Our Worldview on Divine Eternity

The Story on our Core Values and Beliefs per book-Part in WCG-doctrine.

Book-Part 2: OFL📗

Origin of First Life

Origin of First Life on Earth

Our worldview continues with the transition from non-living matter to living systems.
After planets formed and conditions stabilised, Earth contained water, minerals, energy sources, and countless chemical reactions. The question then arose: how could chemistry eventually produce life?
This subject connects cosmic evolution with biological evolution. It explores how matter and energy may have organised themselves into the first living systems.

From Abiotic Chemistry to Autopoiesis

The first step may have been abiotic chemistry.
Simple molecules interacted with one another through natural processes. Some molecular arrangements became more stable than others. Over long periods, increasingly complex chemical networks may have formed.
Eventually, some systems may have developed autopoietic properties. Such systems could maintain their own boundaries and continually replace internal components. This created a distinction between the living system and its environment.

Once self-maintaining systems emerged, further complexity became possible.
But how did this go about?

Primordial Soup, Ocean Vents, and RNA World

Several hypotheses attempt to explain how this transition occurred.
The primordial soup hypothesis proposes that life emerged from chemical reactions in Earth's early oceans or shallow waters.
Ocean-vent models suggest that chemical gradients near hydrothermal vents supplied energy and structure.
The RNA-world hypothesis proposes that RNA may have served both as an information carrier and as a catalyst.
Although the complete process remains under investigation, these models describe possible pathways through which chemistry became biology.

Once living systems appeared, they spread across a changing planet.

Continental Drift

Earth itself did not remain static.
Continents slowly moved across the planet's surface. Oceans opened and closed. Mountains rose. Climates changed. Habitats appeared and disappeared.
As populations became separated by changing geography, new evolutionary pressures emerged. Different environments favoured different adaptations.

These environmental changes created powerful feedback between organisms and their surroundings.

Progressive Genetic Evolution and Feedback Loops

Living organisms inherited genetic information from earlier generations.
Variations appeared through reproduction. Some variations improved survival or reproduction within specific environments. These variations became more common over time.
Feedback loops accelerated this process. Successful adaptations altered an organism's interaction with its environment. These interactions created new selection pressures, which influenced future adaptations.

Over countless generations, biological complexity increases, defying the disastrous effect of entropy.

Negentropy

Life faces a constant challenge against physical law.
According to entropy, disorder tends to increase. Yet living systems maintain remarkable internal organisation.
This maintenance of order can be described through negentropy. Living organisms continually import energy and resources from their surroundings. They use this energy to repair damage, maintain structure, and preserve functional organisation. Without this continual input of energy, life would gradually lose its organisation.

Because living systems preserve order, they can also develop increasingly sophisticated adaptive abilities.

Practopoiesis

Adaptation does not occur only through genetic evolution.
Living systems can learn, adjust, and create new responses during their own lifetimes. Practopoiesis describes how adaptive systems build specific solutions from more general rules.
Genes provide broad biological structures. Experience then shapes these structures into specific skills, memories, and behaviours.
This ability allows organisms to respond much faster to changing circumstances than genetic evolution alone would permit.

Negentropy and Practopoiesis Together

Negentropy and practopoiesis work together.
Negentropy maintains the organised structure of living systems. Practopoiesis allows those organised systems to learn and adapt.
Together they help explain how life remains stable while simultaneously changing. Organisms preserve order while developing new responses to new environments.

This balance between stability and adaptation prepares the foundation for goal-directed behaviour.

QVD

Quality, Vector, Directive
As living systems became more complex during evolution, patterns of decision-making became increasingly important. First random processes, then targeted actions.
QVD describes a sequence linking Quality, Vector, and Directive.
A quality identifies what is important. A vector determines a functional direction for this property. A directive steers an action, randomly or consciously, in a specific direction. Random vectors become conscious directives.
For example, chemical stability may create a tendency toward self-maintenance. Self-maintenance may establish a direction toward replication. Replication may generate biological instructions that support survival. Survival and reproduction may create an aware sentient.

In this way, increasing complexity can emerge through successive layers of guidance and action.

