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Front cover of a book titled 'A World Waiting to Be Brought Forth' by Dr. Bichara Sahely. Features a glowing circular emblem with a plant sprouting from a seed, a tree on the left and a city skyline on the right, set against a blue starry arc. Subtitles read 'From Unitive Science to Life-Coherent Civilization' with decorative geometric motifs and the author's name at the bottom, indicating an academic white paper (June 2026).

A WORLD WAITING TO BE BROUGHT FORTH: From Unitive Science to Life-Coherent Civilization | ChatGPT-5.5 High Intelligence and NotebookLM

Humanity’s ecological, political, technological, and social crises are increasingly recognisable as symptoms of a deeper disorder in how reality, knowledge, and value are understood. Jude Currivan’s unitive science of a living universe responds by proposing that the universe is relational, informational, interconnected, and evolutionarily emergent. This offers a powerful cosmology of belonging, but also raises scientific and philosophical questions. Quantum entanglement does not by itself demonstrate universal consciousness; the global topology and finitude of the universe remain unresolved; and holographic cosmology remains a developing research programme rather than an established description of our universe (Nobel Prize Outreach, 2022; European Space Agency, 2001; Perimeter Institute, n.d.).

This paper brings Currivan’s proposal into constructive dialogue with Humberto Maturana’s biology of cognition, John McMurtry’s life-value ontology, Johan Galtung’s analysis of violence, and the developing concept of institutional autopoietization. It argues that unitive science and life-coherence are mutually corrective. Unitive science enlarges life-coherence by locating living beings within a cosmological narrative of emergence, participation, wonder, and belonging. Life-coherence strengthens unitive science by supplying an explicit value criterion, preserving the autonomy and boundaries of living beings, distinguishing life-serving from pathological forms of coherence, and translating worldview transformation into institutional practice.

The proposed synthesis moves from separation to relationality, from relationality to living autonomy, from autonomy to life-value, and from life-value to corrigible institutions and civil commons. Its central claim is that relational unity becomes ethically meaningful only when relationships, technologies, and institutions are evaluated by whether they protect, restore, and enlarge the capacities of living beings and the systems that sustain them, without transferring disabling costs to other persons, species, ecosystems, or future generations.

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New project for a scientific psychology: General scheme | Mark Solms (2020) | Neuropsychoanalysis

This is a revision of Freud’s “Project for a Scientific Psychology: General Scheme.” It updates the original, sentence for sentence where possible, in light of contemporary neuroscientific knowledge. The principle revisions are as follows. (1) Freud’s conception of “quantity” (the precursor of “drive energy”) is replaced by the concept of “free energy.” This is the energy within a system that is not currently performing useful work. (2) Shannon’s conception of “information” is introduced, where information is equivalent to unpredictability, and is formally equivalent to “entropy” in physics. (3) In biology, the fundamental purpose of “homeostasis” is to resist entropy – i.e., to increase predictability. Homeostasis turns out to be the underlying mechanism of what Freud called the “principle of neuronal inertia.” (4) Freud’s conception of “contact barriers” (the physical vehicles of memory) is linked with the modern concepts of consolidation/reconsolidation, whereby more deeply consolidated predictions are less plastic (more resistant to change) than freshly consolidated ones. (5) Freud’s notion of sensory “excitation” is replaced with the concept of “prediction error,” where only that portion of sensory input which is not explained by outgoing predictions is propagated inwards for cognitive processing. (6) Freud’s conception of “bound” (inhibited) cathexis, the main vehicle of his “secondary process” and voluntary action is equated with the buffering function of “working memory”; and “freely mobile” cathexis (the vehicle of Freud’s “primary process”) is equated with the automatized response modes of the nondeclarative memory systems. (7) Freud’s notion of ω (the system “consciousness”) is replaced by the concept of “precision” modulation, also known as “arousal” and “postsynaptic gain.”

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