Michael,

You, probably, haven't gone through the 'Biology' section of my essay and there I have said how 'mind' came in to existence; it is as a result of billions of years of the evolution of Life. It is identified as the over all function of brain and brain,in turn, is composed of living matter in the form of 'neurons' and the brain (now we can call it 'mind') is designed to comprehend its surrounding (i.e., environment) through its cognitive powers.

Mind can know of what happens in its environment only through Bit and there by assessing the situation itself is It. We can have more discussion on it, if you like. I will post my comments on your essay soon.

sreenath

Dear Michael,

Thanks for the clarification of your concepts. I had based my comment on concepts that go to the lower level of the structure of photons and matter particles that explains the reasons for the various interaction outcomes and their probabilities, so that there is no need for the use of undefined wave functions and waveform collapse, etc. I, therefore, don't have to consider things to not exist until they are measured. In this concept the "bits" in the computer would represent the absolute real structure of the photons and matter particles. Since the details of this structure cannot be known by man, it would be represented in terms of the properties that generate the interaction outcomes and their probabilities. Since these particles are composed of motions, it would store the current spatial position, motion amplitude, direction of each of the particle's motions, and interaction rules, etc. This information would make up the information object that I was referring to for each particle. This would be the closest to the actual "Its" that you could get in the model. When two such particles would intersect spatially in such a way as to interact with each other, the current conditions of all of their motions at the point of interaction would determine the actual outcome of the interaction. There would be no uncertainty because, in the model, all of the conditions that would generate the specific outcome would be known. Things work this way in reality also. Man just does not have access to the conditions of all of the particles motions at the point of interaction and, therefore, the specific outcome that will occur cannot be predicted. This information can be obtained, but man does not currently understand the motion structure of the particles and man also does not currently possess the technical capability to track the particles' motion conditions before the interaction so that their motion conditions at the point of interaction can be known before the interaction occurs, which would be necessary to accurately predict the actual outcome that would result from the interaction. The fullness of these abilities are not realized until fifth vector structuring concepts are well understood and have been applied to make the necessary test and control (measurement) devices to allow the implementation of the concepts in devices that can measure the particles' motion conditions before the interaction in order to predict the actual outcome that will occur.

These "its" would then join together to form atoms and molecules, etc. to make larger scale "its". The intelligent beings in the model would also be composed of these "its".

When the intelligent beings in the model would make measurements of these "its" through interactions with them, they would create models of the "its" that would be stored in an abstract form in their brains and later on paper or in computers that they would construct from the "its" in the model. This abstract copy of the information contained in the "its" would be "bits" in the model. Of course if the beings were intelligent enough, they would figure out that the actual "its" that they were measuring would have to contain all of the information that determined their existence, actions, and interaction capabilities within their structure in some way and that structural information would be a form of "bits" or information also. They might then try to make a model of their world on one of their computers in a similar way to the construction of your model. Once they got that model to work they might wonder if their world could just be a model created by a more intelligent being than them. Of course, it would be up to you to decide whether or not to let them know that they were created by you. As an example, you could place information in their world that would allow them to determine that their world was created and give them information about your nature and purpose for creating them and their world or you could just appear to one or more of them in some form and tell them about yourself and your purpose for making them and their world. Of course, you could just not let them know that you created their world and they might then come to believe that they just evolved, etc. The choice would be yours to make. One problem that you might have is that unless you have a continual presence in their world, you might find that even if you appeared to some of them and told and convinced them that you were their creator by doing things like healing people and raising the dead, etc., those who saw and heard you might not be able to convince others of your existence or if they did it would be likely that after those who saw and heard you died from old age, etc. you might not be believed by the next generation as it has often happened in this world.

Sincerely,

Paul B.

Dear Michael,

Thank you very much for pointing me to Newton's distinction. I agree with your arguments with just one exception. I tend to identify the reality with what can be discovered mainly be observation, measurement, and reasoning while I see so called absolute reality, e.g. Newton's God, an abstraction. See Fig. 1 of my previous essay.

Best,

Eckard

    Hi,

    You mention the reality. Like there is one flavor, one recipe.

    There are problems with that.

    The chair I am sitting in is real.

    So is experiencing love,

    But they are real in different ways.

    4 days later

    Michael,

    Now that's my idea of a top essay, straight to the most important and most poorly understood point. Drive it home with a couple of precise hammer blows, job done! It's also earned my idea of a top score.

    I spend a chunk of the middle of my essay trying to explain the very same thing, and it's implications. We mix real nature with metaphysical entities and wonder why our physics is gobblygook!

    I hope I've shown the power of recognising, defining and separating the two distinct cases you identify. What I've identified in previous essays is that 'Proper Time' has an associated Proper(gation) Speed, and apparent or 'Co-ordinate Time' then has an APPARENT SPEED associated! i.e. apparent c+v is allowed, but the propagation speed limit remains c.

