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What is the essential naivet of realism in modern art essay question,
c.f., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)
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Scribd search: Brian McGuiness on Wittgenstein's mystical
epistemological views.
November 2014
sbankester@gmail.com
good to be true opportunity from out of the blue to make a sudden break
from the mediocrity of his past and at once finally begin to carve out his
own fate (in which he always secretly believed, but which he had dared
not articulate to himself - until now!) I am of two minds as I can look at
these ads, not only coldly, dispassionately, but also with more than a
little empathy, armed as I am with the knowledge that the publication
and others like it have long since moldered, the ideals and underlying
values of its inspired but struggling contributors are now more or less
forgotten or transformed beyond recognition, the hapless souls
pathetically taken in by the magazines cynical advertisers with the lure
of their being the "grand exception", the cynical advertisers themselves,
the offspring of all of these, and a goodly number of the grandchildren. .
. are all dead and rotting in their graves, remembered only in the
sporadic conversational asides and scribbled footnotes of their selfinterested descendants or of an ungrateful posterity, which is to say, if
they are not indeed blotted out utterly, and still more with the confidence
that, certainly in spirit, these same cynical purveyors of false hope in
one's human potential and personal growth are very much still around
today. This having been said, let me also say this: were it not for the
inspired creative persons be-speckling human history, we should all not
now be enjoying life in the Internet Age, because humankind would
have hardly advanced further than the Middle Ages, and its awesome
mysteries of wood-fired furnace and millers water wheel! Have you
ever wondered why the townie-locals always seem to try their hand at
corrupting and dragging down the protagonist of the prodigal son who,
by misfortune or strange turn of fate, is briefly forced to return to the
village of his humble birth? People who have never been touched by
creativity or experienced genuine insight or a moment of genius almost
every last one of them, instinctively resents and distrusts the artist, the
poet and the philosopher! This is all by way of saying, dear creative
types out there...dont let slip your belief in yourself, endeavor to ever
more court your inner creative voice and by so doing to better and ever
more clearly channel your unique individual spirit. Don't be afraid to
acknowledge and work to achieve your ambition to give to the world
your only truly unique insight, the one which no one has yet suspected,
but which all thinking persons and searchers after truth would perhaps
secretly gratefully receive and which by the way constitutes both the
very core and flair of your being. The morale of the story, I think, is that
inspiration, if cultivated, arises from within, not from a cynical ad in a
popular publication offering untutored persons instant success, my now
withered certificate in VCR Repair, signed by Sally Struthers herself
notwithstanding.
August 2014 fcbk=
Some persons in your collective dream are avatars but most are just filler
replicas.
If you lock your attention onto a distant filler replica and approach it, it
transforms itself into an avatar. This necessitates a reconfiguration of the
self's linkage to the collective mind.
@$
transcends
the
intersubjective,
which
follows
The intent of the no smoking rule in a restaurant, for example and the
debate within the philosophy of legal jurisprudence: codified law verses
law determined by precedent.
The English word "Gist" is etymologically related to the German word
"Geist" (Meaning implying context again).
With each redrawing of the map, I end up that much closer to the
capitol.
The Narcissist will surely exile you, once he realizes that he shall never
be the equal of himself in your fond imagination.
Dreaming is a phenomenon of the unlinking of the self from the group
mind.
If you lock onto a filler replica and approach it, it transforms itself into
an avatar. This necessitates a reconfiguration of the selfs linkage to the
collective mind.
Some persons in your collective dream are avatars but most are just filler
replicas.
Intersubjectivity is both the deconstruction of the objective, as well as
the unmasking of the collective. Objective beyond the intersubjective is
transcendent. The subjective particular is their and the ground of
subjectivity, which is a many rather than a one.
A counterintuitive phenomenon discovered: The coexistence of
superconductivity with dissipation. http://phys.org/news323232954.html
What type of information is represented by the quantity of surprise to the
quantum vacuum? Information density of changing boundary conditions
to the quantum vacuum outstrips the computational density of this
vacuum and so the future state of the system must be a guess.
Something became me. I did not come from nothing (provided that I am
something), and so whatever became me can do so again, according to
the solipsistic logic of the anthropic cosmological principle.
Divert potential political energy into a shooting barrel where it can't
challenge the interests of the power elite, e.g., abortion issue, gay
marriage, political scandals, etc.
Genetic over determination of amino acids and the predetermination of
chemical self-organization, for example, Arginine and Isoleucine.
This enables the accumulation of a series of so-called silent mutations
and builds up a great amount of genetic complexity potential which can
be exploited later on in the light of further mutation.
There is a creative side to error correction in genetic base pair
sequencing which is ordinarily thought of as a critical process.
by an ever more gently arcing curve. But this model is disproven by the
marked tendency for scientific ignorance to grow at a rate that
acceleratingly outpaces the accumulation of scientific knowledge. And
this is fundamentally owing to the necessary structure of scientific
revolutions, as first compellingly demonstrated by Thomas Kuhn.
In deep philosophical discussions of broad hypothetical nature, it is
common to compare and contrast hypothetical cases which we could
never determine the difference between, for example, what if God never
existed, what if this epic historical event to which we owe most of our
cultural identity never happened, and so on.
Causality is pattern recognition and image enhancement of correlations.
Nature is no thing in itself. (We've known this since Kant) Science
doesn't prove theories, it falsifies them.
Human beings are free to the extent that they can replace one set of
behavioral determinisms with another set.
epi=
relativity of causality
If these vacuum fluctuations do not belong together on the same
propagating light ray then these fluctuations do not belong to the same
folio of spacetime.
The Lorentz invariance of the vacuum is importantly connected to the
fact that the vacuum does not gravitate. It is the deviation from the rents
invariance which causes differences in vacuum density which can have a
gravitational effect.
October 2014
neocortex.
Solipsistic logic underlying every major philosophical principle enabling
a postmodern critical re-reading of modern philosophy, e.g., Kantian
categories and forms of intuition, Husserlian eidetic reduction, etc.
Considerations of the relative probabilities of various combinations and
permutations of pre-established sequences within a closed system of
course does not take into account the meaning of it context which also
supplies the operational and causal efficacy of the data that is contained
provisionally within said permutational combinations.
It is a Leibnizian principle paraphrased to say that whatever provides for
the coherence and cohesiveness of a system also directs the assembly of
said system.
October 2014
So does time reversal amount to the same thing rotation by 360 degrees
of coupled spins?
Discuss intersubjectivity in relation to metasuperposition within the
context of Bohm's quantum causality principle. The partitioning of the
quantum vacuum is in support of the polysolipsistic anthropic
cosmological principle. Would this solve the cosmological constant
problem if the multitude of partitions of the quantum vacuum was
sufficiently great, which is to say that, the number of potential observer
consciousnesss was sufficiently large?
Physical reality just has to appear logically self-consistent to each
individual observer and not to observers collectively over and above
what can be intersubjectively agreed upon between and amongst said
observers.
The softer is the science the noisier is the empirical environment it must
investigate and filter so as to bring about theoretical coherence.
Freudian epiphenomena.
CPT Theorem
Apply symmetry to unprovable configurations, e.g., theoretical chess
mating positions.
"I would have already fallen into abject solipsism were it not for keenly
felt peer pressure."
Grace and accountability.
The price of ease and relaxation is vigilance.
Guard the boundaries of your comfort zone.
one's life then a great void is created within ones spirit and if one waits
patiently this void shall be filled with the ground of suchness, the
quantum vacuum. So the counter to idolatry, i.e., having no other
gods before the one, true God, the I am, is to believe in and worship
nothing, which is the Void, the interface and intercessor for which is
undoubtedly the quantum vacuum of relativistic quantum field theory!
"Electrodynamic faith" and the ultraviolet catastrophe. It is the specially
correlated fluctuations in energy of the quantum vacuum that prop up the
electronic structure of not only the atom, but the nucleus, as well.
Similar to the inevitable melting away of a dream at the very moment
that the dreamer begins to become lucid, the specially encrypted
structure of quantum entanglement informing the otherwise random and
disjoint fluctuations in the vacuums stress-momentum-energy, which
sustains the ground state and hence the very stability of matter, would be
fatally disrupted were it to be reordered by the emergence of contextual
consciousness.
The structure and function of the unknowable may change at any time or
at all times.
The entropy of a quantum system as a whole can be smaller than the
sum of the entropy of its component parts, c.f., Vlatko Vedral on arxiv
on lanl.gov.
One should not want to solve any mysteries so much as desire to
participate in the thoughts of being a smarter person
The forebrain, which is the seat of reason needs rest from an active day
processing the data from short term and even shorter term retentive
memory so that dreaming is the inevitable result of a partially disabled
biological neural network trying to make sense of everything which
happened during the day without the advantage of the operation of the
higher faculties of reason. Much of the purpose of the higher faculties
are to modulate and even inhibit the evolutionarily more primitive
continues to contribute. See this youtube clip from the 1974 Sciencee
Fiction Film, Dark Star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
August 2014 fcbk=
the human (l'homme) remains to be discovered. .In order for the human
to be discovered, and in order for the phrase "human meaning" to
acquire some meaning, everything that has ever laid claim to the truth
about the nature, essence, or end of "man" must be undone, "Jean-Luc
Nancy, "Being Singular Plural"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/197767982/A-Physicist-s-Guide-toSkepticisim-Milton-a-Rothman I resonate with the "frequency
envelope", but not the "carrier wave", verstehst du?
kwd=
This is the question behind Bell's famous inequality (see Bell's theorem).
The question is usually framed this way: is it possible that particles constituting an
entangled pair carry all information needed to determine the outcome of a measurement
along with them, in the form of "local hidden variables", which are revealed by the
measurement but have been present all along? For example, suppose you travel abroad
and upon arrival, you notice that you only packed half of each pair of socks that you own.
Immediately you will know that your socks drawer at home contains the same number of
unmatched pairs of socks. Nothing mysterious about this, and we don't need quantum
mechanics to explain how you "instantaneously" acquired information about your socks
drawer thousands of miles away. The thing with things like spin or polarization is different, in
a very non-trivial way. Suppose you release, in opposite directions, a pair of entangled
photons that are polarized. Let's say they are polarized vertically. That means that if you put
a vertically oriented polarization filter in either photon's path, both photons will pass through.
And they will both fail to pass through when the filters are both oriented horizontally. But
what if the filters are oriented at 45 degrees? Each photon has a 50-50 chance of passing
or not passing through. However, when you perform this experiment, you will find that the
photons will remain correlated; they will either both pass through or neither will, no matter
how far from each other the two filters are. OK, perhaps it is still possible that the photons
carried more than just information about their initial polarization. Suppose the two photons
are part of a secret conspiracy, having discussed all possible orientations of polarization
filters that they may encounter, and agreeing in advance on how they will behave. But the
experimenter is tricky. He now sets the two polarization filters, one at the end of each
photon's path, at different angles. Say, one at 45 degrees, the other at 135 degrees. He
then calculates the probability of one of the photons passing through and the other failing,
using one very simple assumption: that the photon on one end has no way of knowing the
setting of the polarization filter on the other end, and vice versa. This assumption alone is
sufficient to calculate a maximum value for a correlation function between the two
observations. And this value is violated in actual experiments, including experiments in
which the polarization filters were set only after the photons were already well on their way.
Which means that the outcome cannot be explained using merely information that the
photons possessed all along. They also needed information that was somehow
instantaneously communicated from the other end, in order to exhibit their correlated
behavior. This is the essence of Bell's inequality. And this is how we know that photons (or
electrons, the same argument applies) could not exhibit the behavior that they actually
exhibit, using only information that they possessed before the measurement took place.
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The space-time curvature has a pressure that is minus one third the
energy density
The point is that both of these objects that are intrinsic to space-time
have pressure and therefore are not a mass density, c.f.,
http://www.quora.com/Does-the-space-time-fabric-have-mass ?
It is interesting in this connection that the Universe possesses three times
as much energy in the form of dark energy as it does in the form of
dark matter. The roughly 4% of energy in the form of ordinary mass
was originally extracted from the quantum vacuum (which originally
contains the total mix of energy in all of its manifest forms), must have
been pieced out of the vacuum in some manner that is now reflected in
the precise relative densities of dark matter and dark energy. This is
similar to the relationship of the pressure and energy density of
radiation.
Investigate the concept of genome as "interface data" qua "selforganizing system kernel".
"abils and skillities" is an example of a trivial redrawing of a distinction
within a linguistic concept map.
Inflation through Quantum Tunneling from a False vacuum:
http://youtu.be/tSe8UE7EitU
Theory suggests the speed of light is SLOWER than we think
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2672092/Was-Einsteinwrong-Controversial-theory-suggests-speed-light-SLOWERthought.html @MailOnline
notwithstanding.
Is the deck from which evolutionary mutations are dealt, stacked?
Google search
"The Human Brain Project" is a little bit like committing in 1920 to
landing a man on the moon by the end of the 1920's." See 130
Neuroscientists' "Open message to the European Commission
concerning the Human Brain Project". . .
I think theism with the appropriate amount of humility admixed must
needs be an "agnostic theism". The theism that "knows that it knows
"the truth"" shall always pose a danger to the advancement of human
civilization . . . on myriad levels!
The most profound, or shall I say, profoundly satisfying, lyrics are, of
course misheard lyrics because the author's inspiration is forever secretly
infused with the subconscious' heart's desire.
The tension between reason (as opposed to rationality) and mysticism is
ultimately soluble. The catch is that the only proper context for this is
transcendental mind, which is essentially (nota bene) *transpersonal*.
"Managed compassion is the inevitable solution hit upon by the
metaguilty conscience, which feels keenly the chronic nagging guilt of
not feeling guilty."
Natural selection is hamstrung by the fact that incipient structures are of
absolutely no use to the evolving organism in its competition for limited
resources and mates.
If it is the most bloodthirsty tribes, races and subspecies which win at
every turn in the evolutionary competition, then why has morality and
ethics emerged at all in the course of man's evolution?
Russell Clark Dad began his service to this great country as a private in
the Army Air Corps while WWII still raged on, served with great
distinction as a Marine Corps Platoon Leader during the Korean War
(refusing to be medically evacuated due to combat injuries and
remaining on the battlefield to lead his men) and then with equally great
honor and distinction served as an Artillery Battalion Commander in
Vietnam. I am so proud to be his son!
April 2014
If quantum experimenters did not possess human free will then they
would only be able to select bases for quantum measurement that they
themselves were embedded in. And this vector basis would be the only
basis possible - it would be the same quantum basis that every other
person was embedded in. Here we see the connection between the
consciousness of the ego and the question of other minds and the
external world.
"It seems that nature is somehow communicating under the surface but
not allowing us to use that communication to actually transmit
information and this is something that doesn't happen in so-called
classical theories and is one of the key features of quantum mechanics,
"Physics Math Charlatan" on www.youtube.com. Instead of the
communication of information we might speak of a jointly actualized
meaning, c.f., Cybersemiotics: Why Information is Not Enough.
Yet another connection between gravitation and consciousness in terms
of the basis vectors of a quantum measurement.
Human brains are always tapping into the reprocessed collective
Akashic record. Once in a while, however a brain taps into a copy of an
as yet unreprocessed experience fragment.
In the same way that God transcends the dual opposite categories of
existence vs nonexistent he also transcends the category of being in the
sense of not being a mere instantiation of being as an abstract category.
After all God is the ground of being and of abstract form.
Analogous to the self-existence of God is the self-existence of intuitively
grasped concepts for which we only have metaphorical justification this
brings up the puzzling and even paradoxical nature of the concept of the
metaphorical
Certain questions are so big that we can only hope to answer them by
finding a more proper formulation of the question. Frequently we ask a
question about one thing and formulator answer in terms of a different
kind of the same thing. Substance is always presupposed by form but
then the question of the one versus the many in relation to the concept of
substance becomes problematic. The notion of there being a general
concept of substance is itself very problematic because if there are
multiple substances what is there which is more fundamental than the
multiply distinct substances such that they are instantiations of this
general substance does this imply that there must be something more
general than substance in order to distinguish and categorize different
substances?
Multiple instantiations of consciousness in the absence of a concept of
consciousness seems to invoke Leibniz' principle of pre-established
harmony.
Google search nonlocality and the principal a pre-established harmony
A trajectory of least energy would be decomposed in terms of a series of
steps which are resonance points and this would be consistent with
Fourier analysis theory. This may explain the successful climbing up the
hill by a complex system within a single local region of rugged fitness
landscap, but without nonlocality and quantum entanglement we cannot
explain the climbing down from a local maximum in order to creare the
opportunity for ascending a neighboring greater local maximum.
Kwd=
October 2014
"thing
in
itself",
objectivity
can
only
be
fluctuations that are most compatible with the intact memory traces
within a given person's brain could likely become a subsequent BB
continuant of that person's consciousness. (In other words, the
experiential continuity of lived conscious experience would not be
merely some pernicious illusion) I think something along these lines can
tame the bizarreness of Boltzmann brains predicted by inflationary
cosmology and string theory and reconcile these predictions with human
intuition and common sense. Of course, there are still intriguing
implications of this slant on BB's, but they would not be of the
ridiculous sort that has appeared in recent popular scientific and
philosophical publications, etc. Somewhat along the lines of Descartes'
"Cogito Ergo Sum" idea, we know that the brain of a conscious person is
*not a closed or isolated system"*, since, if it were, there would be no
context for what is happening inside his brain and "without context there
is now meaning" and that person would not actually possess conscious
states of awareness (necessarily implied by understanding or
experiencing "meanings"). Also, if the brain were an isolated system,
then two identical brains could not imply the presence of two distinct
conscious minds. However, add the fact that each is embedded or
grounded in a historically distinct context of embryo-logical
development, etc., and this seeming paradox is handily resolved.
Human creativity moreover implies that the system of the brain (or
whatever serves as the physical substrate for the conscious mind), cannot
be just a changing configuration of exclusively discrete, unchanging
states for otherwise the changes in the configuration of this underlying
system would be causally deterministic - a situation in stark
contradiction with human freedom and creativity. An objection here is
that human freedom and creativity may in fact be an illusion. But the
objector must acknowledge the disqualifying caveat here that, if human
freedom and creativity are illusory, then so is consciousness and again,
turning to Descartes' "Cogito", we can confidently assert that "we know
that ain't true!" c.f., http://www.scribd.com/doc/47346743/Challengesto-the-Second-Law-of-Thermodynamics
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What breaks the degeneracy of real brains vs Boltzmann brains? May 2014
Well, according to what was just said concerning the Planck limit on
vacuum fluctuation size, it must be: an already broken scale invariance,
i.e., simulacra at different spatiotemporal scales are necessarily
functionally inequivalent. Instantiation (of a concept) is a concrete
process.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years
before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from
it. - Mark Twain
However, the fact that one is conscious, rather than being a
"philosophical zombie" perhaps implies that the Universe, Multiverse or
whatever one terms this realm of being has registered (and is in the
continual act of registering) one's temporal existence and so Lucretius'
"symmetry argument" may indeed fail, i.e., in favor of the proposition
that the nature of nonexistence *before* and *after* one's brief Earthly
existence are identical. Lucretius' "symmetry argument" carries the
assumption that no metaphysical work is performed by the act of human
existence - an assumption that I suspect is altogether unfounded in the
light of such modern physical principles embodied in the quantum "nocloning" theorem, vacuum entanglement, decoherence theory, two-slit
experiment, "Wigner's friend", Penrose-Hameroff "ORCH-OR theory",
and so on." Lime Cat Another possible breakage of Lucretius'
symmetry: if each person is "called forth" from a *distinctly different*
abyss, (this would certainly beef up the ethics of mutual respect, that is,
number of other times (completely distinct and disjoint) from this time
(i.e., the time that you are in now), it follows that you can always come
into being "for the first time" an unlimited number of times. . . and this
would not be to invoke the phenomenon of "reincarnation" in any way. .
. because all of these distinct times in the multiverse *have nothing
whatever to do with each other* It's soooo hard to let go of the notion of
there only being a single metaphysical timeline, one that somehow
coincides at once with the temporality of the subjective egoic self, that
of other selves and with that of the cosmos as a whole, but once once
glimpses how to metaphorically "shuffle off" that philosophical "mortal
coil", as it were, by effecting the implied mental trick here, then ones
doubts about the eternal nature of the self (read: the transpersonal as
opposed to the tiny, "myopic", egoic self, namely, the one that formed
the original infrastructural ground of one's being) utterly fall away. But
alas, this leap of insight is just too hard for most people and even many
geniuses are not capable of it. . . because it's not a question of sheer
intelligence so much as it is a question of there being a certain requisite
level of imaginative openness.
The philosophy of empiricism is the linear, zero-threshold extrapolation
of knowledge acquisition.
Flowers for Algernon and the essentially social nature of qualitative, as
opposed to quantitative knowledge acquisition.
Somewhat in the spirit of Frank J. Tipler's "Omega Point": The whole
"burning in hell for an eternity" concept is perhaps just a kind of
metaphor, though perhaps not an altogether groundless one. This
metaphor has undoubtedly functioned in myriad diverse cultures over
these many centuries as a strategic mechanism of social control and as a
scare tactic to compel compliance of the masses and individuals alike
with the disguised agendas of social elites. But the notion of hell is
perhaps also in part aboriginally the product of the fevered imagination
of some particularly gifted Bronze Age Levantine tribesman-poets
interpretation of the horror of unending separation from God. Because I
I cleaned this up and edited it some. See also, Frank J. Tipler's Tulane
University and personal webpages. I will probably end up emailing him
the final version of this as it contains some ideas that he might find
useful. If there are any questions, I will be happy to elaborate, since I
have glossed over some details. The guiding insight for me is the
consideration that our workaday world of conventional common sense is
underlain, if you will, by a fundamental fluctuation field, i.e., the
quantum vacuum electroweak nuclear field. So relating aspects of some
important area of cultural common sense, e.g, Christianity, or Organic
Gardening, American Football, competitive billiards, etc. for that matter,
is not so ridiculous a proposition as at first seems. All "ordinary"
phenomena are emergent from the universal quantum field. As Alan
Watts used to like to say,
"You didn't come into the world, you came out of it!"
http://tulane.edu/sse/pep/faculty-and-staff/faculty/frank-tipler.cfm
http://129.81.170.14/~tipler/
C.f.,
1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavefunction
2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunneling
3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_potential_well
4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKB_approximation
5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
6
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography
7
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_superposition
8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
9
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavity_quantum_electrodynamics
10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon
11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
12
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_correlation
13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_nonlocality
14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_vacuum
15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler#The_Omega_Point_cosm
ology
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_analysis
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_inversion_theorem
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_Principle
In digital signal processing applications there is sometimes an effect
known as the Gibbs phenomenon, which is a characteristic ringing
associated with sharp edges and transients. Is this a function of
sampling, quantization or filtering in the system?
There is no "twice". The ground of one's being is eternally given only
once...but there are unlimited manifestations of time. The only reality is
the absence of limitation. The question becomes whether this absence is
a one or indeed a many. Each soul possesses its own eternity.
May 2014
Sam and I agreed long ago, that this absence is a plurality, which
in mutual collaboration has produced a common metaphorical ground.
December 2012
infrastructure that promotes and enables evolution. Quo vadis, Peter, er,
uh, Darwin?
April 2014
March 2014
removed. Even God becomes possible, that is, from a starting zero-point
of altogether unconditioned being, which is the transcendent ground of
being. This is the true inevitable underlying logic of multiverse
metaphysics. It has been rightfully said that anything at all will indeed
happen that is not specifically forbidden by quantum mechanics. This is
consistent with the principle of the superabundance of unconditioned
being. Da das System radikal auf den Tod zurckzusetzen ist, wenn die
evangelische Atheisten Recht haetten, wird alles mglich, als ein neues
Auftreten, da alle Beschrnkungen, die Neuheit verhindert haben
knnten, entfernt geworden sind. Selbst Gott mglich wird, das heit,
von einer Startnullpunkt von insgesamt unbedingten Seins das der
transzendenten Grund des Seins ist. Dies ist die wahre unvermeidlich
zugrunde liegende Logik des Multiversummetaphysiks. Es hat zu Recht
gesagt worden, dass berhaupt alles in der Tat passieren soll, dass nicht
speziell durch die Quantenmechanik verboten ist. Dies steht im Einklang
mit dem Prinzip der berflle der unbedingten Seins.
It is not merely that the time line frays at infinity. September 2014
Unconditioned being makes no choice between the ontological
alternatives of the one and the many. Unconditioned being takes no
sides in the metaphysical debate between those who insist consciousness
is one (though manifold or pluriform) and those who assert it is a many
(topologically multipartite). @$In other words, there is no sufficient
condition for being to assume either a singular or a plural form, which is
to say, singularity and plurality are not distinct forms of being.
Investigate the concept of agnostic theism.
Analyze and deconstruct the naive tissue of assumptions lying behind
such statements as "the universe has been here forever".
Between the emergence and the originality of time, anything is possible
but not necessarily inevitable.
When you are dead you're no longer attached to the time line along
which you lived your human existance so you're free to start "again"
(English is not equipped to describe situations of multidimensional
temporal tenses we need the concept of again in the sense of multitime), as though for the first time, but it's not "again" because
altogether new time. It's difficult for one to grasp because one thinks in
either/ or and black and white terms... either you live again or you won't,
but there's a third way analogous to getting here in "the first place".
@$
One's consciousness simply possesses multiple instances, however in
the total and utter absence of instantiation of an immanent concept or
category, i.e,. a concept graspable by a finite intellect. The instantiation
of consciousness is with respect to a transcendental concept of
consciousness. Multidimensional subjective temporality is implied by
the transcendental nature of consciousness. All concepts are metaphors
masquerading as such, except for transcendental consciousness and its
concepts, which are purely abstract, i.e., not taken from experience as
indeed metaphors are. @$Can the purely concrete be truly concrete and
un-abstract? Doesnt the concept of pureness or purity imply
abstraction? March 2014 The notion of the purely concrete is an
abstraction and so mind as the only source of abstraction becomes
unavoidable. May 2014 It occurs to me that the notion of the purely
concrete is an abstraction and so mind, as the only source of
abstraction, becomes an unavoidable precondition to an inevitable
phenomenon. This is a good definition of immanent necessity, i.e., the
instantiation of necessity as such: an unavoidable precondition to an
inevitable phenomenon. This is of course all contingent upon
"existence" and "mind" being well formulated or coherent notions.
March 2014
"Time is infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies, are finite.
They may indeed disperse into the smallest particles; but these particles,
the atoms, have their determinate numbers, and the numbers of the
configurations which, all of themselves, are formed out of them is also
determinate. Now, however long a time may pass, according to the
eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of
repetition, all configurations which have previously existed on this earth
must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again..."
~Heinrich Heine
From Aphorism 341 of The Gay Science: "Whoever thou mayest be,
beloved stranger, whom I meet here for the first time, avail thyself of
this happy hour and of the stillness around us, and above us, and let me
tell thee something of the thought which has suddenly risen before me
like a star which would fain shed down its rays upon thee and every one,
as befits the nature of light. - Fellow man! Your whole life, like a
sandglass, will always be reversed and will ever run out again, - a long
minute of time will elapse until all those conditions out of which you
were evolved return in the wheel of the cosmic process. And then you
will find every pain and every pleasure, every friend and every enemy,
every hope and every error, every blade of grass and every ray of
sunshine once more, and the whole fabric of things which make up your
life. This ring in which you are but a grain will glitter afresh forever.
And in every one of these cycles of human life there will be one hour
where, for the first time one man, and then many, will perceive the
mighty thought of the eternal recurrence of all things:- and for mankind
this is always the hour of Noon".[7]
Have you ever had an insight that is extremely significant, but you can't
find a way to put it into words so as to share it with others? I recently
had such an insight. The fact that I can't really describe this insight or
the details of its contents to anyone else, for some strange reason doesn't
cause me to believe that it is any less valid.
Being an alien doesn't mean that you're from another planet or star
system. It means that your brain acts as an interface between quantum
vacua within a partition that is categorized altogether differently from
the quantum vacua partitions which the brains of others, ones so called
peers, resonate with.
There is no concept of consciousness or category thereof... This would
imply that there is no universal mind which is instantiated by multiple
individual consciousnesss. Only subjective metaphors and not
intersubjective concepts.
@$
If upon death one loses the thread then you were never here so you
can come into being for the first time.
Either God exists or God does not exist either the soul is eternal or does
not either reincarnation is true or its faults either humans have free will
or they don't and so on. In an open ended multiverse metaphysical
possibilities are contingent.
Either reincarnation is true or it is not if it is not true then the thread is
cut upon one's death in which case when was never here in which case
one can come to be for the first time.
Discourse is not just a structure within one's native language, but is a
novel language in its own right.
The illogical modus ponens verses modus tollens reversal or inversion is
necessary for the translation between languages which is nonlinear in the
relationship of concept maps.
And is necessary for the operation of metaphor transitioning between
different universes of discourse or for use with idiosyncratic dialects of
individual persons
I thought it was when Alan Lightman physicist said that we are lucky to
be here and said this within the context of discussing the multiverse.
Because the system is radically reset upon death, if the evangelical
atheists are right, anything becomes possible, as a novel occurrence
since all of the restrictions that might have prevented novelty are
removed. Even God becomes possible, that is, from a starting zero-point
of altogether unconditioned being. This is the inevitable underlying
logic of multiverse metaphysics. It has been rightfully said that anything
at all will indeed happen that is not specifically forbidden by quantum
mechanics. This is consistent with the principle of the superabundance
of unconditioned being. It is not merely that the time line frays at
infinity. Unconditioned being makes no choice between the ontological
alternatives of the one and the many. Chaos is wholly degenerate.
February 2014
or Sartre.
February 2014
level.
In the youtube video, "The Private Language Argument and the Nature
of Consciousness", Cutoftheamateur states that the supervenience of
consciousness increased natural selective pressure in favor of increasing
neurological and brain physiological complexity in the evolution of the
human brain above the selective advantage afforded by mutations or
cultural innovations which merely had the effect of increasing the
efficiency of a classical neural network of stimulus-response by way of
improvements in logic, memory and data processing speed. It is no
accident that metaphors are frequently referred to through the use of
quotation marks enclosing a term or phrase: which is being applied in all
together new way that is in a manner not suspected, heretofore (note
temporal inflection) unsuspected by the listener who has necessarily
received a communication from the other. To form an abstract concept
or idea of a person, there must be more than one exemplar of "person".
Also, quotation marks are used when one is *referring* to one thing in
terms of a different thing. It is not that the mind transcends the
limitations to logic set by Gdels incompleteness theorem and it's
implications, but that the brain has access to multiple Boltzmann minds
through the quantum superposition of brain contexts provide by the
embedding quantum vacuum fluctuation field (of nonlocally connected
tubulin dimer states). There are perhaps no Goedelian limitations in
philosophy and philosophizing as there is with logic and mathematics
because of the blurring of the distinction between levels and metalevels
within the domain of philosophic activity.
February 2014
activity does not imply an agent. An agent does not imply an agency.
An agency does not imply a founding. A founding does not imply a
founder.
Thanks, Michael! An old chestnut or shall I say "onion". : p. The motive
behind ID is indeed disingenuous aka backdoor creationism. Believing
grammatical relationships to be as robust as logical or causal
implications is my biggest criticism of the purveyors of ID. . .not their
cynicism, which I take for granted. "You can't get something from
nothing . . . unless its the quantum vacuum."
The philosophically naive error of intelligent design theorists is their
presumption that grammatical chauvinism on the part of speakers of
human languages possesses validity beyond the linguistic context in
other words is valid is relevant to the description of objective being.
They should remember that the passive construction leaves the question
of a subject wholly indefinite. The adjective "intelligent" may only be a
property of a fundamental process, I.e., one having no beginning in
time. The noun, "design" does not necessarily imply an activity. An
activity does not imply an agent. An agent does not imply an agency.
An agency does not imply a founding. A founding does not imply a
founder.
Thanks, Michael! An old chestnut or shall I say "onion". : p. The motive
behind ID is indeed disingenuous aka backdoor creationism. Believing
grammatical relationships to be as robust as logical or causal
implications is my biggest criticism of the purveyors of ID. . .not their
cynicism, which I take for granted. "You can't get something from
nothing . . . unless its the quantum vacuum."
I.e., the quantum vacuum is "nothing". And "nothing" comes from
nothing...Heisenberg energy uncertainty is the causal basis of
temporarily and so could have had no beginning in time. And
"everything" comes from "nothing" because the only difference between
real and virtual particles and fields is (and here's the
rub...*undifferentiated* energy).
There are no things, only "things. In order to do away with dualism we
need to analyze the redundancy of the external world and other minds as
independent concepts or principles of being. Paradoxically in order for
science to be truly positivistic it must, following Feuerabend, be
radically free of any determinate method of discovery and investigation.
Belief that science has a determinate method of discovery is to presume
that the final achievement of science shall be the establishment of a
theory of everything, which is a metaphysical presumption.
Positivistic science, which possesses no determinate method of
investigation or inquiry, cannot make any hard and fast distinction
between the natural and the supernatural.
What distinguishes a brain from a computation device or computer is the
greater independence of modularity of design which leads to the
marshalling of multiple independent contacts also there is the L stripping
of any unified or integral to sign this is about saved due to the plank
limit where in the design functions in a manner which transcends the
look ahead computational capacity of the quantum vacuum field.
All of the operations described by Alan Turing for his universal
computational device are susceptible to quantum superposition
There is certainly an important distinction between 2 to the power of
400 parallel universes versus 2 to the power of 400 quantum computers
within a single universe. Does the natural decoherence limit play an
important role in this distinction?
Compare the degree of focus of attention versus the degree of resolution
the appearances. Is there a degeneracy of case between discovery and
learning about an objective realm versus a self- interfering, self- limiting
cognitive system embedded in a chaotic medium?
selections grip relaxes, but that this applies to higher level function as
well.
According to Whittington, animals could have arisen at different places
and at different times. Instead of descent from an accidental first
common ancestor, we have evolutionary convergence guided by the selforganizing properties of organic molecules from multiple points of
origin: nevertheless guided by a single underlying dynamic. In other
words the common descent is not from a single accidental first ancestor,
but from a single dynamic medium informing and guiding the
evolutionary process as a whole.
Darwin's principle of common descent is false and his principle of
evolution by natural selection is tautologous: everything which
survives, survives.
Because life arose from multiple points of origin, but there is a single
genetic code or language to mediate the evolutionary process from these
multiple point origin, it follows that the rationale of the genetic code lies
with the self-organizing dynamic origin of life rather than itself having
been cobbled together by blind evolutionary processes.
Platonic archetypes offer themselves as a happy 3rd alternative to the
Intelligent Design hypothesis instead of explanation of evolution in
terms of common descent.
Higher mammals such as humans share such an ancient common
ancestor with the octopus that the eye of the octopus and the eye of the
human originated from a common ancestor so ancient that this ancestor
did not itself possess a recognizable functional eye.
structural
mutation,
genotype,
phenotype,
self-organization,
infrastructure, providence, grace, theistic evolution, random mutation,
point mutation, regulatory gene, gene regulatory network, GRN,
superposition, tunneling, nonlocal, nonlocality, entanglement, qubit,
parallel, many worlds, Everett, transactional, clone, cloning, twin,
doppelganger, contradiction, contradictory, contrary, Nagel, Dummet,
Smart, Chalmers, philosophy of mind, metaphysics of mind, philosophy
of space and time, arrow of time, irreversibility, entropy, Von Neunann
entropy, 2nd Law, thermodynamic, discourse, free will, reductionism,
consciousness, quantum nonlocality and hidden variables, selfreferential, unity, integration, holism,
Write down every original kernel idea you have ever had and
then explore the connections between each and every one. This exercise
should succeed in generating myriad new insights that shall serve to
extend the network further in terms of expanding the total number of
nodes (kernels).
December 2013
epi=
energetically unify and organize its collective energies in the struggle for
survival in a harsh environment amongst other competing groups also
struggling. Because we share the same physical world in the out there
and we share the same language more or less it doesn't matter so much
that our subjective perceptions of the meaning of words within our
common language may differ because a common word, though it splits
in two different subjectively interpreted meanings many times, is
nonetheless united in having a single reference in the external world.
Illustrate this with a diagram in the shape of a diamond with a vertical
line bisecting it. The bottom vertex is a word which refers - the upper
vertex is an object referred to by the word, the left and right vertices of
the diamond are my perception and your perception, respectively, which
may differ as to the subjective content of the word held in common
between us. Just think of what's called the El Greco paradox. El Greco
was supposed to have depicted animals and humans with gnarled and
twisted features because that was the way he actually visually perceived
them in just that manner. But upon a moment's reflection, clearly El
Greco must draw the figures more or less representationally - if he was
attempting to draw them as he in fact sees them, since the canvas which
shows the depictions he has drawn would be similarly distorted.
January 2014
evangelical atheists are dying out during the same period that deeper
layers of complexity regulatory genetic control mechanisms and
epigenetics are being uncovered means that a new generation of
biological scientists of similar intellectual caliber shall not likely replace
them.
January 2014
http://www.racetomars.ca/mars/article_effects.jsp
Scientists
have
uncovered a compelling reason why the dream of colonizing space may
be a non-starter. It seems that the skeletons within living cells may not
form properly in zero gravity. This means that it may be impossible to
live in space over the long-term without creating a form of artificial
gravity. Most cells have skeletons made up of microtubules made from
fibres of the protein tubulin. New Scientist magazine reports that Dr
James Tabony and his colleagues from the French Atomic Energy
Commission mixed up cold solutions of mammalian tubulin with an
energy-releasing compound. When the mixture was warmed to body
temperature for six minutes, microtubules began to form in distinct
bands at right angles to gravity. Next, the team sent up tubulin on a
European Space Agency (Esa) rocket to expose it to the effect of
weightlessness. They found that when microtubules formed, they
pointed in all directions. Dr Tabony said: "This shows gravity triggers
the pattern." Previous work by Dr Marian Lewis of the University of
Alabama at Huntsville produced similar results. Dr Lewis's team tested
the impact of weightlessness on human white blood cells that were
flown on board the space shuttle. After a day in orbit, the microtubules
grew in random directions. The findings might explain some of the
health problems people living in space have, such as depressed immune
systems, c.f, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/830193.stm
all means that Mans knowledge can be at best but a collective illusion. . .
and all this within the context of a sheer abundance of grace. How can
one not then have faith upon recognizing the Providence involved in
such a coherent manifestation of the radical unknown, i.e., the World as
subjectively perceived. One is called forth from the Void and enters the
world from one unknown only to pass from it into another unknown.
What is lost on some is that the world itself is yet a third unknown,
rendering the first and the latter qualitatively distinct. And so
metaphysical work can only be performed by experience if it is possible
to transcend all dual opposite categories. kwo=I do not fear death. I
had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark
Twain
I don't speak from the top of the mountain but from many valleys.
theses
are
borne
of
either
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bATyoYzlObY
(Nova
documentary: Universe or Multiverse?)
How naive is the level of discussion, philosophically speaking, since the
larger metaphysical implications are ignored so that this paradigmbusting theory is treated solely within the obsolete paradigm.
August 2014
Ketamine
Consider the entropy of the unused possibilities for various states of a
system with respect to the closedness or openness of the system's state
space, thermodynamically. Quantum field theory in curved space-time
also in curved phase spaces and in curved state spaces. Gravitational
decoherence of the state vector or wave function.
We see the logic of the anthropic principle at work whenever we listen
to an accomplished individual in some field or discipline describing how
he arrived and his original inspiration to pursue his successful longstanding career. The interviewee points to various junctures in his early
schooling or professional career which seemed very much driven by
chance events. However the underlying logic informing the choices of
this once young researcher or scientist exhibits a cohesiveness strongly
suggestive of teleological influence and almost as though he is being
guided by his future self, somewhat akin to how a quantum computation
is performed by mutual interference of myriad distinct branches of a
superposition. And it is almost as though there is a stiff competition
between future alternate versions of this young person vying with each
other to influence his choices in such a manner that they come into being
as the adult versions of this young person instead of their competitors.
January 2014
consciousness.
The only way to democratically apply the anthropic cosmological
principle to self and others is too follow a poly-solipsistic or
emanationist theology. In other words the only way to avoid the
ridiculous conclusion of the solipsist philosopher who misapplies the
logic of the anthropic cosmological principle is for one to adopt
polysolipsism. . . we collaborate with each other to produce this theater
within which we can connect, learn, grow and love.
The world perhaps is orchestrated by all secretly collaborating and like
the occasional glimpsing of a familiar voice in a crowded room of
conversations, one occasionally hears ones own voice coming back at
one.
The logic of the anthropic cosmological principle is a veritable
metaphysical stick of dynamite its a stick of dynamite that begs to be
used in the appropriate way to solve some long standing and annoying
metaphysical problem the date back to the ancient Greeks on which we
have apparently made a little progress in the last twenty five hundred
years
Just as ordinary people do philosophers take for granted the implicit
deep infrastructure which graces language mind and all of the faculties
of the human person.
Philosopher, James Aarons theory in his book, Assholes (A Theory), is
that "a person counts as an asshole when, and only when, he
systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in
interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that
immunizes him against the complaints of other people...The asshole acts
out of a firm sense that he is special, that the normal rules of conduct do
not apply to him". This is by far the best definition of the colloquially
known asshole ever made known to me.
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Combine the belief that there is nothing greater than oneself with the
anthropic principle and you have something approaching solipsism.
Why wouldn't you be the most superior and perfect being unless such a
being had arranged it so that you were further down the spectrum below
perfect godhood.
Instability goes hand in hand with fine tuning of a system. This in turn
requires an extremely intricate system of feedback and control existing
at the ground of being root level.
'In the years after the initial experiments, Couder and Fort used the oil
bath to perform several of the classic experiments in quantum mechanics
including Young's double-slit experiment and found that the walkers
exhibited many similarities to the entities used in the original
experiments.
One area where the walkers' analogy with quantum mechanics fails,
however, is entanglement the weirdest quantum phenomenon of all that
describes how the physical state of two particles can be intricately linked
no matter how far apart in the universe they are.
For this to happen, a wave must occupy a very high number of
dimensions so particles can affect one another over large distances,
faster than the speed of light. However, in a walker system the waves
will always occupy just two dimensions, given by the length and width
of the oil tank', c.f., Physorg.com, Can an oil bath solve the mysteries of
the quantum world?'
'In the years after the initial experiments, Couder and Fort used the oil
bath to perform several of the classic experiments in quantum mechanics
including Young's double-slit experiment and found that the walkers
exhibited many similarities to the entities used in the original
experiments.
One area where the walkers' analogy with quantum mechanics fails,
however, is entanglement the weirdest quantum phenomenon of all that
describes how the physical state of two particles can be intricately linked
no matter how far apart in the universe they are.
For this to happen, a wave must occupy a very high number of
dimensions so particles can affect one another over large distances,
faster than the speed of light. However, in a walker system the waves
will always occupy just two dimensions, given by the length and width
of the oil tank', c.f., Physorg.com, Can an oil bath solve the mysteries of
the quantum world?'
Only a transcendental ground of being can accommodate the rationality
of excluding possibilities from the universe of discourse.
A
transcendental ground of being satisfies all of the requirements for
Deity, i.e., 'big G' godhood, but in addition, so much more.
November 2013
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We see the pic you'll your logic of the anthropic principal at work
whenever we listened to an accomplished individual in some field or
disappointed describing how he arrived and his original inspiration to
pursue his successful long-standing career. The interviewee points to
various junctures in his early schooling or early professional career
which seemed very much driven by chance events. However the
underlying logic informing the choices of this once young researcher or
scientist exhibits a cohesiveness strongly suggestive of teleological
influence. And it is almost as though there is a stiff competition
between future alternate versions of this young person vying with each
other to influence his choices in such a manner that they come into being
as the adult versions of this young person instead of their competitors.
November 2013
other view is the more common mystical view that the consciousness of
the individual obeys Bose Einstein statistics.
Seeing the depiction of parallel earths and the parallel lives of the
humanoids that live in these parallel worlds just reminds one of how
cultural patterns become historically locked in by chance events
There is a relationship between inertia, robustness and holographic
encoding.
All distinctively quantum interference effects are in reality selfinterference effect. The litmus test of objective realism is the presence
of absence of self-interference effects at some theoretically
predetermined threshold. The question is whether man possesses the
insight and imagination to propose such a theory.
When our method of experimenting begins to get at the bootstrap
mechanism a physical reality it is here that mental effects should become
discernible.
http://oldarchive.godspy.com/reviews/a-review-of-v-for-vendetta-byjohn-zmirak.cfm.html
'All important truths are encompassed for all time by my own beloved
intellectual prejudices.' If this is in fact what one secretly believes, then
is it nevertheless possible to somehow bootstrap one's consciousness out
of such a mental trick bag? Probably not. Therefore an advisable course
of action is to make sure that this trick bag is as large as possible.
That's right. One can only move from one trick bag of intellectual
prejudices to another trick bag.
That is because all information is contextualized and structured data.
There is no such thing as raw information in the absence of a
November 2013
universe of ideas too vast to only read authors one agrees with.
October 2013 fcbk=
enlighten the rest of us rather than just staying within the echo-chamber
of academia has confused more than a few people, apparently. Another
thing: some of your books are on amazon.com, but I'd like to know how
to get access to some of your earlier publications. If only there were a
one-stop shopping location for your papers! : )
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On Feb 20, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Russell S Clark wrote:
>
> I like Volovik's approach to Sakharov's idea of induced gravity as a
> solution to the cosmological constant problem.
I have my own version of this. It's different from Volovik's, but has
some overlaps.
> To be honest, I felt the same way and was even kind of excited and
> intrigued when I first encountered the Puthoff, Haisch, Rueda
> theory. But then I slowly realized that quantum statistics is a
> much broader basis for an "already unified" induced gravity
> theory than is Puthoff's Zitterbewegung-EMQG induced gravity. The
Yes, so do I. Puthoff does not even recognize the depth of the problem
and hand waves it away.
>
> Matter and vacuum perturb each other's spacetime symmetry to induce
a
> gravitational field because (as Feynman pointed out) the Pauli
> Exclusion and what might be called the "Pauli Inclusion" principles
> apply equally to real as well as to virtual fermions and bosons.
> Matter and vacuum mutually interact as traces of a common destiny,
er,
> uh, density matrix. :)
No, that is meaningless. The precise equations for this are
Bu = bu^aPa/h
{Pa} = Lie Algebra of T4
Bu = (Goldstone Phase),u from partial cohering of random ZPF in
inflationary vacuum phase transition
Einstein-Cartan tetrad = eu^a = &u^a + bu^a
& is Kronecker Delta
guv(curved) = (&u^a + bu^a)(Flat)ab(&v^b + bv^b)
Gauge transforms on Bu -> GCT Diff(4) tensor transforms of local
frames
- missing in Puthoff's other "PV" theory.
>
> BTW, is the notion of an electron-positron spin-0 field interpreted as
> the timelike component . . . and the photon as the spacelike
component
> (of an appropriately defined four vector) a "not even wrong" notion?
> I was thinking in analogy with the electric charge (a scalar) being
> represented by the timelike component and the charge currents by the
> spacelike 3-vector components of the "spacetime-like" current density
> four vector in Maxwell's equations.
Until you write the equations I don't really know what you mean. :-)
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October
2013
off a cliff to his or her death in order to save some great mass of
strangers say from a nuclear detonation? There is a presumptive
metaphysical ethical fallacy lying at the root of such a hypothetical
ethical dilemma. The metaphysical presumption is that individual
human experience fits rationally into some collective matrix through
which and by which human suffering at the level of the individual can be
massed together and accumulated into some very much greater transpersonal or trans-human suffering say on the part of a deity observing
and experiencing the suffering of and through those many individuals.
The paradox is how an atheist who considers himself moral and ethical
might answer this dilemma vs. how a Christian theist who also considers
himself moral and ethical might answer this same dilemma.
Human suffering doesn't add in any absolute or objective sense, and the
moral intuition that it *does add* is informed by a kind of
'cryptotheism', one shared by theists and atheists alike! : )
It is more than a bit ironic that the only real empirical proof
for the theory of evolution is the design feature of micro-evolutionary
adaptability of each species, which makes it robust against fluctuating
environmental conditions. Of course, the theory-laden evidence for
Darwinian evolution is indeed in plentiful supply.
He was in part, she was in part, he was not in part, they were playing
their parts, she got the part. There should be a new verb tense for
variably repeating time, e.g., for repetition of a particular scene or act of
a play in which actors are participating. Would being reunited with all of
ones lost loved ones from ones earthly life in any way constitute a
disproof of solipsism? Indeed not. If anything it would be strong
evidence in favor of the hypothesis that the world is ones oyster, as it
were.
