Truth must be proven, reality exists.

Many thanks to everybody who, consciously or unconsciously, contributed to the inspiration from which this essay emerged.

Allerd Stikker

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Beyond the Universe

A speculative view of ultimate reality

Allerd Stikker

Contents

The Long Road So Far

Beyond The Universe

My Speculation: Ultimate Reality

Open Dualities In The Evolutionary Process

Appendix The Seven Circuits In The Human Organism

Book List: Related Books By The Author

THE LONG ROAD SO FAR

During my secondary school days at the Barleus Gymnasium (1940-1946) in Amsterdam, there were only two subjects that really interested me; chemistry and biology. The fact that one molecule could be made out of two different molecules, and that this happened continuously in nature, and therefore also in my body, fascinated me immensely. Next, I went to study chemistry in Delft and I came into contact with the phenomenon of evolution. Not only the biological evolution that Darwin wrote about, but also the preceding great evolutionary process that started 13.7 billion years ago, after the creation of the universe. The biological evolution process made up only the last 6% of that. It became clear to me that the present universe was not created and completed, but emerged and is unfinished.

It also became clear to me that in the great process of evolution new phenomena constantly emerged, sometimes step by step over long periods and sometimes by leaps, unexpectedly and unpredictably. In the step-by-step periods, increasingly complex phenomena arose from a systemic pattern. Before each step change, the growth of the step period stopped when the limits of a manageable complexity were reached. During the leap-wise, abrupt, but not destructive change, a new system was created with a completely different pattern, followed by another step-by-step period. In fact, through-out the process of evolution, the phenomenon of The Limits to Growth from the Club of Rome report, manifested itself.

In the great process of evolution, I believe there have been four major leaps towards a new system: the first leap was the origin of the first element (hydrogen), the second the origin of life (i.e., the first cell). The third leap was the emergence of multicellular organisms, and the fourth the emergence of Homo sapiens. Interestingly, the structures and systems that emerged in the period after the first leap continued to exist within the broader dimensions of the structures and systems that emerged after all the subsequent leaps, until this very day. A simple example: when the fourth leap took place, the result of the first jump, the element hydrogen, was still fully and actively present. In addition, the basis of the periodic system of the elements was already present during the first jump, but the elements that fit into it still had to be created. Today, many leaps later, the periodic system is still valid.

It is remarkable that in this coherent evolutionary process, well before a leap-wise renewal, preparatory changes took place at an early stage on the way to a new leap. In this way, calamities, nowadays referred to as 'overshoot/collapse scenario', could be prevented.