EVOLUTION, DESIGN AND THE ABSOLUTE

The Finite and the InfiniteAnil MitraAnil Mitra

The Story: “Evolution and Evolution and DesignDesign” 1987 as a focal origin

• Personal: development and opportunity

• Understanding - Human enterprise “design” in relation to Universal “evolution”

• Conscious and “blind” evolution

• Evolution as an ontology drawing together modern disciplines, all cultures, and all origins

Evolution and Design: Some Results

• Knowledge: As whole, details and dynamics• Designs and plans: individual and universal• Global consultation… the idea of HRI and H.E.• An individual facing existence• Evaluating global endeavor by universal context• An example of an absolute metaphysics - absolute

by its very fluidity

Origins of inclusion of the ABSOLUTE

Evolution and Design• My continuing search • A paradigm at its limits• The Absolute as its complement and consequence• Larger questions: final nature of being; destinies;

evaluating Evolution and Design; the immediate and the ultimate

• Extending the results and realms of application

The Idea of the Absolute

• Absolute Knowledge: Multiple World Views• The Absolute in the Present• Final claims and immediate fluidity: play• Ancient knowledge and modernism• The Absolute is accessible: the path is beautiful,

continues on and begins here at my feet

The Path - 1The Path - 1

All Modes of Experience, Knowledge, Culture, Process and Being

•Nature: physical, organic…and the wild

•Society: cultures, groups and dynamics

•Psyche: consciousness and mind

•Universal: dynamics and the unconscious

The Path - 2: Details

• Builds upon what exists: memory, genetics, process…or coding, form and “function”

• Speculative-experiential-selective-critical• Plural in inclusion… and singular in ends or

conclusions:

Finite and Infinite

Detail and Whole

Here-Now and The absolute

SOURCES

• From Idea to Being

• The Modes of Experience, Process…

• From Plato to Heidegger to de Chardin…

• Western World

• Survey of and experience with cultures

• Field of Being and Ideas