October 2013
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AJack_Sarfatti/Archive_1
http://de.scribd.com/doc/170276616/Quantum-Mechanics
http://www.scribd.com/doc/79203258/Sean-Carroll-Dark-Energy-ThePreposterous-Universe
October 2013
collapse apparently the observer makes the difference not the physical
interaction of photons with the buckyballs say through collisions.
In other words if the observer is not watching which slit the buckyball
goes through and just looks at the phosphorescence screen for the
presence or absence of an interference pattern then he cannot rely on the
presence of ambient proton radiation of identical character to that which
would have been required to observe which slit the buckyballs goes
through in order to produce collapse of the interference pattern with the
exhibition of particle-like behavior on the part of the buckyballs. So it
does not appear that a physical interaction is responsible for collapse of
the interference pattern but rather the presence of the observer looking at
the slits.
Nature wanted to be Newtonian but didn't think the problem completely
through.
The acausal behavior of perceived physical reality is perhaps as much
owing to the brains overabundant complexity which outstrips the
capabilities of nature to anticipate and create representations of equal
complexity to those of which the brain is capable. This leads to a
consistent underdetermination of representations causally speaking.
All this time we've been looking at the quantum decoherence and
quantum measurement problems from the standpoint of energy,
momentum and momentum-energy exchanges between the observing
system and the observed system, but the decoherence problem can be
handled in the context of the hot, wet brain and its microtubules and
their coherent tubulin dimer energy states by looking at the problem
from the standpoint of information rather than energy, that is, if what is
happening inside the brain's microtubule network outstrips in terms of
complexity or information density, the quantum computing capacity of
the cosmic CPU or quantum vacuum by which each future time step in
the evolution of Schrodinger's wave equation is computed, then we may
have alternate conditions for quantum coherence, which do not depend
TGD framework encourages strongly to give up the cherished belief about brain as a
seat of consciousness. The following working vision seems to be plausible at least to
me just now.
1. Brain and body as sensory organs of electromagnetic selves
In TGD framework life is self-organization phenomenon involving in essential
manner Earth's magnetic field serving as template for the condensation of biomatter.
In TGD universe ourselves involve in essential manner electromagnetic field
structures (topological field quanta) having size measured using Earth size as a unit.
Our physical bodies can be seen as kind of sensory and motor organs of these
electromagnetic selves. In particular, physical death can be seen only as a death of a
mental image about physical body. These higher levels selves are multibrained
organism analogous to multicellulars and use our brains (in particular during sleep)
for their own purposes, c.f., http://www.emergentmind.org/pitkanen_i.htm
Earth's civilization must then be secretly extremely old not only in the
galaxy for but perhaps within the universe at large such that the average
distance of peer extraterrestrial civilizations namely those of comparable
or greater technologic l development may well be too great to be
detected.
We should now investigate what might well be called the Fermi
metaparadox within the discipline of the philosophy of mind and the
problem of other minds.
The dissolution of a paradox by way of the advent of a new paradigm
usually signals the appearance of a metaparadox.
Can long lived metastable states of organic molecules be passed down
from one generation to the next, enabling a greater scope of action for
quantum entanglement.
The process of biological evolution is not a hundred percent onward and
upward just consider the case first considered by Darwin himself of
placing newer or modified species in competition with their earlier for
bears in the current environment of the modified species and how the
newer or modified species would merge victorious rendering the
extinction of the order forms from which they are derived and now
having said this consider someone to reverse case where the newer or
modified forms of the older species are placed in the folder species
contemporary environment and allowed to compete with him there here
the advantage would not be so clear of the newer forms over the older
ancestral forms because of the consideration of coevolution and ecology.
That an individual consciousness' apparent peers are intelligent is more a
testament to the ultra high fine tuning of that individual mind's
consciousness than it is to the fine tuning of the brains of those peers.
Note here that we are relating the fine tuning of consciousness with fine
tuning of brains.
the Other qua Other we are compelled to reject a certain type of negation
which we have called an external negation. The Other must appear to the
cogito as not being me. This negation can be conceived in two ways:
either it is a pure, external negation, and it will separate the Other from
myself as one substance from another substance and in this case all
apprehension of the Other is by definition impossible; or else it will be
an internal negation, which means a synthetic, active connection of the
two terms, each one of which constitutes itself by denying that it is the
other. This negative relation will therefore be reciprocal and will possess
a twofold interiority: This means first that the multiplicity of Others
will not be a collection but a totality (in this sense we admit that Hegel is
right) since each Other finds his being in the Other. It also means that
this Totality is such that it is on principle impossible for us to adopt the
point of view of the whole. In fact we have seen that no abstract
concept of consciousness can result from the comparison of my beingfor-myself with my object-state for the Other. Furthermore this totality
like that of the For-itself is a detotalized totality; for the since
existence-for-others is a radical refusal of the Other, no totalitarian and
unifying synthesis of Others is possible. It is in the light of these few
observations that we in turn shall now attack the question of the The
Other.
Consciousness my consciousness even is more general then the most
general medium of my own experience this also points up the
transcendental nature of consciousness and the concept of
consciousness. Does the notion of consciousness as con sciousness
point, etymologically speaking, to the socially context based nature of
consciousness?
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goes through and just looks at the phosphorescence screen for the
presence or absence of an interference pattern then he cannot rely on the
presence of ambient proton radiation of identical character to that which
would have been required to observe which slit the buckyballs goes
through in order to produce collapse of the interference pattern with the
exhibition of particle-like behavior on the part of the buckyballs. So it
does not appear that a physical interaction is responsible for collapse of
the interference pattern but rather the presence of the observer looking at
the slits.
Nature wanted to be Newtonian but didn't think the problem completely
through.
The acausal behavior of perceived physical reality is perhaps as much
owing to the brains overabundant complexity which outstrips the
capabilities of nature to anticipate and create representations of equal
complexity to those of which the brain is capable. This leads to a
consistent underdetermination of representations causally speaking.
All this time we've been looking at the quantum decoherence and
quantum measurement problems from the standpoint of energy,
momentum and momentum-energy exchanges between the observing
system and the observed system, but the decoherence problem can be
handled in the context of the hot, wet brain and its microtubules and
their coherent tubulin dimer energy states by looking at the problem
from the standpoint of information rather than energy, that is, if what is
happening inside the brain's microtubule network outstrips in terms of
complexity or information density, the quantum computing capacity of
the cosmic CPU or quantum vacuum by which each future time step in
the evolution of Schrodinger's wave equation is computed, then we may
have alternate conditions for quantum coherence, which do not depend
on such things as temperature.
The inversion relations for electron mobility vis-a-vis the two slit
experiment ... this relation may actually be applicable to solving the
quantum decoherence problem for a wet hot brain specifically where the
coherent quantum states of tubular and dimers of the brain's
microtubules are concerned.
I see no problem with utilizing a consistent empirical relationship
between two observables in order to establish a new axiom.
These two observables between which our empirical relation exists,
namely that of the inversion relation noted earlier, our consciousness
and electron mobility vis-a-vis the two slit experiment and the quantum
observer. A problem further investigated here should be: consciousness
is always consciousness of the individual not an intersubjective quantity
such as a quantum observable.
This inversion relation that I have been talking about is simply this:
when consciousness is present at the two slit apparatus the electron wave
function collapses so that we get particle behavior. On the other hand,
during general anesthesia when electron mobility is induced to switch
from wavelike to particle- like by the presence of the anesthetic gas,
there is a loss of consciousness.
If intelligent design is a false hypothesis, then when we examine the
informational structures of life such as RNA and DNA and complex
macromolecules such as enzymes and proteins which modulate the
expression of RNA and DNA, we should find that there is only a single
level of description at work, in other words there should be an absence
of meta levels of description. Such informational mechanisms as error
correction codes, operating systems, compilers, hyperlinking
(computational nonlocality, if you will) are all examples of metal levels
at work within a text or within a computer program which exhibits meta
levels and bespeaking a language and programming infrastructure that
possesses too much specified complexity to have arisen from passively
filtered entropy fluctuations.
<Radical Existentialism teaches>
ethics, religion, politics, etc., all smart people, or at least all people who
fancy themselves smart, have already made up their minds as to on
which side of the issues they stand. So any polemical work does well to
state up front what ax is being ground with the understanding that the
work shall only serve, if it succeeds at all, in providing grist to already
like-minded souls, who are more or less passionate about the positions
on the issues, which they hold in common with the author. If a goodly
many of these kindred spirits perceive that the authors work provides
them with additional rational justification for already long held
intellectual prejudices, then the polemical work offered has every chance
of being a success. By and large humans do not hear much less do they
heed messages from outside of their respective echo chambers. It is the
height of arrogance to believe that one is skilled enough to fashion an
argument which can succeed in changing some smart persons stand on
any important issue. Experienced polemicists know this and yet they still
devote much effort to conceiving clever arguments and submitting them
for publication. The motivation here is primarily desire for monetary
gain.
If we consider all possible worlds there may be plenty of
universes with naturally occurring fine-tuned constants, but there may be
more fine-tuned universes that have a god who set those constants. This
argument rests on the assumption that the most likely explanation for
improbable (in this particular sense) non-evolved things is intelligence.
It is more of analogical argument and might be summarized as: "from
our experience we can see that non-evolved things that exhibit the
characteristics of being delicately balanced to achieve something
complex (in this case life) are more likely to be designed than to come
about by chance". As au=Plantinga puts it: "It's as if there are a large
number of dials that have to be tuned to within extremely narrow limits
for life to be possible in our universe. It is extremely unlikely that this
should happen by chance, but much more likely that this should happen
if
there
is
such
a
person
as
God",
c.f.,
http://themeatyard.blogspot.com/search/label/Alvin_Plantinga
August 2013
How can the probability of a coin toss turning up as either heads or tails
be 50 percent, given the more or less causal determination of the flipping
of each coin?
'Eine unendlich berlegene Wissenschaft' there is no English phrase
which sounds as good in the ear of Englishmen or an American as this
phrase sounds in the ear of a German speaker. The linguistic constraints
of rhyme, meter and cadence, which are peculiar to a particular tongue
do not only limit what one can say or translate from one language into
another, but also underlie the profundity of what is said and can be said
in some instances.
There is a non-logical component to the halting trial and error process of
scientific discovery which cannot be intersubjectively communicated to
successive generations of scientists, which is always lost in that process,
but which is a key component to the underlying creative intelligence of
scientific discovery.
We know that god is not looking but not that he does not exist because
of the existence of as yet uncollapsed wavefunctions.
Can we generalize the Monty Hall probability puzzle by casting God in
the role of Monty Hall in such a way as to explain wavefunction
collapse?
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The Wheeler delayed choice experiment does not prove that there is
backwards in time causation rather it demonstrates that a moment of
time takes time to be integrated at the quantum level.
June 2013
July 2013
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Combine Plantingas modal ontological argument (MOA) for Gods
existence with the multiverse of Tipler and Barrows Anthropic
Cosmological Principle (ACP) through identification of the term,
possible world in the MOA with universe in the ACP in which these
universes comprise the multiverse. In so doing one naturally asks oneself
the question: would I have been called forth from the void (by the
solipsistic cosmological principle (SCP), i.e., the logic of the ACP
applied and brought down to the level at which each self-aware mind is
generated - by the multiverse) into a universe in which God, who is
admittedly possible in some universes, i.e., possible worlds, is not
possible? Perhaps only as a philosphical zombie (in other words only
as an entity that others might confuse with being me). An important
supplementary question here isdoes God fail to exist in universes in
which He is possible, which given Gods omnipotence should be
rephrased as the followingdoes God choose not to exist in any
universes in which He is possible, still more in which I now exist? To
wit, did God abandon me? If so, then for what possible reason?
The modal ontological argument can be attacked at an additional point to
that of the concept or definition of a maximally great being. This
second weak point of the MOA, which I have never seen anyone attack
before is this notion that the actual world is included in the set of all
possible worlds. But just as fire must be breathed into the equations of
physics in order for our mathematically describable universe to be real
as opposed to merely possible, some crucial factor sets the real world
apart from this world as merely hypothetical. Similarly, there is an
important distinction between an eigenvector in a quantum superposition
and its corresponding eigenvalue as an experimental outcome of the
collapse
of
the
superpositions
wavefunction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4QFsKevTXs
June 2013
later, he heard it said that children should be protected from shock, from
their first knowledge of death, pain or fear. But these had never scarred
him; his shock came when he stood very quietly, looking into the black
hole of the trunk. It was an immense betrayalthe more terrible because
he could not grasp what it was that had been betrayed. It was not
himself, he knew, nor his trust; it was something else. He stood there for
a while, making no sound, then he walked back to the house. He never
spoke about it to anyone, then or since.
- Ayn Rand, Atlas
Shrugged
You cannot quantize the probability of your falling in love with a given
attractive and desirable person, which is to say that this probability
cannot be represented as the absolute square of any possible
wavefunction.
http://reformedreflections.ca/other-religions/the-r-c-bible.pdf
This belief, however, elevates fallible human thought on par with the
infallible
Word of God. And what we discover is not a development of doctrine
but a departure
from it. **Not if the HS guided the selection of books that were
included in the Vulgate, and those who were guided in this were also
guided in the development of early Church traditions and teachings.**
Rome does not allow private interpretation of Scripture out of fear that
heresy
could undermine the authority of the Bible and the Church. **Just
think about what a serious problem heresies were to the early Church. If
one accepts the existence of a positive principle of evil (as opposed to a
mere absence of good), does one imagine that this principle remained
uncharacteristically silent and uninvolved with influencing the creation
and dissemination of heresies? What better way to attack the Church
than at its root, that is to say, during its infancy?**
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) stated: "God has delivered the Holy
Scripture to the Church, and.... in reading and making use of His Word,
(men) must follow the Church as their guide and teacher. **So the
Church should have just allowed members of the illiterate masses of all
cultures and historical traditions to read the Holy Scriptures on their
own, unsupervised and without any instruction as to interpretation and
application of those Scriptures? Really? **
The same Pope also said that it is impossible for any legitimate
interpretation to be extracted from the Bible that is at variance with the
doctrine of the Church. Any interpretation that is opposed to Church
doctrine is therefore false. **The fundamentalist Protestant principle
of Sola Scriptura could have only become viable after the fashion of the
creation of a metabolic by-product as opposed to the spontaneous
generation of a wholly intact DNA molecule within the primeval, prebiotic soup. Moreover, Sola Scriptura is supported by a vast
infrastructure of Theological Seminaries. **
In other words, the RC church professes to provide divine guidance for
her members. She demands recognition as the infallible interpreter of the
Scriptures. **This is a twisting of words: the guidance to her members
provided by the Church is informed by divine guidance. A Church that
is not guided by God is no Church at all, but merely a house of spiritual
complacency. There is an equivocation of doctrine vs. interpretation of
doctrine here - God provides the former, while His Church provides the
latter. **
The 16th century Reformers were in unanimous agreement in their
opposition when Rome claimed that teaching authority lay in the
magisterium with the pope as its chief shepherd under Christ. **To
what do we owe the vast proliferation of Protestant denominations and
their further 1st, 2nd, etc. order splinterings, which shows the triumph of
chaos over the intention to faithfully transmit God's message down the
generations?** The Reformation of the Church was the Lord's
intervention to lead His church back to the Gospel. The decline of
medieval Christianity was very gradual. The more serious errors didn't
arise until as late as the 14th and 15th centuries. Eventually the result of
this descending darkness was serious. The problem was with what Rome
had added to the Bible over the centuries. **The errors, accumulated
over many centuries more or less harmlessly, not having reached any
critical threshold, only arrived at this threshold just at the end of the
Middle Ages and just at the advent of the Renaissance - mere
coincidence?**
The Protestant Old Testament is the same as the Hebrew Scriptures
(except for the order of the books). Roman Catholics, on the other hand,
add additional books Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon,
Ecclesiasticus, Baruch and 1 & 2 Maccabees as well as some extra
sections to Daniel and Esther, to form their version of the Old
Testament. Though most of the Old Testament books are quoted
frequently by New Testament writers, these extra RC books are never
quoted. **Many books, over two dozen, in point of fact, are quoted
from in the Old Testament that were themselves not included in the
Canon of Scripture.**
Sense perceptual juxtapositions that produce multimodal cognitive
dissonance make excellent vectors for the insertion of wordless
artistically fertile metaphors.
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Begrudging the cultural and artistic expressions of others. Two forms of
the very same kind of blind faith: that of the God of the Gaps versus
Science will eventually find the answers. What are the implications of
a radical logical self-consistency approach to a theory of truth? How
does the principle of quantum superposition endanger the law of
excluded middle? Or does quantum superposition actually support the
excluded middle? The principle of the loose ends only showing on the
underside of the carpet? Is behavioral genetics fundamentally
responsible for the coherence and cohesiveness of the perceived external
world and society?
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Whosoever reflects on four things, it were better for him if he had not
come into the world: what is above; what is beneath; what is before; and
what is after.
- The Mishnah, Hagigah 2:1
I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do itit is
like hitting a child. Man is not to blame for what he is.... He is flung
head over heels into this world without ever a chance to decline, and
straightaway he conceives and accepts the notion that he is in some
mysterious way under obligations to the unknown Power that inflicted
this outrage upon him... Reflections on Religion, Mark Twain
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decades has done nothing to undermine them and these same opinions if
refined and dressed up as though uttered by a mature person will not so
quickly be dismissed out of hand and thus lend their weight to sober
consideration.
ArXiv: hep-th/9308061v1: au= Aharonov, Anandan, and Vaidman [1]
have recently argued that in addition to its usual epistemological role,
the wave function in quantum mechanics in certain situations also has an
ontological status. In other words, in addition to acting as a device in the
theory to encode the conditions (of our knowledge of the world) it must
also, in certain circumstances, be regarded as real [italics mine], in the
sense that one can completely determine an unknown wavefunction of a
single system as opposed to an ensemble of states [italics mind].
Certainly if their claim were true, that one could take a single system
with an unknown wavefunction, and completely determine that wave
function on that single system, one would have to accord the wave
function a reality on the grounds that that which is measurable is real. In
the course of this paper I will argue that they have failed to establish the
measurability of the wave function, and thus have failed in their attempt
to demonstrate the reality of the wave function. The argument is
however subtle. Thus the plan of this paper will be to first discuss the
problem of reality in quantum mechanics, to set stage for the question
that they are trying to answer. My comment: au=Aharanov proved the
reality of A, the vector potential so that if A is identified with the photon
wavefunction (see au=Bohm in this connection), then the reality of Psi
has been adequately demonstrated.
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interpreted by human language, not by apish grunts; when the first plant
showed
solicitude for its seed, the interest of that solicitude lay in the promise of
maternal
affection. Things must be judged in the light of the coming morning, not
in the setting
stars." (au=Sedgwick, 1916) And here it is again as stated by au=Terence
McKenna: For me, the key to unlocking what is going on with history,
creativity, and progressive processes of all sorts is to see the state of
completion at the end as a kind of higher-dimensional object that casts
an enormous and flickering shadow over the lower dimensions of
organization, of which this universe is one, c.f., cit=Trialogues at the
Edge of the West. Philosophers have a term for this: causal
supervenience. The details of how causal supervenience works may
forever remain mysterious, however, in general we can say that in must
involve the spontaneity (whether or not intended) of vacuum
fluctuations, which are correlated in a manner which does not support a
time-reversible causal connection.
Presumably entropy-laden,
irreversible processes also have a causal (time-reversible) physical basis,
at least with respect to sufficiently small scales of spacetime, but at some
sufficiently large spacetime scale, the nature of the correlation of
vacuum fluctuations underlying the physical process in question invokes
quantum entanglement that is not reversible. (Relevant to the issue of
wavefunction collapse/state vector reduction). Given that quantum
entanglement is a relation of absolute simultaneity, i.e., in all reference
frames, we suspect the irreversibility comes into play on account of
higher dimensions of temporality. November 2012 Quantum decoherence is
intimately connected with entropy, statistics (probability) and temporal
irreversibility. Reversibility of time seems to require an additional
degree of freedom best provisioned within a plane of complex or
otherwise multidimensional time.
April 2011
and the Bonobo Ape. Approximately 50% of base pair sequences are
the common genetic heritage of both humans and the lowly yeast mold.
Recent research reveals that approximately 50% of human DNA is also
of viral origin. Perhaps so much of human DNA is of viral origin
because these viral genes are leftover vectors utilized in the distant
past as means of inserting gene sequences which otherwise would have
taken too long to develop on their own via natural evolutionary
processes. August 2011 Viruses, which are not included in either of the
three Linnaean Kingdoms of taxonomic classification well, arguably
there are now four as of this writing, because they are not considered by
biologists to be alive, seem to predate the appearance of the first unit of
heredity, i.e. DNA and/or RNA, and so must have originated and
developed according to the intrinsic self-organizing properties of atoms
and molecules what is thought to have been responsible for the first
billion years of chemical evolution that took place prior to and wholly in
the absence of Darwinian natural selection. Because viruses function so
efficiently within the cell and cell nucleus as well as interoperate
admirably with strings of DNA and/or RNA, both reorganizing genetic
base pair sequences as well as altering the expression of these same
sequences, it is tempting to suppose that viruses themselves originated
within ancient living cells or cellular nuclei. But this would of course
land us in a chicken or the egg paradox. November 2012 To recap: viruses
came about prior to DNA/RNA, which themselves were necessary for
the appearance of the first cells, but interoperate with both, even though
viruses originated in an exclusively self-organizing process that is not
dependent upon natural selection. And now, however, we are expected
to accept on faith that random chance mutations working in combination
with natural selection alone succeeded in bringing into being the entire
spectrum of biological order that we witness today all around us. August
2011
This reminds us of the case in which a shattered hologram is
gradually reassembled and meanwhile the image encoded in the
hologram becomes ever sharper. (Do base pair sequences within viruses
function akin to metaphors in relation to the base pair sequences of the
DNA within the cellular machinery that the invading virus subverts?)
Now if this impossibly causally twisted temporal relationship could be
already be detectable for large conscious systems. Note that this differs
from Penrose (2004) for which only the size of the system, not its
consciousness, is relevant, a criterion that may already be falsied
(Schlosshauer, 2006), c.f., A New Quantum Theoretical Framework for
Parapsychology (2008).
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various speaks on the rugged fitness landscape of biological complexity which is scaled by natural selection
acting upon allegedly random mutations
The engineer is limited in his algorithm composition by Kurt Godel Incompleteness Theorem however random
mutation is not in this way limited.
There is a point of diminishing returns perhaps unknown to intelligent design theorists where the tinkering of
random mutation and natural selection can achieve deeper and subtler complexity then can be achieved by an
engineer, regardless of how talented and gifted that engineer may be.
Lynn, <being a nut> and <feeling like a nut> are not mutually
exclusive (what quantum physicists term "orthogonal") states and so
cannot enter into an authentically quantum superposition. Also, because
consciousness causes collapse of any and all quantum superposition
states, consciousness cannot itself enter into, or form a part of, a
superposition state. "Quantumness", as a property of brain functioning
would not be connected in any predictable or law-like fashion, therefore
to consciousness. Consequently, a quantum computer could not be
expected to reliably indicate, e.g., lighting up or not lighting up when the
brain or parts of the brain possess a certain type of consciousness (such
as the "para-consciousness" of which you speak). I am uncertain how
you define paranormal so I cannot speak to that part of your possibly
whimsical question.
German idealist philosophy contained the seeds of German nationalism
which reached its full flowering in National Socialism.
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invariants resulted in his discovery of the pseudo-Euclidean
geometry of space-time. Precisely on such a basis, he established the
four-dimensionality of physical quantities: force, velocity, momentum,
current. Poincares rst short work appeared in the reports of the French
Academy of sciences before A. Einsteins work was even submitted
for publication. That work contained an accurate and rigorous solution
of the problem of electrodynamics of moving bodies, and at the same
time it extended the Lorentz transformations to all natural forces, of
whatever origin they might be, c.f., http://arxiv.org/abs/grqc/0210005v2, The Theory of Gravity by A. A. Lugunov.
Relativistic mass increase may be associated with a shift in the relative
densities of 3-momentum and imaginary 4-momentum exchanges taking
place between the mass and itself and between the mass and its
embedding quantum vacuum, respectively. (This remark added March
1, 2006 in terms of my old parlance of May 1997) June 2011 The reason
for the equality of inertial and gravitational mass is to be found in the
happy coincidence of there being a common mechanism between mass
effect upon the vacuum and vacuums effect upon mass. @$ Mass is an
effect of gravitys interaction with the vacuum *and* gravity is an effect
of mass interaction with this same vacuum.
July 1997
entropy increases towards the past as well as the future, and everything
that seems to be a record of a lower entropy past is itself the product of a
random fluctuation (rather than genuinely causally antecedent)
Moreover, you should take yourself to be whatever the minimal physical
system is that is capable of supporting experiences like yours; apparent
experiences of being surrounded by an abundance of low-entropy matter
are illusory. That is, you should take yourself to be what has been called
a Boltzmann brain. (Footnote: The term is due to Andreas Albrecht. It
first appears in print in Albrecht and Sorbo (2004). The consequence of
the Boltzmann-Schuetz cosmology, that we should take the fluctuation
we are in to be no larger than necessary, seems to have been first pointed
out by Arthur Eddington.), c.f.,
Notes on Thermodynamics and Statistical (Myrvold 2013)
http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/wp-content/uploads/ThermoNotes.pdf
By the equivalence principle, fermion-antifermion production in a
gravitational field should not exist for a freely falling observer. But
neither should this freely falling observer witness a blackbody spectrum
of photons. Since through the (likely identical) particle production
mechanisms underlying both Hawking radiation and Davies-Unruh
radiation, the fermion-antifermion and boson particle production fields
are observer-dependent in their intensities, there should be an invariant
transformation rule by which we can connect the respective particle
production rates for bosons and fermion-antifermion pairs out of the
vacuum. November 2007 This reminds us of the equilibrium principle
manifest in the relationship of the charged particle and its electric field
during free fall a charged particle accelerates through an electric
potential in such a manner that the particles electric field appears to it
(relative to the particle instantaneous Lorentz frame) to be spherically
distributed about itself.
This invariance is probably not that of simple Lorenz-invariance because
the observer-dependent shift in intensities/current densities of the
particle production is dependent upon the acceleration of the observer not on his relative velocity. For instance, the masses of the particles
H2r x Ev = Eo x GM/R2 ,
where GM/R2 = the acceleration field produced by the vacuum's
gravitational field. The gravitational field of matter distributions is not
an inherent property of these distributions, but must be conceived along
the same general lines as the electrical repulsive force between
dislocations or holes in an otherwise electrically neutral crystalline
matrix. This idea is more or less captured by the following relationship,
Ev/Eo x H2r = {c2/r x (1 - E/Ev) - c2/r} = g,
where the term, c2/r, is the acceleration field produced by the vacuum
reaction - force which compensates the action of the Hubble
cosmological acceleration force upon the vacuum energy field. Hc is the
cosmological acceleration field, which acts upon freely moving photons,
and implies the existence of a precisely balancing and opposing reactive
force upon the particles forming a bound matter distribution. Let us
assume that this tiny volume is that occupied by a neutron and that the
work-cycle is to begin at an early epoch in the Universe's expansion
when the average energy density of the vacuum was equal to that of the
neutron itself: approximately 1033 Joules/m3. The work integral is
defined to be:
W=
P*dv,
to
f,
where P
We will at first define the work integral in terms of F*dr. F is just the
cosmological acceleration force acting on the tiny volume and F =
MH2r, where r is the radius of the volume, M is the mass contained
within the volume and H is Hubble's constant. If the volume were to
expand exactly in step with the expansion of space in its immediate local
region, then the surface of the volume would move with respect to its
center (chosen as coordinate origin) with velocity Hr, and the
acceleration of this surface with respect to the chosen origin would be
d/dt[Hr] = H[dr/dt] = H2r, so that, again, F = MH2r. The work integral
becomes
W=
MH2rdr
-1/3
dr
=
-1/3 x 3root x [3/4m/4 ] x
-4/3 d
If one performs this work integral one finds that the energy necessary to
expand neutron-packet of unbound neutron mass-energy is precisely,
E = G(Mneutron)2/R,
so that the energy necessary to prevent this expansion is
E = -G(Mneutron)2/R.
This result is, of course, provided that the mass density of the universe is
given by the formula,
= 3H2/4 G
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of the Universe be equal to its mass energy density, c.f., the derivation
above for the equality of, e.g., the neutrons mass and gravitational
binding energy densities. On account of the combined principles of
equipartation of energy between degrees of freedom and conservation of
quantum entanglement between the two complementary components of
the fluctuation momentum-energy of the quantum vacuum, which
together make up its total energy density *(zero-point energy), we
suspect that it is these two components of the physical vacuum, which
are placed out of mutual balance by the perturbing effect of inertial
mass, while the back reaction of this induced vacuum momentumenergy imbalance upon mass constitutes the origin of gravitational mass.
*
(zero-point energy as dictated by the fact that not only are momentum
and position incompatible observables - /\p/\x > h, but all functions of
momentum are similarly incompatible with all functions of position and
so the kinetic and potential energies are mutually incompatible, i.e., H =
f(p) + f(x) = Total energy, which must fluctuate due to /\f(p)/\f(x) > f(h)
where h is Plancks constant and H is the total energy Hamiltonian).
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universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld. The above is from
the wikipedia entry on the anthropic principle. Making a few
substitutions to convert from the general to the particular, we have the
following: The strong anthropic principle (SAP) as explained
by Barrow and Tipler (see variants) states that this is all the case because the
Universe is compelled, in some sense, for my conscious life to
eventually emerge. Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic
principle (WAP) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states
that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i.e., only in a
universe capable of eventually supporting my life will there be me,
capable of observing any such ultra-fine tuning, while a universe less
compatible with my life will go unbeheld by me. The key here is that,
the physical constants of the universe, e.g., gravitational constant,
Planck's constant, electron mass, electron charge, fine structure constant,
speed of light, Bohr magneton, electric field permittivity constant, etc.,
ad nauseum, must all be fine-tuned to six decimal places for carbonbased life to be possible. However, for something very similar to
humanity to be possible, then these constants must be tweaked to
perhaps eight decimal places. The catch: these constants might need to
be tweaked to 12 or more decimal places for creation to be tuned to the
precise information frequency spectrum of my consciousness for it to be
put into operation!
November 2007
the Universe were greater than it is, then the energy of its expansion
would be greater and hence the gravitational energy of the Universe
would be correspondingly increased such that the ratio of unity would be
maintained. This postulate has a favorable bearing on many other
unsolved problems of cosmological theory. Our postulate states, in
essence, only that the total gravitational potential and kinetic energies
are equal. The postulate is not a mere arbitrary assumption however, as
it is supported by the principle of energy equipartation. However, this
principle can only be applied if it is assumed that there exists some form
of energy which acts as a medium physically linking these two types of
energy, i.e., the energy of position with the energy of momentum, in
order that the equilibrium between them can be maintained through
mutual energy exchanges - in much the same way that the rotational and
vibrational energies of gas molecules maintain a balance through
continual exchange of kinetic energy between these molecules through
random collisions. February 2013 A chaotic, thermalized-entropic Anthropic
proto-consciousness forms the dynamical substrate of this third medium.
Due to the availability of infinite time, Boltzmann brain-like large
entropy fluctuations occasionally occur, say, every quadrillion centuries
or so, producing an intensely focused stream of Anthropic-consciousness
for the cosmological equivalent of a nanosecond 80 years or so...
February 2013
May 1997
= 3c4/4 R2G
so that,
S = e-1
where S is the entropy and e is the energy density of the black hole,
respectively. Consequently, if the energy density of the vacuum is equal
to the energy density of black hole masses, then the entropy of the
vacuum should increase with decreasing vacuum energy density. We
believe that the energy density of the vacuum is equal to the effective
energy density of black holes because the radial outward pressure of the
vacuum, Pvac, must be 0 at the event horizon surface of a black hole and
the vacuum obeys the equation of state, namely, e vac = Pvac.
Furthermore, as already stated elsewhere, eo = emass + evac. because
there is no fundamental distinction between creating mass from the
vacuum energy locally available within a particular region of spacetime
and importing already existing mass from outside this region of
spacetime into this region because, in turn, matter particles may not be
thought of as having a permanent, continuous existence after the manner
of the substances of Aristotelian physics; this follows from the fact that
there is no real distinction between relativistic and non-relativistic mass.
Pvac must be 0 here because the matter composing a black hole may
exchange energy only with itself; it exchanges no energy with the
vacuum energy field outside its event horizon. ematter = eo in this
particular case and, as well, evac = Pvac = 0. Again, half of the massenergy contained within the black hole is due solely to the general
relativistic increase in mass which had accumulated once the hole had
formed.
e = eo{1 - GM/RC2},
where
eo = 3c4/4piGR2.
which the decrease in the vacuum's energy density is maximal. In socalled free space, the direction along which the maximal decrease in the
vacuum's energy density exists is along the ict axis; in other words, the
vacuum energy density varies in a purely temporal manner in free space,
i.e., due to cosmological expansion. Therefore, the so-called
thermodynamic arrow of time points in a direction orthogonal (in free
space) to any 3 dimensional rectangular system of coordinates
describing an inertial frame of reference; moreover, a gravitational field
is associated with an alteration in the orientation of the thermodynamic
arrow of time because a component of the direction of the maximally
increasing vacuum entropy now points radially inward - in the simple
case of spherical masses. The thermal particle creation which is
observed to occur within accelerated reference frames is a manifestation
of a creation/annihilation process which is normally balanced in the free
space vacuum but which is unbalanced within the accelerated frame.
In the presence of a gravitational potential, the arrow of time possesses a
component along the vacuum energy density gradient so that a new time
axis is defined within this new vacuum which exactly corresponds to this
new time axis as defined within the general theory of relativity as
applied to the Minkowski light cone.
November 1996
electromagnetic field, and we may now see why the Maxwell tensor
does not possess a term denoting the divergence of the magnetic field,
i.e., why magnetic monopoles do not exist in nature. Aesthetically
minded physicists have for generations noted this missing term in
Maxwell's equations and suggested the inevitable existence of
monopoles, since their existence would render the electromagnetic field
equations more perfectly symmetrical. But we see now that the lack of
greater symmetry in Maxwell's equations is explicable in terms of the
presence of the even deeper symmetry of the Heisenberg uncertainty
relations, and so this apparent lack of symmetry on the part of the
electromagnetic field need no longer be viewed as a "flaw" in the
structure of mathematical physics.
This deeper symmetry may be understood in the following way: the
fluctuation in electric field strength (an unconserved quantity) is due to
the uncertainty in the position (an unconserved quantity) of a conserved
quantity - electric charge, combined with the uncertainty in momentum
(a conserved quantity) of the magnetic charge (an unconserved
quantity). If we try to establish the fluctuation in the magnetic field
strength independently of the fluctuation in electric field strength, we
end up violating the symmetry of the uncertainty relations, e.g., the
fluctuation in magnetic field strength ( an unconserved quantity ) is due
to the uncertainty in charge momentum ( a conserved quantity) of a
conserved quantity - electric charge, combined with the uncertainty in
charge position (an unconserved quantity ) of the magnetic charge
(assumed here to be a conserved quantity ). Again, the symmetry is only
restored here by treating magnetic charge as an unconserved quantity.
We may apply our rule in a more direct fashion by postulating an
uncertainty relation which obtains provided that magnetic charges do
exist. This uncertainty relation is the product of uncertainties in electric
and magnetic charge. To wit, the product in the uncertainties of these
two physical quantities must be greater than or equal to the value of
Planck's constant. Following our same symmetrically-based rule, we
find that Planck's constant must be less than or equal to the product of
uncertainties in a conserved quantity and an unconserved quantity. This
negligibly distant from one another (so that the potential does not change
"too rapidly" between successive points). All of the terms of Einstein's
general relativistic field equations are second rank tensors, the energymomentum tensor providing the rule by which the metric tensor at one
point in spacetime is transformed at infinitesimally contiguous points of
spacetime. We must keep in mind that the potential gradient around any
particular particle of matter is described by a four-vector, and it is only
the meshing of the gradients of one particle's vector field with that of its
neighbor which requires the use of a tensor description.
July 1997
p = m(ic)
Now when the mass is accelerated to a velocity v, the mass' new velocity becomes,
vector in 3 space without producing another vector within the same 3 space; multiplication by "i"
takes a 3-vector out of the 3-d manifold and so represents the relationship of time to the other
three spatial axes.
There are other reasons for, perhaps, including the coefficient "i" within quantum tunneling, for
example, as in the case of matter tunneling through a hyperspherical potential barrier while
appearing at rest in 3 spatial dimensions.
Moreover, we may integrate the momentum of a mass, m, as it is accelerated from a velocity
v(init.) = ic to a final velocity v(fin.) = c. This yields,
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Russell Clark
massive bodies, and this implies that massive bodies which possess this
latent energy, E = mc2, must be, either themselves, 3 dimensional
hypersurfaces binding a 4 dimensional hypervolume, such that the mass
possesses three independent degrees of freedom, or that they must
possess two circular (orthogonal) internal motions, defining two
dimensional surfaces binding 3 dimensional volumes constituting the
massive particles, and that the third orthogonal internal degree of
freedom is that associated with the linear motion of these 3 dimensional
objects which occupy a 3 dimensional hypersurface which is expanding
within four spatial dimensions at the speed of light. There seems to be a
problem, however, in associating all of the latent energy of motion, E =
mc2, with the linear degree of freedom associated with the cosmological
expansion, simply because it means ignoring the contributions from the
two other internal degrees of freedom, corresponding to the internal
motions of massive bodies. If, however, we assume an equipartation of
energy between the energy magnitudes associated with all three degrees
of freedom, and this seems reasonable because the Lorenz
transformation of special relativity represents a symmetrical operation,
then the energy, mc2, which is needed to rotate the pure imaginary linear
momentum by 90o, to convert it into a pure real momentum, is provided
by the two energies, 1/2mc2 and 1/2mc2, respectively, associated with
the two circular internal degrees of freedom. In this way, the two
energies, 1/2mc2, combined with the negative kinetic energy,
1/2mc2, of massive particles, tunneling through the hyperspherical
potential energy barrier, yields the new energy, +1/2mc2, associated
with the pure real momentum of outstreaming massless particles which
results from the total conversion of a real massive body into energy.
We now see that the energy of massive bodies, mc2, may be thought of
as stemming, alone, from the internal motions defining these bodies,
which is released whenever these circular internal motions, i.e., the
energy circulating within the feedback loops of the virtual particle
reactions composing the massive bodies, is "deflected" into the linear
motion of real massless particles. An additional bonus from these
considerations is that it is now possible to see that the distinction
the vacuum is that of Lorenz invariance, i.e., the value of the speed of
sound within a material medium is dependent on the state of motion of
the observer performing the velocity measurement, while the velocity of
"sound," i.e., light, within the vacuum is itself independent of the state of
motion of the observer within this vacuum.
Another way to point up this difference between the vacuum and an
ordinary material medium is to note that the particles within the vacuum,
being virtual particles, do not possess a continuous existence with time
and so cannot be chosen as the origin of an absolute frame of reference
within which the velocity of pressure oscillations of the vacuum might
be measured relative to an observer's state of motion. An ordinary
material medium such as the atmosphere is composed of particles which
possess a continuous existence and so an absolute frame of reference
may be established within this medium by which the velocity of pressure
oscillations of the medium may be measured which is then dependent
upon the state of motion of the observer.
The ict axis of Minkowski four-dimensional spacetime, may be
understood not to represent a physically real 4th dimension, in an
analogous sense to the other three familiar spatial dimensions, but that it
merely functions as an abstraction within the formalism of special
relativity to model conservation laws, e.g., energy, momentum, etc., and
the linear transformation law connecting inertial reference frames (the
Lorenz transformation) which, in turn, govern the general relationship of
the internal and external motions of real/virtual mass and field energy
within a universe of three spatial dimensions and one time dimension.
Perhaps now it is easy to see why it is not necessary to underpin the
mathematical structure of special relativity with a physically real 4th
dimension. It is perhaps possible to remain consistent with Einstein's
and Minkowski's view of time as being associated with what is merely
an abstract (not physically real) dimension. If the Universe is not, in
fact, and expanding 4-dimensional hypersphere, then the Hubble
distance-velocity relationship for galactic recession requires the
existence of a repulsive cosmological force field whose force increases
it on equal par with the other "participants" (the tributaries) the action
continues in a natural and uninterrupted manner. In the fleeting moments
of near total consciousness, before the dreamscape has had adequate
time to disintegrate, it usually occurs to me to try to do something,
which is considered impossible in waking life. I may cause various
objects around me to leap into the air or explode or I might even move
myself to hover in the air and fly about. But usually there is barely time
even to begin to try out my new "powers" before I am forced to awaken.
Overwhelmingly, such miraculous acts as these I freely perform in the
normal state of dreaming consciousness in which I have not the slightest
clue that I am doing anything extraordinary.
the persons brain via coded impulses with other intelligent entities
possessing brains from the mere interaction of his brain with an
unintelligent environment populated by a cadre of automata or
philosophical zombies. Consciousness on this view is a reified
projection of an ego qua sociolinguistic construct, rather than being
a kind of unique and mysterious thinking substance. (One is
reminded here of how it is very difficult to fake an authentic
sounding laugh.) In other words, one cannot achieve selfconsciousness, which is the precondition of reified consciousness
as the medium of conscious experience in the absence of a
properly robust sociolinguistic context. On an underlying physical
level, one would expect grammatical structure to be coded in
terms of a set of programmed actual and potential quantum
entanglements that provide an encrypted signature of quantum
correlates of conscious states. Descartes thinking substance here
is a kind of hard-encrypted quantum entanglement signature
possessing an open-system topology that is altogether distinct from
that of a closed system machine intelligence. For one, time is
spatialized in such a closed system, whereas temporality is a
genuine possibility for an open system. For another, closed
quantum mechanical systems do not decohere, being isolated from
the environmental influences (to include vacuum electromagnetic
field fluctuations), that otherwise induce this decoherence of
wavefunction collapse. Coherence, cohesiveness, robustness, unity,
integration, reflexivity, and so on, are system qualities that cannot
be supported within a closed form computational state space, i.e., a
state space that is not context-embedded.
So chance
combinational/permutational shufflings cannot bring about new
states of the system which are capable of sustaining themselves
against a background of perturbing fluctuations, i.e., noise. It is
true that without context there is no meaning, but the converse of
this is also true without meaning there is not context. Clearly,
structures of quantum entanglement of real or simulated
computational state space states cannot be included as additional
states within the preexistent state space for this leads to an infinite
regress.
2- THE "ROBOT/ZOMBIE" ARGUMENT: As we can
imagine, and perhaps even build, organisms and machines that can
behave in a way similar to humans, but without having an internal
(and conscious) "virtual reality", evolution had no reason to have
selected the development of "neuro-virtual" processes inside our
brains (Chalmers, 1996). The answer to this argument is related to
the answer to the Brain in a Vat argument. @$What functions
analogously to grammar here is the notion of supervenience or of
supervenient causation. The Gdelian flexibility to jump outside
the system, e.g., throw out the current set of postulates and
axioms, rules of inference and even to assume the truth of
theorems not provable from the newly adopted logico-deductive
system and what is more, to guess well the time to do this, is just
the kind of neural flexibility a person needs, which I believe
demands supervenience. Causal supervenience could be serviced
and supported by sufficiently sensitive microstructures in the brain
being slightly altered so as to come into resonance with the
vacuum electromagnetic field in such a way as to facilitate
information exchange between brain and creative void so as to,
in turn, facilitate the otherwise relatively diminished capacity of a
classical, unsupervised neural network to reprocess its data into
higher order structures that more aptly simulate the external world
along with the mental worlds of would be competitors for limited
resources. We already know from Bohms causal principle that the
fluctuation-correlation subspectrum representing deterministic
cause-and-effect constitutes but a tiny subdomain within the total
spectrum.
c.f., The Phenomenal World Inside the Noumenal Head of the
Giant: Linking the Biological Evolution of Consciousness with
the Virtual Reality Metaphor.
http://www2.marilia.unesp.br/revistas/index.php/reic/article/viewFi
le/733/635
Lime Cat Yeah, but it really only got out of control after you realized
that you have one - a probable case of system instability provoked by
outputs feeding back into inputs!
Sam Bankester Oh wow..if the internal virtual self is aware he exists,
creating a strange loop, then the possibility arises that strange loop
entanglement between internal and external selves is taking place every
time we dream. Ahhhhh!!!!! Of whom is each self aware? Tiny
explosion just erupted somewhere in my hippocampus. Pretty sure I'm
permanently baked now.
Lime Cat Nah, you've been ready for that insight for a long time now.
Lime Cat For my part, I am still trying to live down this bizarre
notion of my having all along been a virtual Lilliputian living
within the neural network simulation of some alien
Brobdingnagian brain!
wik=
en.wikipedia.org
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By
Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships,
better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a
novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire
on human nature and
Lime Cat Of course, this lumbering Brobdingnagian is not actually selfconscious, rather, his brain has created a simulation containing a virtual
self along with a consciousness of and referring exclusively tothis
virtual self. So self-consciousness is really only "self"-consciousness,
i.e., it is not actual, but merely metaphorical.
Jesus Christ informs us that were we to have a mustard seed's faith we
would be able to hurl mountains into the sea. As Christians we cannot
help but take him at his word on this. Perhaps here we are now able to
glimpse a fundamental difference between certainty and what we call
faith. Usually Christians equate the two in some fashion, but confer
with such common exhortations as "You cannot be certain of this, but
you must have faith." If ordinary parlance can clarify the point I want to
make it can also obscure: " I'm not as certain of this as you" vs. "He has
more faith than I." That is, we commonly speak both of degrees of
certainty as well as degrees of faith. Yet in the most literal sense faith is
something which indeed admits of degree, certainty, on the other hand,
doesn't - you are either certain about something or you are not, in which
case, you are entertaining doubt. But if faith and certainty are different
in the way I describe, then one cannot have faith and have certainty at
one and the same time. But we just said that if we are not certain then
we must in some way entertain doubt. Faith can exist in the face of
doubt, but it takes a faith, which is completely free from all doubt for us
to budge mountains from their very foundations. We cannot, of course,
have certainty that any thing in particular shall come to pass unless we
have the type of assurance which only God himself provides in the form
of Scripture or Revelation. Can we distinguish Jesus and God the Father
And this is just the point. In interacting with a truly unique entity or
system I am not able to independently vary the circumstances in which I
observe this system unless I am capable of distinguishing what are the
dependent from what are the independent variables and to succeed in
doing this I must be able to vary these experimental circumstances in a
Your brain is not like a computer. Its well laid out and energy
efficient, but its really a survival machine that has been optimized over
millions of generations of natural selection and evolution to help you
survive, even lying to you when necessary in the interest of keeping you
alive. Thats a central principle of how brains are organized, c.f., The
Neuroscience of Everyday Life, Sam Wang, Ph.D.
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(July 2012 Parallel multiverse selves act freely without engendering causal
paradoxes this is a corollary to the principle of chronology protection
and what should be understood to be a kind of defn=containment
principle.) Turning to the theory of the correlation-dissipation of
fluctuations in the vacuums energy within the finer interior structure
of manifest Heisenberg energy uncertainty, i.e., the hidden variables
of quantum uncertainty we may profitably seek to define each stage in
the causal chain of a closed spacetime loop in its act of establishing
itself where nature could reliably and opportunistically intervene. The
development of a standing wave structure within a superluminal signal
wave packet allows us to make signal phase velocity effectively
dependent upon the wavepacket group velocity instead of vice versa (the
usual case), provided that the wavepacket is itself built up from the
mutual interference of retarded and advanced waves, which are in
turn dependent upon the initial and boundary conditions. This
presupposes the notion that wavepackets, which travel with group
velocity can be treated as phase waves, c.f., signals propagating with
imaginary momentum during quantum tunneling. But this is subject
to the special conditions for wavepacket lifetime in relation to the
wavepackets Heisenberg energy uncertainty, i.e., simply that /\E/\t >=
h. The distinction between the measurability of real particles and fields
on the one hand and the immeasurability of virtual particles and fields
on the other (except in statistical terms) should be of service here.
Again, at each crucial step in the would be formation of a closed
spacetime loop (which by the way seems to necessarily invoke a
topology of two-dimensional time), there should be opportunity for a
presumed chronology protection mechanism to intervene. Note that if
causality is really underpinned in higher dimensional time, i.e., 5d, 6d,
etc. spacetime, then closed time loops in 4d spacetime are no real threat
to causality, but merely present the appearance of such to creatures not
possessing the perspectival advantage afforded by intersubjectively
mediated theories of causality within these higher spacetime dimensions.
