Introduction to the Patterns and Principles of Progressive Evolution When Seen From A Whole System, Universe Scaled Perspective

Introduction

Do you consider yourself progressive? Do you want to increase your fitness, adaptability, and control of your environments? If so, we hope you’ll continue along the progressive path, and a great way to do so is to learn about the biggest principles (meta-principles) of progressive evolution within the universe.

When you understand the meta-principles of progressive evolution (what we call Evolution 2.0) you will understand the success and sustainability secrets of life and life's most important prime directives. You will also understand the universe's "best practices" and its optimal "operating system"!

The universe has been evolving for about 13.8 billion years. We now have the scientific ability to look back over its whole scale of time in order to assess where it’s been and where it’s going. When we do so, we find a series of recurring evolutionary meta-patterns that clearly have worked very well for life in the universe. We say that these principles are working because the Universe has continued using them all this time as it has moved in the direction of greater complexity, creativity, and awareness (consciousness).

So it’s time we really got even more progressive in our lives and align ourselves with the deep meta-patterns of success and sustainability that the universe has demonstrated and proven so well for us. If we do so, we will not only make our own lives far better, we can also collectively figure out how to put an end to the catastrophic climate destabilization (human-caused global warming) and the planet's many other meta-challenges that are now occurring. Otherwise, humanity may end up following the alternative meta-pattern of universe evolution: destructive creation --- the breakdown and recycling of all non-learning, maladaptive and non-cooperative parts of an evolving whole, a group, or a system.

"Change is always certain in evolution but, progress is not! Any part within evolution that does not move in alignment with the universe's deep evolutionary meta-patterns will eventually be broken down and recycled." Lawrence Wollersheim

In spite of evolution having sporadic, random, and punctuated periods of equilibrium, extinction, retrogression, failed experiments, dead ends, and what looks like meandering, in general, the dominant trend of evolution is that it is going somewhere, and the general direction of evolution is in fact --progressive! As you continue reading, you will discover both the meta-principles and the practical uses for what we now understand about progressive evolution and why understanding the progressive evolution of Evolution 2.0 is so important to our future. In addition to helping you personally live better and helping some of today's biggest global challenges, the meta-patterns of evolution can also be used to create new, evolutionary, universal ethics and morality (meta-ethics and meta-morality) that will allow us all to cooperate better based on common values objectively disclosed by science.

"The greatest discovery in the history of science was rational scientific methodology itself. It allowed for the second greatest discovery, which was the discovery of evolution. The third greatest discovery in the history of science will eventually be widely recognized; it is that evolution is, in fact, progressive. Some day, it will be commonly understood that evolution has an overall, underlying, and definite directionality in spite of its many meanderings, retrogressions, failed experiments, dead ends, and extinctions." Lawrence Wollersheim

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A Basic Progressive Evolution Definition

The Dictionary says evolution is:

a.) any process of formation or growth; development.

b.) change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.

c.) a process of gradual, peaceful, progressive change or development, as in social or economic structure or institutions.

The Dictionary defines Progressive as:

a.) favoring or advocating progress, change, improvement, or reform.

b.) making progress toward better conditions.

c.) going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.

Our Definition of Progressive Evolution

Using relevant parts and processes from the preceding dictionary definitions, we have created the following new definition for progressive evolution in the universe:

"Universe progressive evolution is the structural or generational change, growth, and development of parts and wholes(within the universe's evolutionary system), in the direction of further development, progress, improvement or better conditions. Progressive evolution's directional structural or generational growth and development of both parts and wholes has unfolded in many consistently recurring meta-patterns across the 13.7 billion-year-old evolutionary process."

"Whether you are aware of it or not, evolution in the universe is actually going somewhere. Like a prisoner, you are completely embedded within that evolutionary process, and you are always being carried along (mostly unknowingly) on its unstoppable journey toward its destination. In order to ensure the highest probability of success in your life, wouldn't it be wise to understand exactly where evolution in the universe is taking you as well as the rules evolution uses to get there? Then you could use those rules and align with that directional momentum to more effectively and easily push yourself along toward your goals. " Lawrence Wollersheim

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The Progressive Evolution Definition: The Dominant Processes, Levels, Patterns and "Products" of Evolution's Progressive Directionality AKA The Evolutionary Algorithm

(Special Note: If you keep clicking on the image at the top of this page, it will also take you through photos that will help explain the main patterns and principles of Progressive Evolution. Do not worry if you do not understand all of the material on this page. Evolution is complex.

At the end of this page, you will find links to two other shorter and more simple illustrated versions on all the essentials of progressive evolution found on this page. These two easier versions are designed to help you use the information of this page in your life in both practical and immediate ways.)

The Consistently Recurring Patterns of Progressive Evolution are the Evolutionary Algorithm and the Basic Purpose and Directionality of Life:

"If a complex system continually repeats something over great lengths of time, it is reasonable to treat that repeated item as something that the system values, is important to or that optimizes the system, or that somehow is (or has become) an essential part of the system's overall success and sustainability -- if the system was a living thing you could even call it the system’s self-interests. Universe evolution has consistently recurring core patterns, some of which have been repeating themselves successfully ever since the Big Bang almost 13.7 billion years ago. Knowing, aligning with, and using these time-proven, consistently recurring core patterns of progressive evolution will greatly enhance and optimize your personal and group success." Lawrence Wollersheim

The idea of Progressive Evolution is based upon the biggest facts behind all of the evolutionary sciences. Progressive Evolution is the most complex thing in the universe, and yet, it does have core, recurring dominant patterns that can be understood. One way to more easily visualize the following consistently recurring complex process levels and dominant pattern steps of progressive evolution is to visualize them as sequential feeder streams eventually joining each other and becoming a river and the unstoppable directional flow of universe-scale evolution itself. While this metaphor is far from perfect, for reasons mentioned in the progressive evolution footnotes (at the end of this online booklet) this metaphor is good enough, for now, to help you see both the many contributing pattern streams and the centralizing main pattern river within the known developmental directionality of progressive evolution.

To align oneself or one's organization with the unstoppable progressive directionalized power flow of evolution (the indomitable impulse or intention of evolution if you like) one would seek to align oneself and one’s groups to the highest degree possible with as many of the dominant patterns levels and steps of progressive evolution as they could. This would theoretically give oneself or one's organization optimal survival success.

On the other hand, failure to align oneself and one's organizations with the core dominant patterns of progressive evolution results in the other great dominant pattern and process of progressive evolution to take over: the dominant pattern of destructive creation. That dominant pattern is essentially the breakdown and recycling of any and all non-learning, non-adaptive and non "co-operating" parts or wholes to be recycled and reused later in some other new evolutionary experiment or situation to once again attempt to further forward the unstoppable directionality of progressive evolution mentioned in more detail further down this page.

"[Evolution] appears to be not only a series of accidents the course of which is determined only by the change of environments during Earth history and the resultant struggle for existence,… but is governed by definite laws… The discovery of these laws constitutes one of the most important tasks of the future."  (Ludvig von Bertalanffy, biologist)

The Dominant Longterm Patterns of Progressive Evolution:

The main unstoppable (or nearly unstoppable) general dominant processes, levels, and steps containing the consistently recurring core patterns, "products", "universe self-interests" or inherent "values" of the core and dominant directionality of progressive evolution at universe scale as a whole complex adaptive system are as follows:

Continuous release of universe potentials and potentiality (for a created or evolved universe thing to become what it can). This continuous release or realization of potential births continuous evolutionary change (experimentation),

which then births...

