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 '''Some examples''':
-*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).</br>Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.<br>That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.<br>From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.<br>The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality".
+*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).<br>Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.<br>That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.<br>From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.<br>The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality".
 *'''The idea / hypothesis of the Source''': a unity with two complementary aspects - the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field, from whose inner interaction the Evolving Whole is incessantly Created, '''arises from my interest in Taoism'''. In my opinion, Taoism is the most wonderful representation of how Reality is made and works - certainly one of the deepest wells of knowledge in the East.

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 '''Some examples''':
-*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).<br>Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.<br>That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.<br>From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.<br>The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality".
+*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).</br>Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.<br>That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.<br>From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.<br>The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality".
 *'''The idea / hypothesis of the Source''': a unity with two complementary aspects - the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field, from whose inner interaction the Evolving Whole is incessantly Created, '''arises from my interest in Taoism'''. In my opinion, Taoism is the most wonderful representation of how Reality is made and works - certainly one of the deepest wells of knowledge in the East.

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 '''Some examples''':
-*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).
+*'''The conceptual scheme that I call the Process of Formation of Reality''' is '''a derivation / reworking of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life''', a diagram - abstract and symbolic - '''made up of ten Sephiroth''': ten archetypal attributes or characteristics of God (which we can imagine as operative Agents, the Operators of Reality in the System of Evolutionary Knowledge which is the  object of this paper, emanation, characterization of the Fundamental Force - the active aspect of the Source of Reality).<br>Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.<br>The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.<br>That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.<br>From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.<br>The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality".
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-<blockquote> Another very important concept of the Kabbalah is '''"Ein Sof", the energy of the Universe''' (which we can imagine as the Elementary Action produced by the Primary Source of Reality, the Fundamental Force / Elementary Field pair, a fundamental / elementary entity that transcends the concepts of Space and Time, Energy, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and all the derived physical quantities). The Elementary Action and the Source, comparable to the concept of Ein Sof, are unknowable and not directly contactable by human reason / mind, as they are expressed at a more fundamental level of Reality than that of Information, Structures of Information, and Forms - of which we are made and which represent the tools and vectors allowing our interaction with the physical environment in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.
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 We are Information (and, in its most basic form, Energy), and it is Information / Energy that we can perceive, observe, and measure. The level of the Source - the Force / Field pair that, through their interaction, produces Elementary Events - and the level of the Elementary Action in its Modes / Components are precluded to us. Perception, observation, and measurement are forms of interaction entirely based on "Relation", on Relations. Everything that, from the causal point of view, lies beyond the expression of the Operator of Reality we call Relation is precluded to us and will remain directly unknowable. Only indirectly can we construct an approximate representation of it, observing its effects on the levels of Reality closest to us. In more "physical" terms, we cannot observe the event points at the Space-time dimensions resonating on the Planck scale, with their probability distributions and their dynamics / interactions forming increasingly extensive and complex structures of correlation - up to the Waves and Vortices / Particles that constitute Ordinary (visible) Matter we are made of, as well as the Dark (invisible) Matter that forms the immense, impalpable structures in which we are immersed and of which we are a part.
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 The contraction and expansion of God's energy in Kabbalah mirrors '''the contraction and expansion of infinitesimal volumes of the Elementary Field''', or what in the Evolutionary Knowledge System we call Elementary Events: the elementary fluctuations of the Field resonating around the Planck scale, slight variations in the mean and variance of their stochastic distributions, and their power spectra - these produce Perturbation, the inhomogeneities from which everything originates, leading to the entirety of the Universe through an incessant Evolution.
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 That same idea of contraction and expansion has permeated Western culture for centuries, inspiring the Big Bang theory. Unfortunately, the theory transposed this important cultural influence incorrectly. It is not a one-off expansion /  contraction, nor is it repeated over time at each cyclical expansion / contraction phase of the entire Universe, its parts, or multiple separate Universes, as posited by various derivative theories of the Big Bang. Instead, it can describe the infinite (in Space and Time) incessant expansions / contractions of each point event of the Elementary Field resonating around the Planck scale, under the continuous pressure of the Fundamental Force, creating what is now called "Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum," the quantum vacuum, etc. - the primary manifestation of the Principle of Uncertainty.
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 From the Kabbalah - one of the main and most powerful traditional Systems of Knowledge of the West - and from the vital cultural, religious, and philosophical sources that have fueled its development, many other important ideas have arisen. These ideas have been translated into fascinating hypotheses concerning the general structure and dynamics of Reality, the aspects and Operators (the causal agents, the functional forces), the relationships between them, and their profound determination of the Formation of Reality in the mechanics of Creation "and" Evolution. They delve into the general properties of Reality and the specific properties present at various levels of Existence.
