Agency
Agency entered the universe with the
emergence of
Life. So far the search for extraterrestrial life has not found anyone. So our."Home in the Universe." as two important books in the mid-1990's with identical titles by
John Wheeler and by
Stuart Kauffman described it, is the terrestrial
biosphere and the
Gaia hypothesis of
Many writers hope to find agency,
purpose, and
meaning, and
value in the evolution and development of the universe since the origin, and many search for that agency even earlier in a
divine creator or
intelligent designer of the universe.
We can say that
value and
meaning did exist from the origin of the complex information structures of the universe.
The
value was in the
free energy, liberated from the second law by the expansion of the universe, as shown by
Arthur Stanley Eddington and
David Layzer.
The purely material universe was meaningful, but its meaning was not seen or appreciated fully until living systems
experienced it.
Among the philosophers (and some scientists) searching for God we can include the ancient Greeks,
Plato and
Aristotle, moderns like
Kant,
Information philosophy is satisfied to have identified a
process, the
cosmic creation process, which explains how the universe evolution escaped the second law of thermodynamics to generate all the elementary
material particles of the
passive information structures in the universe, as well as the
immaterial information in material objects as well as the
immaterial concepts in
minds and in the
Sum of externally stored human knowledge.
Reductionism passive information structures a
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