Hodge,

Thank you for reading my essay; I am looking forward to reading your essay.

An earth-centered system could still explain the tides due to the attraction of the sun as orbits the earth. Galileo's sun-centered system did have a problem with tides, because he could only explain one tide a day in line with the sun. There are two tides a day mostly due to the moon; later mechanics could explain this observation.

I use examples to help explain my point, but sometimes can distract from the theme. My essay is about the nature of non-human intelligence.

Jeff

David,

Thank you for reading my essay; I am looking forward to reading your essay. My essay has nothing to do with dark matter or dark energy. I used dark matter and dark matter as examples of things that exist, but cannot currently seen by telescopes (or felt, smelt or heard). Those MOND-chameleon particles sound fun and I hope you are correct about them.

Jeff

To whom it may concern,

My essay might deserve a "1" and "2", but I would like some explanation as to why my essay scored so low. If my essay is just poorly written then just say that. If you disagree with some point I made, let me try to defend my work.

Sincerely,

Jeff

    Dear Jeffrey Michael Scmitz

    I invite you and every physicist to read my work "TIME ORIGIN,DEFINITION AND EMPIRICAL MEANING FOR PHYSICISTS, Héctor Daniel Gianni ,I'm not a physicist.

    How people interested in "Time" could feel about related things to the subject.

    1) Intellectuals interested in Time issues usually have a nice and creative wander for the unknown.

    2) They usually enjoy this wander of their searches around it.

    3) For millenniums this wander has been shared by a lot of creative people around the world.

    4) What if suddenly, something considered quasi impossible to be found or discovered such as "Time" definition and experimental meaning confronts them?

    5) Their reaction would be like, something unbelievable,... a kind of disappointment, probably interpreted as a loss of wander.....

    6) ....worst than that, if we say that what was found or discovered wasn't a viable theory, but a proved fact.

    7) Then it would become offensive to be part of the millenary problem solution, instead of being a reason for happiness and satisfaction.

    8) The reader approach to the news would be paradoxically adverse.

    9) Instead, I think it should be a nice welcome to discovery, to be received with opened arms and considered to be read with full attention.

    11)Time "existence" is exclusive as a "measuring system", its physical existence can't be proved by science, as the "time system" is. Experimentally "time" is "movement", we can prove that, showing that with clocks we measure "constant and uniform" movement and not "the so called Time".

    12)The original "time manuscript" has 23 pages, my manuscript in this contest has only 9 pages.

    I share this brief with people interested in "time" and with physicists who have been in sore need of this issue for the last 50 or 60 years.

    Héctor

    Dear Jeffrey Michael Schmitz,

    Please excuse me for I have no intention of disparaging in any way any part of your essay.

    I merely wish to point out that "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate.

    Only nature could produce a reality so simple, a single cell amoeba could deal with it.

    The real Universe must consist only of one unified visible infinite physical surface occurring in one infinite dimension, that am always illuminated by infinite non-surface light.

    A more detailed explanation of natural reality can be found in my essay, SCORE ONE FOR SIMPLICITY. I do hope that you will read my essay and perhaps comment on its merit.

    Joe Fisher, Realist

    Dear Jeffrey,

    FQXI Contests are first of all new ideas. You give important ideas and deep inference:

    «The process of entropy does not need life, but life requires entropy. We can think of life as an intelligent system which enables lower energy macro ordered states that started at the moment the goal of reproduction was found.»

    «...we are the true champions of entropy.Life itself is one of the most efficient agents of entropy.»

    My high appreciation. I invite you to read and evaluate my ideas .

    Yours faithfully,

    Vladimir

      Jeffrey, I want to add: the title of your essay is magnificent - the deepest constructive life dialectic!

      Yours faithfully,

      Vladimir

      Joe Fisher,

      Thank you for your comment. I am looking forward to reading your essay. A one dimensional infinite surface sounds interesting and if true could help me lose weight and help my parallel parking skills.

      Jeff

      Vladimir,

      Thank you very much for the wonderful comments and thank you for reading my essay. I am looking forward to reading your essay.

      Sincerely,

      Jeff

      Hi Jeff,

      This is a really good essay. I am very surprised it is not getting more attention.

      Let me know if I got this right:

      1. Mathematical models are incomplete. The map is not the territory!

      2. The scientific method is incomplete because because it does not discuss how choices are made (see my essay).

      3. We confuse intelligence with self-awareness and high rate data processing - intelligence is something separate. AI would be more accurately described as human augmentation (refer to Doug Engelbart at SRI).

