Dear Daniel,

In the perception I devellopped there are no time-paradoxes. Even if one of the probabilities in TS is time-travel (and there is...). So...

You go back to a specific ENM from a specific time-life-line. The as then newly created life-line the evolves as a new one, while the old one still exists as an Eternal Now Moment. Kill your grandfather here and nothing happens to you because the ENM where you were born from his daughter is still an available ETERNAL NOW Moment. ALL the probabilities available as ENM are eternally in TS.(This is different from MWI wher everything splits up and is reality) In my perception EVERY Emergeing reality is an eternal availability.

GR is closely related to the SSS of an agent. Outside this SSS everything like Time, Space, Mass Gravity is blurred and is PAST.

In Quantum Theory the smallest time lapse is the Planck time. Compared to this "rythm" our heartbeat is taking an eternity, almost the same as if you are are riding on a photon from the observation point of the SSS of another agent...

In our EMERGING reality time is a RESTRICTION, no time no FLOW, no experience of consciousness.

The SSS is the sphere around the "emerged" agent, so it is a way to find in our blurry emerging reality simultaneity. But even the signals received on this SSS are the PAST, a simultaneous past. I don't like to use the word "ILLUSION" because it has some strange side-effect, so I used the description "Emergent phenomenon". If I wouldn't have done that I think the essay would be ignored...

The Eternal NOW Moment is not happening because each happening needs time, and as TS is like your Nothingness timeless...You could eventually an ENM compare to a singularity (with no dimensions) that is the cause of a FLOW in an Emergent phenomenon called REALITY for an emergent agent.

What I liked very much in your essay is that you also like me are thinking "out of the box" Scientists are shouting "We need a new theory etc" but then go back and calculate. Like in many essays I have read , they keep searching for the announcer in the radio. They will never find him there.....

I hope that you will continue your thinking and I thank you for your attention and rating. If you have more questions don't hesitate to pose them.

best regards

Wilhelmus

I was trying to make it into a form that I could treat in terms of mathematics. Can you give me an idea?

Hi Daniel,

The perception of a Total Simultaneity (not existing entity in our emergent reality so a Nothingness) is very difficult for me to treat mathematically, I proposed alrady the "Hilbert Space".

Besides I am very bad in mathematics, it is not my cup of tea.

I will make an illustration of how I am trying to visualise :

1. Total Simultaneity that is containing ALL realites as probabilities (could it be compared to a Feynman Diagram ?)

2. The ENM (probability) inside TS that contains the emerging phenomenon of the FLOW (time and space) of a specific life line of an agent.

It could look like a point from where an infinity of threedimensional radius are spreading, writing this I think that it also could be a kind of holographic effect (three dimensional emergence from a two dimensional surface). But then the emergence from a point into the illusion of a lived life, the memory of...

I am still working on it....

Wilhelmus

Dear Wilhelmus,

Yes, it looks like a Feynman diagram, but if you do that (I was imaging that also when I made my suggestion), each "reality" has a probability. Think of the possible ralities having a gaussian distribution (it could be something else, but just stick to this idea for the moment). But given that the quantity is too big, it tends to a very thin line. But notice that the lines which are not realized also contribute for your measurement, a sort of interference, just like the 2 slit experiment, but with very complicated inteerference patterns.

This agent that you say, and keeping in mind the Feynman diagram in mind, is not continuous. Just take a looke at a diagram. There will be splits in the path. So, the agent is not continous. But, the flw you discribe would be the peak in the distribution. This is where the thing about GR enters in the scene. In GR you don't have these splits. The problems with paradoxes are due geometry, you don't have information coming from the future, you have a collision with yourself coming from the future. You cannot say this is "now". GR is a classic theory.

So, you see, let's say that this Eternal Now has a weight, and that this weight (mass causes weight because it distorts sapce time, but here the reason is different) is because you are trying to make sure things do not have this crazy loop. Which doesn't mean information can come to the future, but that the "now" is respected. So, I conjecture that dark matter is this weight that doesn't allow things to close a loop (let's say it bends space time in such a way that it doesn't allow a loop). I am not sure how to implement that. But since you mention holography, there is a paper that you can draw some inspiration (and get some idea what type of mathematics you should study to formalize your thoughts)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02269

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.01415

Cheers,

Daniel

Dear Daniel de França Diniz Rocha

I am sorry I did not notice this, thank you for posting this on my essay....

