Dr. Casey Blood,
Quoting you:
"Suppose you were God (?) and wanted to make a universe in which Intelligence had scope to express itself, but there was still some structure. Then a good candidate would seem to be to "invent" a mathematical structure within which intelligence could operate. That is what I think our physical universe is a mathematical playground for intelligence to express itself. So I think the mathematics is not misleading it gives the structure of the playground (but it is not a description of an ultimate unity). My hope is that one can rigorously deduce the existence of the intelligence from the incompleteness of the mathematical structure which describes our physical reality."
I would say that mathematics is proof that any attempt to describe the nature of the universe must be fundamentally based upon the existence of intelligence.
I applaud any physicist that makes an attempt at including intelligence, whether called awareness or whatever, in their description of the properties of the universe. Even so, I see these attempts usually as attempts to retain the illusion of a mechanical nature. Intelligence is usually inserted as an added on effect. When you speak of structure, it appears to me that you are speaking of mechanical theory. While I have admitted to not sharing a belief in a mechanical substructure to the universe, I do want to help any effort to include intelligence.
Please use my message, if you wish, to expound on your ideas. You eliminate the particle interpretation on the basis that the wave function, with the help of group theory, "...can be used to mathematically prove that mass, energy, momentum, spin and charge are properties of the wave function (or more properly the state vector)."
My question may seem unecessary, still, if you see it as an opportunity to further support your essay then please do so. I am interested. My question is: You describe mass, energy, momentum, and charge as properties of the wave function; I leave out spin for now; we do not know what is mass; we do not know what is energy; we do not know what is momentum; we do not know what is charge; therefore, what does a mathematical construct such as a wave function tell us that makes these properties real? Can they be explained as fundamental physical properties without simply referring to their mathematical definitions?
Is it the wave function that is the "physical" basis of the universe? Of what physical nature does a wave consists? What is the foundation of the "physical"? What is it that existed at the beginning? Is electric charge the physical foundation of the wave function?
I ask this because I think: If God, or intelligence in general, were to be pushed to the outside of a mechanical, using my meaning based upon dumbness, universe, then, that universe must first be proven to be real exclusive of intelligence. Do you think this has been accomplished? Secondly: How can an intelligence create a base for itself that is fundamentally dumb? What does physical mean if it is not based upon intelligence? Is electric charge independent of the outside, looking in intelligence? Which comes first? How can either one be independent of the other?
Please just use this opportunity to expand your case for the existence of a MIND. If some of what I have said seems unhelpful, then please just disregard it. I have made it clear that I believe that intelligence is the necessary ingredient of the creation and operation of the universe. You include a "structure". What I think does not matter here. What more can be said to convince "scientists" that awareness must be clearly accounted for when considering the structure of the universe?
James