      Hey! Essay writers read and vote on this essay ... It is excellent!

      Don Limuti

        Don,

        Thank you for reading my essay and the wonderful review. I am looking forward to reading your essay.

        The scientific method will never be complete (only after an infinite number of experiments), models that fit data from science will also never be complete. Science is a process, a true scientist knows this, accepts this and even enjoys the journey.

        If given a goal that is not included in the instructions and the ability to rewrite some of the instructions then AI would be true intelligence. It might not be useful to make AI true intelligence because we want it to meet our goals and not its own. Some goals are forever outside the system like- predict tomorrow's weather.

        Jeff

        Dear Jeffrey,

        With great interest I read your essay, which of course is worthy of high praise.

        You are one of the few who directly answers the question put by the contest.

        You are absolutely right that «If entropy requires heat to flow from hot to cold then a refrigerator would seem an impossible device.» You correctly put questions and find answers «A refrigerator works because on the inside entropy of the refrigerator is reduced, but outside entropy is increased more, so the overall entropy of the universe is increased.»

        In my essay , is shown that if you do not use the mystical properties of matter and fields, then there is every reason to believe that the universe is much simpler than it is thought to be.

        There is only one essence and the only universal quantum parametric mechanism in the universe that operates on the principle of the classical heat pump in solitons (attractors), and that functions both at the micro- and macro-level of fractal matter. This mechanism allows using a small fraction of the external energy to control in many times big fraction the energy of the system.

        This mechanism is also the answer to the questions of this competition.

        However, everyone loves their fiction and "magic", built by their "gods", so very few are able to see the rational grain in other people's ideas because of their illusions.

        Your essay allowed to consider us like-minded people.

        You might also like reading my essay .

        Kind regards,

        Vladimir

          Nice essay Schmitz,

          Your ideas and thinking are excellent for eg...

          Intelligence needs:

          яВХяАаA goal.

          яВХяАаA knowledge base.

          яВХяАаA set of instructions, which do not contain the goal.

          яВХяАаThe ability to rewrite those instructions to conform to the knowledge base to help achieve the

          goal.

          A Good idea, I fully agree with you, probably the Universe also had a mind and consciousness of its own ............

          ..................... At this point I want you to ask you to please have a look at my essay, where ...............reproduction of Galaxies in the Universe is described. Dynamic Universe Model is another mathematical model for Universe. Its mathematics show that the movement of masses will be having a purpose or goal, Different Galaxies will be born and die (quench) etc...just have a look at the essay... "Distances, Locations, Ages and Reproduction of Galaxies in our Dynamic Universe" where UGF (Universal Gravitational force) acting on each and every mass, will create a direction and purpose of movement.....

          I think intension is inherited from Universe itself to all Biological systems

          For your information Dynamic Universe model is totally based on experimental results. Here in Dynamic Universe Model Space is Space and time is time in cosmology level or in any level. In the classical general relativity, space and time are convertible in to each other.

          Many papers and books on Dynamic Universe Model were published by the author on unsolved problems of present day Physics, for example 'Absolute Rest frame of reference is not necessary' (1994) , 'Multiple bending of light ray can create many images for one Galaxy: in our dynamic universe', About "SITA" simulations, 'Missing mass in Galaxy is NOT required', "New mathematics tensors without Differential and Integral equations", "Information, Reality and Relics of Cosmic Microwave Background", "Dynamic Universe Model explains the Discrepancies of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Observations.", in 2015 'Explaining Formation of Astronomical Jets Using Dynamic Universe Model, 'Explaining Pioneer anomaly', 'Explaining Near luminal velocities in Astronomical jets', 'Observation of super luminal neutrinos', 'Process of quenching in Galaxies due to formation of hole at the center of Galaxy, as its central densemass dries up', "Dynamic Universe Model Predicts the Trajectory of New Horizons Satellite Going to Pluto" etc., are some more papers from the Dynamic Universe model. Four Books also were published. Book1 shows Dynamic Universe Model is singularity free and body to collision free, Book 2, and Book 3 are explanation of equations of Dynamic Universe model. Book 4 deals about prediction and finding of Blue shifted Galaxies in the universe.

