syntropy - a new story
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SyntropyA New Story
Guy Dauncey
A silent slide show such as this can not begin do justice
to such a huge and important topic.
In Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible, set
in the year 2032, the final chapter involves a
dinner party where two guests, a physicist and a
biologist, answer the question that is on so many
people’s minds:
“What is syntropy?”
This slide show is not a representation of that dinner party. It is, rather, the way I
explain syntropy when giving a presentation.
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And my thanks to so many artists and photographers whose work I have used.
- Guy Dauncey
Things have come a long way since the beginning of the Universe…
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We have a perennial need for a story, to explain how and why things are.
Where do we come from? What are we?
Where are we going?
Animism
Polytheism
Monotheism
The Enlightenment
Socialism
Existentialism
Post Modernism
Science?
Deep GreenWe need to get out of Nature’s way
Materialism, Commercialism
Syntropy
Syntropy
All existence shares in a deep cooperative impulse to increase order and wellbeing.
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Is there purpose and direction in the Universe?
Or is it just all just random?
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NOW
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NOW
ALL OF OUR PAST
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NOW
ALL OF OUR FUTURE
Is the Universe a Material Reality?
Or a Spiritual Reality?
Fundamental Rethink
Fundamental Rethink
Fundamental Rethink
Or both?
What is Consciousness?
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Are they just dancing robots?
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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind
consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. “
Max Planck, 1858-1947
“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.
It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.” Erwin Schrödinger, 1887 - 1961
“It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future reality will neither be 'psychic' nor 'physical' but somehow both and somehow neither.”
Wolfgang Pauli, 1900-1958.
“A rudimentary consciousness is present even at the level of particle physics.”
– David Bohm, 1917-1992
“The laws of physics leave a place for mind in the description of every molecule … In other words, mind is already inherent in every electron, and the processes of
human consciousness differ only in degree and not in kind.”— Freeman Dyson, 1923 -
Consciousness is everywhere
A panpsychic universe
A panpsychic universal field of consciousness
Why is this important?
Because the Universe is not entropic
Entropy describes heat-loss in a physical, material world.
In reality, the Universe is pervaded with consciousness
A conscious Universe is a syntropic Universe
syntropy
Luigi Fantappiè, 1901-1956Founder of syntropy theory
“I have no doubts about the date when I discovered the law of syntropy. It was in the days just before Christmas 1941, when, as a consequence of conversations with two colleagues, a physicist and a biologist, I was suddenly projected in a new panorama, which radically changed the vision of science and of the Universe which I had inherited from my teachers, and which I had always considered the strong and certain ground on which to base my scientific investigations.
As Luigi Fantappiè explains it…
“Suddenly I saw the possibility of interpreting a wide range of solutions (the anticipated potentials) of the wave equation which can be considered the fundamental law of the Universe.These solutions had been always rejected as ‘impossible’, but suddenly they appeared ‘possible’, and they explained a new category of phenomena which I later named ‘syntropic’, totally different from the entropic ones, of the mechanical, physical and chemical laws, which obey only the principle of classical causation and the law of entropy.”
- Luigi Fantappiè
As Luigi Fantappiè explains it…
SyntropyGreek syn (together) and tropos (tendency) A deep, unifying, self-organizing force that is
omnipresent in the universe, bringing a tendency towards energy concentration, order, organization
and life, in contrast to entropy.
In October 1942 Fantappiè presented his theory of syntropy to the Accademia d'Italia. His finding were that syntropic phenomena invert the second law of thermodynamics.
•A reduction in entropy and an increase in differentiation is observed•Converging waves attract in smaller places energy and matter•Concentration of matter and energy cannot be indefinite and entropic processes are needed to compensate syntropic concentration•In nature, syntropy and entropy interact constantly•Scientific finalism, final causes, are introduced•A new scientific methodology is needed since the experimental method can only study causes located in the past.
The Unified Theory of the Physical and Biological World
“What makes life different is the presence of syntropic qualities: finalities, goals, and attractors.
As we consider causality the essence of the entropic world, it is natural to consider finality the essence of the syntropic world.
It is therefore possible to say that the essence of life is final causes, syntropy.
Living means tending to attractors ... the law of life is not the law of mechanical causes; this is the law of non-life, the law of death, the law of entropy; the law which dominates life is the law of finalities, the law of syntropy.” - Fantappiè
The Unified Theory of the Physical and Biological World
Champions of syntropy, based in Rome, Italy
Syntropy is an self-organizing force that acts through consciousness, generating organization and life.
Throughout existence, having a positive intention of a future outcome
has been a precondition for success
Throughout existence, having a positive intention of a future outcome
has been a precondition for success
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Humans are motivated by dreams of life and wholeness, not by nightmares of death and collapse.
All existence is permeated with consciousness
All existence is permeated with consciousness
All consciousness is permeated with syntropy,
drawing it towards order, complexity and life
The 1st Law of Syntropy
“Acting through consciousness, syntropy motivates individual units of being to self-organize
cooperatively within their empathic reach
to achieve greater organizational power, range, competence,
integrity and freedom for their common good.”
from Journey to the Future
The 2nd Law of Syntropy
“In the long run, due to the deep fundamental unity of the Universe, any unit of being that extends its
empathy beyond its familiar reach will discover affinity
with other units of being. Over time, the syntropic impulse will
result in ever-widening circles of empathy, until they embrace the
entire Universe.”
from Journey to the Future
Dream itPlan itDo it
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