendent endpoint when it creates life and ushers in the second, biological stage. The second stage, also, eventually attains high transcendence when it creates modern humans. And this third stage also offers humans the opportunity for transcendence through the existence of Calousian.

Is Calousia the end of the universe’s progressive advance? Well, it’s the end of our maturational process. But perhaps it is also a beginning. Perhaps it‘s the high transcendent breakthrough into the next stage of universal development.