All organisms pass through ages, energy-youth, reproductive maturity, and informative, old age

The 3 states of reality.

In a world defined by only 2 substances, energy and information, there are 3 possible elements or states of any being, the energy state, the information state and a combination of both, in a balanced form, E=i. That principle is expressed in the Unification Postulate:

All what exists is a quantic system made with bites of energy and bits of information that transform into each other ad eternum, a logic statement formalized mathematically in the generatrix equation of quantic space-time fields or Universal event:

ΣE <=> ΣTi  

The ternary symmetries of the Universe.

Yet from those 3 elements we can create all other forms of the Universe, through different processes of differentiation and reproduction that multiply the quantic 3 elements mainly in 3x3±1 decametric scales, as elements become organized in ternary groups (3x3), which communicate through a cental know (+1). So there are 3 x 3 planets + a sun, armies organize in decametric scales of 9 soldiers plus a sargent, 9 sargent plus a capitan, 9 capitans plus a general, etc. That perfection of the 10 scale, or tetrarkys was already found by Pythagoras, and its most simple example is a billiard triangle with 3 corners and a central black hole that communicates all other.

Ternary symmetries and scales become therefore the unifying algebra of reality.

Further on, any organic system in the Universe can be observed static, in a present state as an organism or dynamically in time as an evolving form. And in both cases we find the ternary symmetries described by that equation.

So organic systems, seen in present have 3 main physiological networks, an energy network (your blood, the electromagnetic system of the Universe, the orbitals of the atom, etc.), an information network (the nervous system, the gravitational system of the Universe, the nuclei of the atom), and a reproductive system that merges both (the endocrine and sexual system, the space-time of the Universe, the intemediate atomic space in the atom).

Yet when we observe the same organism in time, it turns out that the 3 networks dominate a temporal age, and hence we can also talk of ternary symmetries in time, as beings go from energetic youth to old, informative age through an intemediate mature, reproductive age. Let us study that symmetry in more detail.

What is life.

The question of what is time, once we understand that there are many times, many cyclical rhythms in the Universe, becomes far more deeper, than it is in the reductionist world of abstract science. Now each species of the Universe creates many times, one for each of its rhythms and cycles of Existence, as it follows the arrows of organicism. When you feed every day you create a cycle of time based in your feeding arrow. When you read every morning the newspaper you create a cycle of time based in your informative arrow of organicism. Yet since cycles of organicism are many times are many. If we multiply them for all the species of the Universe then the numbers of cycles of existence becomes infinite. Species move along its dimensions of organicism, trying to feed or perceive and in doing so discontinuously with a rhythm, they create cycles of time.

So Knowledge of time implies to find all those cycles of time, observed externally, and relate them to the arrows of organicism of each species. When we find a form, it will normally be a cycle of time, or an arrow of organicism that has caused the form. Bodies will be gatherings of social cells joined by the arrow of social networks; gazelles running will be created by the cycles of organicism and feeding of lions, machines moving will obey the cycles of feeding of engines, metal-hearts that feed on electricity and move the machine...

So cycles of time are every where. And yet all those small cycles of species, are organized at macro-scale in such a form, that species follow the different arrows of organicism with less or higher intensity, during its total existence. Indeed when we exist we tend to prefer energy when young, and youth becomes the age of energy, and we prefer information when old and perception becomes the main arrow of the third age... In between we enjoy both arrows, but are further more interested in the complex arrows of social evolution and reproduction.

This is the first surprising truth we observe once we understand fully the nature of time. Organisms prefer at certain moments certain arrows of organicism, certain dimensions of existence.

Indeed, when we observe all those organisms playing the game of existence, it turns out that all of them have a longer cycle, what we might call the cycle of Existence, which makes those organisms live and die in similar manner. Indeed, all organisms go through a youth age, an age rich in energy, a mature age of balance between the energy and the information of the organism, and a third age of death and extinction. Why? The answer is in the understanding of Energy and Information, the two elements of all organisms.

The law of the 3 ages

The most obvious consequence of the existence of bodies, Brains, and organs of reproduction in all social organisms is the law of the 3 ages that all organic species follow from birth till extinction.

As time goes by, organisms, including human beings go through 3 ages, called youth, the age of energy; maturity, the age of couples and reproduction; and the old age, the age of form and wrinkles, of information, of memory.

The 3 ages are caused by the 3 physiological networks of organisms

What is the origin of those ages? The Universal structure of all organisms, composed of organs-networks of energy, organs-networks of information, and organs-networks of reproductions.
We can establish a direct relationship between the 3 networks or arrows of organicism, and the concepts of the 3 ages of any organism - the ages of youth-energy, the age of reproduction, and the old age of information.
All beings go from the age of energy [youth] to the age of increased information [old age]. When all the energy is transformed, the body collapses into death. Energy has become information, and then the yin-yang cycle starts again. Information dies. The organism explodes back into a microcosm of cellular, individual Times [Download: theory of times].
The cycle of existence from youth-energy into third age-information, and back again dissolving yourself into the Universe, is natural to all beings: Energy always trans-forms itself.

