material forms are; (a) constructed from bits/pieces, or, (b) ripples within energy-flow?

The development of material form, behaviour and organization has historically/culturally been seen/understood in two evolutionarily-opposite ways;

(a) inside-outward determined material dynamics as in Western biological sciences

(b) outside-inward – inside-outward energy transformation as in the new physics

In (a), ‘genie-like genes’ have the wherewithal to manage the genesis-by-construction of the material organism (e.g. human ‘being’).  In (b), material forms are ripple-structures that gather and re-gather in the evolving energy-charged spatial plenum [‘field’]

While (b) is supported by relativity and quantum physics, (a) is a ‘guess’ that gives the black-box response ‘genes’ to the question; “from whence comes the development of material form, behaviour and organization?”

This ‘hocus pocus’ answer to ‘what is life?’, which assumes inside-outward directed genesis, continues to play a primary foundational role in our globally dominating Western social dynamic, although new biological research is rapidly enlarging the ranks of ‘post-Darwinist’ and ‘post-Genetics’ [‘hologenomic’] scientists. (more…)