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Planatural PhiloSophia: An Integral View of a Phenomenal, Independent, Procreative Actuality

Newman, Stuart, et al. Agency in the Evolutionary Transition to Multicellularity.. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/6796.. In an April 2025 paper to appear in the Quarterly Review of Biology, eight system biologists at the New York Medical College, Valhalla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, George Mason University and UT Austin including Mariana Benetez, Daniel Nicholson and Sahotra Sarkar post cogent explanations and strong endorsements of life’s emergent propensity to gain and enhance brains and behaviors over and above bones and bodies. By so doing, this central, emergent, gestational course can be well aligned with the nested major transitions scale as living entities proceed to stir, sense, learn, come together, share tasks, encode and make themselves.

We can now turn to today and our main premise of a latest, composite, Earthuman pediasphere stage which could now be seen as gaining a revolutionary knowledge on her/his own. By this view, the past millennia of global human history would likely be repeating this steady, recurrent process as individual, cell-like persons engage in proactivities, communicate, form groups, villages and cities, invent artefacts and informed collaborations. This Planatural Genesis sourcesite is respectfully offered to help illume and document this me + We = US familementarity we so need.

This review explores intrinsic agency behaviors as they relate to the development of multicellular organisms. The main source reasons are newly known to be morphogenetic inherencies of the multicellular partition functionalities of constituent cells. These modalities generate novel phenotypic enablements that enhance the scope of agential behavior. We then go on to discuss mathematical representations of dynamical systems and how they may be used to characterize biological autonomy. (Excerpts)

Behaviors that appear to be goal directed and with sense of purpose are two features of agency which seems to inhere in all free-living systems. While sometimes dismissed as vitalist, agency has become newly prominent as a component of evolutionary theory along with evidence for organism-initiated activities in inhabiting their niche environments. (1)

Organisms perform nonprogrammed, nonautomatic activities as they relate to the external world which is a trait of complex, multicellular entities. This behavior derives from their cellular ancestors having been so moved. The agency of cells is not only a life sustaining function, it has exploratory and creative aspects beyond survivability. While cell agency relies on the integral autopoiesis that underlies autonomy, the multicellular phase seems potentially open ended and free. (41)

Pedia Sapiens: A Planetary Progeny Comes to Her/His Own Twintelligent Gaiable Knowledge

Bangura, Abdul Karim. Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts.. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2025. The prolific polyscholar from Sierra Leone (google his many credits) casts his perceptive vision to reveal a many self-similar forms which deeply distinguish traditional Slavic artifacts. Once again a light has been shined on nature’s familiar, mathematic invariance.

This unique volume reveals how indigenous Russian cultures have a wonderful Fractal heritage that arose from socially just and ecologically sustainable social practices, such as northern Yakut. Today, the challenge for contemporary Russia is to reestablish the relationship between the social and ecological sustainability of indigenous peoples. Abdul Bangura expresses the current need for a Fractal renaissance which joins computational and scientific analyses with these venerable traditions.

Abdul Karim Bangura of Sierra Leone is Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University’s Center for Global Peace in Washington, DC, USA. He holds advanced degrees in Political Science, Development Economics, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics.

Liu, Zizhou, et al. The Mind in the Machine: A Survey of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs. arXiv:2505.00003. Columbia University, Barnard College and Cambridge University infoscholars contribute to a current endeavors trying to get a better bead/read on where profligate ChatBot literacies and responses are coming from and going to. This Spiral turning (Turing) section is concerned with validating their personal Earthuman venue as an interactive, reciprocal sciencesphere, while the Earthificial module below is about their cognitive essence and content. See also Nature's Insight: A Comprehensive Analysis of Agentic Reasoning by Zinan Liu, et al at arXiv:2505.05515.

