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Newsletter Nr. 771
Amsterdam, May 14th, 2019

YIJING INTEGRAL (YI) - A New Natural and Cosmic Bagua - HARRY DONKERS

The paper deals with Yijing in Chinese philosophy. Based on a further exploration of the Diagram of the Supreme Polarity of Zhou Dunyi, we develop a cosmological-anthropological model. Heaven and Earth are seen as father and mother of the trigrams. Both in the natural and in the cosmic cycle this model leads us to a new bagua, the YI bagua, and a new arrangement of hexagrams. In the natural cycle, as compared to king Wen's approach, we interchange Earth and Mountain keeping the trigrams in correspondence with the production cycle. This leads to the natural bagua variant. The cosmic cycle fits in a coordinate system. Moreover it corresponds with the cosmic ring and, if we follow the path spiralling, we get the sequence of the trigrams corresponding the production cycle of the Five elements. This leads to the cosmic bagua variant. We compare both variants with each other and with the bagua of king Wen and of Fu Xi.

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WHAT IS LIFE? - Natural Religion, Part 3 - FEDERICO NICOLA PECCHINI

Life is different from the rest of the universe: from a thermodynamical perspective, the distinctive feature of us living beings is that we are able to effectively slow down the entropic decline within our bodies and on a planetary level by means of cellular, organic and ecosystem homeostasis.
We use the available energy in our environment to do self-sustaining work, which keeps us going long enough so that we can reproduce and evolve—but all this seems to go against the universal tendency towards maximum entropy expressed by the 2nd Law. The unique characteristics of living phenomena have been puzzling many famous physicists in the past, from Ludwig Boltzmann to Erwin Schrödinger. For the neurobiologist Terrence Deacon, “life uses the second law against itself.” Just how do we do it?

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