@$
The final stage at which a chronology protection mechanism could
reasonably intervene, actually is composed of three distinct stages,
namely the following: that of the formation of the observers and
Alex McFahd There must a buried holy book with all the advanced
physics and engineering written by Jesus for only people like us
Lime Cat In the middle of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made the
"T" sign with his hands ("time out", I think) and said, "Everybody close
your eyes and plug your ears. For the next 10 minutes I'm going to
address the end times people 2000 years from now so don't peak: "the
continuum hypothesis can be definitively proved merely by projecting
2nd order Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory onto a fractal Galois manifold.
Unfortunately this contradicts Cantor's diagonal argument and unmasks
my Father's creation as a vast ancestor simulation of quantum entangled
Boltzmann brains...." Of course, the early Church Fathers, who
assembled the Bible from a few shrewdly selected gospels, histories,
poems and epistles from out of a vast collection of widely varying
versions, couldn't make heads or tails of what had been dutifully written
down a few hundred years earlier about Jesus' scientific pronouncements
and so these fragments were suppressed from the Canon and almost
completely lost for all time. Thankfully, these important sayings of Jesus
were secretly preserved by a splinter Gnostic Christian group and were
finally provided with a meaningful exegesis in the 1930's by the then
few surviving members of the Church of the Quantum Vacuum. In
modern day, a spinoff (no pun intended) cult of this electrodynamic faith
survives as the Church of the Reformed Quantum Vacuum. This
disparate group of true believers, which possess only a virtual presence
on the Internet, would have by this time long ago degenerated into a
gaggle of hair-brained aging solipsists were it not for the trusty influence
of cyber-peer pressure. The Church has been cyber-squatting since the
turn of the Millennium at www.quantumvacuum.com.
Coming Soon...
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2013 an important breakthrough was made by Zhang Yitang who proved
that there are infinitely many prime gaps of size n for some value of n <
70,000,000. It appears that not only the real line, but also the natural
numbers possess a non-trivial topology.122013
December 2013
http://www.hoodnews.org/video/problem-know-what-it-is I was
doing research on 404 errors and do not recall stumbling upon a 404
error for the past few years what a coincidence specifically I was going
to find out where the 404 area code was located
Multigenerational succession of knowledge sociology of Science
paradigm shifts all of this verses accumulation of knowledge within the
mind of a single individual. Automaticity, operational modification (Op
Mod), creativity, viral memes and Bohm's active information as word to
the wise hints to a radically creative medium. There must be a
fundamental recollected component to learning. There must be a viral
mimetic component to learning. The 4 types of causation: efficient
material formal teleological must all play a role in the transmission of
information. July 2013 Teleology of an evolutionary look-ahead or heads
up capability wherein alternate or parallel courses of development
(entails that each evolutionary course be tracked and therefore
threaded) are continuously compared, say in terms of leading or not to
structures down-line that involve back-reacting consciousness would
seem to offer a much faster evolutionary development than the near
infinite stretches of permutational-combinational time required for
tinkering or cobbling together the boundary conditions necessary for
self-aware or volitional consciousness. If it is not the case that there is
no there there in the sense of an overarching context for these
evolutionary processes, then there must be an embedding self-organizing
information storage and processing substrate qua underlying
evolutionary infrastructure gracing everything.
As long as one stays within the domain of one's naturally given talents
and abilities it is easy to imagine that the self is coherent unified,
integrated, coherent, freely willing in its decisions and judgments,
creative, perceptive, etcetera. Very similar to the sundowning
phenomenon however is the on graceful and uncertain behavior of the
individual when I'm praying outside the restricted domain of his natural
endowments.
The determinism within the moment is distinctly different, radically
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Stress- momentum energy are in coded in the fluctuations to the vacuum
similar to the matrix in a fashion which simulates curvature of space and
time you're correct space and time are not 'actually' curved. But on a
deeper philosophical level Oliver concepts are merely metaphors
masquerading as such. That's why all of our concepts should be
mentioned in double sets of quotation marks and used within a sentence
in a single set of quotation marks. This possibly brings up rather thorny
metaphysical issues. :p
Concerning anthropic bias: how do you determine what a representative
sample is?
Karma is superstition applied to the fact that everyone is born selfinterested and nobody gets out of here alive.
The facade of the future as a projection of the past shall change before
its substance can be fully fleshed out as it were.
In other words, Karma would appear to be as it so appears regardless of
whether or not the concept possesses any genuine metaphysical
underpinnings.
Is there a concept of a reverse anthropic principle that needs to be
investigated?
It should be obvious that the observer selection effect does not fine tune
for a particular observer, but rather fine tunes for an admittedly highly
constrained class of individuals into which the selected observer fits.
If a system is fine-tuned so that it selects for an entity possessing an
internal principle of unity, coherence and integration, then we would
Thinking outside the box like Jacques Vallee, let us suppose that
the riddle of extraterrestrial beings shall only be solved once the
philosophical problem of other minds has also been solved. In other
words, we shall only detect extraterrestrial beings in the same manner
that we become able to detect the existence of other minds. Since
indirect detection is out of the question on account of the vastness of
interstellar distances, e.g., radio waves, we shall only detect
extraterrestrial minds via quantum signatures which their intelligent or
conscious mental activity leaves behind in the form of entanglement in
the vacuum electromagnetic field or "Akashic record" that we don't yet
possess the proper encryption and frequencies to access. But the method
will undoubtedly be the same that shall one day allow us to detect the
quantum signature of other minds. Whatever new technology that
entails, it may well lie a century or more in the future. As humankinds
the random changes. The structure that suffers a random change must ab
initio be about something.
Holism, irreducible complexity and two dimensional time.
Metaphysics of cancer.
Be active seeing which we take for granted requires training and
experience. It is by no means a passive process. Its a critical
developmental window is have you in the early childhood in which the
appropriate in three line is not received by the occipital lobe of the brain
then the necessary neural network required to process visual data into
visual information will never be properly formed. There are no
uninterpreted data.
This is true for any sense perception process that requires pattern
recognition functions.
Human language is still bear the imprint of the block headed neural
network pattern recognition hominid linguistics system. But what started
out as block headedness in the pattern recognition and speech
recognition program turned into something much more subtle and useful
the facility of metaphor. Speech pattern recognition which was at first
applied to the other eventually became applied to first person speech
production. The principle of ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny very
much applies to the acquisition of linguistic capability.
Only a transcendental mind can possess a concept of consciousness.
The falsity of solipsism implies the existence of a transcendental
Universal Mind.
The fact that there was a beginning to tine proves that there is more than
one dimension of time.
December 2013
It is quite humbling to reflect upon how there are two distinct kinds of
unknown - the unknown which is continuous with the known to which
inevitably a pathway leads and that other unknown, which is all together
disjoint from or discontinuous with the known.
Good karma does not always make up for bad. There are impersonal
natural forces which appear to change the local zero point or set point of
karma.
There is no platonic heaven of sensations or subjective perceptions or
thoughts has indeed there are abstract objects such as perfect triangles.
Concrete things cannot be built up out of timeless abstractions.
May 2014
person's individual identity is really unique and therefore not in the least
illusory and furthermore that neither is our separation from the Godhead
an illusion, but the very real and potentially alarming circumstance of
our Earthly existence. January 2013 Again, laws are abstractions that relate
classes of individuals and not the individuals themselves. Following
Russell, physical laws are mere descriptions of how nature in fact
behaves and hence carry nothing in the sense of a governing force.
Physical law artifacts such as curved spacetime and wavefunction
are perhaps nothing more than scientific metaphors and far from being
bona fide metaphysical entities they are the user friendly front end
for accessing a back end that is indeed very remote from the potential
tinkering of simulated beings. In software architecture there may be
many layers between the hardware and end user. Each can be spoken of
as having a front end and a back end. The front is an abstraction,
simplifying the underlying component by providing a user-friendly
interface. November 2014 To get the gears of the whole meaning and
coincidence machine turning you have to provide initial inputs. Examine
human daily life in terms of the database concepts of "front end vs. back
end".
In software design, the model-view-controller architecture
for example, provides front and back ends for the database, the user, and
the data processing components. The separation of software systems into
front and back ends simplifies development and separates maintenance.
A rule of thumb is that the front (or "client") side is anything you can see
when you view the code source of the page (when you are on the client
side, i.e. not on the server.) To view the server-side (or "back-end")
code, you must be on the server. The confusion arises when you have to
make front-end edits to server-side files. Most HTML designers, for
instance, don't need to be on the server when they are developing the
HTML; conversely, the server-side engineers are, by definition, never on
anything but a server. It takes both, to be sure, to ultimately make a
functioning, interactive website.
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September 1992
But what is all this thought to prove? Well, in Cole's case, a person
hearing his argument experiences a contradiction of sorts between his
expectation that size (which is owing to external perspective) shouldn't
make any difference in the wetness (intrinsic property) of a water
molecule, and his vague, visually based intuition that "if I can see the
damned parts of the thing, then, well, how can it really be wet?" In the
case of the tiny spheres of the "oil drop" experiment, we know that
wetness is an emergent collective property which depends upon our not
being able to distinguish the individual spheres, either visually or in
tactile manner. But the reader should not think that I have simply done
Cole's argument one better; for a quality which arises in perception
strictly through our inability to perceive what is part of the object "out
there" cannot be thought to be a quality of the object itself, but is
supplied by the perceiving mind. But there is an even more serious
objection to Cole here. A hypothetical set of conditions, relating to mere
appearance, cannot be of any support to an argument if the would-be
physical state of affairs, to which the appearance corresponds, is itself
impossible - however clearly one "intuits" its possibility. This
observation is very much operative in the case of Cole's overgrown H2O
molecule: to conceive of the water molecule as increased in size by a
factor of roughly 10 billion is equivalent to shrinking Planck's constant
by the square of this factor, or by a factor of about 100,000,000 trillions;
this is because the constant contains units of length squared.
But as any theoretical physicist will tell you, the energy uncertainty (via
Heisenbergs principle) is proportional to this constant and this energy
uncertainty is responsible for the fluctuations in vacuum energy that
"pump up" the electronic structure of all atoms. With the value of h so
diminished, all of the electrons within the H2O molecule will collapse
into their respective nuclei, making the water molecule's covalent bond
structure, and so its intrinsic "wetness", flatly impossible. Since all
matter particles are created and sustained through the dynamical action
of the fluctuating vacuum energy, these particles exist merely as
abstractions from the vacuum structure, with the quantum vacuum
providing the unified natural physical law for the cosmos, so we might
expect that all peculiar phenomena which emerge across the interface
between the microscopic and macroscopic domains (of Reality) are due
to the fundamental vacuum dynamism; and this goes for the emergence
of "mind" within the developing human brain, as it has been found that
individual cortical neurons are capable of responding to the presence of
vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuations. But if a unified law of the
vacuum exists, it must be of a transcendental nature since the vacuum
constitutes an open system; any statement of physical law for such a
vacuum must necessarily leave something out of its scope. This means
that a so-called physical law for the vacuum therefore, is always for the
vacuum plus certain superimposed boundary and initial conditions.
Infinite perturbative levels of description of the vacuum's Hamiltonian
are possible. It is perhaps more than a strange coincidence that our
inability to distinguish, one from another, the discrete energy states of
the H2O molecule, reflected in this molecule's quantum energy
uncertainty, is responsible for its quality of "wetness," just as in the case
of the tiny silicon spheres, which, through our ignorance of their
individuality, coalesced to form a pool of wetness. To continue what
may amount to the unfair importation of facts into a philosophical
discussion, we will continue in our vein of drawing lessons from
quantum theory so as to further examine the possibility of a "thinking
machine." Another way of looking at Leibniz' mill argument against a
conscious computing device is in terms of the blueprint containing the
design from which the would-be computing device is constructed. We
should ask ourselves this important question, "How does a computing
device, while it is engaged in the very act of "thinking," constitute a
better embodiment of mental activity than does the network of ink
scratches on paper which constitute its blueprint?" "Well," we might
say, "the ink scratches are just sitting there on the paper, they're not
doing anything - still less could they be thinking!" You see, somehow
we have the intuition that something which is moving or undergoing
change possesses a better chance of having thought than something
which isn't moving. Partly this is just the influence of that residue of
animistic thinking which we have inherited from our primitive ancestors,
but partly, again, it is, I believe, a case of our seeing, however vaguely,
into the heart of a problem which, it seems to us, involves an elusive
peculiarity of consciousness' relation to time. I am reminded here of
Kants assertion that consciousness is the intuition of the passage of
time! @$Take-away?: there are at least as many dimensions of time as
there are individual consciousnesss.
Now, if a computer can simulate the human thought process so well that
the simulation becomes the reality, then what is there, in principle, to
prevent a human being, if only a particularly gifted one, from simulating
the functioning of a computing device - by simply being given a
problem and then tracing out with his eye the relevant wire and circuit
element symbols on the blueprint so as to produce the correct answer?
Now such a hypothetical human being would not need to know how to
solve the problem posed to him, but he need only know how to read the
circuit diagram describing the computer whose functioning he is
simulating. Now suppose that this talented human were to simulate the
computer's act of imagining a red sphere against a background of skyblue. To do this the human must read the right series, in the right
sequence, of markings on the computer's logic diagram; does it matter
how fast the series is read off? - that is a question which we will have
cause to examine later. But if we postulate that consciousness is a
necessary component in the faculty of recognition - a faculty very much
involved in the human's act of reading a stream of symbols - then it
appears we require consciousness (that of the human) to get
consciousness ( that of the computing device): even if the recognition
required to read or interpret the symbols of the circuit diagram doesn't
itself require consciousness, it nevertheless requires the utilization of
circuitry (and plenty of it!) not described anywhere on the blueprint
itself because presumably this part of the computer's blueprint has to be
read as well and so we're landed in a viciously circular, infinite regress.
But suppose, all the same, we tried to construct the blueprint in this
manner, representing at each progressively tinier level of calligraphic
scale, the details of the blueprint at one particular level, which were to
provide the instructions for reading the blueprint at the next higher scale.
and grouped together within the same set or class. The creation of a
system of such categories sets the stage for the recognition of a
cybernetic system. There will always be multiple ways of categorizing
the data which are continually streaming into the sensory apparatus of
the system; no hard and fast rule or set of rules may be worked out ahead
of time to prevent the emergence of an ambiguous collection of data, and
so the necessity is always at hand of deciding how the data will be
interpreted, and this may only be accomplished through metaphor or
through the defining of new broader or narrower categories with which
one structures the ambiguous data. Note that the information content of
data is always open-ended and contingent. Abstraction requires first of
all the capacity of the cybernetic system to define for itself what is to be
considered relevant and what is not. Relevance, however, may only be
established in the light of some previously determined aim or purpose.
Purposes are always defined in service to the larger or broader aim
which is in view. The broader the purpose which one is pursuing, the
greater the scope which one has in satisfactorily fulfilling it. For human
beings, this broadest purpose, the instinct which we share with the rest
of biological creation, is simply the ever-recurring goal of physical
survival.
If the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is essentially
correct, i.e., where the wavefunction is a probability wave representing
the state of an observer's knowledge so that it is indeed the
consciousness of the observer which is responsible for collapsing the
wavefunction and not the physical disturbance to the wavefunction
provoked by his measuring device, then it should be possible to carry out
a "delayed choice" type experiment : a standard two slit interference set
up is constructed where two video cameras are substituted for two
conscious observers, one "viewing" both slits (camera A) and another
camera "viewing" the backstop where either an interference pattern or a
random "buckshot" pattern of photon strikes appears. If this experiment
is performed in the absence of a human observer and then afterwards,
perhaps years later, the film in the back of cameras A and B are
examined, it will be found that the order in which the cameras are
When one rejects God and adopts atheism, what one has
secretly done is to have rejected the notion of a transcendent, universal
mind as well as that of the very ground of mind as such. The rejection
of the transcendent other is therefore just a temporary stopover along the
path to the rejection of other minds and otherness as such. This is the
case even if, as it turns out, ones thinking does not possess sufficient
logical consistency to carry one along the full course of this
philosophical path a null result that is overwhelmingly probable. This
is a restatement of the piquant observation that, if naive realism is
metaphysical baking powder, then atheism is just half-baked solipsism.
This is all a direct consequence of the fact that, we can have no general
concept or category, termed consciousness such that the conscious
states of awareness of each and every other person should constitute a
true instantiation (along with one's own individual consciousness) of
said general concept . . . that is, with this observation set juxtaposed
alongside the indisputable fact that solipsism is false and other minds
(whose ground of mentality is apart from that of one's own) do in fact
exist. But the grounding of a conception, that is, of its knowability, if
you will is distinctly epistemological and not a matter of metaphysics.
The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible
without a grasp of what consciousness means. Consciousness is a
fascinating but elusive phenomenon; it is impossible to specify what it
is, what it does, or why it evolved. Nothing worth reading has been
written about it [italics mine], c.f., Sutherland, S., International
Dictionary of Psychology, 1989.
The isolated system possessing only internal connections and
the system connected to an outside are topologically distinct and
therefore logically distinct and objectively dissimilar. There is no
possibility for an isolated system to realistically simulate connection to
an open-ended external realm. This open-endedness is vouchsafed by the
presence of the other and the self must be a sociolinguistic . . .well, not
so much construct as collaborative preparation. This and more is all
captured in Wittgenstein's "Private Language Argument". Plantinga and
Levinas, their philosophy of mind, that is, brings the inextricably
comingled errors of solipsism and atheism into stark relief in the light of
Wittgenstein's. As has been said many times before, without context
there is no meaning. Multiple points of view are required to support a
veritable distinction between inside and outside. A system
composed of the solipsist and the external world is a howler of a
misnomer for its rightful name is the solipsist and his external world,
which, of course, is no external world at all. The solipsist and his
external world, so-called is always logically reducible/equivalent to . . .
the solipsist and his private sense data. A closely related topological
application to philosophy of mind and epistemology is whether the
April 2014
mental states of the solipsist could have all been fed into the solipsists
mind by a team of evil, big-headed aliens. This is just the humorous,
compact travel version of the thesis of the self as sociolinguistic
construct. Without the guiding rails of a grammar, the mind is
overwhelmed by the chaos of its internal babbling. And yet it is indeed
babbling babes who re-creolize the Pidgin language of their parents,
generation after generation. Thats how any coherent language sounds to
an infant who yet possess no taught rules of grammar: as a Pidgin. But
what of Wittgensteins Private Language Argument here? However, at
least on the surface, the marked ability of toddlers to creolize their
parents Pidgin-like system of articulate sounds seems to sap the PL
argument of some of its force, however. Unless one interprets this
genetic ability as being founded upon some kind of collaborative design.
The genetic base pair sequences that inform this unique ability of
babbling toddlers itself possesses a grammar, rather than being the
expression of a haphazardly cobbled together Pidgin, as natural selection
of random genetic mutations would entail. Remember that mutations are
always being interpreted and expressed within the context of a
multilevel gene regulatory network. The organic problems of internal
logical consistency, which so affect and make untenable the solipsists
position, also infect that of the atheist. It is the other of the other who
makes the rules underlying the system. Contemplate the irreducibility of
the other of the other to the other. The necessity of transcendent
other is glimpsed in this irreducibility. June 2014 Without genuine
intersubjectivity, objectivity cannot be simulated and the notion of
objectivity would then be an incoherent one. Similarly, without selfconsciousness, Man, as a philosophical zombie hominid ape, would have
never arrived at the notion of God as a transcendent other.
It is thought by less gifted MI linguists that the 3/3 linguist who
maintains his or her 3/3 rating in significant part by remembering the
answers on the test from previous takings maintains an unfair advantage.
This complaint is however informed by a failure to appreciate that the
more gifted linguist must have reached a 3/3 on his or her own at some
previous stage.
July 2013
True atheism is the belief that the self is but an illusion as only God
vouchsafes the moral status of the individual with respect to the ethics of
his social order.
Generally speaking the Earth's population decreases with time as one
moves into the past but the number of ancestors doubles geometrically.
Clearly at some point in the past sexual reproduction was not available
to propagate a given species. This is an example of the application of
the anthropic principle.
This reminds us of George Gamow's prediction of the seven MeV
energy level of carbon 12.
Quantum entanglement could have been predicted from an analysis of
the large 3-way collision cross section for Helium nuclei in the
formation of the 7 MeV resonant carbon-12 state. @$This is because of
the generalization of the notion of cross section that is involved in
interpreting a 3-way collision which is otherwise extremely improbable.
This is especially revealed in the arithmetic that applies to the addition
of cross sections for helium nuclei in the 3-way collision by which
carbon-12 is formed in the stellar interior.
The probabilities don't add according to the normal rules of such. The
probability calculus implies the subsystems of negative an imaginary
and complex probabilities.
E = h * f;
where E is energy (Joules), f is frequency (hertz), X is distance (meters),
P is momentum and T is time (seconds); h is, of course, Planck's
constant which has units of Joule-seconds. There is a more sophisticated
and complete matrix algebraic statement of the principle, but this need
not concern us here.
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is an
epistemological one as it rigidly specifies how the accuracy in our
knowledge of one physical quantity affects the accuracy of our
determination of the remaining paired quantity. Heisenberg's principle
can be obtained by generalizing Planck's relation in terms of the matrix
algebraic expression:
p*q - q*p = h/2pi x I .
If consciousness is, itself, required to collapse the wave-function, then
consciousness must originate in the interaction of uncollapsed
wavefunctions. This suggests that the wavefunctions interacting with
one another within consciousness are of the already collapsed variety,
that is the perceptual representations of wavefunctions all interact based
upon a subluminal propagation of mutual influence.
Quantum
wavefunctions which have not yet collapsed are capable of interacting
with one another at a distance instantaneously and this sort of
phenomenon is referred to by Physicists as the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen,
or E.P.R. effect. There are two basic schools of the Quantum Theory.
Where they differ is in their interpretation of the status of Heisenberg's
uncertainty principle. One school maintains that this uncertainty is due
merely to the practical limitations of observation, that is; the uncertainty
is only epistemological in nature. The other school maintains that this
uncertainty is a theoretical limitation, that is; the uncertainty is
ontological in character. The dispute between these two schools is
solved easily enough, however. In the 1990's when computers have
reached a relatively high level of sophistication it is not uncommon to
encounter the opinion, among otherwise enlightened (educated)
Dennet, and the Churchland's use analytical arguments which miss the
point in objecting to Searle because they do not address their criticisms
to the principle thesis that he advances, namely, that the causal powers
of matter play an essential role in determining the phenomenon of
consciousness and that such causal considerations go beyond those of
formal symbol manipulation.
Where these two intuitions meet and
reinforce one another is when one considers a digital computing device,
say, where the packing densities of the microelectronic components
approach that of naturally occurring crystals. It is at precisely this point
where we expect to see the quantum mechanical effects described by the
famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Here despite all attempts at
insulation and grounding, filtering, or rectification, it becomes
nevertheless impossible to force the device to operate according to some
pre-established blueprint of operation, i.e., program, as the fluctuating
voltages and electric currents inherently reside within the device as a
consequence of the interaction of the device's wires and circuit elements
with the vacuum electromagnetic field which in its own turn must
fluctuate randomly. This random and irretrievable fluctuation in the
vacuum's electromagnetic field is due to an extension of the Uncertainty
principle which states that the electric and magnetic field strengths may
not both be simultaneously specified at any point in space - in much the
same fashion in which the position and momentum of and individual
particle may not be simultaneously specified. A sharp determination of
the electric field at a point will cause a large spread of uncertainty in
measurements of the magnetic field at this point and vice versa. The
fluctuating (quantum) voltages and currents to which the circuitry of
any really advanced computing device would be subject would be
utterly useless and manifest themselves as noise signals disruptive to the
normal operation of the device - unless the device could manage to
interact with these fluctuating fields.
February 1998
maze for its exit...There are a number of respects in which the paradigm
shift from a bottom-up to a top-down metaphysics may be realized.:
1) Physical processes are not "pushed up from below" by blind efficient
causation, but are "pulled up from above" by teleological causation.
This may be seen through Margenau's observation that all differential
equations representing processes of blind causation may be recast as any
one of an infinite family of integral equations (depending on initial
conditions) where some physical quantity such as time, energy, distance,
etc., is minimized or maximized. Teleology, however, in its own way,
presupposes the existence of a determinate framework just as much as
does classical physics; in fact, events are not merely determined within
teleological causation, but are overdetermined.
2)The vacuum is not empty as it was conceived to be in the 18th century
classical physics with solid particles caroming through it, but the
vacuum is, rather, a plenum, a fullness of energy while so-called
particles are mere excitations of this vacuum medium. The energy
density of the vacuum is far greater than the energy density of the
particles "occupying" it.
3) chaos may be reinterpreted as a thermal reservoir of virtually infinite
information content as opposed to a condition of no information.
4) There is an empirical-theoretical spectrum with the unified theory of
physics at the theoretical end of this spectrum and pure consciousness at
the opposite empirical end. Therefore, it is just as meaningless to ask
what the fundamental "constituents" of matter posited by unified
physical theory, are in themselves as it is to inquire into the process by
and through which the phenomenon of consciousness originates.
Both questions are posed at the wrong extreme of the empiricaltheoretical spectrum so that any attempt to answer them appear
incoherent or self-contradictory. If the empirical-theoretical really
constitutes a spectrum which exhaustively "covers" reality, then we
proportionally to the cube of the local value of the speed of light within
the gravitational field-laden, and hence, modified vacuum. This may
similarly be interpreted as the energy density of the vacuum being
proportional to the inverse cube of the frequency of vacuum
electromagnetic waves. This is just the relationship of vacuum energy
density to virtual photon frequency which renders the quantum vacuum
perfectly Lorenz-invariant.
In Nature, Oct. 19, p(574), the time required for quantum
mechanical tunneling of an electron across a Josephson junction was
measure. This result means that there is some meaning, which can be
attached to the velocity of the particle during its act of quantum
tunneling.
Sudden, nonadiabatic compression of the Casimir plates
should result in the spontaneous emission of photons by the vacuum.
Similarly, nonadiabatic expansion of tightly compressed plates should
result in the spontaneous absorption of some real photons, which happen
to be within the geometry of the plates at this time.
NOTE: This statement may not be true because the Einstein coefficient
of spontaneous absorption is identically zero; the coefficients of
spontaneous emission, and hence, of stimulated absorption and emission,
may be changed through altering the vacuum electromagnetic energy
density utilizing Casimir plates, resonant cavities, etc.
The Universe might be described by a wavefunction representing
its tunneling through a hyperspherical barrier, in four real spatial
dimensions. The quantum tunneling of the Universe through this
hyperspherical barrier may be alternately described as the collapse of a
false vacuum state and the subsequent creation of free particle
wavefunctions propagating along an imaginary axis of a four
dimensional hypersphere of 3 real + 1 imaginary spatial dimension.
The probability density of this wavefunction adjusts as time passes
reflecting the increasing uncertainty of its would-be position eigenstate.
Any vector at a point where its scalar product, with the wavenumbers of
the eigenfunction expansion (of the universal wavefunction), is zero is
the vacuum serve merely to trigger the decay of excited states produced
through ambient electromagnetic radiation. However, this would not be
the case if spontaneous absorption applied only to energy in the form of
virtual particles. The lifetime of virtual particle is determined by the
uncertainty principle and therefore the absorption of these particles out
the vacuum does not violate conservation of energy. It must be observed
here that the assignment of the value ) to the coefficient of spontaneous
absorption is only required by the assumption that the energy density of
the vacuum is itself zero. A number of experiments on vacuum cavity
resonance suggest that spontaneous emission rates are suppressed by
imposing boundary conditions upon the electromagnetic vacuum. It is
our deepest suspicion that the fraction by which the emission rate is
suppressed is equal to the fraction by which the density of the
electromagnetic vacuum is reduced through the imposed boundary
conditions. In the chapter on nonclassical light in the work, Light and
Quantum Fluctuations, a correspondence is drawn between the effect of
a dielectric medium within a certain region of the vacuum and the
alternate introduction of specific boundary conditions upon this vacuum,
say, utilizing conducting plates, resonant cavities, etc. In this chapter it
was concluded that the fractional increase in the index of refraction is
directly proportional to the fractional increase in the electromagnetic
energy density of the vacuum with the wavenumber being also altered
by this fraction but with the frequency being unaltered by the dielectric
medium so that a fractionally decreased local value of the speed of light
results.
How do we represent a trajectory despite the fact that the motion of
the particle must be continually recast in terms of a time varying set of
basis functions. This time variation of the basis functions must contain
an element of randomness, or unpredictability since otherwise a unique
unchanging basis could be found with which to represent the motion.
Distinct trajectories can only be co-represented within the same
presentational space if each and all are differing projections of a single
evolving trajectory. Each eigenfunction is related to its noncommuting
spectrum of superposed complementary eigenfunctions in the sense that
The distinction between that which has form and that which is
formless is a distinction which cuts across the distinction between mind
and matter since one may speak of both formless mind and formless
matter.
December 1996
the aid of conscious attention the more and more that it is performed.
However, what has not perhaps been widely noted by either is the
somewhat contrary tendency for one to become more, rather than less,
aware of the abstract operations lying behind the performance of a task
in new contexts where the specific concrete operations constituting the
task would never otherwise suggest themselves. This tendency for us to
become aware of the abstract operations specific to one particular oftrepeated task within a context normally foreign to it, or at least for our
performances of operations within new previously unrelated contexts to
be guided by these abstract operations, I refer to as operational
modulation - or op-mod, for short. What we are calling op-mod may be
alternately thought of as the manipulation of something in terms of an
operational metaphor; it is itself the very essence of the human toolusing intelligence, and may be considered to be a general property of
any neural network-computing device.
More specifically, op-mod is peculiar to the problem solving strategy of
the neural network device because the specific neural circuits which are
utilized by such a network for solving one particular "problem" will
necessarily overlap with neural circuits which are being established in
the course of attempting to solve similar problems in new extraneous
contexts.
The existence of the ground of Reality consists exhaustively in its very
activity. Consequently, that which creates this ground is that which
sustains this ground; from which further follows the truth of Leibniz's
principle that, "the conditions sufficient to create the world are necessary
at every succeeding moment to sustain its existence."
But the implications of quantum mechanics as pertains to what is called
the quantum vacuum conceived of as the naturalistic interpretation of the
ground of being in the application of this concept to induced gravity
theory or effective field theories of gravity and inertia may suggest that
Leibniz principle must break down in connection with the fundamental
quantum-thermodynamic phenomenon of environmental decoherence.^^
March 2011
removal, and hence, rethreading of all the beads onto the string in any
arbitrary order. However, given an infinite number of beads, the string
is now itself infinite in length and so it is no longer possible to remove
the beads so as to put them into a new order.
@?
The order of the beads may only be changed into that represented by
the two sums provided that the original string is cut, and this changes the
topological relationship of the beads; in a finite sequence the order of the
terms (beads) may be rearranged without altering the topological
relationship of the beads.
Herein lies the irreversibility of the
procedure. It is also interesting to note that Leibniz' series converges to
the value of pi/4 because the value of convergence is itself an irrational
number possessing a decimal expansion which possesses no determinate
order whatever so that what we have is an equation between an irrational
number and an infinite sum of rational numbers, on the one hand, and,
on the other hand, an equation holding between an infinite sum of terms
possessing a mathematically determinate sequential order with respect to
a simple mathematical operation, namely, addition, and an infinite sum
of terms possessing no mathematically determinable sequential order no sequential order with respect to any definable mathematical
operation. We may suspect that Cantor's argument for the existence of
what he calls nondenumerable infinity, i.e., the famous "diagonal
argument," can be applied to the decimal expansion of pi to show that
this sequence of decimal fractions itself constitutes a nondenumerable
set of rational numbers. What is interesting here is that no possible
rearrangement of the indeterminate sequence of nondenumerable
rational numbers constituting the decimal expansion of pi will produce
an irrational which diverges although there do exist rearrangements of
the terms of Leibniz' series which diverge. From this simple fact we may
deduce that there is no infinite sequence of denumerably infinite subsets
of terms taken from Leibniz' series, on the left hand side of our equation,
which will produce a one-to-one correspondence with the individual
rational numbers of the infinite sequence of rational numbers in the
decimal expansion of pi. July 2011 Although theres a kernel idea here that
requires further development, its obvious that by what has just been
Rational numbers are the sums of convergent infinite series where the
order in which the terms of the series appear does not affect the value of
the sum. We may say in this case that rational numbers occupy a
number field possessing arithmetic, or null, topological structure.
Irrational numbers, on the other hand, are the sums of infinite series,
which may diverge if the order in which the terms of the series appear
are altered. We may say that the irrational numbers occupy a number
field possessing a topological structure. The degrees of freedom
required for certain reactions, or interactions, to take place, are only
allowable within a space of large enough dimensionality to
accommodate them. The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics
within the physical sciences, borrowing the famous phrase of the
quantum physicist Eugene Wigner, is owing to the radically and,
perhaps, infinitely, overdetermined nature of natural phenomena. To
wit, sensory data are grossly insufficient to determine uniquely the
information structures with which they are interpreted and explained. A
genuinely recursive system may only be derived from a recursive system
equally or more complex than itself, or if the recursive system is
"constructed" out of simpler recursive elements, the control system
effecting or mediating the process of construction is, itself, a recursive
system, of greater complexity than the system being constructed. The
information content of a particular structure is defined by the degree of
preciseness to which the system approximates its intentional object.
This definition is best understood in terms of the "shattered hologram"
metaphor. A molecule belonging to a complementary molecule pair,
two molecules which naturally hydrogen-bond to one another, favors the
spontaneous self-assembly (from locally available components) of the
molecule to which it bears a topologically complementary relationship.
More generally, the spontaneous self-assembly of molecules is favored
by a vacuum containing energy resonances complementary to those
upon which the molecule's energy structure depends for its sustained
existence. On this view, the quantum vacuum electromagnetic field may
be thought of as a kind of dynamic template which "informs" certain
simple molecules "how to self-assemble," with these simple molecules
no thing, no indivisible entity, that is us, neither in the brain nor in some
metaphysical realm beyond this world. So when we speak of conscious
experience as a subjective phenomenon, what is the entity having these
experiences? cit=The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth
of the Self (au=Metzinger). June 2014 It however does not appear that
consciousness can be meaningfully held to not exist on the grounds
that it is merely an abstract feature of certain complex components of
physical reality, e.g., the quantum vacuum, rather than an objective
feature of being as such or a scientifically real, fundamental physical
field such as an electromagnetic or gravitational field.
au=
John Searle, the linguist and philosopher, has stated that formal
computational systems are incapable of consciousness because such
formal systems do not effectively exploit the causal powers of
computation available for utilization by the human brain. Since the
causal powers of matter, as Searle terms them, stem from what is forever
spontaneously occurring in the natural realm at the very smallest
dimensions of time and space, the process of abstraction, itself founded
upon the systematic ignorance of finer details of structure and function,
introduces a kind of built-in blockheadedness into systems of "artificial
intelligence" which are physically realized from relatively macroscopic
and "insensitive" component parts, in accordance with "analytically
closed-form" designs.
Vacuum fluctuations which are simultaneous in one reference frame
(Lorenz frame) will not necessarily be simultaneous in other frames.
This theoretical implication of special relativity for quantum mechanics,
combined with the fact that the energy density of the quantum vacuum is
decreasing with time as the universe expands, leads us to deduce that,
not only is the density of the quantum vacuum different in different
Lorenz frames, but so is its time rate of decrease.
I do not think that au=Hugh Everett's prn=many worlds interpretation of
quantum mechanics is consistent with the implications of quantum
experiments which have been performed in the last few decades since
a merely relative distinction. What is meant by this is that what are data
in one context may be information in a larger one and information in a
smaller context. In other words, information is data interpreted in light
of context while data in this same context function as information with
respect to smaller subcontexts contained therein. Since information are
context-dependent, it would follow that all information possess a
characteristic lifetime rather analogous to a the half-life of radioactive
isotopes.
The law of the temporal evolution of information systems is provided by
the pre-existing spatial distribution of information. The determinate is
dependent upon the indeterminate. The finite exists only through its
participation with the infinite. All transformations are definable in terms
of mere projection operations; therefore, these transformations, when
investigated, always reveal the presence of conservation laws which
seem to govern, or provide constraints upon, these transformations.
What is called the unity of apperception in Kant's Critique of Pure
Reason is synonymous with the existence of the underlying noumenon,
which provides the rationality of any particular series of perceived
continuous transformations entertained within a finite mind. The
interpenetration of the categories of time and space support the unity of
apperception.
October
1997
merely reproducing the requisite neural firing patterns from outside the
network would not be sufficient to produce the normally occurring
associated mental state. This is because the observed neural firings
would only possess a determinate order in terms of the perception of
their order by means of a neural network genuinely possessing intricate
feedback structures.
We might, in turn, be puzzled by the force of this particular intuition
which has at its root the notion of the importance of timing and
synchronization of the neurons with respect to one another. But this
would really only be important if there was something which the
neurons incidentally interact with in the course of their normal process
of functioning to which the order of their "firing" might be
fundamentally related. We might then seek to include this additional
something and produce the changes in it also from outside, just as in the
case of the neurons. Notice that in every case where we are supposedly
able to reproduce a given sequence of neural firings, we are dependent
upon a favorable condition wherein the time interval between firings
within a given small region of the brain are larger than the time
uncertainty of the quantum system constituting the neural network. We
find that our earlier intuition about the problem of the timing of the
events appropriate to the establishing of the requisite brain states crops
up yet again. The timing of local causal interactions is between
particular boundary conditions of, and relative to, the nonlocally
connected vacuum in which the energy uncertainties of the neural
network as a quantum mechanical system ultimately originate. There is
still something with respect to which the patterned events (comprising
the requisite brain states) occur which is important from the standpoint
of timing and synchronization, and we might, therefore, again, seek to
include it, just as before. The point here is that this process of trying to
include the entire background against which the timing of the brain
events are significant can never be completed; we face an infinite regress
here, or, if successful in including the entire background, then there
remains nothing against which the rate of causally sequential events or
the timing of not causally, but merely correlated events within the
October
2014
Galileo to physics, [16] or, better, Freud's psychoanalysis, [17] in that the
structure of his theory is unlike anything posited by his predecessors.
Althusser believes that Marx's work is fundamentally incompatible with
its antecedents because it is built on a groundbreaking
epistemology (theory of knowledge) that rejects the distinction
between subject and object. In opposition to empiricism, Althusser
claims that Marx's philosophy, dialectical materialism, counters the
theory of knowledge as vision with a theory of knowledge as
production.[18]
That which is the source and sustainer of all things cannot be viewed as
being anything but infinite.The paradigmatic example of this
transduction process is the spontaneous production of fundamental
particles out of the vacuum within accelerated reference (nonLorentzian) frames.
Evolution may only be a local phenomenon - not a global phenomenon;
evolution in the sense of the genuine emergence of wholly
unprecedented and unanticipated forms, structures, or dynamisms without this process of development somehow drawing upon a preexisting reservoir of information within which these "emergent" forms
are at least implicitly prefigured, and which mediates and underpins the
this infinite sea of vacuum energy itself had no beginning in time! The
vacuum now begins to remind us of Heraclitus' "ever living fire," "in
measures kindling and in measures going out," and thereby mediating, as
an eternal flux, all the changes continually taking place in the natural
order. Moreover, Heraclitus' statement that, "everything is an exchange
for fire, and fire an exchange for every thing," reminds us the
interconvertibility of mass and energy in quantum relativistic field
theory, this interconvertibility being mediated by the continual exchange
of energy between matter and vacuum. Heraclitus' "ever living fire" is
to him the fire of the gods, yet uncreated by the gods. His statement
that "Thunderbolt steers the Universe" no doubt refers to the thunderbolt
wielded by Zeus, the greatest of all the Olympian gods; when this
thunderbolt is identified with "the fire of the gods," that is, with
Heraclitus' ever living fire, the parallel between it and the vacuum
becomes an intriguingly close one; the quantum vacuum, by eternally
mediating all physical processes, manages to "steer the Universe." It is
also interesting that Greek mythology tells us that Time owes its
existence to Chaos through that fact that the god, Chaos, is named as the
father of Kronos. Moreover, the Greek word, arche, which means
source or origin in ancient Greek, is translated into Latin as principium,
i.e., ordering principle. The idea behind this particular translation of
arche into principium is the same one expressed by au=Leibniz, when he
states in his cit=Monadology that, "the conditions sufficient to create the
world are necessary at every succeeding moment of time in order to
sustain the world's existence." We now arrive at the notion of first
cause, not in the usual sense of first in a temporal sequence, but in the at
once broader and subtler sense of most fundamental or substantive.
Given such a reality, the author concludes that human mentality
evolved in bottom-up fashion, with mind-associated neuronal systems
not so much creating mind as organizing a pre-existing propensity for
awareness into useful, functional awareness, and providing for its
modulation by useful information, c.f., cit=Implications of a
Fundamental Consciousness (1998) by au=Copthorne MacDonald. A
Monadology
for
the
21st
Century,
by
Jonathan
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/jonathan-edwards/monadology
first man to travel to Mars suddenly has an experience of some strange creature
wrenching itself out of his mind, and hurling itself back screaming towards the
earth, which is its home. Unfortunately, this story ended, in the rather smart
manner so characteristic of pulp science fiction, with the man landing on Mars,
and immediately being possessed again by the same parasites, c.f., The Mind
Parasites (1967).
October 2013
Lime Cat fcbk=Because of what is clearly some kind of quantum resonant tuning between information
laden fundamental quantum fields (quantum vacua) and the brain's microtubule tubulin dimer network, which
provides the meaning for neural events and processes (allowing humans the gift or curse of self-consciousness) and
because it is far more likely that this "tuning" is initiated from the side of the fundamental quantum fields (which are
eternal) rather than from the side of otherwise haphazardly evolving brain circuits (which is merely a transitory
evolutionary development), and so it is also far more likely that we ourselves are the mind parasites, who have
temporarily and opportunistically taken up residence within the primitive hominid ape's brain (and in so doing,
changing the direction of natural selective pressures affecting hominid brain evolution), than that we are evolved
hominids who have unfortunately been infected by said "mind parasites". Another theory is that "consciousness as
such" is to be equated with the eternal, fundamental quantum field, while "self-consciousness" is merely due to the
transitory coherent resonance of the individual human brain's microtubule tubulin dimer network with an extremely
tiny compatible sub-spectrum of the total quantum vacuum electromagnetic field. Lime Cat Of course, the total
fundamental quantum field is modified via quantum entanglements induced over many thousands of years from the
collective conscious neural activity of billions of hominid brains. And it is a well established result of quantum
mechanics that quantum information (such as is encoded in quantum entanglement) is a conserved quantity. So this
underlying fundamental quantum field possesses the potential to act as a kind of "akashic record" in which the
experience of all conscious entities can be mashed together and reprocessed into broader, transpersonal meanings, as
though occurring within a dynamic matrix of stored information, which can be accessed by something altogether
other than human. So what do you think about the possibility that we are the mind parasites? We give humans the
gift of consciousness and they give us the gift of embodied experience in return.
Colin Wilson didn't come up with the idea for the book entirely out of a vacuum. Well, yes,
he was influenced by Forbidden Planet and that Martian Science Fiction Story, but also, he actually did notice this
strange upsurge in the number of "Outsiders" and in the number of suicides. He thought those two statistics were
connected, which also contributed to his conceiving of the storyline. Also the simultaneous arising of the Romantic
Movement and the Industrial revolution.
Such is the case if the unit of being is information. Mind as the author
of information rather than its derivative becomes automatically
transcendent.
'Libet et al. extended their experiments by stimulating a 'relay nucleus' in
the thalamus that intercepts signals from the senses before they reach the
somatosensory cortex. It was found that when this nucleus was
stimulated for 0.5 seconds the subjects reported that the stimulus
occurred 0.2 seconds after it had begun. When the nucleus was
stimulated for less than 0.5 seconds the subjects did not report any
sensation. This supports the concept of a 0.5 second delay whilst the
cortex puts a stimulus in context before it is experienced.
These experiments show that our experience is an output of cortical
processing rather than the processing itself.'
More recently fMRI and direct electrode recording have borne out the
readiness potential experiments. Soon et al. (2008) allowed subjects to
decide to press either a left or right button. They used fMRI to show that
there was spatially organized activity in the polar frontal cortex and
parietal cortex (from precuneus into posterior cingulate cortex) that
predicted the conscious left/right decision and preceded it by about
seven seconds.
In the absence of a concept of consciousness there must be a degeneracy
between the seemingly distinct cases of consciousness being a one or
being a many. Also a degeneracy between being reincarnated and
having only one incarnation.
Functional integration, constraints problem.
Preprogrammed adaptive capability of cells, James Shapiro, natural
genetic engineering, molecular bioogists, University of Chicago.
Illustra Media metamorphosis intelligent design YouTube video.
were to be this self-centered, then there would be no one left to care for
me as much as (or more than) I care for myself and I would be a selfish
person alone in a universe of selfish persons. Of course, part of one's
motivation for thinking in this way, perhaps unbeknownst to oneself, is
the Kantian notion of the Golden Rule; to wit, that I must act in such a
manner that I will that my action become a universal moral law. But
what of the phenomenon where I imagine myself being some other
person when I am in the midst of some profound or deeply moving
aesthetic or intellectual experience; I imagine what this experience
would be like for this other person and somehow the intensity and
wonder of the experience is amplified for me, myself, through this
psychological projection. Part of the augmentation of the aesthetic
experience for me is the sense of personal, if partly disembodied glory
which redounds to my sense of identity because it is I who am leading
this person, in my mind's eye, to the unaccustomed though fuller
appreciation of this experience. Partly again, the experience is, for me,
augmented because I borrow the other's innocence, using it as a foil
against which the experience may be rediscovered by me in all its
aboriginal wonder. Moreover, I act as this person's spiritual mentor; I
help this person penetrate a mystery which I have long ago discovered
for myself, and if this other person is ultimately identified with my own
self; this is implied because all of these projections occur within my
mind's eye, then I seek to view myself as the father of my own future
spiritual and intellectual development.
But on a more basic human level, I am imagining the sharing of a
profound idea or experience with another person in a way which is
seldom, if ever demonstrated in actual social intercourse with my fellow
human beings; certainly it is love which motivates this peculiar
psychological projection - the kind of love which does not distinguish
self from other.
I have no acquaintance with either physical objects so-called nor with
any phenomena taking place within the domain of other minds; in fact, I
have had no acquaintance with any phenomena whatever other than
intuition that this must be true: a few of these mysteries are that of
existence itself, the origin of consciousness, freedom of the will, the
mystery of Time and along with it that of eternity, the mystery of
immortality and that of divinity. A bright young child may agree with
this observation, remarking, "well, God exists and He knows the answer
to all things." But it really does seem that the contemplation of any one
of these mysteries inevitably leads to the contemplation of all the others
as well as some which I haven't mentioned, and one may ask, why
might this be so?" Most individuals are totally incapable of what is
called lucid dreaming, dreaming where the dreamer remains aware that it
is he who is in control of all the action of the dream. Freud's doctrine of
the conservation of psychic energy suggests that the control of the dream
action is mediated by the domain of the psyche lying between full
consciousness and the level of consciousness at which the dreamer's
mind operates so that the action of the dream must dissolve upon the
dreamer attaining his full consciousness because the intermediary
domain of consciousness which controls the dream is reduced to nil or
"squeezed out." An analogy will serve here. A river may not rise to an
altitude greater than that of its source, at which level its kinetic energy is
completely transmuted into potential energy. It might therefore be
thought that only those individuals who experience repression of their
normal full consciousness would be capable of "lucid dreaming" as the
control of the dream action would be mediated by the consciousness
within the domain between the individual's repressed consciousness and
his normal potentially full consciousness; this is just a slightly more
abstract way of saying that the psychic energy which is usually
unavailable for utilization by the conscious mind is freed up during the
unconsciousness of sleep and rendered available to the unconscious for
use in mediating the phantasmagorical action of the various dream
sequences, themselves, according to Freud, the acting out of wish
fulfillments.
The upshot of all this is that the presence of lucid
dreaming is a possible indication that the individual experiencing it is
not reaching his normal psychic potential for full wakeful consciousness
and that the reason for this is a deficit of available psychic energy due to
the presence of myriad emotional conflicts lying repressed within his
April 1997
Lorenz contractions occur not only to the eigenvalues of length, but also
to the quantum uncertainties of length. Similar statements may be made
with respect to momentum, energy, time, etc.. The unity of all opposites
cannot itself possess an opposite.
April 1997
January 1998
1997
Encoding is over-determination.