    I do hope you'll read comment on and score my essay too. From yours I particularly commend (and consistent with mine);

    "Relative time exists in a relative sense. Absolute time exists in an absolute sense. Relative and absolute don't exist the same way."

    "There is measuring tape in the real measurement and not in the model measurement."

    "The measurement exists in the complex relational data encoded in the brain."

    "Bits and its now exist differently in the model. They are two different sets of information. They are both real but in different ways. The computer program deals with the information it assigns to and accesses from variables."

    Excellent job. Well done, and very best of luck.

    Peter

      Dear Michael,

      Your computer based simulation of It and Bit is an innovative way of comprehending the relationship existing between them. It is good to see that you have distinguished between two types of realities; absolute and relative, and also that science deals with relative form of reality and it cannot know the absolute reality hiding behind it. Relative reality springs from the absolute one; relative reality is a small pot of soup, whereas absolute reality is a monolithic pot of soup. Similarly you have split information in to absolute and relative and want to rest quantum mechanics on absolute information of the algorithm and its data.

      I appreciate your ideas and it would be good if you put them in to practice.

      Wish you all the best in the contest and I would like to rate your essay with a very good score.

      Sreenath

        Clearly written with a friendly style. I appreciate that you have tackled the question very directly.I like your methodical approach.

        I'm not sure the output obtained from bits of information are really its though. The output, simulated 'its' are certainly different from the absolute unmeasured its making up the computer or a brain.(You have differentiated between absolute and relative matter) There is electrical and chemical activity and growth of the neural network in response to stimulation but not creation of atoms, though perception of objects (that are thought to be 'built' from atoms),via images of them. (Hope that makes sense.)There is perception with *brain activity* but storage in the pattern of neural connections.

        You are accounting for information and output but wanting to make the hardware or wetware required into further output by the simulation. Then you have bit to simulated it (structure) to simulated it (simulated sensory output).Making a computer analogue of perception, with simulated output its, from bits and simulated wetware its. Think I've got it, but I need to put in 'simulated' to keep track of whats what.

        Mike Helland wrote "The main way we will have to modify our understanding is that time and space will come in relative and absolute flavors, And so does matter." Well said. Good luck , Georgina

          As I noted in your essay thread, I did not clearly read where you added "while absolute reality". I agree with you, thanks for the comment.

          Thanks for your comments and also your essay.

          It is a strange feeling participating in this event, as I am not accustomed to ideas like ours being received kindly.

          Thanks again!

          Thank you!

          I would like to comment on the soup again.

          If absolute is a large bowl and relative a small bowl, then it should be pointed out that you can not pour from one bowl to the other.

          Take the variables in a program, say x and y.

          You can make what ever statements you want with these, x - y, xy, sqr(x - y), sect.

          Now remember the observers measurement, 13 feet. Recall that he measurement is not stored in a variable but encoded in the simulated neural net.

          Because of this you can not write a compilable statement that uses x, y, and the measurement 13 feet.

          They are two fundamentally different.

          Likewise the ingredients for the big bowl soup and the ingredients for the small bowl are on different planesof eexistence.

          Thank you so much.

          You have broken its into simulated wetware and simulated measurements. I think hats a reasonable version, but for merely for the sake of discussion let me tell you why I've the approach I have.

          Lets say we are dissecting a mammal. In our textbooks there is dashed line separating the brain from the brain stem. Is that dashed line on the specimen?

          We create the difference between brains and brain stems in biology, and hence we create brans and brain stems in biology.

          So the simulated wetware is not an it. The simulated wetware are just compounds of bits.

          It is when these compounds of bits make measurements that their neural activity creates relative space, relative time, and relative matter icluding electrons, photons, atoms, molecules, tape measures, planets, people, and brains.

          The neural activity mentioned previously does not belong to a brain (because it creates the bran) but a brain-like compounds of bits.

          Hi Michael,

          Thank you for helping me understand your explanation. Good question springs to mind, is a brain built from atoms or built from information?In your scenario it is an accumulation of bits. Which makes sense to me for a simulation. Though in external reality (outside of human or computer simulation) I think the answer would have to be both. The gross structure is from presumably genetic and biochemical controlled developmental processes but the fine structure from the flow of information within the brain. So is it a macro it or a macro output of bits? Both I think.So in the simulated brain would it be an accumulation of bits that encode the gross structure but also the macro output of other bits that flow through the structure and direct the development of the fine structure?

          The relative things ( which I think are manifestations observed) are very different from absolute things because they are collections of characteristics that are stored in diffuse locations rather than as one thing in one isolated location in the brain. Thought that worth mentioning in my essay. I think that's an interesting difference between objects and the images fabricated from information received and important consideration for a simulation.

          Brains and atoms are its.

          They are physical matter, in relative space operating along physical clocks depicting relative time.

          All its exist as measurements defined in the neural network of a mind, and a mind is a compound of bits that makes measurements of other bits.

