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Morphological Flows and Sustainable Growth

Introduction

In school you study subjects, but what does math have to do with English composition, what does basketball have to do with chemistry, home economics with astronomy, social studies with physics? All appear to be a series of random subjects somehow cobbled together by some anonymous school board. Yet another forged rendition of social consensus setting up a stage where you and whole bunch of other people that you may or may not know play assigned roles that may or may not have anything to do with one another. There is no big picture rendered in any shape or form, no essential truth that binds the pieces. You are but an object following objectives set forth by social consensus. Then if you are lucky you'll go to college. And instead of getting the big picture, you are forced to go the other way, specialize in yet smaller subsets of reality. And as you go on you would be further and further specialized as prescribed by the leaders of your specialty, and as promised you'll get a top job in your field. You may become an expert on history of 16th century Italian art, or an expert on gamma radiation signature of Quasars, or an expert in constitutional law and reproductive ethics, or oil shale geology, or bio-molecular chemistry, computer generated animation, rabbinical studies, thyroid oncology, film and stage set design, childhood education.

Do you get the picture? Where is the big picture? Wasn't philosophy supposed to render the big picture? Isn't philosophy supposed to be the love of truth? Well, philosophy seems to be equally specialized, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, art, economics, governance? Thousand different truths, all unrelated? Do you get the picture? There is no big picture!

Well all of that is about to change. We are going to render the big picture, an Evolutionary, Analytical Philosophy. We are going to map where we came from, in factual, corroborated detail. We are going to map how energy coalesces to create shape in a continuum of hierarchical complexity called Morphological Flows. Starting at the beginning of everything, we are going to see how elementary particles in the cosmos bind to form atoms, how atoms bind to form molecules, how organic molecules on earth bind to create bio-molecular constituents of cells. That we call material morphogenesis.
Then we'll follow biological evolution and map the tree of life. We are going to follow the branches of the tree from cells to reptiles to mammals until it reaches us. That we call biotic morphogenesis. 
Then we'll follow our evolution, how we have evolved to form the societies and cultures that you see around us, yes we will map our evolutionary history. That would be our social/cultural morphogenesis.
Together, material morphogenesis, biotic morphogenesis and our social morphogenesis will render the big picture. We will see how morphological flows create existence, of every thing in our space-time bubble, including us, in a continuum. We will build a unified model for morphological flows that covers material, biotic, and our social/cultural morphogenesis, we call that the Cascade Model of Morphological Flows.

The morphological flow model is a powerful analytical tool. It allows you to deconstruct the morphology of any entity or phenomenon into its constituent subsets, make a complex problem understandable. It also renders the composition of the brain as integrated neural networks, placeholders of knowledge. It shows us the manner of composition of knowledge trees that effect our behavior. It shows us how knowledge trees coalesce in societies, generation after generation, comprising societal behavior, culture. It shows us how and why we do what we do, individually and collectively.

It the end of each chapter there will be a synopsis, rendering the cascade model. There you will see the gaps in our understanding of the subjects at hand. There is a forum for discovering potential solutions offered in a companion site: WWW.EMODECOM.ORG [evolutionary modeling, design and computation].

So, that is the story of where we came from. But, were are we headed?  The morphological flow model is the tool to tackle the existential dilemma of our time: Sustainable Growth. You see, in the past hundred years we have endured two world wars, a cold war, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear weapons). Now we are dealing with religious philosophies of Islam that promises truck loads of virgins for any dead suicide bomber and religious philosophies of Christianity that can't wait for Armageddon, and is arranging things to get it. If we look at the history of civilization: the Mesopotamians, Persians, Chinese, Greeks, Romans, Caliphates, Ottomans, Colonialists, they all came, built, crumbled, just to rebuild back again, or not at all. Not a single one was sustainable, not a one, in the history of civilization! Now we are dealing with proliferation of weapons of extinction, global climate change, mass extinction of species. So, the existential question of our time is, can we as a culture, a global society, survive in the long run? Is there a sane manner with which we can achieve sustainable growth? Or, as history shows, are our social morphologies inherently unstable?

To answer that question we need one hell of an analytical tool. A tool that can look at big patterns, a tool that can penetrate human behavior, a tool that can analyze existential flows in grand scales. The Morphological Flow Model provides just that.

That effort is encapsulated in yet another companion site:  WWW.ZEDLY.ORG.
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PS.
1- This work is not necessarily linear. If hard science puts you to sleep, no one will sue you in the world court for skipping to the human interest chapters, e.g. chapter 8. Having said that, there is a lot to be gained by knowing that you and I and everything else has had the same genesis point, in fact our entire space-time bubble is a subset of the genesis point. And no, God is not a bearded white dude with his picture in the Sistine Chapel.

2- This is an e-course as well. In time, you can take tests online and get credit. It is in the accreditation process (these things take time, a lot of time as it turns out). I'll have the process described in the e-course section as soon as it is fleshed out.