Psychological insights have long shaped Natural language processing by way of attention mechanisms, reinforcement learning, and Theory of Mind. behavior, and interaction. This paper reviews how psychological theories can help inform LLMs stages including pre-training, evaluation and application. Our survey integrates insights from cognitive, behavioral, social, personality psychology, and psycholinguistics. (Abstract)

Marsili, Matteo and Yasser Roudi.. Quantifying Relevance in Learning and Inference. Physics Reports. Volume 963, 2022. We cite this entry by Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy and Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology physicists because it is mainly about an apparent physical propensity to seek and gain more relative, functional knowledge, whose frontier is our human sapience. In a philosophia mind, one might view a learning universe which needs to achieve its own self-observance, description and record. As the quotes allude, this ultimatel endeavor, aka bit to it information, can be seen as another instance of an inherent self-organized critical process. See also Abstraction requires breadth: a renormalisation group approach by C. Caputo, E. Seiffert and M. Marsili at 2407.01656 for more.

Learning is a distinctive feature of intelligent behaviour. Here we review recent progress on based on the notion of "relevance" which quantifies the amount of information that a dataset or representation contains. This allows us to define maximally informative samples and optimal learning machines where both exhibit critical features. This identifies samples obeying Zipf's law as the most compressed loss-less representations that are optimal in the sense of maximal relevance. (Excerpt)

Maximal relevance and criticality in efficient coding and statistical learning The above discussion implies that when samples are generated to be maximally informative, they should exhibit statistical criticality. Natural and artificial learning systems offer a further test for the criticality hypothesis. That the brain operates in a critical state has been advanced by many authors. The observation that neural networks have enhanced computational efficiency at the edge of chaos is well known. (20, 21)

Cutts, Elise. The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI. Quanta. April 30, 2025. A science writer tells the story of how John Hopfield, the 2024 Nobel laureate for his 1980s discovery of neural networks, came to this realization by way of condensed matter physics spin glass and Ising models. Co-recipient Geoffrey Hinton later joined in and teamed up in pursuit. A 2016 paper, Dense Associative Memory for Pattern Recognition, by Dmitry Krotov and John Hopfield (arXiv:1606.01164) is cited as an interim phase. See also The Computer Scientist Who Builds Big Pictures from Small Detail by John Pavlus in Quanta (October 7, 2024) for similar studies.

Other entries in this special Quanta Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI collection are What the Most Essential Terms in AI Really Mean by John Pavlus, Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going? by Michael Mayer, Will AI Ever Understand Language Like Humans? with Janna Levin and Steven Strogatz and What Happens When AI Starts to Ask the Questions? by Gregory Barber.

It started as a fantasy, then a promise — inspired by biology and animated by the ideas of physicists — and grew to become a powerful research tool. Now artificial intelligence has evolved into something else: a junior colleague, a partner in creativity, an impressive if unreliable wish-granting genie. It has changed everything, from how we relate to data and truth, to how researchers devise experiments and mathematicians think about proofs. In this special series, we explore how AI is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist. (Quanta intro.)

Nugent, Selin. Darwin in the machine: addressing algorithmic individuation through evolutionary narratives in computing. AI & Society.. April 19, 2025. A Centre for AI, Culture and Society, Oxford Brookes University polyscholar (visit website) seeks to ground these current planetary cerebral frontiers all the way back to life’s long recurrent emergence. By so doing, another innovative view on an analogical nature is achieved.

This paper examines the application of an evolutionary analogy to AI research by way of individuated and autonomous imaginaries through biological diction. Here we study how evolution is invoked in AI narratives through language and concepts across three fields: computing, Artificial Life, and existential risk. I argue that the intertwined history between evolutionary theory and technological change involves (1) the limits of analogies in relation to biological organisms so to balance creative inspiration with scientific caution and (2) multidisciplinary engagement with misinformation. (Except)

Ecosmos: A Revolutionary Fertile, Habitable, Solar-Bioplanet, Incubator Lifescape

Caliz, Andres, et al. A coherent approach to quantum-classical optimization. Communications Physics. 8/197, 2025. team from Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, Barcelona introduce Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech jeir latest innovative methods to launch market-ready quantum computation and communication facilities based on an integral blend of physical stages and their analog/digital reciprocal modes. Here is another example of a present versatility in this basic realm as it also illumes a new cocreativity.