Decoding is underdetermination. Hence, in a deterministic system, in which one state of
the system simply determines, and neither over-determines nor underdetermines, its succeeding state - in such a system neither decoding nor
encoding is taking place. Information is not a relevant quantity where
strictly deterministic systems are concerned.
This precise "deficit of Being" may only be defined in terms of the
complete description of the total process; this description, as already
noted, exists only for itself and cannot be derived from without as an
infinite regress of description stands in our way here. In this connection
we may state the fundamental principle that "the mediator may not be
defined in terms of the total set of processes which it mediates." This
"deficit of Being" of Scholastic philosophy is exactly analogous to the
energy uncertainty of quantum mechanics. If Hegel is correct in saying
that positive entities exist only by virtue of the accumulation of various
negations of relations holding between the Absolute and itself, then each
entity must more or less clearly and distinctly exhibit the unified totality
au=
one of the many categories of thought, and which serve the real master
that is the will.
But one might ask what is the meaning of mathematical theorems which
are beyond the comprehension of any finite mind and which are not true
by construction from a possible collection of axioms, but true in some
more fundamental sense.
Wittgenstein tells us that we may not use
substantives in a manner which attempts to extend the reference of these
terms beyond the scope of all possible experience without falling into
either meaninglessness or absurdity. Therefore, when we ask the
question, "Does God exist?" the most we can possible mean by this
question is, "Does God exist within our space-time continuum?" We
cannot ask whether God exists in Reality (Wirklichkeit) since Reality
cannot possess a complete description without this description having
always existed and without admitting the existence of such a description,
one necessarily beyond all possible attempts to construct it, and which
may only exist from a single point of view or perspective. So it seems
that one may not ask whether God exists in Reality (in the sense of
Wirklichkeit ) without presupposing an answer in the affirmative,
@$
because the admission of the existence of Ultimate Reality is one and
the same with the admission of God's existence. It is meaningful,
however, to ask this same question in the sense of Realitat. That which
has always existed, and its complete description, which has always
existed must be a part of this same eternally pre-existent Reality. It is
obvious that the description and the Reality must be essentially one and
the same entity which is, who is, God. The finite may not be complete
without conditions being specified, and these specified conditions may
not obtain except within the purview of a larger context, containing the
particular finite thing.
Only those independently occurring genetic mutations may occur at
lower levels in the gene regulatory hierarchy, i.e., to structural genes,
which become integrated together within a member of an evolving
species which might have possessed a common source in the form of
single mutation to a higher order regulatory gene, one which controls the
expression of the original set of structural genes prior to the occurrence
of these independent mutations. The operation of Darwinian natural
selection presupposes the existence of a gene regulatory hierarchy which
controls not only the expression of individual genes, but more
importantly controls the integration of the expressions of large numbers
of genes at the lower levels of this hierarchy.
To reiterate, there has always been something. What better candidate for
this something than that than which nothing greater can be conceived
(per Anselm) ? This something has no complete description except
within and through itself. The only truly determinate entity is the
totality of everything which is possible or it is the void, as nothingness
is, by its very nature, determinate. It has been humorously noted that
Time exists so that everything will not happen at once. Given this
obvious truth, then if Reality is infinite in scope, there is no "everything"
for there to possibly be given or occur all at once. For the term
"everything" presupposes a finally completed something which is
incompatible with infinitude. So temporality may be simply necessary
in an infinite Reality. Temporality seems to require that (per Bergson)
genuine novelty continually intrude into the world. The act of creation
is not an event within history; it is the beginning of history; it is the very
inception of novelty. Bergson advocates what might be called a
Machian theory of Time.
But since the continued presence of temporality seems to require
continual activity of creation, it seems more consistent to assume that
creation itself is a fundamental process which itself had no beginning,
which was itself never created, that the activity of creation is that which
has always existed and which requires no explanation other than itself.
On the other hand, however, it seems that this fundamental process of
creation cannot be a unified process, for otherwise it is an act which
could have been consummated instantaneously, once for all.
Temporality must therefore be a process of recapitulation of timeless
reality with Reality itself as the medium through which the
just such a notion which strongly suggests a top - down hierarchy within
the natural order which can only have intelligence at its apex. At every
step in the chain in the formation of higher level precursor molecules,
the mediation of the required reactions is accomplished via self organization principles : those who attempt to calculate the probability
against "chance" formation of important precursor molecules forget a
very important general principle first articulated by the great rationalist
philosopher Leibniz - which is - that set of conditions which in
combination are sufficient to produce some complex structure must
necessarily remain in operation at every succeeding moment to sustain
the existence of this structure. The upshot of this is that a complex
structure which owes its origin to mere chance cannot endure, still less
could it respond to its environment in an adaptive fashion. To bend
Nature toward our intentions it is merely necessary for us to block all of
those except the one paralleling that one which is our own. It is in the
very nature of recursion not to be derivable from anything but recursion
itself. Therefore, if a recursion or recursive structure has a beginning in
time it is complex, but may only be analyzed in terms of other "simpler"
recursive structures. These simpler components of the recursive
structure are themselves approximations to the larger structure which
they form in combination with one another. The behavior of self organizing systems cannot ultimately be explained in terms of principles
of organization which obtain externally, which is to say, such dynamic
structures will not submit to a reductionistic analysis.
The distinction between the "mental" and the "physical" may be drawn
in the following way: both are wholes composed of parts, both possess
principles of organization, but what is termed a physical whole is
defined exclusively in terms of its constituent parts while the "parts"
which "compose" what is termed a mental whole are, themselves,
defined in terms of the whole which they compose. The reconstruction
of a mental whole must be guided in a top - down manner whereas the
construction of a physical whole must be guided in a bottom - up
manner. The principle of a mental whole must exist prior to its actual
realization ( in terms of whatever substance). Without substance change
is not possible. Coextensive with this principle is: change owes itself to
a lack of determination, to a deficit of Being, to negation. From which it
at once follows that substance, rather than being the seat of being, of
thinghood, as common sense conceives it to be, it owes its existence, to
the contrary, to a lack of being. It is not possible for a determinate thing
to be made up out of substance insofar as this thing possesses
determination. It is easy enough to see that continuity is required for the
subsistence of what is called historical time which we will henceforth
refer to as temporality. Indeterminate substance is the only basis for the
continuity underlying all change. The theory of entropic processes tells
us that energy and information are interdefinable and this fact in
conjunction with the principle of energy conservation suggests that
information, like energy, may neither be created nor destroyed: the
"creation" of a quantity of information is really constituted by its being
abstracted from the preexisting integral system of information defining
it.p94Like a piece broken off from a holographic emulsion, there is a
necessary trade - off involved in this abstraction process: the "newly
created" entity only acquires a relative independence from the whole in
which it eternally preexisted (and which defined its true being) by losing
some of its knowledge of itself. There is a direct analogy with this
process in the creation of "new" subatomic particles through the
collision of particles within a linear accelerator.
In the first couple of decades after the first "atom - smashing"
experiments performed with the primitive particle accelerators of the
1930's, it had been supposed that the particle products of these violent
collisions were actually pieces of the colliding particles which had been
jarred loose by the sudden impulsive force of their slamming together.
But soon after this early period the kinetic energies of the particles going
into these accelerator collisions began to significantly exceed the
combined mass - energy of the particles which themselves initiated the
reaction, with the result that the end product of these collisions was a set
of particles with individual member particles possessing a mass greater
than the combined mass of the particles originally participating in the
collision.
The common sense "broken pieces"
explanation of
condition which the quantum vacuum finds itself in? If the mode of
interaction of real particles with real particles, i.e., real-real interactions,
is correctly described as deterministically ordered, and the mode of
interaction of real with virtual particles as randomly ordered, then should
we describe the mode of interaction of virtual particles with themselves
as both random and deterministic ?
Is a superposition state possible in the absence of wavefunction
boundary conditions? Are some superpositions well-formed in the sense
that they can be inverse Fourier-transformed to a unique eigenstate with
respect to a definable observable? Are some ill-formed in the contrary
sense of not possessing an inverse Fourier-transform to a unique
eigenstate of a single observable? Perhaps well-formed superposition
states may only be defined given appropriate spacetime boundary
conditions, i.e., initial and boundary conditions. Notice that when a
measurement is performed upon one of the separated particles of an EPR
type experiment, that the particles remain nonlocally connected after the
"collapse of the wavefunction" describing the particles jointly, although
the particles are now nonlocally connected in a new way precipitated by
the observer's act of measurement. Has the observer simply succeeded
in discontinuously altering the inertial frame of reference in which the
particle pair is embedded. If so, doesn't he do this by accelerating the
particles? Are the nonlocal connections within the observer's mind
merely apiece with the nonlocally connected vacuum state in which his
brain is embedded, and so when he performs his measurement upon the
particle pair, the pair must "jump into" a new nonlocally connected
vacuum state, resulting in a discontinuous change in its superposition
state? Does the observer recoil nonadiabatically into a new nonlocallyconnected vacuum upon performing an act of quantum measurement
which induces what appears to him as a wavefunction collapse? Must
the vacuum possess infinite self-similarity so that "identical events" may
unfold with different rates of temporal evolution, depending upon which
inertial frame of reference they are "viewed from?" Self-similarity can
never be exact. If the vacuum state were merely locally connected, then
its temporal evolution "as a whole" would necessarily follow along a
may be thought to occupy a "hollow" in the vacuum energy field and the
"displaced" vacuum energy has merely assumed a new form as massenergy. Meff = Mr/sqrt(1 - (c')2/(c)2), where Mr = binding mass and
Meff = effective mass. The binding mass stems from the sum of all (+)
and (-) non-gravitational binding energies. The accumulation of many
such discontinuous energy gradients submicroscopically leads to the
appearance, macroscopically, of continuous energy gradients in the
vacuum. Since the energy of the vacuum field owes its existence
entirely to the quantum mechanical energy uncertainty of spacetime, in
turn owing to the fact that the energy Hamiltonian is a function of
mutually incompatible observables, it follows that the vacuum field
shares in the general properties of quantum mechanical energy
uncertainty. One such property is that energy uncertainty is required for
any discrete change in a quantum mechanical observable; for example,
all changes in a physical system stem from the application of forces
upon the system while all fundamental forces of nature are mediated via
the exchange of virtual bosons between fermions composing the system.
@$
(vacuum energy) and the decrease in the density of this energy with the
expansion of the universe is itself a physical process; moreover, there is
a vectorial continuity equation, analogous to a field equation of
Maxwell's, which describes the relationship of spatial and temporal
variations in the density of the vacuum field energy so that the spatial
variation of this zero-point energy will have the same structure as the
temporal variation of the zero-point energy due to cosmological
expansion. The question then arises, " what is the structure of this
variation in vacuum energy density in free space, where no mass-energy
is present?"
Well, the density of the vacuum zero-point energy is only meaningful as
a physical quantity in relation to the density of the mass-energy just as
the energy of a particle is only meaningful in relation to the energy of
the vacuum state, so the general time variation in the mass-energy
density due to cosmological expansion should give us a clue to the
manner in which the vacuum energy density changes with time;
provided that our hypothesis of a dynamic vacuum energy mechanism
for gravitational fields is fundamentally correct. Therefore, if we
postulate this vacuum mechanism, then it is clear that the time variation
of the vacuum energy density in the universe due to cosmological
expansion must be such that the ratio of the temporal variation in
vacuum energy and mass-energy has the same mathematical structure as
the spatial variation in the ratio of these two densities about massive
bodies which acts as a gravitational potential. Since the gravitational
potential decreases inverse linearly so that the strength of the
gravitational field itself decreases with the inverse square, and since the
density of vacuum energy (zero-point energy) must be smaller in
stronger gravitational potentials than at weaker ones because
gravitational time dilation increases in step with the increasing potential,
it follows that the ratio of mass-energy to vacuum energy must decrease
inverse linearly to mimic the inverse linear variation in the magnitude of
gravitational time dilation; remember that gravitational time dilation is
owing to a decrease in available exchange energy with which all
physical processes are mediated. Hence, since the decrease in mass-
energy is with the inverse cube, the decrease in vacuum energy must
itself be with the inverse square. At this point we note that the decrease
in black hole energy density is with the inverse square of black hole
radius. We are therefore led to think of a black hole as constituting the
maximum density of mass-energy possible in the sense that all energy
exchanges occurring within the volume of space occupied by the black
hole, occur between the black hole and itself, symmetrically, with no
exchange energy left over to mediate matter-vacuum energy exchanges.
This is presumably why the intensity of gravitational time dilation
is infinite at the surface of a black hole; the vacuum energy fluctuation
field (zero-point energy) no longer interacts with the black hole mass so
that no physical processes (which can be communicated to the "outside")
are mediated. As stated earlier, it the interaction of the vacuum zeropoint energy with quantum mechanical systems which is wholly
responsible for all changes in the quantum mechanical observables in the
system, i.e., temporality of the system.
The theory of quantum
electrodynamics explains the propagation of fermions and bosons in the
following manner: a massless photon propagates through spacetime by
continually transforming into an e+e- pair and back again into a photon
of identical energy (assuming a flat spacetime), while an electron
propagates through spacetime by continually transforming into
I thought I would write you, first of all, to thank you for the interpretive
astrological chart you mailed to me a couple of days ago. I could have
done so by telephone, but somehow it's more sincere to reciprocate by
writing you - thanks so much for the time and consideration you must
have put into constructing it, as well as explaining its obviously
portentous, if to me somewhat cloudy significance. Even if it turns out
that you have enlisted the aid of a computing device in interpreting it, I
remain flattered, nonetheless, by the obvious attention. I have always
known that the horoscopes appearing in your average city newspaper are
very much like fortune-cookie messages. They are so ambiguous that,
combined with human suggestibility ( cause for the unreasonable
07/98
And now, we will practice Microsoft Word by taking notes on Jacques
Derrida,"The Retrait of Metaphor," which was published in ENCLITIC
2:2 (1978): 5-33. As we know, the editors point out that the article works
with two semantic systems for the word RETRAIT, which has a variety
of meanings in French.
The reason that words tend to have myriad meanings is that words
coined to denote things or activities within some original context are
borrowed for use in an unfamiliar or less familiar one. But the first
denotative terms were actually metaphor since various images were
being assimilated over time (in the subjective experience of primitive
man) to the notion of a thing which appeared and reappeared. So objects
are distilled out of the flux of experience in the developing feedback
between the infant and his environment and constitute a kind of reified
metaphor. October 2014 For example, just contemplate how the word,
togetherness transcends its merely denotative description in the heart
of a parent when applied to the photo she is beholding of her young
daughter hugging a new puppy? September 2011 au=Nozick notes that
au=
Frege held the view that concepts cannot be referred to (as
concepts).
And this is what the Self really is. This is somewhat Kantian and is
along the lines of what Piaget says about cognitive development in the
sensorimotor stage: the infant learns through interacting with a reactive
environment that the image of her hand moving, the sound it makes
when it strikes a mobile hanging over her crib, the feeling in her hand,
the kinesthetic sensations in the arm and shoulder muscles are all part of
the same thing. This integration of sensation has to be learned from
experience. Existence definitely precedes essence and objects in the
external world and the Self emerge from the flux of dissociated
sensation simultaneously. We commonly here of the thrownness of
the individual. More correct here is to speak of the thrownness of the
self and its world together in a single act. @$Information never once
entered ones developing infantile brain. Rather, data streamed in the
form of trains of neural impulses into ones developing brain via the
various sensory nerve channel and were interpreted in terms of contextproviding structures, which were in the midst of being developed by you
or, rather, these context-providing structures and your ego/self were
hand-in-hand simultaneously developing.
Metaphor represents the right brain version of the left brain/analytical
activity of the instantiation of abstract categories. September 2011 Metaphor
cuts across the established lines along which abstract categories are
fashioned and seeks a larger umbrella category for two or more contexts
whereas abstraction or abstract thought consistently works within a
single context. This distinction is akin to that between disciplinary and
interdisciplinary theoretical research.
There is always somewhat of an insight involved in the use of metaphor
and its a linguistic competency not likely to ever be equaled by a
machine. When we learn a language this latent structure of metaphor
lying at various levels beneath the surface of language is subconsciously
assimilated and it conditions and delimits all thought, even at its most
creative. Especially then.
search engine. In this way the ego and the personal are more or less
altogether bracketed out. Search engine serendipity is an art. The
bracketing out of common, ordinary and routine search terms, in
combination with the use of terms as targeting tags with which these
general search terms of usually associated, is an online search strategy
that is more likely to yield the kind of surprising and counterintuitive
search engine results capable of stimulating new directions in thought, if
not an altogether breakthrough insight, than is the mere stacking of
search terms in an attempt to progressively sieve information on the
Web to unearth that wondrous clue to one knows not what.
Wornness, worn-outness, will be important here as well, since Derrida
will be talking about metaphor as something old, something coming near
its end. Is Derrida talking about the ending of History in the sense of the
end of grand narratives?
Myth is metaphysics clothed in metaphor. The most fundamental myth
is that of the Ego or Self-consciousness.
The Ego is the most
fundamental of myths because it represents the operation of metaphor at
its most fundamental: consciousness is an unbounded flux which is in
continual change along a determined but not predetermined path. The
Ego possesses continuity throughout this fluxion despite its always being
the artifact of an ever changing ground. The Ego always manages to
reconstitute itself as such against this changing, grounding flux of
altering consciousness. The Ego in the present moment is always the
importation of a structure from the previous momentary ground
(consciousness) into a new one all the while remaining the self same
Ego. Sorry if Im belaboring the obvious.
Derrida begins by pointing out that metaphor works with these notions
of passage and circulation: inhabiting, transporting oneself, passing
through, and so on: all of this is of course is good for poetry in general,
and given my fixation, for Vallejo in particular. A key initial idea is that
while we think we "use" metaphor, it in fact comprehends us, sweeps us
away, displaces us: we arent like a pilot in his ship, were DRIFTING,
skidding.
The importation of the structuring of the old ground from the preceding
moment manages always (or almost always) to impose a new structure
upon the newly emerging ground which returns the Ego to itself. This
return of the Self to Itself continually, all the while the ground of
consciousness fluctuates underneath it, represents the power of metaphor
in its greatest generality.
For this reason we might term Mind the metaphor of all metaphors. And
that is inevitable, for no speech is possible without metaphor.
[It is not clear to me why Derrida thinks metaphor is coming to the end
of its life he says its old, does he say how he knows its almost
retiring (he says it is retiring)?] But here comes something: because
its old, it has MORE and not less weight: a lot is attached to metaphor.
Metaphor is "a suspensive withdrawal and return supported by the line
(TRAIT) delimiting a contour" (9) [this again is good for Vallejo].
Now he asks why we privilege Heideggers text (he doesnt say which
text) on this topic. It seems to be because of H_s concentration on
TRAIT, in the sense of line, the "tracing incision of language" (10).
Now D reveals two of H_s titles: DER SATZ VOM GRUND and
UNTERWEGS ZUR SPRACHE. He also reminds us, in his inimitable
way, that he will quote himself ("WHITE MYTHOLOGY: Metaphor in
the Text of Philosophy") but this is not in order to draw attention to
himself but rather, so as not to have to repeat here what he said there
(yeah, yeah, Jacques-baby).
This is getting difficult. D is going to slip himself through one of H_s
notes on metaphor - in which "the metaphoric exists only within the
boundaries of metaphysics" - as discussed by Ricoeur in LA
METAPHORE VIVE, whose eighth essay, in turn, discusses D_s
"White Mythology" piece. [Gossip: the current piece by Derrida was
read at a symposium in Geneva where Ricoeur also read.] Anyway, the
of the Other are one and the same. For one is the Other for the Other.
But one can see from ones own case, that one is more than merely the
Other for the Other! Metaphysics is the attempt to discursively describe
what can only be glimpsed, which is the coherence of existence in the
light of Beings presencing as Other. Metaphysics tries to reconstitute
Being from out of the coherence of Beings existence even in Beings
absence.
The immediacy of Being obviates the necessity of
metaphysics as "ontological neurosis" caused by its withdrawal. On the
other hand, the thrownness of Being is its thrownness as Self and Other
simultaneously. September 2013 In the same way that the intersubjective falls
short of the objective, the 3rd person based concept of consciousness
falls short of the 1st person concept of consciousness and the 1st falls
short of the concept of consciousness from a/the 0 th person perspective.
This is no mere superficial appearance of induction. The 3 rd person does
not imply the 2nd and 1st persons as is pointed up by the notion of
philosophical zombies, although the 2nd does imply the 1st just as the
1st implies the 0th as Alvin Plantinga suspected. The 1st does not imply
the 2nd because of the ever-present specter of metaphysical solipsism.
Continued play with these seemingly sophomoric notions may point up a
heretofore unsuspected system or relation.
The Self is a sociolinguistic construct. The self only emerges within the
social environment of a linguistic community. Part of the process of
learning any given task is that of the making of subvocalized, mental
notes to oneself as one is attempting to perform and master the task. So
this is here not entirely a case of learning by doing. But when it comes
to learning the task of becoming minimally competent in ones first
language - this is entirely an example of learning by doing. The
understanding of what one is doing appears later after the necessary
preparation of ground.
We have here the real thing in hand and we can dispense with saying
what something is like.
Our difficulties in having an authentic
relationship with Being which would have powerfully validated the self
stimulates in us an impulse to hatefully gossip - to talk bad about
Being.
Metaphysics is an attempt to deconstruct Being which is
motivated by a dark, underlying necrophilic urge to tear down,
demystify, and demythologize the Other which seems to have rejected
us, not unlike a haughty and unapproachable, would-be lover. But it is
not Being which has done the rejecting here. Rather this necrophilic and
destructive impulse, which manifests itself in the form of a metaphysics
of Being, is precipitated not through Beings callous rejection of us, but
on account of rage against impotence to intimately relate to Being.
But there is another sort of metaphor in Heidegger, a non-metaphysical
one. [AND AT THIS POINT, I AGAIN CONFESS I DON_T KNOW: I
THINK DERRIDA READS HEIDEGGER MORE WESTERN- LY
THAN I, AND THIS MAY BE CORRECT_BUT SOMEONE TELL
ME SOMETHING ON HEIDEGGER, I READ HIS BEING IN SORT
OF A ZEN SENSE, THOUGH I WOULD SAY HE IS MORE
INTERESTED IN AN ANTHROPMORPHIC WHOLE THAN ARE
THESE EASTERN TYPES _I GET THE STRANGE FEELING THAT
I DON_T KNOW ENOUGH TO HAVE AN OPINION, BUT THAT
ON THE OTHER HAND IF I KNEW ENOUGH TO OPINE I
WOULD BE INSIDE THE DISCOURSE AND HAVE TO AGREE
WITH IT. ]
End of metalanguage, metaphysics, meta-rhetoric, but pure
metaphoricity_ By now we_re talking about famous Heidegger lectures
like "The Nature of Language." Metaphors, words, are INCISCIONS,
tracings_as in wood-cuttings, gravures, engravings_and these incisions
make possible graftings, so to speak, splicings_ and BEING ITSELF IS
A DIVERGENCE, A SPLITTING, SOMETHING CONSTANTLY IN
WITHDRAWAL, A BORDER [***AGAIN THINK VALLEJO, THIS
IS VERY SUGGESTIVE FOR "LINDES"]_ITS INSCRIPTION
SUCCEEDS ONLY IN BEING EFFACED (that_s the English
translation, a more interesting affirmation than the French original
n_arrive qu_a s_effacer)_being happens and comes about only in
effacing itself_(there is more on this) The essence of speech is
INCISION [this is interesting, we speak of "incisive arguments" but here
Each of these three terms are what are called tensor densities. They
have physical dimensions of energy density. In Mach's formula for the
speed of pressure wave oscillations in a continuous, energy-conducting
medium, the pressure is associated with the vacuum energy density since
the quantum vacuum always obeys the equation of state that its pressure
and energy density are identical. But this identification leaves only one
possible further identification of the medium energy density; that is, the
energy density must be identified with the total energy density of space,
what is termed within our theory, the space density. In order for an
entropy and temperature to be assigned to the quantum vacuum, we must
suppose that this vacuum remains in thermal equilibrium with this heat
reservoir, the energy density of which is the space density referred to
earlier.
Intuitively, if any further identifications are to be made between terms
within our theory and terms within Einstein's theory, then the following
identifications might be made:
The scalar curvature, R, should be identified with the space density, the
momentum-energy tensor, Tuv, should be identified with the massenergy density, and the term, -Ruv, should be identified with the vacuum
energy density. The term, guv, which in relativity theory is the
dimensionless dot product of the spacetime coordinate unit vectors, eu
and ev, may be alternatively interpreted to correspond to the ratio of
sum of the momentum-energy and Riemannian tensor densities to the
scalar energy density. Within our theory, the guv correspond to mixed
2nd order partial derivatives of the ratio of the sum of the vacuum scalar
energy density to the total space energy density.
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maximized when
rho(v) = rho(m) in the formation of a black hole.
Do the partial derivatives of the gravitational potential transform like the
components of a four vector? @$It would appear that an arbitrary Lorenz
transformation of the 1st order partial derivatives of a standard static
gravitational potential should transform so as to evince the existence of a
time-varying potential, and hence, that of a 4-hyperspherical potential.
observables.
Only massless particles are reintegrated exclusively from the vacuum
energy. Though massive particles are largely reintegrated out of the
energy of the quantum vacuum, a tiny percentage of this energy must be
supplied internally, that is, from energy resources of the mass itself,
which is to imply that, massive particles possess internal binding
energies whereas the photon does not. However, just as in the case of
superconductivity in which the photon takes on mass, the photon takes
on an effective mass within a vacuum laden with a gravitational
potential. The measure of this fraction is the ratio of the mass-energy
and vacuum energy densities within the volume occupied by the mass.
@$
This tendency for matter to replenish itself from a fraction of its own
existing mass-energy in competition with its reintegration out of the
locally available vacuum energy may account for the linkage of inertia
and gravitation. This reintegration process may be modeled as a constant
process of 3-momentum (boson) exchanges amongst matter particles
(fermions) in competition with energy exchanges between these particles
and the thermal reservoir of the vacuum nuclear electro-weak field
fluctuations necessitated by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The
exchange of energy within quantum mechanical systems may be
generally characterized by three principle modes of energy exchange:
first, the exchange of energy between mass-energy and itself which is
mediated by the totality of fundamental force-carrying particles,
collectively known as bosons. This particular mode of energy exchange
is owing to the position-momentum manifestation of the generalized
Heisenberg principle, April 2011 c.f., creation-annihilation/exchange of
quantum correlated, spin-1 virtual vector bosons. Second, the exchange
of energy between mass-energy and the vacuum energy field which is
the mode of energy exchange responsible for the phenomena of
spontaneous emission, nuclear decay, quantum mechanical tunneling,
etc., owes its origin to the time-energy form of the Heisenberg principle.
Finally, there is the energy exchange mode taking place between the
vacuum energy field and itself, April 2011 c.f., creation-annihilation of
quantum correlated, spin-0 virtual fermion-antifermion pairs (virtual
spin another name for angular momentum about the ict axis? Is it
possible, then, for a spin 0 particle to possess a component of angular
momentum within the three normal spatial dimensions? If so, then
wouldn't this constitute a stark violation of the principle of the
relativistic invariance of angular momentum?
There is an apparent paradox associated with the gravitational redshift of
starlight predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. The general
theory explains this reddening of the sun's light, for instance, as being
due to the fact that the energy of photons has an inertia associated with it
and that, therefore, the photons must give up the requisite energy in
overcoming the Sun's gravitational potential as they fly away from the
Sun, off to infinity. The specific paradox is seen when one considers the
reverse of this process, the gravitational "bluing" of starlight as it falls
into a gravitational potential, and then imagines "bouncing" photons off
of a huge mirror stationed closed to the surface of the Sun, presumable
in a very tight circular orbit! Photons leaving the Earth for the Sun, for
example, experience an increase in their energy ("bluing") which will
exactly offset the decrease in their energy on their return journey, after
bouncing off the mirror, so that the wavelength of these photons will not
differ from that when initially leaving the Earth. October 2011 So, for
example, although the characteristic wavelength of photons emitted by
spectroscopically known elements or molecules on the Suns surface
will exhibit a redshift of the precise magnitude predicted by general
relativity, these same characteristic photons, if emitted, say from Earths
orbit in the direction of the Sun, will suffer no observable reshift on their
return journey after being reflected from a mirror stationed at the Suns
surface. But we must consider here that what is called reflection
involves the stimulation of an excited atomic state, i.e., the boosting of
an outer orbital electron into an energetically unstable orbit, which
immediately decays, yielding back a photon of precisely the same
wavelength as originally caused the excited state, and a blueshifted
photon would possess an energy too large to produce a reflection photon
of the appropriate wavelength predicted by general relativity when the
gravitational redshift is taken into account. This appears to suggest that,
for example, a television signal containing real time footage of an Earthbased chronograph, if transmitted to and reflected off the surface of the
Sun, would reveal no mismatch between the time displayed by the
transmitted image of the clock and the actual time indicated on the
original chronograph. And this would be presumed to be the case even
though real time footage of a second clock based on the Suns surface
and transmitted to us simultaneously along with the reflected
transmission of the Earth-based chronograph reveals a time-dilated rate
of elapsed time of the Sun-based clock relative to our Earth-based clock.
When particles are compressed into a progressively smaller volume of
space, the positional uncertainty of all the particles decreases.
Consequently, the momentum uncertainty of all of the particles will
increase. Although the quantum mechanical expectation value of
momentum for the particles will not be affected by a change in the
momentum uncertainty of the particles, nor the square of the expectation
value of the momentum, the expectation value of the square of the
momentum will change, however - it will increase. This all follows from
the mere definition of momentum uncertainty in quantum mechanics.
This is to say that the total energy of the particles will be increased
simply by virtue of the obvious decrease in quantum positional
uncertainty of the particles as a result of their having been confined to a
smaller volume. Note that this energy conferred to the particles cannot
be explained in terms of any work which might have been performed
upon the particles in the process of pushing them together, as we might
have taken, theoretically, any amount of force at all in pushing them
together, depending upon how much time we were willing to take in
doing so. This is yet another reason for believing that the collective
vacuum energy field is associated with the operation of a conservative
force-field. If we have not really imparted any energy to these particles
simply by virtue of having moved them together somewhat, then how
are we to explain the appearance of this energy in such a manner that the
total energy of the volume occupied by the particles remains constant,
that is to say, so that the total energy of this volume is conserved? We
might postulate a kind of hidden energy which, along with the particles,
also occupies their space. We might further suppose that these particles
may be thought to be made out of this energy so that an increase in the
energy of particles within a particular volume of space becomes tied to a
corresponding and compensating decrease in the amount of this hidden
energy such that the total energy of the volume remains unchanged - a
kind of radical energy conservation principle. One way to make such an
assumption, and there are indeed many different ways in which this
assumption might be realized, would be to postulate that there is a fourth
component of particle momentum, previously unsuspected, itself
unchanged by our having pushed the particles together, but possessing a
square whose quantum expectation value has been altered in a manner
which exactly cancels the changes in the expectation values of the
squares of the usual three independent components of momentum along
the x, y and z axes of a Cartesian coordinate system. One way for the
momentum of the particles along the hypothetical "w-axis," as well as
along the other three axes, to remain unchanged, with the energy of the
particles changing at the same time, would be if the masses of the
particles were permitted to change in inverse proportion to the change in
the velocity of the particles along this new w-axis. We can succeed in
doing this by permitting the particles to possess a negative kinetic
energy which is decreased as the particles are pushed together. But
turning to an analogy with the case of a particle "tunneling" through a
potential barrier, any change in the necessarily negative kinetic energy
of the tunneling particle could be compensated for through judicious
instantaneous adjustment of the height of the potential barrier though
which it is moving, that is to say, through the appearance of a kind of ad
hoc potential term which is to be added to the original barrier potential,
V(x). If we identify this ad hoc potential so-called with the gravitational
potential, then two things immediately follow: 1) a gravitational
potential exists in space whether or not matter is present; it is built into
the very structure of space itself. And, 2) matter has the peculiar effect
of altering this essentially cosmologically-based potential through
quantum mechanical interactions taking place between all matter
particles and the continuum of space in which they are embedded. The
quantum vacuum offers itself as a logical candidate for this medium of
space (aether, if you will) with which all matter particles are in
interaction. Moreover, the variation of the density of this vacuum
energy due to the process of the cosmological expansion of space
provides a logical basis for our postulated potential barrier.
The increase in energy of this hypothetical system of particles is based
on the decrease in their mutual positional uncertainty and the masses of
the particles are irrelevant to the determination of this energy increase.
If gravitational effects are to be ultimately traced to variations in the
energy uncertainty of mass-energy distributions, leading in turn to a
modification in the cosmological spatiotemporal variation in the vacuum
nuclear-electroweak field from its equilibrium momentum density in socalled free-space, then there must be some means of defining the masses
of particles, as well as the mass equivalence of field energies, in terms of
their binding or self-energies alone. Lorenz attempted to do this in the
early 1900's with respect to the mass of the electron; he tried to define
the mass of the electron exclusively in terms of its electromagnetic selfenergy. He was, however, unsuccessful, and to my knowledge, no
further efforts have been made to repeat the attempt.
Let us look at this question in term of a hopefully illustrative analogy.
Suppose instead of simple monochromatic light, we send a modulated
carrier wave of electromagnetic radiation from the Earth to the Sun and
back again. Suppose the modulation upon the carrier wave was a simple
TV transmission of a normally functioning analogue wall clock.
Particle creation at the event horizon of a black hole gives rise to a
precisely thermal spectrum. This suggests that the vacuum itself is in
thermal equilibrium with itself so that the vacuum must be continually
exchanging energy with itself. because the time rate of change of all
physical quantities depends on the existence of energy uncertainty, dq/dt
= [H, q] + f[H,q], where f[H,q] is usually written as @q/@t. On this
view, quantum mechanical systems possess energy uncertainty because
they are continually perturbed by intrinsic vacuum energy fluctuations.
In this way, all mass-energy systems are in a process of constant energy
Hermann Weyl notes in his book, "The Open World," that the state of a
two-electron system is not determined by the state of each individual
electron added together, but that the states of each electron may be
deduced from the state of the two-electron system.
Leibniz's series: 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + 1/9 - 1/11 + . . . , does not
converge when the terms are rearranged into a sum of the following two
sequences: (1 + 1/5 + 1/9 + . . . +) + ( -1/3 - 1/7 - 1/11 - . . . ). This is a
rather common property of what are called alternating infinite
sequences. This property is very mysterious, but can be made to seem
less so if one pictures each term of the sequence as a numbered bead on
a string. A finite number of terms of the series may be rearranged
arbitrarily to produce the identical sum, and this may be thought to be
possible simply because the string, being finite in length, permits the
removal, and hence, rethreading of all the beads onto the string in any
arbitrary order. However, given an infinite number of beads, the string
is now itself infinite in length and so it is no longer possible to remove
the beads so as to put them into a new order. The order of the beads
may only be changed into that represented by the two sums provided
that the original string is cut, and this changes the topological
relationship of the beads; in a finite sequence the order of the terms
(beads) may be rearranged without altering the topological relationship
of the beads. It is also interesting to note that Leibniz' series converges
to the value of pi/4 because the value of convergence is itself an
irrational number possessing a decimal expansion which possesses no
determinate order whatever so that what we have is an equation between
an irrational number and an infinite sum of rational numbers, on the one
hand, and, on the other hand, an equation holding between an infinite
sum of terms possessing a mathematically determinate sequential order
with respect to a simple mathematical operation, namely, addition, and
an infinite sum of terms possessing no mathematically determinable
sequential order - no sequential order with respect to any definable
mathematical operation. We may suspect that Cantor's argument for the
existence of what he calls nondenumerable infinity, i.e., the famous
When the dividing line between memory and imagination is hard and
fast, there you have a blockhead.
Vacuum fluctuations which are simultaneous in one reference frame
(Lorenz frame) will not necessarily be simultaneous in other frames.
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We may deduce from this that the density of the quantum vacuum is
different in different Lorenz frames.
Is it, in principle, possible for all the neural firings which comprise the
brain state to which is associated a particular mental state to have been
stimulated to occur entirely from outside the brain's neural network,
obviating the need for intricate feedback loops connecting the neurons
with one another which normally support such patterns of neuron
firings? Intuitively we suspect that merely reproducing the requisite
neural firing patterns from outside the network would not be sufficient to
produce the normally occurring associated mental state. This is because
the observed neural firings would only possess a determinate order in
terms of the perception of their order by means of a neural network
genuinely possessing intricate feedback structures. We might, in turn,
be puzzled by the force of this particular intuition which has at its root
the notion of the importance of timing and synchronization of the
neurons with respect to one another. But this would really only be
important if there was something which the neurons incidentally interact
with in the course of their normal process of functioning to which the
order of their "firing" might be fundamentally related. We might then
seek to include this additional something and produce the changes in it
also from outside, just as in the case of the neurons. Notice that in every
case where we are supposedly able to reproduce a given sequence of
neural firings, we are dependent upon a favorable condition wherein the
time interval between firings within a given small region of the brain are
larger than the time uncertainty of the quantum system constituting the
neural network. It is precisely at this point where the time interval
between neural events becomes comparable to the quantum mechanical
time uncertainty in which we become no longer able to determine the
sequence of these events from without, or outside these events! It is
here that we say that the temporal order of events becomes
indeterminate. However, what we really mean to say here is that the
sequence of events has become indeterminate with respect to a set of
external controls. We find that our earlier intuition about the problem of
the timing of the events appropriate to the establishing of the requisite
brain states crops up yet again. There is still something with respect to
which the patterned events (comprising the requisite brain states) occur
which is important from the standpoint of timing and synchronization,
and we might, therefore, again, seek to include it, just as before. The
point here is that this process of trying to include the entire background
against which the timing of the brain events are significant can never be
completed; we face an infinite regress here. This regress is apparently
resolved within the quantum mechanically uncertain time interval of the
network and therefore is forever beyond manipulation from outside, that
That which is the source and sustainer of all things cannot be viewed as
being anything but infinite. Evolution may only be a local phenomenon
- not a global phenomenon; evolution in the sense of the genuine
emergence of wholly unprecedented and unanticipated forms, structures,
or dynamisms - without this process of development somehow drawing
upon a pre-existing reservoir of information within which these
"emergent" forms are at least implicitly prefigured, and which mediates
and underpins the evolutionary developmental process - is tantamount to
the acceptance of a fundamental process which is itself uncaused and
which is not admitted to be the cause (or reason) for its own existence.
In the vacuum, information exists in a nonlocal, simultaneously
connected form. When the vacuum energy fluctuations mediate the
occurrence of physical processes, there is a transduction of nonlocal,
parallel and simultaneously connected information into a new local,
sequential, and temporally connected form. The paradigmatic example
of this transduction process is the spontaneous production of
fundamental particles out of the vacuum within accelerated reference
(non-Lorentzian) frames.
The ground of existence cannot be outstripped by any possible existent
"thing." Nonlocality presents the possibility of putting quantum
mechanical probability on a "rational" footing; in other words, a given
wavefunction is normalizable on the average. The condition of
normalizability is not a very restrictive condition on a quantum
mechanical wavefunction; there are an infinite number of ways to refract
or decompose a given wavefunction into a spectrum of eigenstates (of an
incompatible observable) so as to satisfy the normalization condition.
The fundamental paradigm shift which marked the transition from
classical (Newtonian) mechanics to the mechanics of quantum
phenomena may be captured in the manner in which the implied unified
me as much as (or more than) I care for myself and I would be a selfish
person alone in a universe of selfish persons. Of course, part of one's
motivation for thinking in this way, perhaps unbeknownst to oneself, is
the Kantian notion of the Golden Rule; to wit, that I must act in such a
manner that I will that my action become a universal moral law.
But what of the phenomenon where I imagine myself being some other
person when I am in the midst of some profound or deeply moving
aesthetic or intellectual experience; I imagine what this experience
would be like for this other person and somehow the intensity and
wonder of the experience is amplified for me, myself, through this
psychological projection. Part of the augmentation of the aesthetic
experience for me is the sense of personal, if partly disembodied glory
which redounds to my sense of identity because it is I who is leading this
person, in my mind's eye, to the unaccustomed though fuller
appreciation of this experience. Partly again, the experience is, for me,
augmented because I borrow the other's innocence, using it as a foil
against which the experience may be rediscovered by me in all its
aboriginal wonder. Moreover, I act as this person's spiritual mentor; I
help this person penetrate a mystery which I have long ago discovered
for myself, and if this other person is ultimately identified with my own
self; this is implied because all of these projections occur within my
mind's eye, then I seek to view myself as the father of my own future
spiritual and intellectual development. But on a more basic human level,
I am imagining the sharing of a profound idea or experience with
another person in a way which is seldom, if ever demonstrated in actual
social intercourse with my fellow human beings; certainly it is love
which motivates this peculiar psychological projection - the kind of love
which does not distinguish self from other.
mysteries would mean having found the answer to all. Just listing some
examples may succeed in illustrating to one's deeper intuition that this
must be true: a few of these mysteries are that of existence itself, the
origin of consciousness, freedom of the will, the mystery of Time and
along with it that of eternity, the mystery of immortality and that of
divinity. A bright young child may agree with this observation,
remarking, "well, God exists and He knows the answer to all things."
But it really does seem that the contemplation of any one of these
mysteries inevitably leads to the contemplation of all the others as well
as some which I haven't mentioned, and one may ask, " why might this
be so?"
Dr. Scholem, in his Trends in Jewish Mysticism, tells us that in any case
where there is a transition from one state or configuration to another
that, "the void is spanned for an instant." Madame Blavatsky refers to
evolution as a "spiritual Opus in reverse," meaning that the world arose
through a process of involution (a reduction of the infinite to the finite),
but containing a vague recollection of the whole from which it was
originally abstracted and which guides its future development. This
future development is constituted by the return of the Absolute back to
itself, directed from above and hence is a recapitulation of the timeless
and transcendent within the realm of the temporal and immanent.
To say that Reality cannot be given a complete description on account of
the inevitable pitfall of infinite regress is merely to say that if this
description does not already exist, then it can in no way be constructed;
there is nothing in what has just been said to prevent a complete
description of Reality which has always existed. In fact, it is due to the
lack of a complete description which is responsible for the existence of
temporality. This observation is very much in the same spirit of the
mathematician Kurt Gdel's discovery that the notion of truth is stronger
than the notion of provability; the fact that a theorem expressible within
the symbolic language of a particular logico-mathematical system may
not be constructed from the axioms of its system utilizing the rules of
inference of this system does not prevent this theorem from "existing" in
the sense of its being true. But one might ask what is the meaning of
mathematical theorems which are beyond the comprehension of any
finite mind and which are not true by construction from a possible
collection of axioms, but true in some more fundamental sense.
Wittgenstein tells us that we may not use substantives in a manner
which attempts to extend the reference of these terms beyond the scope
of all possible experience without falling into either meaninglessness or
absurdity. Therefore, when we ask the question, "Does God exist?" the
most we can possible mean by this question is, "Does God exist within
To reiterate, there has always been something. What better candidate for
this something than that than which nothing greater can be conceived
(per Anselm) ? This something has no complete description except
within and through itself. The only truly determinate entity is the
totality of everything which is possible or it is the void, as nothingness
is, by its very nature, determinate.
It has been humorously noted that Time exists so that everything will not
happen at once. Temporality seems to require that (per Bergson)
genuine novelty continually intrude into the world. The act of creation
is not an event within history; it is the beginning of history; it is the very
inception of novelty. But since the continued presence of temporality
seems to require continual activity of creation, it seems more consistent
to assume that creation itself is a fundamental process which itself had
no beginning, which was itself never created, that the activity of creation
is that which has always existed and which requires no explanation other
than itself. On the other hand, however, it seems that this fundamental
process of creation cannot be a unified process, for otherwise it is an act
which could have been consummated instantaneously, once for all.
Temporality must therefore be a process of recapitulation of timeless
reality with Reality itself as the medium through which the
recapitulation is accomplished.
acids, etc. The serious problem with such a modeling approach is that it
is not an empirically derived statistical calculation as in actuarial
computations, where a distinct probability is assigned to each possible
event within a pool, based on the observed relative frequencies of each
event, but is an abstract calculation where the probabilities are fixed at
the outset and remain unchanged throughout all series of calculations.
For example, there are a vast number of nucleic acid reactions taking
place within the ribosome organelle of every living animal cell which in
the absence of certain mediating enzymes will take place anywhere from
9 to 20 orders of magnitude more slowly than if these enzymes are
present - the ribosome is responsible for "translating" the coded
information of nucleic acids into various macromolecules (proteins) and
in so doing expressing the genotype of the developing organism. We see
from this example that the probability of the occurrence of various
macromolecules essential to the appearance of the first reproducing,
metabolizing organic units begins infinitesimally small when the
molecule's precursors are yet unavailable, but that this probability grows
by large discontinuous jumps each time one of these precursors, the
precursors' precursors, etc. arise inadvertently in the prebiotic "soup" so
that by the time the exhaustive set of macromolecular precursors is
present, the formation of the original macromolecule is virtually assured.
The ribosome itself, despite its inordinately complex structure, has been
observed under experimental conditions to reform spontaneously after
having been dissociated within a carefully prepared enzyme bath into its
precursor polynucleotide constituents - and this within the space of only
several hours! It is indeed true that a countless variety of different
enzymes (of the precisely correct type) must be simultaneously present
along with the polynucleotide matrix for this seemingly magical act of
spontaneous self - organization to occur. This is because the self organization of such an enormously complex organic structure depends,
throughout the entire process, upon the almost simultaneous
juxtaposition (collision is a better term) of three or more precursor
molecules which all happen to have the exactly correct spatial
orientation, with sufficient kinetic energy to overcome the activation
energy barrier against the reaction occurring. It should be noted here
manner. The principle of a mental whole must exist prior to its actual
realization ( in terms of whatever substance).
its own negation, implies that there must have always been something
(or other). But the only guarantee that there has always been something
is the existence of something which contains within itself its own
affirmation, if you will, the reason for its own existence. A fundamental
and most general property of a thing which contains within itself the
reason for its own existence is that of recursion, something which is
defined solely in terms of itself, a recursive structure. There are logical
grounds for believing that there can be only one recursive structure, that
there can be only one self-existent entity - with this entity being the
"ground" for existence of all other entities. A recursive structure, if it
may be thought to be composite, would be composed of parts which are
totally interdependent upon one another; no part is the cause of any other
without also being itself caused by this other part and so if this recursive
structure had a beginning in time, it must have been given existence
through a pre-existing, broader and more complex recursive structure.
We see now that a given finite recursive structure comes into existence
through a process of uncovering or abstraction from a more complex
whole - through a process of negation. We are reminded of
Michelangelo's claim that a truly great work of sculpture already exists
within its marble block and that all he did in order to produce his works
was merely to free them from the marble in which they were imprisoned.
All simpler recursive structures come into being through a kind of
figure-ground transformation, through a change in perspective. This
reminds us of Leibniz' monads, each of which are only different
perspectives on an eternally pre-existent whole, with each monad
defined in terms of, or dependent upon, all of the other monads making
up the whole. This exhaustive interdependence is what Leibniz refers to
as the preestablished harmony between monads. Again, a recursion may
only be defined in terms of other recursions like itself. Consciousness is
an example of an inherently recursive structure as it is its own symbolic
representation ( of itself to itself). Consciousness' objectivity is exactly
coextensive with its subjectivity; this is simply a restatement of Bishop
Berkeleys principle, esse est percipi, i.e., to be is to be perceived, and as
consciousness necessarily experiences itself as a unity and never as a
multiplicity - the objective reality of any multiplicity of consciousness'
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degeneracy.
fluctuations.
Certainly quantum theory allows that the manner in which the subatomic
particles shall interact with one another during a random collision
(mutual scattering) must be significantly different if this event occurs
under the watchful eye of some physicist armed with a high-resolution
electron force microscope.
Might nonlocal interactions be partly explicable in terms of a latent >c
velocity of propagation.
In the case of the rapidly separating
components of the decayed particle, the state of each component may be
overdetermined. The extra information (about the state of the opposite
particle) may be comoving with each component by each particles local
vacuum state.
But in the case of both component particle and comoving vacuum state
propagating at the speed of light, there would seem to be no room for
interaction between each component particle and its locally comoving
vacuum state. April 2011 This is reminiscent of the problem of symmetry
breaking for psychophysical dualism.
Cosmologically, the direction of time was consistent with the direction
in which the rate of decrease of the (matter + vacuum) energy density
and the rate of entropy increase were maximal. This direction would be
described by a vector within Euclidean 4-space and the manner of
cosmological decomposition of this 4-space into a 3+1 dimensional
open system to some where outside. Now two or more closed systems
exchanging momentum and energy with one another implies the
existence of a background spacetime (which must possess some kind of
curvature structure so that in reality these two systems must also be
exchanging some small component of stress and the momentum and
energy exchanged between them must be partially (if only
infinitesimally) coupled.
