[2] viXra:0910.0063 [pdf] replaced on 5 May 2011
Authors: John A. Gowan
Comments: 13 pages, This paper has also been published as a Google "Knol".
As Carl Sagan famously said, we are "star stuff" exploring the stars. Life is the information pathway by
which the universe achieves self-awareness and explores itself, including evolving new modes of creativity
and beauty. In terms of creativity, humans represent a fractal iteration of the creative energy of the Cosmos,
as well as of its evolutionary powers. Because the entire material universe devolves from light, matter and
life are a conserved form of the information content latent in light, expressed primordially through the
broken symmetry of light leading to atomic matter and charge conservation. The charges of matter are the
symmetry debts of light (Noether's Theorem), and through these charges the energy of light is transformed
into the information content of the world. Hence it is ultimately through the connection between atoms and
light, charge conservation and symmetry conservation, that humans retain their connection to the primordial
creative energies and latent information content of the universe (and the multiverse). "We come trailing
clouds of glory..."
Category: Physics of Biology
[1] viXra:0910.0025 [pdf] replaced on 23 Aug 2010
Authors: John A. Gowan
Comments: 19 pages, This paper has also been published as a Google "Knol".
The Fractal Organization of Nature is seen as an information pathway whereby the Universe becomes selfaware
through the spiritual awakening of humanity. The natural hierarchy is modeled as a sort of "Jacob's
ladder" whereby Homo sapiens ascends to the astrophysical realm, realizing our destiny as galactic citizens,
and dispersing Earth-life into the Cosmos.
Category: Physics of Biology