In 1977 a Vital Needs Model which required an independent property, symmetrical to entropy, which is here named syntropy, was presented by the authors. According to this model syntropy could not be a product of the laws of the macroscopic world, as all the laws of the macrocosm are dependent on entropy. For this reason the authors searched evidences of the property of syntropy at other levels, finding, at the quantum mechanic level, equations that always yield a positive solution, retarded waves which move forward in time, and a negative solution, advanced waves which move backward in time. In 1941 the mathematician Luigi Fantappie demonstrated that advanced waves concentrate energy, produce differentiation and structures, and show qualities which are identical to those which can be observed in living systems. In this way, Fantappie arrived at the conclusion that living systems are a manifestation of causes originated in the future (retrocausality).
In 1977 a Vital Needs Model which required an independent property, symmetrical to entropy, which is here named syntropy, was presented by the authors. According to this model syntropy could not be a product of the laws of the macroscopic world, as all the laws of the macrocosm are dependent on entropy. For this reason the authors searched evidences of the property of syntropy at other levels, finding, at the quantum mechanic level, equations that always yield a positive solution, retarded waves which move forward in time, and a negative solution, advanced waves which move backward in time. In 1941 the mathematician Luigi Fantappie demonstrated that advanced waves concentrate energy, produce differentiation and structures, and show qualities which are identical to those which can be observed in living systems. In this way, Fantappie arrived at the conclusion that living systems are a manifestation of causes originated in the future (retrocausality).
Just before Christmas 1941 Luigi Fantappie, one of the major mathematicians of the last century, saw the possibility of interpreting a wide range of solutions (the anticipated potentials of the wave equations) which had been always rejected as impossible, but which explained a new category of phenomena, which Fantappie named syntropic, totally different from the entropic one of the mechanical, physical and chemical laws. This insight projected Fantappie in a new panorama, which radically changed the vision of science and of the Universe which he had inherited from his teachers and which had always been the strong and certain ground on which to base his scientific investigations. A change in the basic assumptions within the ruling theory of science since it states that there are as many forward-in-time causes as backward-in-time. Although Fantappie was one of the foremost mathematicians of the last century, a full professor at the age of 27 and had been invited by Robert Oppenheimer to become a member of the Institute of Advanced Study, his publications on the theory of syntropy were unavailable since 1991.
An essential component of the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics is Schrodinger’s wave equation. According to this interpretation, consciousness, through the exercise of observation, forces the wave function to collapse into a particle. Schrodinger’s wave equation is not relativistically invariant and when the relativistically invariant wave equation (Klein-Gordon’s equation) is taken into account, there is no collapse of the wave function and no justification for consciousness as a prerequisite to reality. Klein-Gordon’s wave equation depends on a square root and yields two solutions: retarded waves which move forwards in time and advanced waves which move backwards in time. Advanced waves were considered to be unacceptable since they contradict the law of causality, according to which causes always precede effects. However, while studying the mathematical properties of KleinGordon’s equation, the mathematician Luigi Fantappie noted that retarded waves are governed by the law of entropy (from Greek en=diverge, tropos=tendency), whereas advanced waves are governed by a law opposite to entropy which leads to concentration of energy, differentiation, complexity, order and growth of structures. Fantappie named this law syntropy (syn=converge, tropos=tendency) and noted that its properties coincide with the qualities of living systems, arriving in this way at the conclusion that life and consciousness are a consequence of advanced waves (Fantappie, 1942).