 

Expanding complexity and diversity

(In some ways, all of the other progressive evolution levels found below also can be seen as the unpacking of the previous level of evolutionary complexity into new levels of expanding complexity and diversity. Expanding complexity, (like the expanding or maintaining of all things within the universe,) requires expanding or maintaining energy exchanges,

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then creates... (parts here is meant as things, not necessarily locations)

 

Expanding novelty (creative mutation and innovation again requiring more energy exchanges,),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding growth, productivity (or reproductivity,) and/or expansion (again requiring more energy exchanges),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding levels of environmental awareness, and then eventually in some evolving forms self-awareness and self-reflectiveness, of both the relevant exterior and interior environment present, past, and future (even through future modeling capabilities, through expanding use of technology and prediction skills) within both the parts of the whole and within the whole itself as a collective union

(This self-awareness [consciousness] includes expanding levels of awareness of others, the planet, the universe, and even that great mystery that is the origin of our universe),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding entity self-organization, autopoiesis, (which also eventually includes self-discipline and self-responsibility in most developed entities), which again requires more energy exchanges (For more on self-organization principles, click here).

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding full-consequence capture, full accountability, which requires expanding levels of full transparency for all parts of a whole and the wholes themselves. In one way or another, evolution eventually directly or indirectly and invariably always enforces increasing levels of consequence capture upon any parts or wholes that do not learn, adapt "cooperate," or create fair energy exchange and progressively evolve. High and expanding levels of transparency and accountability are critical to enacting full consequence capture because the powerful evolutionary self-interests of either the individual parts or the self-interests of wholes [groupings/unions] when hidden or not accounted for will always take over and lessen the essential optimal balance and tension between the self-interests of the individual and the self-interests of the whole group or union.

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding learning resulting in skill/ability, knowledge, and intelligence,

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding adaptability (choice, freedom, flexibility, or control of the environment for some parts and wholes in either adjusting to the environment or changing the environment),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then also emerges...

 

Expanding robustness, redundancies, and reserves of and in the parts and unions,

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding or alternating periods of compression and/or centralization

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding integration, harmony, and resultant order resulting in new synergies (which again like all of the above in one way or another requires more energy exchanges),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding cooperation, which aligns and effectively manages and balances the often competing self-interest tensions of all of the individual parts of the whole with the overall health and well-being of the whole as a whole system and union (which again requires more energy exchanges, which appropriately and fairly share and balance the needs of parts and wholes (the cooperators) for energy and resources to, most importantly, satisfy the second law of thermodynamics, but also to keep the cooperators sharing in the benefits of cooperation wanting to continue to cooperate),

which then in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding or new cooperative wholes (unions) of greater scale (which again requires more energy exchanges),

which then as a consequence of this new or expanding cooperation creates...

 

Expanding interdependence (by parts and wholes, which then also loops back upon the parts and the whole (union) to further motivate greater cooperation because of the expanded interdependence and expanding interconnectedness),

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Additional expanding robustness, redundancies, and reserves of and in the parts and unions because of the cooperativeness,

which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges...

 

Expanding control over the environment for individuals and cooperative unions (that also are in harmony with the principles of universe evolution) resulting in expanding sustainability for the cooperating parts and wholes, which again requires more energy exchanges (in part because of the increased cooperation between and by the parts and the wholes [unions]),

which ​at some developmental level of progressive evolution and only in some human parts within the universe eventually results in...

 

Expanding reflection by those human self-reflective parts upon the total universe environment and the universe's complete evolutionary processes and systems (including the Universe's Big Bang origin). This creates a whole universe consciousness in the part of the universe. In a way, the universe becomes conscious of itself through its parts.

And finally,

 

Possible transcendence of universe parts or whole unions. At the "end" of the universe's spiraling ever larger and more complex evolutionary developmental process lies the potential for some form of transcendence for some of the parts’ or wholes’ unions into completely new things (or, at the theoretical end of the universe potentiality all the parts as a whole union transcending to something new).

This then potentially restarts a new spiral of progressive evolution at a new level where once again continuous creative release of new potentials and potentiality (for the newly evolved or created thing to become and realize what it can become). This continuous release or realization of new potential then once again births continuous change, (through all of most of the cycle/spiral of development described above).

If transcendence did not occur in universe parts or whole unions for any reason (which also includes failed experiments, retrogressions, collapses, and extinctions) then the universe's evolutionary process wastes nothing of that which has reached the limits of its existence, growth, or developmental potential release cycle. It then recycles back all those resources and parts or whole unions back into evolution to be used in new creativity. (Collapses serve a necessary evolutionary purpose in removing what would not learn and adapt and for creating new space for new evolutionary experiments).

The above core patterns of universe evolution also can create a new ethics, morality, universal ethics, and evolutionary ethics that will allow us to cooperate better based on common, scientifically demonstrated values. To help simplify the progressive evolution of dominant core patterns and principles and how you can apply them to your life we have created the following two tools:

1.) Here is a very short and simplified printable version of what we call the Universe Principles here. The Universe Principles were designed in part to help make the above description of the dominant patterns of progressive evolution (which is very complex, scientific, and advanced) much more simple. This short and easy Universe Principles version is meant to be read and reviewed regularly and experimented with so you can discover for yourself how powerful these dominant patterns and principles of progressive evolution are when applied to your life on a regular review basis.

2.) The above dominant patterns of progressive evolution have also been used to create a medium-length version of the Universe Principles. (It is found within the Right Actions and the Right Attitudes online booklets of the Universe Principles.) This version goes into much more detail on how and why each principle works. Click the respective links in the previous sentence to get to see how the dominant patterns of universe evolution can be used as a universal evolutionary ethics and morality.

"Look at the parts and patterns of the evolutionary process (listed above) as the defining formulaic parts of a personal and group evolutionary algorithm for optimized success. Understanding, expanding, and refining this evolutionary algorithm with the newest science as it becomes available is one of the most important tasks in today's world and within the Evolution 2.0 community. Even though continuously changing environmental conditions will limit your ability somewhat to apply all of the dominant patterns and principles within the evolutionary algorithm of progressive evolution for optimized success, within the evolutionary algorithm are contained all the essential pieces for a universal guiding formula of proven principles that we urgently need today to create a sustainable prosperity, meaningful lives and justice for all on the planet." Lawrence Wollersheim

(Here are two illustrated versions of many of the key concepts of progressive evolution. They are found within the Right Actions and the Right Attitudes online booklets of the Universe Principles.)

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Why Progressive Evolution is Important

Knowledge of Progressive Evolution (AKA Evolution 2.0) and particularly its meta-principles are critical to our future because evolution itself is:

a.) "science's greatest discovery,"

b.) the best documented "meta-theory of everything" that currently exists and,

c.) the most trial-and-error tested and time-proven successful system in existence.

The essential directionality and meta-principles of evolution will help you to evolve yourself, your groups, businesses, religions, nations, and even humanity into a better alignment with the time-tested meta-principles of nature and life in the universe. The modern scientific meta-principles of evolution are ultimately useful in that they can even be used in the most practical of ways. Adhering to those principles can dramatically improve the personal success of our daily lives by improving our evolutionary fitness, adaptability, control over our environments, and our ability to cooperate and build effective groups.

