Donald F. Padelford
Abstract: It is hypothesized that hierarchically negentropic systems (defined herein), including organisms, are associated with partially non-local information/probability fields which, a) entail or express interiority, b) engender “entangled learning” with similar negentropic systems, and c) cause otherwise random processes, including mutation in biotic systems, to become somewhat non-random. These effects, which are believed to be driven by quantum interactions, modify those identified with the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. A series of tenets, or broad organizing principles, related to such systems and their associated fields, are enumerated. An empirical test which could potentially falsify certain aspects of the hypothesis is given.
Tags: entanglement, entropy, evolution, information / probability fields, interiority, natural philosophy, consciousness, negentropy, non-locality, Falsification, non-random, Adaptive mutation, reductionism, directed mutation, Donald F. Padelford
