I would be happy to talk.

Someone gave me a low vote last night, so I dropped much. This is a bad game.

Ulla.

Thanks,

Thoroidal force give very interesting results in simulations. It also leads to the wobbling of spheres or wavefunctions. The state function reduction change it.

Thanks again, Ulla.

Dear Ulla Marianne Mattfolk,

I very much enjoyed your essay. Thank you for reading my essay and for your gracious comments.

Discovering Schrödinger's "What is life?" (circa 1965) was a great excitement for me. I put Schrödinger at the top of the genius stack. His 'aperiodic' crystal was genius at the time. He knew maximum order was required, but not the total order of the crystal. His was the intuition, and he spurred all of the DNA pioneers, many of whom credited his 'What is life?' for their entry into the field of molecular biology.

But you say, "we often assume the ideal to be a periodic symmetric structure, so symmetry is 'fault' or 'error'."

My opinion is that all real symmetries we apply to physics today are approximate. I discuss this in comments around this contest, so do not repeat it here. For physicists, symmetry is 'easy', as it has a group representation, so if we can find elements that seem to be groupable, we can apply matrix math. And it works, even when the symmetry is broken. This is probably because the group elements can be transformed into each other, but require something other than the pure symmetry that the math relies on.

You say 'information is distortion'. Yes, when energy exceeds a system threshold it 'distorts' the system, causing a transition to a different state; the structure is 'in'-formed, and information is 'recorded'. However it is not useful information unless a code-book or context is available to interpret it. As you say "information is about something." How could information travel through space, not knowing what ultimate system will be 'in'-formed? Energy travels through space, and sometimes leaves a meaningful record. And yes, "unlearning is hard." [See my essay.]

In your essay you say "Logic longs for a unified picture, but logic may fool us." In my schema, consciousness is awareness plus volition, while intelligence is consciousness plus logic [where logic is structural.] Logic is piecemeal, local, and based on hardware: silicon logic gates, protein/DNA/RNA, axons and synaptic gaps, etc. I believe it is consciousness, above and beyond logic that longs for a unified picture, i.e., wants all of the logical pieces to coexist without contradicting each other.

If consciousness arises separately with each life form, it must be 'easy', that is simple - easy to achieve, because life forms are almost without limit. But all such 'simple' models have failed. This (and experience) tells me that consciousness is inherent in the universe and must have a field character. Many of my essays, particularly my last one, address this point: The Nature of Mind

Your bio addresses the real miracle (also supporting a consciousness field): Self-healing.

My very best regards,

Edwin Eugene Klingman

    Thanks.

    Your essay is very information dense, and I don't have enough knowledge to right understand it, but it contains some very interesting ideas. I have myself spent some amount of time searching for an asymmetric approach on the fields. The results are very meager. In condensed matter it is maybe easier. I have been one part of some simulations using asymmetry, with astonishing results, I now write some of it up.

    Living molecules are of some reason almost Always asymmetric, the symmetric ones are few. I got the idea it meant a bifurcation, something creating new stuff. I thought of how the quantization works in the oscillations and scatterings. It is an effect from fading em-fields.

    It looks like Life use the strategy to widen the gap of properties, possibilites, using asymmetry. It gives much more than simply symmetry, and is also an information-theoretic approch of Life, to gain more information, maybe? Also more possible information, seen as quantum complexity, and negentropy. Here also the Self-healing dwelves, partly. We must stay integrated to keep our homeostatic function working. The question of cancer relates much to this.

    I have aslo searched for a tripartite entanglement, and logic, in fact entanglement can be multipartite, I Think. This comes when looking at things from a many-body approach and a lattice. Usually it is claimed to be only bipartite, and the superposition would be total, but it is not what I have found. I have began to doubt the common theories about the collapse and decoherence too. Decoherence is simply the gathering of information, a temporal scenario. Many-body states have the charachter to 'lock' the quantum fluctuations through the bondings made, like flux-ropes. Macrostates can sometimes be seen to fluctuate, the border is not totally rigid between QM and GR states.

    At least I strongly dislike the dual logic as on/off states, and I want a third or fourth alternative :)

    Information is distortion, also support this. We need the entanglement and interactions to get new information. This is a classical scenario, the quantum dito is the complexity/negentropy, almost like a reversible Arrow at work, like a check-system. In an earlier essay I tried to describe this, Life as an interplay between coherence and decoherence. Also see my The www of Life, the wet, warm, womb...

