The Correlation of Bit and It in a Cosmic System by john stephane selye

Dear John,

I liked the fact that your essay is clearly and beautifully written, with a very natural progression of assertions and arguments.

You build a picture of three types of complex vortices (Inorganic, Organic and Sensory-Cognitive) interacting with a "General Field of Cosmae", with a fourth type likely to form which will allow us to:

"participate ever more intricately in the creation of Information...we will manipulate Bits and alter their nature - transforming them into tools of dimensional exploration that will enable us to peer into those gaps that were our impassable borders till now...this path leading to future generations that will be as divergent from us as we are from animals"

This is a techno-optimist science-fiction-like view of reality.

However there seems to be at least one flaw in your argument: You assert that the Primal Particle in the Organic Vortex is Omni-dimensional, while microorganisms are Intermediary Particles and DNA are Composite Particles. You also assert that the Primal Particles evolve to the more complex Intermediary Particles, which in turn evolve to the more complex Composite Particles. But surely it doesn't make sense to (in affect) assert that microorganisms are less complex than DNA and that DNA evolved from microorganisms?

I can see that we come to several similar conclusions about reality, e.g. that information is subjective experience, and that new categories of information evolve - but it's clear that the underlying mechanisms we propose are very different!

I congratulate you for building a very complex, convincing and original view of the nature of reality.

Cheers,

Lorraine

Dear John,

All the posts that went missing because of the FQXi server upgrade now seem to be restored. I have now received the post you sent a day or so ago. I have rated your essay and given it a good score, and although I couldn't see the actual rating you had before and after (seemingly because of the FQXi server upgrade) your rating would definitely have risen. A minute ago I attempted to rate your essay again to make sure that the rating had indeed been recorded, and the message said that I had already rated your essay.

Speaking of ratings, by my calculations I have had a few very good ratings, but I have also had a lot of 1 and/or 2 ratings from people who have left no comments about my essay!

Cheers,

Lorraine

Hello John from Margriet O'Regan

I'm too am in great favour of adding at least one more component to our cosmos - as you will see in my essay that thing is 'knowingness' - not consciousness, nor even thinking, or computing - but raw, undifferentiated 'knowingness' - which, I believe on the evidence my 'geometrical-objects-are-information' hypothesis provides, is not obviously a generalized open-field like phenomenon but most certainly exists at the very heart, core & foundation of all individual increments of macro solid matter.

Of the many other points you make in your essay one I especially like is your 'gear-mesh' phenomenon. I'm not sure if it quite the same thing but I have long espoused the notion - on the best of evidence mind - of our universe's ability to 'ratchet' its existents. Which is one of the reasons why evolution operates as it does. Mathematicians & theoretical physicists - among others - go on & on about the 'irreversibility' of their equations - but in a 'geared' or 'ratcheted' universe it is precisely any of these real, demonstrable 'gears' & 'ratchets' that literally prevent the phenomena in question from 'going backwards' !!! which is the whole point of these particular phenomena. ..

As you will see in my essay my own investigations have led me to conclude that 'information' is NOT digits - no kind nor amount of them (including any that can be extracted from quantum phenomena!), nor how algorithmically-well they may be massaged & shunted through any device that uses them.

Unequivocally they - digits - make for wonderful COUNTING & CALCULATING assistants, witness our own now many & various, most excellent, counting, calculating devices BUT according to my investigations real thinking is an entirely different phenomenon from mere counting, calculating & computing.

For which phenomenon - real thinking - real information is required.

My own investigations led me to discover what I have come to believe real information is & as it so transpires it turns out to be an especially innocuous - not to omit almost entirely overlooked & massively understudied - phenomenon, none other than the sum total of geometrical objects otherwise quite really & quite properly present here in our universe. Not digits.

One grade (the secondary one) of geometrical-cum-informational objects lavishly present here in our cosmos, is comprised of all the countless trillions & trillions of left-over bump-marks still remaining on all previously impacted solid objects here in our universe - that is to say, all of the left-over dents, scratches, scars, vibrations & residues (just the shapes of residues - not their content!) (really) existing here in the universe.

Examples of some real geometrical objects of this secondary class in their native state are all of the craters on the Moon. Note that these craters are - in & of themselves - just shapes - just geometrical objects. And the reason they are, also one & at the same time, informational objects too, can be seen by the fact that each 'tells a story' - each advertises (literally) some items of information on its back - each relates a tale of not only what created it but when, where & how fast & from what angle the impacting object descended onto the Moon's surface. Again, each literally carries some information on its back.

(Note : Not a digit in sight !!)

How we actually think - rather than just count, calculate & compute - with these strictly non-digital entities, specifically these geometrical-cum-informational objects, in precisely the way we do, please see my essay.

I did not make the distinction between computing with digits & real thinking with real information, sufficiently strongly in my essay.

This contest is such a wonderful 'sharing' - Wow - & open to amateurs like myself - Wow. How great is that !!! Thank you Foundational Questions Institute !!! What a great pleasure it has been to participate. What a joy to read, share & discuss with other entrants !!!

Margriet O'Regan

Dear John,

You, please, meet me at, bnsreenath@yahoo.co.in, for a fair comment on your essay as there is not much time left to discuss our essays.

