Dear Dr. Klingman,
Your essay was recommended to me by Ralph Waldo Walker III. I'm glad I read it - I found it fascinating, and very well written. It also has much in common with my work.
You open your argument by showing that physics builds its models from its own assumptions, so that we shouldn't be too impressed that the data obtained seems to bear these out. This does indeed remind us to be adventuresome, and to question the prevailing view.
As you point out, it has become unfashionable to consider the Cosmos in simple physical terms, even though that's how it all began - back when the mind first wandered from the pages of the Bible, and began to see space and time for what they truly are.
My take on physical reality, however, diverges from yours in the matter of there being other Universes. Our system is the result of self-interaction, as you say, but to claim that such self-interaction can only have occurred once is an assumption that is harder to justify than its opposite - that a General Field of cosmic systems is perpetually forming.
This is an important point, because these cosmic systems must have certain effects upon each other, and in my essay I show that some of these can be deduced.
The fear that prevents serious thinkers from venturing in this direction is that they might end up simply fudging vexing questions - or still worse, might find themselves in the company of mystics and other strange birds. We are frail, and we usually don't want to appear ridiculous; but if it makes sense, we should go with it.
Therefore, I describe a General Field of Cosmae along perfectly logical lines, and refer to it only in the context of its likely effects upon our Cosmos. These effects include the evolution of Organic and Sensory-Cognitive Vortices, once an Inorganic Vortex has come into being along the lines that you describe.
I was struck by your brilliant expression of gravito-magnetism in mathematical terms. A gravitational-magnetic force that underlies both Inorganic and Organic evolution is central to my paradigm also, and yields a structure of physical reality that involves the Human Observer, and even the Mind.
These Organic and Sensory-Cognitive Vortices are shown to be correlated with each other and with the Inorganic Vortex, as a result of their simultaneous and similar interaction with the Gravitational-Magnetic Field: They remain distinct from one another - that is, they do not interact directly - so that borders are formed between them that delineate certain Zones, within which our parameter systems (including mathematics) are most effective.
These borders are not fixed, but are rather in continuous flux - as a result of the perpetual evolutionary effect of the Gravitational-Magnetic Force.
This in turn means that the It and Bit must be correlated, and indeed must be continually altering their relationship (as we have experienced since diverging from other animals). In other words, information must 'shape itself', as do Inorganic and Organic phenomena.
Though it is undoubtedly true that 'without the physical reality there can be no information', we have obviously defined this physical reality by continuously interacting with it over the course of our evolution; thus what we know as information is a distinctly Human variation of it that ultimately emerges from, and is directly affected by, the Gravitational-Magnetic Field.
Though mine is a common sense and axiomatic paradigm, I believe your mathematical insights could be applied to the physical reality it describes. You'll also appreciate that this three-field structure very usefully formalizes the concept of a participatory universe.
In this spirit, I hope you'll have a look and let me know what you think.
Congratulations on this very significant work,
All the best,
John.
