Alfredo,

Thank you for the interesting essay. You address some key topics in the broad history of the evolution of life and intelligence. The supporting data is also interesting and well presented.

One of the themes in your paper is the connectedness of particles, and you specifically state on page 3: 'there is a huge capacity in nature for generating associations of particles with new properties.'

Therefore, you might be interested in my essay, The Cosmic Odyssey of Matter, which describes a framework for how components connect to build larger precision formations.

I would appreciate your comments should you have a few minutes to review my essay.

Regards, Ed Kneller

    Dear Edward

    I thank you for having commented my essay because otherwise I would probably not see your essay! We both scoped the same property of matter. You propose a systematization of the process of the evolution of the organization of the matter that clarifies it and helps in the analysis. I see it in a more continuous way, a permanent tendency for getting connected; and I do not exclude any force from the process, from gravity to social feelings, all forming structures with a degree of precision that is variable but if you scale the structures in correspondence with the range of action of the forces, that variability is not so great - so I think. But that is just my point of view, I am not thinking that is better than yours. Undoubtedly your approach is rich and enlightening. One of the essays that interested me the most so far.

    Regards

    Alfredo

    Alfredo,

    An impressive arguments that covers new ground and a new approach. You assemble your reasoning like an engineer with a scientific quest, therefore the quest for what drives the universe's evolution away from chaos. In a general way I mention the human tendency toward order before entropy cuts it short in death.

    I like your humility in not claiming to solve the problem but helping to lead to a solution, which we all should do in helping "to solve a new problem," thus showing intelligence w/o arrogance.

    "Intelligence .. is a function of the number of new properties acquired by the system per time unit" may sound like a simple statement but is something many of us don't frame in our mind, like an engineering measurement.

    The characteristics of system of interconnecting elements and the "evolvability" of systems and relationships with energy sounds like the theory I mention by Jeremy England regarding entropy.

    Quite an interesting and clearly drawn essay, worthy of high marks, Alfredo.

    Hope you get a chance to comment on mine.

    Jim Hoover

      Alfredo,

      Since it nears the end, I have been returning to essays I have read to see if I've rated them and discovered I rated yours on April 4th.Bad accounting and short memory.

      Hope you have enjoyed the interchange of ideas as much as I have.

      Jim Hoover

      Dear James

      Thank you for your kind appreciation of my essay, where you spot important points of it. I did not forget to see yours, but only now I can do it - still in time! I am quite curious about it. I will leave in your blog my commentary about your essay.

      All the best.

      Alfredo

      Alfredo,

      This was a very interesting read. Many thanks.

      You begin by defining intelligence as the ability to solve a new problem. I agree. So did my college professors since they would always present new problems on the exams:-)

      You also propose as a metric the rate at which new solutions can be created. This is also good. And you give this a physical meaning in the form of the production of new molecules. You then combine this with a selection method to ensure that these new molecules have a purpose or provide an advantage of some sort. This is also very good.

      You then extend the selection idea into a physical version of the scientific method ... i.e., hypothesis (in the form of a new physical or biological structure) and selection (in the form of survivability). I think that your essay is the only one I have read that essential gives physical meaning to the scientific method. This is an excellent insight. Many thanks!

      I was not aware of your description of the early Earth. At several places in your essay, you hypothesize regarding the expanding universe and whether or not there are any local effects that can be measured. In my essay, I present a wave function that has an exponential scalar term. It is very possible that this term allows for an expansion exactly as you suppose.

      You use of the concept of "thermal window" is also new to me. I do not think I have seen this in any of the other essays. Essentially, you argue that the dinosaurs were doomed no matter what because the Earth was cooling and only small members of the set would survive if they also developed the ability to regulate their temperature. You also seem to argue that if life ever becomes truly extinct on the Earth, it will be impossible for the necessary processes to be repeated to recreate it.

      I read your post in another forum regarding your frustration with being one-bombed. Your situation may be more odd than you realize. You and many others were one-bombed within a few hours of your essays being posted. I gave you your next score without reading your essay simply to offset it. You can figure out for yourself what is what. Therefore, you won't see any jump in your score based upon my favorable review as my scoring is already in your average.

      I hope your frustrations don't prevent you from participating in the future.