    I have read some of your papers today, I especially like the way you use hbar, reminds much of TGD. I am eager to see your Mind-paper, thanks.

    Regards, Ulla Mattfolk.

    Dear Ulla,

    Thank you for drawing my attention to your interesting discussion of Life-force.

    It cetainly deserves sufficiently high rating

    With the best regards

    M.Yu.Khlopov

      Thanks,

      I have replied twice on your essay, but FQXI eat much...

      Regards.

      Ulla Mattfolk.

      Dear Ulla,

      Thanks for visiting my Essay page.

      Your wrote a nice Essay. I particularly appreciated your original explanation about the fundamental of life. In addition, reading Schroedinger's clever statements has been pleasant. I have also found interesting some connections between physics and biology.

      In general, you wrote an entertaining Essay, deserving my high score.

      Good luck in the Contest.

      Cheers, Ch.

        Thanks, Christian Chorda.

        This essay Contest has big fluxes, hope to stay alive...

        It was a pity you did not read the Unification solution, but maybe what you said hints at there is none, or there is a duality.

        Jarmo Mäkelä btw, does not live far from me, but I have not met him. You took a similar approach, maybe the future here?

        Ulla Mattfolk.

        This essay is very interesting Ulla...

        You have a very innovative approach to making sense of how to incorporate consciousness into the picture of Physics. I will likely have many more comments once the ratings have ended, but I am still trying to do my due diligence, by reading one or two more before time is called.

        All the Best,

        Jonathan

          Ulla

          Yes I'm a Finn as well

          I love your paper and its emphasis on LIFE -- which all the other writers didn't really consider at all. Well done.

          Sorry for the short reply but I have so many other essay to read and rate -- I will come back after the competition closes and leave more detailed reflections on your paper.

          Yours Harri

            Thanks Jonathan.

            You had written about carbon, something, which is interesting. Hope we can continue where we ended once.

            Thanks Harri.

            I have thought about imaginary numbers quite a bit. A wonderful essay, I have downloaded to read again.

            Ulla.

            Ulla

            I know the feeling. I started in the middle, then moved to number one position for one day, then slammed back to the middle, only to rise to fith place again, then slammed back to the middle for contest conclusion. There was one point when I reached out, asking people if they would read my essay. Bad idea. They punished me for it.

            Its not a pure contest. There is plenty of strategising beyond merely writing of a good essay.

            The FQXi system wouldnt let me rate other peoples essays in the final days of the contest. This also happened to me last year. it became clear to me this year, that if I was unable to give people what they prospectively wanted, that is to say "a reciprocal read and rate of each others essays" then they were much less likely to read my essay. I was handicapped in my ability to engage with others in a fashion that could draw traffic and votes to my essay. Frustrating to go to all that work, then be disadvantaged by FQXi's system failure in the final days.

            I sent them a letter about it both years, but havent had a response to date.

            Steve

            There were much fluxes up and down. Some of the top essays were truly bad sometimes also, which arise many ??? What are the criterias really? It makes the whole competition questionable.

            My Place became 29th, and it is ok, but I Think it should have been better. I am unknown, maybe one reason? Many more famous people get a much better result with a bad essay hastily done. Mine required so much efforts, mainly to fit the criterias of the essay Contest. Maybe work done in vain? It would be a better essay if it could be a bit longer. I had the same feeling last year. Must try to remember that.

            Also I don't want to treat others in a way I don't want to be treated myself. I tried to give a reasonable fair vote. My aim was to be a finalist.

            There are also truly good essays here.

            Ulla Mattfolk.

            12 days later

            I must add some links about 'magneticitry', transport of packages of magnetic force.

            https://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0480.pdf

            https://www.wired.com/2011/02/magnetricity-spin-ice/

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrMAFGVNE84

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_T._Bramwell

            Spin ice are asymmetric, aperiodic, only longitudinal transfer...

            Ulla.

            More facts: Depletion of CLAMP leads to the loss of PCP protein asymmetry, defects in cilia polarity, and defects in the angle of cell division. Additionally, depletion of CLAMP leads to a loss of the atypical cadherin-like molecule Celrs2, suggesting that CLAMP facilitates the stabilization of junctional interactions responsible for proper PCP protein localization. Depletion of CLAMP also affects the polarized organization of MTs. We hypothesize that CLAMP facilitates the establishment of cell polarity and promotes the asymmetric accumulation of MTs downstream of the establishment of proper PCP. http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2018/03/06/jcb.201706058

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