To say that evolution is the most successful system in existence is not an overstatement because nothing else even comes close in time or scale. Evolution has evolved and sustained many forms of life and our universe over billions of years.

When we study the history of our evolving universe from a multidisciplinary science approach and as a complex adaptive system, we are able to discern the most commonly occurring meta-patterns in the creation of life, as well as those meta-patterns proved most successful in sustaining life and building ever larger and more functional groups and unions. Thus, adopting the knowledge and tools of Evolution 2.0 allows individuals, organizations, and nations to be far more successful.

Evolution 2.0 and its progressive evolution meta-principles also provide the science-grounded foundation, the needed new worldview, and the ideological clarity to underpin the new ideas and goals of a New Economy of Sustainable Prosperity. Evolution 2.0 also will help create billions of new jobs that the Zero Marginal Cost Society and the Third Industrial Revolution predict. Evolution 2.0's meta-principles will also both facilitate and ease the great jobs and values transition from the Second Industrial Revolution into the Third Industrial Revolution over the next 20-40 years.

If you are curious about the new vision of practical and realistic hope that understanding and using the tools of Progressive Evolution will help create for the future, keep clicking the links at the bottom left or right of the page. The Uplink will show you all of the pages in this online booklet.

 

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What Happens If Any of the Developmental Steps of Progressive Evolution Are Interfered With or Thwarted --- The Evolutionary Meta-Pattern of Destructive Creation

If any of the above universe meta-patterns of progressive evolution fail to continue within evolution's progressive directionalized path of core meta-patterns as previously described, another meta-pattern and core meta-process of progressive evolution will activate and take over --- destructive creation. Destructive creation is the breakdown and recycling pattern for non-learning, non-adaptive or non "co-operating" parts or wholes (unions).

Nothing is wasted in universe evolution. This core meta-pattern of breakdown and recycling allows evolutionary "failed experiments," retrogression, or other failed adaptations, collapses, and extinctions to be reused later on in some other new evolutionary creativity and experiments. This allows these broken down and recycled elements to once again support the ongoing levels of the unstoppable directionality of progressive evolution  --- hence the term destructive creation.

Furthermore, keep in mind that all of the progressive evolution steps directly support or indirectly contribute to the meta-directionality, impulse, or "intentionality" of progressive evolution, which is the creation of more:

  • cooperative wholes (unions,) at a greater scale, which are sustainable and expand "fair" and/or appropriate (dynamic equilibrium maintaining) energy exchanges between parts and wholes. (It may be that increasing cooperation and the "fair" and/or appropriate exchange of energy at a greater scale for greater lengths of time is the core and central hub of universe progressive evolution.)

Based on the universe's 13.7 billion years of core repeating meta-patterns, there is no known logical reason to believe that the above basic meta-patterns and basic directionality of progressive evolution are likely to change.

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The Continuous Change Factor of Evolution

When thinking about all of the directionalized parts of progressive evolution,  remember its underlying continuous change impulse. Eventually, progressive evolution will move toward alignment with the directions and values previously mentioned. One could easily call this continuous change factor the dominant yet often forgotten characteristic of progressive evolution.

"Continuous change is always certain in evolution, but progress is not. Parts of evolution that do not progress in alignment with the universe's meta-principles of progressive evolution will eventually be broken down and recycled. " ---Lawrence Wollersheim

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Extinction and Progressive Evolution

Prior to about the last 10 years, millions of species that failed to recognize the importance of these progressive evolution meta-principles or failed to adapt to environmental or internal changes went extinct. While knowing and using these “universe facts of life” is not an absolute guarantee that extinction can be prevented, it is our best extinction prevention strategy!

The meta-principles of progressive evolution are so powerful it could even be said the great asteroid extinction of 65 million years ago was an adaptive failure to follow these meta-principles. Theoretically, had the dinosaurs evolved further in harmony with the meta-principles of progressive evolution to the point where they had developed both the intelligence and technology of humanity, it is arguable that with human-like technology and intelligence they could have detected the asteroid approaching the planet years before it arrived. With our current technology (rockets, nuclear bombs, etc.), they could have destroyed or altered the course of the incoming asteroid, thus preventing extinction.

Although this example is extreme, it demonstrates how the failure to progressively evolve and adapt means failure for individuals, groups, or species. Also keep in mind that although there have been 5 previous mass extinctions on Earth, evolution has always found a way to keep life evolving and developing.

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The Theoretical End Result, Product, and Goal of the Progressive Evolution of the Universe

A current theory to the end of the expanding universe is that all stars will eventually burn out and everything will grow cold and dark. But, if these core directional meta-patterns of progressive evolution described previously continue as they have for the last 13.7 billion years, and the universe continues into the far, far distant future, eventually:

The entire universe will evolve toward becoming an aware, intelligent, and cooperative super-organism composed of all diverse universe parts, aligned in appropriate dynamic energy exchanges, and able to control the total environment in sustainable ways at universe scale levels. All of the evolutionary potentials within the meta-patterns of progressive evolution will have reached their maximal or absolute states for full expression for all possibilities within the universe. At this unique and far distant moment, the universe as a whole may have the possibility of somehow transcending itself and birthing itself into something new.

Theoretically, the universe will eventually exhaust all possibilities (potentiality) for experiments for expanding or more:

differentiation,

complexity,

growth,

mutation, (creativity, novelty innovation,)

autopoiesis (self-organization,)

adaptability, (choice, responsibility, freedom,)

intelligence,

learning,

integration,

synergy,

compression or centralization

resulting in eventual unification into wholes of greater:

cooperation and scale,

order,

harmony,

transparency,

interdependence,

consciousness,

self-reflection (currently only in humans),

reflection of the universe upon itself and its own processes (currently only through its human self-reflective parts and human-created instruments), and theoretically,

eventually self-reflection of the universe by itself and as itself as a totality.

Finally, the self-aware universe with all its aware parts and wholes may attain an understanding of the origin of the universe (that ultimate remaining Great Mystery). In this new and vastly deeper understanding of the universe and its parts and wholes of its own origin --- the universe and humanity may finally learn the actual nature of its origin and its ultimate reason and purpose for existence. Here at the end of the evolution of the universe, this point may be the only place where the ultimate questions of life are finally answered...

Now that all of the previously mentioned potentials for universe development have been exhausted, the unique and exciting possibility of the universe somehow transcending itself once again presents itself. The universe as a whole does this just as it does at the end of the potential development of every other universe subpart and sub whole. At this moment there also exists at this fullness the rare opportunity for transcendence to something new or more.

So, maybe the universe won't go dark and end as we know it. Maybe the universe as a whole system will transcend and become something new, such as a new holonic union between the universe and its origin --- that ultimate remaining Great Mystery. Or, maybe the universe will transcend and become some new kind of universe in a new dimension, with additional new dimensions that restart the whole evolution process---or an entirely different process altogether.  

When one even partially grasps the progressive directionality of this universe's evolution, one cannot help but experience a humbling awe toward the epic evolutionary story and amazing developmental process in which we are all fully embedded.

