Last Updated: 3.25.25.

Prologue

The advanced summary below is only for advanced students of Progressive Evolution (the progressive directionality and dominant trends of universe evolution.) If you have not read about the core principles of progressive evolution, we have provided this additional advanced student section.

The Universe Principles of Right Attitude and Right Action are based upon principles of progressive evolution, the universe’s core interests, and meta-principles. Knowing these universe core value interests and meta-principles in greater detail can help you understand the validity and power of the Universe Principles of Right Action.

The advanced universe value interests and meta-principles below are found within the universe’s deepest, repeating successful action meta-patterns and meta-processes. Consider these value interests and meta-principles as the universe's and evolution's core "operating system."

Unfortunately, what you read below is exceedingly complex, and careful thought is required as you move from one value and meta-principle to the next.

“The most practical belief system for a large-scale society, in the long run, is one that is firmly anchored in factual reality.”-- DAVID SLOAN WILSON

The core value interests of the universe

The following universe value interests and meta-principles (below) relate most to the Right Actions. They appear to facilitate the release of ALL inherent potentials for experience and relationship and to facilitate exhausting all possibilities for increasing, improving, or developing:

1. Continuous creative release of its potential and potentiality (for a created or evolving thing to become what it can be.) This continuous release or realization of potential

Births continuous evolutionary change, which births increasing...

2. Complexity, which creates

3. Increasing  novelty/variety/diversity, which with increasing complexity eventually creates increasing

4. Uncertainty, which also eventually creates increasing:

5. Creative expansion/growth/development/production (and in some cases reproduction), which then births increasing reproduction (within the growth and reproduction areas), which includes increased energy use, expansion, and growth, which is a form of the concept of productivity for the part or whole is found., This also points to productivity as an intrinsic universe value interest.) 

6. Awareness/consciousness, (which starts with sensing awareness of the most local physical environment, then expanding to self-awareness (consciousness and witnessing of the self), and then expands to awareness of other things or selves, which then also possibly expands to awareness of more other-selves and more awareness of the physical planet and Universe as systems, which eventually expands toward awareness of the Great Mystery of the universe's origin --- Ultimate Reality [what some of a spiritual nature might even call awareness of what some would call Gog or God-awareness], which then creates increasing,

The German philosopher Hegel once described history as the story of "more and more matter becoming conscious." It is not hard to observe that more biological lifeforms like animals and humans have become conscious, and soon, artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to become mindful. It is even expected that at some point, AI will become self-reproducing, and its silicon and metal forms will spread out as a conscious new entity in the universe.

7. Learning and intelligence, which then create increasing,

8. Self-organization, autopoiesis (for more on self-organization principles, click here.) Self-organization also includes self-discipline and self-responsibility.

9. Creative adaptability/evolvability and of which all of the above is always based upon the evolutionary center hub of increasing

10. ENERGY EXCHANGE that comes from productivity and is appropriate (fair) for establishing sustainable and dynamic energy balances, reserves, and unions. (evolution appears to love to establish zones of relative dynamic stability using balanced (fair) energy exchange (as a type of spinning gyroscope) to support members of the paring, relationship, or union.) which then births an increased,

11. Full-consequence capture, full accountability (which requires expanding levels of full transparency for all parts of a whole and the wholes themselves. In one way or another, evolution eventually and invariably consistently enforces increasing levels of consequence capture upon any parts or wholes that do not learn, adapt, "cooperate," fairly exchange energy, and progressively evolve. High and expanding levels of transparency and accountability are critical to enacting full consequence capture because the powerful evolutionary self-interests of either the individual parts or the self-interests of wholes [groupings/unions,] when hidden or not accounted for, will always take over and lessen the essential optimal balance and tension between the self-interests of the individual and the self-interests of the whole group or union. Which in some parts and unions within the universe eventually then emerges,