In the youth age, or first age, energy is more abundant. In the mature age of balance, the species reproduces. In the third age of the species, energy is scarce, but information is abundant, accumulated in the first ages.
Look at humans. Old people have a lot of information drawn in to their wrinkles and minds, but little energy. Young people have a lot of energy but less information. Mature people have both energy and information.
Between 30 and 40 humans are at their prime. Then it is the age of the couple, when women and men understand each other better, and together reproduce and have babies; which are a combination of both of them.
The existence of all species in this manner has three ages according to their diminishing content of energy and growing content of information: the age of growth, the age of balance and reproduction, and the age of extinction.
Let us consider some examples of those 3 ages in basic organisms of the Universe.

For example, young people are full of energy. They are in the Energy horizon of the species. They are bigger, have little temporal knowledge. They are simple in form. While Old people are full of information. They are in the information horizon of the species. They are smaller, have a lot of temporal knowledge. They move little, and have a lot of wrinkles.
Finally mature people, have such perfection and balance between the two elements of the organic Universe, between their content of energy-space, and temporal information, that they can reproduce the entire times, in all its components. Hence the second age is the age of reproduction. The forms of any Times in that age, is a realistic, harmonic, efficient combination of lines and cycles.
Again we perceive that form as 'beautiful', an objective concept of harmony between energy and information lines and cycles. So in all organisms the mature, realistic, classic age of balance, or reproductive age, is the most perfect age.
Human beings intuitively see that. We like spiral galaxies, mature people, realist art, which is called classic art and takes place in mature civilizations.
The 3 ages of Times are therefore related to the 3 networks developed by all organisms:
- The energy network [i.e.: your digestive system, the Golgi systems in cells]
- The information network [i.e.: your nervous system, the RNA networks in cells].
- The balanced, reproductive network [i.e.: your endocrine system of hormones, and sexual organs, the DNA molecules in cells].

The information network feeds, and 'knots' the energy body, as the organism of Times [Download: theory of times] lives. So the predominance of information over energy, displaces the active center of the organism, from the network of energy to the reproductive network, to the information network.

The will of Organism: Times

It follows that space and energy become times and form, as times goes by. That the fundamental arrow of the Universe that we call life is the creation of cyclical forms originated by the shaping and searching of energy. In that sense events in times are more important than forms in space, because temporal forms are the origin and goal of all things.

The Game Of Life And Death. The Game of Time

Those simple laws have enormous implications in the life of species. They explain the nature of life and death, of young and old.
From men who become wise and wrinkled as they become older; to giant red stars that explode into tiny dwarfs. From civilizations that enter a baroque age of art and excess of formalism, to galaxies that become bulky as they sink towards their black hole. The ages of life and death; the age of energy and the age of information; the age of space and the age of time, define the existence of Organisms. The ages of species are also a proof of the organic, and organic nature of so many beings of the Universe. Because if galaxies and civilizations were not cellular organisms, why should they follow the same laws which carbolife organisms follow?
Time-Information grows consuming the energy of the organism, cycle after cycle of the existence of any species.

So we can define any 'organism', in a process of social evolution either in a loose form, or a body-form as a wave, a radiation of populations growing from youth to maturity; and then dying from maturity to third age. When we represent this in a lineal graph, we obtain our bell curve of cellular populations. Of course reproduction has structural limits of balance, S=T, reached in the 'age of maturity'.
This explains why there are more 'mature' species in most forms of nature:
We see more spiral galaxies [II Horizon] than irregular galaxies [I Horizon] or elliptic galaxies [III Horizons]. We see more middle-aged people in modern societies [developed countries] than young people [I Horizon] or old people [III Horizon]. We prefer classic art, and monetary societies [II horizon] than lineal art and warrior societies [I Horizon] or baroque art and extinctive societies [III Horizons].

Brains of information control Energy bodies

We conclude that those ages can be easily deduced by the fact, that organisms are ruled by a Head of information. Since the Head of information constantly controls and uses the body to absorb energy, it is natural to find, that when the organism starts its life, it has more energy. He is young. Yet as the organism lives, the selfish brain absorbs that body energy, and trans-forms it into form, into in-form-nation. So energy diminishes and information grows. As you feed on energy, you trans-form energy into your cellular information. So information accumulates in cycles and forms, in patterns and wrinkles. Brain cells are selfish. For example, Neurons feed on the body system without giving back any energy at all.
Because Information and Time are related, it follows that as Time goes by, Information grows, in all species of the Universe.
But information is born from energy. Energy never dies, but constantly transforms into information.
Those laws of the 3 ages, and the supremacy of Brains over bodies are followed by all species of life, in all the phyla that have existed or will ever exist, because as we saw in the introduction they belong to the very essence of what Times are, organisms of energy and information.

The fundamental law

All this said it is clear that the fundamental law of survival in the Universe is to keep your balance between space and time, energy and information, youth and third age. To achieve that balance is the goal of all species, partially obtained through reproduction that 'repeats' your constants of energy and information precisely when they are in balance, in the middle, reproductive age.
That law overrides the shallow law of entropy. Since each process of death, of expansion, and unknotting of energy (entropy arrow), is balanced by the constant upgrading of energy into order and information caused by the slow process of living.
If we combine the constant equalization of temperatures caused by the processes of social evolution, of communication among similar particles, with the constant process of deviation of temperature caused by the explosion of species, that die away, both balance.
That balance of spatial energy released in processes of death, and temporal information equalized in processes of order, explains the immortality of the universe.
Each of its species, universes, micro and macrocosms might die, but the Universe is eternal in itself:

E=i, S=T, eXistence

... The fundamental law. The fundamental game.