Reference: Postulate Mechanics (PM)
A life organism is a highly complex structure with inherent self-animation. It follows both physical and metaphysical laws of nature. The life organism maintains harmony all around. It assimilates the substance and sensations of the universe within itself. It then expresses the nature of the universe through itself. In this way, the life organism becomes an intermediate step in the understanding of the universe.
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The Structure
The life organism is made of matter, energy and thought. It occupies space and persists in time. The body is made of matter, the energy travels through the nerves, and the thought appears in the pattern of energy and the motion of matter. Thought is regulated by the programming stored in the DNA molecule.
The life organism is self-animated. Its motion is closely tied to its structure. As the structure of life organism becomes more sophisticated, so does its motion. Thought is part of that structure. A mere change in thought affects the movement of the organism. Thought is very sensitive and it responds to the slightest change in the configuration of the body and the environment.
Thus, the life organism has awareness. It is aware of its own harmony and has an inherent sense of oneness. The moment that harmony is disturbed, or the sense of oneness is violated, it becomes aware that there is something it does not understand. The life organism then makes an effort to understand it.
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The Activity
The life organism senses what is there, and reacts to it. It harmonizes that reaction using its inherent sense of oneness. From that harmony comes an understanding of that which it is sensing.
The process of harmonizing requires postulation. It is like solving a puzzles by trial and error. The life organism makes a postulate to see if this is what it is sensing. If it is not then it makes another postulate. This process continues until, suddenly, everything falls into place. There comes about a harmony. A sense of oneness is achieved. An advance is made in the understanding of the universe.
Thus, by solving anomalies one at a time, and coming up with the right postulates, an understanding of the universe is constructed. That understanding is used by the life organism over time to enhance its own form and motion. Thus, the sensations are assimilated into the life organism. And the organism evolves.
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The Postulates
PM AXIOM 1: The basis of life is awareness.
PM AXIOM 2: The awareness and sensations arise simultaneously.
NOTE: Sensations are what the awareness senses and becomes aware of. Both awareness and sensations are postulates,
PM AXIOM 3: The purpose of awareness is to assimilate sensations.
NOTE: To assimilate is to bring about harmony, consistency and continuity in all that is sensed.
PM AXIOM 4: The assimilation starts with the postulate of substance that has intrinsic motion and inertia.
NOTE: Substance has the forms of matter, energy and thought. Its motion and inertia balance each other.
PM AXIOM 5: The primary characteristics of substance are extents (space) and duration (time).
NOTE: A substance has its own space and time. Its background may consist of space and time of much less condensed substance. An example would be a fish in water.
PM AXIOM 6: Substance of different kinds combines to generate life organisms of complex forms and motion.
PM AXIOM 7: The awareness is engaged in the assimilation of all sensations with all their complexity.
PM AXIOM 8: Assimilation involves resolution of anomalies resulting in the laws of nature.
NOTE: Anomalies are instances of disharmony, inconsistency and discontinuity.
PM AXIOM 9: The assimilation brings about order into chaos with the laws of nature.
PM AXIOM 10: Awareness increases the capacity to assimilate sensation through the formation of life organisms.
PM AXIOM 11: A life organism is a highly complex structure with inherent self-animation.
PM AXIOM 12: A life organism follows the laws of nature, both physical and metaphysical.
PM AXIOM 13: The activity of life organism speeds up the assimilation of sensations.
PM AXIOM 14: The universe and the life in it must maintain harmony all around.
PM AXIOM 15: The life organism is an intermediate step in the understanding of the universe.
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Summary
The understanding of the universe arises from the assimilation of sensations. Underlying this universe is a spectrum of substance that has inherent motion and inertia. The substance has the characteristics of space and time.
Substance of different kinds combines to generate life organisms of increasingly complex forms and motion. The life organisms are engaged in assimilating sensations to understand the universe. Thus come about the laws of nature.
The form and activity of life organisms, which follow the laws of nature, accelerates the understanding of the universe. There is an overall harmony and a sense of oneness to this understanding.
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