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-The work undertaken can be seen as a translation from the Kabbalistic mystique of Formation to what, in this System of Knowledge under construction, I have called "Evolutionary Dynamics" and the "Process of Formation of Reality". </blockquote>
 *'''The idea / hypothesis of the Source''': a unity with two complementary aspects - the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field, from whose inner interaction the Evolving Whole is incessantly Created, '''arises from my interest in Taoism'''. In my opinion, Taoism is the most wonderful representation of how Reality is made and works - certainly one of the deepest wells of knowledge in the East.
-*'''The idea that the Source is both transcendent''' (Agent / Acting, the subjects of Creation, the causal and the variational principle, respectively) '''and immanent''' (Action and all that arises from its evolution - the complete Manifestation) comes from Kashmir Shaivism.
+*'''The idea that the Source is both transcendent''' (Agent / Acting, the subjects of Creation, the causal and the variational principle, respectively) '''and immanent''' (Action and all that arises from its evolution - the complete Manifestation) comes from Kashmir Shaivism.<br>The ancient texts that have come down to us - created in the languages used during those remote times, often poetic, strange, and fantastic in expression, so far removed from our current ways of reasoning and articulating - are the result of successive oral traditions, infinite transcriptions, and translations, often by individuals who lacked an understanding of the true meaning of those texts, expressions, images, and terms. '''Such texts often seem incomprehensible or unclear, with meanings that appear distorted and misleading''', as though the authors deliberately sought to obscure the most authentic and profound significance.<br>Yet, despite all this, with careful reading and guided by a sound understanding of the structure of Reality, '''it becomes possible to recognize the depth and lucidity that inspired these texts''', reconstructing their logic and uncovering their authentic meaning.<br>This process, of course, would likely horrify the most intransigent exegetes, philologists, and palaeographers. But for a "knowledge hunter" like me - forever pursuing information on the Fundamental Nature of Reality - it is of critical importance. It has allowed me to discover genuine pearls hidden within poetic images, mythological figures, religious doctrines, mystical traditions, mistranslations, mangled terms, and more.
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-<blockquote> The ancient texts that have come down to us - created in the languages used during those remote times, often poetic, strange, and fantastic in expression, so far removed from our current ways of reasoning and articulating - are the result of successive oral traditions, infinite transcriptions, and translations, often by individuals who lacked an understanding of the true meaning of those texts, expressions, images, and terms. '''Such texts often seem incomprehensible or unclear, with meanings that appear distorted and misleading''', as though the authors deliberately sought to obscure the most authentic and profound significance.
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 Yet, despite all this, with careful reading and guided by a sound understanding of the structure of Reality, '''it becomes possible to recognize the depth and lucidity that inspired these texts''', reconstructing their logic and uncovering their authentic meaning.
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 This process, of course, would likely horrify the most intransigent exegetes, philologists, and palaeographers. But for a "knowledge hunter" like me - forever pursuing information on the Fundamental Nature of Reality - it is of critical importance. It has allowed me to discover genuine pearls hidden within poetic images, mythological figures, religious doctrines, mystical traditions, mistranslations, mangled terms, and more.
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 *'''The hypothesis of the inconstancy of the Speed of Light''' (or rather its variability in Space and/or Time, depending on various factors and dynamic aspects), '''an idea proposed by some scientists''' who have, at various times, expressed themselves in this direction or referenced it in their works, has recently sparked a movement / interest among certain researchers exploring this concept.
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 *'''The idea of the incessant Action of a universal Force''' that creates Reality and drives its Evolution originates '''from Taoism and Hinduism'''. This notion stands in stark contrast to today's theory of the Big Bang and Inflation - essentially a one-shot creation event followed by a long evolution driven by the expression of that initial energetic occurrence. It can be seen as a more evolved, yet still insufficient, version of the old deterministic idea of a clock wound up at the beginning of Time, running inexorably until it halts completely at the end of time - such as in the heat death of the Universe.
-*'''The idea that''', on a universal level, what is called '''the Second Law of Thermodynamics - although a fundamental principle - does not represent the prevailing process''' that governs the Formation of Reality '''comes from the Theory of Evolution and from many ancient philosophies and religions'''. These traditions propose cosmogonic models of evolution, starting from a more elementary level - from chaos - towards increasingly complex, organized levels (chaos / order processes), from the undifferentiated unity to the differentiated multitude, from the formless to the forms.