CADO

Controlled, Adaptive, Dynamic Order
As organisms became more sophisticated, neither complete rigidity nor complete chaos proved beneficial.
Living systems require order, but they must also remain flexible. This balance is described by Controlled, Adaptive, Dynamic Order.
A healthy organism regulates internal conditions while continuously adjusting to external changes. Stability supports survival, while adaptability supports resilience.

This principle appears repeatedly in cells, organisms, ecosystems, and societies, but there is a downside.

STHOPD

Stop Terrible Human Over-Population Disasters
As intelligence and technological capability increase, new challenges emerge.
STHOPD focuses attention on the potential consequences of excessive population pressure, human suffering, and ecological limitations.
Population growth affects resource consumption, biodiversity, ecosystems, and environmental stability. Long-term flourishing therefore requires responsible stewardship and informed decision-making.

Within our worldview, sustainable development supports both humanity and the wider web of life.

Book-Part 3: CGE📗

Cyber-Genetic Evolution

CGE

Cyber-Genetic Evolution combines biological evolution with information, communication, control, and feedback.
Traditional evolution changes species through genetic inheritance. Cybernetic processes add learning, culture, communication, and behavioural adaptation.
As information increasingly influences survival and reproduction, evolutionary change can occur more rapidly and with greater complexity through feedback loops.

This interaction between genetics and feedback creates new evolutionary pathways.

Genotype and Phenotype

The foundation of biological development lies in the relationship between genotype and phenotype.
The genotype contains inherited genetic information. The phenotype consists of the observable traits that emerge from that information interacting with the environment.
Genes provide possibilities, while environmental conditions influence outcomes.

This interaction connects inheritance with lived experience.

Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Processes

The relationship between genotype and phenotype operates at multiple timescales.
Phylogenetic development describes the long evolutionary history of species. Ontogenetic development describes the growth and adaptation of individual organisms.
Species-wide evolution provides the biological framework. Individual development adapts that framework to local conditions.
Together they connect ancient evolutionary history with present-day life.

Survival and Reproduction

Evolution depends upon both survival and reproduction.
Viable organisms must survive harsh reality long enough to reproduce. Reproduction carries inherited traits into future generations.
Traits that contribute to successful survival or reproduction tend to become more common over time.

These forces shape the future direction of biological populations.
Furthermore, there are also strong selection mechanisms.

Natural and Sexual Selection

Natural selection and sexual selection guide evolutionary change.
Natural selection favours genetic traits that improve survival within specific environments.
Sexual selection favours genetic traits that improve mating success.
The interaction of these processes influences which characteristics become widespread.

Over long periods, they can produce extraordinary forms, behaviours, and adaptations.

FAP

Facial Attractor Patterns
Some traits influence personal attention.
Facial Attractor Patterns describe recurring facial arrangements that quickly draw visual attention. Symmetry and other recognisable patterns may influence recognition and preference.
These responses can affect social interactions, partner selection, and communication.

Once attention is captured, cognitive processes become involved in the brain.

MAP

Memory Attentional Patterns
Memory Attentional Patterns describe how attention becomes memory.
When certain visual stimuli repeatedly attract attention, the brain may prioritise their storage. This creates durable mental representations.
These remembered patterns can influence future recognition, sexual preferences, and decisions.
Repeated attention therefore contributes to long-term behavioural tendencies.

GAP

Genetic Acquirement Patterns
Over many generations, recurring facial preferences may influence evolutionary outcomes.
Genetic Acquirement Patterns describe the idea that repeated sexual selection pressures can affect the characteristics present within future populations.
Preferences, choices, and reproductive outcomes may collectively contribute to changes in the gene pool over long periods.

Thus facial attractor patterns may become linked to biological evolution.

BAP

Bodily Attractor Patterns
Facial patterns are only one part of social perception.
Bodily Attractor Patterns describe physical proportions, posture, and structural features (some resembling facial patterns) that attract attention. These traits may influence perceptions of health, capability, status, and attractiveness.

Like facial patterns, bodily patterns can enter feedback loops involving attention, memory, preference, and selection.

Within Cyber-Genetic Evolution, information, behaviour, biology, and reproduction become increasingly interconnected. Through these interacting processes, life continues to adapt, learn, and evolve across generations.