Welcome to the wonder of moving life!
MoveEvolve is my theory about how lifeform moving evolves. I use everyday language, as much as possible, to make MoveEvolve widely accessible to the general public, university students, academics, engineers and product designers, of many disciplines.
I use the word “moving” in a broad sense, to include a lifeform’s awareness of moving as well as its bodily moving. “Moving” also implies continuous flow, compared to “movement” which suggests a beginning and an end.
I believe MoveEvolve offers a novel and useful, scientific train of thought. MoveEvolve is the result of observations, my engineering/scientific background and discussions with others. It builds on familiar concepts generally unattributable to particular sources. I base MoveEvolve on a logical sequence of postulates, a sequence of ideas that I ask you to accept to see where they lead. I introduce these postulates here, with links to the actual postulate pages.
First, I postulate that fundamentally, lifeform 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. Survival moving is an essential part of 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.
Second, I postulate that lifeform moving evolves with universalities (common features) across species because this is the most parsimonious way for evolution to improve survival. 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 evolve increasingly complex body parts and nervous systems to improve their survival moving. Conversely, evolving a nervous system is not necessary, as some species move without a nervous system (e.g. sponges). Other species move without a central nervous system (e.g. jellyfish). Universalities underpin the huge variety of lifeform moving that we see around us.
So survival and universalities are the first two postulates in my logical sequence of Survival Postulates. The next eight postulates are the particular universalities that lifeform moving evolves towards to improve survival: better development, better energy control, better scientific law exploitation, better continuity, better adaptivity, better anticipation, better coherence, better information creation and better coordination. Whilst these unversalities relate to known concepts, other movement theories do not seem to fully encompass them.
Crucially, it seems that species have evolved without accurate internal units, in particular without accurate internal units to calibrate space or time. The MoveEvolve train of thought must accomodate this unitless constraint. So the last three Survival Postulates are the particular universalities that lifeform moving evolves unitless, within unitless-spacetime, using unitless-change. I call these three universalities the MoveEvolve Unitless Paradigm Shift. It has significant implications for how lifeform moving evolves.
The Survival Postulates pose the key question: “What further universalities does lifeform moving evolve to embody the Survival Postulates?” So the MoveEvolve train of thought leads to my Embodiment Postulates, the universalities that embody the Survival Postulates.
The logical sequences of Survival Postulates and Embodiment Postulates offer clarity for readers to consider, challenge or accept MoveEvolve. Please use MoveEvolve to benefit humankind, other species and the environment. Please also 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 lifeform moving evolves, please contact me to discuss and collaborate. I look forward to hearing from you.
Marc Lee [email protected]