In turn each system itself must possess
coupling together of its own local momentum and energy.
There is by the way potential relevance of the speed of gravity
controversy here. Two truly isolated systems would only be able to
exchange nonlocal correlations with one another.
Nonadiabatic changes in boundary conditions cause increase in system
entropy.
It seems probable that somehow the two distinctly quantum phenomena
of wavefunction collapse and nonlocality (in the form of the
determination, instantaneously and at a distance, of the eigenstate of a
quantum mechanical system) reflect opposite tendencies of the vacuum
to act (in determining a quantum state) in which the vacuum either has
or has not, respectively, adequate time to have prepared itself for such an
act of determination.
Nonlocality may be explained in terms of the fact that both, widely
separated components of a decayed particle, for example, are perceived
simultaneously by this same vacuum. And although the quantum state
of either, if determined individually, without knowledge of the uncertain
state of the other particle, must collapse to produce a randomly
determined eigenstate, information nonetheless
exists between the structured uncertainties of each particle of this pair in
the form of a correlation of two random signals.
We may look at causality as not just a propagation of momentum, stress,
and energy along trajectories through space, but also as propagation in
which the mere fact that a quantum measurement could have been
performed upon the system observable proves enough to cause state
vector reduction.
That which is responsible for sustaining the existence of all things would
not itself possess a sustained existence. The above statement points up
the fundamental distinction of the real versus the virtual. As perhaps
alluded to above, the real is nothing more than a distinction within the
virtual.
In the formation of bound energy structures, e.g., atoms,
molecules, etc., the application of focused, undifferentiated energy alone
to the quantum vacuum is less than adequate and some mutual
interaction of locally available (real) particles is additionally necessary
for such bound structures to form, in other words, differentiated energy
must be available.
1. Important here is the positional uncertainty of these momentum fluctuations.
2. Relative to the photon, all of the changes occurring during its movement between two (distinct points) take
place instantaneously.
the vantage point of a photon, nothing takes place, i.e., energy does not
fluctuate (no energy enters the hypersurface of simultaneity defined by
the photons instantaneous reference frame?), anywhere in the Universe
during the photons flight.
The degenerate evolution of a quantum systems wavefunction does not
require any change in the systems total energy and so interactions with
such energy degenerate system by a non-physical agency would not
violate conservation of energy. This goes also for changes in the kinetic
and potential energies of the system separately when combined do not
result in a change to the systems Hamiltonian.
Resonances (as Platonic forms) are dependent on the structure of
boundary conditions, which are contingent and unforeseeable in their
effects. An example of this is the superfluidity of Helium-4 produced
and observed for the first time ever in a cryogenics laboratory!
The fringe effects represented by the Gibbs phenomenon of Fourier
analysis as applied to quantum probability amplitudes represents the
dynamical (and creative) interface between all (would-be) isolated
quantum mechanical systems and the creative ground in which they find
themselves embedded, and out of which they are necessarily (partially)
constituted.
Fringe effects are unavoidable within any artificial construct. This is
the dual , onto-epistemological principle of the boundary (conditions)
never becoming the master of the dynamic and substantive processes
never being fully explicable in terms of relations on the set of their
possible (epi)phenomena.
(Gibbs phenomenon as applied to
probability amplitudes and quantum tunneling bears some consideration
here)
How does the distinction, real versus virtual, relate to the nature of
superposition? Also, how is the phenomenon of Bose condensation
related to superposition?
Are viral memes exchanged between
being functions of each other, e.g., where the initially stated set of
independent variables proves to be reducible to some smaller set, must
be a nonlinear function (of a set of variables).
Do nonlocal connections in the form of advanced wave solution
components of particle or field propagators create a kind of backward in
time feedback which is responsible for exchange resonances displayed
by, e.g., fields never before in direct or indirect mutual contact?
De Broglie waves for a translating particle have both energy (timelike)
and momentum (spacelike) components, or, alternatively, particle-like
and wavelike components, respectively.
A particles DeBroglie
frequency, if you will, is maximal when the particle is at rest. Upon
translation, some of the particles rest frequency shows up as DeBroglie
wavenumber.
There is a shifting back and forth of current density between its linear
and vorticular components, however, the overall current density of the
system is conserved. Of course, the fluid is under acceleration within
its vorticular component, but no work is performed by this component of
the fluid if the pressures and stresses within the fluid are orthogonal to
the vortices of the fluid.
Is any energy dissipated by the vacuum in the mere sustaining of stable
matter that is not currently undergoing any reactions, e.g., chemical,
nuclear, etc.? Energy is dissipated by the quantum vacuum when a
mass is accelerated. Is this energy dissipated because the vacuum must
be continually updated on the current state of motion of the mass?
What about in the case of gravitating masses? As the Schrodinger
equation dictates the temporal (and spatial) evolution of a quantum
systems wavefunction, e.g., that of an accelerated particle, bound
structure composed of multiple particles and fields, etc., any change in
the momentum-energy of some quantum mechanical system introduced
from outside the scope of the system wavefunction, must induce a
collapse of this wavefunction, as well as suddenly alter the
uncertainties of both conserved and nonconserved system observables.
So in each set of incompatible, conjugate observables, the action of
measurement, environmental entanglement, or acceleration introduces
either a decoherence of reduction of the state vector, resulting in an
increase in the Heisenberg uncertainties of each of one set of
observables along with a corresponding decrease in these uncertainties
with respect to the set of conjugate observables of the system. So it
At the event horizon of a black hole the space and time axes are in some
sense reversed. This is because an object (or particle so we can neglect
tidal effects) just outside of the event horizon possesses virtually all of
its momentum in the direction of the holes center and relatively none of
it in a timelike direction. But neither is their any room for internal
spacelike momentum for this mass (in the form of binding forcemediating boson particle exchanges). All of the fluctuations of the
vacuum are in the form of 3-momentum and none in the form of
imaginary (timelike) 4-momentum. And so the mass is not so much
torn apart as it is dissolved due to the holes sapping of the mass own
binding forces. In the extreme case depicted here, gravity is not truly a
force, but our projecting of our large, latent stores of common
experience with everyday objects causes the phenomenology of
gravitation to be naturally interpreted in terms of the action of a distance
of a gravitating force. Gravitation is more accurately (or objectively)
understood as the effects of mass upon a higher dimensional quantum
vacuum that must, after the fashion of a cellular automaton,
simultaneously parallel reprocess the data representing both matter and
the colocated/coextensive 3-vacuum, and where this vacuum possess
only a finite computational capacity.
If the vacuum does not itself gravitate, then momentum and energy
fluctuations do not directly cause spacetime fluctuations but only do so
indirectly through the effects of these momentum-energy vacuum
fluctuation upon matter itself. Fluctuations of momentum and energy,
in other words, directly produce fluctuations in x and t of test particles
that we conveniently interpret as the effects of fluctuations of x and t
upon test particles. The problem here is that it we allow x and t to
affect <p> and <E> directly, then we also have to permit then to affect
p and E directly, with the result that the vacuum itself must possess a
gravitational mass.
Perhaps the way to put time and space on an equal footing within a
theory of quantum gravity should be not to try to make the time
parameter into a bona fide observable, but to take away this status from
the space variable, x.
This reminds us of the expansion of a permutation group through the
discovery that some members of this group are not simple, but
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composite.
Processing information means taking two pieces of
information from two smaller, and heretofore never before directly
connected, contexts, and bringing the pieces of information together in
such a way that one now has new information concerning the broader
context including all of the original pieces.
quantum vacuum state with a smaller amount of random zero point fluctuations (ZPF) has a
slightly lower total energy than the normal state with a larger amount of random zero point
fluctuations, c.f., footnote #104, Destiny Matrix (2012), 2nd Revised Version.
October 2013
B1
B2
B3
B4
Contract each Cij with Bj to get the magnitude of the vector, then to get
the direction of this magnitude, take four dot products with the basis four
vector of the coordinate system, and contract vector with tensor.
T contracted with R yields 16 dot products of 16 pairs of 2nd rank
tensors, or, contracting Tik with 16 metric tensor-like 2nd rank tensors to
produce T, a new 2nd rank tensor.
Contravariant versus covariant tensors, vectors, etc.?
=ik Tik = 0. T is a conserved quantity. Whats the underlying symmetry
at work here?
Tik can be symmetric or antisymmetric, covariant or contravariant.
The derivative of Tik is not a tensor, i.e., on a manifold with a metric of
(+,+,+,-), i.e., nik Minkowski metric. Tik must be spacetime manifold
in order for this differentiation to produce a tensor.
mixture that the system is actually in; in the case of a superposition the
system is not secretly already in one of these possible states because this
has yet to be determined by, e.g., observation or decoherence.
The order of spacelike separated events is only determined within an
individual consciousness.
The observer cant copy a quantum state, but can arrange so that the
system and his own brain state form a joint quantum state.
What is the
What is the
We must distinguish changes in the energy of the crystalline lattice 3vacuum due to its interaction with the 4-vacuum versus changes in 3vacuum energy due to gauge interaction within this 3-vacuum.
Classical GR schema: matter tells spacetime how to curve and the
curvature of spacetime informs matters geodesic motion.
Quantum GR schema: momentum-energy (of matter) affects the
fluctuation momentum-energy of the quantum vacuum through their
shared quantum statistics. And the structure of the quantum vacuum
fluctuation momentum-energy in turn affects the expectation values of
the momentum-energy. Here the effects of fluctuations in the positiontime, i.e., spacetime fluctuations are not fundamental, i.e., are not on an
equal footing with momentum-energy fluctuations. In other words,
each fluctuation in position or time (which under resonance produce
nonzero alterations in the expectation values of xI and t) is derivative of
its corresponding momentum or energy fluctuations. And so, on the
view spacetime fluctuations do not themselves have any independent
existence, i.e., virtual gravitons are fictional entities (even as virtual
particles!) The virtual transition of energy between distinct levels of
the crystalline vacuum lattice may be interpreted as virtual, timelike
tunneling of fermions of the lattice to higher energy levels of the crystal
followed by decay of these virtual, excited states.
But this prevents the existence of real gravitons as mere excitations of
the vacuum graviton field. Moreover, on this view, gravitational waves
are an artifact of a purely phenomenological description of a peculiar
dynamics of gravitationally perturbed matter distributions.
remains a constant.
Can we calculate the increase in entropy resulting from the breaking of a
symmetry? Look at the interacting gas compartment model of the
entropy of mixing as a kind of reduction in symmetry.
direction-inertial
guidance
The comments about the accelerated electric charge pertain to freelyfalling charges.
Are the energies of vacuum fluctuations blue or red shifted relative to an
accelerated body a body either being accelerated within free space or
freely falling in a gravitational field? Or are the probability current
densities of these fluctuations merely shifted in their distributions?
Re-examine the question of gravitating quantum vacuum in light of the
notion of metric degeneracy of spacetime topological fluctuations.
Distance and time interval can be defined in terms of the line density of
momentum and energy fluctuation events, respectively.
Think about /\x and /\p in relation to double potential barrier height (in
distinguishing the two interpretations of tunneling).
This question of
interpretation can be connected to another one where vacuum spacetime
fluctuations are interpreted as either phenomenological or physically
real.
C.f., p. 247, Theoretical Concepts in Physics (Longair), fluctuations in
the field are of the same magnitude as the energy density of the radiation
itself. (waves of random phase for a particular mode of oscillation).
pressure terms are maximal and the energy density term is 0. In other
words, at the event horizon of the hole, all of the fluctuation 4momentum current density is in the form of internal exchanges of
fluctuation 3-momentum.
The time-time component, as well as the
other timelike components of the fluctuation stress-momentum-energy
tensor for the local vacuum (just outside the event horizon) is 0. So at
the event horizon of a black hole, the energy uncertainty of the quantum
vacuum is also 0. Notice that the fluctuation energy (as opposed to
momentum) associated with all of the fundamental vacuum fields are
each, individually, 0 (since there can be no mutual cancellation between
the energies of distinct spin-1 fields).
The duration of individual vacuum energy fluctuations is not what is
altered by time dilation within a gravitational field, just the interval
between these energy transitions and the current density of the vacuum
fluctuations in energy relative to the increased momentum current
densities within bulk matter. Similarly, the wavelength of individual
momentum fluctuations is not contracted in the radial direction within a
gravitational field, just the average distance between individual
momentum fluctuation events.
If this is a more or less correct
interpretation, then how are we to explain the phenomenon of
gravitational redshift?
So would energy and momentum here be a collective phenomenon
rather than absolute physical quantities, such that the momentum and
energy of real particles are not absolute, for instance, but are merely
change relative to the abstract representations of the vacuums
momentum and energy grounded in this vacuums momentum and
energy current densities? This interpretation is perhaps consistent with
and helps to clarify the meaning of the notion of time being relative
(rather than absolute).
So it is actually the tidal forces associated with a gravitational field that
produce the acceleration of massive bodies.
/T = 0
mass both singly and collectively; virtual particles possess this property
of mass only as individual particles. This is because the principles of
PEP and PIP apply equally to the interaction of virtual with virtual
particles as they do to the interaction of real particles with virtual
particles. The characteristic of massiveness does not extend to virtual
particles collectively because virtual particles generally do not possess a
continuous existence, i.e., existence through more than one period
defined by Plancks constant divided by the particles energy.
In terms of the cellular automata (CA) model of vacuum and matter, the
information processing capacity that must be respectively devoted to the
computation of virtual versus real particle structures (individual and
collective) and virtual versus real spacetime trajectories (evolution)
surely must be of widely divergent magnitude.
The difference in the computational resources required (on the part of
the quantum vacuum) in order to continuous recreate a particle if the
same type or class, according to a statistical rule, versus the
computational resources that must be devoted to the task of continuously
recreating a certain individual (individually labeled) particle, according
to a deterministic rule, must be one of many orders of magnitude. This
difference in order of magnitude may well approximate that between the
vacuum energy densities predicted by quantum theory for the quantum
vacuum and general relativity theory for the cosmological constant. In
this manner, CA theory may allow a large step in the direction of
reconciling these two fundamental and radically conflicting theories.
The probability of throwing a head and a tail when tossing two
coins is classically speaking . The quantum probability of throwing a
head and a tail is just 1/3. In the first case, heads and tails are
distinguishable; in the latter, they are indistinguishable. This is far less
than an order of magnitude difference, if we carry this over from the
context of simple probabilities to that of probability densities or
probability current densities and probability rates.
Because matter, through the Pauli Exclusion Principle (PEP), acts upon
scalar energy functions of the vacuum, in the form of, e.g., virtual e +ecreation-annihilation events in a precisely converse manner to how
matter acts via PIP upon the vector momentum fluctuations of this
vacuum, the overall effect of matter upon the momentum and energy
fluctuations of the vacuum is to destroy the diagonality of the vacuums
momentum-energy fluctuation tensor, effectively rotating (relative to
some cosmic background spacetime, perhaps defined in terms of
nonlocal energy fluctuations) the local space and time uncertainties
experienced by, say, test masses within this modified vacuum. The
result of this is that time dilation, length contraction (in the direction of
the gravitating mass), are experienced by the mass in this vacuum
simultaneous with the appearance of stress fluctuations terms within the
momentum-energy fluctuations tensor.
Push and pull forces are responsible for changes in the diagonal
components of the momentum-energy fluctuation tensor, which are
described in terms of virtual spin 1 particles (bosons). However, the
mutual exchange of stresses within the mass bulk must be described in
terms of the mutual exchange of virtual spin 2 particles (gravitons).
The transformation of a 1st rank tensor is described, of course, by
multiplication of this vector by a 2nd rank tensor. The transformation of
a 2nd rank tensor (even where this tensors diagonal components are all
0) into another 2nd rank tensor must be described by a 2nd rank tensor
being multiplied by a 4th rank tensor.
The structure of the spacetime fluctuation tensor (a mere
phenomenological entity) may be related to the metric tensor of GR.
The stress-energy-momentum fluctuation tensor of combined matter and
vacuum may be related to the tensor Tuv of GR. The 4th rank tensor
alluded to above may be related to the Riemannian curvature tensor of
GR. The fact that weak gravitational fields in the vacuum correlate
with a vacuum momentum-energy fluctuation tensor which contains
The basis for the radical overdetermination of nature is the fact of its
origin being an infinitely symmetric state.
This infinite symmetric
initial state was partially broken in the moment of creation.
Therefore all of the symmetries observed in nature are partial ones
described by subgroups of some original symmetry group.
At the event horizon of a black hole the space and time axes are in some
sense reversed. This is because an object (or particle so we can neglect
tidal effects) just outside of the event horizon possesses virtually all of
its momentum in the direction of the holes center and relatively none of
it in a timelike direction. But neither is their any room for internal
spacelike momentum for this mass (in the form of binding forcemediating boson particle exchanges). All of the fluctuations of the
vacuum are in the form of 3-momentum and none in the form of
imaginary (timelike) 4-momentum. And so the mass is not so much
torn apart as it is dissolved due to the holes sapping of the mass own
binding forces. In the extreme case depicted here, gravity is not truly a
force, but our projecting of our large, latent stores of common
experience with everyday objects causes the phenomenology of
gravitation to be naturally interpreted in terms of the action of a distance
of a gravitating force. Gravitation is more accurately (or objectively)
understood as the effects of mass upon a higher dimensional quantum
vacuum that must, after the fashion of a cellular automaton,
simultaneously parallel reprocess the data representing both matter and
the colocated/coextensive 3-vacuum, and where this vacuum possess
The input of power, i.e., the supply of energy over time to the system
succeeds only in redistributing the probabilities or probability rates for
fundamental fluctuations.
The collapse of the wavefunction necessitates violation of energy
conservation for if energy were conserved, the evolution of the
wavefunction would have remained deterministic.
Decoherence of the Psi function occurs when, we might say, the
quantum system in question becomes more connected to (or entangled
with) the local environment than with the nonlocal quantum vacuum
state in which it originated.
How can it be demonstrated, scientifically, that is, that the Psi function
of some quantum system in a prepared superposition state can be
collapsed via the influence of a physical measuring instrument alone,
apart from the influence of any would-be conscious observer? Such a
physical measuring device must be able to enter a classically describable
physical state, e.g., experience a determinate deflection of an indicator
needle of one of its analogue measurement dials.
Is there any fundamental difference between the measurement apparatus
collapsing Psi and the measurement approaches entering a superposition
state of its own which is then collapsed by the conscious act of
observation on the part of the experimenter reading one of the devices
dial indicators?
The measurement apparatus, being apiece with the larger quantum
mechanical state of which it and the observed system form but a small
part, cannot effect collapse of Psiobs any more than it can collapse the
overarching system state function. The conscious observer introduces
the irreversible element by virtue of the fact that his mind is not, nor can
itself ever be, a quantum mechanical observable.
The awesome potential for growth of large scale economies is rooted in
one fundamental economic fact or principle: the collective wealth
represented by a nickel in the hands of 50 million wage slaves is far
outstripped by 2.5 million dollars in the hands of a few creative and
dynamic entrepreneurs.
/\x/\Px hbar
\x/\(mvx) hbar
\Evx + E/\vx)
In what direction
J = L + S.
The, e.g., photon population in the final state stimulates the transition of
more electrons/ positrons into this same state (resonance phenomenon
here, e.g., lasing). This inclusion principle applies equally well to
virtual photons and virtual electrons/ positrons. This implies that the
vacuum does have, for example, a bound structure of virtual e+econtinually undergoing transitions in energy.
Two mechanisms of exclusion (a la Pauli) are at work here, however.
Decreased probability density rate of creation/ annihilation of e+e-s of
particular arbitrary energy, and decreased availability of quantum energy
states due to occupancy of these states by real fermions within bulk
material.
It is significant that all quantum mechanical operators may be alternately
expressed as linear combinations of creation and annihilation operators.
2 2
Evac = [-
(mc2
Evac
(pc)
)}2
Evac
m)c4
vac|spacelike
p)c2
vac|timelike
Let -
m)c2
=0
vac|4-momentum
= 0,
But not in an
in which nondiagonal components of the quant
These are the stress terms of T
.
become non 0.
vac
2
ea
2 2
= 0,
If c > c0, then the photon possess an imaginary mass and mass is
relativistically decreased as deduced from the inertia of mass exhibited
during accelerations along a vector perpendicular to the casimir plates
and Evac < 0.
This relativistic equation remains to be worked out, but the standard
relativistic mass equation certainly can be used as a guide in the
construction of this equation.
If c < c0, then the photon possess a real mass and mass is
relativistically increased as deduced from the inertia of mass exhibited
during accelerations along a vector perpendicular to the casimir plates
and Evac < 0.
/2h/2pi
Let /\L <= 4pi steradians for a spin 1 particle. The orientation of the
photons spin, 1h, can be anywhere in 3-space. Because the photon
moves at c, it cant have any spin component oriented perpendicularly to
its local 3-space.
e+e- = spin 0;
timelike
e+e+ = spin +1; spacelike
e-e- = spin 1
anti-spacelike
2piR = d/dr piR2
4piR2 = d/dr 4/3piR3
2pi2R3 = d/dr pi2 R4
For a photon, /\L = /\S, and when exposed as e+e-, e+e+, or e-e-, or
admixtures, i.e., superpositions of these, the variation in the component
of spin of the photon in a particular coordinate direction can be as much
as 1h.
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The distribution of spin amongst all of the virtual particles within the
vacuum determines both the distribution of momentum-energy and the
geometry of spacetime so that momentum-energy and position-time are
related by Einsteins equations through a correlation of these via the spin
statistics connection of real and virtual particles/fields.
A photon is slowed in a gravitational field due to spending more time
as a particular virtual e+e- pair in which the e+ and e- exchange virtual
photons (3-momentum fluctuations) with each other and less time
being resorbed and reemitted in a linear succession of ever new virtual
e+e- pairs (energy or imaginary momentum fluctuations).
A photon is accelerated (relative to its velocity in vacuo) when travelling
perpendicularly to parallel casimir plates due to spending less time as
a particular virtual e+e- pair in which the virtual e+ and e- exchange
virtual photons (3-momentum fluctuations) with each other and more
time being resorbed and reemitted in a linear succession of ever new
virtual e+e- pairs (energy or imaginary momentum fluctuations).
Similar observations can be made about the delay in the recreation of
fermions (by exchange of real matter fermions with the virtual
(antimatter) fermions within created/annihilated virtual fermionantifermion pairs due to these real fermions spending some time
exchanging virtual bosons with other real fermions (neighboring), c.f.,
cellular automata theory.
A thermal reservoir composed of fermions will emit particles into
available quantum states, i.e., modes, in a phase space-filling process
that is governed by the Pauli Exclusion Principle. A thermal boson
reservoir will emit particles into available modes of phase space through
a process mediated by Bose-Einstein statistics, through either stimulated
or spontaneous emission. The particle number fluctuation functions of
each thermal emission process is described by the following equations.
</\Nk2>B = <Nk>(1 + <Nk>);
bosons and
\Pj + <Pi>/\
/\Pj/\Xj when i = j.
It has already been stated as a working hypothesis that vacuum
momentum fluctuations and vacuum energy fluctuations may be
combined together into a conserved 4-vector of fluctuation momentumenergy. Let us examine what possible conserved quantities are available
to consider.
\p and /\E, the
uncertainties of p and E, are conserved; x1, x2, x3, and ict, or x0 are not
conserved, but the interval, s2 = x02 + x12 + x22 + x32 = 0 is conserved.
Also, if the angular momenta are conserved, Lx0, Lx1, Lx2, Lx3, then
there is conservation of phase space in each plane.
The speed of light increases between casimir plates due to an increase in
the probability rate of production of virtual e+e- pairs between the
plates. The e+e- virtual pair creation/annihilation events are how the
energy uncertainty between the plates in the modified vacuum manifests
itself as energy fluctuations. So the decrease in momentum fluctuations,
virtual photon exchanges between the plates, is offset by a
corresponding increase in energy fluctuations between the plates in the
form of virtual scalar particle exchanges between the modified vacuum
and the four dimensional quantum vacuum.
The substance of any given relative 3 + 1 vacuum state is an absolute 4vacuum. These two vacua continually exchange energy with one
another.
The linear density of virtual e+e- virtual pairs is increased although
photon wavelengths are unchanged, resulting in higher frequency and
same wavelength, i.e., a greater value of c. This is explained by a
greater probability rate for energy-compatible (or what is called
resonant) virtual e+e- virtual pairs being created and annihilated along
the photons trajectory between the Casimir plates. The concept of
resonance is pervasive within physics and there are myriad instances of
gravitational field, the velocity of light is not a constant, but can vary
spatially throughout the field (and by the relativity principle, the velocity
of light should also vary temporally since there is no objective
decomposition of spacetime into separate space and time components).
A given frequency of vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuation is given
in free space (in the absence of a gravitational field) by just the velocity
of light multiplied by the wavenumber of the fluctuation.
In a
gravitational field this frequency is given by the product of three factors:
the speed of light in vacuum, c, the wavenumber of the fluctuation,
1/lambda, and dimensionless functional with a spatial (and perhaps
temporal, as well) dependence which is determined by the spatial (and
perhaps, temporal) dependence of the 16 gravitational potentials, i.e., the
metric components, specified by the Einstein field equations. A Lorenz
transformation alters frequency and wavenumber in a complementary
manner to which it alters time and length. So although a Lorenz
transformation alters the vacuums frequency, it also alters the vacuums
wavenumber producing a null net effect on the energy density. So in a
gravitational field the density of the quantum vacuum is proportional to
the cube of the vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuation frequency
provided that the above functional is itself invariant under a Lorenz
transformation.
This is only possible if the multiplication of this
functional generally represents a transformation, which forms at least a
subgroup of the Lorenz transformation group. This is not possible
because the Lorenz group is itself a subgroup of the Diffeomorphism
group of general relativistic coordinate transformations.
new four potential with the same magnitude as the inertial free space
four potential.
that in the former case all of the fluctuations are in the form of 3momentum exchanges whereas in the latter they are entirely in the form
of 4-momentum exchanges, imaginary, and exclusively along the time
dimension. Between these two forms of Planck matter there subsists a
90-degree hyperspatial rotation in accordance with the symmetry of the
Lorenz group. There is a similar relationship obtaining between rest
mass and the collection of photons yielded up when this inert mass is
100% converted into energy, in accordance with E = mc**2. The
reason that energy possesses mass when subject to spatiotemporal
boundary conditions is that is that some of the energy is necessarily
converted into mass as a result of the boundary conditions imposed upon
this otherwise totally free energy. The reason that the black hole state
equation, if you will, places such a tight restriction upon the
relationships of mass and length or, rather, density and length, in this
case, whereas this restriction is utterly absent in the case of vacuum
energy, is no doubt owing to the imposed boundary conditions. We
may then think of mass as just vacuum energy with suitably imposed
boundary conditions, the dynamics of matter and vacuum being
otherwise essentially the same.
A tangled network of feedback loops of quantum vacuum fluctuation
momentum-energy constitutes the structure of matter.
Feedback
necessarily involves the action of memory.
There is feedback within a given data/information system and then this
feedback is itself continually being updated through nonlocal feedback
with some global, distributed system. This updating of the systems
internal, dynamical feedback structures may be thought of as the
feedback of that component of the system which is globally unified with
itself at different times.
Data are related synchronically while information may be thought of as
data related diachronically.
Note here that the synchronic cannot
become diachronic without participating in the history of its system.
fluctuating.
A tensor relates vector inputs and vector outputs. But what happens
within the black box is just exchanges of momentum and energy,
which are vector, rather than tensor qualities. Is it possible for tensor
fields to be reducible to some system of exchanges of vector impulse
(fluctuation) quantities which merely reconfigure themselves spatially
and temporally in a manner conveniently described by 2 nd and higher
rank tensor quantities? Can all tensors be built up out of scalar and
vector operations applied to scalar and vector field quantities? Still
more, can all higher rank tensors be built up from scalar quantities, say,
by adding dimensions and then projecting higher dimensional scalar
quantities down into lower dimensional, embedded spaces?
This is analogous to the case of four dimensional rotations of three
dimensional objects being equivalent (at the level of expectation values)
to disassembly and reassembly of a three dimensional object into its
mirror image (enantiomorph).
Intrinsic quantum uncertainty, what might be conveniently termed isouncertainty, is due to the presence of vacuum fluctuations.
The force acting on a photon escaping from a gravitational field is just
or
C.f.,
au=
Ostoma,
energy. July 2011 This could possibly play a role in the anomalously high
energies of some cosmic rays.
We may speak of mass as energy in its purely spatial aspect or mode.
Conversely, we may speak of energy as mass in its purely temporal
aspect. Gravitational energy cannot be included with all other energy
into a tensor: this quantity must be described in general relativity as a
pseudo tensor, which is an unconserved quantity. It is for this reason
that gravitational energy cannot be localized within GR theory.
An object with mass cannot, according to the theory of general relativity,
be indifferent to the passage of time. Even photons are not totally
indifferent to the passage of time provided that they traverse a space in
The notion of substance necessarily involves indifference to the passage
of time of substances. Do we see a way of deriving quantum mechanics
from general relativity, say, through a stochastic dynamic principle, i.e.,
where time is ineradicable within general relativity because of the way
this theory necessarily treats the concept of mass? The nonlocality of
quantum mechanics is strongly suggested by the essential nonlocality of
gravitational energy within general relativity theory.
But this time that is stimulated is not some universal, cosmic time, for
none such exists: intersubjective temporality is always reference frame
dependent nonlocal quantum time is not. Person as their own, private
nonlocally connected vacuum state w/ its own /\E, /\p, etc.
Is locality produced by the collective mutual interference of quantum
nonlocal systems? Eigenfunctions of the same Psi do not mutually
interfere because all are mutually orthogonal, but how can two
independent nonlocally connected quantum fields?
Your argument for a wrong potential energy term in the Schrodinger
equation seems based on the notion that imaginary velocity is
meaningless. You must know that imaginary velocity is a staple notion
within special relativity theory, e.g., the current density of electric
Regards,
Russell
The distinction of real versus virtual which, of course, comes out of
quantum field theory, is a binary opposition which cuts across the
opposition existence versus non-existence. If this is true, then existence
versus non-existence is not itself a binary opposition, i.e., existence and
nonexistence are not mutually exclusive categories. If not mutually
exclusive categories, then each category, that of existence and that of
non-existence, may be defined independently of the negation of the
other. This might be the case if existence and non-existence are
manifestations of some deeper system, e.g., that of Being. Since both
mathematical entities and physical objects possess Being although
mathematical entities themselves do not "exist", rather, they may be
thought of as "subsisting," Being is seen as a broader category than mere
Existence. Your theory seems to presuppose that existence and nonexistence are dual opposing, or, binary opposite or mutually exclusive
categories. But there seems no good reason for supposing this
presupposition correct.
Regards,
Russell
energy eigenstate.
Quantum mechanics from General Relativity.
Time-space versus here-now with each person having his or her own
time line. Is there gravity for the subjective spacetime?
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out of the quantum vacuum (the other) and the rate at which the mass
reconstitutes itself out of itself. February 2012 So can time dilation be more
intimately related to absolute 3 + 2 structure of spacetime in which local
temporality is governed by shifting in the components of 2d time within
a time plane? Is each time component weighted after the fashion of the
orthogonal components of a 2d wavefunction? On this view, extending
this notion of a model of hyperdimensional spacetime, the spatial
hypersurface would be structured by a sufficiently rich n-dimensional
temporal space, e.g., each gik in the metric tensor corresponding to a
distinct dimensional of absolute/simulation time.
Momentum fluctuations with energies identical to the transition energies
within the vacuum lattice. Apparently, with the exchange of virtual
bosons between real fermions occupying quantum states within the
vacuum. This exact correspondence between momentum and energy
fluctuations is broken. What symmetry is broken by the gravitational
field here?
So are virtual energy transitions decreased in density
allowing a higher current density of momentum fluctuations in the form
of boson exchanges?
In special relativity, spacetime is a closed system, but due to the
irreversibility and nonlinearity of general relativity and the nonlocality
of gravitational energy, gravitation opens up spacetime as it breaks its
Lorenz symmetry.
Information is not a function of a closed system and so is not a
conserved quantity.
Does this mean that an infinite amount of
information exists. Certainly an infinite quantity is not conserved.
This would only not be true if information is a component of some larger
quantity that is conserved.
When we say that a quantity is not conserved, we might mean either that
it passes away or can be destroyed or that it can be created or that it
keeps coming back, i.e., spontaneously reappearing that it fluctuates
in an unpredictable manner.
independent of the vacuum. Here matter resides in this vacuum and the
structure of the vacuum is perturbed by the presence of matter, more
specifically, the structure of matter imposes the pattern of its structure
upon that of the vacuum or upon the structure of its pattern of
fluctuating.
rate constitutes the refresh rate for non-cohesive pixel sets; for
cohesive pixel sets, the refresh rate for the structure is less than the CPU
clock rate) may be likened to special and general relativistic effects,
respectively.
Higgs boson as a particle physics metaphorical particle. Photon mass
determined by gravitational size, i.e., black hole radius of the Universe
and would be related to the breakdown of perfect Lorenz invariance.
What type of new conservation principle is pointed to by
supersymmetry?
Dynamical symmetry breaking requires a composite Higgs particle,
perhaps virtual Cooper pairs of fermion/ antifermion pairs.
Supersymmetry entails several Higgs bosons, perhaps all of the various
types of virtual fermion/antifermion pairs which are manifestations of
the fundamental energy fluctuations of the quantum vacuum.
Spin appears to be the most ubiquitous property of particles, both matter
particles as well as the particles responsible for mediating all of the
fundamental forces of nature. Spin is an essential consideration in all
interactions among subatomic particles. So the equivalence principle
should be consistent with a spin-based theory of quantum gravity, rather
than an electromagnetic-based theory such as that put forward by
Haisch, Rueda, and Puthoff. In fact, the spin of a planet is the sum of
the spins and angular momenta of all its elementary particles. But can
angular momentum itself be ultimately reducible to subatomic particle
spins? (c.f., web=cit=www.sciam.com/askexpert/physics/physics10.html
page 2)
Spin, circular motion, accelerated motion, spin networks, symmetry of
rotation (not just in space, but in spacetime), symmetry and conservation
laws (of interaction)
Loops in space interwoven with loops in time in an elastic, dynamic
network of interactions.
A maximum density of momentum exchanges in matter would imply a
minimum current density of imaginary 4-momentum exchanges.
Is a time interval being so small that time looses its meaning the same
thing as quantized time?
Is vacuum lattice gravity theory related to spin network gravity theory?
conservation
of
physical
High density vacuum field comes from a gauge transformation of the Psi
associated with the cosmological constant.
If spin is for a fermion formally similar to polarization for a photon, then
several questions at once arise. Can this similarity be extended to other
vector bosons?
If a lower limit can be placed on pseudo gravitational effects caused by
the interaction of mass and vacuum quantum statistics large enough to
observed so that no deviation from geodesic motion is observable, then
this mechanism must be the one underlying gravity itself. In other
words, if the predicted effects are large enough to be observed but are
not in fact observed, then the theory is an alternate account for effects
already familiarly observed.
The vacuum must possess a spin 2 gauge symmetry such that the
presence of gravitons remains latent or is rendered unnecessary.
Normally, the spin and spin 1 wavefunctions cannot be superposed
and therefore cannot interact.
Symmetry breaking, phase transition, vacuum decay, gauge bosons, etc.
Matter perturbs the symmetry of the vacuum.
The fact that composite matter cannot exist as virtual particles suggests
that it is only ocmposite matter, i.e., matter possessing a binding energy
over and above that of the vacuum constituting the elementary particles
separately. This fact suggests that the particle vacuum fields do not,
in isolation, possess distinct gravitational fields.
Relative versus absolute spacetime rotations are important in connection
with spin statistics.
During uniform acceleration, the space and time axes are displaced by
twice the angle relative to one another as does each axis displaces
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Of course, strictly speaking, this type of creation/annihilation is only
possible if the virtual molecule/anti-molecule pair collectively constitute
a spin zero particle. (It may be possible to understand spin 0 as
being spin about the particles local time axis and spin 1 being spin
about an axis oriented in some way in the 3-dimensional space to which
the local time axis is orthogonal). Such tiny systems could be
consistently and exhaustively described with quantum theory by some
finite set of quantum numbers, being in this way indistinguishable from
any other system defined by the same quantum numerical set. These
quantum numbers, as such, index observables, which are conserved
physical quantities. But we know that at some point reversibility is lost
and this must take place when the structure can no longer be produced
from out of the vacuum in a single go, but must be cobbled together
from a number of such vacuum-engendered particles which are to exist
in some kind of bound structure maintained through exchanges of
momentum between all of those particles (which emerged from the
vacuum in a single step). This might well be due to there being no
definable anti-entity with which the entity can annihilate so as to
return the pair to the quantum vacuum from which they had originated.
We may suppose that it is here that physical processes describable in
terms of nonconserved quantities come into play. Is it at this point that
the phenomena of inertia and gravitation emerge or become significant?
extension, so as to not
be stressed by gravitational field inhomogeneities; just how short
depending on strength
of local curvatures and on measurement error (Torretti (1983), 239),
c.f., Early Philosophical Interpretations of General Relativity (Nov 28,
2001). Reichenbach's analysis of spacetime measurement treatment
is plainly inappropriate, manifesting a fallacious tendency to view the
generically curved spacetimes of general relativity as stiched together
from little bits of flat Minskowski spacetimes. Besides being
mathematically inconsistent, this procedure offers no way of providing a
non-metaphorical physical meaning for the fundamental metrical tensor
g, the central theoretical concept of general relativity, nor to the series
of curvature tensors derivable from it and its associated affine
connection. Since these sectional curvatures at a point of spacetime are
empirically manifested and the curvature components can be measured,
e.g., as the tidal forces of gravity, they can hardly be accounted as due to
conventionally adopted "universal forces". Furthermore, the concept of
an "infinitesimal rigid rod" in general relativity cannot really be other
than the interim stopgap Einstein recognized it to be. For it cannot
actually be "rigid" due to these tidal forces; in fact, the concept of a
"rigid body" is already forbidden in special relativity as allowing
instantaneous causal actions, c.f., Ibid.
A hollow sphere filled with electromagnetic radiation, i.e., photons,
possesses an additional mass equal to the total energy of the photons
divided by the speed of light squared, solely due to the impulsive forces
and accelerations experienced by the photons as they bounce around
inside the sphere. Of course, from the DeBroglie relation, p = h/
the red shifting of photons moving in the direction of the spheres
motion and the blue shifting of photons moving in the direction contrary
to this motion, we can easily deduce that when the sphere is uniformly
accelerated, there will result an increasing differential of impulsive
momenta developing between the red and blue shifted photons. In other
words, the instantaneous change in this momentum differential with
respect to time will correspond to a force, F = d(/\p)/dt, which will
-varying
eigenfunctions fully accounts for the uncertainty in the lifetime. I was
just trying to say that,
of H.
A Theory of Everything would be able to determine the true
Hamiltonian, H, for any system, including for the whole Universe.
Such a theory would render any energy fluctuation term in H, H(fluc), a
mere phenomenological artifact of our previous ignorance of the correct
refinement of quantum theory, A TDE would convert the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle into a purely epistemological principle. Such a
system would possess no fundamental fluctuations because it would
possess no indeterminate outside with which it could be in the process
of dynamically exchanging energy. In such a situation, the power
input to the Universe as a whole would be identically 0.
It is hard to conceive of how anything could ever happen within such a
zero power input device. In short, It is hard to conceive how a
Universe with zero power input could be rightfully said to possess any
real temporality, beside endlessly repeating patterns of interference
between a closed set of time-independent eigenfunctions.
If in an attempt to accelerate by mechanical means a perfectly spherical
mass leads not to a change in the location of this bodys center of mass
in the direction along which we would attempt to make it move, but
instead, to a supefluid-like streaming of its composite material around
the hand and between the fingers which together would urge it forward,
potentially constituting.
The only way that nonlocality can be consistent with special relativity
would be if the instantaneous determination of spins (for oppositely
spun particles) were instantaneous not just in the experimenters frame
of reference, i.e., laboratory frame, but in all possible reference frames!
The present astrophysical observations indicating a general acceleration
of the cosmological expansion would seem to imply that a
hyperspherical potential does, indeed, exist. This potential possesses a
gradient along the local time axes at every point within spacetime.
Might gravitational potentials ultimately derive from the local
hyperspherical potential through the peculiar interaction of massive
particles, or more generally, energy in bound form, i.e., binding energy,
with this potential?
The balance maintained between the current density of 3-momentum
fluctuations/exchanges and the current density of energy
fluctuations/exchanges accounts for the trend of cosmological expansion
in its 2nd time derivative. So if the expansion rate of the universe is
accelerating (within observable 3 dimensions), then there must be a shift
in the momentum-energy distribution of the vacuum such that the
density of its 3-momentum exchanges is decreasing (bodies are
becoming less massive) and the density of its energy increasing. The
dynamics of the cosmological expansion, whether it is overall
accelerating or decelerating, is attributed to the relative strengths of the
cosmological constant (the vacuum energy density) and the gravitational
energy of the universe.
The sort of force that changes the distribution of momentum-energy
without altering the magnitude of the four momentum is one with a four
force magnitude of 0.
Is probability conserved in the dispersion equation?
Psis are
Minkowski spacetime solutions to Diracs equation. So gravity is
Live and Dead cat do not constitute, however, different states of the
same system. But isnt that what is really required in order for a
superposition to exist?
quantity. This trend away from the notion of substance and toward that
of flux is much further advanced within the quantum theory and still
more within relativistic quantum field theory, in which, as noted
elsewhere, even energy itself is no longer treated as perfectly but only
approximately conserved, that is, on the average, i.e., over sufficiently
large time intervals. One might well wonder what indeed is the relevant
conserved quantity within quantum field theory, if it is not to be energy,
that is, what serves as the conserved substance within this theory. This
conserved quantity is probability.
We should note here that neither is energy strictly speaking conserved
within classical general relativity (as gravitational energy is not
localizable within this theory) so that no consistent energy continuity
equation can be written down as a tensor differential equation; only a
pseudo tensor equation of continuity may be written down for the total
energy - an equation which is, therefore reference frame dependent.
. The sychronization of causally connected events is not as subtle as that
of nonlocally connected events. Since superposition effects are required
for objects to possess macroscopic properties, we do not expect such
objects to be capable of forming superposition states themselves. This is
similar to the argument against the existence of spacetime constitutive
processes taking place within a particular spacetime continuum.
Quantum indistinguishability and the identity of particles of like kinds is
perhaps related to the distinction between the unitary evolution and the
objective reduction of the wavefunction. The hydrogen atom is the only
atom on the periodic chart for which an exact solution for Schrodingers
equation exists. At what level in the hierarchy of matter does the
identity of individuals of a kind break down? The very identity of all
electrons, protons, neutrons, and other fundamental particles strongly
suggests that these particles are not real, but mere abstractions.
We cannot give the concept of conservation any coherent formulation
for open, unbounded systems. Neither can any continuity equation be
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Now fluctuations in the energy of the quantum vacuum must be
extremely violent before expecting any gravitational effects. In other
words, the energy of the vacuum fluctuations must approach the Planck
energy before we are forced to give consideration to Quantum Gravity
theory. But again, it is at precisely this stage at which spacetime
topology begins fluctuate non-negligibly and potential source terms for
Ti,k begin to "slip through the cracks." Considerations such as this may
provide a natural explanation for the alleged high energy cutoff of the
gravitational source term within theories such as Sakharov's.
QQ: Is establishment of the global spacetime metric equivalent to the
establishment of a spacetime topology?
No. 1/98
6/97 Because causal relationships are always describable in terms of
sets of differential equations, these relationships must be supposed to
inhere within a continuously differentiable manifold of determinate
topological structure. Alterations in the topology of a continuously
differentiable manifold cannot be described by a set of differential
equations definable on the original manifold. This is why we do not
expect that the energies of the submicroscopic topological fluctuations
may comprise a contribution to a gravitational source term in the
Einstein field equations.
A supermanifold must ground the
transformation of one topology into another nonequivalent topology
such that this topological inequivalence is ultimately reducible within
the supermanifold of higher order topological structure which remains
constant throughout the lower order topological transformation. The
formalism of General Relativity is not equipped to describe such a
topological supermanifold.
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This reminds us of attempts to ground the discontinuous change
in the wavefunction which in between measurements evolves
deterministically according to the Schrodinger equation of motion in
. The point is that this idea leads to an infinite regress if we assume that
the brain represents a closed system. A so-called state can only possess
a concrete, as opposed to a merely abstract, significance if it is placed
within an open context, itself not consistently treatable as a state or
superstate, if you will. The attempt to impose a state description upon a
temporally evolving dynamic, i.e., a open system, leads to a system
which changes its state nondeterministically. The origin of the
fluctuation Hamiltonian of a quantum mechanical system owes generally
to describing the system with a merely approximate Hamiltonian leading
to an approximate system wavefunction. The system undergoes
transitions between its various approximate eigenenergies due to the
outside influence of the fluctuation Hamiltonian, Hfluc. The quantum
system with its fluctuation Hamiltonian is just an abstraction from the
open-ended energy context of the quantum vacuum field itself, for when
all sources of real particles and fields have been taken into account in the
construction of the system Hamiltonian, a certain small fluctuation term
remains which cannot be absorbed into the system Hamiltonian so as to
define a purely time-independent system. This fluctuation term is owing
to the existence of a quantum vacuum zero-point energy field. It is this
term, what we will call, Hzpf, which prevents any quantum system from
ever existing in a true energy eigenstate with ,
=
-i
0e
And this is why we have been saying that the fluctuations in vacuum
energy are the cause of the time-dependent evolution of quantum
systems generally.
Local causal interactions obtain between the expectation values of given
physical observables. Nonlocal causal interactions obtain between the
instantaneous values of physical observables, i.e., is responsible for the
existence of correlations between fluctuations. Expectation values of an
observable can only be defined when the wavefunction in question, from
which these values are derived, is bounded in space and time.
Measurement of a quantum mechanical observable presupposes the
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12/96
No massive body can travel faster than the velocity of light
because there is no stable, continuously existing medium, as in the case
of the "still air" for sound, which supports the propagation of light.
Rather, the quantum mechanical vacuum, specifically the quantum
vacuum electromagnetic field, "supports" the propagation of real
electromagnetic waves, i.e., real photons, in the particle description.
This medium supportive of the transmission of light is composed of
vacuum fluctuations of momentum-energy otherwise known as zeropoint fluctuations of the vacuum. This quantum vacuum cannot serve as
per second, and the pixel (assumed to be square) dimension is, say, 100
microns ( 10-4) meters, then the theoretical limit to how fast a pixelsized "represented object" may move across the computer monitor is
about 108 x 10-4 = 104 meters/sec. This is an extremely high velocity,
and the actual practical limit is probably several orders of magnitude
smaller than this figure, say, around 10 meters/sec for an average sized
icon. The reason for this difference in the theoretical and practical limits
in the "represented object," velocity, or the "representational velocity"
for a particular computer monitor we will go into in greater detail a little
later. Suffice to say here that the crux of the problem of the finite limit
on propagation speed has everything to do with the fact that the
"objects" which we have been considering are, in reality, not objects at
all, but are merely "represented objects," or "object representations." As
long as one supposes, perhaps unreflectingly, that "physical objects" are
hard and massy, composed of some simple, undifferentiated "stuff"
which persists through time indefinitely because quite indifferent to the
"passage of time," and as long as one conceives of space as a "veritable
emptiness" through which matter may indifferently pass, then the idea of
an absolute limit to the velocity of masses through "the void" must seem
as arbitrary as the gravitational action between masses separated by an
empty void seems inherently mysterious. But according to modern
quantum theory, all operators corresponding to physical observables are
decomposable in terms of two fundamental operators, `A and `At, the
annihilation and creation operators. This is what is called the 2nd
quantization formalism, and this theory supplants the semi-classical,
"old quantum theory" of Bohr, Rutherford, and Planck. The so-called
"solar system" model of the atom which is still being taught in high
schools throughout the advanced, industrialized world is an outstanding
artifact of this early version of quantum theory. Thus far, the analogy
with the computer strongly suggests the type of mechanism which may
lie behind the universal speed limit represented by the velocity of light if
one associates the pixel length and (clock rate)-1 with the inherent
length and time scales of spacetime, /\x and /\t, if, indeed, these exist.
