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Syntropy
A New Story
Guy Dauncey

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A silent slide show such as
this can not begin do justice
to such a huge
and important topic.
In Journey to the Future: A
Better World is Possible, set
in the year 2032,
the final chapter involves a
dinner party where two
guests, a physicist and a
biologist, answer the
question that is on so many
people’s minds:
“What is syntropy?”

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This slide show is not a
representation of that dinner
party. It is, rather, the way I
explain syntropy when giving
a presentation.
If you are downloading, the
transitions sometimes get
lost, so you might need to
reset it for a 1 second fade
between each slide.
And my thanks to so many
artists and photographers
whose work I have used.
- Guy Dauncey

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Things have come a long way since the
beginning of the Universe…

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We have a perennial need for a story,
to explain how and why things are.
Where do we come from?
What are we?
Where are we going?

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Animism

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Polytheism

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Monotheism

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The Enlightenment

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Socialism

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Existentialism

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Post Modernism

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Science?

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Deep Green
We need to get out of Nature’s way

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Materialism, Commercialism

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Syntropy

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Syntropy
All existence shares in a deep cooperative
impulse to increase order and wellbeing.

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Is there purpose and direction in the Universe?
Or is it just all just random?

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NOW

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NOW
ALL OF OUR PAST

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NOW
ALL OF OUR FUTURE

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Is the Universe a Material Reality?
Or a Spiritual Reality?

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Fundamental Rethink

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Fundamental Rethink

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Fundamental Rethink

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Or both?

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What is Consciousness?

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Are they just
dancing robots?

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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as
derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind
consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything
that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness. “
Max Planck, 1858-1947

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“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms.
For consciousness is absolutely fundamental.
It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”
Erwin Schrödinger, 1887 - 1961

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“It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future
reality will neither be 'psychic' nor 'physical'
but somehow both and somehow neither.”
Wolfgang Pauli, 1900-1958.

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“A rudimentary consciousness is present
even at the level of particle physics.”
– David Bohm, 1917-1992

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“The laws of physics leave a place for mind in the
description of every molecule … In other words, mind is
already inherent in every electron, and the processes of
human consciousness differ only in degree and not in kind.”
— Freeman Dyson, 1923 -

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Consciousness is everywhere

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A panpsychic universe

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A panpsychic universal field of consciousness

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Why is this important?

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Because the Universe
is not entropic

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Entropy describes heat-loss in a
physical, material world.

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In reality, the Universe is pervaded
with consciousness

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A conscious Universe is a
syntropic Universe
syntropy

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Luigi Fantappiè, 1901-1956
Founder of syntropy theory

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“I have no doubts about the date when I discovered
the law of syntropy.
It was in the days just before Christmas 1941, when,
as a consequence of conversations with two
colleagues, a physicist and a biologist, I was
suddenly projected in a new panorama, which
radically changed the vision of science and of the
Universe which I had inherited from my teachers,
and which I had always considered the strong and
certain ground on which to base my scientific
investigations.
As Luigi Fantappiè explains it…

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“Suddenly I saw the possibility of interpreting a
wide range of solutions (the anticipated potentials)
of the wave equation which can be considered the
fundamental law of the Universe.
These solutions had been always rejected as
‘impossible’, but suddenly they appeared ‘possible’,
and they explained a new category of phenomena
which I later named ‘syntropic’, totally different
from the entropic ones, of the mechanical, physical
and chemical laws, which obey only the principle of
classical causation and the law of entropy.”
- Luigi Fantappiè
As Luigi Fantappiè explains it…

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Syntropy
Greek syn (together) and tropos (tendency)
A deep, unifying, self-organizing force that is
omnipresent in the universe, bringing a tendency
towards energy concentration, order, organization
and life, in contrast to entropy.

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In October 1942 Fantappiè presented his theory of syntropy to the
Accademia d'Italia. His finding were that syntropic phenomena invert
the second law of thermodynamics.
•A reduction in entropy and an increase in differentiation is observed
•Converging waves attract in smaller places energy and matter
•Concentration of matter and energy cannot be indefinite and entropic
processes are needed to compensate syntropic concentration
•In nature, syntropy and entropy interact constantly
•Scientific finalism, final causes, are introduced
•A new scientific methodology is needed since the experimental
method can only study causes located in the past.
The Unified Theory
of the Physical and Biological World

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“What makes life different is the presence of syntropic
qualities: finalities, goals, and attractors.
As we consider causality the essence of the entropic world, it
is natural to consider finality the essence of the syntropic
world.
It is therefore possible to say that the essence of life is final
causes, syntropy.
Living means tending to attractors ... the law of life is not
the law of mechanical causes; this is the law of non-life, the
law of death, the law of entropy; the law which dominates
life is the law of finalities, the law of syntropy.” - Fantappiè
The Unified Theory
of the Physical and Biological World

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Champions of syntropy, based in Rome, Italy

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Syntropy is an self-organizing force that acts through
consciousness, generating organization and life.

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Throughout existence,
having a positive intention of a future outcome
has been a precondition for success

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Throughout existence,
having a positive intention of a future outcome
has been a precondition for success

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Humans are motivated by dreams of life and wholeness,
not by nightmares of death and collapse.

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All existence is permeated with
consciousness

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All existence is permeated with
consciousness

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All consciousness is permeated
with syntropy,
drawing it towards order, complexity and life

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The 1st
Law of Syntropy
“Acting through consciousness,
syntropy motivates individual
units of being to self-organize
cooperatively
within their empathic reach
to achieve greater organizational
power, range, competence,
integrity and freedom for their
common good.”
from Journey to the Future

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The 2nd
Law of Syntropy
“In the long run, due to the deep
fundamental unity of the Universe,
any unit of being that extends its
empathy beyond its familiar reach
will discover affinity
with other units of being.
Over time, the syntropic impulse will
result in ever-widening circles of
empathy, until they embrace the
entire Universe.”
from Journey to the Future

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Dream it
Plan it
Do it

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