      Best Regards and Good Luck,

      Gary Simpson

      Alfredo Gouveia Oliveira,

      Thank you for reading my essay and leaving your comments. As you know the rating system is strategic in spite of the guidelines. I have read your good essay. I will come back to it after the contest ends this Friday at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. I will be posting all my ratings for essays in the last few minutes of the contest. There is an obvious over supply of one's available. Since each voter has just one vote per essay, that supply reflects a concerted effort on the part of a body of voters, not necessarily essay contributors. What will run out for them is time. I hope by waiting that my votes for others might count. Good luck to you.

      James Putnam

      Alfredo,

      Thanks for commenting on mine. I hadn't rated yours so doing so now.

      very best

      Peter

      Hi Alfredo

      I just realized that although we had interacted quite a bit, I had not rated your essay so far. Am correcting that oversight now. I rate you very highly indeed, at '9'. I think it is well deserved considering how insightful and fine your essay is.

      Best, Willy

      Dear Sirs!

      Physics of Descartes, which existed prior to the physics of Newton returned as the New Cartesian Physic and promises to be a theory of everything. To tell you this good news I use «spam».

      New Cartesian Physic based on the identity of space and matter. It showed that the formula of mass-energy equivalence comes from the pressure of the Universe, the flow of force which on the corpuscle is equal to the product of Planck's constant to the speed of light.

      New Cartesian Physic has great potential for understanding the world. To show it, I ventured to give "materialistic explanations of the paranormal and supernatural" is the title of my essay.

      Visit my essay, you will find there the New Cartesian Physic and make a short entry: "I believe that space is a matter" I will answer you in return. Can put me 1.

      Sincerely,

      Dizhechko Boris

      Alfredo:

      Your essay is very interesting because it shows that we can have a Young Sun physics removing the Snowball Earth problem which is very problematic to the origin of Life.

      It shows a surprise for many that the evolution of the cosmos is not condemned by the second thermodynamic law but instead it depends on the properties of the complex systems like Life and Human societies.

      I'm surprised that no one noticed your statment that the space expansion can be explained by the decrease of the units of measure, i.e. the atom. It solves a big problem in cosmology: how to return to the strict rationalist viewpoints respected by all great physicists of the past.

        Well Alfredo,

        Believe it or not, but it looks like you are #40 ... you might be in the finals. It is a little complicated though because FQXi members are automatically finalists ... but you did well for your first effort. I seem to be #32. I might also make the finals.

        Best Regards and Good Luck,

        Gary Simpson

        Dear Helder

        Thanks for your kind words.

        There are two reason for no one having mentioned my statement about the possibility of the time decrease of the atom; one is that it was not the focus of the essay or of the contest; the other is the same that has prevented everybody to consider it: mind models the external world in relation to us, i.e., assuming us as the reference, invariant. It is difficult to us to reason assuming that we (our units) are not invariant. But the truth is that the atom varies with motion, field and time; and I do not know whether it varies also with position because I have not analyzed it yet. Because our models are only relative to our units, the result is a space that expands and the concept of space time. Once we consider the dependence of units with motion, field and time, then the resulting model has invariant space and no interconnection between length and time (no "spacetime"). And also "no magic"...

        But you know, in my essay I mention another thing much more important that the time decrease of the atom! Nobody noted it also; do you know what is it?

        Cheers,

        Alfredo

        8 days later

        Hello Mr Oliveira,

        Congratulations for your essay.I liked the evolutive point of vue.Like I rank all since the age of 17 I am 41 years old.I have classed animals vegetals...so I like the evolution.I don't know if you know Lamarck but I like his work about the free will and the intuition.It is different tan Darwin that I like also.In fact both are relevant but not sufficient.The paramters of mutations and adaptation of evolution are numerous.We are still at the begining.I beleive also that this Quntum gravitation also could help but we are not there still unfortunately.

        The process of evolution ,these codes and informations of evolution are complex and the emergence of consciousness and intelligence are results of this complexification of mass.We can mimate an intelligence with algorythms, not a soul correlated with the ghravitation in logic.But of course we are in the philosophy there isn't it ? :)

        Best from Belgium

        4 days later

        Dear Alfredo :

        It must be the Event !!!

        "..caused by an event that happened several times (many times indeed, although with consequences of variable intensity) and that will very likely happen again in the future - it is a recurrent event. What event is that? "

        No one asked more info about the Event, a worldwide life changer.

        Best regards

        Velez

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