12. Cooperative union building is also continually building toward new, larger, and more sustainable dynamic fair energy exchanging unions of increasing environmental control and evolvability (where the tensional self-interests of the parts have been effectively managed and balanced with the tensional self-interests of the whole. This is done by the evolved management capabilities within the cooperative whole to align and balance the overall health, well-being, and self-interests of the entire union with the value interests of the Universe itself) and --- where these unions also create and maintain adequate reserves for their dynamic survival, which when approaching ideal facilitates and enhances,

13. Optimal Creative freedom/choice, self-responsibility, and self-discipline for parts in unions and the

14. Optimal transparency, integration, harmonization, and ordering of parts within unions and within unions themselves --- and in the process of the preceding is created increasing,

15. Robustness, redundancies, and reserves of the parts and the various unions to insure against rare, very large-impact negative consequences from future uncertainties and "black swans." (Black swans are unpredictable events with huge or exponential negative or positive consequences and impacts.)

16. Expanding control over the environment for individuals and cooperative unions (parts and wholes that also are in harmony with the principles of universe evolution,) then a long, long time into the evolutionary future,

17. A new evolution-created "self/union-aware" super-unification and super-stabilization of all Universe interconnected and diverse interdependent parts and wholes come into being, and this,

18. Potential predicted super-union evolves toward a creative transcendence of the universe itself as both parts and the whole itself. It is a time in evolution when the above universe's "value-interest" possibilities for releasing, increasing, improving, developing, or transcending experience and relationship (sharing) have been fully exhausted. The Universe at that moment could be said to have then completed a cycle of the Universe’s own realization of potential, having achieved full creative manifestation/distribution, development, and realization of all possible inherent "value interest" potentials up to and including transcendence.

19. If transcendence in either a part, a whole, or the whole of the universe occurs, then the cycle of developmental steps or levels above may restart in whole or part with the new emergence or creativity. If transcendence did not happen for any reason (which also includes failed experiments, retrogressions, collapses, and extinctions,) then waste nothing of that which has reached the limits of its existence, growth, or potential release cycle --- recycle back all resources and parts back to evolution to be used in new creativity. (Collapse is sometimes necessary and good for parts or a whole that steadfastly fail to learn and adapt to the limits of their ecosystem. Collapse often creates a new space needed and the eventual regeneration of a resource-depleted space for new evolutionary experiments or species.) 

The above Universe core value interests and meta-principles can and should be viewed collectively as a full evolutionary cycle, where the last step restarts again in a new way at the first step of the next cycle. Alternatively, they can be viewed collectively as an expanding spiral, where the last step eventually returns to the area of the first step but in a new and more expansive way.

The above Universe core value-interests and meta-principles listed ARE evolution’s “goods” and most probable directional mega-trends for the future. This is because they have proven themselves to be the core, most repeated megatrends of evolution’s past 13.7 billion years despite all manner of uncertainties, spontaneities, retrogression, and other forms of evolutionary meandering. The Universe appears to have demonstrated adaptive patterns that can use and incorporate unforeseen spontaneities to eventually forward its value-interests and meta-principles.

Looking at the Universe Principles as a whole and particularly through their key meta-principles like fair exchange and sustainability, one can begin to see in new and expanded wording the core essence, key parts, or more enlightened aspects of almost every ethical, moral, and legal code humanity has ever developed. This is only natural because humanity has always used what happens in real human life in nature (the universe) to create its codes, even when it attributes the origin of these codes to other more supernatural sources. 

But, no matter how you view them, they (and the Universe Principles derived from them) consist of a complete and whole system for the successful ongoing creative evolution of sustainable and thriving parts and wholes in the universe. Some individuals consider the universe's progressive evolutionary directionality to be a highly functional, detailed, and objective description of the most probable meaning of life.

They are also the universe's most probable directional mega-trends for the future. This is because they have proven themselves to be the core, most often repeated megatrends of evolution’s past 13.7 billion years despite all manner of the universe's inherent developmental uncertainties, spontaneities, retrogression, and extinctions. The universe’s main reoccurring value interests (above), found within its deepest key repeating patterns, are sometimes called the core progressive directionality of the universe or the evolutionary impulse. Sometimes, these universe-value interests are even called the goals of the physical universe's evolution.