Best regards,

Sreenath

Dear John,

Thanks for inviting me to comment your essay. Excellent essay! I will rate it accordingly.

I like what you wrote here: "Our second ancient assumption, one that that has no justification except that it has always seemed to be what we 'see', is that the Cosmos is a single field - essentially, a very large 'room' that happens to offer itself to our objective examination, and into which are heaped together all Particles, entities, and organisms. These then inexplicably manage to sort themselves into an order so perfect it serves as the model for both order and perfection in all the fields of science." KQID has the answer to this "inexplicably manage to sort themselves into an order so perfect..."

Also here:

"Physics, however, has denoted 'quirky folds' in this single-field fabric of reality - un-bridgeable gaps that conceal the mechanisms that allow Atoms to assemble themselves from pure Energy, DNA to continuously and instantly spin itself from these Atoms - and Information-Assumption (or Mind) to arise without a trail, and hover independently over all particulate reality. The concealment of these key mechanisms persists, however much Information is obtained from the 'quirky folds'."

Excellent point and observation:

"Furthermore, the Force exerted by the General Field must have a Gravitational-Magnetic nature (the term is meant to include all four of the fundamental forces detected in our system); this Force must also be simultaneously acting upon the Cosmos at every point (thus creating Particles) - while also acting upon the system as a whole."

We have the same view but we use different languages and terms and symbols to express it.

John please comments my essay Child of Qbit in time especially from the expert science writer. If you like it please raise the ranking.

If I may introduce a long summary of KQID:

In summary, quoting my answer to Michel Planat and please forgive me for being respectfully and humbly boastful to counter the doubtful: First, KQID Qbit is (00,1,-1) which is singularity Qbit Multiverse in zeroth dimension at absolute zero temperature that computes and projects Einstein complex coordinates (Pythagoras complex triangles or Fu Xi's gua or Fibonacci numbers) onto the 2D Minkowski Null geodesics and then instantaneously into the 3D in Lm, our Multiverse timeline to allows Existence to move around 360 degree and its arrows of time or ψτ(iLx,y,z, Lm). New informations are created and distributed per ≤10^-1000 seconds. No information is ever deleted. KQID is the only theory out there that can calculate the dark energy of our Multiverse ≤10^-153Pm/Pv and the minimum bits as the lower bound ≥ 10^153 bits in our Multiverse. KQID is the only theory that I know here that proves bit = it; KQID calculates Sun lights into Sun bits; calculates electron, proton and neutron in terms of bits; set up equivalent principle of bits with energy and matter. Therefore, Wheeler's it from bit and bit from it. Please correct me if I am wrong. And, KQID is the only theory in this universe has the mechanism on how Holographic Principle works. Also answer the mother of all questions, the why, how and what Existence.

KQID's Origin of Mass:

Furthermore, KQID is the only theory that can explain the origin of mass as A+S=E=ψI(CTE) that Wilczek said admittedly in 2012 after the discovery of Higgs boson mH ≈ 125 GeV in his tour the force article Origins of Mass arXiv:1206.7114v2 that human beings do not yet know the origins of mass and it is not even in sight. He concluded on page 32/35 and lamented like Einstein 51 years before: "We've passed some milestones, but the end of the road is not in sight." Einstein, after his landmark article 107 years ago on m=E/c^2 showing mass in terms of energy in 1905, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend on Its Energy Content?" But this equation required us to know what is energy before we can define the origin of mass. Einstein truly like Socrates before him as the wisest man in Athens according to the Oracle simply because Socrates claims that he does not know anything, Einstein the wise similarly stated his own ignorance of energy in 1951: "All these fifty years of pondering have not brought me closer to answering the question, what is light quanta?"

KQID's origin of mass is simply A + S = E = ψI(CTE) that is Dao's Wuwei (the least action moves) maximizing the flow of A, anti-entropic time-future bits-waves function moving from future to time-present bits-waves function E in optimizing the E flow and minimizing the flow of S, entropic time-past bits-waves function moving from time-past to time-present in terms of both bits and joules SI. That also leads to Pauli's exclusion principle and the lowest amount of energy arrangement required in an atomic system. See KQID Ouroboros Equations of Existence.

Michel asked the heart of KQID: "Where is the FAPAMA concept coming from in your frame? I mean who is the influencial thinker?"

