Your Perspective of Reality by Marty Reep

Marty,

Great and concise essay. I wish my own kids educators thought more like you. I tell them that stuff and they think I'm on some other planet! (they're probably right).

I think a lot of theoreticians should start from that kind of thinking too. I've talked a lot about; "opening the mind and allowing transfer of vista." but it seems entirely lost on they who hold the reigns of what we're supposed to think.

I take that approach a long way into fundamental physics in my essay. I hope you manage to read and understand it and look forward to your comments.

Well done for an important fresh angle, well described. I'm sorting scoring after more reading and will certainly return.

Best of luck.

Peter

Marty,

If given the time and the wits to evaluate over 120 more entries, I have a month to try. My seemingly whimsical title, "It's good to be the king," is serious about our subject.

Jim

Dear Marty,

Thank you for nice essay presented here. You say" Albeit, the rest of the whole must exist in order to give structure and nature to "their world", but for all intents and purposes, it doesn't exist" Well.

Every body forms a picture of the world thro' their senses. When he dies, this picture is erased. If one do not communicate to other human, The picture of his experiences will erase in totality. Is this correct? Why do you say it does not exist?

by the way...

I am requesting you to go through my essay also. And I take this opportunity to say, to come to reality and base your arguments on experimental results.

I failed mainly because I worked against the main stream. The main stream community people want magic from science instead of realty especially in the subject of cosmology. We all know well that cosmology is a subject where speculations rule.

Hope to get your comments even directly to my mail ID also. . . .

Best

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snp.gupta@gmail.com

http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.com/

Pdf download:

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/essay-download/1607/__details/Gupta_Vak_FQXi_TABLE_REF_Fi.pdf

Part of abstract:

- -Material objects are more fundamental- - is being proposed in this paper; It is well known that there is no mental experiment, which produced material. . . Similarly creation of matter from empty space as required in Steady State theory or in Bigbang is another such problem in the Cosmological counterpart. . . . In this paper we will see about CMB, how it is generated from stars and Galaxies around us. And here we show that NO Microwave background radiation was detected till now after excluding radiation from Stars and Galaxies. . . .

Some complements from FQXi community. . . . .

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Anton Lorenz Vrba wrote on May. 4, 2013 @ 13:43 GMT

....... I do love your last two sentences - that is why I am coming back.

Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on May. 6, 2013 @ 09:24 GMT

. . . . We should use our minds to down to earth realistic thinking. There is no point in wasting our brains in total imagination which are never realities. It is something like showing, mixing of cartoon characters with normal people in movies or people entering into Game-space in virtual reality games or Firing antimatter into a black hole!!!. It is sheer a madness of such concepts going on in many fields like science, mathematics, computer IT etc. . . .

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Francis V wrote on May. 11, 2013 @ 02:05 GMT

Well-presented argument about the absence of any explosion for a relic frequency to occur and the detail on collection of temperature data......

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Robert Bennett wrote on May. 14, 2013 @ 18:26 GMT

"Material objects are more fundamental"..... in other words "IT from Bit" is true.

Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on May. 14, 2013 @ 22:53 GMT

1. It is well known that there is no mental experiment, which produced material.

2. John Wheeler did not produce material from information.

3. Information describes material properties. But a mere description of material properties does not produce material.

4. There are Gods, Wizards, and Magicians, allegedly produced material from nowhere. But will that be a scientific experiment?

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Hoang cao Hai wrote on Jun. 16, 2013 @ 16:22 GMT

It from bit - where are bit come from?

Author Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta replied on Jun. 17, 2013 @ 06:10 GMT

....And your question is like asking, -- which is first? Egg or Hen?-- in other words Matter is first or Information is first? Is that so? In reality there is no way that Matter comes from information.

Matter is another form of Energy. Matter cannot be created from nothing. Any type of vacuum cannot produce matter. Matter is another form of energy. Energy is having many forms: Mechanical, Electrical, Heat, Magnetic and so on..

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Antony Ryan wrote on Jun. 23, 2013 @ 22:08 GMT

.....Either way your abstract argument based empirical evidence is strong given that "a mere description of material properties does not produce material". While of course materials do give information.

I think you deserve a place in the final based on this alone. Concise - simple - but undeniable.

Marty,

You ask some deep and insightful questions in your essay. When you talked about having an open mind and how you mind works I found it interesting to see I am not the only one to think in this way. So what is absolute and how can we tell the difference? I would appreciate your thoughts on this.

In my essay I address the question of 'how' do we obtain knowledge (it from bit). The empirical evidence obtained by conducting a 12 year experiment I believe you and your students will find eye opening. I hope you will take the time to review my essay. If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.

Thank you for sharing your viewpoint.

Manuel

Dear Marty

I enjoyed your succinct and coherent description of what you call the "edge-of-reality". As a visual artist who grew up in a small town I too had a strong sense of the realness of the physical universe, even as the mind steps in to consider the deeper meanings beyond the facade.

Physicists mess with this sense of reality at their own (and our) risk - starting with Einstein's ingenious but eventually unhelpful distortion of space and time, to the modern stalwarts travel ling 10 dimensions of String theory and of the Multiverse. We can all use some of the good sense of your Mr. Ridgetop the cat who now joins Schrodinger's cat in the annals of feline physicists' mascots.