This would be possible if the energy and momentum uncertainties, /\E
and /\p, which engender /\x, /\t, could be traced to the fluctuating
and equally present both before and after the disintegration took place:
the vacuum energy term of the Hamiltonian. The influence of the
vacuum energy term of the Hamiltonian is probably generally
responsible for the phenomenon of entanglement of widely separated
quantum states which had previously interacted.
The nonlocal
connectivity of the local vacuum energy terms in the Hamiltonians of the
quantum states, considered separately, may provide the mechanism for
such entanglement of quantum states.
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Perhaps the same wavefunction describes the products of the
disintegration because the total energy of the products remains the same
as that of the particle just prior to the disintegration event and what
makes this possible is a change in the vacuum energy term of the
Hamiltonian which compensates the changes to all the other energy
terms, conserving the total energy. Or perhaps, rather, the change in
energy "causing" the disintegration, because <= /\E, cannot be detected
because energy perturbation possessed a duration of < /\t?
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An alternate way to view the breakdown of the Minkowski
lightcone description, which seems to imply, by the way, that gravitation
must be taken into account over submicroscopic distances and times, is
to think of c representing the actual infinitesimal/instantaneous value of
the velocity of light with the boundaries between "here-now" and
"elsewhere" remaining well-defined all the way to the vertex, but with
greater and greater fluctuations in momentum and energy as one
approaches this vertex. The breakdown of the Minkowski description is
now represented in terms of exchanges of energy between the absolute
past and absolute future and exchanges of momentum between the
"here-now" region and the "elsewhere" region.
5/97 This alternative description of the breakdown of the Minkowski
lightcone description replaces the more traditional interpretation of this
breakdown where the spacetime boundaries defining the cone's vertex
experience geometrodynamic fluctuations in the topology of
submicroscopic spacetime which some theorists have tried to understand
Now it just so happens that one way of expressing the speed of light is in
terms of /\x and /\t, that is,
c = < c > = /\x//\t
In order for one to travel a measurable distance relative to a given
vacuum fluctuation, one must be able to travel a distance, x, > /\x within
the time, /\t, that the fluctuation is in existence. This is merely to say,
that one must begin traveling at a velocity greater than c before one's
motion becomes measurable relative to the physical vacuum. But of
course one must, presumably, first have attained sub-light velocities
relative to this physical vacuum before actually reaching c and beyond.
Now if one's velocity is not measurable relative to the reservoir of
vacuum fluctuations, then how can one's acceleration relative to these
fluctuations be measurable or have a physical meaning? If the value of
some variable is constant, then surely its first time derivative is zero. So
if the velocity of the observer is necessarily zero relative to vacuum
fluctuations, then one's acceleration relative to these same fluctuations
must also be zero. By Einstein's equivalence principle, then neither can
the vacuum accelerate relative to any distributions of mass and energy
within spacetime. This simply means that a given mass cannot exert a
gravitational force upon the vacuum fluctuations, nor can the vacuum
fluctuations exert any gravitational influence upon masses.
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One of the effects of a gravitational field is that the vacuum
actually acquires a mass because the alteration in the vacuum statistics
induced by a mass distribution falls off only gradually with distance with the inverse-square in the case of spherical mass distributions. The
density of momentum fluctuations ( in the form of the vector boson
exchange particles ) in the quantum vacuum is greater than its free space
value in the vicinity of mass distributions. Similarly, the density of
energy fluctuations in the form of the density of virtual
fermion/antifermion creation-annihilation events within the vicinity of
these mass distributions is correspondingly decreased. Since the density
of the Heisenberg uncertainty in 3-momentum increases with closing
distance to a given massive body, we should expect a net field
momentum of the vacuum in the direction of the body's centroid of
mass. At the same time, the Heisenberg uncertainty in the vacuum's
purely imaginary component of its 4-momentum should decrease in the
direction of the centroid of mass of this body. Another way of looking
at this is to think of the virtual fermion/antifermion pairs as having two
different interpretations: they may be viewed either as an energy
fluctuation or as a momentum fluctuation (photon, in the case of an
electron/positron pair)
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Charles H. Henry
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636
Rudolf F. Kazarinov
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Breinigsville, PA 18031-9359
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the well.
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We will refer to the vector potential as the "field." There is also current
induced by the field. Just as in classical theory, the induced current can
be approximated as proportional to the field and included in the wave
equation by a dielectric function. The solution of this equation is a field
radiating from the atom and carrying away energy. It appears that an
electron in its ground state will lose energy.
II. Vacuum Fields
This energy loss is prevented by the other source of quantum noise:
vacuum fields. The field of radiation can be expanded in modes. In free
space, the modes are transverse plane waves of all wavelengths and
propagating in all directions. The field of each mode oscillates
sinusoidally at the mode frequency like a simple harmonic oscillator. It
is well known that a quantum treatment of a mechanical simple
harmonic oscillator results in an evenly spaced set of energy levels. By
assuming that the mode field amplitude and its time derivative are
operators with commutation rules similar to those of position and
momentum, the mode also acquires an evenly spaced set of energy
levels (Fig. 2a). Each energy level is interpreted as a different number of
photons in the mode.
Figure 2: Energy levels of an optical mode (a) and electron energy levels
in a semiconductor (b). The positive frequency field and spontaneous
current operators are lowering operators, while their Hemitian
conjugates are raising operators.
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of magnetic and electric fields of the mode, which are proportional to the
vector potential and its time derivative. Like the atomic ground state, the
mode ground state of zero photons has an uncertainty related fluctuation
associated with it, the field of "vacuum fluctuations," and these
fluctuations raise the energy of the ground state above the minimum
classical mode energy of zero.
The atom that is losing energy in its ground state is bombarded by
vacuum fields of the continuum of modes of the surrounding space.
Some of this energy is absorbed by the atom and it can be shown that
this absorption exactly cancels the energy loss by the radiation of
spontaneous currents, stabilizing the atomic ground state [1].
When the electron is in an excited state, vacuum fields are not absorbed
but instead stimulate spontaneous emission. The radiation emitted by the
spontaneous current is also spontaneous emission, so spontaneous
emission has two sources. Dalibard et al. [1] have argued that the two
sources contribute equally to the spontaneous emission rate.
III. Shot Noise
As an example of how vacuum fields and spontaneous currents create
noise, consider a noise free optical signal traveling down an absorbing
optical waveguide (Fig. 3). The signal field is attenuated. The incident
vacuum field is also attenuated, but is replenished by spontaneous
current emission from the absorbing electrons within the waveguide.
The beating of the signal field with the vacuum fields causes fluctuations
in the energy flux. When the signal is detected by an opaque
photodetector, these fluctuations account for the shot noise observed in
the photocurrent.
photodetector.
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when we divide the field and current operators into their positive and
negative frequency parts. This can also be done for a classical field.
Because the field is real, the positive and negative frequency parts are
complex conjugates:
where, by convention, e iw t is a positive frequency. The product of the
positive and negative frequency fields is just the product of two complex
numbers and does not depend on their order.
A similar division can be made for field and current operators. Because
the average values of these operators are real, the negative frequency
operators are the Hermitian conjugates of the positive frequency ones
and are written with a dagger. It can be shown for vacuum fields that the
"normally ordered" average of the product, with the positive frequency
field to the right, is zero, whereas it is not zero for the other order.
Similarly, the normally ordered correlation function of spontaneous
current for electrons in the ground state is zero. For an excited state, the
other order of correlation function is zero.
The reason why these averages are zero can be found by examining the
matrix elements of Heisenberg operators between a pair of energy levels,
illustrated in Fig. 2(a) + (b). Only frequency components at the
transition frequency of the levels contribute to the matrix element. The
positive frequency Heisenberg operators act like lowering operators and
only have matrix elements for downward transitions, while the negative
frequency Heisenberg operators act as raising operators. The normally
ordered averages within the ground state are zero because there are no
levels below the ground state to lower to. Similarly, the spontaneous
current correlation function is zero in the excited state because, for
spontaneous current frequencies of interest, there are no levels above the
excited state to raise to.
V. Transition to Classical Langevin Forces in a Laser
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order-independent averages.
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VII. Summary
Spontaneous currents and vacuum fields are complementary sources of
quantum noise. Together, they account for the stability of electronic
ground states, spontaneous emission, shot noise and the transition from
quantum to classical noise that occurs in lasers and amplifiers. A broader
discussion of quantum noise in photonics, including derivations of these
results, is given in our review [2]. We can provide a reprint of this paper
to anyone interested in this subject.
References
1. J. Dalibard, J. Dupont-Roc and C. Cohen-Tannoudji, "Vacuum
fluctuations and radiative reaction: identification of their respective
contributions" J. Phys. (Paris) vol. 43, 1617 (1982).
2. C. H. Henry and R. F. Kazarinov, ``Quantum noise in photonics'',
Rev. Mod. Phys., vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 801-853, (1996)
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Brian,
CUlater,
Russell
IMPLICATIONS OF NON-CONSTANT LIGHT VELOCITY
Dear Brian,
As you might well imagine, I'm very pleased, indeed, that the
neutrino has been discovered to have a mass of not less than 0.07 eV and
probably closer to 0.1 eV! I always strongly suspected that the neutrino
possessed a small mass since it's a spin 1/2 particle which perturbs the
statistics of the quantum vacuum just as much as does an electron or
quark. And since we've been saying that the gravitational effects of
matter stem from this matter vacuum spin coupling, fermions through
the Pauli Principle and bosons through the complementary "Pauli
Inclusion Principle", provided, of course, that the bosons are localized
through the imposing of appropriate boundary conditions.
On the question about the mass of freely traveling, "unbound"
photons though, I have to ask myself, "Wouldnt one expect that an
extremely high flux laser beam would enhance the probability of
vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuations of the same energy, helicity,
and polarization, that is to say, of the same quantum state as the photons
of the beam, at least in the space within or very near to this beam? One
might answer that, well if the photons are being absorbed and re-emitted
by virtual atoms within this vacuum, then maybe. Virtual atoms?
Virtual dogs and cats? Can only truly fundamental particles "exist" as
fluctuations within the vacuum? Is that the test of fundamental
particlehood, to be reproducible as a vacuum momentum or energy
fluctuation? Interesting question, I think. Don't you?
nu_timeline.html at www.phys.hawaii.edu
practically speaking, the cursor, if you will, could move across the
computer screen no faster than, say, 10 meters/second, rather than the
theoretical figure for an individual pixel of 104 meters/second. To a first
order of approximation, this is due to the fact that the cursor is made up
of roughly 200 individual pixels and that what the computer is actually
doing when one pulls the cursor across the screen utilizing a mouse is
moving each of the 200 pixels across the screen simultaneously. This is
effectively 200 times as many "calculations," consuming a minimum of
one clock cycle each of CPU time in moving a pixel a distance of 1
pixel. So apparently there is a price to pay for maintaining the
coherence of the cursor (as a single "object") so that it does not distort or
change shape as one pulls it rapidly across the computer screen. It is as
though each of the pixels is a "gnat," to borrow still another analogy, and
if the "swarm" of gnats (the group of pixels making up the cursor) is to
move as a unit, then there has to be some kind of coordination, in terms
of information (or energy) exchanges between the gnats so that when
one gnat takes the lead and moves in a new direction (because it is the
first to see an approaching obstacle, say) the other gnats must get the
word quickly enough so that the swarm can change direction as a whole
without deforming in shape.
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Inertial mass may be based in the density of momentum
exchanges taking place between the various subatomic particles and
quantum fields composing a given mass, while gravitational mass may
be based in the density of energy exchanges taking place between these
subatomic particles and quantum fields and the quantum vacuum field.
The equivalence of inertial and gravitational masses may be an artifact
of the conservation of momentum-energy uncertainty or the
conservation of virtual momentum and energy as a momentum-energy
fluctuation four vector within four dimensional spacetime.
7/97 It is only nonzero expectation values of momentum-energy which
may possess gravitational or inertial mass.
And what contributes to
this mass is any boundary conditions placed upon the quantum vacuum
field which alters this field so that the momentum fluctuations and
fermions of integral 1/2 spin to the spins of virtual bosons and fermions.
The particle manifestations of the vacuum momentum-energy
fluctuations may be incorporated into the view of the earlier stated
mechanism of inertia/gravitation alluded to in the paragraph
immediately above. It is through the spin-coupling of real and virtual
particles that the momentum current density components are altered
from their diagonal 2nd rank tensor distribution to a non-diagonal
component distribution of this momentum energy which underlies
manifest gravitational fields. The theory of "squeezed states," where the
uncertainties in momentum along a particular axis are increased by
borrowing momentum uncertainty from along other orthogonal axes,
may provide the necessary mathematical framework within which the
effects of matter upon vacuum momentum-energy uncertainty may be
adequately described: matter affects the quantum vacuum by inducing a
broadening of the vacuum's momentum uncertainty by utilizing
fluctuation energy provided by the vacuum's uncertain energy.
8/96 This may be described in terms of the rotation of the matter +
vacuum momentum current density tensor. A second rank tensor
multiplied by this diagonal momentum current density four vector would
produce the appropriate connection between this four vector at points in
spacetime infinitesimally contiguous with one another. Such a 2nd rank
tensor must somehow be assimilated to the metric tensor of general
relativity. Instantaneous correlations would manifest themselves as
abrupt departures from locally deterministic causality and could
constitute an explanation for the existence of Heisenberg energy
uncertainty. I think that there is no doubt that if the basic framework of
Special Relativity is to be maintained, then we are forced to accept an
origin for nonlocal correlations which lies completely outside four
dimensional spacetime. These nonlocal correlations must always
comprise causal interactions and so never be explicable in terms of
them. We know that a photon traveling though free space experiences
an acceleration due to the cosmological expansion, and that this
acceleration is equal to Hc, where H is Hubble's constant and c is the
speed of light in vacuum. Therefore, if a typical spherical mass is
P*dV ,
to
f,
where P
MH2rdr
-1/3
dr
=
-1/3 x 3root x [3/4m/4 ] x
-4/3 d
If one performs this work integral one finds that the energy necessary to
expand neutron-packet of unbound neutron mass-energy is precisely,
E = G(Mneutron)2/R,
so that the energy necessary to prevent this expansion is
E = -G(Mneutron)2/R.
This result is, of course, provided that the mass density of the universe is
given by the formula,
= 3/4H2 G
This formula for the mass density of the Universe is implied by an
equality of magnitude of the kinetic energy and gravitational binding
energy of the Universe as a whole. This equality constitutes a proposed
solution to the so-called "flatness problem" of cosmological theory.
Our postulate states, in essence, only that the total gravitational potential
and kinetic energies are equal. The postulate is not a mere arbitrary
assumption however, as it is supported by the principle of energy
equipartation. However, this principle can only be applied if it is
assumed that there exists some form of energy which acts as a medium
physically linking these two types of energy, i.e., the energy of position
with the energy of momentum, in order that the equilibrium between
them can be maintained through mutual energy exchanges - in much
the same way that the rotational and vibrational energies of gas
molecules maintain a balance through continual exchange of kinetic
energy between these molecules through random collisions.
5/97 A ready candidate for this medium connecting the gravitational
potential and kinetic energies of particles, for example, is the fluctuating
component of the Hamiltonian for the quantum system in question. As
stated earlier, this fluctuation component of the Hamiltonian cannot be
"screened." This fluctuation component of the Hamiltonian may be
thought of as the product of its space and time components, H(r) and
H(t). This Hamiltonian is, of course, only and average, <H(r,t)>. There
are three basic types of interaction for this system: exchanges of
momentum/energy between the parts of the system entirely among
themselves, exchanges of momentum/energy between the system and
other similar systems, and exchanges of momentum/energy between the
system and its fluctuation Hamiltonian.
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The equation, constant = p*p + r*r, seems to imply that p and r may
both be incompatible observables despite the absence of fluctuations in
the sum, p*p + r*r. But if one looks at this equation, one immediately
realizes that it is the equation of a circle in phase space. But a circle in
phase space represents a precisely defined trajectory in phase space
which, in turn, implies that p and r, though each uncertain in an
epistemological sense, must at any moment both possess precise values.
And this fact would contradict the thesis of ps and rs incompatibility as
observers. 07/98
= 3c4/4 R2G
so that,
S = e-1
where S is the entropy and e is the energy density of the black hole,
respectively. Consequently, if the energy density of the vacuum is equal
to the energy density of black hole masses, then the entropy of the
vacuum should increase with decreasing vacuum energy density. We
believe that the energy density of the vacuum is equal to the effective
energy density of black holes because the radial outward pressure of the
vacuum, Pvac, must be 0 at the event horizon surface of a black hole and
the vacuum obeys the equation of state, namely, e vac = Pvac.
Furthermore, as already stated elsewhere, eo = emass + evac. because
there is no fundamental distinction between creating mass from the
vacuum energy locally available within a particular region of spacetime
and importing already existing mass from outside this region of
spacetime into this region because, in turn, matter particles may not be
thought of as having a permanent, continuous existence after the manner
of the substances of Aristotelian physics; this follows from the fact that
there is no real distinction between relativistic and non-relativistic mass.
Pvac must be 0 here because the matter composing a black hole may
exchange energy only with itself; it exchanges no energy with the
vacuum energy field outside its event horizon. ematter = eo in this
particular case and, as well, evac = Pvac = 0. Again, half of the massenergy contained within the black hole is due solely to the general
relativistic increase in mass which had accumulated once the hole had
formed.
e = eo{1 - GM/RC2},
where
eo = 3c4/4piGR2.
Generalizing this result, we may say that the maximum rate of increase
in the entropy of the vacuum is parallel to the direction along which the
decrease in the vacuum's energy density is maximal. In so-called free
space, the direction along which the maximal decrease in the vacuum's
energy density exists is along the ict axis; in other words, the vacuum
energy density varies in a purely temporal manner in free space.
Therefore, the so-called thermodynamic arrow of time points in a
direction orthogonal (in free space) to any 3 dimensional rectangular
system of coordinates describing an inertial frame of reference;
moreover, a gravitational field is associated with an alteration in the
orientation of the thermodynamic arrow of time because a component of
the direction of the maximally increasing vacuum entropy now points
radially inward - in the simple case of spherical masses. The thermal
particle creation which is observed to occur within accelerated reference
frames is a manifestation of a creation/annihilation process which is
normally balanced in the free space vacuum but which is unbalanced
within the accelerated frame.
In the presence of a gravitational
potential, the arrow of time possesses a component along the vacuum
energy density gradient so that a new time axis is defined within this
new vacuum which exactly corresponds to this new time axis as defined
within the general theory of relativity as applied to the Minkowski light
cone.
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The second law of thermodynamics only applies to physical
processes taking place within a closed system which is in interaction
with an infinite heat reservoir. The 2nd Law does not, however, apply to
open thermodynamics systems since in these systems no global
thermodynamic arrow of time can be consistently defined. Such
thermodynamic arrows can only be defined locally. This reminds us of
how standing waves cannot form in containers of infinite size. So the
concept of a particle, which is itself just a Gaussian packet of superposed
standing waves, can only possess validity in a local sense; globally
speaking, the notion of a particle does not refer to anything which
possesses ultimate reality, but an abstraction grounded in a low order
approximation. See Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime and
Black Hole Thermodynamics by Robert M. Wald, Chicago University
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Deterministic change can only be a phenomenal appearance since either
the deterministic phenomena are the play of projections from
determinate objects from within higher dimensional spaces containing
our space or the phenomena conceal an indeterminism at a deeper level
behind the appearances.
In the same way that the continual creation
and destruction of a circular disk confined to a two dimensional sphere
may be thought of as the continuous penetration or projection of a three
dimensional cylinder orthogonally through this two dimensional
spherical surface, we may model the continual process of creation and
annihilation of spherical massive bodies as the continuous penetration or
projection of hypercylindrical bodies orthogonally through a three
dimensional hypersurface constituting normal three dimensional space.
If massive bodies were composed of permanent, continuously existing
substance, there would be no reason to postulate the existence of an
additional 4th spatial axis associated with the dimension of time. It is
the energy of matter's continual re-creation of itself which constitutes the
latent energy of matter, E = mc2. When a material body is uniformly
accelerated, the body is no longer re-creating itself along the time
dimension alone, but must be considered to be in the act of re-creating
itself along two orthogonal component directions: part of the energy of
re-creation is associated with a momentum in the direction the body is
accelerating, and the remaining part of this re-creation energy is
associated with the body's momentum in a direction orthogonal to this
acceleration vector, and moreover, orthogonal to the 3 dimensional
space (instantaneous inertial frame) which it occupies at any given
moment. Our question at this juncture, then, is: is there any reason for
treating a 4th spatial dimension as being ontologically real, rather than
as just an abstract entity within a particular formalization of special
relativity? Yes. We list them below.
1) Conservation of vacuum momentum.
energy is supplied to the vacuum, the structures which are produced are
simply those which are the most probable and hence the simplest. More
exotic configurations of matter may be produced if energy is supplied to
the vacuum field while it is experiencing "improbable" fluctuation
patterns. These so-called improbable fluctuations are simply those
which possess a more fleeting existence as they are complex with larger
aggregate virtual field energy. The above highlighted text may not be in
agreement with earlier comments concerning the irreversibility of
particle production-particle destruction in accelerated frames of
reference and inconsistent with the statement that proof of absence of
local connectivity is the presence of nonlocal connectivity and much
later comments concerning the distinction between anticipated versus
unanticipated structures created from vacuum in a single fluctuation
step versus created in a series of fluctuation steps some of which must be
spacelike, June 2011 c.f., PessoaWhatever cant be done in a single burst
suffers from the unevenness of our spirit. So is there a subtle
intersubjectivity within subjectivity involved in the collaboration of our
ever so slightly different selves, which is necessitated by one and ones
project being stretched out over time, that is past the time horizon of a
single inspiration or insight?
In the August 1993 issue of Scientific American there appears an
article which describes experiments in which the time for photons to
quantum mechanically tunnel through a barrier is measured for a
coherent beam of incident photons where 99% of the beam is reflected
off of the barrier, but in which approximately 1% of the photons are
transmitted ("tunnel") across the barrier. The experimental data
indicated that the photons which tunneled through the barrier traveled at
superluminal speeds, some of the photons reaching 1.7c.
The
phenomenological explanation for this was that the tunneling photons
changed the shape of their wavefunctions such that the peak of the wave
function is shifted in the direction of photon tunneling, resulting in the
photons having a finite probability of being found just on the opposite
side of the barrier somewhat earlier than if the shape of their
wavefunctions had experienced no distortion. Increasing the width of
spacetimes of either particle of the pair, has reached some critical value.
This critical value would, according to Penrose, be related to the massenergy difference of the spacetimes in which each particle is embedded.
Perhaps as long as this mass-energy difference is less than the most
energetic massless particle which can be defined within a self-consistent
theory of quantum gravity, say, the mass-energy of a Planck particle of
some 10-8g, there is no necessity that the wavefunction describing the
particle pair undergo what Penrose terms "Objective Reduction," (OR),
because, perhaps, the energy difference up to this critical value of massenergy can be compensated through the exchange of a massless quantum
(boson), i.e., through exchange of a virtual particle representing a
vacuum 3-momentum fluctuation. Another possible explanation of the
objective reduction of the pair's wavefunction is related to the overall
energy uncertainty of the component of the quantum vacuum of both
particles. This is to suggest that when the difference in mass-energy of
the local spacetimes of both particles exceeds the energy uncertainty of
the nonlocally connected component of the local vacua of the particles,
objective reduction of the pair's wavefunction must take place - for
otherwise, the mass-energy difference in the local spacetimes of the
particles has outstripped the nonlocally-connected vacuum's ability to
compensate the disparity in the local spacetime representations of the
pair's wavefunction in the spacetimes of each particle, resulting in the
incommensurability of the quantum numbers of each particle should a
reduction of the pair's wavefunction take place after this critical
difference in spacetimes has been reached - as a result of the spatial
separation of the particles. What has been said thus far suggests that
quantum entanglement, i.e., nonlocal connectivity, of particles or fields
within significantly differing local spacetimes may not be admissible in
a consistent theory of quantum gravity. This, in turn, suggests that
nonlocal vacuum process may not actually be responsible for the
maintaining of particular spacetime geometries or that, there is some
rather small limit to the differences in local spacetime curvatures within
an overall nonlocally connected vacuum. We must investigate the
possibility that the temporality, i.e., the rate of time's passage relative to
cosmic time, of a local spacetime is directly related to the nonlocal
connection of the local vacuum of this spacetime to the nonlocallyconnected vacuum of the universe at its largest scale.
retrieving the original linear motion with which one started. We know,
of course, that this simple analogy of the "kinetic sphere" is rather naive,
and that it is only intended as a basic model of the interconnected
meshwork of virtual particle reactions which defines the existence of
any real particle. The important point here is that there is an exact
parallel between this internal circular motion and the linear motion of
massive particles along the imaginary axis of our cosmological model of
the hypersurface which is expanding at the speed of light, or rather, of
the hyperspherical potential energy barrier through which all massive
particles are presently in the process of quantum mechanically tunneling,
at approximately the speed of light. To explore this parallel, we need
to make a relatively simple observation about the relationship of the
internal circular motions to the external linear motions into which they
are converted whenever mass is converted into energy. We notice from
the example of the "kinetic sphere," that it only required two
independent (orthogonal) internal motions in order to define the
existence of this 3 dimensional object. We imagine that this conversion
of these two circular, orthogonal "internal" motions will result in the
creation of two linear, orthogonal "external" motions.
We believe this conversion process is described by an isomorphic
group operation, such that the number of dimensions of motion is
conserved, while the orthogonality of the motions is retained, because
the conversion of energy into mass, the reverse of this operation, is
accomplished through a continuous series of simple Lorenz
transformations, i.e., through the relativistic mass-velocity relationship
of Einstein, and because we know that the conversion of energy into
mass is a reversible (symmetrical) operation so that the conversion of
mass into energy can be described in terms of a linear matrix operation;
i.e., it is group-theoretic in nature.
But we know that the direct
conversion of mass into energy produces an out-rush, if you will, of
released energy which streams outward in 3 spatial dimensions. This
obvious empirical fact seems to require that there be 3 independent
orthogonal, circular, internal motions which underlie the latent energy of
massive bodies, and this implies that massive bodies which possess this
defined. It is not possible for one thing to represent another unless there
be at least two distinct levels of description available to the system
within which the representation is to be constructed. If we waive the
requirement of an "external" observer who is to give different meanings
to the different configurations, then information and energy are not
interdefinable.
Another reason for not equating the two, i.e., energy and information, is
on account of the existence of energy degeneracy. Since different
wavefunctions may possess the same associated energy eigenfunctions,
it should be possible for a quantum mechanical system possessing
energy degeneracy to undergo arbitrary transitions from one degenerate
eigenfunction to another without the changes beiing associated with
changes in any definable QM observables.
If the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is essentially
correct, i.e., where the wavefunction is a probability wave representing
the state of an observer's knowledge so that it is indeed the
consciousness of the observer which is responsible for collapsing the
wavefunction and not the physical disturbance to the wavefunction
provoked by his measuring device, then it should be possible to carry out
a "delayed choice" type experiment : a standard two slit interference set
up is constructed where two video cameras are substituted for two
conscious observers, one "viewing" both slits (camera A) and another
camera "viewing" the backstop where either an interference pattern or a
random "buckshot" pattern of photon strikes appears. If this experiment
is performed in the absence of a human observer and then afterwards,
perhaps years later, the film in the back of cameras A and B are
examined it will be found that the order in which the films are examined
will make a difference in whether the film from camera B contains
recorded on it either an interference pattern of photon waves or a
"buckshot" patter of photon "bullets." In other words, if the film in
camera A is examined first, then an observer possesses knowledge as to
which slit each photon passed through so that the wavefunction of the
paramagnetic particles coating the surface of the film in camera A
shrinkage factor or
2) The zero-point of the vacuum electromagnetic field is altered by a
certain fraction so that the energy of photons within the cavity "appear"
to be greater (relative to the new zero-point) by this same fraction. Of
course, the first alternative appears more intuitively evident but
embodies the simplistic assumption that the photons within the cavity
possess some permanent and abiding existence rather than being a
packet of energy which is continually being emitted (created) and
absorbed (annihilated) by the fluctuating electromagnetic vacuum field.
If a photon is in a momentum eigenstate, then the position of this photon
along its translation axis is totally uncertain. We say therefore that in
the position representation of the photon's wavefunction that the
probability density of photons along the particular photon's translation
axis is exactly zero. Consequently, a photon or photon beam which is in
a momentum eigenstate - and hence an energy eigenstate also - does not
alter the probability versus frequency distribution function (along its
translation axis) for virtual photons of like eigenenergy. This may be
seen to follow from the fact that an increased likelihood of finding a
photon of a particular eigenenergy within a certain spatial interval means
that the probability vs. frequency distribution function in this region
experiences a peak at the frequency corresponding to this eigenenergy.
The rates of stimulated emission and absorption of electromagnetic
radiation at a particular frequency are proportional to the density of the
ambient radiation at this frequency. The constants of proportionality are
the Einstein coefficients of emission and absorption, respectively. It was
stated earlier as a general principle that all physical processes were
mediated through the exchange of energy between matter and the
vacuum, the reservoir of energy uncertainty. This principle may be
made more specific by invoking the Einstein relationships for
electromagnetic radiation emission and absorption as the mechanism for
all energy emission - absorption, that is, for all forms of energy
exchange, so that the rates at which all physical processes take place
becomes proportional to the spectral energy density of the fluctuating
partially dependent upon the reference frame (in the relativistic sense)
that these events occur (as observables). There must be an embedding of
these neural events in a substrate which extends beyond the merely
neurophysiological in order for a reference frame to be defined in which
there can arise a correspondence between subjective and objective
simultaneities. The nonlocally connected vacuum electromagnetic field
offers itself as the prime candidate for this embedding substrate.
Since it is the pattern of virtual particle emission and absorption which
every real particle continually undergoes which determines the mass of
the particle, it follows that real particle masses are determined through
the particular manner in which real particles exchange energy with the
fluctuating quantum vacuum field; consequently, alterations in the
density of the vacuum field energy will affect the masses of particles
occupying this vacuum. We might expect that this relationship between
mass-energy and vacuum-energy is symmetrical in nature because the
interactions mediating the continual exchange of energy between matter
and vacuum are themselves reversible interactions.
11/96 The quantum vacuum energy fluctuations collectively, as we have
seen, may be understood as the first cause of the world in the more
fundamental sense of sustainer of all of the structures ultimately deriving
from it in that the quantum vacuum is the originator of temporality.
Matter does not possess a genuine substantial existence since its energy
is forever being replenished by the vacuum fluctuations continually
interacting with it, much in the same manner as a particular spot in a
river is continually replenished with new waters so that, as Heraclitus
says, one cannot step twice into the same place within it. This two-way
causal, symmetrical relationship between mass energy and vacuum
energy within quantum field theory reminds us of a similar relationship
between mass and space-time curvature within the theory of general
relativity: the presence of mass within a given region of spacetime
produces an additional curvature in this spacetime; also, an increase in
the curvature of a particular region of spacetime produces an increase in
the mass of particles or material bodies already occupying this region.
merely changes the ratio of mass - energy to vacuum energy from zero
to some fraction approaching infinity (in the case of black hole masses).
The general relativistic alteration in the local velocity of light may be
understood in terms of Mach's formula for the speed of sound in an
energy conducting medium in its application to the quantum vacuum.
Mach's formula states that the velocity of sound in an energy conducting
medium is a function of the pressure and the energy density of the
medium. Specifically, the velocity of sound in the medium is the square
root of the pressure of the medium times the speed of light squared
divided by the energy density of the medium.
Since the pressure of the vacuum is equal to its energy density, and
the pressure of matter is effectively zero, the energy density and pressure
terms in Mach's formula are the total energy density and pressure of
space, respectively; the pressure of the vacuum is always equal to its
energy density, which decreases in step with the increase in the massenergy density. By letting the total energy density of space equal to the
sum of the vacuum energy and mass-energy densities, i.e., Etot = Ev +
Em, and the vacuum pressure equal to the modified vacuum energy
density, i.e., Ev' = Ev - Em, Mach's formula works out to vsound =
sqrt[(Ev - Em)c2/Etot] which reduces to the result, vsound = [1 GM/RC2] * c, and this result is identical to the reduced local value of
the speed of light calculated from general relativity (in the weak field
limit). Our requirement of no spatial variation in the total energy density
of space, i.e., that the mass-energy and vacuum energy densities are
complementary, seems to demand that the density of gravitational
energy density If we are correct in reinterpreting the gravitational
redshift of photons propagating in a spatially varying gravitational
potential as being due to a spatial variation in the zero-point of the
vacuum's energy (against which the photon's energy is to be measured),
then The imposition of boundary conditions upon the vacuum field
merely produces local and discontinuous variations in the spatial (and
temporal) distribution of the field energy, leading to the appearance of
negative binding energies which exactly counterbalance the positive
gains in mass - energy which thereto result; it is in this sense that mass-
light is reduced below its normal value in "free space," and this may be
envisioned as a narrowing of the hypersolid angle swept out by the
Minkowski light cone centered at a given point within this region
possessing a gravitational potential. This contraction in the area of the
hypersurface of the Minkowski light cone may be alternately described
in terms of a light cone which suffers no contraction of its hypersurface
area, but a decrease in the uniform density of vacuum energy occupying
the uncontracted light cone surface, and hence the equivalence of the
spacetime curvature with the spatiotemporal variation in vacuum energy
density.
If we are correct in positing an exact equivalence between
spacetime curvature and spatio-temporal variations in the density of the
vacuum's zero-point energy, then the phenomenon of particle production
in a spatially or temporally varying spacetime curvature, or via the
equivalence principle, due to the effects of noninertial motion, may be
explained alternatively in terms of spatial or temporal variations in the
boundary conditions on the vacuum field such that spatial or temporal
variations in its zero-point energy result. In this scenario, the existence
of real particles is understood as just a manifestation of zero-point
energy from the vantage point of a noninertial frame of reference or
equivalently, from the standpoint of a region of the vacuum possessing
"less restrictive" boundary conditions than the region of the vacuum in
which the particles appear. On account of the precisely thermal
spectrum of the particles produced within curved spacetimes and also
due to the unique requirement of a thermal spectrum for the vacuum
itself in order that it possess Lorenz invariance, an entropy may be
meaningfully assigned to both the vacuum as well as the particles
produced from it as a result of the imposed vacuum boundary
conditions.
Since this production of particles from the vacuum state due to
imposed boundary conditions is a reversible process, because the
particles are reabsorbed if the boundary conditions are later removed, the
change in the entropy of the vacuum field must be exactly compensated
by the entropy increase due the particle creation so that the total entropy
of the particle - vacuum system is a constant. The Feynman path
integral technique for calculating the ground state energies of atoms may
( in principle ) similarly be utilized to calculate the ground state energy
of the vacuum state of free space or, indeed, the vacuum state of a region
of space in which a gravitational field is present. It is probable that
fewer paths comprise the Feynman integral where a gravitational field is
present than in the free space vacuum; this limits the number of valid
available paths along which energy may be exchanged between two
points in this particular region of spacetime - hence the reduced value of
the integral, and in turn, the decreased value of the vacuum state energy
in this region. The reduced number of Feynman paths, or histories,
means that the vacuum's ability to exchange energy with itself, as well
as its ability to exchange energy with particles and fields, and thusly to
mediate the exchange of energy between particles and fields among
themselves, is correspondingly diminished so that the rate at which the
vacuum's energy density decreases with time ( due to the expansion of
the universe ) is likewise diminished.
In light of the diminished self-energy of the vacuum, the resultant
increased inertial mass of particles within this altered vacuum may be
viewed in two distinct, but fundamentally similar ways. First, the
diminished capacity of the vacuum to undergo energy exchange with
itself means that it is more difficult for the gravitational field energy to
redistribute itself in response to changes in the matter distribution within
the altered vacuum state; consequently, by the general equivalence of
gravitational and inertial masses, it follows that there is an equal
difficulty for matter configurations to change their distributions in
response to impressed external forces attempting to accelerate these
mass configurations. This is further theoretical evidence for the
complementary relationship between the mass energy density and the
vacuum energy density which together define the total energy density of
any particular region of spacetime. Moreover, if there are already
existing particles both prior and subsequent to the imposition of the
vacuum boundary conditions, then the masses of these previously
Causality Principle.
The pure imaginary momentum of all "rest masses" within the 4 hyperspherical cosmological model may be justified beyond its value as
a convenient mathematical formalism if these masses are viewed as
presently being in the act of tunneling through a hyperspherically
symmetric potential barrier. The gradient of this hyperspherical
potential would be a four - vector with components 1,2, and 3 vanishing
in free space, but transforming through multiplication by a tensor into a
new four - vector with non-vanishing spatial components, resulting in
the appearance of a gravitational field. Certainly this tensor is the
matter-stress-energy tensor described in the field equations of Einstein;
the only difference is that the vacuum energy does not contribute to the
value of T, the matter-stress-energy tensor, which is responsible for
altering the metric tensor which describes the curvature of spacetime, or
alternatively, the spatiotemporal variation in the vacuum field energy
density. It is perhaps now easier to see at an intuitive level why the field
equations of general relativity predict the existence of a universe which
is either globally contracting or expanding: unless the energy density of
the vacuum field is temporally varying in free space, the matter-stressenergy tensor operates upon a zero four-vector (representing the gradient
of the hyperspherical potential) and the introduction of matter
distributions, represented by the matter-stress-energy tensor, into this
vacuum field, cannot produce a non-zero four-vector, namely, nonvanishing spatial components of the free space four-vector, i.e., a
gravitational field.
Within this particular cosmological model, the
energy, linear 4-momentum, and angular 4-momentum of a particle is
always conserved, regardless of motions or accelerations which it might
undergo as a result of interactions with other particles and fields.
We are saying here that gravitation is, itself, a four-vector, whose
magnitude is always conserved independently of the matter distribution.
The matter-stress-energy distribution within a particular volume of space
merely alters the decomposition of this four-vector into a new set of
vector components in much the same way that a boost, rotation or
time is proportional to the vacuum energy density itself, just as are the
time rates of all physical processes, so that if the vacuum energy density
is reinterpreted as its probability density (in terms of the square of the
vacuum wavefunction amplitude), then the negative exponential time
evolution of the vacuum probability density implies that the vacuum has
a purely imaginary four - momentum with a four velocity of magnitude
c. The effect of accelerations, for instance, upon a particle is merely to
change the distribution of its total linear/angular momentum within the
conserved 4-quantity. The perhelion shift in the orbit of Mercury,
predicted by general relativity, may be simply understood as a cyclic
redistribution of the planet's 4-angular momentum as it moves around its
orbit so that the 3-dimensional projection of it 4-angular momentum
varies sinusoidally with the orbital period; this causes Mercury's 3angular momentum to be slightly greater than that predicted by classical
mechanics, producing the observed advance in perhelion. The black
hole, as noted earlier, represents mass-energy in its most compressed
state. For maximum symmetrical energy exchange between any two
shells occupying a given volume of matter ( of uniform density ) where
the density of vacuum energy exchanges is proportional to the density of
the vacuum energy itself, we require that the density of mass-energy
decrease with the inverse square because certainly the density of
bundled energy trajectories (along which all energy exchanges occur)
must also fall off with the inverse square due simply to the geometry of
spherically symmetric radiation of energy in 3 dimensions. We expect
the density of exchange energy, due to vacuum field fluctuations, to be
proportional to the density of energy so exchanged because it has
already been established that the rate at which all physical processes
occur is proportional to the density of Heisenberg-uncertain energy
(vacuum energy) and the decrease in the density of this energy with the
expansion of the universe is itself a physical process; moreover, there is
a vectorial continuity equation, analogous to a field equation of
Maxwell's, which describes the relationship of spatial and temporal
variations in the density of the vacuum field energy so that the spatial
variation of this zero-point energy will have the same structure as the
temporal variation of the zero-point energy due to cosmological
expansion. The question then arises, " what is the structure of this
variation in vacuum energy density in free space, where no mass-energy
is present?"
Well, the density of the vacuum zero-point energy is only meaningful as
a physical quantity in relation to the density of the mass-energy just as
the energy of a particle is only meaningful in relation to the energy of
the vacuum state, so the general time variation in the mass-energy
density due to cosmological expansion should give us a clue to the
manner in which the vacuum energy density changes with time;
provided that our hypothesis of a dynamic vacuum energy mechanism
for gravitational fields is fundamentally correct. Therefore, if we
postulate this vacuum mechanism, then it is clear that the time variation
of the vacuum energy density in the universe due to cosmological
expansion must be such that the ratio of the temporal variation in
vacuum energy and mass-energy has the same mathematical structure as
the spatial variation in the ratio of these two densities about massive
bodies which acts as a gravitational potential. Since the gravitational
potential decreases inverse linearly so that the strength of the
gravitational field itself decreases with the inverse square, and since the
density of vacuum energy (zero-point energy) must be smaller in
stronger gravitational potentials than at weaker ones because
gravitational time dilation increases in step with the increasing potential,
it follows that the ratio of mass-energy to vacuum energy must decrease
inverse linearly to mimic the inverse linear variation in the magnitude of
gravitational time dilation; remember that gravitational time dilation is
owing to a decrease in available exchange energy with which all
physical processes are mediated. Hence, since the decrease in massenergy is with the inverse cube, the decrease in vacuum energy must
itself be with the inverse square. At this point we note that the decrease
in black hole energy density is with the inverse square of black hole
radius. We are therefore led to think of a black hole as constituting the
maximum density of mass-energy possible in the sense that all energy
exchanges occurring within the volume of space occupied by the black
hole, occur between the black hole and itself, symmetrically, with no
vacuum fluctuations interacting with the particle (and out of which the
particle is constituted and sustained) will nonlocally resonate with the
vacuum fluctuations interacting at the time of measurement with the
observer's brain (the observer's brain is also a quantum system, BTW).
Remember that qbar = sqrt[^q**2 - /\q**2 ] where ^q is the fluctuations
of q due to the quantum vacuum and /\q is the uncertainty in q which
may be wholly attributed to the observer's brain due to the influence of
vacuum energy fluctuations upon it!. It is the cooperation of these two
terms which results in qbar, the expectation value (classical value) of q!
This perhaps reminds some of you of Huxley's theory of perception: the
receipt of photons by the retina of the observer results in a stimulation of
the brain in such a way that its ether wave filters reconfigure so that the
signals representing the object seen are no longer screened out by the
consciousness reducing valve (the brain, that is) which are then "picked
up". The brain is then conceived of as a kind of ether wave tuning
device and perception is just an altering of the set of frequencies of ether
waves (vacuum fluctuations, if you prefer modern parlance) which the
vacuum can resonate with where the brain acts only as a hardware
interface between two unbounded sets of interfering ether wave spectra.
The brain on this view is simply a changeable and complex set of
boundary conditions placed upon the vacuum electromagnetic field's
self-interaction!
Each of these three terms are what are called tensor densities. They
have physical dimensions of energy density. In Mach's formula for the
speed of pressure wave oscillations in a continuous, energy-conducting
medium, the pressure is associated with the vacuum energy density since
the quantum vacuum always obeys the equation of state that its pressure
and energy density are identical. But this identification leaves only one
possible further identification of the medium energy density; that is, the
energy density must be identified with the total energy density of space,
what is termed within our theory, the space density. In order for an
entropy and temperature to be assigned to the quantum vacuum, we must
suppose that this vacuum remains in thermal equilibrium with this heat
reservoir, the energy density of which is the space density referred to
earlier.
Intuitively, if any further identifications are to be made between terms
within our theory and terms within Einstein's theory, then the following
identifications might be made:
The scalar curvature, R, should be identified with the space density, the
momentum-energy tensor, Tuv, should be identified with the massenergy density, and the term, -Ruv, should be identified with the vacuum
energy density. The term, guv, which in relativity theory is the
dimensionless dot product of the spacetime coordinate unit vectors, eu
and ev, may be alternatively interpreted to correspond to the ratio of
sum of the momentum-energy and Riemannian tensor densities to the
scalar energy density. Within our theory, the guv correspond to mixed
2nd order partial derivatives of the ratio of the sum of the vacuum scalar
energy density to the total space energy density.
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with a discussion of the old density wave theory of galactic spiral arm
formation, that perhaps a spinning supermassive blackhole lies at the
center of any given spiral arm galaxy and that the Lenz-Thirring inertial
frame-dragging effect could be at least partially responsible (maybe also
in conjunction with density waves) for the formation of the classic spiral
arm structure of, for example, the Milky Way Galaxy.
depends for its action on the collective interaction between matter, its
fundamental exchange forces, and the total vacuum nuclear-electroweak
field. Specifically, it is the shift in the balance between the three types
of energy exchange continually occurring within the quantum vacuum:
particle-particle, particle-wave, and wave-wave, energy exchanges.
Because matter is continually being reintegrated from the vacuum
energy field which originally created it, the transport of matter particles
from one region of vacuum locally, to another region, cannot, on our
view, be understood as being fundamentally different from the
destruction of these particles within one local region of the vacuum field
(and subsequent conversion to vacuum energy within this region) with
the subsequent re-creation of these particles from the vacuum energy
locally available within the destination-region where they are ultimately
"brought to rest." Therefore, we believe that the total energy density of
any given region of locally Euclidean 3 - space may not be altered
through changes in the local distribution of energy constituted by real
matter particles and fields. We understand energy density more broadly
here as the total four-momentum density of local regions of Minkowski
spacetime, and understand the conservation of energy density as the
constancy of total 4-momentum density despite phenomenological
(apparent) variations in energy density (classically understood) within
local Euclidean 3-spaces. To wit, though the magnitudes of the various
components of the total 4-momentum density may change within an
arbitrary 3-volume of Euclidean space, the magnitude of the total 4momentum density of spacetime does not change locally; that is to say,
it does not change observably over relatively small distances and times
within a Minkowski metric.
The so-called mass-energy reformation process is limited by the density
of available vacuum field energy out of which real particle/field energy
systems must constantly reform themselves, and there is an antagonistic
relationship between real particle/field energy and virtual particle/field
energy such that the relative alterations in the densities of each be
constrained by the principle of their conservation in total combination
through the principle of conservation of total 4-momentum density.
energy so that the energy of the unconstrained vacuum may not itself be
thought to gravitate; it is only spatiotemporal variations in the energy of
the vacuum field which may be thought to produce gravitational effects.
In fact, it is the tendency of massive bodies to hold themselves together
against the opposite tendency of the cosmological acceleration field to
disperse the particles forming these bodies, which sets up the spherically
symmetric imbalance in the distribution and flow of the vacuum energy
field ( in the case of spherically symmetric matter distributions ) which
manifests itself as the gravitational field engendered by these and all
other massive bodies within the expanding universe.
Three-momentum is conserved in particle collisions because the
acceleration of a particle always involves the rotation of its 4momentum, describable by a Lorenz transformation, and equal and
opposite 4-momentum rotations on the part of the colliding particles
always results; this is just a relativistic expression of Newton's actionreaction principle. In the case of two colliding particles with 0 initial
and final total net momentum, an arbitrary quantity of energy may be
supplied to the two particles without disturbing the net momentum of the
particles. This may be regarded as a special instance of a property of
momentum which is normally not obvious to an observer confined in his
observations to the three dimensions of Euclidean space, but which is
always operative within the context of the higher dimensionality of
Minkowski spacetime. Accelerations merely have the effect of rotating
the 4-momentum of particles within Minkowski space, as mentioned
earlier, and so the magnitude of a particle's 4-momentum can never be
altered. In general, forces are manifestations of momentum exchanges
between the local imaginary and real momenta of particles and fields.
When these momenta exchanges are rendered asymmetrical, the 3momenta of particles and fields are not generally conserved. Within a
hypersurface of simultaneity in flat Minkowski space, the vacuum 3momenta are conserved despite the participation of the vacuum energy
field in the local cosmological velocity field. This is due to the inherent
symmetry of the momenta exchanges between the real and imaginary
vacuum momentum components. The presence of matter induces an
asymmetry in the momentum exchanges between the vacuum's real and
exchanging energy with itself. because the time rate of change of all
physical quantities depends on the existence of energy uncertainty, dq/dt
= [H, q] + f[H,q], where f[H,q] is usually written as @q/@t. On this
view, quantum mechanical systems possess energy uncertainty because
they are continually perturbed by intrinsic vacuum energy fluctuations.
In this way, all mass-energy systems are in a process of constant energy
exchange with the quantum mechanical vacuum. Since all macroscopic
transfers and exchanges of energy between two points in spacetime are
mediated via the submicroscopic energy exchanges occurring within the
vacuum, it follows that conservation of energy macroscopically is
dependent upon conservation of energy exchanges within the vacuum.
The temporal evolution of the quantum vacuum is, therefore, mediated
by its own action. A number of conclusions follow from this fact. 1)
the vacuums energy is conserved, but not by virtue of this energy
possessing a determinate quantity: the vacuums energy is conserved
even though it is an
indeterminate quantity.