"The individual is going to be universalized. The universal is going to be individualized, and thus from both directions the whole is going to be enriched." --Jan Smuts, from Holism and Evolution

If you like, now go back over the list of main progressive meta-processes and meta-patterns of 13.8 billion years of progressive evolution again. See them as expanding levels of unfolding and unpacking complexity, bearing more unique qualities and more complex, refined, and rare "fruit." Look at the most complex, refined and rare qualities being produced at the very current known end of the universe's expanding complexity.

From this view of evolution's progressive directionality, it appears that we as humans are truly important within progressive evolution and we have an important value, meaning, and role to play as conscious co-evolutionary partners with the Universe and its processes of progressive evolution. For additional information about the theoretical end of the universe, see the Omega Point and the various individuals who have added to its definition.

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How the Meta-Processes, Meta-Principles, and Directionality of Progressive Evolution Can Optimize Your Life Success in Practical Ways

"When you understand the meta-principles of progressive evolution, you will also understand the universe's ‘best practices,’ as well as evolution's core ’operating system.’ You will also understand the the basic principles behind the Universe Evolutionary Worldview and Evolution 2.0." ---Lawrence Wollersheim

The core meta-processes of the expanding levels of complexity found within universe evolution are the progressive directionality of evolution and life! These recurring meta-processes, which have been repeatedly demonstrated and time-proven over 13.8 billion years of evolutionary testing, can also be viewed as core evolutionary interests, values, and even a partially implied statement of practical and universal evolutionary meta-ethics and meta-morality.

“The greatest fight in the history of the world and the world of ideas is the fight to establish a universal morality.” ---Stefan Molyneux, philosopher

"When you know and practice the Universe Principles, you are living some of the most powerful wisdom that evolution and the universe can teach us about how to be successful and sustainable both as individuals and as groups." ---Lawrence Wollersheim​

These meta-processes are the most vital big picture, directionalized actions and behaviors that hold together the progressive directionality of evolution, as well as the sustainability of life itself. As such, they are important meta-processes to know and apply to every area of life.

It is the application of these meta-processes that are the core actions of Evolution 2.0. These core meta-processes, when applied to practical daily life, are now called the Universe Principles of Sustainability or the Universe Principles for short. It is through the application of the Universe Principles that a true and meaningful sustainable prosperity for all can be achieved.

The meta-processes of progressive evolution's directionality have now been creatively turned into daily life-guiding success principles and a new kind of universal ethic and morality. Keep in mind that the Universe Principles of Sustainability are not just for personal use. They are ideal for creating successful and sustainable groups and communities of all kinds and sizes, right up to national and international communities.

The new Universe Principles of Sustainability medium length form, which will go over each meta-pattern and explain it in more detail, is found by clicking here for the Right Actions and by clicking here for the Right Attitudes.

When you are done reading this booklet, come back to this page and begin a personal experiment with the power of the Universe Principles very short form daily reading version by clicking this link.

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The Prime Directive of Evolution

As living beings, each of us is responsible to forward the Evolutionary Prime Directive of the universe. This prime directive is simply to:

    a.) forward the universe's evolutionary core recurring meta-patterns and value interests and,

    b.) forward the progressive evolution of human and other life in the universe.

This naturally includes protecting the interests of living and non-living resources and systems essential to the ongoing creation and maintenance of life. This Evolutionary Prime Directive is the prime value upon which the testable, objective merit and truth of all other values and actions can be measured and weighed.

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Progressive Evolution as an Objective Description of the Cycle and Meaning of Human Life

Within the developmental steps of progressive evolution, as described earlier, one could say that one saw the progressive evolutionary spiral of human life more clearly defined than most people have seen or learned in traditional biology and cosmology classes. The spiraling nature of the developmental steps of progressive evolution can be seen either as:

a.) each new thing emerging and repeating the spiral of progression evolution or

b.) when the spiral of development for a particular thing reaches transcendence with the emergence, the spiral of new potential development begins again.

One could also easily deduce that for a human life to be optimally fulfilled and reach its full potential, it would need to address and/or manifest (align and contribute to) the various developmental stages of evolving life to at least some degree and in some form of balance.

One could even write a very powerful argument that the objective, multifaceted, and layered meaning of evolving human life itself is both well described and comprehensively contained within the developmental steps of progressive evolution.

From the previous meta-pattern information on the progressive directionality of evolution, one could easily support that the highest overall and core common life purpose of both the individual and humanity are:

"To first understand and then align one's actions with progressive evolution and then --- as a partner and co-creator --- contribute to the very forwarding of the progressive evolution of humanity both here on Earth and eventually out into the stars."

This single meta-purpose contains all of the other worthwhile, meaningful, and life-affirming purposes from every other area of life --- such as politics, economics, society, religion, etc. (For more information on this reality, click here.)

This then leads to the question of how to apply this knowledge and new life purpose in practical daily ways...

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Personal Self-Interests and Universe Evolution

Personal Self-Interests and Universe Evolution

If the universe has core meta-patterns, products, values, and self-interests, it is logical that they should also be considered the essential core products, values, and self-interests of a balanced, sustainable, and well-lived life. This is because we are fully embedded within the universe's evolutionary stream, and this evolutionary stream is always, directly and indirectly, controlling and conditioning our directionality!

To not align your current self-interests and lifestyle with the evolving universe's self-interests would be to go against a relentless, untiring, and all-but-unstoppable evolutionary current and insure eventual failure. Even the strongest swimmers can’t continue swimming against the current.

"The modern scientific meta-principles of evolution can be used in practical ways to dramatically improve the success of our daily lives. The meta-principles of universe-scale evolution are also able to better guide and improve today's economics, political landscape, religions, and deteriorating climate conditions." ---Lawrence Wollersheim

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Our Role in an Ongoing Cosmo-Genesis

When you look back at the expanding complexity of progressive evolution unpacking directionally into level after level of more amazing qualities, one begins to also see that the universe is in a continuous process of ongoing cosmogenesis (universe creation). Based on universe facts it appears that creation did not end just before or at the big bang, but is continuing on to this very moment.

And, if cosmogenesis is in fact continuing to occur, then we as Evolutioneers now have the opportunity to participate as partners in this progressive process once we know how it works and what we can do to co-evolve our futures with it. This may be the greatest single opportunity and adventure to EVER emerge in human history!

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More About the Basic Tensional Conflict Within Progressive Evolution

While it is true that the physical universe is the prime conditioning and qualifying context of evolution, there is another set of important contexts that bear mentioning. Those contexts are:

a.) the continuous tensions between the self-interests of the part and the self-interests of the whole and,

b.) the continuous tensions between the part and/or the whole and their changing environments, up to and including the whole universe.

Evolution successfully resolves the first tension by often evolving some form of empowered management at the level of the whole that coordinates and integrates the self-interests of the parts with the self-interests of the whole in a dynamic, ever-changing balance. This dynamically ever-changing balancing act is most successful when there is fair and appropriate distribution of energy, resources, and benefits between the parts and the whole. The tensions between parts and wholes within evolution and evolving systems are never fully resolved in favor of one side exclusively over the other. Without a dynamic and continuous balance of appropriate energy and resource sharing between parts and wholes, things break down and are recycled.

