Arend van Campen

Synopsis of thesis in four projects by Arend van Campen Based on the first of the four tasks of the School of Athens ‘Seek Knowledge of Causes’, ‘Divine Inspiration’, ‘Knowledge of Divine Things’, ‘To each what is due’. The hypothesis 'what are the criteria for non-harmful functionality of man-made living systems ’ was answered. The thesis demonstrates how natural, like physical and biological living systems were formed, evolved and sustained themselves over the centuries. A bridge was built between these systems and social communication systems. The physical foundations are: - 1st Law of Thermodynamics: universal energy cannot be created or destroyed - 2nd Law of Thermodynamics: entropy is always increasing. (Think of your workplace, it starts in a tidy form and during the day it gets messy (disorder=entropy). The information: ‘it's a mess’, takes energy to clean it up. - 2nd Law of Information Dynamics; mass-energy-information are equivalent. The biologica