First from Fu Xi's gua(trigrams) Ξ ☷ as DIRECT representations of nature, from Pythagoras's all things are numbers, from Jesus's Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, from Hindu's Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, from Planck's intelligent mind as the matrix of all matter and from Maxwell's infinite being with infinite storage capacity who computes in bits/qbits to create and distributes energy that does works, and from Landauer who teaches us that information is physical and nature can freely create and distribute bits/qbits but to erase/deletes the created bits/qbits must incur entropy cost somewhere else in Multiverse. That is why our Ancestor FAPAMA Qbit does not and can not erase any information. The computation of Holographic Principle must be within the one and only Qbit(00,1,-1) showing that Existence origin is from Non-existence and the calculations of Einstein complex coordinates can only be done at absolute zero temperature in which Bose-Einstein superconductivity perfectly happens without resistance or entropy. From Susskind and Hooft, who got the idea from Beckenstein-Hawking black hole entropy, proposed/discovered Holographic Principle and Hooft's quantum entanglements must be from the beginning. Thus FAPAMA Qbit must be there from the beginning (Hooft) and splits freely without cost (Landauer and Guth) to itself and Multiverse infinitely every absolute digital time T≤ 10^-1000 seconds. Moreover, every T-moment, our FAPAMA Qbit escapes extinction from its forever chasing companion Non-existence to be reunited only just barely by rebooting, resynchronizing, refreshing, renewing and reborn itself, so that it is forever just newly born evolved immortal baby. This gives us the arrow of time. Ξ00☷ = < S | E | A > = ψτ(iLx,y,z, Lm) ⊆ T. Time reemerges every digital T-moment. Every T-moment Qbit resynchronizes all Minkowski events in time-present. This is the KEY in re-entangling everything and keeping things in order and not crashing down. Complementarily, KQID also supports block Multiverse within T-moment in which all time-past-present-futures are forged into the NOW that in turn enabling resynchronization above! Time disappears. Yes, Einstein-KQID relativity rules (8πG/c^4)Tμν - Kqid(ΑΘ-ΘS)gμν = Τμν block Multiverse. Yes, Existence is the founder of creativity, it must invent new ways to escape from the grip of its Non-existence complementarity-companion. Dear Akinbo, KQID answers your immortal question if our founder is it or bit. The Founder Qbit is both bit and it simultaneously. Existence-Non-existence is one Qbit. This Qbit is It as Existence. FAPAMA: FA in Chinese means law like law of gravity that gives Existence order in time, PA from the concept of papa or the Holy Ghost or Brahma or Fu XI heaven Ξ that connects everything with everything else as one meaningful whole that manifests in quantum mechanics as Hooft's physical quantum entanglement. Yes, quantum entanglement phenomena must be instantaneous with infinite speed because it is within that one Qbit, there is no gap, no space, no time, no dimension, no locality but it is everywhere locally in physical forms that are derivative from MA as mama trigram earth ☷ that gives birth to mass and structure of Existence in ψτ(iLx,y,z, Lm) relativistic Multiverse in which time contracts, thus length contracts and mass/energy increases. So you see KQID gives picture of Existence as fantastically magical Disney's world, a holographic but physically relativistic fiction but real Multiverse. We are active game changers in our Wheeler's participatory magical kingdom, the Leibniz's happiest Multiverse possible. Because we are limited, we have choices to make including mistakes that lead to man/nature made miseries; so that we have free will to enjoy this wonderful make-believe holographic world. Let us sing and praise Xuan Yuan's Da Tong song and dance.

I do strongly believe that we must encourage diversity of opinions/theories. Because uniformity of opinion is a heat-death state of thermodynamic equilibrium tantamount to Schrodinger's defunct bumblebee. Let us celebrate symphonies of ideas. In the end, because of our Ancestor Qbit's meme ψI(CTE) imperative to venture into our realm, we the Qbit must discover our own truths in different ways and methods. Let 1000 bumblebee's thoughts bloom, flourish and make love to give births to another forever new 1000 hybrid flower of thoughts.

Start the game, let us play together!

Co-creator, co-distributor, co-Shakespearean bumblebee aspiring actor in the holographic world stage,

Leo KoGuan

I rather be a bumblebee poet than not to be.

Blood and tears of Wang Yaming's red glowing pearls as lanterns in darkness,

I am buzzing around to sing and praise Xuan Yuan's Da Tong.

Dear John,

As I promised in my Essay page I have read your pretty Essay. Here are my comments.

1) Why do you think we need to elaborate a new Paradigm? In my opinion, current Paradigm works well, even if I agree that it has some problems. Maybe modifying the present Paradigm instead of elaborating a new one could be sufficient.

2) You claims that a Force exists that draws Life from Atoms. Is the the ultimate Unified Field that Einstein searched in the latest years of his life?

3) Your statement that Gravitational-Magnetic Force must be simultaneously acting upon the Cosmos at every point looks to contradict the Relativity Theory. You should also clarify which "time" you are using for such a simultaneity.

4) The greatest problem in order to find such a Gravitational-Magnetic Force is to realize the unification of the gravitational field with the electromagnetic field. There have been various attempts to make this, but at the present time, without success. The most intriguing one is, in my opinion, the Kaluza-Klein one, because of its geometrical character.

In any case, I find your Essay fascinating, thus, I will give you an high score.

Cheers,

Ch.

Dear John,

I have now finished reviewing all 180 essays for the contest and appreciate your contribution to this competition.

I have been thoroughly impressed at the breadth, depth and quality of the ideas represented in this contest. In true academic spirit, if you have not yet reviewed my essay, I invite you to do so and leave your comments.

You can find the latest version of my essay here:

http://fqxi.org/data/forum-attachments/Borrill-TimeOne-V1.1a.pdf

(sorry if the fqxi web site splits this url up, I haven't figured out a way to not make it do that).

May the best essays win!

Kind regards,

Paul Borrill

paul at borrill dot com