Evolution resolves the second tension challenge by adaptively and selectively applying its own set of core meta-principles for survival, reproduction, and life optimization in new environmental conditions. The self-interests, "values," and meta-principles of progressive evolution should be thought of as a set of tools for optimizing life success that must be wisely adapted in a balanced and appropriate manner to each new set of environmental conditions. These meta-principles will optimize your success in any set of environmental conditions, provided you are flexible and creative when applying them.

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The Progressive Evolution Controversy

Very few current evolutionary scientists and cosmologists are willing to state openly what they know personally to be true about the directional trajectory and seeming "goals" and "values" of evolution when viewed as a universe-scaled whole system and process. We are not just talking about just the increasing complexity as evolution continues, which almost all scientists will agree to be fact.

We are talking about much more - than Darwin's basic Evolution 1.0 and its increasing complexity, far more than the Evolution 1.5 described by E. O Wilson in his New Synthesis of Sociobiology and many other books.

Evolution 2.0 is far more than that. Evolution 2.0 describes the many levels of directionality within universe evolution and it discloses the current master list of universe evolution meta-principles.

Most of today's evolutionary scientists and cosmologists are not willing to state any more about the directional trajectories and seeming "goals" and "values" of evolution as a universe-scaled whole system and a process due to fears of "political incorrectness" or other professional repercussions from our highly polarized and politicized society.

This reluctance to speak out about the far more comprehensive levels of evolutionary directionality is also present because of the past incorrect and inappropriate associations of evolutionary directionality with Social Darwinism, horrifying Nazi eugenics, or other common public misconceptions about what evolution's directionality (trajectory, goals, and values) actually is.

The nonprofit organization that creates this website has the courage to boldly speak out about these controversial issues on the progressive directionality of evolution found in what is called Evolution 2.0. On this website (and at a few other brave websites and voices,) you will find more information about Evolution 2.0 where the progressive directionality, values, goals, and even the "end of evolution" possibilities of universe evolution are discussed openly and taught.

Here on this website, you will always find an open dialog on what the science-grounded meta-principles and meta-processes of Evolution 2.0 are and what they mean to the future of humanity, including the improvement and evolution of our governments, economics, societies, religions, and the deteriorating environment.

The Universe Spirit website will forward this vital discussion on how to use evolution's directionalized values, meta-principles, and processes to improve our world! Universe Spirit will discuss how the meta-principles of progressive evolution can become the foundation for a universal evolutionary meta-ethic and meta-morality, fostering global cooperation based on common and universal values illuminated by science.

Forwarding the evolutionary science of Evolution 2.0 and how we and the universe can evolve in more sustainable ways will not be restricted by voices misusing and misapplying the philosophic concept of the Naturalistic Fallacy. The Naturalistic Fallacy basically says that a scientific fact cannot ever create a legitimate "ought to" or "should do this" type of social or moral value. (Please note: Evolution 2.0's meta-principles do overcome the argument of the Naturalistic Fallacy. For those of you interested, the counterargument for the meta-principles of evolution legitimately creating "ought to" and "should" type values or "goods" can be found by clicking the next link. How the Universality of Evolution 2.0's Meta-Principles Counters the Naturalistic Fallacy.)

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Progressive Evolution is Continuously Conditioned by the Inherent Time/Space Field Qualities of the Universe

The many types of actions of progressive evolution described previously do not take place in a vacuum. They take place in a time/space field that affects qualifies, conditions, and controls the actions as well as their results to greater or lesser degrees.

To understand progressive evolution on a deeper technical level, one must also understand the conditioning time/space field qualities of the universe to some degree. These conditioning time/space field qualities of the universe find practical application in learning how one would wisely apply the principles of progression evolution to one's life.

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Within the inherent spatial and quantum qualities of the physical universe are found result-conditioning attributes that affect and condition almost all actions and results of progressive evolution that take place within the physical universe --- and that makes them critically important! These inherent result-conditioning spatial or quantum attributes and values can also easily be converted into and called universe "attitudes" or "values," which also can be used for empowering your success in all areas of life.

The following information lays out these result-conditioning universe qualities, attributes, and values. They have been extrapolated from the most current cosmological and progressive evolutionary science.

Knowing and utilizing these time-tested 13.7 billion-year-old reality-conditioning attributes can dramatically improve the immediate quality of your life, not to mention your future success. These universe attributes and values also can become an empowering lifestyle practice and part of a new universal ethical code for Evolutioneers. As you review these physical universe attributes and values you may also discover that they both transcend and yet still creatively include many of the most life-affirming virtues and perspectives from humanity’s greatest philosophic and spiritual wisdom traditions.

Introduction:

An important principle discovered in physics is that the inherent qualities or potentialities of the space field in which an action takes place can powerfully affect and condition both the action itself and the results of any action that takes place within that particular space field. This is often called the "the field of space conditions any action within that space field" principle.

This principle also implies that the inherent qualities and potentialities (attributes/values) of a space field have a partial, but primal importance in relation to any actions taking place within that space field. In relation to this principle, it is important to recognize that the universe IS the master quantum and macro-space field which conditions all actions and all results within ALL sub-fields taking place within it. The best way to think about the mass of actions and results taking place within the universe is from a systems perspective--as the dominant system for viewing the universe is progressive evolution.

"The universe is the arc to which all lines must conform." --the French evolutionary scientist Teilhard De Chardin

Our current sciences have now described many of the macro and micro quantum and result-conditioning qualities, attributes, and values of the universe's master space field. This includes an explanation for how those qualities affect the processes and results of "things" acting within the space field of the master universe. Those result-conditioning space qualities, attributes, and field values are manifest in both agency promoting (for the part) and communion promoting (for the whole/union) modes.

The Universe’s Master Field Qualities are the Action and Result Conditioning Universe Attributes and Value-Interests that Control and Condition the Actions of Progressive Evolution in the Universe and Create What We Call the Universe “Attitudes."

The following are key inherent universe space and quantum action conditioning and controlling master field qualities and value probabilities (interests). They are derived from current cosmological and progressive evolutionary science that describes the multi-faceted nature of the universe’s master time, space energy field(s). This master universe field ultimately conditions and/or controls all of the actions and results going on within it.

These attributes may often seem in paradoxical relationships to one another, just as quantum physics is also loaded with paradox.

The universe’s master field comes into being because of the first massive “energy” throughput from the initiating big bang event to the universe (and possibly continuous energy throughput according to some theories), which produced the energy, matter, time, and space of the universe as we know it. (We still do not know what occurred before the Big Bang and exactly what kind of “energy” created the energy that appeared after the Big Bang.)  

Because the universe’s field directly or indirectly conditions and controls all actions and results going on within it, it is important to know what the many qualities of the Universe’s space field are so that one may use that valuable information in one’s life.

The interconnected and result conditioning master space field attributes, value-interests, and “attitudes” of the post-Big Bang Universe are:

  • Inherent “is-ness:” At its most basic level, the existence of the universe or anything within it ---  just IS. This is universe is-ness --- pure and simple. This also implies that the physical universe or anything within it is not inherently or intrinsically good, bad, or deficient in any way --- no matter what our current usual partial view perspectives, religious beliefs, or personal attitudes about either the nature of the universe or the things within it might be. The inherent simple "is-ness" of the universe also infers that the universe is a mostly neutral space in its posture toward the parts and wholes within it. While the universe's evolutionary directionality does seem to favor the creation of cooperative groupings, as well as parts of itself that better align with its evolutionary meta-principles, in general, and as a whole system it can be thought of as mostly neutral, seeking only to enact its inherent meta-principles or laws of evolutionary process.

