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The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-Diversity (Series on Knots and Everything)

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In "The Self-Evolving Cosmos: A Phenomenological Approach to Nature's Unity-in-Diversity," Professor Rosen provides an alternative to unified theories resulting from positivist thought, such as string theory, a theory that has produced an immense number (~10 to the 500th power) of solutions with none having any greater meaning so that no narrowing of the field is possible.

In contrast, Rosen takes a phenomenological (based on the philosophical insights of Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger) approach, starting with a "first principles" of individuation and meaning that encompasses dialectical paradox. Instead of a dance of splitting and recombining vibrating strings, each complete in themselves, he asks that you picture a dance of sub-lemniscate, lemniscate, moebial and kleinian topological bodies of paradox engaged in a harmony of autogenesis, fusion and spatiotemporal emergence. These topological bodies are "spatio-sub-objective" beings; the units of lifeworld (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty) dimensionality. Generation of fundamental force fields and matter particles is worked out in detail via a cosmodimensional matrix, and physical and psychical dimensions emerge in alignment, so that "ontogeny recapitulates cosmogony" as the cosmos evolves.

Anyone who considers Jungian models of the psyche (such as the conical model) to be metaphors for both psychical *and* physical reality will especially welcome this completion of Rosen's trilogy. The second book of the trilogy is "Topologies of the Flesh: A Multidimensional Exploration of the Lifeworld," where he advances topological phenomenology by working out the details of basic topodimensional processes and their co-evolution. The last two works are the result of a creative burst that seems to have begun during his writing of the first of the series: "Dimensions of Apeiron: A Topological Phenomenology of Space, Time, and Individuation."

As fantastic as archetypical parallels between psychical and physical realms may seem, most intriguingly there is possible contact with experiment (although Rosen makes no reference to this). Such a view is necessary if we are to begin to understand the results of various experiments indicating anomalous statistical shifts as the psychophysical responds to meaning, including the ongoing "Global Consciousness Project," which may lend support to one of his proposed psychophysical alignments (that of the weak force with the emotional aspect of consciousness).

It is clear that we have reached the limits of positivistic thought and in this joyful, rich synthesis of process thought with the philosophies of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Jung, Rosen shows how the subject is present in reality through a dialectical blending of discontinuity and continuity - subject and object - via the depth dimension, to give us a much needed new direction in his latest groundbreaking works. Rosen presents us here with a new physics with new solutions to previously intractable problems. Even the positivists will eventually need to touch the monolith.