With best wishes

Vladimir

Oh, and Marty I have read and rated your essay and about 50 others. If you have not read, or did not rate my essay The Cloud of Unknowing please consider doing so. With best wishes.

Vladimir

Hi Marty,

Nicely written essay and very interesting. I think you are right that information and reality work both ways. I think concise essays are better as the writer knows what they are saying clearly and all readers appreciate the point.

Please take a look at my essay if you get time, as I too concluded Bit and It are equally fundamental and also worked around observation.

Best wishes,

Antony

Dear Marty,

I take great care and pleasure read your "Philosophical Discourse." You put the deep questions and give clear and distinct answers in the spirit of Descartes:

«So where do you stand?

Where in the gridlines of the universe do you place or find yourself?

From which plane do you view the world:

• The tangible?

• The data-driven?

• The cynical?

• The hypothetical?

• The possibility-filled?

• Or on the mind-bending edge of one, stepping out into space to another?"

And further:

«Likewise, searching for the edge of reality is not a breach of reason or logic. It's an attempt at understanding deeper things and a desire to comprehend the universe. Some may see the pursuit of deeper understanding as purposeless or fruitless, but it is the very act of pursuit that reveals answers that had been forgotten or never before found.»

«Some people base reality on the tangible seen and keep their feet firmly planted in the present now. Others see beyond the immediate and boldly walk from conscious dimension to the subconscious, crossing the thresholds of other realms. For the bold, dwelling in other planes of reality is as easy as dwelling in the present now. It simply involves opening the mind and allowing transfer of vista.»

«When you step beyond the markers of time and space, you're able to see life and existence in an entirely different way. It literally looks different. »

«So, do we derive information and meaning from the universe? Absolutely. Do we also derive the universe from information and meaning? Absolutely. The three are equally codependent. That is, each are an essential part of the others' make up, as noticed from the human perspective.»

This is essentially a program of action for the researchers of the information age of the universe. You show the way in which physics is to go to a physical picture of the world was as rich in meaning as the picture of the world lyric ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3ho31QhjsY

Please read my essay. I think we are the same in the spirit of our research.

Best regards,

Vladimir

Having read so many insightful essays, I am probably not the only one to find that my views have crystallized, and that I can now move forward with growing confidence. I cannot exactly say who in the course of the competition was most inspiring - probably it was the continuous back and forth between so many of us. In this case, we should all be grateful to each other.

If I may, I'd like to express some of my newer conclusions - by themselves, so to speak, and independently of the logic that justifies them; the logic is, of course, outlined in my essay.

I now see the Cosmos as founded upon positive-negative charges: It is a binary structure and process that acquires its most elemental dimensional definition with the appearance of Hydrogen - one proton, one electron.

There is no other interaction so fundamental and all-pervasive as this binary phenomenon: Its continuance produces our elements - which are the array of all possible inorganic variants.

Once there exists a great enough correlation between protons and electrons - that is, once there are a great many Hydrogen atoms, and a great many other types of atoms as well - the continuing Cosmic binary process arranges them all into a new platform: Life.

This phenomenon is quite simply inherent to a Cosmos that has reached a certain volume of particles; and like the Cosmos from which it evolves, life behaves as a binary process.

Life therefore evolves not only by the chance events of natural selection, but also by the chance interactions of its underlying binary elements.

This means that ultimately, DNA behaves as does the atom - each is a particle defined by, and interacting within, its distinct Vortex - or 'platform'.

However, as the cosmic system expands, simple sensory activity is transformed into a third platform, one that is correlated with the Organic and Inorganic phenomena already in existence: This is the Sensory-Cognitive platform.

Most significantly, the development of Sensory-Cognition into a distinct platform, or Vortex, is the event that is responsible for creating (on Earth) the Human Species - in whom the mind has acquired the dexterity to focus upon itself.

Humans affect, and are affected by, the binary field of Sensory-Cognition: We can ask specific questions and enunciate specific answers - and we can also step back and contextualize our conclusions: That is to say, we can move beyond the specific, and create what might be termed 'Unified Binary Fields' - in the same way that the forces acting upon the Cosmos, and holding the whole structure together, simultaneously act upon its individual particles, giving them their motion and structure.

The mind mimics the Cosmos - or more exactly, it is correlated with it.

Thus, it transpires that the role of chance decreases with evolution, because this dual activity (by which we 'particularize' binary elements, while also unifying them into fields) clearly increases our control over the foundational binary process itself.

This in turn signifies that we are evolving, as life in general has always done, towards a new interaction with the Cosmos.

Clearly, the Cosmos is participatory to a far greater degree than Wheeler imagined - with the evolution of the observer continuously re-defining the system.

You might recall the logic by which these conclusions were originally reached in my essay, and the more detailed structure that I also outline there. These elements still hold; the details stated here simply put the paradigm into a sharper focus, I believe.

With many thanks and best wishes,

John

jselye@gmail.com

Dear Marty,

nice Essay. Well the visible and the invisible universe are connecting, but is the invisible world realy invisible or maybe it is a pert of our visible world. You did a grear question.

Congratulation

Kai

Dear Marty,

Please see the universal mathematical truth of zero = I = infinity. Theory of everything is that there is absolutely nothing but I. Universe is iSphere.

LOVE,

Sridattadev.

Hi, votes are vanishing again.

Dear Marty,

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