Thank you Steve,

Pls pay attention to the "Subjective Simultaneity Sphere"

best regards

Wilhelmus

Dear Wilhelmus,

Your essay is an outstanding analysis as it is with your essay at a past FQX contest. You have completely and qualitatively satisfied the topic of the competition, and therefore deserve a high score, 8. However, after so much of your engagement, I would expect some predictions, best if it is expressed by formulas .

Having read my essay you will understand my analogy of writing an essay with a forecast of weather.

It's okay to do a good weather analysis for needs outside the weather forecast, but the crown of a good weather analysis is a good weather forecast.

After so much of your involvement, I would expect some predictions expressed by formulas. For me, every essay with predictions (formulas) is a challenge, and even if the formulas are insufficiently proven, I give extraordinary rate to those essays. Imagine, who would have known about Newton with his extraordinary analyzes if the analyzes were not followed by predictions.

Regards Branko

Thank you, dear Branco, for reading my participation,

You ask to make "forecasts".(eventually with formula's

I cannot. Why? First of all my maths is not sufficiently developed, and secondly making predictions in an emergent phenomenon (illusion) is a very difficult thing. Expectations yes because they are based on the past events, that are fluctuations inside our memories.

I can try to make a prediction: IF we would be able to come closer to the Planck units of space and time, we would also approach our Point Zero (where our free will resides), and so be closer to the future of our life-lines. Not a bad future.

Thanks

Wilhelmus

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    "First of all my maths is not sufficiently developed"

    This is not true for most contest participants but it is only necessary that they have not forgotten the logarithms. Unfortunately, even those who use the highest mathematics do not understand the role of logarithm, so they do not understand my essay.

    "making predictions in an emergent phenomenon (illusion) is a very difficult thing."

    That's true, that's why I worked on the prediction of primordial phenomena (Proton, neutron ...). That is to say, the simple truth is that one must first deal with simpler, then more complicated relationships.

    "I can try to make a prediction" . That is right. One philosopher has tried and calculated that we spend about 5g of mass on cognitive processes throughout our lives. The point is, he is neither a physicist nor a mathematician.

    Regards Branko

    7 days later

    Wilhelmus de Wilde re-uploaded the file Wilde_THE_COMPLETELY_UNKNOW.pdf for the essay entitled "THE COMPLETELY UNKNOWN" on 2020-03-25 10:48:58 UTC.

    Respected Wilhelmus de Wilde

    Please check my replies to your post on my essay

    Thank you for confirming your post which I posted on Mar. 6, 2020 @ 10:13

    My login failed and I got it back today....

    Best Regards

    =snp

    "... the past is a momentary deterministic written story in our memories and the future an indeterministic unknowable set of choices to be made by the partial consciousness of the emergent agent. ..." p. 1

    "... Essentially ALL physical theories are thought-models. ..." p. 6

    " ... If we could predict our whole life what would be the purpose of living it? ..." p. 8

    What precisely are choices? What precisely are thoughts?

    According to Steven Weinberg, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."

    '"The First Three Minutes" by Steven Weinberg, 1993, Basic Books, p. 154

    Thank you David for your remarks.

    In my perception choices are not made in the past, the Now is an unreachable moment of the future but it is "here" where the choices are made through the partial consciousness of the agent. We are living in the past...

    Thoughts are an agent's. conscious experiences in the emerging flow of time. Thinking is becoming aware of one's consciousness, so is a meditation where we are trying to come free from the troubles that are consuming our pasts, we are trying to come closer to Total Simultaneity, the POINT Zero that contains the ALL.

    I don't fully agree with Steven Weinberg, because the more we "think" we understand the more we understand that this comprehension is only an infinite little part of ALL there is to understand. You become aware of the relativity of human life towards the whole shebang of our universe (micro and macro). It seems then pointless what your thoughts are adding, they are only a sparkle in infinity. But then I remember that an infinite line without a specific point is no more that specific line but becomes two lines. Then I think that even my minor thoughts, my whole life, is NOT wholly pointless, but is needed to bring two infinities together...

    just a thought

    Best regards

    Wilhelmus

    7 days later

    Dear Wilhelmus,

    You wrote a provocative and speculative, but also interesting and nice Essay. I have a lot of fun in writing it. In particular, I understood the meaning of "Total Simultaneity" which was not clear to me in your comments in my FQXi Essay page. I also agree with your conclusion that "Undecidability, Unaccountability and Unpredictability will always be an essential part of the freedom of our lives." I am going to give you a well deserved high score. Good luck in the Contest!

    Cheers, Ch.

    Thank you very much, Christian.

    I understand that "Total Simultaneity" is not easy to understand as an idea, because it is a new and not yet well-known approach.

    I would like to try to write an article that can be published in arXiv, but I need an endorsement, and I am not affiliated with an institution (only alumnus of the Technical University Delft.

    best regards

    Wilhelmus

    9 days later

    Dear Wilhelmus de Wilde,

    You and I have agreed some in the past, but this time I think my essay supports yours, as I understand TS.

    Einstein's special relativity demolished universal simultaneity in favor of the 'relativity of simultaneity'; in which case there is no NOW. As I understand TS, it is an awareness of the unity of Being/Becoming. You beautifully sum up the 3 Un's by saying:

    "Our acceptance of the three dual qualities is important, without them the tension of life is missing."

    While I agree that awareness of Total Simultaneity is paramount [I believe Abraham Maslow refereed to it as 'Peak Experience'] I think physics must be formulated in a more mundane or 'objective' fashion, and that is essentially in terms of energy flow in the eternal NOW, as opposed to the discombobulated multiple time frames of special relativity.

