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If everything is in permanent change, can the Universe itself be fundamentally passive? Answering this question requires a clear concept of "activity.' The nature of "action' is a central and unsolved philosophical problem. Actions play a crucial role in the way we conceive of ourselves, life and the Universe, and the value we put on these. In four decades of research on solar activity, we found that activity is not a mere occurrence but a genuine activity of the Sun, initiated globally by the Sun using quantum processes as tools that generates suitable primary mass flows locally in the solar core that are capable of producing a working dynamo. We argue that solar activity is initiated by biological causes existing beyond the system of physical causes.The anthropic principle demands an extremely special trigger initiating the Big Bang in a way suited to the development of life. The Astrobiological Revolution indicates the generation of complex organic molecules preferentially favorable to life even in the "impossible' physical conditions present in extremely rare and cold cosmic clouds. With the help of Ervin Bauer's biological principle, we find explanation for biological determinism and life's being a "cosmic imperative.'Modern cosmology uses obsolete Laplacean models. We show that the biological principle in the Universe involves a continuous biological activity of the Universe prevailing everywhere, including in ourselves. This universal activity is the basis of our life instinct and of logic too.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77516-6_10

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