Hybrid quantum-classical optimization techniques can reduce of high quantum computational resources. Here we identify the coherence entropy as a crucial metric which determines quantum states as effective initialization candidates. Our findings are validated by way of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, which finds pure Gibbs states. (Excerpt)

Unlocking nature through analog quantum computing Because nature is intrinsically quantum and analog, our custom-designed, analog approach opens the true potential of quantum computing, delivering faster, more accurate and sustainable solutions for simulation, optimization and AI. (Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech)

He, Guanghui, et al. Experimental Realization of Discrete Time Quasicrystals. Physical Review X. 15/011055, 2025. Eight Washington University, St. Louis and Harvard University physicists proceed to uncover and quantify further quantum-like dimensions of an intrinsic, fecund materiality. As the quotes allude, as these many evidential finding just now flow together, we (Earthumanity) seem to be reaching an actual realization and discovery of nature’s phenomenal, independent, universal essence.

Floquet (periodically driven) systems can give rise to unique nonequilibrium phases of matter with a prominent example being discrete time crystals. In this study, we explore quantum systems subjected to a quasiperiodic drive. Unlike conventional time crystals, these conditions exhibit subharmonic responses at multiple frequencies. Our findings show the existence of nonequilibrium phases in quasi-Floquet settings which broadens the catalog of novel phenomena in driven many-body quantum systems. (Excerpt)

This is what researchers did in the new study. Instead of a simple, periodic tick-tock, the team behind this new discovery used quasiperiodic driving via two pulsing rhythms based on incommensurate frequencies. In this case, the scientists chose the golden ratio a number that keeps popping up in nature.(Science news)

Nartallo-Kaluarachch, Ramon, et al. Nonequilibrium physics of brain dynamics.. arXiv:2504.12188. Oxford University, Alan Turing Institute, British Library, Aarhus University, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra theorists including Gustavo Deco provide a good example of the current 2025 historic (re)union of human and universe, ecognizance and ecocmos, physics, persons and planet, as a integral synthesis.

Information processing is achieved by the activity of neural populations across spatiotemporal scales which suggest that the brain operates in a nonequilibrium stationary state. In this review, we discuss emerging results at the interface of statistical physics and neuroscience and begin with mathematical paradigms in continuous and discrete state-spaces. We consider nonequilibrium computation in neural systems and an outlook on the field. (Excerpt)

Information processing in human and animal brains is based on complex and coordinated neural activity that facilitates computation, cognition, and consciousness. The ability to record neural activity by imaging modalities can reveal their spatiotemporal dynamics. These findings range from the spiking behaviour of individual neurons to the mean-field neural oscillators. In regard, dynamical systems, network theory, statistical physics and complex systems can now be available to neuroscientists. (1)

Nurisso, Marco, et al. Nurisso, Marco, et al. Higher-order Laplacian renormalization. Nature Physics. April 2025.. Nature Physics. April, 2025. Namur, Belgium theorists post a latest cross-integration of physical principles with the complexity sciences based on their distinctive relational phenomena. As a result, a deep rooting of these vitalities in nature’s conducive ground is achieved, along with a recognition of self-similarities across the cosmic, atomic and biomic infinities. In springtime this year, entries like this, M. Buehler (arXiv:2503.18852), N. Gabriel, et al (arXiv:2502.15913) and a growing number can serve to represent a 2025 whole scale consilience as life and land, wuman and uniVerse come together again as a unified procreativity.

The renormalization group RG is a pillar of scaling, scale invariance and universality in physics. Recently, this theory has been adapted to complex networks with pairwise interactions based on diffusion dynamics. However, there is a need to extend these methods to higher-order networks. Here we propose a RG scheme by way of cross-order Laplacians, which allow the description of diffusion hyperedge processes. We validate on synthetic higher-level systems to detect order-specific scale-invariant profiles of real-world domains. (Abstract)

Graham, R. J., et al. Substantial Extension of the Lifetime of the Terrestrial Biosphere. .. Planetary Science Journal,. 5/11, 2024. University of Chicago and Weizmann Institute of Science geoscientists including Dorian Abbot proceed to scan a long view of the future lifetime of Earth’s flora and microfauna which may go on for eons. Yet we again note how curious it is that as constrained by the vested mechanistic cosmosview, there is no consideration that our incredible Earthuman abilities to learn and do all this might be an innate transformative factor as it portends a new, intentional cocreation.