  • Native original inclusiveness, oneness, or union and unity: This is the always-current cohesion, union, and unity of all things within the limits of time and space of the known universe. (In qualified ways all things are sharing the time and space within the universe's totality of existence.) The original and ongoing inclusiveness and union of all things within the universe implies that at its deepest levels, the universe is essentially an interdependent sharing experience.

  • Native and abundant potentiality: At the level of the part of the universe, potentiality is manifest as the drive to release and realize the inherent full nature and evolutionary possibilities of a thing. On the level of the universe as a whole, potentiality manifests as the drive to exhaust all possibilities for creativity and novelty. It also does this at every other level of existence manifesting that creativity and novelty. This creativity and novelty adds to the amazingly abundant richness and quality of the progressive directionality of evolution in the universe. This universe’s space field potentiality manifests and fulfills itself in many concrete ways such as parts or whole unions within the universe learning, adapting, showing emergent self-organization, etc.

  • Native transparency: The universe hides nothing from anyone at any time looking in the right way with the right instruments. It is always fully transparent.

  • Native creativity: Within the universe's native potentialities lies its realizable and inherent native creativity. This creativity continuously bursts forth both from the inherent creativity within all parts of the universe from what could be an inherent conditioning creativity within time-space itself. The potential for self-organization (autopoiesis) is just one example of this native inherent creativity.

  • Inherent universe dynamism, continuous change, and evolvability process: This equals abundant and continuous change because of the process of continuous energy flow or flow-through continuously creating the universe and the consequent ongoing energy exchanges seeking to establish (or needed to establish) new dynamic energy balances as new or expanding parts and wholes (unions). The Universe’s continuous dynamism/process of change and its dynamic balance conditioning qualities show up as the following sub-levels of evolutionary process:

    • Incompleteness: the manifestation of the inherent inclination or impulse toward becoming evolving, changing, growing (growth and transformation are abundantly and continually emerging toward resolving this "incompleteness" and these emergences of new growth are aligned by evolution in the direction of the universe's progressive evolution or they are recycled. Growth can also mean evolving to new levels when older levels of growth run their course such as when one grows physically to adulthood. After a human being has physically grown to full capacity there are still many levels of maturity, skill, intelligence, and other forms of growth still available). Incompleteness is a paradoxical term as it is used in association with universe qualities. It does not imply any deficiency or imperfection. It just means a “next evolutionary step” possibility. This inherent "incompleteness" toward growth manifests through:

    • Emergence and the consequent differentiation of what has emerged: The universe is full of abundantly emerging new things and those emergences create differentials, differences, or separation for those new things. The existence of differentials (differences and separation between things) can also create the appearance of dissonance (conflict perspectives)  because of the natural separation created by the differentials themselves. Differentiation between things and their resultant dissonance is utilized by evolution as one of its most effective tools to energize, motivate, and stimulate optimal adaptation and growth. On a purely physical level, the universe sometimes uses differentials and polarities to generate and create energy.

    • Complexity: More emergence and differentiation creates an abundance of more complex things. This then creates increasing inherent spontaneity (caused by the inherent creativity, novelty, and diverse innovation of the universe). This new complexity also creates various levels of new uncertainty, (unpredictability) linked with new probabilities.  

    • Inherent and increasing uncertainty: In the physical universe, absolute certainties and truths are in essence relativistic probabilities or in some severe cases, self-created illusions or delusions. This is due in part, to abundantly increasing complexity (diversity), spontaneity, and often-nonlinear creativity of the universe. These levels of increasing uncertainty, created by increasing creative emergence, complexity, and unpredictable nonlinear spontaneities, result in various levels of natural unpredictability, uncertainty, and the adventure of our lives. The increasing uncertainties and their consequent unpredictabilities far outstrip our abilities to model and predict probable outcomes. Thus far, our future modeling and prediction technologies are not even close to keeping up because of the accelerating levels of increasing complexity, diversity, and cause and effect nonlinearity. For example, when the gases hydrogen and oxygen became spontaneously mixed in the right proportions, who could have predicted the formation of water?

    • Expansion potentiality: Growth implies expansion. The galaxies are expanding away from each other faster and faster because of the dark energy effect. On a cultural level --- complexity, knowledge, uncertainty, non-linear cause and effect, interdependence, interconnectedness, and change (to name, but a few cultural qualities) all appear to be in states of accelerating expansion.

  • Native/inherent directionality: All things seek to grow and fulfill their inherent and natural potentialities. The fruit manifests the potentials contained within its seed. Here, we are mainly talking about the universe as a whole unto itself. As a whole system, there is also a progressive directionality inherent in the universe's evolution seeking to manifest its inherent and natural potentials. There is also inherent directionality within universe parts as well. All of the above continuous processes moving toward growth (or change) are facilitated by the dynamically balancing qualities and interactions of:

    • Centralization and compression: There exist numerous known and unknown attractive forces within the universe space field that draw things together in acts of centralization. These are forces such as gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak atomic forces, and theoretically, dark matter. There also appear to be other biological and non-biological attractive forces, which in living organisms and cultures naturally cause new centralizing unions and communing wholes to be formed and maintained.

    • Native inter-connectedness and sharing: Interdependence and interconnectedness are intrinsically linked and paradoxical in some ways. New physics research shows there is nothing within the universe that is not interconnected at some level to all other things within the universe. Because of that, all things, no matter how seemingly independent, are also interdependent to varying degrees upon all other things within the universe. To varying degrees, the universe is a system in which everything in it is, to some degree, dependent on all other things within the system. This is due to parts and/or wholes naturally share some form of energy, spatial relationship, energy exchanges, or relationship or reciprocating cohesion or forms, which are essential to exist or grow. This native inter-connectedness of all things in the one universe union implies that where all space energy and matter is shared and transformed, this also implies that sharing is a fundamental attribute and meta-principle that allows the universe to exist and function. If this is true, sharing as a meta-principle appears to have a much larger role to fulfill in our social, economic, political, and religious systems.

All of the preceding sub-processes of universe dynamism, when directionalized as growth (not merely change) then lead to or involve:

  • Dynamic balance: This is an ever-changing state of new and evolving "imperfect" energy/matter balances within the universe itself as a whole and within its sub-states of dynamic balance of parts and wholes within the universe. Dynamic balance is not a static balance, but a paradoxical state of continuous energy/matter change within certain necessary tolerance levels, creating new levels of simultaneously closed yet open dynamic balance. This dynamic balance is vitally needed between the differentials found within various parts and wholes of the universe to maintain their stable-yet-evolving, closed-yet-open relationships. Matter and energy in the universe are constant, but they take on a myriad of constantly evolving forms. For this possibility to occur, there is a paradoxical closedness and openness that must occur to create the necessary, ever-changing states of dynamic balance. It is these various states which dynamically adjust the differentials, differences, and conflicts between parts and wholes so essential evolutionary dynamic balances (unions may take place or be maintained so progressive evolution can continue to unfold).

