Lorraine Ford
I hasten to add that physicists are great people who are good at what they do. Thanks to their terrific experimental and theoretical work, acquiring and spreading knowledge of how the world operates, we can now send spacecraft to Mars, and do all sorts of other amazing things. And they don’t need non-physicist amateurs telling them how to do physics. However, they seem to be lost when it comes to modelling consciousness and free will, which don’t seem to fit into the usual picture of how the world works.
So, this is the way I see it:
There are no relationship connections between matter. Laws of nature are not relationships between matter, but relationships between the inherent compositional aspects of matter, where the mass and position categories are examples of the inherent compositional aspects of matter.
These categories, which are represented by special symbols, are not information about a separately existing matter: these categories are the constituents of matter.
These categories (like mass and position) are measurable; but these categories are also integral parts of the relationships, where the other parts of the relationships (which would be represented by symbols like: + - ÷ × and =) are not measurable.
So, matter has an internal infrastructure which is both measurable and unmeasurable.
Similarly, consciousness and free will are infrastructure aspects of the world that are not measurable. Consciousness and free will are infrastructure aspects that can only be represented by statements constructed using logical connective symbols like IF, AND, OR, IS TRUE, and THEN.
Consciousness and free will also interconnect measurable categories, but consciousness and free will are more about the particular place and time numbers that apply to the categories, than to the categories themselves. This particular place and time number aspect of the world can’t be handled by the law of nature relationships.
The consciousness and free will aspects of the world would be represented by the following type of statement:
IF
(category1=number1 IS TRUE) AND (category2=number2 IS TRUE) AND (category3=number3 IS TRUE)
THEN
assign number4 to category4