Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

JIS XXII 2010  ART GALLERY
Intelligent Design & Artificial Intelligence:
THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE?

JIS XXII 2010: 32-66

EVOLUTION:  MIND  OR  RANDOMNESS?

Dennis F. Polis
University of Notre Dame

Figure 1: SELF-ORGANIZATION



Quinacridone Molecules on Graphite Self-Assembled Into Chains
Source: Frank Trixler, GNU Free Documentation (2010).

Figure 2: CONVERGENT PLANT EVOLUTION

Euphorbia obesa                                Astrophytum arteries

The Euphorbia of Africa and Southern Asia, and the Cactaceae of the Americas,
evolved independently, but converged to similar forms.
Source: Frank Vincentz, GNU Free Documentation (2010)
& David Midgley, Creative Commons Attribution (2010).

Figure 3: CONVERGENT ANIMAL EVOLUTION

Skulls of the unrelated Tasmanian wolf (left) and gray wolf (right).
Source: Fritz Geller-Grimm, Creative Commons Attribution (2010).

Figure 4: STRANGE ATTRACTORS

Strange attractors cause non-repeating orbits confined to a target region.
Source: Alexis Rufatt, GNU Free Documentation (2010).

EQUATION 1: POLIS PROJECTION PARADIGM

Equation 1 describes the development of a state, |ψ1>, at time t1 into a later state, |ψ2>, at a time t2.
The states each represent every field, particle, and physical property. They exhaust the materiality of their events. Those events affect each other only through exp-iH(t1 - t2), where H is the Hamiltonian operator expressing the local, immaterial laws of nature. Exp-iH(t1 - t2), the S-matrix, is a logical propagator
carrying information from time t1 to time t2. Thus, mechanistic laws produce ends.

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