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no longer viewed as mechanistic rules regarding the interaction patterns of particles, but rather are
redefned and expanded in terms of informational content, coding and processes (Currivan, 2017: 6).
This is being revealed at all scales of existence and across many felds of scientifc research
(Currivan, 2017; Smitsman and Currivan, 2019).
The science of infodynamics has previously been described as the study of the accumulation of
informational constraints during system development (see Salthe, 2001). Jude Currivan has taken
this study further to reinterpret the frst two laws of thermodynamics as laws of infodynamics, for
a better understanding how our universe evolves as a holographically informed wholeness, where
its three-dimensional appearance is actually a holographic projection from the two-dimensional
boundary of space (Currivan, 2017; Smitsman and Currivan, 2019). The science of infodynamics focuses on changes and impacts of meaningful in-formational 2 patterns and content in living
systems. Based on a universal ‘alphabet’ of the 1s and 0s of digitised information, it reveals how
implicit cosmological dimensions underlie our manifest physical world and meaningfully combine
these to in-form the forms of complex and living systems. It reveals that our physical world is a
semiotically informational world and dissolves the dualistic notion that matter and energy are different. The concept of information is more fundamental than energy–matter and space–time and
expresses in complementary ways as emergent phenomena of our universe. The science of infodynamics reveals, therefore, how from non-physical causative realms – the infnity and eternity
of cosmic mind in Einstein’s terminology – a fnite universe is created that exists and evolves as a
fundamentally interconnected coherent and unifed entity (Currivan, 2019: 3).
The study of infodynamics also helps us to deepen our understanding of life as a generative feld
of possibilities (Sahtouris, 2000, 2013). By studying the infodynamics of life, we can learn how to
apply this to the design of generative human systems that are evolutionary coherent and cosmologically informed. For example, this is currently applied to the world design of new economic and educational systems based on the cosmological principles of living systems (see Smitsman and Thurm,
2020; Smitsman and Houston, 2021). Accordingly, we can develop a generative wholeworld-view
for guiding the evolutionary development of our world and future (Smitsman, 2019). When we shift
our focus to generativity, and not mere sustainability, we start to design our worlds with the cosmological intelligence of life. Hence, our proposed focus on thrivability, as earlier explained in this
chapter, as a generative future-creating process.
The study of infodynamics further opens a new, non-dualistic way of looking at causality. Life is
a complex system of various interdependent, holarchically nested feedback and feedforward informational dynamics and fows. These fows reveal how we each are an infodynamic pattern within
an evolutionary coherent and informing universe that affords possibilities for self-refection and
self-awareness and so allows us to become conscious of our evolution as the infodynamics for evolution (Smitsman et al., 2018). The study of infodynamics shows us how consciousness can emerge
as an intrinsic quality of life and our universe, where consciousness is not something we have, but
is what we and the wholeworld are (Currivan, 2017).
This dynamic informational fowing also forms the very conditions for evolutionary learning and
development. Evolutionary learning cannot take place without, on the one hand, infodynamic fows
that are generated by our activities that are interplaying within the larger whole called life and, on
the other hand, the capacity to attune, adjust and respond to these fows (Fogel, 1993, Smitsman,
1997; Smitsman and Smitsman, 2020).
When we now apply this understanding to food cultivation and consumption within the growing
feld of agroecology, it enables us to deepen our understanding of what is implied by terms such
as integrated farming. Words such as integrated and integral imply a multi- and inter-dimensional
approach that requires knowledge and understanding of infodynamics. When we grow and consume
2 ‘Inform’ and ‘information’ are sometimes written in this chapter as ‘in-form’ and ‘in-formation’ to emphasize how this
type of cosmological information plays a key role in the formation and manifestation of our physical world.
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no longer viewed as mechanistic rules regarding the interaction patterns of particles, but rather are
redefned and expanded in terms of informational content, coding and processes (Currivan, 2017: 6).
This is being revealed at all scales of existence and across many felds of scientifc research
(Currivan, 2017; Smitsman and Currivan, 2019).
The science of infodynamics has previously been described as the study of the accumulation of
informational constraints during system development (see Salthe, 2001). Jude Currivan has taken
this study further to reinterpret the frst two laws of thermodynamics as laws of infodynamics, for
a better understanding how our universe evolves as a holographically informed wholeness, where
its three-dimensional appearance is actually a holographic projection from the two-dimensional
boundary of space (Currivan, 2017; Smitsman and Currivan, 2019). The science of infodynamics focuses on changes and impacts of meaningful in-formational 2 patterns and content in living
systems. Based on a universal ‘alphabet’ of the 1s and 0s of digitised information, it reveals how
implicit cosmological dimensions underlie our manifest physical world and meaningfully combine
these to in-form the forms of complex and living systems. It reveals that our physical world is a
semiotically informational world and dissolves the dualistic notion that matter and energy are different. The concept of information is more fundamental than energy–matter and space–time and
expresses in complementary ways as emergent phenomena of our universe. The science of infodynamics reveals, therefore, how from non-physical causative realms – the infnity and eternity
of cosmic mind in Einstein’s terminology – a fnite universe is created that exists and evolves as a
fundamentally interconnected coherent and unifed entity (Currivan, 2019: 3).
The study of infodynamics also helps us to deepen our understanding of life as a generative feld
of possibilities (Sahtouris, 2000, 2013). By studying the infodynamics of life, we can learn how to
apply this to the design of generative human systems that are evolutionary coherent and cosmologically informed. For example, this is currently applied to the world design of new economic and educational systems based on the cosmological principles of living systems (see Smitsman and Thurm,
2020; Smitsman and Houston, 2021). Accordingly, we can develop a generative wholeworld-view
for guiding the evolutionary development of our world and future (Smitsman, 2019). When we shift
our focus to generativity, and not mere sustainability, we start to design our worlds with the cosmological intelligence of life. Hence, our proposed focus on thrivability, as earlier explained in this
chapter, as a generative future-creating process.
The study of infodynamics further opens a new, non-dualistic way of looking at causality. Life is
a complex system of various interdependent, holarchically nested feedback and feedforward informational dynamics and fows. These fows reveal how we each are an infodynamic pattern within
an evolutionary coherent and informing universe that affords possibilities for self-refection and
self-awareness and so allows us to become conscious of our evolution as the infodynamics for evolution (Smitsman et al., 2018). The study of infodynamics shows us how consciousness can emerge
as an intrinsic quality of life and our universe, where consciousness is not something we have, but
is what we and the wholeworld are (Currivan, 2017).
This dynamic informational fowing also forms the very conditions for evolutionary learning and
development. Evolutionary learning cannot take place without, on the one hand, infodynamic fows
that are generated by our activities that are interplaying within the larger whole called life and, on
the other hand, the capacity to attune, adjust and respond to these fows (Fogel, 1993, Smitsman,
1997; Smitsman and Smitsman, 2020).
When we now apply this understanding to food cultivation and consumption within the growing
feld of agroecology, it enables us to deepen our understanding of what is implied by terms such
as integrated farming. Words such as integrated and integral imply a multi- and inter-dimensional
approach that requires knowledge and understanding of infodynamics. When we grow and consume
2 ‘Inform’ and ‘information’ are sometimes written in this chapter as ‘in-form’ and ‘in-formation’ to emphasize how this
type of cosmological information plays a key role in the formation and manifestation of our physical world.