Field III – The Emergence of Life
Axial idea: Life is not an ontological leap, but a threshold of complexity where matter begins to reorganize itself based on operative persistence. Life is matter that protects itself from entropy through cycles, membranes, reproduction, and regulation — without any teleology.
Theme I – The Body Before Consciousness
The living body is not a subject: it is a strategy of material continuity.
- Point 1 – Matter That Isolates Itself
- Point 2 – Metabolism and Exchange
- Point 3 – Function Without Purpose
Theme II – Complexity, Selection, Adaptation
There is no plan for living: there is variation, conflict, and reorganization.
- Point 1 – Varying To Persist
- Point 2 – Selection Without Intelligence
- Point 3 – Adaptation Without Subject
Theme III – Death As Ontological Operator
Death is not a failure of life, but its condition. There is only life where there is death.
- Point 1 – Death As Functional Limit
- Point 2 – Life That Reproduces Itself
- Point 3 – Ethics Before Subjectivity