Hi Antony

An inspiring and reflective read. I trust you will do well in this contest.

It's fine if you don't recall, however i emailed you a couple of years back. I'm an Australian surfer who spends an inordinate amount of time contemplating the nature of the world. I have an essay submission and I wonder if you might be so kind as to review it please? It focuses on the unanswered question of complexity of the world, the question of emergent awareness at the top of list. why do elementary particles for example, interact in such a way that cascades to ever higher levels of ordered structure, as described in your essay? Its one thing to observe that they do, and quite another to attempt answer this question. I argue that an organization principle is needed to fill this role in our understanding, and I point to a possable candadite.

Here's a question which you can read my essay to learn my view. Why is the universe prospectively littered with wet world's, a universe of pumping surf? Can you imagine the variety of setups out there, and what the experience of surfing might present in lower or higher gravity than earth? Boggles the mind.

Anyway, love your work and hope to hear from you. In the mean time I'll give your rating a nudge in the right direction.

Steven Andresen

http://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/2890

P's, I just bought a sail boat to tour our local island surf. Loving life

Hi,

I very much liked your style of writing. To me ypour essay with carefully framed sentences seemed almost like poetry.

Best,

Jarmo Mäkelä

16 days later

"the Feynman infomorphism"--

Dear Garrett Lisi,

You've said that "(the 3 generation) ... issue remains the most significant problem." I wonder if there might be more freedom and constraints available for addressing the problem by linking the proper time of an entangled system of particles to the Fokker-Pryce center of inertia and then mapping it to the set of possible coordinate times that define this proper time. Then by inferring from G. 't Hooft's work on computer automata that algorithms may underlie Hilbert space-- which means a selection algorithm would be needed to select from this set of coordinate times. The algorithm would work best by selecting only one from many possible fields rather than by selecting, say, one set comprising hundreds of fields from permutations of hundreds of types of fields. In other words, by selecting one of your E8 fields.

2 months later

Dear Anthony Garrett Lisi,

It is a pity that I could not see your essay earlier.

Yes, the arguments in favor of hierarchy of emergence all the way from most fundamental to higher levels of abstraction, are entirely agreeable. All that one requires is to lay down a formal mechanism or process of emergence that leads to irreducible representation or symbolic description of abstract objects / notions. I suppose then, you may be curious to know if such a formal description is possible at all. In fact, this is what I have attempted in my essay.

In case, your curiosity lead you to peruse my essay, I would love to discuss more details, and how such an information processing can be organized in evolving systems.

I hope to see your comments.

Rajiv

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