Evoluzione, Tempo, Endofisica

It is discussed the persisting necessity for a change in paradigm in science and in the common way of thinking, from the exophysical perspective, typical of the classic realism, to an endophysical one, where the mutual interaction between us and the environment is not neglected. The necessity clearly results from the continuous debate on the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics in relation with the investigation of the microworld and from the unresolved problem of the compatibility of the linear, reversible and unstructured time of physics with the highly structured time of our perception endowed with an irreversible arrow. The necessity in the proposed change in paradigm is still clearer if we focus our attention to the formation of a representation of the external world in our mind, a process similar to that observed in nature in all complex self-organizing physical systems – including living organisms and human societies – producing order in competition with the second principle of thermodynamics. In such a conceptual schema, in fact, the acquisition of knowledge in man occurs in continuous and strict interaction with the environment and the result is always a new situation in which both man (with his representation of the world) and the environment are irreversibly changed.