  • The evolutionary impulse toward unification: More universe parts are growing and evolving into new and larger wholes/unions of greater cooperation and scale. This moves us closer to a theoretical super-union and super-organism including all parts of the universe acting in cooperative alignment with the universe's progressive directionality. This then restarts the dynamic balance processes listed above paradoxically "back to a new, evolved, and enhanced form of its original…

  • Union, unity, and inclusiveness: On the level of the whole, the universe may not be just the ultimate union. It might also be the only true indivisible unity in scientifically known existence when seen as the currently largest known totality. The universe may be “the only text without any larger context” as Thomas Berry said. On the level of the part, there is also an inherent union and unity within each thing helping to hold it together and maintain its natural state. This then takes the dynamic balance processes listed just above toward the paradoxical evolutionary impulse manifesting itself as:

  • Transcendence: The universe and its parts of the universe (some parts through increasing autonomy and consciousness) appear to be growing toward first realizing, then transcending their limits as individual parts. These parts can also participate in the creation of new dynamic wholes/unions also seeking to transcend themselves. Every part of the universe and the universe itself appear to be trying to transcend itself over time.

How to Creatively Apply the Universe's Life Conditioning Attitudes and Values to Practical Daily Living Success?

"[Evolution] appears to be not only a series of accidents the course of which is determined only by the change of environments during Earth history and the resultant struggle for existence,… but is governed by definite laws… The discovery of these laws constitutes one of the most important tasks of the future.” --- Ludvig von Bertalanffy, biologist

“The most practical belief system for a large-scale society, in the long run, is one that is firmly anchored in factual reality.”--- David Sloan Wilson

The above macro and micro quantum result-conditioning qualities and potentialities of the universe space field can be creatively expressed as success attitudes, which include most of the space conditioning qualities of the universe. These attitudes condition all actions and results taking place within the universe.

When embraced, those success attitudes will optimize the actions and results of your life or organization. When applying the companion to the universe’s success-action principles (listed in Part 1 of the new Universe Principles of Sustainability), you will get far better results if you first hold and embody the optimal result-conditioning attitudinal "space" conditions as described above and also found in creative expression in Part 2 of the new Universe Principles of Sustainability.

Click here to go to the success attitudes, Part 2 of the new Universe Principles of Sustainability, which embody an attitudinal form of the practical application of the life conditioning universe attributes listed above.

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Our Mission Forwarding Progressive Evolution

The mission of our organization regarding forwarding Progressive Evolution and what we call Evolution 2.0 is:

a.) To educate individuals on how to use the meta-principles of universe progressive evolution to improve the success of their personal lives in practical ways. Practitioners of the meta-principles of universe progressive evolution will significantly improve their evolutionary fitness, adaptability, and control of their environments, as well as function more cooperatively and successfully as groups and within groups.

This first part of our mission of forwarding progressive evolution to you as an individual, the groups in which you are embedded, humanity, the planet, and the universe is truly amazing because it is the most basic supporting foundation and context upon which ALL of your other goals can emerge, be wisely realized, and sustained over time!

b.) To teach individuals how to forward the progressive evolution of their groups, nation, humanity, the planet, and the universe.  This eventually includes:

i.) To help guide humanity in consciously and ethically evolving its cognitive and biological human nature,

Humanity's cognitive and biological human nature is not a static thing. Human nature initially evolved through the mechanics of genetic evolution. Once humanity created culture, humans evolved quicker due to the values, laws, education, and repetitive practices of cultural evolution. Because of cultural evolution, human nature became civilized and evolved far faster than the random genetic mutation could ever achieve.

Evolution 2.0 also educates about the new 21st-century art-of living skill sets which are the next steps to advance and extend the effectiveness of cultural education to develop, evolve, and realize the potentials of human nature. Once the tools of cultural education have taken developing human nature as far as it can go, it is then time to add in the next toolset for evolving human nature.

In addition to continuing to use the tools and methods of human culture to improve human nature, humanity using proper safeguards now has the opportunity to speed up the evolution of cognitive and biological human nature as never has been done before by using the new technologies of genetic engineering. Just as cultural evolution has dramatically sped up the evolution of human nature, humanity now has the ability to speed up our evolution by wisely using these new technologies.

The genetic transcendence of human nature is a new kind of freedom, only being articulated for the first time here in the 21st century because we have the ability to begin achieving it. This new freedom is freedom from the limitations of past, pre-determined, or inborn genetic limitations. Inborn genetic limitations can include everything from genetic defects, built-in and hardwired emotional responses no longer appropriate to today's life conditions and environments, and limitations on the cognitive processing abilities of the brain itself.

This new freedom also includes freedom from current physical limitations through mechanical and biological augmentation. Already, it is common for individuals to get artificial hearts, hips, joints, arms, and many other mechanical or biological enhancements to help them resolve or enhance current physical conditions or remedy limitations. (Click here to learn about overcoming the limitations of human nature with new technologies and the appropriate safeguards.)

ii.) To help humanity in consciously and ethically evolving its evolutionary successors and "children."

Humanity as a species appears not to be an end unto itself when seen from a big-picture evolutionary perspective. By looking at the long-term evolution of the planet, it is clear that humanity as a species has appeared due to the rise (and in many cases the extinction) of many predecessor species. Therefore, it is only logical and reasonable to believe that since 99.9 percent of every species that has ever lived on the planet is now extinct, humanity as a species will also give rise to humanity's evolutionary successors and "children" --- just exactly as humanity's evolutionary predecessors gave rise to it.

One of the possible pathways in giving rise to humanity's successors and "children" would be for humanity to transcend its limiting biology and the current limitations of its mental abilities (what we normally consider humanity's mostly-fixed human nature) is genetic engineering. There are other ways as well. (For more information on creating our own successors click here to learn more about evolutionary transhumanism.)

(Please Note: Accepting all of the above "evolving human nature" issues as part of your higher mission can challenge all you have ever read in modern goal books that focus their advice on life's core goals being first and mostly about individual human happiness and comfort and getting what you want. When you learn more about why our mission above is about the larger, more powerful, and effective truth yet also includes all smaller truths as well as personal goals, you will better understand why you will be able "to have your cake and eat it too.")

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Important Footnotes On Progressive Evolution and its Definition

