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Integrated dependency: Thus, organisms are integrated living systems; living entities embedded within other living entities or systems. Organisms are functional, structural unities in which the imbedded parts exist for one another. Each part's existence and well being is dependent upon all the other parts. Each part individually serves the well being of all the other parts. In essence all the parts together serves the whole as well as each other. Individual organisms are not separable from total reality. Total reality or life persists not as a simple sum of multiple discrete entities but as a living, active single whole, a single ecology. Creation is but an operational unity of overlapping integrated interdependent systems.
Information transference: The structural relationships between the parts of physical reality give the appearance of problem solving consciousness. Information seems to be transferred between parts to determine how they could fit together in a cooperative mutually serving manner. There seems to be a self emergent quality inherent in nature; a self organizing force embedded in each part, each particle, of physical reality and permeating the whole of experiential reality.
EXPERIENTIAL PHYSICAL REALITY
There is only one Universe with both an inside and an outside to it. One side is physical reality as experienced by our senses. The other side is invisible and is sensed conceptually and intuitively through our mental or thinking activity. One side is the physical which we experience as changing forms and unstoppable activity. The other side is the invisible inner realm of rules or laws of process that guide and structure the ongoing activity. How things fit together is determined by these hidden invisible rules of interaction. We see clues of this hidden domain partly from observation and analysis of relationships and partly from conceptualizing and mathematically modeling our experiential reality in our minds. Thus, we eventually come to an awareness of the hidden side from physical sense data and through deep intuition.
Continuous happening: Our physical reality is a continuous happening. That which make things happen is formless, invisible. If nothing were happening, our physical reality would cease to exist. Activity is central to the manifestation of form. Energy is the medium that causes activity; causes a continuous happening manifesting our physical reality in changing forms. Energy is the clay used by the inner or hidden realm to mold and give direction to our physical reality. Hidden behind this activity there appears a self-transcending drive producing consciousness and life out of that concentrated form of energy called matter.
Hidden realm: Our experiential reality is merely a manifestation or reflection of the underlying hidden framework or structure of integrated laws or rules of interaction which mold pure energy into meaningful physical forms. This framework or structure of rules of process contains within it the secret of purpose; the answer to the question, "Why?" The self-forming characteristics of our physical reality imply some kind of hidden agenda. We can detect hints of this hidden agenda in the clever adaptations and innovations that manifest themselves in our changing environment. There seems to be purpose, intentionality, and consciousness implied in these ongoing changes of form.
Jigsaw puzzle: The whole of reality is like a giant jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is not complete and fully understandable unless each jigsaw piece is in its appropriate place. Meaning is manifested in the picture of the completed jigsaw puzzle only when the relationship of each piece is understood and is finally fitted into its specific location. Like the jigsaw puzzle, physical reality would not meaningfully exist if all its pieces were not in their functional places. Same as in the jigsaw puzzle, each piece of our physical reality has a functional, integrated, interdependent relationship to all the other pieces. Everything is connected meaningfully. When all these pieces of reality are assembled, we have a meaningful changing picture in form. How can we understand the meaning of this changing picture? It is only by examining the whole of reality in terms of how all the parts fit and function together and serve each other.
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