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On the Emergence of Life and Human Consciousness

A Monograph Published in: Acta Universitatis Apulensis,ISSN 1582-5329, 2011: 10 (6)-175-298'Special Issue on Understanding Complex Systems,Eds. Barna Iantovics, Ladislav Hluch¶y and Roumen Kountchev. Abstract. In this monograph we present a novel approach to the problems raised by higher complexity in both nature and the human society, by considering the most complex levels of objective existence as ontological meta-levels, such as those present in the creative human minds and civilised, modern societies. Thus, a `theory' about theories is called a `meta-theory'. In the same sense that a statement about propositions is a higher-level hpropositioni rather than a simple proposition, a global process of subprocesses is a meta-process, and the emergence of higher levels of reality via such meta-processes results in the objective existence of ontological meta-levels. The new concepts suggested for understanding the emergence and evolution of life, as well as human consciousness, are in terms of globalisation of multiple, underlying processes into the meta-levels of their existence. Such concepts are also useful in computer aided ontology and computer science [1],[194],[197]. The select

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