THE SPACE-TIME ARROW AND TOTALITY IN TOTALIZATION

Abstract

This paper, which arises from a theoretical-conceptual review and which crossed different fields of knowledge, in a transdisciplinary proposal, aims to present the arrow of space-time as a fundamental element for the analytical understanding of the flows of energy and matter, which systematically integrate the society with its natural environment, and directly alter planetary evolution. For the choice of method, we reject Cartesian-Newtonian thinking because we understand its conceptual fragility, which fragments space in relation to time and which is based on a precise and linear machine universe. Therefore, for this research, the method of reading the systemic-quantum reality was chosen. This epistemology, in turn, provided an understanding of phenomena such as the integration of space with time, unpredictability, interconnectivity and self organization. In the development of the research and after a first conceptual debate, aiming to consolidate our hypothesis, a comparison between ecological and non-ecological agricultural soils was proposed. This choice was due to agricultural activity being the first, after the emergence of the Holocene, to generate major impacts on the environment. Thus, when realizing the importance of the place and its integrated relations with nature, it was shown that non-ecological soils generate great instability in the natural systems that surround it, being able to create irreversible processes in them. Such mechanism is due to the fact that this type of management uses a large amount of external energy with machinery, pesticides, artificial irrigation, alteration of the production process, among other issues. For such reasons, non-ecological areas of agriculture end up emitting great instabilities to the other natural spheres that surround them, which may generate irreversible processes and that now, alongside other processes, show the evolution of the planet in a new level of ecological-geological organization known as Anthropocene. In turn, ecological soils that have systems in balance close to natural balance, as they are not linked to large energy flows, end up maintaining old patterns of organization, and do not collaborate to effect major changes in the development of the arrow(s) of space-time on the planet.