Reconstructing the Bridge Between Science and Consciousness
With Homeodynamics, Chaos, and Complexity
Daniel W. Miller, Ph.D.
Chair, (retired) Consciousness Studies, Greenwich U.
Current investigators agree that consciousness and science have been artificially split for too long, and a bridge over the chasm is desirable.
Homeodynamics becomes the roadway for our bridge. It is based on the observation that changes, instabilities and survival are fundamental to all systems. Therefore its field of inquiry is the organization of change, survival processes and their mechanisms. One idea flowing from it is that fractals of information can merge with other fractals to become small and large systems called attractors (chaos theory). Fractals aggregate into various kinds of attractors in body (impulse-sensation), mind (thought-belief), and consciousness (feeling-action). Other chaos factors in the homeodynamics of consciousness are bifurcations (choices) and emergence (a new consciousness Gestalt).
Similarly, Science has developed a complex information system whose many fields of research are just beginning reconciliation among themselves, entertaining the idea that the whole of life is larger than the sum of its parts. It is no great surprise that science, as the product of conscious activity, is devoted to the same purpose as consciousness, that is, to explain the organization (and destruction) of information in all systems with the intention of enhancing and/or preserving the life of all systems mankind inhabits.