Peircean cosmogony's symbolic agapistic self-organization as an example of the influence of eastern philosophy on western thinking.
Progress in biophysics and molecular biology December 1, 2017 Søren Brier 7 citations
Charles S. Peirce's process philosophy proposes a non-theistic, agapistic evolution from nothingness, drawing on Eastern traditions like Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism, as well as American transcendentalists. This triadic semiotic process theory is argued to better accommodate the quantum field view and the emergence of consciousness than mechanistic or information-based approaches. Peirce sees the universe as a reasoning process evolving from pure potentiality to a fully ordered Summon Bonum. The paper compares this with John Archibald Wheeler's "It from bit" cosmogony, which leads to an info-computational view lacking a phenomenological foundation. David Chalmers' double-aspect interpretation attempts to add phenomenology but fails to integrate meaning and rationality. Alex Hankey's work addresses Husserl's criteria for consciousness but cannot explain the connection between core consciousness and the physical world.