Chapter 4. Evolution and Cyberspace

 

Darwin explained with a lot of details the mechanism of evolution but it never explained its motor. He explained the "how" but not the "why". Evolution must respond to a necessity, otherwise it has no sense. The reason proposed by Darwin was the necessity for species to adapt themselves to environmental restrictions (limitations of natural resources) and to environmental changes. This is true but from that point of view the development of the human being was in no case a necessity! Moreover, life and evolution are in complete contradiction with one of the fundamental laws of thermodynamic, the law of entropy. This is the "law of chaos" or the "law of least effort". It tells that any physical system will always search a point of equilibrium that corresponds to the maximal internal chaos! For sure we wouldn’t be very far in the evolution process if nothing else had ever existed to oppose itself to chaos and bring some more organisation in it...

That’s why the discovery of the Return Force created a true intellectual revolution. For the first time since the work of Darwin, evolution had a clear origin, motor, and direction:

The evolution towards S-Space.

Life and all the consecutive evolution had been an alternative path in the attempt to join the material space and S-Space, a shortcut that found its way inside the attraction field created by the Return Force. The transformation of inanimate matter into life and further more into thinking and consciousness was a necessity. The whole evolution was a necessity. The necessity to organise matter into information.

Information is the most immaterial state of matter and therefore the closest to S-State. It is a subtle organisation of matter, a state that has the essence of S-State but still requires a material support. Information is not a fusion between matter and S-State, it is an interpenetration of those two energies. Neurones and intelligence are examples but microprocessors and computer programs are just other ones created this time by man himself. This means that it is exactly the same force that has driven both the evolution of animal species and the one of technical objects. The development of all techniques and technologies must be understood as a prolongation of the evolution, its projection in the inanimate world. Along with science, philosophy and spirituality, they are all part of the global evolution that goes from the primary development of species to the latest one of consciousness.

After the discovery of the Return Force and the understanding of the obvious evolution towards information and immateriality, people logically started to believe that Virtual Reality and Cyberspace was the natural continuation of the development of humanity. Since the apparition of Internet at the end of the previous century those concepts never stopped to progress. So, conceptually, what was now the difference between S-Space and the virtual space formed by all interconnected computers? Not that much, indeed. Both were appearing like an infinite room in which one can access from anywhere in the world, an endless dimension with no time and distances.

For sure, technology was coming closer and closer to S-Space and the understanding of people was coherent according to their state of knowledge. But was Cyberspace, the kingdom of pure information, going to be the true future of our humanity?

 

The effect of the Return Force