1. EVOLUTION, DESIGN AND THE ABSOLUTE  The Finite and the Infinite Anil Mitra

2. Evolution and Design The Story: “Evolution and Design” 1987 as a focal origin Personal: development and opportunity Understanding - Human enterprise “design” in relation to Universal “evolution” Conscious and “blind” evolution Evolution as an ontology drawing together modern disciplines, all cultures, and all origins

3. Evolution and Design: Some Results Knowledge: As whole, details and dynamics Designs and plans: individual and universal Global consultation… the idea of HRI and H.E. An individual facing existence Evaluating global endeavor by universal context An example of an absolute metaphysics - absolute by its very fluidity

4. Origins of inclusion of the ABSOLUTE Evolution and Design My continuing search A paradigm at its limits The Absolute as its complement and consequence Larger questions: final nature of being; destinies; evaluating Evolution and Design; the immediate and the ultimate Extending the results and realms of application

5. The Idea of the Absolute Absolute Knowledge: Multiple World Views The Absolute in the Present Final claims and immediate fluidity: play Ancient knowledge and modernism The Absolute is accessible: the path is beautiful, continues on and begins here at my feet

6. The Path - 1 All Modes of Experience, Knowledge, Culture, Process and Being N ature: physical, organic…and the wild S ociety: cultures, groups and dynamics P syche: consciousness and mind U niversal: dynamics and the unconscious

7. The Path - 2: Details Builds upon what exists: memory, genetics, process…or coding, form and “function” Speculative-experiential-selective-critical Plural in inclusion… and singular in ends or conclusions: Finite and Infinite Detail and Whole Here-Now and The absolute

8. SOURCES From Idea to Being The Modes of Experience, Process… From Plato to Heidegger to de Chardin… Western World Survey of and experience with cultures Field of Being and Ideas