          With axioms like... No Isotropy; No Homogeneity; No Space-time continuum; Non-uniform density of matter(Universe is lumpy); No singularities; No collisions between bodies; No Blackholes; No warm holes; No Bigbang; No repulsion between distant Galaxies; Non-empty Universe; No imaginary or negative time axis; No imaginary X, Y, Z axes; No differential and Integral Equations mathematically; No General Relativity and Model does not reduce to General Relativity on any condition; No Creation of matter like Bigbang or steady-state models; No many mini Bigbangs; No Missing Mass; No Dark matter; No Dark energy; No Bigbang generated CMB detected; No Multi-verses etc.

          Many predictions of Dynamic Universe Model came true, like Blue shifted Galaxies and no dark matter. Dynamic Universe Model gave many results otherwise difficult to explain

          Have a look at my essay on Dynamic Universe Model and its blog also where all my books and papers are available for free downloading...

          http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/

          Best wishes to your essay.

          For your blessings please................

          =snp. gupta

            Vladimir,

            Thank you for reading my essay and thank you for the wonderful review. I am looking forward to reading your essay.

            Sincerely,

            Jeff

            =snp. gupta (I do not know how you wished to be addressed),

            Thank you for reading my essay. I am looking forward to reading your essay.

            What I tried to state in my essay is that life (not the whole universe) is an intelligent system. Something can have intelligence and not be self aware. In some cases, self-awareness and consciousness can develop from intelligence.

            Sincerely,

            Jeff

            5 days later

            Jeff,

            Life is an intelligent system and is one of the most efficient agents of entropy. When you say intent and purpose are clear and plentiful at the small scale, do you mean the quantum scale? The metamathematics and thermodynamics concepts do come together in the explanation and pigs still can't fly.

            Your musings do seem to reflect the inscrutability of the topic. I had trouble getting a handle on it.

            Adjunct teaching is not rewarding financially but is as you note interacting with students. I did it part time in several subjects.

            Regards,

            Jim Hoover

            Jim,

            Thank you for reading my essay. I am looking forward to reading your essay.

            No, I did not mean the quantum scale, that is a little too small and I should of said that. I meant small concept scale (the quantum scale is smaller physically, but more complex as far as concepts). What a molecule is doing or what a single worker is doing is clearer than if a school really needs an addition or what is the meaning of life or the universe. My point was to keep concepts small as a key to understanding.

            Jeff

              Jim,

              I did read your essay, I remembered when I saw the title. Your essay was the best writing I have seen in this contest.

              Jeff

              Jeff,

              Lovely essay, with much sense, I do like your direct readable writing style. I also broadly agree your 'threshold' definition of intelligence and described almost the same thing, with imaginary scenario's, responses and 'feedback loops' informing decisions.

              You also point out some very pertinent facts; "There are many wrong physical models that work perfectly well mathematically" and; "a toaster oven with a goal and the ability to change could be intelligent." (as the toaster in the UK TV series Red Dwarf', which also consistently reverts to it's primary goal!)

              Regarding; "The Heisenberg uncertainty principle Is a known unknown, a limit to our knowledge of a particle" So true, but you may have seen I do identify a valid classical derivation of that probability distribution! Of course that may not pass the cognitive dissonance test for some years (the 1st part of the essay shows why) but nobody has yet falsified it as it's a self apparent (if initially seeming complex) mechanism.

              I'm sorry my essay is (again!) so dense, but I had a lot to get in to support the compound hypothesis. Yes it does need 2 reads. I find most good essays and papers do, though I do invariably 'speed read' first to decide if it's worthwhile. Yours was an exception, clear and spot on, so I slowed down and just read it once.

              I see you've been trolled. Mine has just received it's 11th '1', just after it went up a couple of places! Rest assured your score from me will be a deserved good one to compensate, in fact going on now. There's some discussion on the admin blog as trolling can be easily eliminated.

              I do hope your second read of mine will reveal the often subtle connections of how quantum interactions DO contain adequate information and options to drive a multi choice multi layer 'yes/no switch' feedback and decision system, even with a 'random' mutation mechanism!

              Very best

              Peter

                Peter,

                Thank you for the great review. I just want people to read my essay and tell me what they think (good or bad). When an essay is ranked low nobody reads it. I did read the bottom ranked essay and whoever ranked that essay was correct, but I know there are a few lost gems near the bottom.

                I will read your essay again and give it a more full review.

                All the best,

                Jeff