Chalmers divides the problems of consciousness into: The easy problem, which deals with the study of neurobiological models of consciousness. Considering the enormous progresses of science it is relatively simple to find neural correlates of the conscious experiences. The easy problems largely deals with the functioning of the brain in the way it transmits and reads sensory signals, in the processing of information, in the control of behaviour, in the mechanisms underlying intelligence and memory, in the capability of reproducing verbal accounts, etc. Nevertheless, according to Chalmers, this approach does not explain the subjective qualities that consciousness has for the subject; in other words this approach is not able to answer the problem of the phenomenal consciousness. The hard problem which deals with the explanation of the qualitative and subjective aspects of consciousness, which escape a physicalistic and materialistic analysis. In the first chapter of this work, models suggested by Antonio Damasio (1999), Gerald Edelman (2000) and Francisco Varela (1996) are described. These models try to explain consciousness using the principles of classical physics. These models show a different attitude towards localization: Damasio suggests neural sites in which consciousness could take place, Edelman suggests that consciousness is a global process of all the brain and Varela considers consciousness as a distributed quality of all the organism and of the interaction of the organism with the environment. In the second chapter, the models of consciousness based on quantum mechanics are reviewed. Using together the criteria of scientific falsification and the criteria of biological compatibility only two models, one suggested by Luigi Fantappiè (1942) and the other one suggested by Chris King (2003), survive the selection. It is interesting to note that these models are not pure quantum mechanical models, as they both originate from the integration of Schrödinger’s wave equation (quantum mechanics) with special relativity
The findings of physics at the beginning of the last century have caused a revolutionary change in our commonly accepted view of the world. Because of their seemingly paradoxical features the philosophical consequences of the new insights, however, were never really adopted by the scientific community despite the quite apparent and far-reaching technical innovations they enabled. The new so-called „quantum“ physics revealed that the world at its foundation is no longer the familiar, tangible (thing-like) reality but rather a holistic immaterial „gestalt“: pure „interconnectedness“, inseparable „potentiality“. Its evolution in time does not follow from strictly determined laws but is only guided by certain inherent tendencies exhibited in terms of definite probabilities for possible material-energetic realizations. Generally these realizations recover the appearance of the familiar classical world as an objective reality with rigorous dynamic laws. In contrast to the old world view, where matter, consisting of discrete, constant building blocks, ranks first, and its various forms result secondarily from different law-determined arrangements of these building blocks, the situation in the modern view is turned around: Relationship or „gestalt“ or „information“ is now more fundamental and substance or matter/energy appears subsequently as an as-if phenomenon on the macroscopic level. The new world view sets limits to knowledge and the related science on principle. It proves to be very powerful because it establishes bridges between all disciplines and hitherto conflicting paradigms and descriptions. In particular in this more open framework the non-living and living phenomena (including the human species) no longer appear as basically different, but as two different structures of the same immaterial essence, relating respectively to static stable and static instable (highly sensitive), but dynamically stabilised (homeostatic) configurations. In such a „basically alive“ world biology and medicine, therefore, have to accept that logistically the immaterial, information-type (“spiritual“) software in the background becomes more important than the (physical) hardware being guided by it. The well-known difficulty of complementary medicine – and in particular of homeopathy with its impressive healing record – to explain its experience in the language of the old science, based on substances and a mechanistic dynamic, may thus be resolved within the more open and flexible framework of modern „science“, in which knowledge has a more open meaning (due to basic indeterminism) offering many more dimensions for healing to the devoted healer. The observation of a highly diversified filigree crystalline structure of (liquid) water, as demonstrated by recent studies, may represent a material/energetic print-out of the hidden information coded in the basic immaterial software.
This article presents a comprehensive synthesis of an investigative journey that unifies Luigi Fantappiè’s theory of syntropy with Feynman-Wheeler electrodynamics, exploring its implications for information conservation, causality, and the development of optimization algorithms. We propose the concept of a “temporal standing wave” as a mechanism for informational retroactive feedback. Through computational simulation, we demonstrate how syntropy can act as an attractor of order, reducing Shannon entropy. We present a detailed experimental protocol for detecting “informational echoes” in quantum and biological systems, and outline the architecture of an innovative optimization algorithm, SintropIA, which incorporates syntropic principles to accelerate convergence in complex problems. We discuss the profound implications of these discoveries for fundamental physics, biology, and artificial intelligence. Keywords: Syntropy; Retrocausality; Feynman-Wheeler Absorber Theory; Temporal Standing Wave; Informational Echoes; SintropIA; Quantum Mechanics; Artificial Intelligence; Time Symmetry.