Thank you for reading my essay.

That is a Good question.

There is no Bigbang according to Dynamic Universe Model. When I say BEFORE or AFTER Bigbang, it is the time frame to denote a point of time 13.8 gega years back. This is generally believed by Bigbang based cosmologists at that time there was a big explosion and Universe was started from that time.

Just to mention from that point of time I used those words "BEFORE or AFTER Bigbang".

I hope this clears.

Best

=snp

Daniel,

A very interest, well written, well informed, unique and ambitious essay. I think you pulled it off well. I'm no expert in biology to judge those parts but I do have very similar biology to everyone else so think I'm qualify to give you a good score!

You mention the importance of feedback loops, which also identify as the key to cognitive decisions forming aims and intentions (but I then slip down to the more fundamental quantum scale architecture).

I think this certainly deserves to be a finalist.

Very best

Peter

    Daniel - Thank you for an excellent essay. You are the only author I have read so far that defines "intention" correctly - as a direction or movement that is independent of agency. This is a critical distinction in any discussion of emergence that avoids the muddy waters of panpsychism.

    I am curious if you have an opinion as to whether intention as you describe it in the biological realm may also apply to the chemical and the physical?

    You may find some compatible themes in my essay The How and The Why of Emergence and Intention!

    Cheers - George Gantz

      Dear Peter Jackson,

      I really think you view of spin interaction as something interesting. The spin of the electron, as described by the Dirac equation, belongs to the group su(2), which is a double cover of so(3). That is, we need 2 rotations of a sphere. But people forget that these are different things and end up trying to talk about an electron as it were merely ONE very small sphere, tending to radius 0, mysteriously shifting its position up and down. Stephen Hawking did this confusion in his famous book brief history of time. People confuse the algebra if the group with the actual rotation of the electron. So, an electron is a 4 dimensional entity, since the Dirac equation obeys Lorentz transformations. So, people visualize the wrong situation, where the actual situation should be a hyperbolic sphere SO(3,1). And SO(3,1) is isomorphic so SU(2)XSU(2). This is why you needed 2 spheres to correctly explain the spin phenomena. I think you clarified a great deal of things, even for me.

      Plus, you have added some great stuff along the way, which may help understand intelligence. Look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eas2zOSKIaQ

      What is happening here it is that the slime molde, when it expands and pulsates, it is mimicking a non perturbation integral of a path integral. When you do non perturbative, you appeal to combinatoric methods, which are very compute intensive for usual computer architectures. I think our brains works in a way analogous to a slime mold, but it needs its parts more fixed, and not too fall apart, like it would happen to a slime mold. So, I think the brain works by expanding "pseudopods", and tries to find the food (the idea), and when it finds, it creates a synapse. As you can deduce from the slime mold examples, things will be stored like loops in the brain (indeed this is the case, and this is more clear in the relation ship between brain cortex and thalamus)

      Daniel,

      Thank you for the essay on intentions and living organisms. I was especially interested in your discussion of control and stability, which are fundamental aspects of not only individual organisms, but also the generational changes (evolution) that eventually lead to new species.

      Your conclusion states, '...we can say that any society of organisms is, to a large extent, an organism itself. It may vary in complexity from a spectrum that includes parasitism, cooperation, colony up to a multicellular being (from the perspective of individual cells). Human societies can be seen as a type of organism and as such, it can be ascribed aims and intentions.'

      Therefore, you may be interested in my essay, The Cosmic Odyssey of Matter, which formally defines and quantifies precise structures that include chemical elements, molecules, living organisms, and social groups. This formal definition shows how the whole human population is a precise structure, systematically assembled from smaller components.

      link to The Cosmic Odyssey of Matter

      Regards, Ed Kneller

        Dear Daniel,

        Forgive my delay in acknowledging your answers to my questions, and thank you for them. It is difficult to manage reading all the fine essays in this contest and time is short. I have read your essay twice and consider it an excellent contribution.

        Good luck in the contest and my best wishes for you,

        Edwin Eugene Klingman

        Dear George,

        Thank you for the comment on my essay. Indeed there is a resemblance between your topic and mine. But I think while I went to a more evolutionary point of view, you went to a very beautiful poetic route. It indeed touched my heart seeing how, indeed, everything seem to self organized, despite the aparent lack of purpose in the universe, and that there is a sense of flow in all of that. This gives a reason to see purpose and not chaos to those who wishes to find a reason to exist, that our life has some value.

