Dear Richard,
Great work and fantastic essay. I wish I could have read it earlier. We have similar views but we do talk in different languages and symbols. However the contents are about the same. If I may quote you passages that I like very much:
"Our conscious experience of the world is time-delayed, however. Impulses travelling down the optic nerve to the brain take several hundred milliseconds, and movement initiated in the supplementary motor area may take up to several seconds before it comes to our attention8. Events often happen so quickly that the brain cannot process and respond fast enough to be effective in real time. As a consequence, the brain must make predictions about what is to happen and update them on-the-fly.
What we consciously perceive, then, is an after the fact, probabilistic simulation of the world. This includes the self that does the projecting--a transient, self-referential loop9 between internal brain states and external sensory data. We each live in a bubble of perception and see ourself reflected on its inner walls. The world of classical physics is considered to be ontological--existing prior to and independent from our knowledge of it. Yet, our world view appears epistemological in nature: in quantum measurements, we bring the world into being through our observation of it10. The question then, is how can we, as illusory projections within an illusion, comprehend the basic nature of reality--discern the bit from the it?
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L is calculated using the Shannon formula (S = k ln2 where k = the Boltzmann constant), which converts thermal radiation into bits of information. (The phase dimension can be scaled logarithmically for this purpose.) According to the Bekenstein bound, the Shannon entropy of the 3D interior of a black hole is encoded on its 2D event horizon as Planck-size bits. Applied to the horizon volume of the expanding universe:
L = (Ru/lp )1/2 = 10−123 where the radius of the observable universe Ru: 4.4 x 1026 m and the Planck length lp: 1.616 x 10-35 m. This means that the energy density of the vacuum is extremely low--10−47 GeV4 or or 10−29 g/cm3. Empty space is very still and cold. (The Cosmic Microwave Background from the Big Bang contributes only 2.7◦ K.) The inverse value of L, 10123, gives the total number of bits encoded on the de Sitter horizon, which is the maximum bound for information processing in the universe12.
The above is very similar with KID numbers.
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According to Brian Greene, the screen is "where the fundamental physical processes actually happen"17. If our classical world view is epistemic, does the screen provide an ontic basis for reality or must we look deeper? First of all, we will examine how using the phase dimension scale relates to spacetime dynamics; and secondly, how the paths in light front histories are laid down.
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Wheeler and Feynman, in their time symmetric theory22, theorized that no particle is emitted unless it is absorbed somewhere later in the universe. All electromagnetic field equations are invariant under time-reversal symmetry. Consequently, a wave can be considered going both forward in time from the point of emission (retarded wave) and backward in time from the point of absorption (its conjugate advanced wave). The two-way path is the sum of the amplitudes. In the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation:
ĤtotΨ = 0
where Ĥtot is the full Hamilton operator for gravity plus matter (pe entropy), and the wave function Ψ depends on the 3D metric plus all non-gravitational fields (xt entropy) for the entire universe23. Everything exists as a single moment in time, like one gigantic stationary molecule24.
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The iterative process of the Lagrangian is best realized in Cramer's transactional interpretation. In TI, advanced "offer" waves and retarded "confirmation" waves "handshake" with each other and stitch a fractal-like surface back and forth between past and future. This freezes all probabilities into a unique present, which Cramer describes as "the progressive formation of frost crystals on a cold windowpane"25.
KQId is based on Giving first Taking later transactional system.
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n this way, systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium can emerge as least action configurations. Computationally, the decrease in xt entropy--the number of possible logical states (bits)--is offset by a corresponding increase in pe entropy--the number of physical states (as heat). According to Landauer's principle, to erase N bits of information at least kTN energy should be consumed, generating kN entropy. Note that while any dissipative system constitutes a measurement-like process, only cognitive systems can generate knowledge.
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Conclusion
Epistemic knowledge derives from erasing the entangled ontic information produced by quantum potential.
If I may invite you to make comment on my essay Child of Qbit in time and if you like it please raise its ranking.
If I also put forward my summary that you can see that we do have many similar ideas:
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.
Brilliant essay and I will study your essay again. Please give me your suggestion for me to improve my theory. Thanks.
Best wishes,
Leo KoGuan