General Ontology XXIXm7

General Ontology Cosmos and Nomos

Theory of Ontological Layers and Complexity Layers

Part XXIX (Sequel-35)

Crystals and Organisms

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The discovered fact that not only organisms have a promorph, but also crystals, is one of the starting points of the crystal analogy, i.e. the investigation of the analogies between crystals and organisms (and more generally, between the inorganic and the organic).

The Crystal Analogy
( And in a broader sense : The Inorganic-Organic Analogies )

Will be continued . . .

In the document(s) after those concerned with the crystal analogy (as started in the present document) we leave the investigations into the latter, and, based on the results of these investigations, now accept this analogy as a general context for the previous and ensuing work. This ensuing work will be a continuation of our investigation into the promorphs of two-dimensional crystals, but now explicitly involving their internal symmetry (plane group symmetry). In addition, the crystal analogy could point (if it allows to be so interpreted) to two different Layers of Being, that are either distinguished from each other by a (mere) jump in physical complexity (and nothing else), or by some really fundamental ontological NOVUM, resulting in the organisms to be elevated or over-formed (non-equilibrium) crystals.
If the crystallographic analogy does not hold, then organisms are just dynamical systems that are set up by wholeness determination (representing the organic NOVUM) and involving over-formed inorganic categories, and are then, despite of the mentioned over-formings, themselves not over-formed inorganic beings (not elevated crystals).