Essay Abstract

To explain how aims and intentions arose from mindless mathematical laws, one needs a framework that acknowledges the reality of immaterial entities, which conventionally have been excluded from scientific consideration. We develop this by re-envisaging reality as a system in which information flows back and forth between the physical world and the Ideas Field, driven by the activity of minds. On that basis, we discuss how the emergence of the Ideas Field, with aims and intentions a key aspect of it, was fostered by technological development.

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Dr George Simpson (physics, Univ New Hampshire 1977) began his career as an NAS/NRC Research Fellow with Goddard Space Centre. He contributed to the development of the NASA / ESA / Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory until 1990, then moved from academia into business. Currently he has a Data Scientist role with Transport for London, authoring intelligent systems for business analysis. Previously, he worked as an innovation consultant and application designer/developer.

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Dear George,

Interesting to see a dualist (or mulitplicitist) of a physics background. Is the idea field a separate reality? As Descartes said 'a ghost in the machine?' Or is it all one reality with distinct fields?

Best,

Jack

    Dear Mr. George Arthur Simpson

    I prefer essays with mathematical background. But your essay is entirely on a given topic. It is well presented and has high-quality graphics. It deserves high rate.

    If you are interesting to 'see' things differently than they have previously", please read my Theory.

    Regards,

    Branko

      Ideas Field? I would hope you could come up with something a little more creative... like the Infinite Consciousness Force...

      this would be the force that shattered into a gazillion pieces and allowed for micro consciousness to pull from the ICF (multiverse)... now time needed to be added to the equation to make a space in the light to slow down information so it could evolve back into Oneness gaining knowledge along the way to make consciousness feel real. I know that was a long sentence... sorry.

        Dear Dr George A Simpson,

        Thank you for the very nice essay.... You correctly pointed out that.... "The view that non-measurables such as aims, intentions, and the state of one's soul, were best left to the church". You said "reality itself has become synonymous with the physical world" For the discussion sake ...I want to start debate on two points...

        1. In part 1 you discussed about the physical world, the world of ideas and concepts, and minds connecting the two. What is the difference between the ideas and concepts and minds? My opinion mind itself is ideas and concepts...

        2. Our mind forms a picture about an object, say about a pen for example, so the question comes what is reality actually? Is it that picture formed in our mind of that pen? Is that picture formed by the eye, or the picture formed by the hand which touches the pen? This question about reality is really confusing... Probably you have to define reality first....

          I have to say I believe your ideas are very good... I was just giving you a friendly jab about creativity... ;)

          Hi Jack, thanks for your question. It is all ONE reality, the fields are interconnected. We have struggled with that in the past (mind-body) because, I claim, we have had an inadequate model of reality - basically we have assumed that everything is ultimately material. But now we are learning that everything is ultimately information, and that is another way of looking at my essay - as providing a starting point for thinking about the structure of an information-based universe.

          Hope that helps, best regards, ...george...

          Thanks for the encouragement William. Finding a good name for things is hard. But if I used your suggestion, I might go over the page limit.. best regards, ...george...

          Thanks for the encouragement Branko, I will have a look at your essay.

          best regards, ...george...

          Hi Satyavarapu, thanks for the interesting questions.

          re 1., in my model, minds feed on, create, manipulate, and act on ideas and concepts. Ideas and concepts are passive, minds act on the Ideas Field and act on the physical world.

          re 2., Reality is not one or the other of these, but all of them - from the physical reality of the pen itself, to the various representations of the pen in our minds, to the idea of a pen which we share with others, an entity in the Ideas Field.

          I hope this is helpful, best regards, ...george...

          Are you following Liebniz?

          He defined a "spirit" (my word). A college student calls home and says "send money". Later a check arrives. This is a huge transfer of energy (real) in exchange for a small expendure. This is a spirit force at work. Not real but materail moves.

          Is this along your lines of "idea"?

