FROM ALPHA TO OMEGA: P.T. DE CHARDIN'S LAWS OF COMPLEXITY-CONSCIOUSNESS AND RECURRENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MIRROR-SYMMETRICAL DIAERESIS SCHEME. PART 1

The article examines P.T. de Chardin’s laws of complexity-consciousness and recurrence in the context of a mirror-symmetrical diaeresis diagram, displaying the great cycle of development from the Alpha Point to the Omega Point. According to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the “fabric of the Universe” has two sides: internal and external. The internal is the spiritual, psychic, mental, conscious, qualitative, and free, while the external is material, corporeal, quantitative, and determined. In the context of the diaeresis scheme, the internal is understood as the intensive, and the external as the extensive. Chardin formulates the law of complexity-consciousness as follows: the more perfect consciousness is, the more complex and better organized the material structure it accompanies. We interpret the relationship postulated by the law of complexity-consciousness as a cause-and-effect relationship: the increasing complexity of matter is a consequence (or function) of the growth of consciousness. Development according to the law of recurrence is not linear, but spiral: the great cycle of development from Alpha to Omega can be depicted as a spherical spiral ascending around a vertical axis. The turns of the spherical spiral are minor cycles of development: the stages of geogenesis, biogenesis, psychogenesis, and noogenesis. The great cycle and minor cycles of the Universe’s development can be considered as lying in orthogonal planes. Recurrent development means that at each cycle, the previous is preserved and the new is added. The law of complexity-consciousness and the law of recurrence are linked: the law of complexity-consciousness is realized on the basis of the law of recurrence. Recurrent development occurs through discrete stages, each culminating in a critical point at which complexity and consciousness abruptly increase. To display the great cycle of development, which occurs according to the laws of recurrence and complexity-consciousness, a mirror-symmetrical diaeresis scheme is used in the primary perspective. At the stage of geogenesis, the evolution of the internal (1) causes the evolution of the external, i.e., an increase in the size of matter (0). The critical point of the transition from geogenesis to biogenesis is the emergence of life. At the stage of biogenesis, the further internalization of the internal (11) causes a complexification of the organization of matter (01), and the expansion of the internal in breadth (10) causes the association of matter into aggregates, bodies (00). The critical point of the transition from biogenesis to psychogenesis is the emergence of reflection. At the stage of psychogenesis, the ‘centration’ of consciousness (11) causes the involution of material complexity (01), and the unification of the world (10) causes socialization (00). The critical point in the transition from psychogenesis to noogenesis is the emergence of the noosphere. At the stage of noogenesis, the involution of consciousness through the fusion of minds in the noosphere (1) causes the involution of matter through the fusion of society into the mass (0). The critical point is the emergence of the Hyper-Personal, merging with Omega.