Evolution as Cognition and Expansion of Interactions

Levchenko, Vladimir F.

A perception by biosystem of a information from external world is important in the view of survival of the biosystem: the information helps to use useful properties of environment and to avoid either harm influences. In order to specify what is the biologically important information, it was proposed to introduce the notion of informational message which is defined as the such part of informational flow which may change development (evolution) of biosystem in the reason of changes of its feature (Levchenko, WESS-com, 1994). Just the perception and using of the such informational messages help to survive for biosystem along its life. Then, we come to the problem of revealing, detailing of informational messages from the common external informational flow. That can be described in terms of biological context: organisms have to be <tuned> on the acceptance of above informational messages, which help to understand external world and survive into it. This approach gives us some interesting output in evolutionary aspects. The biosphere determines some diapason of possible environment for living organisms and, thus, the diapason of diversity for objects which can be perceived in the process of cognition of the world, nature by actually living organisms. On other hand, the life on the Earth is changing the biosphere system during all the time when the life exists. Hence, we can say that the following feedback exists: living organisms learning the biosphere and change, build the biosphere in the reason of appearance of new biological qualities of organisms. So, the cognition by itself canalizes cognition process and we have here the fundamental evolutionary problem: has this process either final one or not? The hypothesis (see my monograph <Models in the Theory of Biological Evolution>, St.Petersburg, 1993) is the following: if the biosphere system is restricted by space then above process dies out gradually and the system begins finally to remind separated good tuned living organism (while the external cosmic conditions are relatively constant ones). If the life is able to go abroad the planet then the process is unlimited along the time. It is important to notify that the limitation by space for the biosphere means that living organisms are not able to interact with ether objects which are placed farther (deeper) some physical boundaries. Therefore, expansion of interaction lead to the evolution of biosphere and origin of new biological forms. Another interesting psycho-physiological problem which is followed from this developed approach is how the architypes (of Jung' ones, for instance) are interconnected with the history of cognition and what is the reason of the origin for the new architypes: either the new knowledge or some primary biological deposits of human species. In any case, new architypes create new behaviour and, hence, new biological context for the population. The last leads to the specific new changes of the biosphere at last.