+*'''The idea that''', on a universal level, what is called '''the Second Law of Thermodynamics - although a fundamental principle - does not represent the prevailing process''' that governs the Formation of Reality '''comes from the Theory of Evolution and from many ancient philosophies and religions'''. These traditions propose cosmogonic models of evolution, starting from a more elementary level - from chaos - towards increasingly complex, organized levels (chaos / order processes), from the undifferentiated unity to the differentiated multitude, from the formless to the forms.<br>The Second Law (a law relating to heat and energy, implying an increase in the combined entropy of the system and its environment, the irreversibility of natural processes, and the existence of an arrow of time) represents a "destructive" principle - one that entails the destruction of information and complexity, moving from order to chaos. However, in the Universe as a whole, we observe a ceaseless evolution towards greater complexity, transitioning from chaos to higher levels of organization. Chaos and order, in this context, represent the two extremes of the scale of complexity and organization of Information - of which Physical Energy is its most basic form. Destructive / transformative processes, oriented toward less ordered / more chaotic levels, (Second Law) are more than balanced by constructive / organizing processes, oriented toward less chaotic / more ordered levels.<br>In this System of Knowledge, the principle embodying the Second Law is identified with the Operational Agent "Transformation", one of the three Operators of Reality that constitute the Cycle of Information - the true "evolutionary engine" of Reality. '''If, however, the Second Law of Thermodynamics''' - a "destructive principle" (in the sense of destroying complexity, organization, acting as a functional operator that disrupts Relations at all levels of Reality, moving from more complex Information to its more basic forms, from order to chaos) - '''were the dominant process of Reality, nothing would exist in the Universe'''. No Information or Complexity could form and persist. Nothing would have been created or evolved - or, even if a deity had magically created the present Universe, everything would rapidly dissolve into an absolutely homogeneous, fluctuating field. Instead, an opposing principle / force is incessantly at work in the Universe: one or more processes antagonistic to the Second Law - a "constructive principle". In this system, it is identified with the Operator of Reality called "Organization," another functional aspect of the Cycle of Information.
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 The Second Law (a law relating to heat and energy, implying an increase in the combined entropy of the system and its environment, the irreversibility of natural processes, and the existence of an arrow of time) represents a "destructive" principle - one that entails the destruction of information and complexity, moving from order to chaos. However, in the Universe as a whole, we observe a ceaseless evolution towards greater complexity, transitioning from chaos to higher levels of organization. Chaos and order, in this context, represent the two extremes of the scale of complexity and organization of Information - of which Physical Energy is its most basic form. Destructive / transformative processes, oriented toward less ordered / more chaotic levels, (Second Law) are more than balanced by constructive / organizing processes, oriented toward less chaotic / more ordered levels.
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-In this System of Knowledge, the principle embodying the Second Law is identified with the Operational Agent "Transformation", one of the three Operators of Reality that constitute the Cycle of Information - the true "evolutionary engine" of Reality. '''If, however, the Second Law of Thermodynamics''' - a "destructive principle" (in the sense of destroying complexity, organization, acting as a functional operator that disrupts Relations at all levels of Reality, moving from more complex Information to its more basic forms, from order to chaos) - '''were the dominant process of Reality, nothing would exist in the Universe'''. No Information or Complexity could form and persist. Nothing would have been created or evolved - or, even if a deity had magically created the present Universe, everything would rapidly dissolve into an absolutely homogeneous, fluctuating field. Instead, an opposing principle / force is incessantly at work in the Universe: one or more processes antagonistic to the Second Law - a "constructive principle". In this system, it is identified with the Operator of Reality called "Organization," another functional aspect of the Cycle of Information. </blockquote>
 *'''The idea that the Universe is infinite in Space''' (without limits) '''and in Time''' (eternal - without beginning and without end) '''originates in Hinduism and many other traditional knowledge systems'''. These traditions propose images of Reality without beginning and without end. "Without beginning" is not meant in the sense proposed by the Big Bang theory, where Time appears to begin with the birth of the Universe (although recent versions raise the possibility that the Big Bang was not the true beginning) and is generally imagined as eternal in the future - a Universe with a finite age. Instead, these traditional knowledge systems, along with the model proposed here, describe a Reality that is genuinely without beginning and without end.

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 In the Introduction, I listed and briefly commented on what I believe are the "Very Important Hypotheses About Reality," which I then sought to develop in the subsequent chapters of this work. After all the insights, details, and examples provided, '''let us now, in conclusion, return to those initial themes and attempt here to summarize some of the most significant ideas, hypotheses, and proposals presented in this paper''' - key aspects that play a central role in this System of Knowledge. Unconventional concepts, alongside more common and established ideas, revisited and recontextualized, together with the overall structure of this theoretical framework, '''may, I hope, inspire research in directions capable of transcending the current crisis / impasse in physics and cosmology''', fostering a broader and deeper Knowledge of Reality:
-'''Reality as a whole - a unitarian Process, the One, a unity''': a Process that originates from the Source and unfolds into the evolving Universe, through Action, Information, and Form.
+*'''Reality as a whole - a unitarian Process, the One, a unity''': a Process that originates from the Source and unfolds into the evolving Universe, through Action, Information, and Form.
