Extended Thinking

The Extended Thinking is a concept created by the Italian philosopher Emanuele Franz, and expressed in his work: The esoteric bases of microbiology. Principles for a new theory of life based on the Extended Thinking published in 2016.

In this work, the result of eight years of study and research, a theory, the theory of "Extended Thinking", is presented. This theory claims, among other things, to explain life without using evolutionism, and to do so, it proposes a new vision of the mind.

The concept of "Extended Thinking" is a kind of non-individual, universal thought that examines categories of innate thoughts, such as those of substance, cause, effect, and so on. However, the author positions these thoughts "outside" individuality, associating them with the community (differentiating this from concepts like "extended mind" or "collective unconscious"). This cognitive activity is placed within the universe itself.

The basic idea of this study is a development, in a completely new sense, of Goethe's morphology. It provides an internal model within the organism that expresses and takes form, and not vice versa, as in Darwinian evolutionism. This model is pre-existing, universal, and encompasses all organisms. The goal is to determine this original model and understand its relationship with the psyche and thought, to assess their relationships and influence on the body. The result, according to the theory, is that thought determines the body, not vice versa.

This book claims to present a new theory of the mind and a new perspective on the relationship between the conscious and unconscious mind. It argues that what we typically consider the unconscious is not so unconscious; instead, it is a "wise/enlightened unconscious". The concept of "Extended Thinking", encompassing the entire work, asserts that thought is not internal to us but universal, subject to hierarchies that aggregate into centers of greater force. Furthermore, it suggests that thought is measurable.

A significant ambition of this study is to find an alternative to Darwin's theory, a sufficiently valid theory to explain different forms of life without relying on natural selection. To achieve this, a new theory of the mind is not enough; a new vision of time is also necessary. The theory proposes a new concept of time: a "fourth state of time" that is neither past, present, nor future, but an ontological coexistence of beings in a space where one entity is simultaneously another and is not separate from it. With these new concepts of time, the theory attempts to explain the origin of life without resorting to evolutionism. Indeed, it outlines a new taxonomy of life based on the elements of Empedocles. The entire theory employs a branch of mathematics called group theory, alongside combinatorial calculus, forming the foundation of the new theory of mind and life presented here.

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