Third Law of Evolution and The Future of Life

Part I INTRODUCING DUAL CLOSURE AND THE OPERATOR THEORY.- Chapter 1 Three dimensions for levels of organisation.- Chapter 2 The theorem of dual closure and how it leads to the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 3 Dual closures that cause physical operators.- Chapter 4 Dual closures that cause biological operators.- Chapter 5 Periodicity in the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 6 Elementary particles as the basis for the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 7 A top-level systemic naming of the organisation of nature.- Chapter 8 Renovating theory about levels of organisation.- Chapter 9 O-theory in the context of scientific activity.- Part II EVOLUTION EXTENDED.- Chapter 10 Defining the organism.- Chapter 11 Evolution and the emergence of complex organisms.- Chapter 12 Can the pattern of evolution be applied to non-biological things?.- Chapter 13 Predicting biological evolution.- Chapter 14 The most probable next step in the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 15 Predicting operators of the far future.- Chapter 16 Theoretical development of the term evolution.- Part III SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPLICATIONS.- Chapter 17 A new approach to defining life.- Chapter 18 A fresh look at major evolutionary transitions.- Chapter 19 The fractal structure of knowledge.- Chapter 20 The time ribbon of the operator hierarchy.- Chapter 21 Thermodynamics and evolution.- Afterword.- Bios.- Publications about the O-theory.- Glossary inspired by the OT.- Index.- References.

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