The Universe Institute's Papers section lists published and unpublished papers, white papers, and articles about DTF and DMAP or papers developed using DTF and DMAP methodology at some point in their creation process.

The Papers section is arranged by categories. Some categories may contain papers unrelated to the Universe Institute's mission and goals or may not be created with DMAP or DTF, but they will be labeled as such.

Please note that the breakthrough dialectical metasystemic advanced analysis and problem-solving methodology (DMAP) is also known by its originator, Otto Laske, as the dialectical thought form system (DTF).

 

Progressive Evolution

John Stewart, a proficient DMAP user and proponent, has published extensively on the Progressive Evolution subject, as found below:

Stewart, John E. (2022), The Evolution and Development of Consciousness: The Subject-Object Emergence Hypothesis. Biosystems, 217: 104687.

Stewart, John E. (2020), Towards a general theory of the major cooperative evolutionary transitions. BioSystems, 198: 104237.

Stewart, John. E. (2019), The Trajectory of Evolution and its Implications for Humanity. Journal of Big History, 3, pp 141-155.

Stewart, John E. (2019), The Origins of Life: The Managed-Metabolism Hypothesis. Foundations of Science, 24, pp 171-195.

Stewart, John E. (2018), Evolutionary Possibilities: Can a society be constrained so the "the good" self-organizes? World Futures, 74, pp 1-35.

Stewart, J. E. (2016), The Evolution of Cooperative Organization and the Origins of Life.  Presented at the OEE Workshop held at ALIFE XV, Cancun, Mexico, 4 July 2016.

Stewart, J. E. (2015), The Self-Organizing Society: A Grower's Guide. ECCO Working paper 2015-12.

Stewart, J. E. (2014), The direction of evolution: The rise of cooperative organisation, BioSystems, 123: 27-36 download

Stewart, J. E. (2010), The meaning of life in a developing universe, Foundations of Science, 15, pp. 395-409.

Stewart, J. E. (2007), The future evolution of consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14, pp. 58-92.

Stewart, J. E. (2001), Future psychological evolution, Journal of Dynamical Psychology.

Stewart, J. E. (2000), Evolution’s Arrow: the direction of evolution and the future of humanity, (Rivett, Canberra: Chapman Press).

Stewart, J. E. (1997), Evolutionary Progress, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 20, pp. 335-62.

Stewart, J. E. (1997), Evolutionary transitions and artificial life, Artificial Life, 3, pp. 101-120.

Stewart, J. E. (1997), The evolution of genetic cognition, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 20, pp 53-73

Stewart, J. E. (1995), Metaevolution, Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems, 18, 113-114.

Stewart, J. E. (1993), The maintenance of sex, Evolutionary Theory, 10,195-202.

 

Podcasts, Videos, Interviews, and Discussions on Progressive Evolution

Nine YouTube Videos in which John Stewart talks about the evolutionary worldview and its implications for humanity, go to: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpotN6lpXPsYj_MVoznhE27lJ3RqyJ4L-

For example, see this discussion with John Vervaeke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NUb2HaElhA&t=6s