tegwick 6ccd5e2a6a Complete Deppert paper dialogue: Evolution des Bewusstseins

Lock the Unitariertag 2009 PDF from Downloads/blog, reconstruct claims D-01–D-29,
and write comparative commentary. Main result: strong support for open-system
viability and nested life, serious challenge from defining Bewusstsein as
survival-function coupling (false friend for Soul Frame consciousness/Mind).
Feed findings into Claims, OpenQuestions, Terminology, and bibliography.

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Bibliographic note — Deppert, Die Evolution des Bewusstseins

Citation

Author: Wolfgang Deppert
Title: Die Evolution des Bewusstseins
Year: 2009 (lecture content); print pagination in source PDF: 85–101
Work type: lecture text / essay chapter (print excerpt)
Language: German
Publisher / venue:
  Inhaltliche Wiedergabe des Vortrages zum Unitariertag 2009 in Halle/Saale
  (as stated in Anmerkungen of the PDF). Exact book imprint of the 85–101
  pagination not printed on the PDF face; PDF metadata title "Darwin2.qxd"
  (created 2009-08-12).
ISBN / DOI / URL:
  Working copy URL:
    https://blog-conny-dethloff.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Wolfgang-Deppert-Die-Evolution-des-Bewusstseins.pdf
  Local copies:
    $DOWNLOADS/Wolfgang-Deppert-Die-Evolution-des-Bewusstseins.pdf
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Edition / pages:
  PDF: 17 pages
  Original print page numbers in PDF: 85–101

Access

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Repo working copy: source/Wolfgang-Deppert-Die-Evolution-des-Bewusstseins.pdf
Access date: 2026-08-12
Extracted text (local working aid): source/extracted-text.txt

Unit of analysis

The complete text of the PDF (lecture reconstruction, print pages 85–101), including footnotes and literature list.

Abstract in the source's own vocabulary

Deppert argues that human consciousness cannot be a sudden non-evolutionary exception: it must be understood with a general concept of consciousness built on a general concept of living being. A living being is an open (dissipative) system with a survival problem that it can solve for a while. Survival requires five coupled functions (perception, danger-assessment, measure-readiness, measure-execution, energy supply). When those functions are differentiated, their coupling organization is the being’s consciousness, always tied to a will to survive. Will is teleological (final), not causal; open-system attractors reconcile final and causal description. Will enters the world as survival-will in the form of system attractors. Consciousness forms evolve with division of labor and hierarchical subordination of wills (cells → organism → herd → child). Human consciousness appears only with world-picture representations; further cultural evolution yields individuality-consciousness (not genetically innate). Libet’s experiments measure coupling delay, not the absence of free will. Cultural communities are also “living beings” with survival-will; individual ethics binds decisions to preservation of outer and inner existence (dignity). The result is a unitarian life principle: life that wants to live amid life that wants to live (Schweitzer).

Why selected for Soul Frame

Relevance:
  Direct stress test of Soul Frame’s consciousness stance, Mind-as-model,
  autonomy/self-maintenance, nested individuality, and cultural personhood.

Risk:
  Deppert *identifies* Bewusstsein with survival-function coupling — high
  collision with Soul Frame’s Mind/Body/consciousness split. Risk of absorbing
  a teleological/materialist consciousness theory into Beinghood.

Status

drafting — full PDF read (17 pages); commentary and matrix filled.

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