Auto-Catastrophic Theory: the necessity of self-destruction for the formation, survival, and termination of systems

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Marilena Kyriakidou1

Received: 19 January 2015 / Accepted: 11 July 2015 / Published online: 31 July 2015 Springer-Verlag London 2015

Abstract Systems evolve in order to adjust and survive. The papers contribution is that this evolvement is inadequate without an evolutionary telos. It is argued that without the presence of self-destruction in multiple levels of our existence and surroundings, our survival would have been impossible. This paper recognises an appreciation of auto-catastrophe at the cell level, in human attitudes (both as an individual and in societies), and extended to Earth and out to galaxies. Auto-Catastrophic Theory combines evolution with auto-catastrophic behaviours and innovative machinery by offering new themes of understanding their merging such as (a) protogenic and deuterogenic auto-catastrophic processes, (b) protogenic and deuterogenic survival processes, and (c) alive, partially alive, and non-alive systems. The value of self-destruction relies on a numerical stability within a system and correlational relationships between systems. Auto-Catastrophic Theory provides novel justications why articial intelligence:(a) is crucial to overcome the extinction of humanity (via H?), (b) is crucial to offer indirect survival of humanity (by saving its history), and (c) is at the same time a threat for humanity. These novel justications and themes, developed by combining evolution with catastrophe as well as innovative machinery, expand our knowledge of how best to handle fresh challenges ahead.

Keywords Articial intelligence Auto-catastrophe

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