Bios is demonstrated in multiple physical processes, ranging from quantum waves (Schrödinger equation) to the temporal distribution of galaxies, at variance with standard models that highlight uncertainty and random stationary models. Likewise biotic patterns are demonstrated in heartbeat intervals, the temporal variation of animal populations, and economic time series. These observations indicate that biotic processes play a significant role in physical, biological and human evolution. Bios is also found in the series of prime numbers, indicating that bios is a fundamental mathematical process. Mathematical recursions show that biotic patterns are generated by the recursion (action) of bipolar and bidimensional oppositions (e.g. sinusoidal waveforms) and conservation. In nature, bios may be generated by the interaction of similar and universal processes: (1) action, the flow of energy in time; (2) the rotation of harmonic opposites; (3) the conservation of stable structures. At the physical level, they are exemplified by physical action (Planck’s quantum) and unipolar gravity, bipolar electromagnetic force and the tripolar nuclear forces that generate stable material structures. These factors appear to be necessary and sufficient to generate life-like (biotic) patterns. These forms reoccur in a homologous fashion within and between the multiple levels of organization they contribute to create. While current discourse on complexity stress random change and puts forward the emergence of order out of chaos, mathematical recursions show that order deterministically generates chaos, and the diffusion of chaos generates bios. Biological evolution is a creative development in which (1) causal actions (not just random mutations) generate biological variation; (2) bipolar feedback (synergy and antagonism, not only Darwinian struggle and competition) generates information (diversification, novelty and complexity); (3) connections (of molecules, genes, species) construct systems in which simple processes have priority for survival but complex processes acquire supremacy. Economic processes also are created by human actions, abundance and scarcity, and nucleation into hierarchical systems, not equilibrium states determined by scarcity in which participants are rational and in an equal footing, as misrepresented by standard economics). Similar processes operate in social and psychological processes, at variance with Marx and Freud theories that focus on conflict. These hypotheses provide methods to foster creative social and personal development.