  1. The principle of Progressive Evolution is derived in substantive part from evolutionary science.
  2. The progressive evolution process steps are not always linear or in the exact sequence as listed above. There are many simultaneous and sometimes astronomically complex linear and nonlinear interactions and feedback loops occurring in and between the various process steps of progressive evolution. Additionally, progressive evolution has many dead ends, failed experiments, and regressions. At any point in the progressive evolutionary process steps:
    1. expanding differentiation, complexity, growth, mutation, (creativity, novelty innovation,) autopoiesis, (self organization,) adaptability (choice, freedom,) intelligence, learning, integration, harmony, synergy, compression or centralization resulting in eventual unification into wholes of greater cooperation and scale, interdependence, consciousness, self reflection, reflection of the universe upon itself and its own processes through its self-reflective parts or eventually by itself as a totality,
    2. there can be dead ends where the process fails to evolve through the next level of increasing complexity and adaptability. There are also many things (parts or wholes/unions) in the universe on organic, biological, and cultural levels that do not proceed through all of the above progressive evolutionary process steps and levels of expanding complexity. They either stop completely at one level or another or develop so insufficiently they are limited in their development on following levels.
  3. To get a better visual idea and overview of how the expanding complexity of progressive evolution develops and unfolds simultaneously on various levels, please see the following Four Quadrants chart by Ken Wilber by clicking here. This chart is meant to be a quick overview of the vast amount of progressive evolutionary complexity going on in the universe and provides some examples of all of the process levels and steps listed above. While there is contention on the placement of some items on this chart, its visual usefulness far outweighs ongoing research and dialog about its details.
  4. Progressive evolution plays a major role in the Universe Evolutionary Worldview. Click here to learn more about the new Universe Evolutionary Worldview.
  5. Although the above definition of progressive evolution has been based on parts of the works of the following individuals, the inclusion of their names does not imply any specific endorsement of this article or the information expressed within it by them. The following individuals have been mentioned in part to gratefully recognize their contributions to expanding the areas of cosmology, big history, progressive evolutionary science, and/or conscious evolution. This article is based in part upon the universe and progressive evolutionary science and theories expressed by Teilhard De Chardin, Erich Jantsch, John Stewart, Lawrence Wollersheim, Duane Elgin, Michael Dowd, Connie Barlow, Nancy Ellen Abrams, Brian Swimme, Thomas Berry, Joel Primack, David Christian, David Ray Griffin, Sri Aurobindo, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Ken Wilber, as well as numerous other evolutionary theorists, scientists, authors, and speakers.
  6. There are some individuals and organizations who teach that all it takes to improve and progressively evolve the world is to change and expand consciousness---particularly spiritual consciousness. From the previous definition of progressive evolution, expanding consciousness is just one among many other levels of action processes and education that must take place for progressive evolution to be optimized. Although it is important, it is by no means the one single most important thing that will change everything else in the universe system. If there were such a thing, it would most likely be education, because all other skills and qualities could be improved with education.
  7. The progressive directionality of evolution as described in the levels of unfolding complexity above is sometimes described as the impulse of evolution, the intention of evolution, or the intentionality of evolution. These personalizing concepts are not used above to signify that is the position of the science on progressive evolution. They are only included here to reference the wording now be used by many individuals coming from various spiritual backgrounds who do hold another more personal perspective on progressive evolution.
  8. In a sense, the universe can be said to be reflecting upon itself first through its own self-reflective human parts and theoretically, eventually by itself as a totality (either through the synchronized and integrated linked consciousness of its networked human parts or, in the emergence of its own independent and unified new universe-reflecting consciousness). At this point, it can be said that either the universe has evolved self-reflective and universe-reflective humans to better assist itself in co-evolving itself (the universe) along progressive directionality or, that self-reflective and universe reflective humans can decide to become conscious partners with the whole process of universe evolution to better co-evolve by aligning their needs and actions to the overall existing progressive directionality of universe evolution.
  9. Progress evolution unfolds within the space of the universe. Space fields have inherent qualities which condition the actions occurring within them. To learn more about those space conditioning qualities affecting the actions of progressive evolution, click here.
  10. Another factor affecting evolutionary natural selection, which transcends the incomplete concept of survival of the fittest, is mutual consistency in ecosystems, which implies a continually dynamic balancing process. Mutual consistency further supports the survival of the most cooperative. Some of the ideas of mutual consistency are described here.
  11. The algorithm of evolution is continually being expanded and refined by new science. The evolutionary algorithm is sometimes referred to by individuals of a spiritual nature as the God Algorithm. The Universe Community holds the expansion and refinement of the evolutionary algorithm as one of its special mission tasks.
  12. Changing environmental conditions will always limit and qualify your ability somewhat to apply all of the patterns and principles within the evolutionary algorithm described above for optimized success.
  13. Progressive evolution is the ultimate process mash-up and meshworks that exists. Everything at micro and macro levels evolves all at once in this moment. Progressive evolution is constantly fine-tuning adaptive solutions to every diverse micro and macro environment at all levels, steps, and stages simultaneously!
  14. The above deep patterns of evolution, plus the Universe Principles of Sustainability derived from them, contain and integrate most if not all of the developmental meme values of the different levels of Spiral Dynamics.
  15. The progressive evolution meta-principles are also the basis of the ethical code and the basic commandments of Religion 2.0 and Evolution Spirituality as found within the Universe Principles of Sustainability.
  16. The above progressive evolution overview has been provided to Universe Spirit for use by Lawrence Wollersheim. Within the Universe Evolutionary Worldview, the simple definition for ethical behavior is "those behaviors that enhance the progressive directionality of evolution and life."
  17. If you are a philosopher, you may want to see how the meta-principles of universe evolution defeat the arguments of the Naturalistic Fallacy. Click here to find out why and how the meta-principles of universe evolution legitimately create values and "oughts" and "shoulds" to improve our personal lives and world.
  18. Very few current evolutionary scientists and cosmologists are willing to state what they know to be true about the directional trajectory and seeming "goals" and "values" of evolution as a universe-scaled whole system and process. We are not just talking about the increasing complexity as evolution continues, which almost all scientists will agree to as be fact. We are talking about much much more than Darwin's basic Evolution 1.0 and just increasing complexity. We are also talking about far more than E. O Wilson’s Evolution 1.5. We believe that most of today's evolutionary scientists and cosmologists are not willing to state more about the directional trajectory and seeming "goals" and "values" of evolution as a universe-scaled whole system and process because of their fears of strong and swift repercussions both in and outside of academia in our highly polarized and politicized society. We also believe that this reluctance to speak out on new and old facts of a far more comprehensive evolutionary directionality is also because of the past incorrect and inappropriate associations of these ideas with Social Darwinism, horrifying Nazi eugenics, or other common public misconceptions about what evolution's directionality (trajectory, goals, and values) actually is. The nonprofit organization that creates this website has the courage to boldly speak out about the issues of the directionality of evolution as found in what we call Evolution 2.0. On this website (and at few other websites and brave voices) you will find more information about Evolution 2.0 where the directionality, values, goals, and even the possible end results of universe evolution are discussed openly and promoted.  Here you will always find an open dialog on both what core recurring evolutionary processes and meta-principles are, as well as what these science-grounded principles and meta-processes mean to the future of humanity, human purpose, and to improving and evolving our governments, economics, societies, religions, and the deteriorating environment.
  19. The meta-patterns and meta principles of universe evolution do not appear to hold perfectly uniformly levels of development applicability in every system, subsystem, or species. In fact, some individual species and systems that do not transcend into a new species or system variation reach near fixed levels of evolutionary development once their individual evolutionary potentials have been mostly exhausted within their current environment. The meta-patterns and meta principles of universe evolution apply most generally at universe scale. For individual systems and species, there may be meta-principle application variability at smaller scales.
  20. The definition of progressive evolution used on this website is substantially different than the definition used at Wikipedia. We do not reject the theory of natural selection as the organizing mechanism in evolution and the theories of speciation of Evolution 1.0 or all other Evolution 1.5 science of the New Synthesis. Maybe we should have used the term progressive evolutionism which, according to the dictionary terms, might have better described the above perspective on the directionality of evolution beyond just increasing complexity.
  21. If you are of a spiritual nature in the traditional sense of Religion 1.0 or Religion 1.5 and you would like to see how the above meta-principles of progressive evolution could relate to better understanding the nature and purposes of God, God's will, or even God's universal commandments, click here.

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