Agustín Ostachuk
Mainstream evolutionary biology, despite its successes, fails to answer three fundamental questions: Where does biological form come from? Why does development follow ordered, purposeful trajectories? And what is the place of consciousness in nature? These silences are not accidental. They stem from a materialist and mechanist worldview - of which Darwinism is the most influential expression - that excludes teleology, form, and agency from its explanatory vocabulary, reducing evolution to a blind filter of random variations and consciousness to an epiphenomenon of neural complexity. The Evolutio Unfolding Theory (EUT) confronts these lacunae head-on. It begins from a single logical principle - the complex cannot be generated from the simpler - and deduces a complete ontology of evolution as the ordered actualization of a virtual matrix of formally structured layers. Within this framework, evolution is not a blind accumulation of random mutations, but a purposive unfolding of pre-existing formal potentials. Teleology is restored as a real formal cause (the final cause is the formal cause). Consciousness is not an emergent property but the intrinsic condition of access to the virtual, ontologically unified with agency. Drawing on historical analysis, ideological critique, empirical evidence from network-based studies, and a systematic extraction of necessary consequences, the EUT demonstrates that randomness, branching pathways, and emergence ex nihilo are excluded by the very logic of unfolding. It offers a life-centered science - a necessary correction to a biology that has forgotten its proper subject: life as an agentic and teleological process in a conscious and purposeful cosmos. This volume presents the definitive, canonical formulation of the EUT.