It is not possible to distinguish different time rates of change within a
closed dynamical system. This is because such a closed system
possesses only a finite number of discrete energy levels, and when the
total system is in a particular energy eigenstate, its energy uncertainty is
0 so that there are no vacuum fluctuations available with which to
mediate changes in physical observables of the system.
We may define the distance separating two events as a function of the
number of vacuum momentum fluctuations existing between the two
said events. Similarly, we may define the time interval between two
such events as a function of the number of vacuum energy fluctuations
existing between the two said events. Of course, the partitioning of the
relativistic momentum - energy tensor into pure momentum versus pure
energy components is dependent upon the particular Lorenz reference
frame within which one performs the momentum and energy
measurements.
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new material.
Only a freely acting will can stabilize the finite within the infinite.
Dialectical change is irreversible, historical change in which the
continuum of possibility is reconstituted.
The principle by which the order of transcendent being is established
cannot be identified with any particular infinite and transcendent being.
In death, time as a category is transcended.
Death separates my
temporally bound, existent self from myself as transcendence just as
does this gulf separating my being from that of the other. In fact, the
separation between self and other is indeed deeper and a more profound
one than is that dividing the self in its mode of embodied immanent
existence from that of disembodied, transcendent being. The self and
the other are not separated by merely one, but by at least two deaths. In
this way the possible transcendence of the self in death is less
remarkable than is the transcendence of any given self in a theoretical
passing of this self over to that of the other. The notion of the structure
of the unknown is relevant to consider here. Two individuals do not
revert to the same ground upon their respective deaths. The question
arises at this point whether, in the face of the unlimited variety of others,
it is really proper to speak of such a notion as The Other, as though we
should be here invoking by this term a universal category. The shifting
of scientific paradigms is necessitated by the contact between Man as
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do exist Spiritually within the Mind of Yahweh before and after death,
but we are not there like angels or ghosts walking the streets of gold;
Rather, we are at peace, and time is meaningless to those who sleep,
c.f., The Little White Deathbed Lie by D. J. Love, Minister, TSN, SBC
and the logic of Anselms Ontological Argument with regard to the
distinction between preexistence and post-existence within the Mind of
God/ground of being.
By virtue of the concept of consciousness being a transcendental
category, it follows of some property or attribute which itself by its very
nature is never given once within experience. We deduce rather the fact
of our possessing consciousness not from the fact of its intermittence
within neither experience periods of unconsciousness nor, therefore,
periods of alternation of consciousness with unconsciousness (c.f.,
sleep). Rather this deduction the fact of our own consciousness comes
from another apparent fact, that of the impenetrability of the mind of
others, supposing they really exist, that is. And here we have returned
to our earlier intuition, of the existence of (a) transcendental mind,
within which the concept of consciousness as such may actually be
entertained. The belief in the existence of such a transcendent mentality
is tantamount, where the required quantity of faith underscoring this act
of belief is concerned, to the belief than one possesses consciousness in
the absence of the direct experience or intuition of this ones individual
consciousness. To wit, belief in God (as a transcendentally given Mind)
constitutes no greater an irrational leap of faith than that by which I
believe in the fact of the existence of other minds from my own, after the
fashion of Daseins natural standpoint. The fact of the existence of the
minds of others whose presence along with that of myself is daily
suggested to me through the dubitable evidence daily presented to me by
my sense perception. Intersubjectivity is both the deconstruction of the
objective, as well as the unmasking of the collective. Objective beyond
the intersubjective is transcendant. The subjective particular is their and
the ground of subjectivity, which is a many rather than a one.
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Efficient Cause ~
Formal Cause
Material Cause ~
Final Cause
Quantum Vacuum
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Principle of Least Action
Differences of race, class, status, gender even, are attributed as cause for
the resentment of the self for the other under the convenient covering
rubric of prejudice, racism, sexism, etc. But this is to turn a blind eye to
the fact that the unseemly emotion of resentment possesses a defining
dimension of the personal, taken personally. Those who hate blacks,
Jews, those who are misogynous and so on have perhaps made a false
generalization of what originated at a strictly personal level. These
external differences merely underscore the otherness of the other that is
usually hidden through false or baseless identification of the self with
the other, e.g., glorying in the success of the home town hero when one
is far from home, on the one hand, though equally in turn envying and
secretly begrudging this same hero when both he and oneself are once
more back home among common friends and acquaintances. How
rapidly does an impending barroom brawl defuse itself when at closer
quarters the prospective combatants at once recognize one another,
despite the typical dim lighting, and this almost regardless of the nature
or severity of the insult or offense, real or imagined, which lie at the root
of flaring aggressive impulses.
A nonadiabatic coupling of the brain of an observer to the system as a
whole, but to the brain only in part. Otherwise stated, is the brain far
more extensively connected to its defining context than it is even too
itself? October 2011 What essentially distinguishes matter, i.e., that which
possesses mass from the underlying quantum vacuum field is the
independence of matter from this vacuum. By this is meant the
breakdown of the faithful application of Bohms Principle of Causality,
more or less at the matter-vacuum boundary. Note that this boundary
is not at the 2-surface interface, but is rather defined by a 3-surface. The
bandwidth connecting matter and its context giving vacuum carries
information on a flux perpendicular to this 3-surface. Decoherence may
be caused by the opposite of this situation, perhaps.That is, decoherence
must befall systems that possess a critical recursiveness or self
connectivity relative to the quantum context of the system, i.e.,
embedding vacuum electromagnetic field. These ruminations lead us to
the perhaps bizarre notion that, the human brain with its distinctive
powers of self-consciousness, becomes in at least a very narrowly
defined sense, better connected to the information reservoir of the
quantum vacuum electromagnetic field than this information is
connected to itself. This points up one of the important functions of the
brain, that of reprocessing information latent in the vacuum through
effecting higher levels of integration of this information. So-called
higher levels of integration here seem to bespeak the possibility of a
concept of contexts of the ground of being.
Suppose that the individual consciousnes of A is just the outcome of the
quantum vacuums continual, ongoing reaction to the presence/activity
of the individuals brain that is embedded within it.
Similar
observations apply to Bs consciousness, Cs, etc. July 2011 In this way the
consciousness of each involves its own unique spectrum of contextproviding bed or correlated quantum fluctuations. No cross-talk
between brains is to be expected (what would manifest itself during the
course of evolution as telepathy) Since the constructs of the individual
self and external world (including postulated other minds) which arise
within the consciousness of the individual are to be attributed to the
creation of entanglements due to the historical operation of that
individuals brain, these are separate from those quantum correlations
continually recreated in the field of the vacuums fundamental
fluctuations (that comprise any reductions in /\Q Heisenberg
uncertainty in Q) to which the brains of others tune and resonate, and
so it is a distinctly different and disjoint spectrum of the vacuum
electromagnetic field which is continually tweaked by the operation of
one brain from that of another.
A paradoxical observation is the following: I feel so different within
my being than I did when I was a teenager that if it werent for the
continuity of my environment, social relations, my own physical
appearance, together with memory, I could swear that Im now an
altogether different person now from what I was then. But, of course,
the attributes enumerated above are just the ones apart from identity
though not actual environment and both the fitness of that which
survives along with that which perishes must be explained by some
altogether different means than through the invoking of a principle of
natural selection.
Only by linking to transcendent consciousness, say during prayer,
meditation, or psychedelic drug experience, of which ones own as well
that of each other person, is but a peculiar instantiation, does one gain
access to the knowledge of the suchnes of ones individual
consciousness, i.e., of ones consciousness as an example, among an
infinite number of possible examples, of consciousness as such
(consciousness at large, if you will).
Might this experiecne be considered the glimpsing of ones
consciousness as the ground of all experience always possible to the
individual in the vein of this ground itself as figure? This context of the
individuals consciousness as the medium of all possible experience
would necessarily be the grasping of space and time in its unified totality
of givenness. It would then be a glimpse by the individual of his own
eternal and absolute being. This is all because time is only within
experience, founded in the ground of all possible experience which
itself, therefore, has to transcend time. Time is always within the
timeless, in other words.
Paul may be described as a gnostic Christian because his doctrines as set
forth in his epistles to the early churches of the Near East were revealed
to him after the death and Resurrection of Christ.
When God first became man in the form of Adam. He forgot and lost
his sense of his original self and fell from grace, taking all succeeding
Mankind with him. So perhaps a large part of the motive of Christs
sacrifice is the recreating of this original incarnation successfully and
then the repayment in the form of sacrifice on the Cross for the bringing
of Sin into Creation. But this great feat could only be achieved by
reincarnating as originally in the very absence of this sin infecting all
Creation.
A consequence of Sin, rather than having been the engendering cause of
Sin, is mans blindness to his own divine nature and therefore in turn his
blindness to the nature of the Divine as such.
The giving up of the responsibilities while retaining the freedoms, the
shunning of obligations, while holding fast to the rights of Godhood
this lies at the core of the nature of Sin.
The question concerning the true nature of consciousness, when properly
asked, would be its own answer simply upon simple removal of ? at its
end and it s replacement by a ., that is, by a period. This question
should be posed in its simplest conceivable form as, namely, what is
consciousness? such that the answer to this question then becomes,
What is consciousness. So the answer to this question, What is
consciousness may still more succinctly be put . . . Exactly, or Yes
or Affirmative.
Consciousness itself is the answer to the question, What is
consciousness?
The essential nature of consciousness is its own
answering to itself of the question it asks of itself, more properly stated
as Who am I? I am who or . . . Who? I am! The answer, far from
being Douglas Adams 42 is I.
But we reject this as the answer and seek another. It is like trying to
find the answer to What is 2 + 2? Rejecting the obvious suggestion of
4 and going onto an endless pursuit for some more suitable solution to
2 + 2 =?
Consciousness is the medium through which all questions might be
asked whereby the answer to whatever the particular question may be is
only not already understood by virtue of some a posterior limitation of
said consciousness. Clearly, once all such particular limitations upon
consciousness are removed, only one question remains which is
answere3d just at that precise point that the last limitation upon
consciousness has been removed. And so at just this point is the
question what is pure consciousness (i.e., what is consciousness as
such) able to be properly formulated and which at once is seen to contain
or be coextensive with, rather, this questions proper answer. What is
Pure Consciousness?
Pure consciousness is What.
We might
playfully symbolize this What or W-hat as W^, borrowing the ^
notation from quantum theory. W^ we might equally playfully term the
pure consciousness operator. So that W^ Psi = W or, if Psi is not a pure
state, but a superposition state, W^ Psi = wi.
The question then arises, how are we to interpret W^ Psi when Psi is a
statistical mixture?
The answer to the question what is consciousness only seems to admit of
a complex answer because we falsely identify consciousness as such
with the ego (secretly with our own ego) while all along overtly and in
an intellectualized manner identify consciousness as prior to and
transcending though also ultimately the ground of all form whatever.
Any answer that would satisfy us qua answer must, like the answers to
all other questions with which weve had experience, possess some kind
of logical and/or semantic structure, although anything, necessarily
possessing structure as do all logical or semantic entities, must be
presupposed by such structures.
Each pure state is a superposition state with respect to some other,
incompatible observable.
But W^ commutes with itself and all other wI, but the wI do not mutually
commute, that is, wjPhiI where PhiI is an eigenstate of wI^, is necessarily
a superposition state in terms of the Phijs. In other words, W^ does not
interfere with the actions of the w^I, w^j, w^k, etc.
Metaphor shows the extension of the scope and reference of a concept,
but is not itself a concept. Coining a new metaphor may result in the
Religious symbols and images that are metaphors for the divine presence
arise, as au=Jung has forcefully demonstrated, through the action of the
collective unconscious through the action of the collective unconscious,
though perhaps, to follow Jaynes, this process had been well under way
long before primitive Man acquired an individual consciousness in the
sense of a self-consciousness. The dense array of religious symbols
But another view is that of the artist being only the apprentice who,
though highly skilled in the use of the tools and techniques for
fashioning the works dictated by his master, at any given stage in the
physical construction of the art work, possesses only a half-baked notion
as to what his master ultimately intends in dictating it.
We may only speak of insights being latent if the person carrying them
around fails to realize them merely for lack of the advantageous
conditions in which the efficient cause or causes are sufficient to trigger
their coalescence/crystallization.
It might turn out that upon heavenly reflection our erstwhile mortal
existence will be understood as one in which the answer to absolutely
every conceivable metaphysical question was along known to us and
that it was really only the fact of our having been all along in possession
of this metaphysical knowledge that forever as mortals.
How the pupil of the critical eye of most people dilates upon learning
some work already placed before them is said to be important.
The individual sees all around himself the order that was necessary to
permit just the particular consciousness that he is to come into being.
One of the outstanding features of this order, necessary for this
individuals consciousness, is the presence of a chain of being, i.e., a
vertical-ordering or depth-ordering of being. Another is what we may
aptly term a horizontal ordering or breadth-ordering of being these two
types of ordering are simply the highly specific and particular versions
of the corresponding Kantian forms (of intuition) of Time and Space.
The time-ordering represented by evolution and the space-ordering
represented by the particular complexion of present by extant individuals
belong to the human race ( through which one entered space and time)
these two orderings are simply those that were required to be in entered
space and time, to have taken up this most basic of limitations of my
transcendent being. We are speaking here of the particulars of the
Anthropic Microcosmological Principle. But this is to view the entire
and context-free.
Existence is a predicated of the merely possible in which the heretofore
merely possible acquires possibilities of its own. The possible becomes
a subject of change leading to the creation of new never-before-existing
possibilities (along with the retireing. If this line of thinking lead us
to the reversing of the relationship of the possible to the actual so that
possibilities became merely the abstraction from the real (pure
empiricism a la Hume), rather than the real being a manifesting of the
possible, then we should not have succeeded in this way in showing that
existence is (or can be) a predicate. However, if possibilities can be
engendered independently from the mere abstraction from experience,
i.e., sense impressions, and in this manner, the totality of the possible
augmented, then existence must be capable of being a predicate. So in
this way it is seen that the minds ability to conceive that which is neither
(presently) real nor possible is essential to the possibility of existence
being a predicate.
The predication of existence is therefore responsible for (or the outcome
of) the temporality of Mind. Consider the temporality of possibility as
well as the temporality of Mind outside of time (intersubjective time).
Anselms Ontological Argument depends upon, among other
assumptions, the self-contradictory nature of the notion of a being
greater than which none greater can be conceived. But this assumption
is only valid if consciousness can keep pace with (so to speak) the
potential complexity of which being can exist that is greater than that
than which no greater can be conceived by consciousness as such most
generally speaking.
Many assumptions are initially made in ones first searching
attempts to wield sundry open-ended categories from the metaphysical
toolbox. Ones technique is a blend of sociolinguistic and cultural
heritage admixed with some modest quantity of idiosyncratic innovation,
the logic of which is quite beneath the awareness of the young
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determines fate holds true. This is true for relationships as well, only
here fate subsumes a much wider and complex variety of possible means
of willing itself out (for the relationship of the two people concerned).
One possesses almost unlimited freedom in principle in how he works
out his fate to prove it in the end all along true. The proportion of good
to ill that is fixed within ones character may be altered through selfknowledge in its outward manifestation in ones life. This is done when
one applies this self-knowledge in the tempting of good temptations and
the shunning of bad temptations, stated quite simply. One caters to
what are ones real strengths and conceals from view what are ones real
weaknesses, limiting the scope of their aggravation and expression. The
ego is the experience of the collective consciousness as delimited within
the selfs unique point of view.
Can the particularity of the metaphorical be refined away leaving in its
place pure concept distinct from other concepts? This is very much
akin to the removal of all of the scaffolding from the building that once
were necessary for its construction but which are not realized to be
superfluous.
How could things valuable only for their own sake, that is, mere ends in
themselves, arise from out of a system composed solely of means to
other means, in an endless recursive labyrinth?
Clearly the 232 (approximately) bits of information contained within
the human genome are insufficient to code for the complexity of
structure and function of the human organism. However, a quantity of
information approaching 2(2**32) bits may well be adequate for this. In
this case we are supposing that some relatively small portion of the
DNA addresses the details of local DNA functioning, say, e.g., protein
synthesis, regulation of enzyme concentrations, etc., while
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The largest share of these 2(2**32) bits are for addressing the
dynamical ground in which the functioning of the organism is
embedded. For the information contianed within the DNA to remain
current, the molecule must remain in contact and communication with its
dynamical ground.
That which is experiencing my life is itself eternal and transcendent and
is not itself in any real danger. It doesnt wish to lose its ego, its
spatiotemporal image of itself for if this occurs it can always create for
itself another one.
Information is never contained in or by structure or form alone.
Information may however be accessed by a given form or structure
provided that this structure is properly connected to some dynamical (as
opposed to kinematic or mechanical) ground.
The notion that human individuality is but an illusion presupposes the
notion of an individuality that is real as opposed to illusory. The notion
of illusory individuality surely then begs the question, what would it
mean for a being to possess real individuality.
This is akin to the self-undermining assertion that the totality f life is
merely a dream, which begs the question what would it mean to live
within reality as opposed to dream, to awake from this heretofore
lifelong reverie? Although form arises from formlessness, the reverse
of this cannot be the case and so pure consciousness, if it exists must be
sustained from some source transcending the Universe as Form. To
create ex nihilo is to create both form and formlessness.
The precision with which the design of a conscious computer is
specified in the very totality of the design, that is, will turn out to be the
very thing that prevents the computers (or robots, for that matter) brain
from being open to influences the nature of which could not possibly
have been anticipated in the design, based as it is merely upon the
physical science possessed by its designers during the stage of the
functions are instantiated, for that matter) for the production and
modulation of states of conscious awareness are concerned that is.
Consciousness objective being is internal to itself. This is why that
Ourobouros, the ancient Egyptian symbol of consciousness is so
appropriate.
In the same way that pure, white light combines harmoniously all of the
colors of the rainbow, so does pure consciousness combine within itself
all possible experiences.
It does this with perfect and peaceful
harmony.
What then is the reason for the necessity of a plurality of pure
consciousness?
None whatever if each of these is considered as
stemming from some originary pure consciousness. Each of these
individual and distinct pure consciousnesss, resulting in the way that
presumably must have from this originary (super) consciousness, are
already differentiations of this primary (pure) consciousness. And so
then how can each of these be supposed to be also pure. What
possible basis could there be for differentiating one of these pure
consciousness from another when each is assumed to be independent of
space and time?
There must then be some principle contra
Schopenhauer, c.f., Will and Representation, of differentiation, that is,
independent of space and time.
There are, of course, an innumerable number of Buddhas - those who
have awakened to the fact of their individuality having been an illusion.
Nonexistence is just as much a manifestation of being (of what is) as is
Existence. Things arise from other things from within the Void, that is,
from elsewhere then from within space and time.
If the present moment ever became fully determinate and crystallized,
there would be no means for it to advance in time or for anything within
this moment to advance. Such is analogously the case with a quantum
etc.
But conditioning can show that the boundaries between the
modalities of sense are not fundamental, e.g., Ton und Bild sind fuer
mich gleich weil sie alle aus dataimpulsen bestehen, c.f., Revolte auf
Luna, hoerspiel, vol. 4 (Robert Heinlein)
You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something
else besides us in this universe; harmonic connection between all living
beings, everywhere, even the stars. (Dr Malcolm Sayer in
Awakenings) http://on.fb.me/1o1v62K
I think I understand what dear Mr. Williams (RIP) is asserting here. The
connection between music and mathematics is a more than intimate one.
This was understood by the Greeks 2500 years ago. Human intuition is
fleeting when set against whatever ground of instrumentality enables the
possibility of music. And the notion that music has no other reality or
significance than what humankind ascribes to it is an absurdity borne of
either ignorance or arrogance. Robin possessed neither. Oh how we all
miss this wonderful man, who was so much more than a comedic
genius! I now humbly remove my small soapbox from beside his great
one. . .
Plural Brahman: each Atman is its own, unique Brahman rather than
each being derived from the same Brahman.
Immanence is not through simple negation taking place within a single
transcendent being, i.e., unique Brahman.
If consciousnes is associated with some total energy that is a function of
both p^ and x^, then clearly this consciousness can never rest.
Everything is impermanent except the subject of impermanence.
If the individuals consciousness is a particular form rather than being a
ground or substance in its own right, then ones consciousness is
actually but a state of consciousness of some being higher than the self
so that it is this being that is conscious not ones self or ego this only
being conscious through the consciousness of that other being.
This is indeed what follows from presuming that one possesses a
concept of consciousness. One canot both be conscious and posess a
concept of consciousness. Only a being possessing multiple states of
consciousness within another all-embracing state of consciousness can
possess a concept of (these lower states of) consciousness.
Or perhaps we may develop a concept of former (states of
consciousness) that we have grown beyond or transcended.
Are higher states of consciousness necessarily illusory because simply
more complex or coherent structures/structurings of the same underlying
consciousness?
Gods are bound to the wheel with chains of gold, but they had no need
to develop Buddhism. The gods value happiness more than truth, the
Buddhist truth more than happiness.
The gods know that truth
transcends the ego, that is, the necessary subject of knowledge. So the
ego can only grasp knowledge about the truth that transcends ego.
Purpose of becoming embodied is recreation rather than acquiring the
knowledge that transcends transcendence. Transcending enlightenment
by entering space and time and becoming embodied as a kind of reverse
enlightenment a kind of anti-Buddhism. The object of which is to
leave their transcendent selves and experience finitude.
Distinguish the temporal now (becoming determined) from the eternal
now (being of the indeterminate). The indeterminate does not literally
exist though it certainly affects existence. Being as such cannot be an
act of determination since only particular beings act.
Liberation from the repetitive reenactment of ones conflicted, formative
past to fix the past or to attempt to glimpse the past from all its
myriad facets in light of superior knowledge and wisdom. To glimpse
an abstract principle behind the others hurtful actions so as to
possibility.
So what makes life possible psychologically, that is, is not having this
older and more cynical version of the self, always around criticizing our
every freely willed action.
There are myriad examples of the simple misunderstanding in
conversation in which one has misheard another and one is in a position,
having heard correctly as a bystander, 3rd party, the utterance of the 1st
party. Question: for which reason is there so much embarrassment on
the part of the 1st party as well as sympathetic embarrassment of the 2nd
party for the 1st, upon both becoming aware that they had been
conversing unbeknownst to themselves at cross purposes due a trivial
mishearing of the pronunciation of a single syllable?
Answer: because both parties experience in a precise and concrete way
the collapse of the presence in which all happy conversation is implicitly
supposed to be embedded by all concerned. And essential to this
presence, c.f., metaphysical presence in Derrida, is the notion of
communication as involving the transmission of the contents of one
mind to that of another. And so the collapse of presence alluded to in
the above scenario is just the sudden realization by all parties of the
actual tenuousness of intersubjective communication, that there was all
along no actual transmission of meanings from one mind to another, just
the transmission of signs between separate minds which each, all alone
and always alone interpret subjectively.
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. . . the largest share of these 2(2**32) bits are for addressing the
dynamical ground in which the functioning of the organism is
embedded. For the information contained within the DNA to remain
current, the molecule must remain in contact and communication with its
dynamical ground.
That which is experiencing my life is itself eternal and transcendent and
is not itself in any real danger. It doesnt wish to lose its ego, its
spatiotemporal image of itself for if this occurs it can always create for
itself another one.
Information is never contained in or by structure or form alone.
Information may however be accessed by a given form or structure
provided that this structure is properly connected to some dynamical (as
opposed to kinematic or mechanical) ground.
The notion that human individuality is but an illusion presupposes the
notion of an individuality that is real as opposed to illusory. The notion
of illusory individuality surely then begs the question, what would it
mean for a being to possess real individuality.
This is akin to the self-undermining assertion that the totality of life is
merely a dream, which begs the question what would it mean to live
within reality as opposed to dream, to awake from this heretofore
lifelong reverie? Although form arises from formlessness, the reverse
of this cannot be the case and so pure consciousness, if it exists must be
sustained from some source transcending the Universe as Form. To
create ex nihilo is to create both form and formlessness.
The precision with which the design of a conscious computer is
specified in the very totality of the design, that is, will turn out to be the
very thing that prevents the computers (or robots, for that matter) brain
from being open to influences the nature of which could not possibly
is one that in essence treats the brain as a closed system where the
functionality of the brain (or any analogous system in which mental
functions are instantiated, for that matter) for the production and
modulation of states of conscious awareness are concerned that is.
Consciousness objective being is internal to itself. This is why that
Ourobouros, the ancient Egyptian symbol of consciousness is so
appropriate.
In the same way that pure, white light combines harmoniously all of the
colors of the rainbow, so does pure consciousness combine within itself
all possible experiences.
It does this with perfect and peaceful
harmony.
What then is the reason for the necessity of a plurality of pure
consciousness?
None whatever if each of these is considered as
stemming from some originary pure consciousness. Each of these
individual and distinct pure consciousnesss, resulting in the way that
presumably must have from this originary (super) consciousness, are
already differentiations of this primary (pure) consciousness. And so
then how can each of these be supposed to be also pure. What
possible basis could there be for differentiating one of these pure
consciousness from another when each is assumed to be independent of
space and time?
There must then be some principle contra
Schopenhauer, c.f., Will and Representation, of differentiation, that is,
independent of space and time.
There are, of course, an innumerable number of Buddhas - those who
have awakened to the fact of their individuality having been an illusion.
Nonexistence is just as much a manifestation of being (of what is) as is
Existence. Things arise from other things from within the Void, that is,
from elsewhere then from within space and time.
If the present moment ever became fully determinate and crystallized,
Synesthesia and presence, e.g., scenes in movies and scene action music,
etc.
But conditioning can show that the boundaries between the
modalities of sense are not fundamental, e.g., Ton und Bild sind fuer
mich gleich weil sie alle aus dataimpulsen bestehen, c.f., Revolte auf
Luna, hoerspiel, vol. 4 (Robert Heinlein)
Plural Brahman: each Atman is its own, unique Brahman rather than
each being derived from the same Brahman.
Immanence is not through simple negation taking place within a single
transcendent being, i.e., unique Brahman.
If consciousnes is associated with some total energy that is a function of
both p^ and x^, then clearly this consciousness can never rest.
Everything is impermanent except the subject of impermanence.
If the individuals consciousness is a particular form rather than being a
ground or substance in its own right, then ones consciousness is
actually but a state of consciousness of some being higher than the self
so that it is this being that is conscious not ones self or ego this only
being conscious through the consciousness of that other being.
This is indeed what follows from presuming that one possesses a
concept of consciousness. One canot both be conscious and posess a
concept of consciousness. Only a being possessing multiple states of
consciousness within another all-embracing state of consciousness can
possess a concept of (these lower states of) consciousness.
Or perhaps we may develop a concept of former (states of
consciousness) that we have grown beyond or transcended.
Are higher states of consciousness necessarily illusory because simply
more complex or coherent structures/structurings of the same underlying
consciousness?
Gods are bound to the wheel with chains of gold, but they had no need
to develop Buddhism. The gods value happiness more than truth, the
Buddhist truth more than happiness.
The gods know that truth
transcends the ego, that is, the necessary subject of knowledge. So the
ego can only grasp knowledge about the truth that transcends ego.
Purpose of becoming embodied is recreation rather than acquiring the
knowledge that transcends transcendence. Transcending enlightenment
by entering space and time and becoming embodied as a kind of reverse
enlightenment a kind of anti-Buddhism. The object of which is to
leave their transcendent selves and experience finitude.
Distinguish the temporal now (becoming determined) from the eternal
now (being of the indeterminate). The indeterminate does not literally
exist though it certainly affects existence. Being as such cannot be an
act of determination since only particular beings act.
Liberation from the repetitive reenactment of ones conflicted, formative
past to fix the past or to attempt to glimpse the past from all its
myriad facets in light of superior knowledge and wisdom. To glimpse
an abstract principle behind the others hurtful actions so as to
deconstruct them into harmlessness and laughableness.
One paradoxical attribute of the Christian God is the notion of God
being beyond space and time, i.e., transcendent, while at the same time
personal. There is a similar (though reverse) contradiction concerning
the notion of the self in Hindu and Buddhist thought the soul as the
persistent bed of individuality is thought to be wholly illusory and yet
both these faiths speak of reincarnation and the wheel of life.
Because the transcendent cannot become immanent, i.e., dwelling within
the world (of space and time) through an act of negation, it follows that
the return is a metaphorical and dialectical process in which genuinely
new possibilities are engendered for transcendence.
attributes.
But a substance cannot be explicated in terms of its accidents, as a
moments reflection upon the more literal acceptation of the word,
accident reveals.
Exilic and Covenantal Religions are derived from the mimetic. Are all
of the fundamental elements of the Christian religion, for instance,
virgin birth, incarnation, sacrifice, atonement, resurrection, ascents into
heaven, second comings, end of the world, etc. common to earlier
primitive religions?
Are Gnostic and emanationist religions examples of exilic religion?
Western monotheisms concept of a personal transcendent is seemingly
a contradiction in terms. But so is Eastern mysticisms notion of the
infusion of the impersonal transcendent within the natural order within
space and time.
Inflection of concepts as ordered shifts in the application and acceptation
of the concepts within some preestablished system contextualized
domains.
Generalizing through the abstracting of notions common to different
acceptations or metaphorical extensions of some denotative term.
The quantum nature of the physical order and the underlying integrative
mechanism of consciousness overlap and can interfere with one another.
Duality implies conflict and disharmony. Fall from the transcendent.
Jesus resurrection may have only been metaphorical, but human
existence itself is only metaphorical for transcendent being.
If these myths were valid in the era of their origin, then they should be
able to grow and adapt to evolving social and cultural context. Living
myths that remain coupled to the dynamical ground of their being
through which they may be properly updated through grounds being
kept informed by temporal change.
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The transcendence by Deity of the dual categories of Existence and
Nothingness has the result of reifying Nothingness, at least insofar as
rendering it a manifestation of the Absolute. Evil originates out of the
active principle (of order/ordering) of the Nothingness constituted by
(following Barth) all that which God does not will. Heaven may be
understood as sacred and holy community in which intersubjectivity is
in harmony by each subjectivity being attributed to the Divine Will.
Hell may be viewed as the total breakdown into chaos of a community
that might have been. It is constituted by all out war between and
among myriad totally self-seeking individuals a cacophony of
unfettered wills. November 2011 The obverse view is that hell is to remain
forever consumed with the self and its vain imagination in the utter
absence of the presencing of the other. Most of freedom is comprised
by choices that if adopted set the stage for further limitation of the small
residuum of choices giving freedom its only real worth. There is indeed
a kernel of an argument for the existence of other minds (solution of the
other minds problem of the philosophy of mind) to be found in the
pursuit of a deeper analysis of the meaning of hell as the natural
metaphysical outcome of soul-crushing guilt, shame and regret, if not
remorse (in the absence of an otherwise salvatory contrition).
Somehow the sole individual and his limited imaginative resources
cannot exactly reproduce the uniquely integrally whole pattern of
entangled sense data that routinely presented themselves for his
appraisal throughout the course of his earthly existence. There is a key
Man should not fear the unknown. After all it is where he came from
and is where he currently makes his home.
Can all fluctuation phenomena be rationalized as perturbations of
expectation values. Or is the stability of expectation values negotiated
(through a counterpoising of wills, say) rather than being just
mechanism writ small?
The fact of uncertainty possessing an
irreducible ontological, as opposed to merely epistemological
component, should have an important bearing on this question.
Contemplate the changeability and reactivity of language as individually
implemented that is owing to a social-collective dynamic.
When most people think of God, they imagine a being that falls within
the description of one of a pair of a potentially myriad number of pairs
of dual opposites, e.g., good vs. evil, matter vs. energy, temporal vs.
eternal, existent vs. nonexistent, personal vs. impersonal, etc. But such
a being as is imagined here could not possibly at the same time be the
ground of being, that is, that which that underlies all duality that is a
mere manifestation of transcendent Deity.
The wholly other from myself would not be the merely different, c.f.,
difference within continuity versus difference without. For all the ways
in which this other might be different from myself could be submitted to
a contrast between all of my positive attributes and all its negative. But
this would be a case of another individual being merely relatively
different or other, in the sense of opposite extremes on a scale
embodying a scheme of categorization. But the transcendent other is
beyond all categorization in the same way that consciousness as the
ground of thought (in general), cant itself be a thought or embodied in
thought or as the ground of experience, cant itself be an experience or
grasped within experience. Only within the transcendent consciousness
of Deity from which we derive our being could consciousness be a
thought. And so if Man has a concept of consciousness rather than
merely possessing a metaphor of it, its because God has given us the
gift of this concept. This idea is very much of the same spirit as
Descartes argument that Man couldnt have a notion or idea of God, if
God didnt actually exist theres nowhere we could have gotten this
idea of God and divinity, in the sense of transcendent or universal
divinity, if not from the fact of Gods being having been somehow
communicated to Man through a kind of gracing of his intellect. September
2013 fcbk=epi=
"The sharpest system of ethics comes from an understanding
that persons do not belong in common to any conceivable abstract
category or class, i.e., comes from a recognition of the transcendental
nature of the self and carrying as it does an implication of the
transcendental nature of alterity ...being ethical towards "the other as
wholly other" embodies a much stronger ethical principle than does the
Judeo-Christian principle, "love thy brother as thy self"..." The other is
not thy brother. The "prolegomena to any possible" theology (if indeed
one is possible) must include a metaphysics of morals so as to underlie
such a "transcendental ethics". The magical nave realism of JudeoChristianity does not in fact form a metaphysical basis for an ethical
in the register of thought over to the others voice (large v). Lime
Cat May 2014 So the keenest ethics is not motivated by the perhaps
admirable notion that, "I do not do the right thing by my fellow man and
society because I crave heavenly reward or abhor the terrors of hell, but
because *it's the right thing to do*", but by the notion that, "I shall do
right by the other, who is, in his/her very ground of being, always
transcendentally other from myself." It is an ethics based on the Zen
notion of "solipsism without solipsism". Contrast this with wheelers
view that, we all share the same abstract identity, which is a very
different
take
on
solipsism
without
solipsism,
c.f.,cit=
http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0503113.pdf, Micro-Anthropic Principle
for Quantum theory.
April 2012
pursued (even at high cost) for its own sake or only if the investment
translates into a socially useful payoff, short or long term.
The traditional notion of God secretly implies He is a kind of cosmically
lonely solipsist. We should explore the implications of transcendent
alterity in light of the absence of an immanent concept of consciousness
with a mind to revamp our notion of God by stripping it of all of its
features that might carry unwanted solipsistic implications for
transcendent being. Of interest also is the notion of transcendent ground
of being in the absence of transcendent being itself. Can TGB do all of
the same work without the necessity of TB itself? Perhaps, but
perhaps not. The question bears philosophical investigation. Lime
Cat What I'm talking about is what I think might be the essence of real
altruism. In the sense that it's less altruistic to help your brother than it is
to help a cousin than a it is to help a stranger than it is to help an alien
intelligence, and so on, This all starts from the assumption that altruism
must be disentangled from sympathy, presumably after one has already
factored out the prospect of profit or gain due to anticipated or implied
future reciprocity. Friend is somewhere between brother and cousin, if
you will. Except in rare cases! : )
Resonance is coherence with the other and coherence is resonance with
the self. Inertia then must be interpreted more broadly as resistance to
transformation involving a shift in the relative strengths of coherence
and resonance.
How is it that Man has since the beginning of recorded history, possibly
much earlier, spoken with Gods voice though without ever having heard
this voice? What causes us to resist acknowledging how little sense this
makes?
In the same way that the causality lying behind the coherence of matter
giving it its integrity is underlied by the nonlocal connectedness of local
resonances within matter, doesnt the coherence of consciousness that
we term Mind dependent upon the resonance of the individual
that there is no possible way to prepare for ones death and so one might
as well devote all of ones attention to living ones life.
To these people the preparation for death through spiritual or
philosophic study and reflection represent a mistaken notion of deaths
meaning as some event apart from utter and complete cessation.
There appears to be two basic kinds of negation, one operating within a
formal, closed or bound system this is the usual sense of this term.
And then there is the less common, more esoteric sense of this term in
which, unlike in the first sense, the operation of negation is
fundamentally irreversible, i.e., the negation of the negation does not
bring us back to some previously defined state or recapture some
preexistent feferent with which we began (prior to the 1st negation f the
pair). This second kind of negation cannot be symbolically represented
withina pre-given system of symbols, but only by that which possesses
only a subjective interpretation or reference. Will acts upon ambiguity
here, rather than mechanism upon certainty.
In the first case there is identity within a system of differences. In the
later, there is absolute identity. The second kind of negation exhibits
the nature of thought (rather than reaction or impulse).
1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him,
and he in him. Here I dwell in Him and He dwells in me. The self as
subject (I) dwells in Him, and the self as object (me) is the place of His
indwelling. So here I dwell in me through dwelling in Him as He
dwells in me.
Ones body is no longer directly and immediately
ensouled, but has now become ensouled through Him (Jesus Christ).
Jesus may be thought of as the 2nd person of the Trinity as object, Christ
as this person as subject. Through dwelling in Jesus (His works, i.e.,
the Commandments), Christ (grace) dwells in the self. And in this way
is the believer ensouled anew through Jesus (the) Christ. This is to be
born again.
Will and (passive) consciousness are not separate but will may be
understood as active consciousness.
Although perception is
consciousness reacting to the imposition upon itself of boundary
conditions from outside. These boundary conditions are not applied to
consciousness as such, but to the individuals consciousness as (always)
already established and in operation. Will may be understood as the
imposing of boundary conditions by the individual consciousness upon
itself, internally individual consciousness upon itself, internally as it
were.
No perception may be had without first the appropriate
adjustment of consciousness boundary conditions (upon its timelike
resonance), that is to say, without the proper filtering by boundary
conditions of the dynamic of consciousness resonant interaction with its
transcendent and indeterminate ground.
There is of course the
necessity of a certain basic pattern of filtering upon which the ego is
dependent. The individual consciousness possesses a coherence not
reducible to or dependent upon feedback structures sustained by brain
activity.
Consciousness is a classically forbidden phenomenon. Is it possible
that quantum tunneling is an important mechanism underlying the
association of consciousness with (rather than its engendering by) a
functioning brain?
If all possible universes are actual, then does this mean that the
conscious observer continually moves from one universe to another (at
least each time the observer performs a quantum measurement upon the
quantum state of his own brain).
The essence of evil is the unity of effort and activity of the 2 nd principle
to subvert the order of creation, the manifestation of the 1 st principle, to
reorganize this reality in accordance with itself so that this creation
appears to have been an expression of its own being rather than that of
Being Itself.
It is constituted by the reinterpretation of Being as
Manifestation and manifestation as being.
The dictum that, nothing fails like success, may be understood in the
following way. Success allows the erecting and building up of vast,
institutionalized structures upon which nations and still larger societies
may come to depend for their livelihood and sense of the meaning of
existence, but which must sooner or later experience collapse or
revolution, resulting in failure on a catastrophic scale. Success permits
falling from a much greater height than from the lower plain of
mediocrity.
There are many examples that can be given for things in culture that
exert an upward pull upon the mind and heart on the one hand or a
downward pull upon the same, on the other. And as culture is itself a
manifestation and concentration of the elements and dynamics already
present if only in relatively inchoate, unsublimated form in the natural
man existing altogether outside of the realm of culture, altogether
outside of the realm of culture, this would appear to perhaps make the
case for a fundamental duality of good vs. evil lying at the foundation of
the human spirit. But there appears to be also a natural latent ability of
many persons to imagine a way life and being based upon a system of
values radically different from that held by the dominant cultures into
which they have been born. And this seems strong evidence for the real
existence of a faculty of free will in such persons and points to the
possibility of such a faculty being a more or less universal endowment
of the individual human psyche.
The world isnt real because it doesnt last and doesnt possess an
ordering principle deep enough by which it can sustain its own
existence. The principle of being of existence, that is, of all that exists,
is not to be found within existence.
It is not necessary to choose in the light of greater knowledge, obtained
only much later, in order to choose wisely. It is not only important to
see things as manifestations of a ground, but to recognize and
distinguish one ground from another. That which informs ground is
ordered in altogether different manner than is this ground which it
fcbk=
fcbk=
So rationality, like integrity has multiple bases, which is to say, degeneracy. We must not only be rational,
but also start from just premises.
Broken Symmetry, GUTS, and the Human Sense of Beauty This book
title occurred to me as I was reflecting on the bilateral symmetry of the
human form, many particular examples of which, are considered
beautiful by almost all who behold them, e.g., runway supermodels,
Olympic Decathalon champions, etc. and reflecting further on how
rather unattractive or unbeautiful most of us guts of any human
person. Then it occurred to me that GUTS was an acronym from
theoretical physics meaning, Grand Unified Theories. Further, I
recollected that one of the basic assertions of most of these GUTS was
that of broken supersymmetry or just simply broken symmetry.
Physicists consider this broken symmetry exhibited by nature to be
ugly when compared to the supposed aboriginal cosmic state of
each diverges from the other as all continue further and further resolving
the multiply structured unknown.
If the energy uncertainty of the brain like that of any other quantum
system, originates from outside (since brain is just a collection of
boundary conditions), then the reduction of the energy uncertainty of the
brain cannot be consistently represented as the flow of uncertainty out of
the system. Can information only be transferred from one open system
to another, say, through tunneling or some other nonlocal process?
Universal consciousness is the field that selects the degeneracy of
would-be individual consciousness observers.
Data has no content only information has content.
transmitted through spacetime information cannot.
Data can be
that, the more intelligent the biological system, e.g., neural network, the
more completely does this system resonantly tune to the vacuum
entanglement information frequency spectrum of descending
transcendent being.
This explains ones vertical placement within the chain of biologically
evolved lifes chain of being. The lack of more advanced intelligent life
in the Universe may also be explained along these lines. The anthropic
quantum solipsistic cosmological principle explains the existence of the
horizontal order. January 2012 Similar to the notion of time scale
reductionism, the structure of looser cosmological constraints is
determined by a more finely detailed structure of tighter cosmological
constraints. To wit, the Anthropic Cosmological Principle is a subset or
corollary of the Solipsistic Cosmological Principle. This suggests the
principle that what is called the universe is really a multiverse, which is
itself an interconnected structure founded upon an array of uniquely
tweaked/tuned fundamental physical constants. We should contrast with
this here the instantaneous values of the physical constants (in a
metaphorical sense to be explained later) with the average value (or
expectation value) of the fundamental physical constants in relation to
the distinction of universe with multiverse. Universe is to mind as
multiverse is to society. It is no coincidence that the anthropic principle
is part and parcel with the concept of the multiverse. @$ I am unaware if
anyone has examined the relative magnitudes of the number of possible
anthropic universes versus the number of possible distinct human
personalities or selves. It is possible that the number of distinct anthropic
universes so dwarfs the number of possible selves that the allied
concepts of anthropic universe and multiverse conjointly carry the
dangerous implication of metaphysical or cosmological solipsism. June
2012
Some physicists believe that there are an infinite number of parallel
universes, created for each possible quantum mechanical outcome. The
collective name for these universes is the multiverse. No interpretation
of quantum mechanics that I am aware of has done an analysis of the
role of multiple observers in the collapse of the wavefunction. Doesnt
each individual mind in some sense correspond to each independent
July
2012
From
a
Physics
Forum
posting,
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=76618 HYPERLINK
"http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=76618&page=3"&
HYPERLINK
"http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=76618&page=3"pag
e=3 : So, given that the human brain consists of approximately 10 9
neurons and each neuron can be connected to up to 2x10 5 other neurons,
you can come up with an estimate of the possible number of brains
using.
n!/nm
(Of course, the poster does not take into account the density of
microtubules and tubulin dimers within each neuron, which only boosts
the effectiveness of his argument.)
Where n is the number of neurons and m is the number of connections.
Due to the magnitude of these numbers, most calculators cannot give a
meaningful answer. Special methods can be used, perhaps some will
grace us with the number. Given the number of possible brains we then
need to assume a rate of generation and compare this time (how long to
generate all of them) to the life time of the universe. If the time required
exceeds the life time of the universe then it must be considered
impossible.
If you apply the anthropic principle to you yourself, you are of
course right that the probability of you being yourself, once you exist, is
1. When Richard probably means though is that the absolute probability
is very small that you in particular should be born, while the probability
is very high that some human will be born given humanity exists. The
equivalent on the cosmological level is - given a sentient lifeform exists,
what is the probability that it look exactly like homo sapiens and sits on
a planet that looks exactly like earth. In the cosmological version, we
March 2012
To permit genuine creation, limitation had to ensue only after Being had
irreconcilably whether this applies to each apparently distinct species of
intelligent life.
That which requires no sustaining of itself was not founded upon an act
amounts to but the tiniest amount of metaphysical labor. That is, the
sum total of ones experiential opus manages to enlarge creation, but
only by the tiniest increment.
We must think of this transformation towards which some of us realize
we seem to be accelerating is entirely outside, nor should it be thought
of as something unfolding entirely within the selves of harbinger souls,
if you will. (Intersubjectivity of each persons Other). Its perhaps a
collective self fulfilling prophecy. Maybe if we all talk about it and
look for it enough, this will make it an inevitable event at some stage.
All of the non-pedestrian states of consciousness fall into one or another
of the Psychiatric diagnosticians categories. But does that necessarily
invalidate these extraordinary experiences?
Perhaps it tends to
invalidate the practice if not the theory or psychiatry?
To be able to rationalize in the sense of channeling along societally
defined as useful pathways, the peculiar impulses and vagaries of the
individual or to simply shut these out altogether when no conventional
way can be found for in this way channeling from this is the principle
object of the institute of the psychiatric profession besides the generally
applicable professional interest of making lots of money.
So when someone somewhat gets to know you and then this only to
decide that one isnt all that interesting, then, apart from the
consideration whether this person hasnt just decided that youre no real
use to them, you shouldnt raly take this to heart or too seriously because
we are each of us transcendentally mutually other.
Machines dont communicate with each other because what is
exchanged between them doesnt mean anything (to them).
One thing that psychedelics can teach us is that all of the forms that
might be manifest in culture both past and for the foreseeable future (and
perhaps beyond) that all of these forms are latent and hardwired within
Isnt it uncanny how all the reasons we give for what we love about our
mates have so little to do with our original reasons for being attracted to
and liking them.
I dont know whether Im having an insight or just being paranoid. To
act alone is to risk acting out of madness.
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The nice guy has much less insight into his actions, reactions and
motives than does the more obviously self-interested person. The nice
guy does not appear to be after anything at least earnestly enough to
reap success.
The gods say, sons and daughters, I have sent you away into the world.
You are not allowed to return until you become prepared to instruct us.
The circles and cycles of biological and ecological systems are extracted
from their ground, but not through mere abstraction, in the sense of
filtering or lifting latent structure out of a matrix, some preexistent
features. Though the function of abstraction prima facie appears to be a
positive action on the part of consciousness, it is essentially the
construction of a category through the systematic negation of all those
details or features inessential to what is to define this category. In this
way, the empiricist and rationalist epistemologies seem substantively
interrelated.
Coherence of a collective of eigenfunctions is not really possible.
Although each is differently weighted - in a sense they possess identical
weighting .
How does the adoption of Bayesian probability theory change our
understanding of the phenomenon of Psi-function collapse?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
A discontinuous
change from classical to Bayesian probability occurs in the Monty Hall
problem, which could in a quantum context be interpreted as
wavefunction collapse. Bayesian probability applies not only to a
single observer who keeps learning, i.e., acquiring additional
instantiations of God.
It is obvious that the sufficient ground and
explanation of consciousness is not to be sought from below, but from a
still higher level of being. How is the concept of fetish related to that of
presence of metaphysical presence? Escaping the determinism of the
accounting system of offense and favor.
An essential component of heroism is the unsung nature of its suffering
and sacrifice.
He doesnt understand the human experience of love; he is in its surface.
Really, love is on the surface of his deeper being. Is consciousness
merely a projection of the ego, say, like the free will experienced by a
person under the influence of a hypnotic suggestion?
We may think of the divine pluriform (c.f., Philip K. Dicks writings on
Gnosticism) reality in the following way. Each person may be thought
of as occupying his or her own parallel universe. I am in many different
parallel universes, but in each there is only room for a single
consciousness?
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=398352
July 2012
Integration ~ conceptualization
Differentiation ~ posing distinctions
God is transcendent in the sense that he is not a particular being
dear beloved Cindy, let us pause to reflect how God knows the condition
of our own heart far better than do we know it ourselves. (Funeral guest
book posting for Cindy Ann Marcotte Gates).
