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Assumptions

The starting point for this synthesis is some simple assumptions.

• There is no special metaphysics that applies to life, human life or consciousness. They are the result of matter structured in a certain way. The self awareness  of its own structure is () the existence of an object  .

• Consciousness is () structured existence  . Mathematics, as the study of all logically possible structures  , fully encompasses the structure of life, consciousness 

  and evolution. Pure mathematical results like Gödel 's incompleteness theorem have direct implications for human evolution and creativity.

• There are no completed or absolute infinite totalities  . Infinite totalities have the property that you can add something to them without changing them. Self aware structures cannot have    this property. There may be an infinite collection of finite self aware structures but there is no ``completed'' infinite. Technically the difference between class and set 

  occurs with the infinite collection of all finite sets. There can be no structured infinite objects. 

These metaphysical assumptions  can be neither proved no disproved. We justify them in Chapters through and Appendixes and . as the simplest assumptions that are consistent with what we understand of the world, ourselves and mathematics. ``By their fruits you shall know them.'' The assumptions will stand or fall by the results they produce.