Lorraine Ford
I would like to tease out what is going on behind the delta symbols, that represent number difference for a category, in physics’ equations that represent law-of-nature relationships between categories.
These equations purportedly represent nothing but deterministic relationships; but in fact, hidden behind the delta symbols lies the non-deterministic information aspect of the world.
Clearly, it is necessary to see the world in terms of number difference, rather than absolute numbers applying to categories like spatial position and time; for at least some categories, it seems likely that absolute numbers can’t actually exist, only number difference can exist.
Also, it is necessary to see the world in terms of movement and change, more particularly, number change.
However, the delta symbols can also be seen as a crude attempt by physicists to hide and minimise logically necessary aspects of the world. What is hidden behind the delta symbols relates to necessary, there-and-then, on-the-spot aspects of the world:
- The logically necessary, there-and-then, on-the-spot, aspect of the world that is aware/ conscious of the number difference for a category; and
- The logically necessary, there and then, on-the-spot, agency aspect of the world that is causing any number jumps for a category.
These very basic consciousness and agency aspects of the world, which are hidden behind the delta symbols, can only be properly modelled by statements containing the types of logical connective symbols used in computer programs, like IF, AND, OR, IS TRUE, and THEN.
These “Maxwell's demon” aspects of the world, which can be represented by IF, AND, OR, IS TRUE, and THEN symbols, are the very basis of the mathematics of the world. The “Maxwell's demon” aspects of the world represented by IF, AND, OR, IS TRUE, and THEN symbols, are not the consequence of the mathematics of the world.