    I do agree with you that time is not 'material' or actually a 'dimension'. It is probably best understood as complementary or dual to energy.

    In any case, you might enjoy my essay: Deciding on the nature of time and space.

    Best regards. It's good to find old friends honing and improving their views to share with the world, and FQXi gives a wonderful forum to do so.

    Edwin Eugene Klingman

    Dear Edward,

    First of all it is good to meet again, I read already your comments before you participated in this contest, and I fully agreed and thank you for reading my essay.

    While reading your essay I made the following remarks:

    Special relativity is indeed not as simple as it seems, because it analyses an emergent phenomenon, as you say the "ontology" of space and time in this framework. The ontology of simultaneity in an emergent phenomenon becomes ALWAYS the relativity of simultaneity. I tried to escape this with the introduction of the Subjective Simultaneity Sphere (SSS), the stationary frame is then the conscious agent, that can be seen as the reference of reference.

    The velocity of light C, is for the conscious agent one of the borders of his reality, the maximum speed that the radius of his SSS can expand, so it doesn't mean that C is the ABSOLUTE velocity. You say : " Moving frames with arbitrary velocity are meaningless unless a universal velocity exists to which they can be compared.". Here you approach the same problem we all are struggling with "The Reference of Reference" You are right when you say: "moving reference frames are not accessible by us".

    I can only fully agree with you when you say "It views time as the intuitive common-sense notion that it is NOW everywhere in the universe, all at once, with one moment passing into the next moment; moments in time spanning the entire three-dimensional space." This is exactly what I mean to say that the real NOW is an unapproachable moment in Total Simultaneity.

    "Assignment of properties is essentially epistemology; the nature of the world is ontology. Assigning properties to the wrong ontology does not make sense" Bravo.

    When you say "Two different mathematic-based structures can co-exist for quite a while, but only one of the two ontologies actually exists." I should like to add that the co-existence of these two mathematical based structures is a coexistence in the PAST, they were thought of in the past, both ontologies were existing in the past and the future will bring a new ontology because "existing" is only the unapproachable NOW.

    Dear Edwin I really liked your essay and I didn't understand the first 1 someone gave you, but I see you are getting already the value it deserves, and I added now my personal valuation.

    Best regards and good luck.

    Wilhelmus de Wilde

    24 days later

    wilhelmus,very wide crosscutting essay. I like how you relate consciousness to AI. rated you well. I too have tried something on cognitive bias here https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3525.hope you like it.all the best in the essay.

      Thank you, Michael,

      I will read and comment on your essay

      best regards

      Wilhelmus

      5 days later

      Hi Wilhelmus,

      That you for the very original essay. One of the essential ingredients for TS appears to be memory. I was wondering if you had given much thought into how the loss of memory actually aids learning? In many learning algorithms, there is some degree of coarse graining and 'forgetfullness' required to generalise models. As was shown in Maxwell's demon, this forgetting is essential to the entropic increase and the second law of thermodynamics.

      You might find my essay interesting. I consider how this never ending tide of rising entropy limits our construction of Turing machines. You might find some useful ideas in for your notion of TS.

      Thanks,

      Michael

      Dear Michal James.

      "MEMORY" is just a time-effect in our emergent reality. (so it originates from a Point in a Point of TS).

      I will read your essay, I promise, but today I am hospitalized for an operation on my colon where they will take away a tumour. I will have to stay ca 12 days before coming home.

      best regards

      Wilhelmus

      Dear Wilhelmus de Wilde!

      Thank you for your interesting essay. We think the same, although we don't always agree with you. If there is only a moment NOW, then this allows you to build a curious model. Time consists of many moments. Let's imagine these moments as a single set, in which each element has a special property: it is real only when other moments are not real. We call such objects areal sets. Formulating the law of contradiction, Aristotle and all the logicians after him constantly emphasized: there cannot be A and NOT-A in the same respect at the same TIME.

      Pavel Poluian and Dmitry Lichargin,

      Siberian Federal University.

      Dear Wilhelmus de Wilde,

      Glad to read your work again.

      I greatly appreciated your work and discussion. I am very glad that you are not thinking in abstract patterns.

      While the discussion lasted, I wrote an article: "Practical guidance on calculating resonant frequencies at four levels of diagnosis and inactivation of COVID-19 coronavirus", due to the high relevance of this topic. The work is based on the practical solution of problems in quantum mechanics, presented in the essay FQXi 2019-2020 "Universal quantum laws of the universe to solve the problems of unsolvability, computability and unpredictability".

      I hope that my modest results of work will provide you with information for thought.

      Warm Regards, `

      Vladimir

      Dear Wilhelmus,

      I'm not sure that I can agree with your contention that "real free-will is residing in the unreachable Total Simultaneity outside the emergent phenomenon of our reality" or that the "conscious agent['s] ... consciousness ... is entangled with Point Zero", because this seems to indicate that there is something in effect outside the universe controlling the universe.

      Why do you consider that our universe and the things in it are inferior things, mere puppets, that need something in effect from outside the universe to explain (e.g.) their free will? Why don't you consider that free will is happening where it appears to be happening i.e. with the agents themselves? I don't agree that "Our reality is just one of an infinity of illusions".

      I thought that we could agree that there is no "artificial consciousness", but even there you seem to think that this is possible with quantum computers.

      Regards,

      Lorraine

        Dear Wilhelmus,

        P.S.

        I'm sorry for being so disagreeable!

        Regards,

        Lorraine

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