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Levolution (science)[edit]

Levolution is the process that creates new levels of organization in the universe, and a scientific paradigm related to the process. The process and paradigm are described in the 2014 book, Levolution, Cosmic Order by Means of Thermodynamic Natural Selection, by Michael Gunter. Levolution is framed as a natural law related to the growth of entropically functional order. This is an area of Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, that relates to dissipative systems, thermodynamic natural selection, universal evolution (adaptive), and levolution (integrative).

The paradigm integrates energy-centric, ecological principles into cosmology and thermodynamics. One of the more important aspects of the Levolution Paradigm is that it explains how Darwinian natural selection in ecology is underlain by thermodynamics. The thermodynamic mandate created by the joint operation of the Maximum Entropy Production principle and the Dissipative Structure principle is Thermodynamic Natural Selection. The MEP Law was originated by Rod Swenson in 1989, and says that energy will always select the fastest pathways downward in potential, within constraints. The Dissipative Structure principle is the source of spontaneously produced order, and was the subject of Ilya Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In the context of Levolution, it provides the discreteness required to have variations, populations, and emergent phenomena like natural selection.

Thermodynamic Natural Selection provides the mechanism behind the universal version of evolution. In turn, evolution's adaptive change provides the mechanism for the adaptation and differentiation of former wholes into parts, and into the complementary functions of a new, higher level of organization. The process of Levolution is viewed by its author as the successor to the old notion of self-organization. It operates because energy is dissipated or degraded faster by a larger scale system. In Gunter's analysis of the energy systems of the universe, only the nested types of dissipative structures exhibit the characteristic energy flow patterns of holosystems. It is only the holosystems, the nested dissipative structures, that exist on the Axes of Functional Order that comprise the Holarchy of Nature, a name provided by Arthur Koestler (1963). While dissipative structures include Bénard Cells, hurricanes, and swirls at drains, only holosystems are found on levels of organization, and as a series of part-whole dualities.

References[edit]

Gunter, Michael P. 2014. Levolution: Cosmic Order by Means of Thermodynamic Natural Selection. Archway Publishing, Bloomington, IN USA.

Koestler, Arthur. 1967. The Ghost in the Machine. The Macmillan Company, New York.

Swenson, Rod. 1988. Emergence and the principle of maximum entropy production: Multi-level system theory, evolution, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for General Systems Research, 32.

Prigogine, Ilya. 1980. From Being To Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences. W.H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, CA.

Mgunter23 (talk) 17:49, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Holosystem[edit]

A holosystem is a class of dissipative system that is also a composite of self-similar dissipative systems. While Non-equilibrium thermodynamics has recognized dissipative structures, holosystems are a recent addition contributed by Michael Gunter in his 2014 book, Levolution. Holosystems are formed by Thermodynamic Natural Selection operating to differentiate a set or population of wholes into complementary parts of a larger whole. The result is a new, larger, holosystem on a new level of organization. Holosystems are discrete, nested, dissipative structures.

In nature, all of the nested structures, ranging from quarks to atoms, from dust grains to galaxies, and from atoms to planetary ecosystems, are holosystems. Holosystems, which are built by the process of levolution, represent a thermodynamic ideal form that is potentially a very important advance in our understanding of the universe's development. With the benefit of understanding holosystems, we can see that they exist along series of nested levels of organization. The series are related to the forms of energy, and both an Electromagnetic Axis and a Gravitational Axis are apparent above the atomic level. The earlier, Particulate Axis seems more complex, but is dominated by the Strong Force.

Holosystems display what Gunter calls entropically functional order, a new type of order that is distinguished by the fact that it makes energy flow downward in potential faster than before. The Axes of (entropically) Functional Order noted above are lineages in the Holarchy of Nature, similar to a phylogeny in biological evolution.

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. JMHamo (talk) 18:20, 21 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]