Essay: The Singular World; A Flip Side View of Nature

                                                                    By Robert DePaolo

                                                                            Abstract

 This article discusses the fundamental tendency in physical and biological entities toward symmetry and re-assembly. The question is raised as to whether nature is an inherently integrated, singular system whereby distinctions, taxonomies and deterministic relationships are merely penultimate and arise from interference patterns of matter and force that disrupt universal synthesis.

 This is not a scientific paper. It is part theory and part critique of the deterministic doctrine. That is not to downgrade the importance of science, which has led to technologies, discoveries and cures. Rather it is to point out that science – particularly its theoretical underpinnings - is often perceived through the prism of human limitation. For example some descriptions of natural phenomena, including natural selection, DNA replication and quantum mechanics seem to have been personified. It is as if the scientist studies the natural world in search of godless attribution only to conclude that some sort of human-like – or at the very least, quasi-cognitive process is at work in orchestrating the universe.

 Descriptions of DNA replication provide a classic example. It makes perfect sense to say that the double helix is bonded by hydrogen and that the bond can be severed by hectophase. It also makes sense to say the attraction between purines and pyrimidines and the antagonistic interactions within those groups are responsible for re-integration of the helix. After all, it is a process similar to the attraction between negative and positively charged particles. We also know that sugars, which make up the bulk of nucleotides, and proteins, which have active/provocative enzymatic effect will tend to interact in dynamic ways – indeed that’s how we use up energy.