The Quantum Biosemiosphere

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Increasingly, we are finding that the web of communication between different species of animals and plants is quite complex, and can be described as spheres having much broader influences than we had previously supposed. For generations, people looked at forests and saw individual trees. But what they didn't see was that the trees were connected below the ground by fungal mycelia that allowed nutrients to flow from one tree to another, as well as other chemical messages. In effect, the fungal mycelia are like the internet connecting trees within a forest, allowing the trees to "talk" to one another. Ecological communities, or biosemiospheres, are made up of many different species of plants and animals that depend on each other for the flow of energy. There are herbivores, carnivores, detritivores, predators and prey, primary producers such as plants and trees, and the interactions of all of the members of an ecological community can be modeled by the flow of energy within that community. While we look at all of the component species of an ecological community and see solid objects in the form of plants and animals, quantum theory tells us that these are really bundles of energy within a broader energetic field, currently hypothesized as the Higgs Field that connects everything. From the perspective of quantum theory, we can look at all of the species as bundles of energy that they exchange as they communicate, eat each other, die, and decompose. In that sense, a biosemiosphere is really a quantum biosemiosphere. This book will provide you with a lot of delights. First, there is the genius of taking such a breathtaking large view of the biotic world and placing it into semiotic and quantum terms. Then there is a rigorous philosophic discussion of why this is important and why we must take it seriously. Finally, there is a sprinkling of allusions throughout, that are a delight to chase down and savor, the way that you would savor a fine wine over an intellectual conversation with friends who think outside the box. Contents Foreword About the Author Prologue About the Author Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1. A Psychoanalysis of Quanta 1.2. Joyce, Beethoven and the World of Ants 1.3. Narkissos Speech Syndrome Endnotes Chapter 2 Holosemiotica 2.1. The Metaphysics of the Umwelten 2.2. The Class of Non-Anonymities 2.3. Semiotics in the Anthropocene Endnotes Chapter 3 Discourse on the Spheres 3.1. Ecological Babel 3.2. A Quantum ‘We’ Endnotes Chapter 4 Scales of Discussion 4.1. Effective Scalar Ethics 4.2. Ecological Correlations 4.3. Compound Expressive Potential Endnotes Chapter 5 The Transcendental Logos 5.1. Similes of Human Experience 5.2. The Archaeology of the Semiosphere Endnotes Chapter 6 The Densities of an Interregnum 6.1. Distribution Projections 6.2. First Order Similes 6.3. Extra-Semiotic Geometry 6.4. The Philosophy of a Square Inch 6.5. The Biosemiospheric Gaze Endnotes Chapter 7 An Ontological Semiosis 7.1. The Parmenidean Paradox 7.2. Cell Signaling 7.3. Eco-Poetic Depictures Endnotes Chapter 8 The QBS Proposition 8.1. Tat Tvam Asi 8.2. The Ecological Abstract 8.3. Quantum EcoDynamics 8.4. Special Theory of Infinity Endnotes Chapter 9 The STI: Special Theory of Infinity 9.1. The Distribution of Biological Ensembles 9.2. Communication Corollaries 9.3. Synaptic Calculations 9.4. Quantum Superpositioning Endnotes Chapter 10 Nāgārjuna and Aristotle 10.1. The Biology of the Mulamadhyamakakārikā 10.2. The Aristotle Mountains Endnotes Chapter 11 “Emerging Biointerfaces” 11.1. The Ad Infinitum Paradox Endnotes Chapter 12 The Convergence of Evolutionary Boundaries 12.1. The Community with Whom We Speak 12.2. Systems Architecture 12.3. Dunbar’s Number Endnotes Chapter 13 A Global Complex of Consciousness 13.1. The Equation Linking Epiphanies to the (x)-Transitional Phase 13.2. The Biology of Quantum Entanglement 13.3. Chuzhoi Mir 13.4. Wild Psychology 13.5. Layers of Consciousness Endnotes Chapter 14 The Biology of Quantum Entanglement 14.1. The Will to Intrinsicality 14.2. Agape in the Biosemiospheric Context 14.3. Ecological Pairings 14.4. The ‘Small-Villages’ Mind Problem 14.5. The Hamlet Precursor Endnotes Chapter 15 Biophysical Experiments 15.1. Inducer/Responder Metaphors 15.2. Quantum Animal Rights 15.3. Walden Pond in Context 15.4. Exterior Experiments 15.5. Biosemiospheric Synderesis 15.6. The Central Park Theorem 15.7. Quantum Bioinformatics Endnotes Authors’ Contact Information Index of Terms Index of Names Blank Page Blank Page