        When you gave your grandsone as an example of the huge flow of love, as part of the universe's purpose in minimizing entropy, while exploring the environment, did made me a drop a couple of tears. It made me see through your eyes how something so simple can be an atom of the huge large scale principles of the universe.

        Dear Edward Kneller,

        I make the words of Prof. Ellis mine. But I would like to to add that you actually uncover a very interesting complexity relation between all scales. It would be interesting to figure out if there is any relation to other scale relations, for example, Kolmogorov microscales.

        Another very interesting thing is to estimate the number of civilizations in our galaxy and the rate of how many of them appear along the eras. Do you think that is possible?

        Daniel - in case you do not have a chance to get back to your comment on my essay, here is my response:

        "Thank you so very much for your kind remarks. I shed a tear writing about my grandson, too. Even better, I now have another grandson - one week old - and have been spending time with him as he slowly wakes to the wide world into which he was born. Yes, one can believe the world is deterministic, or completely random, or that our conscious sense of purpose, appreciation of beauty and experience of love is all epiphenomenal. But what a hollow waste that seems to be when we have the opportunity to embrace with all our hearts and our so very rational minds a delightful and joyous experiential and purposeful wonderland.

        Many thanks - George

        Dear Daniel de França Diniz Rocha

        I appreciate your essay. You spent a lot of effort to write it. If you believed in the principle of identity of space and matter of Descartes, then your essay would be even better. There is not movable a geometric space, and is movable physical space. These are different concepts.

        I inform all the participants that use the online translator, therefore, my essay is written badly. I participate in the contest to familiarize English-speaking scientists with New Cartesian Physic, the basis of which the principle of identity of space and matter. Combining space and matter into a single essence, the New Cartesian Physic is able to integrate modern physics into a single theory. Let FQXi will be the starting point of this Association.

        Don't let the New Cartesian Physic disappear! Do not ask for himself, but for Descartes.

        New Cartesian Physic has great potential in understanding the world. To show potential in this essay I risked give "The way of the materialist explanation of the paranormal and the supernatural" - Is the name of my essay.

        Visit my essay and you will find something in it about New Cartesian Physic. After you give a post in my topic, I shall do the same in your theme

        Sincerely,

        Dizhechko Boris

          Dear Daniel de França Diniz Rocha

          You have a wonderful, well-written essay. Your assertion that life originated as a result of the fact that under certain conditions the possibility of its occurrence increases as a geometric progression are very convincing. For me, claiming to be a physicist, stable existence of corpuscles is due to the fact that the rotation at the center reaches the speed of light. As is known from the theory of relativity in this case, the time almost stops.

          I wish you success in the contest.

          Sincerely,

          Dizhechko Boris

          Dear Daniel,

          With great interest I read your essay, which of course is worthy of high rating. Excellently written.

          You wrote

          «I once thought about cognition being derived from closed loops.»

          «And, indeed, the circuitry of our brain is made of small loops, when information is kept stored, and large loops, which pass through the Thalamus several times, being redistributed to several other parts of the brains. So, it is basically a mechanism cortex-thalamus-cortex-thalamus.»

          About how torus loops function from a physical point of view and how they form large loops by which they interact with each other at resonant frequencies, is shown in my essay.

          In addition, it is shown that a gravitational shell always forms on the interfaces between media, which forms turbulence vortices that are the source of energy for activating various processes.

          «But, most likely, evolution began on the limits between these environments, where chemical clocks were on the threshold of survival. The reason is that the circulation within each of these environments tended to be non chaotic, but in the boundary, the difference in speed and dens ity of the solutions, caused the Reynolds number to be high.»

          «In such view, more complex networks of chemical clocks could compensate for the difference in media, with the tendency to stabilize those that keep stable under turbulence.»

          I wish you success in the contest.

          Kind regards,

          Vladimir

          Dear Vladimir,

          due time constrains (besides, the voting ends today), I won't be able to properly comment your essay. It would take me a few more days for that, since right now By "properly", I mean, sharing some ideas and thoughts. I really enjoyed your essay. I hope we can keep in touch.

            Dear Daniel,

            Many thanks for the kind words about my essay and high rating.

            Congratulations on the successful completion of the next stage of the contest.

            I also «hope we can keep in touch.»

            I wish you success in the contest.

            Vladimir