Friction and the Leap

Friction is an inevitable part of evolution and evolution could not proceed without such friction.

Friction provides the necessity of overcoming a source of tension and to overcome it with novel mechanisms and solutions - baked into the evolutionary process from the beginnings of life.

Friction which is not met with innovation to overcome, or which is papered over by an innovation which fails to relieve the friction, will continue unabated as a source of unresolved tensions.

Darwinian evolution reveals a constant pattern of slow & imperceptible changes over time, changes which eventually reach a kind of critical mass and then seem suddenly to reveal the results as a new species .

Speciation tends to occur most often at boundaries between ecosystems, in borderlands where both increased friction and increased chaos & diversity are present as raw material.

In my earlier work I discussed evolution in terms of thermodynamics and natural quantum systems, something which is increasingly revealed by hard science.

As hard science reveals the details of how this might actually happen, the background provided by theoretical models such as this, pure imaginative speculation, plays an important part.

Science leaps forward using theoretical models and is finally able to achieve a new paradigm by careful research and documentation to ground the theories.

Here we have a place where well grounded, but theoretical, models meet with the critical elements which only hard science and well designed research may accomplish.

We are not there yet, but the hard sciences do reveal emerging evidence that quantum biophysics is a real probability and helps drive the still unknown process of evolution.

If the above do turn out to be scientific reality it will drive a whole new revolutionary paradigm in science, one with far reaching implications in social psychology and philosophy.

We now arrive at a new paradigm, a new platform from which to leap forward once again.

The many billions of years of the evolution of life on Earth now join with the evolution of the cosmos and with an unproved, but likely, presumption that the evolution of life has occurred elsewhere.