          Hodge

            Hello Mr Simpson,

            Congratulations for your relevant general papper.I liked how you analyse this mind body problems and how we can rank these intentions and informations.It is always about this how,why,where,when ...I believe personally in my model of spherisation with 3D quant and coms sphères Inside an universal 3D sphere that the soul and gravitation must be correlated.If we encircle the standard model withthis gravitation which is not baryonic in logic and correlated with the zero absolute for the equilibrium,so we can analyse farer our standard model.The electromagnetic forces and our thermodynamical photonic mechanic is not the main piece it seems to me considering the problems of mind,body soul.The soul and this gravitation in logic are correlated.And of course the main codes are physical in the singularities, the main central sphere in logic for all system of uniquenss and its finite serie.That is why we can mimate with the electromagnetism for an automate and AI,that said we cannot create a soul in a simple resume considering these singularities(main personal code if I can say).In logic the mathematics with electromagnetism is possible, but not for the gravitation and souls.It is well like that in fact in an universal point of vue respecting this entropical physicality of evolution spherisation for me.If all singularities, physical turn around this central BH of our universe,the central cosm singularity, the biggest BH in logic implyin,g this gravitational aether instead of a luminiferous aether.And that all quantum BHs are these main codes of gravitation,it becomes relevant because we solve the mind soul body problem but also this weakest quantum force if we consider that the BHs produce particles of gravitation.It is the meaning of my equation in inserting this matter not baryonic ,probably this dark matter E=mc²+ml².l is for this matter not baryonic but it is not constant if we insert ptoportions with the spherical volumes and the 3 motions of spherical volumes.We can rank the informations.The aim being to make the best convergences with these 3 kinds of inforlmations, gravitational infos,photonic infos and binar finally.A kind of quantum 3D spherical quantum computing could help at my humble opinion for the convergences.Now of course all is about the ranking of these different informations;How to consider the synchronizations, the sortings, the encodings, the superimposings.... ? How to quantify these informations in fact in a pure matter energy road respecting this potential and kinetic energy and its steps of transformations with waves, fields particles corrélations.In all case it is a big puzzle all this.Food for thoughts....

            Congratulations for your papper, you are going to be well ranked and win a prize,it is general ande it is the most important also.Good luck and Regards from Belgium

              Hi John, thanks for this. I have not studied Leibniz, but am looking into him now. I will start with Early Modern Translations. Do you have a source you would recommend? Hope to post a sensible response after a little while.

              Best regards, ...george...

              Hi Steve, Thanks for your encouragement. It is indeed a big puzzle, reality, and getting bigger all the time. The more we learn, the more the unknown grows before our eyes.

              Best regards, ...george...

              Hi Hodge,

              I have searched all the Early Modern Texts on Leibniz for a reference to "student" and come up empty. So I will reply tentatively based on what you have said, pending the proper reference.

              The interaction you describe, in which the exchange of an idea results in movement in the physical world, is similar to my example of the stop sign. Both appear as miracles, unless one has a frame that admits that reality has an immaterial aspect as well as a material one.

              I hope that is useful,

              Best regards

              ...george...

              Dear George,

              I really enjoyed your beautiful essay and concur with your conceptualization of ideas field, mind and material reality. I hope you will enjoy the essay There are no goals as such in which I put forth a similar concept, just that I am using the term singularity of consciousness or soul or unified field in lieu of your "ideas field". Yes this field is beyond causal space-time, but it is the source of it. and This field exists with in all of us and to those who dedicate their time to gain access and knowledge of this field, reality is revealed in its true nature. I see this field working its way out from with in you through your work and several other wonderful essays in this contest. Religions have ascribed a word "GOD" for this field but have failed to establish that it exists with in all beings and hence we are fighting in the name of religions. Science being afraid of the futility of religions have alienated this concept from its study altogether instead of addressing it. I think we are approaching a time in human history where we can reconcile these two diverse fields science and religion and come up with a unified theory of everything base on the fundamental truth of soul or singularity or ideas field or consciousness. There have been great many people who have come before us who have tried to convey this message of singularity of reality and encourage love and peace on earth. I hope that you will find my effort to promote the same in my essay. Intent is the only true content of reality, so let's try to keep our intentions true and good, reality will follow and get better naturally.

              love,

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                Hello Sridattadev, thanks for your kind words, most encouraging. Like you, I hope that barriers between people, which only really exist in our minds, will become seen as unhelpful illusions.

                George Simpson,

                It seems that your essay suggests 'idea field' to be different from matter. The biggest surprise is that a structure made up of atoms can create an 'idea field'. What I think is that the idea field remains inbuilt in matter, to bloom at the right time.

                You have pointed out correctly the different eras in the history of Earth. I would like to add that this is the golden era, the zenith; and after that there will be a gradual decline, leading back to the 'machine era'; a beautiful symmetry, mathematically.

                Jose p Koshy

                  Hi Jost, thanks for these thoughts. I do indeed say that the Ideas Field - and also minds - are distinct aspects of reality, built on the same platform as matter - which is information.

                  You have a fascinating thought, that the ideas field is "inbuilt to matter". I don't think you mean that everything is conscious to some degree, but rather that the possibility is latent in the situation. Is that correct?