-'''Reality as the result of that same process - the Process of Formation''': a unitary Process that manifests itself through two complementary sub-processes: Creation (the production of Events, Action, Existence) and Evolution (the production of Relations, Information, Essence / Form).
+*'''Reality as the result of that same process - the Process of Formation''': a unitary Process that manifests itself through two complementary sub-processes: Creation (the production of Events, Action, Existence) and Evolution (the production of Relations, Information, Essence / Form).
 *'''Reality is incessantly created and re-created''' in a continuous "flow of Time" - or rather, a flow of Events (not in the sense of an absolute Time that marks the Events, but as a relative Time: a sort of universal causal interaction among all the proper Times of all the point-events of the Elementary Field, which we represent as the infinite, eternal, and unlimited Space-time, complete with its relative dynamical Metric).

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 In this paper, '''I have concentrated on Physical Reality''' - from the infinitely small, the realm explored by physics, to the infinitely large, the perspective of cosmology, the Universe in evolution.
-In a future work, I will turn my focus to the cognitive aspect of Reality: perceptions, sensations, emotions, thoughts, logic, cognitive models and systems, and so forth - the objects of cognitive activity in living beings and automata (such as software-based artificial agents, AI, etc.). This domain represents the manifold of Reality’s representations and its intricate relationship with its physical substrate / counterpart.
+In a future work, I will turn my focus to the cognitive aspect of Reality: perceptions, sensations, emotions, thoughts, logic, cognitive models and systems, and so forth - the objects of cognitive activity in living beings and automata (such as software-based artificial agents, AI, etc.). This domain represents the manifold of Reality's representations and its intricate relationship with its physical substrate / counterpart.
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 *'''The idea of the coexistence of Creation and Evolution as two aspects of the unitary Formation of Reality''' comes '''from Hinduism and Buddhism'''. Evolution can be understood as a complex form of Creation, just as Creation can be viewed as an elementary form of Evolution.
-*'''The idea of the incessant Action of a universal Force''' that creates Reality and drives its Evolution''' originates '''from Taoism and Hinduism'''. This notion stands in stark contrast to today's theory of the Big Bang and Inflation - essentially a one-shot creation event followed by a long evolution driven by the expression of that initial energetic occurrence. It can be seen as a more evolved, yet still insufficient, version of the old deterministic idea of a clock wound up at the beginning of Time, running inexorably until it halts completely at the end of time - such as in the heat death of the Universe.
+*'''The idea of the incessant Action of a universal Force''' that creates Reality and drives its Evolution originates '''from Taoism and Hinduism'''. This notion stands in stark contrast to today's theory of the Big Bang and Inflation - essentially a one-shot creation event followed by a long evolution driven by the expression of that initial energetic occurrence. It can be seen as a more evolved, yet still insufficient, version of the old deterministic idea of a clock wound up at the beginning of Time, running inexorably until it halts completely at the end of time - such as in the heat death of the Universe.
 *'''The idea that''', on a universal level, what is called '''the Second Law of Thermodynamics - although a fundamental principle - does not represent the prevailing process''' that governs the Formation of Reality '''comes from the Theory of Evolution and from many ancient philosophies and religions'''. These traditions propose cosmogonic models of evolution, starting from a more elementary level - from chaos - towards increasingly complex, organized levels (chaos / order processes), from the undifferentiated unity to the differentiated multitude, from the formless to the forms.

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	*'''The idea that the Source is both transcendent''' (Agent / Acting, the subjects of Creation, the causal and the variational principle, respectively) '''and immanent''' (Action and all that arises from its evolution - the complete Manifestation) comes from Kashmir Shaivism.		*'''The idea that the Source is both transcendent''' (Agent / Acting, the subjects of Creation, the causal and the variational principle, respectively) '''and immanent''' (Action and all that arises from its evolution - the complete Manifestation) comes from Kashmir Shaivism.

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	<blockquote> The ancient texts that have come down to us - created in the languages used during those remote times, often poetic, strange, and fantastic in expression, so far removed from our current ways of reasoning and articulating - are the result of successive oral traditions, infinite transcriptions, and translations, often by individuals who lacked an understanding of the true meaning of those texts, expressions, images, and terms. '''Such texts often seem incomprehensible or unclear, with meanings that appear distorted and misleading''', as though the authors deliberately sought to obscure the most authentic and profound significance.		<blockquote> The ancient texts that have come down to us - created in the languages used during those remote times, often poetic, strange, and fantastic in expression, so far removed from our current ways of reasoning and articulating - are the result of successive oral traditions, infinite transcriptions, and translations, often by individuals who lacked an understanding of the true meaning of those texts, expressions, images, and terms. '''Such texts often seem incomprehensible or unclear, with meanings that appear distorted and misleading''', as though the authors deliberately sought to obscure the most authentic and profound significance.