The Holistic Theory of Evolution: The Evolution of Mind and Body

This is the first truly holistic theory of evolution that includes all aspects of life—material and nonmaterial (awareness, sensory, emotions, urges, etc). It has only been possible in recent years because of new discoveries in quantum physicists, genetics, epigenetics, paleontology, and other newer sciences. These new discoveries have to do with awareness and consciousness. It opens the door to the mind-brain for the first time and demonstrates the effects of awareness on evolution which turns out to be profound. The entire nervous system is designed to take in sensory information and analyze it and take appropriate action to find food, foe and maneuver in the environment. It does so with sensors that can be traced back to the first one celled organisms that use rudimentary sensors for exactly the same functions to detect food foe and the environment as we do. In short, because of these sensory functions in all life, one can appreciate that all organisms are aware and create their own evolution, not by chance but to fulfill needs for change! The author and writer are neuro-physiologists, and have found the connection between material and nonmaterial aspects of the universe in all matter and energy giving the origin of awareness and consciousness in organisms through the discoveries of quantum physics—mind. It refutes the idea that all organisms as automatons, because we evolved from these very organisms and have awareness and consciousness which had to evolve from them. It is the nonmaterial mind that controls and directs the body. It demonstrates the effects of awareness and consciousness (“mind”) on evolution and changes the complete orientation of evolution toward nonmaterial forces without needing to be deistic. It explains why living things induce their own evolution via a second system that influences the genetic code holistically via epigenetics. For those unfamiliar with these new discoveries, it may sound strange but as one reads the text, these issues are clarified and supported by classical biochemistry, neuro-physiology, genetics, epigenetics, archeology, and sufficient quantum physics to see its relationship with this holistic theory. For the first time we can understand the role of nonmaterial subjective elements in directing change, just as we find in ourselves and to lesser degrees, in all life. These elements were forbidden in the material philosophies of the 19th century and including them makes the holistic theory radically different from previous theories. Today, we can break out of these limitations of strictly materialistic thinking because we have proof that they exist in all organisms. This theory was part of a much larger text: The Anatomy of Art and Stimulation and copyrighted in 1990. No one would publish it because it was considered too radical a theory. With this abbreviated version of evolution of consciousness, from the larger text, it will be considered ever more radical, but the first holistic theory of evolution ever presented. It is designed for the general reader who has an interest is science and all terms are defined and explained.