Some billion years (Gyr) in the future as the Sun brightens, Earth's carbonate-silicate cycle is expected to drive CO2 below the minimum level required by land plants, eliminating macroscopic life. Here, we combine models of temperature and CO2 dependent flora along with erosive weathering to estimate their remaining time. We find that these effects can lengthen plant survival up to ∼1.6 Gyr. An increased biosphere lifespan may imply that Earth life had to achieve a smaller number of "hard steps" (unlikely evolutionary transitions) to produce intelligent life than previously estimated. (Excerpt)

Zhang, Tan, et al. Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution. Nature Communications. 16/3049, 2025. Into the mid 2020s, Chengdu University of Technology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, University of Liege, Belgium paleontologists can now more clearly reconstruct how life began to get its act together in this crucial, transitional phase.

The current chrono-stratigraphic basis for the early Ediacaran Period hampers a full understanding of environmental upheavals and evolutionary innovations. Here, we establish a high-resolution astro-chronological method over ~57.6 million years of this age. The integrated chronology refines the timeline for Ediacaran biota to reveal that ecosystems increased in complexity over multi-million-year timescales while global taxonomic diversity remained relatively stable. (Excerpts)

The Ediacaran Era is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya. It is the last period of the Proterozoic Eon and a "Precambrian supereon" and marks the start of the Phanerozoic Eon, where fossil evidence becomes common.

Touil, Akram, et al. Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe.. arXiv:2503.14791. Los Alamos National Laboratory theorists led by Wojciech Zurek discuss a latest version of his Quantum Darwinism (search WZ) which has been growing in veracity and evidence since the 1990s.

Quantum Darwinism recognizes that decoherence imprints redundant records of quasi-classical pointer states on the environment which are then accessed by observers. We quantify consensus using information-theoretic measures to assess the correlation between the records available to observers. We then test proposed measures of consensus in a solvable model of decoherence as well as in a many-body system. These results provide novel understandings of how our classical world arises from the fundamentally quantum Universe we inhabit. (Abstract)

Zurek, Wojciech. Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism: From Quantum Foundations to Classical Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2025.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. The Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist gifts us, after some decades of collegial consideration, with a book length version of his deeply insightful theories. As the quotes say, we seem to abide in and emerge from a stochastic evolutionary process of many called and few (self) chosen writ large, which into the 2020s is being widely realized. One wonders if it even applies to candidate, sentient bioplanets like our own.

The measurement problem has been a central puzzle of quantum theory since its inception, and understanding how the classical world emerges from our essential quantum universe is key to its resolution. Here Zurek builds on the physics of decoherence and introduces the theory of 'Quantum Darwinism' to provide a novel account of the emergence of classical reality. Part II explores decoherence and its role in the quantum-to-classical transition. Part III introduces Quantum Darwinism to explain how an information-theoretic perspective complements, elucidates, and reconciles 20th century interpretations.

Quantum Darwinism is a theory meant to explain the emergence of the classical world from quantum origins by a process akin to Darwinian natural selection induced by the environment whereby many possible quantum states are selected in favor of a stable measured or recorded state.

Osipova, Anastasiia and Sergey Pilipenkoar. On the maximal velocity of collid ing galaxies. arXiv:2502.16337.. We cite this entry by Astro Space Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow researchers for its content and as an example of how Earthuman scientific endeavors seem to be moved to learn all about any breadth and depth of our congested spacescape wherever they can. See also Merging of spiral galaxies by Alexander Khoperskov, et al at arXiv:2502.16642 and Toward a Modified Framework for Explaining Cosmic Structure Formation and Evolution by Robert Nyagisera, et al. in Astronomy (3/1, 2024)
for another instance.

In the current galaxy formation paradigm, collisions play a crucial role. A fraction of them are flyby events, and a galaxy that has passed through another galaxy is called a backsplash occasion. One signature of these incidents is that they have high velocities relative to their environment. In this paper, we develop such a theory based on the Zel'dovich approximation and use it to determine the maximal expected velocity of a galactic intersect.

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