Dear Janko,
As I promised in my FQXi page, I have read your nice and particular Essay. Here are my comments/questions:
1) Your Novel-Essay starts in 2049. It will be fantastic if in only 35 years humanity will become so intelligent that "Economy is subordinate to ecology"!
2) I completely agree with Hadley's statement that "it is necessary to wake up genuine interest in TOE without argumentation why it is necessary to save the earth". I think that this endorses my Essay of this year.
3) I agree that it is not absolutely forbidden that information could be more primal than survival!
4) The statement that "the universe without emotions (consciousness) does not exist" is consistent with anthropic principle.
5) The needing to be "open mind" in science is not only in the issue of professionals versus amateurs. There are indeed various people who are professionals, i.e. working in academies, universities, research centres, who challenge mainstream science, but they are isolated and often defined as "cranks". On the other hand, there are various real cranks who do not understand what they are speaking about. The problem is quite complex. In general, I also criticize some points of mainstream science and I am all in favour of being open minded about alternatives, but they must be properly formulated and plausible scientific proposals.
6) The issue that "scientists incorrectly estimate probabilities for successful ideas and thus they do not read precisely theories where probability for correctness is not zero" is also "political". It is extremely difficult for a scientist who became rich and famous for a theory to accept that such a theory could be, even partially, wrong, and, in turn to consider that a better theory could exist.
7) I do not like estimations claiming that TOE will arise in the next 10, 20, 30,.... years. Hawking failed twice in such an estimating and Witten failed too. Maybe TOE does not exists, or, if it exists, we can arrive to it only asymptotically.
8) Why did you choice Fotini Markopoulou to obtain both quantum gravity and TOE?
9) Sorry, but Hawking never claimed that black holes do not exist. His last paper has been misinterpret. You can find a good explanation of this issue here: http://backreaction.blogspot.it/2014/01/if-it-quacks-like-black-hole.html, although I disagree with Hossenfelder's defense of firewalls while I agree with Hawking point of view on this issue.
10) "all of them were so connected that all the universe became as one person": this is an exponential anthropic principle!
In any case, I have a lot of fun in reading your peculiar Essay. Thus, I will give you an high score.
I wish you best luck in the Contest.
Cheers,
Ch.