          What I have essentially done is place all physical phenomena in Popper's World Three and replaced World 1 with the algorithm, ie: information.

          That's it from bit.

          Hi Michael,

          thanks again. Think I get it now, minds make its in your proposed computer model and the (simulated) neural activity is not part of a brain but a collection of information.Yes I agree it is important to differentiate between brain and mind, as you have done.

          The mind does create the differentiation between objects simulated from received data.I have found it fascinating that people born blind who gain sight later in life have to learn to separate the information received into different objects, achieved by watching shapes move in relation to each other.I imagine its probably how babies learn too.

          You *have* achieved it from bit. Though the its are qualitatively different from fundamental its. You do talk about the difference between absolute and relative so I think you have that covered. An interesting, well written approach to the essay question.

          Hello Michael

          I just read your post on James Lee Hoover's 'It's good to be king.' I agree with your comments, and wonder if you would be so kind as to look at and rate my essay.

          Stephen Anastasi

          Hi Michael,

          I used to go with the alias QSA and I was first to complement you. Now I have my essay which explains my theory a bit better than my website which you have seen. However I have added some programs in my website, and I will add more soon. Please tell me if you understand my system or not. I will rate you very good.

          Please if you have the time run The programs which are at my website

          http://www.qsa.netne.net

          please make sure you unzip the file properly, the code is in JavaScript, the programs are very simple. also see the posts in my thread for some more info.

          you can find my essay at this link

          http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/1877

          see the amazing formulas in section 6, like this one

          alpha/FSC =.007297352568, charge ^2=3, 27=3^3, m_e, m_p are electron and proton mass

          M_p/m_e= (27/2)*(1/(alpha) -1) -1/3 = 1836.152654

          Adel

          Hi Michael,

          I think you are right to distinguish the information used to construct a simulation of a virtual world from the information available via measurements taken within the world. (For example, beings within a virtual world may not be able to tell how long each virtual timestep takes to compute, as to them all timesteps would seem uniform.) David Deutsch has made the argument that, because of the universality of computation, we cannot know anything for sure about the "hardware" that our universe runs on, if it is a simulation.

          Do you have an idea of how to model observers within such a virtual world? Do they each have their own private information/memories related to their perspective and history within the world? Is this a different kind of information from the other two types or is it stored in one or the other types of memory?

          My essay Software Cosmos also describes a virtual world model: I describe a possible software architecture and carry out a test to see if we live in such a simulation.

          Hugh

            6 days later

            Michael,

            What a clever and insightful interpretation of QM, I found you statement, "Reality isn't soup. There is a 'hierarchy of the real' [3], where most of what we deal with is of a relative reality, of a relative truth, sprouting from an absolute reality that is fundamental to it." to be in keeping with the findings of a recently concluded 12 year experiment.

            I would like to run some questions by you via email if I may and would like to know your email address? Or if you like you can send me an email to msm@physicsofdestiny.com

            Regards,

            Manuel

            10 days later

            Thanks for your comments!

            You ask : Do you have an idea of how to model observers within such a virtual world?

            Sure. Start with bits as explained by the essay. These bits may be similar in some ways to electrons, photons, quarks, etc but it is important o keep in mind they are not electrons, ect because those show up later.

            They differ from electrons, photons, quarks sect in that they are immaterial and don't necessarily follow the laws of physics such as the uncertainty principle, that too comes later.

            Use those bits to make compounds which are atom-like (again not atoms proper yet) and use those compounds to build more compounds that are molecule-like.

            With those make something human like in that it has something like a brain and eyeballs.

            Once the enormous compound of bits begins making measurements of its world, the bits don't stop being bits, but deep inside, encoded in the neural pathways of the brain-like compound, is something entirely new.

            Those are the its, the material objects that are the focus of science and most of our daily lives, which include houses, cars, people, planets, molecules, electrons photons and quarks, whose behavior is generalized as the laws of physics.

            Michael,

            I agree. Let's make the most of it, it's back to doctrine next week!

            Have you read Einstein's 1952 (english 54) paper? He discussed the conceptions of "Infinitely many spaces within spaces" as Minkowski in 1908, and then considers 'small space s in motion within and with respect to larger space S'.

            We know than light and EM (radio) signals pass through the solar system (Barycentric frame) at c wrt the sun. We also know EM waves are scattered to c by particle mediums however diffuse, so our ionosphere/atmosphere would of course then represent the smaller space s in motion within the larger space, the heliosphere, which is then itself in motion wrt the galaxy, etc, etc, exactly as he specified. So inertial systems are then REAL! always scattering light to local c. Even a lens or single particle will do so. Think hard!

            My previous 2 essays present the case. I hope you get to read (and importantly score!) this years. Ignore the Abstract and read the glowing blog reviews (apart from basudeba who disagrees!).

            Best of luck in the run in.

            Peter

            PS; The 'quark-gluon soup' of particle physics must be different for every proton. Perhaps so much for the assumption of QM!