Welcome to the wonder of moving life!
MoveEvolve is about how moving evolves across species, for humans and other lifeforms. Moving is used here in a broad sense, including both bodily moving and moving awareness. Moving is crucial to natural selection and the evolution of species. So MoveEvolve stems from the theory of evolution by natural selection, conceived by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace.
Fundamentally, moving evolves to improve survival. Survival moving includes finding food, catching prey, avoiding predators, reaching safety, using resources, learning skills, mating, rearing offspring, interacting and communicating etc.
From life’s simple beginnings, species have evolved so many wonderful ways of moving to improve survival: slithering, crawling, walking, running, jumping, swimming, flying, vocalising etc. Many species move in multiple ways. Some species have evolved increasingly complex body parts and systems to improve survival moving. On the other hand, evolving a nervous system is not necessary for moving. Some species can move without any nervous system (e.g. sponges). Other species can move without a central nervous system (e.g. jellyfish).To underpin this huge and fascinating variety of moving, I propose that moving must evolve with universalities (common features) across species.
So I propose survival and universalities as the first two Survival Postulates about how moving evolves. Subsequent postulates propose the particular universalities: development, energy control, scientific law exploitation, continuity, adaptivity, anticipation, coherence, information creation and coordination. The last three Survival Postulates propose that moving evolves unitless (in particular without lifeforms having internal units for space and time), within unitless-spacetime, using unitless-change. I call this the MoveEvolve Unitless Paradigm Shift.
A key question posed by the Survival Postulates is: “How do lifeforms embody the Survival Postulates, especially the MoveEvolve Unitless Paradigm Shift?” To answer this, I propose the Embodiment Postulates, which are the moving universalities required by lifeforms to embody the Survival Postulates.
This logical sequence of postulates gives clarity for readers to consider, challenge or accept MoveEvolve. I use everyday language wherever possible, to make MoveEvolve widely accessible to anyone interested in how humans and other lifeforms move. This incliudes the general public, through to university students and academics of many disciplines, engineers and product designers. MoveEvolve emerges from common observations and broad scientific background, generally unattributable to particular sources. Please use MoveEvolve to benefit humankind, other species and the environment. Please acknowledge this website as a source. Thank you.
MoveEvolve is evolving too. I welcome all feedback. If you would like to join this scientific exploration of how moving evolves, please contact me to discuss or collaborate. I look forward to hearing from you.
Marc Lee [email protected]