"When you understand the meta-principles of Progressive Evolution, you will also understand the universe's "best practices" and its core "operating system." Lawrence Wollersheim

To dive far deeper into the advanced underpinnings of the science behind the Universe Principles

Please go to the progressive evolution link in the Learn pull-down menu at the top of every website page.

Footnotes, Qualifications, and Additional Resources and Information Regarding the Universe Principles Right Actions

1.) The principle of Progressive Evolution is derived in a substantive part from evolutionary science.

2.) To dive deeper into the science of the Universe Principles and universe evolution, click here. This is mainly for advanced students and covers much of what was not covered in the medium-length descriptions of the Universe Principles.

3.) If you are a philosopher, you may want to see how the meta-principles of universe evolution defeat the arguments of the Naturalistic Fallacy. Click here to find out why and how the meta-principles of universe evolution legitimately create values and, "oughts" and "shoulds" to improve our personal lives and world.

4.) When the action and attitudinal parts of the Universe Principles are taken and used as a balanced whole, they are, in effect, a new and universal evolutionary meta-ethics and meta-morality. This is important because:

“The greatest fight in the history of the world and the world of ideas is the fight to establish a universal morality.” Stefan Molyneux philosopher

5.) Looking at the Universe Principles as a whole and particularly through their keywords like fair exchange and sustainability, one can begin to see in new and expanded wording the core essence, key parts, or more enlightened aspects of almost every ethical, moral and legal code humanity has ever developed. This is only natural because humanity has always used what happens in real human life in nature (the universe) to create its codes, even when it attributes the origin of these codes to other more supernatural sources. Click here to see how we have woven the Universe Principles of Sustainability into our code of conduct and ethics for living.

6.) The Universe Principles are divided into two parts: the Principles of Right Action and the Principles of Right Attitude. You should read the action principles first. The Universe Principles are derived from Jon Stewart's The Universe Manifesto. 

7.) The Universe has demonstrated adaptive patterns that can use and incorporate unforeseen spontaneities to eventually also advance its core value interests.

8.) The universe as a whole system appears to behave much like smaller living evolutionary systems. Or are smaller living evolutionary systems behaving like the universe when viewed as an entire and whole system? Is the universe itself a living thing or an organism at the ultimate universe scale?

9.) If you are spiritual in the traditional sense of Religion and you would like to see how the above meta-principles of progressive evolution could relate to better understanding the nature and purposes of God or God's will or even God's universal commandments, click here.

10.) The word Universe can also include whatever you call or believe the Universe’s origin to be, the great mystery of the universe's origin, total reality, God Buddha, Ultimate Reality, etc.

11.) Learning and living the Universe Principles in action and attitudinal forms is also the Level 3 practice of Universe Spirituality Evolution if you are spiritual.

12.) Each of the Universe Principles taken collectively also suggests all of the essential educational core curricula that Universe Evolutioneers and universe citizens should pursue and that integral, evolutionary, environmental, and sustainability organizations should be teaching to create effective and complete curriculums.

13.) If you have not yet read the full description of progressive evolution, --- the core facts upon which the Universe Principles are based, we recommend you do this advanced study soon.

14.) We strongly suggest that you print out the Universe Principles, read and practice them daily, and discover just how dramatically your life, groups, and the world can improve. It takes many daily readings of them and at least 90 days of conscious practice for their power to slowly evolve away from any contrary, deeply embedded, or habituated thinking and reactions. My clarity and life have improved hugely since I began practicing them, and it has been far more than worth all of that conscious effort. Practicing ALL of these principles in balance and not just practicing one or two of them is what it means to be or become a complete Evolutioneer and life sustainability and thrivability advocate. (Click here to go to the short forms of the Universe Principles of Right Action and Right Attitude. They are easier to read and practice regularly in this form.)

15.) If you have suggestions or criticisms, send them to [email protected] with “Principles” in the subject line. 

16.)  This is the 108th version of the Universe Principles of Sustainability since work began on them in 2007. This version was updated on 3.25.25.