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Some Truths about Life
Insights in the dynamic functionality and self-organizing intelligence of living systems
See also: Complexity, Continuum, Functional, Pleasure Function, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert James Campbell, Fritjof Capra, Fritjof Capra Book Reviews
Growth is Non-Linear
Growth processes are non-linear. They cannot be described with the tool box of conventional mathematics, but a special non-Euclidian mathematics had to be created for this purpose. Growth processes can only be observed in living systems, not, as it was the case with conventional biology, in dead organisms. In the living organism, all is interrelated and there is a communication structure within the whole system, in which the totality of the system participates.
Living Systems are Self-Regulatory
Self regulation is a major functional key element in living systems. Self regulation can be understood like the system of check and balances in the modern state constitution. It means that all regulatory functions are part of the system itself, or inside of it, and not coming from outside. This means also that a living system possesses a certain amount of autonomy. I have found that besides biological self-regulation, there is a form of human self-regulation as a pattern of behavior that is modeled after the insights from observing nature. In my audio book Eight Dynamic Patterns of Living, I point out that self-regulation is one of the eight fundamental dynamic patterns tribal populations obey to that are positive and dynamic regulatory factors in their lifestyle and behavior, with the result that natives are particularly well adapted and adjusted to their environment, instead of destroying it, like civilized man does by imposing characteristics upon nature.
Intelligence is Self-Organizing
Intelligence has been found to possess a single most important character that clearly distinguishes it, and lets us recognize that we have to deal with something or an entity that is intelligent. This key element is self-organization. A good example to demonstrate this is human perception. As I have shown in my audio book Patterns of Perception, the human perception matrix is actively and passively self-organizing, perceiving life not by the grasp of single elements, but whole patterns that are, if necessary, added to the human memory surface as patterns, and not as single elements.
Let me give an example. When a small child learns their first language, the child is not learning the language as we learn it in school, that is by grasping single elements such as verbs, substantives, syntax and grammar, but whole patterns of the language spoken by the people around the child, that is usually the parents.
That means that for example the syntax rules and grammar are not learnt separately and are not needed to be learnt at all because they are contained within the patterns that are, as such, stored in the memory surface. Observing this natural process of holistic learning, Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a psychiatrist from Bulgaria, created a novel language learning technique called Superlearning® that allows to learn foreign languages in a revolutionary short time and without any accent being present when the learner speaks it.
Emotions are Intelligent
Emotions possess their own intelligence, which is different from the intelligence of the mind. While the latter usually operates through thought, our emotional intelligence expresses itself on the subconscious level, for example, through automatisms, habits, dreams, body language, and in relationships. It is primarily through observing human relations that we can make out to what extent a person is emotionally intelligent, as typically emotional intelligence translates in excellent communication ability and general good relational abilities.
When we see somebody who understands well the functionality of love, for example, being a lover rather than a fighter, we can make out that the person has a high level of emotional intelligence which makes for people around him or her responding easily to messages sent out by that person. A variant of emotional intelligence is erotic intelligence, which I explain further under the proprietary term emosexuality.