In this way belief in the existence of other minds (i.e., other
consciousness more or less akin to ones own) carries with it the tacit
assumption of the existence of a transcendental mind, i.e., God. @$The
individual mind is not itself an abstraction, but is rather an instantiation
of mind as such. So it appears that a favorable approach to a new proof
of Gods existence might be the demonstration, first of the existence of a
variety of transcendental concepts, even if such concepts go beyond any
possible human attempt at their specification or description. Such a
proof of the existence of God or transcendental mind would be itself an
existence proof much after the fashion of those constructed as
mathematical theorems in which the entity itself cannot be constructed,
but can nonetheless be proved to possess mathematical existence, i.e.,
subsistence.
In light of the discussion thus far it seems that no more faith is required
for belief in other minds than in the existence of a transcendental
mind.
In this way the otherness of ones fellow human being points to the
concept of otherness as such, i.e., otherness in relation to all possible
finite beings. We have a concept of consciousness by some means
other than abstraction from experience (in the sense of synchronic
experience). Where all of our other concepts are concerned, we tacitly
assume a ceteris paribus principle where time/temporality is concerned.
It turns out that temporality is not a concept either, but according to Kant
an intuition.
The concept of consciousness is arrived at through
abstraction from diachronic experience and so consciousness is
never/has never been an actual given within a given moment of
experience (experience, rather, is always itself within consciousness).
The concept of consciousness is arrived at through the integration of
experience from outside of the moment. The intuition of the passage
is, in fact, one and the same. Or is time within consciousness rather
than consciousness being within time. The notion of consciousness
being within time seems to require the presence of some broader
consciousness within which the consciousness it contains might evolve
temporally as a whole.
Is personal, egoic consciousness, then the
product of the integration of small portions of the contents of some
universal consciousness? Or does this content itself depend upon the
context provided as a result of this prior integration of consciousness?
Is there no essence to anti-Semitism?
Is anti-Semitism merely a
historical phenomenon possessing no unique and unitary cause/origin?
Romanticism was not so much a reaction against the Enlightenment as
were both reactions against medievalism.
Rousseau embodied both
reactions best of all thinkers of this period. The notions of nation-state
and national sovereignty are fairly modern inventions.
Hitler Youth
became the Young Pioneers. The best communist is a former Nazi and
vice versa. The reason for anti-Semitism is not hate, hate in this case is
mobilized against the Jew for political purposes other than the mere
hatred of Jews/Jewishness.
Two examples of the integration of thoughts context of thought in order
that thought be present and integration of thoughts as discrete elements
that provide context collectively for each of these thought elements.
Either way the brain provides the basis of this integration by providing a
means for the building up, i.e., complexification of quantum correlations
of the fields for which the brain also provided dynamically structured
boundary conditions. These boundary conditions supplied by the brain
provide means of selecting, filtering, amplifying and interconnecting of
September 2011
preexistent but ill-defined vacuum information signals.
There is certainly some mystery involved in the way that information
can be rationally transformed through a changing of context. The not so
mysterious part is that information is in the first instance an artifact of
context. Information is by its very nature multifaceted, and the
mysterious part is that this is in a manner that is open-ended.
Recursiveness in the absence of closedness. Something defined in terms
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The past cannot be changed per se, however, that which was
indeterminate in the past, e.g., a mixture of quantum states or quantum
superposition, the Heisenberg uncertainty of a given quantum state or
mixture, etc. when it was then present and which until the present
moment remains indeterminate this can be changed retroactively in the
sense of rendered more determinate in the past . . . by an act undertaken
*now*. The temporality of the indeterminate (again in the sense of
fundamental quantum mechanical uncertainty) cannot be mapped or
traced along the time axis of determinate, public or intersubjective
temporality, but makes contact with and intersects it through the
function of direct intuition, i.e., the intuition of the passage of time. In
other words, what happens in Vagueness, does not necessarily remain in
Vagueness.
November 2014
When you make God a promise and forgive a debt, one can't
then take it back years later and call in that same debt.
Quantum versus classical ~ Mind versus Matter
Nonlocal Quantum vs. local quantum
Fully quantum mechanical vs. semiclassical
Disembodied vs. Embodied Mind
Nonlocal quantum fields transcend spacetime by being supraliminal and
transcend matter by virtue of being unconstrained by boundary
conditions.
The difference between Culbertsons Robot that is built and learns
German from another robot that is built, identical to the first, is the
fact of a history of nonlocal quantum correlations that have been built up
between the 1st robots brain and its environment (ultimately with the
nonlocally quantum vacuum field in which this environment of the robot
was embedded that provided the irreversibility and hence veritable
historicity of the robots biography)
The emergence of a new conscious being within the world (spacetime) is
nature of subjective time for the individual and perhaps the individual
identity of the person (within time as a potential subject of experience).
Now to avoid an infinite regress which threatens the discussion at this
juncture, we must not allow that this process of integration, at its
ultimate level, that is, become itself temporal in the interaction process.
This suggests that the integration of a given bundle of an infinite number
of times lies somehow with their intrinsic coherence. It seems that
three of the four basic attributes of time, rate, direction and duration are
all somehow dependent upon the faculty of memory the other, time
order, does not seem memory dependent and so may well be objective,
and the direction of past time flows may not have any real bearing
here.
Rather then saying that a system, facing a choice of different states,
causes a split at the universe into several parallel ones, why not just
suppose from the outset that the computer, as a physically realized piece
of hardware, is itself the product of a superposition?
The human brain manages to sustain itself, or various parts of itself, at
various times, in quantum superposition states even at temperatures
approaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The brain does this through some
as yet to be discovered isolation mechanism something about how the
brain functions prevents influences from the external environment from
collapsing its internal quantum superposition states.
Expectation value ~ intersubjective and can be measured repeatedly; an
expectation value is an overdetermined quantity.
Fluctuation ~
subjective and can be determined only once; a fluctuation is an
underdetermined quantity.
Energy from foodstuffs only supply the bias voltages of the network of
neurons.
The real work of information processing occurs at the
fluctuation level. Attraction as a patchwork of fetishes that appears to
fuse into a seamless whole.
When a general state of dissociative
consciousness begins to develop, this patchwork begins at once to
could find the most excellent unsuitable partner with which to spend the
rest of your miserable life!
Descartes clear and distinct ideas and the question of how Man ever
conceived the notion of a transcendent Divinity in the first place also
relate clear and distinct ideas to the notion of metaphysical presence.
All the wonders of existence within society and culture are derivative of
the primal experience of being in Gods presence: every glory in the self
a twisting and perversion of the proper giving of glory to God.
The more original seeming are the pronouncements of a balanced and
rational mind, the more likely do these statements reflect some actually
perceived feature of some domain of reality.
It has been said that paradox is just truth standing on its head in an
attempt to attract attention. The truth of this statement is most readily
seen by those blessed (or cursed) with a highly active dream life.
Example (1): The love that you withhold is the pain that you
carry,
c.f.,
paragraph
1,
p.
10,
www.andromedaninsights.com/resources/transcripts/global1.html.
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Example (2): This ego ideal is the target of the self-love which was
enjoyed in childhood by the actual ego. (Freud, 1914, p. 94)
Without conditions and limitations for the manipulation/ (manipulation) of spontaneity, insight dissipates by processes just as
speedy as those by which it is originally engendered. Such a situation
would prevent the linking together of different insights so that ideas
would not be enabled to build upon one another. Shifts in ground
underlying the transpiring of events cannot be characterized by mere
alterations in the weightings of preexisting possibilities constituting a
closed set.
back to the year 1945 and is on some kind of urgent mission, perhaps to
warn the family of some impending disaster. The occupants are a large
Hispanic family. I speak with the head of the household who strangely
enough is a disembodied head sitting on a shelf. But immediately next
to this shelf on a back wall is another person whose head is the same as
the disembodied on e through properly attached to a body. So far my
dream character is only imperceptibly alarmed by any sense of things
within the scene being out of place. I fumble for words, finally
inquiring of the familys father what year it is and whether or not is it
1945. Im hoping my question will be not taken as a prank or joke so
that the family might properly appreciate my desperately lost state of
being. The father remains, silent not answering, and then I turn to see
an antique television set. I try to correct myself, saying, "Oh, it must
be around 1966 or so -am I right? Members of the family answer in
general agreement with my guess.
I believe I know the future inhabitants of the house and remark, Im
familiar with some of your ancestors who occupied this house. I
intended by this to have said descendants rather than ancestors. The
mother of the family answers me by asking if I know her grandparents.
Who lived in the house 34 years ago. I say no, I mean the members of
your family who will occupy this house 34 years hence.
The
intriguing observation to be made here is that the dream character
represented by the mother responded to the literal content of my
question rather than what I intended to ask her and which I believed I
had asked her.
There has to have always been something since ex nihilo nihil fit. And
what better candidate for such a being than that posited by Spinoza,
namely, a substance consisting of infinite attributes, each of which
expresses eternal and infinite essence. @$Spinoza argues that there
could be no cause or reason preventing the existence of such a being.
Consider: Leibniz Monads as infinite attributes of Spinozas God
substance.
uni-
a nonfinite, recursive dynamic are perhaps dual structures (of time and
space perhaps that must become fused together).
The overdetermination of consciousness manifests itself in the
persistence through change of a given individual consciousness while
the underdetermination of consciousness lies with the indefinite variety
of possible realizable individual consciousnesss.
The simultaneous commonality of environment and language permits
triangle people and square people to effectively be a single people,
possessing a single art, culture, science, etc.
Because there is no such thing as consciousness in general or as such
which all beings participate in in common with one another, the being of
consciousness is particular only in an analogical sense and so does not
represent any limitation or condition being placed upon any
consciousness-at-large or as-such.
In this way two or more
consciousness may only interact if each is itself limited and each of
these systems of limitation are networked together but without an actual,
direct linkage between these consciousnesss being engendered.
So the collective limitation of the plurality of consciousness is not the
result of their as it were pressing up against one another within some
preexistent common field, e.g., spacetime, but this common domain or
inter-consciousness is an artifact of each consciousness having limited
itself through its own self-initiated action a kind of collective reverse
bootstrapping of all consciousness to produce as artifact, the interconsciousness realm.
Conservation is only simulated through the
defining of spaces enclosed with respect to a set of degrees of limited
freedom while nonconservation (and uniqueness) remains with respect
to boundaries not yet defined. Again, facilitation seems to require
limitation (as in construction of concept grounds within the confines of
poetic versification constraints of rhyme, meter, metaphor, theme, etc.)
Concerning the fundamental question of metaphysics: Why is there
something rather than nothing? We may note that should reality not
constitute in any intelligible or rational or objective sense (or, perhaps,
in any sense) a totality, then this question is revealed to have been
fundamentally misguided by the implicit false identification of Being
with Existence through another false identification of the two relations,
that of identity with that of analogy.
This would perhaps amount to an attempt to reduce poetic truth to that of
objective truth. For one can only reasonably ask something exists rather
than failing to exist if the subject of this question is in some sense
definable (as a kind of thing). Of course any thing as a determinate
being both exists and does not exist so long as it exists somewhere and
not somewhere else and we havent yet qualified our question to include
the condition of place. So this question of Why as a metaphysical
question about absolute existence or being becomes why something
for which its being is unconditioned has the unconditional being that it
in fact enjoys? And this question is only meaningful if it is meaningful
to ask why other beings whose being is unconditioned nonetheless
possess no being whatever. And the only possible answer that does not
appeal to the notion of conditional-ness would be the arbitrary choice of
such beings to not possess or take on being any other account for
nonbeing would necessarily invoke conditions for the beings vacuity.
Existence is always being within which is being with and unconditioned
being are being not possessing existence. All existents are beings
(within existence) but not all beings exist, in other words.
The naturalist would point to the seemingly almost universal availability
of a highly developed state of consciousness to members of the human
species as a phenomenon of cerebral cortical hypertrophy borne of an
evolutionary momentum carrying into a late epoch in which the natural
selective pressures in favor of increased intelligence are virtually absent,
but which is nevertheless being sustained through a continued (if not
actually sharpening) unleashing of earlier built up potential via the still
continuing evolutionary pressures posed by sexual, as opposed to, so-
called natural selection. But we may equally well choose to view the
phenomenon of a hyperdeveloped consciousness (and capacity for such
consciousness) as a divinely providential infinite upgrade-ability of the
mind of the individual human being because it is clear to any unbiased
thinker that human consciousness has already exhibited a state of
development far in excess of the minimal level necessary for the survival
and prosperity of the human race as a whole in relation to the
competition posed by the other species of the planet with whom we have
been forced to share limited, locally available resources. One should
note here the vast chasm separating human intelligence from that of its
closest, most challenging competitor species. April 2011 Because natural
selection never had the adaptation of the individual in view, @$but rather
the adaptation of the breeding population as a whole, a great variety of
genes (and higher order regulatory genes) would have been selected for,
which later can be brought together in novel combinations never
anticipated by the evolutionary process, and which nonetheless possess
an expression as beneficial phenotypes for the individual offspring. This
points up the rationality of the genetic code, which itself must possess an
evolutionary history predating the emergence of sexual reproduction by
at least a billion years! It is this anticipatory nature of the genetic code,
which seems to point to the providence of an intelligent designer, e.g.,
In the beginning was the Word. The interpretation of individual genes
in terms of how they should be interpreted within the multi-level gene
regulatory network, i.e., linguistically, while the assemblage of this
network, being based in the self-organizing principle of atomic and
molecular matter, points up the latent, linguistic dynamical structure of
fundamental matter as an expression of the underlying quantum vacuum
as creative, intelligent ground of being. December 8, 2012 The incidence of
Asperger's amongst the children of Engineers (both parents) is 10x that
of the general population, c.f., Economist magazine. The predisposing
high-level regulatory genes are in the genome because they promoted
the survival of the tribe over many 100,000's of years of hunter-gatherer
life and hence were selected for by nature. Humankind came very close
to extinction in sub-Saharan Africa and later during previous ice ages,
and the "genetic bottleneck", c.f.,e.g., mitochondrial DNA studies, is
Existence can only develop well within the confines set by possible
being (coextensive with actual being when unconditioned or absolute
being is considered). But where no totality has been posited, there is no
equating of existence with something that is nothing more than
conditioned being, that is, as just being subject to conditions or
limitations.
To reiterate, there can be no accounting for that which is in no rational
sense a totality. And this principle likely applies equally validly to
consciousness. But since as we have already argued, there can be no
consciousness as such, i.e., consciousness that is both unified and
impersonal, consciousness must be defined through itself alone so that
ironically, it is personal consciousness which is consciousness as such.
Persons therefore are transcendental beings that only acquire selfknowledge through self-imposed limitation. Another way to say this is,
the distinction of personal versus impersonal consciousness is merely a
relative and epistemological distinction.
Ontologically speaking,
consciousnesss are distinct though each is essentially an unconditioned
being and the ontological distinctness of individual consciousnesss
represents a transcendental order of the plurality of being, this plurality
only becoming realizable through the various unconditional acts of selflimitation on the behalf of the various transcendental persons.
Spacetime is an interconnected, dynamic latticework of distinctly
originating temporalities. Spacetime is a linking together of timelike
fluctuations into a network that transcends any instantaneous arising of
multiple fluctuations. Each temporality represents the action within and
upon spacetime of transcendental beings, most of whom remain
unconditioned. Rational action is collective, mutually limited action
that possesses an intersubjective exchange medium supervening upon
We may follow au=Leibniz and summarize what has been said thus far
concerning God, Man and Mans relation to God by just saying that the
perfected being that is woefully imperfectly represented by any
individual human being is the being of God from a single, confusedly
rendered point of view or from the point of view of one of Gods facets,
confused by the confused points of view, to varying degrees, of other
facets of God.
It is a natural assumption that creation ab initio somehow requires
greater effort of explanation than does the persistence through change of
this created order once the hard work has been put behind whatever to
which it owes this existence. And this presumption is to secretly invoke
the notion of the world being, in part, indifferent to the passage of time.
But if reality is indifferent to the passage of time, it is always a different
and changing component of this reality that possesses transitory
indifference
to
temporality.
C.f.,
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<hedweb.com/witherall/existence.htm> Because the negation of a
determinate entity must be an equally determinate, if unbeknownst
absence, very much after the fashion of the physical relation of matter to
antimatter, and thus requiring negation to be within some preexisting
system of determinate relations, if such an operation of negation is to be
definable in its effect; the negation of the world would not be defined
should reality constitute a world in name only, being actually
indeterminate. On this view, what is called nothing would be just one
among any number of unlimited indeterminate states and so not
possessing the special ontological status usually accorded it within
systems of metaphysics, and so no special explanation is required in
accounting for deviation from such a state as might have otherwise been
supposed to be represented by the existence of an actual world such as
the present one in which we asking the question find ourselves. Any
limitation on the part of the unconditioned beyond that required to
produce an order shall produce disorder (relative to the order represented
by the first minimal act of self-limiting).
If existence as such is a
function of limitation (in its broadest scope), then the explanation of
why there is something rather than nothing lies with a motive or
revisit the persons status as such once their behavior comes back into
line with civilized expectations?
Policy, regulation, guidance, hierarchy, institution, ritual, ceremony,
collective, group think, procedure, algorithm, rhetoric, politics,
metaphor, analogy, subconscious, subliminal, epiphany, insight,
intuition, modularity of mind, sociolinguistics, sociology of science, precritical indoctrination, social conditioning, inbreeding, self-selection,
sexual selection, behavioral genetics, modulation, filtering,
amplification, enabling, symbiosis, syncretism, synthesis, derivative,
influence, automatic writing, muse, trance, paradigm, norm, mores,
expectation, nonverbal communication, neurolinguistic programming,
mimetics, instinct
God, like nature herself, manifests Himself in accordance with the
manner in which the spiritual devotee or seeker questions and interacts
with the numinous transcendent.
Whenever we make the move of reduction of phenomenon to category
or reality to totality, we either sever connections within the system or
between the system and its ground, resulting in either case in a
fundamentally inaccurate description of the system or the dynamics of
its components.
The proposition para [italics mine] has in it the idea of transmission,
c.f., Understanding Galatians and the Law, p. 16. Take, for example,
the following para words: paramedical, paralegal, paramilitary,
paraprofessional, parapsychology, paranormal, paradox, paragoric, etc.
Para in all of the above carries the notion or indication of almost as in
the prefixes, quasi, hypo, sub, demi, semi, etc. However, the manner
by which the prefix, para operates within the above given examples is
also deeper and subtler than that connoted by those other, similar
prefixes already given.
Para carries the idea of a similarity on
account of the development or nature of some disciplines having been
inspired by the method of some proper science or legitimate process.
deeper than any which has come before it, may be understood to be
signaled by the supplanting of the representational by the participatory
or involvement paradigm of science. By 2050, physicists will have
learned how to teleport a molecule.
We are familiar, perhaps from the horoscope column of our daily
newspaper, fortune cookie messages, etc. with the phrase, declaration
of love, as in, e.g., you will receive a . . . These are states for the
most part internally generated in the unfortunate individual who is
convulsed by the paroxysms of infatuation, c.f., fatuous, fatuity, etc.
And the perhaps as yet unbeknownst to him or herself even more
unfortunate person, finding themselves in the path of one of these what I
like to term, protestations of love, should best realize that there can
indeed be little that personally connects them to the true object of the
love-struck unfortunates obsession.
Nonetheless, classically forbidden pairings are known to occur, e.g.,
professional female blue collar (or even brown collar) male, gay or
transgendered persons of the opposite sex, political commentators of
opposite party affiliation, etc. Sometimes odd pairings, when unusually
frequent/ concentrated are whimsically explained in terms of there being
something in the air.
Now in the realm of modern physics, all classically forbidden
phenomena are ultimately accountable to the mysterious and
spontaneous action of the quantum vacuum fields, what classical
physicists of the previous century might have uncritically termed the
ether. But the exact manner in which these fields bring about their
highly peculiar results is dependent to an extraordinary degree upon the
available particular set of initial and boundary conditions in force.
To say that the dynamic is itself determinate is at once to suppose a
complete physical description where only the initial and boundary
conditions have been specified without our having specified to what
these conditions must be applied.
There must be a residuum of
sense embodied in a set of, e.g., safety regulations, the mind is focused
and the sense of potential alarm borne of a nagging presentiment of risk
all out of proportion, perhaps, to the immediate risk involved in this or
many particular cases. . .
It is like the setting in which a bank officer or treasurer first engages in
the occasional embezzling of petty sums. . . or in the making of a
number of small, bad loans to friends, favorite associates, etc. In the
process the mind loses, gradually and imperceptibly, its original focus
on risk after the habit of violating the letter/spirit of the regulations has
had a chance to set in and establish itself.
In the same way that a developing seed must access ground to manifest
its latent order, an order which must be in part other than or transcendent
of itself, the act of experience produces a novel convolution rather than
mere continuation of elements plucked from open-ended process.
Abstraction always produces novel sets of relationships, simultaneously
discovering and inventing one another in the absence of a completed
(nonlocal) manifold. All illusions (of insight) are equally convincing.
The unity borne of mutual agreement sustained among incommensurable
subjectivities is necessarily emergent and open-ended.
Any system of representation, if syntactically rich enough, is capable of
functioning like a first language, at which point the inertia of mediation
drops away seemingly revealing the naked content but not before
impregnating the represented with some of its still untapped structurally
subtle potentiality. In this way is it seen that there can never be any
neat cleaving of the sign from the signified. We always change what
we want to say, saying at once both less and more than we intended to
whenever we resort to the mediation of discursive symbols as well as a
particular genre of speech (rhetoric).
All determinate perceptions are based in an original confusion and
ambiguity, which at some crucial point had to be resolved along
particular lines.
Bohm says in Thought as a System, p. 138, that, I think, that matter
may be unlimited in it subtlety. It seems the only viable alternative of
unlimited (i.e., infinite) depth and/or subtlety.
The term, reified abstraction presumes that there is some necessary
and important distinction to be drawn between an abstract entity infused
with or subsisting in a substance or substances (plural) versus such an
entity devoid of all substantiality and hanging in thin air (or in, if you
will, the minds eye.)
My open-ended, under-determined (or overdetermined) email
communications to Suzanne and others are partly intended to illustrate
the little discovered fact of the possibility of a broader and deeper form
of communication (or metacommunication) in which memes or rather
protomemes can be exchanged between two persons and their psyches
brought into a closer and more productive alliance/ interrelatedness, but
without either person having made any commitments or irreversible
commitments to the use of particular sets of determinate concepts or to
the adherence/subscription to similarly deterministic sets of
values/judgments.
This form of insinuating, metaphorical-laden, risk-taking manner of
communicating is intended to stimulate a sense of physical contact, if
you will between two normally distantly separated minds. It is a form of
communication evincing some of the dynamic of a dance. Further there
is a sense of pushing, pulling and grappling of the two actual beings
deep within the control rooms of the minds of each. Communication
between two intellects is always an illusion as intellect itself is just an
adaptation and a tool. The intellect as present to hand contains within
itself deep divisions. Intellect as gear or as being merely ready to
hand makes of all communication a game of the exchange of metaphors
between two animals engaged in, e.g., courtship rituals, combat, social
bonding, establishing a social pecking order, etc.
@$
Let emptier vessels grouse for filthy lucre with which they would,
they believe, happily fill themselves.
The philosopher does not merely passively receive ideas and experience
through a socioculturally predetermined set of perceptual and cognitive
filters, but tends to critically assess the operation of such inherited
systems of processing the data of both sense and reason.
The ordinary man on the street does not attempt to develop and
experiment with new ways of processing these data but merely absorbs
by osmosis as it were patterns of preprocessed data perhaps adjusting by
trial and error as needed the manner of applying them.
If Man the animal is but the product of blind, evolutionary processes,
then why is he himself not blind, i.e., spiritually stumm as it were,
namely bereft of consciousness?
As Schrodinger remarked, a world
without consciousness would be a play-acted out before rows of empty
stalls.
But the logic of mimesis is anything but blind.
And we might
unassumingly suppose that pure or unadulterated mimesis constitutes the
prolegomena of all metaphor however general so that the extension of
metaphor to its formally conceived ground as pure mimesis reveals at
once mimesis as an abstraction from the concrete ground of
metaphoricity and therefore metaphoricity itself as both or at once openended and recursive, i.e., as consciousness in its essence though
transcendent of all formal categorizability.
Think of these deeper levels of metaphor as analogous to the harmonics,
which, though not individually distinguishable or consciously perceived,
nonetheless produce subtle interference effects upon these harmonics to
which the tympanic membrane of the mind is sensitive.
Just as conceptual thought presupposes metaphoricity, all consciously
uniphonic productions presuppose latent polyphony. Pure unity will not
stand out: will not mani-fest, i.e., remain fast within or against the
many.
This analysis of the concept of pure mimesis may be extended and
applied in turn to the upstart discipline of meme theory. The structuring
of protoplasm, progressively more complex with time as mediated by the
interplay of Monods chance and necessity with the cohesive structure
of the genome (gene-nome or gene-law) culminating with the
advent of consciousness may perhaps be paralleled to a similar
evolutionary process involving the meme structure in bringing about the
first appearance of the ego.
Rather than the Scriptures representing the transcription of the revealed
Word of God, we say that the evolving Scriptures reach a critical level
of coherence and complexity whereupon the revelation of a notion and
intent is facilitated through these texts. Religious memic structure
evolves, in other words, to a plateau where divine revelation is enabled
and the genic structure of matter evolves to a level on which the
enabling of egoically structured consciousness takes place.
And although the correspondence truth of a given religion or belief
system, with respect to these smaller particulars, subject as they are to
evolutionary tinkering, may always be discounted or called into
question; this process having served the larger consideration of the
overall or essential correspondence truth of the particular belief system
in question. For example, although the particular boundary conditions,
necessary for the fusion of living substance into a coherent, intelligent
system, themselves having evolved in basic accordance with the
principles of Darwinian theory, the set of conditions, sufficient to bring
about this fusion, certainly include those attributable to a coherent
dynamic, constrained and conditioned only internally, through the action
of fits own individual essence, when and where it has not yet protruded,
or projected itself into, the domain of boundary conditions and
limitations.
impinging upon the various physical sensory receptor cells from the
outside world, are in essence properly reproduced from orchestrated
internal, e.g., neural, resources connected to the components of the brain
responsible for primary or secondary stage processing of various modes
of sensory data.
What is interesting is that these resources are
connected from the internal rather than from the external side of these
sensory processing components.
It has always been tacitly assumed that the correlations existing between
or exhibited by vacuum energy fluctuations, i.e., purely timelike or
imaginary momentum fluctuations of the quantum vacuum, must have
somehow originated (the correlations themselves, that is) with real
momentum fluctuations somewhere within the past light cone of the
vacuum energy fluctuations in question.
Any mechanism explaining this, consistent with general relativity (and
causality), would necessarily the self gravitation of the quantum
vacuum, such that, globally at least (nonlocally also perhaps in the
quantum mechanical sense), both locally real and imaginary momentum
fluctuations would possess a mixture of time- and space-like
components.
Depending on which protein one chooses to trace a distribution for, one
deduces very different phylogenies, c.f., Genome Reseach 5 (1998): pp.
118-123. web= (http://www.arn.org/doces/odesign/od192/ls192.htm)
Infinite degeneracy of the vacuum state means that an infinite number of
distinct vacuum configurations corresponds to say, the same energy of 0.
But what about the case of a vacuum, infinitely degenerate with respect
to all physical observables? How could we meaningfully speak of these
infinitely many vacuum configurations being distinct?
With
respect to what parameters could these degenerate vacua be distinct, if
differences between or changes in them can never register in the form of
correlated difference changes to some valid, physical observable?
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realm is beyond space and time and therefore beyond individuation, c.f.,
Schopenhauers, Will and Representation.
Without an individual
reference for the information, it could be combined with that from other
sources. So is individuation by reference only and therefore a mere
abstraction.
Consciousness is just context of object and would-be objects, this
context must either regress infinitely or bootstrap itself.
The
bootstrap structure would be infinite and bounded. Somehow multiple
bootstrapping from a single, unitary process is logically inconsistent.
The depth and breadth of the meanings that we find ourselves faced with
contemplating are such dimension are surely at work. But if these
context are purely constructive than whence arises their substance?
Normality and naturalness of the human visage as the prime index of
what Deridda terms presence. The sense of presence is disrupted
when the subjects personality becomes dissociated.
SonicNet2 only loads those elements from the Internet not already stored
locally. So only change exists in the sense of the act of existing.
What is indifferent to the passage of time (untouched by change)
commits no act of existing. But is Being itself founded in an act?
The individual person, developing within the realm of individuation, i.e.,
space and time, begins from a relatively amorphous, inchoate state, and
gradually becomes more highly ordered, after the fashion of a
crystallization. There are always two distinct ways to understand this
incipient, inchoate state, namely as being either underdetermined or
overdetermined.
Subjective music categories by phase within ones
history/biography. Not intersubjective categorization?
Can coherence/ cohesiveness of the same structure evolve?
personal
be identified.
Do the objects of the imagination ever acquire any kind of independent,
mental existence, over and above that of the conditions within the mind
that originally produced them?
Truth that is unified may surely only be grasped by an infinite may
surely only be grasped by an infinite or transcendental mind or, shall we
say being.
This being, grasping the unified truth that is, by thus
encompassing it, must be beyond it, and so such a being is beyond unity,
beyond being itself unified and hence the plurality of transcendental
being.
Can truth be a unity, when one among the truths it subsumes is just that
there is more than one truth at least two equally valid senses of truth
must then be possible, one transcendent and myriads immanent? In
consciousness, there is no limit to the unity of truth.
We readily accept indeterminacy interpretation of classical
counterfactuals, e.g., prevented accidents (say, through adoption of
changed industrial operational procedures) during a companys last
reported fiscal year, etc., but we seem to have difficulty in grasping or
accepting an indeterminacy-based interpretation of quantum probability
amplitudes (for events that actually are observed) as being somehow
radically counterintuitive. Do so-called actual events, possessing a
probability of unity, i.e., 1.0, have some special ontological status vis a
vis events possessing probabilities falling in the interval 0.0 < x < 1.0.
And what about events with probability = 0.0 special ontological status
here as well?
In the absence of sufficient boundary conditions, an amplitude cannot
even be defined. The dynamics of the real proceeds with or without
boundary conditions. Does this make of just an accounting device?
A dissertation of the buddhistic notion of monkey mind may be in
definitions,
e.g.,
success,
brain stem.
The monkey ideates as though his most tenuous and subjective
associations represent some kind of objective logical inference to which
only he has privileged access.
The direction of time for consciousness is nearly orthogonal to the
perceived direction of time.
It should go without saying, that if there is a mechanism that underlies
the dynamics of consciousness sustainment as such, that such a
mechanisms action could not possibly be verbally or discursively
articulated.
Palimpsest is guided by more than one idea sometimes this is revision
and sometimes just reusing of the data medium. Logic of revision is not
contained within that of exposition guided by a unified idea.
What truth is the simplest and yet hardest to glimpse, which is
irreducible because uncreated that truth most directly under our own
noses?
Consciousness.
Can there be any distinction between
consciousness of individual and consciousness as such.
Discuss Monkey-nature and narcissism/egotism.
positive feedback of these projections.
Projection and
If evil is nothing more nor less than the notable absence of good, that is,
the absence of good in situations where we have come to expect its
appearance, then will becomes reduced to an abstract category
subsuming all possible instances in which good is not resent. But this
still leaves open the possibility that good itself might still be something
more than a mere abstraction, namely that goodness might nevertheless
possess a kind of essence. We have discussed already some of the key
differences between what is called an essence and what we term as
merely an abstract category or abstraction. But to recap, an abstraction
delimits and subsumes a variety of representations (of some thing that
may itself be projective and nothing more than theoretical or may be
alternatively of some essence). An Essence, on the other hand can only
provisionally and heuristically be understood in terms of an abstract
category, but must be supposed to possess some at least partially
independent and self-sustaining being and consequently an active
organizing principle, i.e., some ability to bring order to chaos.
Of course goodness might possess an essence by virtue of a consistent
feature of some broader essence. In other words, the principle of
organization of goodness might be external to itself. But goodness may
only be after all an idea that survives by being subserved by impulses,
motives and feeling that in the final analysis are extraneous and ulterior
to its abstractly stated principle. A perfect illustration of this might be
the phenomenon of capitalism based upon collective, rational selfinterest. January 2013 The essence of being human is always having an
ulterior motive.
We might ask whether the Universe has always and shall always possess
the potential or capacity for producing my particular, allegedly unique,
state of conscious awareness. If not, then what is altered or exhausted
within the continuum as a result of historical interaction of my
consciousness with the rest of the Universe?
Contrast the convergence of phenomenon of a certain type within a
given locality with the concerted manifestation of phenomena by a being
practical
Impossible
poetic
inconceivable
transcendent
?
does this while at the same time it continually generates new quantities
of information. Unlike what is called negentropy, the flow of that is
theoretically reducible to concomitant flows of entropy, the negation of
information does not truly fulfill a role as entropy the negation of data
fulfills that role. In other words, the production of information by a
thinking, perceiving human brain cannot be consistently modeled as the
flow of uncertainty (quantum mechanical or otherwise) out of this
information-engendering organ.
Loves illusion of its self-sustainment out of an integral wholeness is
quickly enough dispelled once the possession of its object is
irretrievably past. And the jealousy seemingly borne of love is usually
unmasked as that of mere possessiveness and the resistance of the ego to
a tangible symbol of its impending deflation. If most theistic, so-called
believers would just for a moment contemplate the proposition of
Gods reputed Existence dispassionately, that is, without necessary
linkage of this proposition to the psychologically necessary corollary of
the individual souls immortality, many might gain for perhaps the first
time an honest glimpse of the ontological insecurity that partly (and
importantly) comprises the unique endowment of the human species.
Barring the possibility of some overarching, superconsciousness within
which each individual consciousness may be, metaphorically speaking,
placed one next to another, permitting a systematic, comparative study,
no abstract (in the proper sense) features of consciousness per se, as
opposed to structurings of this consciousness, are determinable.
If the registering of new thoughts and perceptions by persons acting
within the context of human experience is tantamount to the
performance of some small packet or bit of metaphysical work, then it
only makes sense that the explorations of metaphysical explanation
should be preoccupied with the application of metaphor, specifically
analogy.
The give-and-take between respective subjectivities that
underpins the realm of the intersubjective that each in turn therein takes
up its conditional (and conditioning) being (i.e., existence), cannot itself
Be compassionate toward the smug and the cocksure. Their sense of loss is greater
than for humbler folk, who count their blessings.
(C.f.,
Frailty of the body and mind in others can inspire the impulse to cull
weaklings from the litter, i.e., feelings of sadistic cruelty, or it can
inspire impulses to be solicitous, pity, compassion, profound concern,
i.e., feelings of nurturing.
Can a criminal human person be both unfortunate victim of society on
whom we should direct mercy and compassion and a sadistic
aggressor/predator to be stamped out in a most harsh and prejudicial
manner, much like an animal lover dispatches a rabid dog?
Imagine a stick figure theater production about an unloved stick figure
human being. This would be an excellent subject of study within a
psychology experiment in which experimental participants subjective
reactions to what they are viewing is gauged and recorded. Participants
are classified into two categories, as being either compassionate or
rejecting (toward the unfortunate stick figure.
We might question whether such a sympathetic character actually exists
quality of a thought and not so much its difficulty level (by some
scientifically based quantitative measure) that provokes the response of
terming something brilliant.
True self organization is not spontaneous assembly of some coherent
structure according to some preexisting algorithm, but the spontaneous
assembly of both the algorithm and the structure that is to henceforth be
its realization. So self-organization can only truly occur within an open
system (one not possessing a determinate structure and dynamics) whose
action is mediated via nonlocal and nondeterministic reactions and
interactions, i.e., processes. Teleology within an open system, i.e.,
incomplete in a plenipotential sense, necessitates an imaginative
faculty of will.
Similar to our observation about the fact of thought (as such) possessing
no abstract description, we might make the observation that entityhood
(in the sense of physical objects) would not admit an explication in
terms of the kinematics and dynamics of entities.
Without an established framework of categorical distinctions and recipes
for interpretation and action, one is free to develop ones own system of
distinction and supporting justificatory system of implications, c.f.,
conversation with Blaise Guzzardo concerning responsibility for
violations cited against Allison Marine.
Discuss the virtue and unintended consequences of a regulatory system,
c.f., Microsoft Windows hourglass icon (the predictable
unpredictability of its appearance on ones computer desktop.
The aura that some of these longstanding philosophical questions have
about them is a feeling that less than one order of magnitude would
suffice to make their answer ludicrously easy. Many smart people
secretly perceive this fact and this perhaps explains the phenomenal lack
of interest in philosophical or metaphysical questions that us philosophy
crazed fish questioning the strange substance in which we breath, swim
and have our being, (could this be a metaphor for the relationship
philosophers have to their own ordinary states of consciousness?) take in
such questions.
Or perhaps each of these philosophical truths, if
correctly stated, would take the form of an exceedingly complex
theorem, the truth of which, is not even meant to ever be grasped as a
unified and whole insight.
There is some gimmick to there solution, conceivable to some
preternatural human intellect, which, if it could be conveyed to any
philosophically interested person, would perhaps produce an aha
experience that one would soon enough assimilate.
The profound absence of interest that ordinary smart people exhibit
concerning questions that are searching and fascinating for many of us
not so smart but having been bit by the existence-questioning bug.
Truth versus dissemination paradox of the Christian notion of a personal
evil (Satan).
Frenzied, impulsive behavior of persons who allow the creature to take
over and direct their behavior.
The question is whether each individual person possesses his own
ground for his own being or whether his consciousness is simply
supervenient over the causal processes of his own brain function.
So much of interpretation, symbolic representation, manipulation must
be instinctive or un-selfconscious as there is so much complexity of
structure to both semantics/ syntax in human communication which has
been mastered only up to a simplistic level via mimesis, but which then
seems to develop on its own dynamic, evolutionary (geneticallyprogrammed?) path.
Still less can any explanation for the subtlety and virtuosity of human
linguistic and nonverbal communication be accounted for in terms of
creation.
Not merely relative between elements given once and for all, but the
individuals themselves must be relative.
Entities cannot persist through a changing ground unless they transcend
this ground in their origin and self-sustaining activity.
What is the difference between the Bible containing Gods Word and its
being Gods Word? In other words, is the phenomenon of language
universal or unique?
Inspired versus illumined - as in bringing some light to a dark room.
Does the structure of the Elsewhere Region (outside the Minkowski
lightcone) require the action of nonlocally connected quantum fields?
The capacity to detect inconsistencies in thought, perceive the
paradoxical, sense irony, distinguish vulnerable or unwarranted
assumptions from those that are more robust these are just a few
examples of what makes for critical awareness. Because we do not
know if this critical awareness is a necessary component of
consciousness, we cannot tell whether dreams, in which this component
of consciousness is more or less utterly absent, are actually experience
within the moment of their being projected by the unconscious mind or,
if they only appear to have been experienced consciously as a result of
projection by the recollection of waking consciousness.
The distinctness of indiscernibles (when each is considered by itself)
is the foundation of the realization of number. But number itself as a
metaphysical category is itself the foundation of this distinctness.
Number (as category) is the basis of its realization. Is this proposition
tautologous vacuous?
So-called
natural
selection
must
be
an
extremely
superficial
inputs required to produce the same (appearance of) outputs and yet
there is at the same time, a tenacious thread connecting the manner in
which the input sets are varied so as to maintain a constant output this
is an example of the nonrepresentational/participatory nature of a
feedback circuit.
Must there result a shift in the nature of the cases that we have always
assumed formed an exhaustive set, once we discover an altogether
heretofore unsuspected new case?
Deconstruction used to overthrow the oppression of the great masters
and geniuses of the canon.
Metaphysics of presence, logocentrism, etc.
We mimic the outward form while entertaining a peculiar acceptation of
this forms content, which influences via the mechanism of society, an
evolution of this form as though this cultural form possessed an inner
dynamism of its own, and human beings were seized by it as instruments
of its working out.
The presence of the human form and
physiognomy, above question, except by those whom the hive-mind
suppresses with the label, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizophreniform,
schizotypal, etc., because failure to perceive this inevitably natural
human presence is the profound earmark of a mind in a dissociative
state. But secretly everyone knows in their hearts that presence is not
absolute but an artifact of our tacit collusion into which we have all been
carefully shepherded by each previous generation. Without children as
a constant distraction and disruption to meditation upon the self, its
existential predicament, we should many of us sooner or later think our
way out of our cozy, wet paper bag much to our horror and dismay.
If there are such things as phantom concepts, then there must be such a
thing as real consciousness, beauty, goodness, truth, beauty, goodness,
number, infinity, contradiction.
it lasted longer, but then collapsing back into silent darkness. The first
time that this burgeoning, bubbling and gurgling process of mind
attempting to bootstrap itself out of nothingness had gained any real,
lasting and intellible foothold on being just might have been that very
instance in which you came into being! Does God have the same
uncertainty concerning the existence of other minds as do we His
alleged creatures? Presumably not because God possesses a privileged
access to the contents of our minds which is even greater and more
intimate than the private access each individual has to the contents of
his own mind. So there must be two classes of intersubjectivity: that
between small s selves and that between small s selves and the big S
Self. (The intersubjectivity of multiple big S Selves so-called turns out
to be reducible to the same type of intersubjectivity as that between
small s selves and this is perhaps the basis for the uniqueness of Gods
being qua being of the ground of being.) The subjectivity of small s
selves must be somehow less private than the subjectivity enjoyed by
the large S Self. So the subjectivity of the small s self can be
additionally entertained by the large S Self, and this all because the
concept of consciousness as founded upon consciousness as an abstract
property held in common amongst all small s selves is not an incoherent
notion. Consciousness possesses an outside in addition to an inside.
The notion of topology offers itself here for consideration.
Like a postulate that is demonstrated in terms of what is shown to
follow from it, meaning-giving metaphors/narratives may be chosen at a
stage when they are virtually arbitrary, but upon their dissemination and
adaptive radiation and incorporation into the fabric of the culture, these
metaphors are demonstrated to be anything but arbitrary.
@$
The all you had to do is ask logical justification for the nature of
Christian prayer. It is only years after the first flush of youth has passed
that one gets an insight into how large is the instinctive component of
dating and courtship behavior. But eventually even the most dedicated
health nut meets with his true aging-driven downward performance, i.e.,
dying curve.
It is likely that, on Chomskian principles of the brains specialization,
that each person goes through life not knowing some otherwise simple
principle, i.e., missing some key meme, one that almost everyone else
possesses! Chomsky was fond of saying that one can only be good at
one or two things if one is also very bad at a lot of other things.
Certainly this is to be expected if human evolution has always been
driven by natural selection operating almost exclusively within a social
context in which a certain degree of genetic (and also memetic)
specialization amongst the various tribal/clan members promoted greater
survival for the breeding population as a whole.
@$
may explain most of what positively goes wrong in their lives, relative to
those of us with more settled ways and lifestyle.
A family is a group of individuals who all make the very same thing or
activity the central priority and focus of their lives. This is clearly an
unconventional definition of family. Redefinitions like this are deceptive
in the sense of being expedient, rhetorical manipulations where a
metaphorical referent is deftly substituted for the genuine article a
tactic, we might have observed, that is more and more commonly used
nowadays for political or propagandistic purposes. What permits such
definitions to become accepted, with surprising swiftness, I might add, is
that usually only a shift of attention has been effected by such redefining
of terms. It is indeed true that the members of a family (in the fullblooded, traditional sense of the term) strongly tend toward the same or
similar priorities, even if this is just the family unit itself or its members.
The redefinition of family above has simply replaced family as the focus
of family-hood with some other thing or activity, say science fiction
fandom (each can cite one's own example). And so the redefinition here
has simply taken what was common to family all along, but which had
been in the background, and brought this aspect to the forefront and
pushing the traditional subject of the term into the background. No small
amount of equity has been vested in a term, such as in our example
above family, and a redefinition like that implied above may indeed be
seeking to borrow much of this valuable stock, shifting as much of it as
possible, gradually over time to the new entity or activity being labeled
by this old term. It was just such sort of manipulations of the terms of
public discourse that Orwell used to darkly illuminate the setting of his
dystopian novel, 1984.
There can, of course, be no objective or intersubjective basis for ones
personal identity, in the sense of there being an as yet undiscovered
objective reason for my being the particular individual that I am, rather
than, say, the person who sat next to me on the bus on the last occasion
on which I availed myself of my citys public transportation, c.f.,
Nagels book, The View From Nowhere, the chapter on Mind.
Objective |
Subjective |
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ineffable
subjective |
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The above table suggests that, since we dont really know how to
interpret the conjoint categories, objective-effable and subjectiveineffable, that the two axes, objective-subjective, effable-ineffable are
not mutually independent or orthogonal. Let us try another version of
this table.
Subjective
Subjective2
Subj /\ Subj
Subj1 v Subj2
effable
|
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ineffable
effable
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ineffable
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The
Bachelor Manifesto
It is what is most consistent about their mode of being and acting and
therefore to themselves most hidden while to others the most
conspicuous feature of their manner of presentation. It is like a handle
on the person the most easily graspable part of the person.
The difference between miniscule and terrific is only one of a mere three
orders of magnitude.
Man from the past: This is all youve learned in 1000 years?
Man from the future: Well, yes, but . . . uh. . .
Man from 100,000 years hence, Yes, but it adds up over the fullness of
time.
@$
the crash of good feelings between God and his erstwhile faithful
consort. It was at this time that Lucifer provoked into myriad frequent
bouts of reevaluation of his relationship to God, to include no small
amount of self-analysis, that she hit upon the nature of that built-in flaw
placed by God within her otherwise perfectly constituted psyche. That
flaw being a more or less complete lack of a desire to recreate the self in
the Other. God had all but created Lucifer in his own image with the
exception of this single flaw.
With the creation of Man, God had utilized a seemingly altogether
different strategy: create man in his own image, not fully realized but
only in seedling form. But in order for this strategy to be successful, the
ground for mans full development into numerous alter, coequal gods
had to have already been prepared. To be fully like God man must
possess this same gift of the desire to create in his own image. The
creation of Adam and Eve was almost immediately grasped and
understood by Lucifer as a kind of mocking and cartoonlike rendering of
the relationship that she had held as sacred for nearly an eternity past.
Perhaps Lucifer had tempted God in a sort of antiparallel sense to that
whereby Eve tempted Adam although this temptation was rejected on
the ethereal plane the converse temptation, the mirror image of this
temptation and its reception might be played out with an altogether
different outcome.
What significance can be ascribed, if any, to the importation of archaic
terms from an equally archaic syntax into a modern one?
Belief in an all-powerful and benevolent creator is conspiracy theory
turned on its head in Biblical Christianity, for example, the conspiracy
is for rather than against each discoverer of the conspiracy.
The problem with some writers is that the urge to have something to say
is greater than the writers appreciation for the seductive potential some
ideas have to cause psychological harm.
decoherence of Psi.
Ones state of consciousness is thought by some to represent the
continuous self-measurement by the observer of his own quantum
state (that of his brain, at least based on the theory that it is processes
within ones brain that constitute all that is relevant to consciousness).
Somehow this continuous self-measurement does not cause any
reduction of the brains Psi.
This would suggest that the brain is in an eigenstate of the observable
which is to continual subject of (self) measurement.
Man must believe in something what letter thing to put ones belief in
than God.
Another function of consciousness is the reinvigoration of and
reinstatement (in new form or acceptation) of (recycling, if you will)
of weakened viral meme fragments that should otherwise be lost or
interfere with the function of healthy memes.
The interference
between consciousness and the unconsciousness acts as a kind of
universal filter.
The workaday, ordinary world of what Heidegger termed everydayness,
is actually a repository of currently active metaphors.
What is the meaning of metaphors for that which is presently (or
altogether) beyond our ability to articulate, e.g., heaven, hell, purgatory,
etc.?
Thought is the abstracting of the general from the particular. Action,
intentional action, that is, on the other hand, is just the converse of this
the concretizing of the particular from the general. But action itself, by
its nature is an inextricable mixture of abstraction, application (of
abstract notions), and trial-and-error experimentation in which there
operates a continual feedback in the form of mutual influencing
process from confusion also insulates the more creative faculties of his
or her mind from the long maturing inchoate.
We like to think of ideas, sometimes, as simply tools that we can use to
get to other ideas, the general nature of which we might already have
glimpsed.
But perhaps a better way to understand the use and
utilization of ideas is in terms of the viral meme concept viral memes
migrate, soon after having caused infection, into the motivational, in
addition to the logic circuitry, which is more obvious and suggest to us
all sorts of ways (exploiting the available cybernetic control machinery
of the neocortex) that we can use them to get what were after. It might
appear that these memes are inventing in use notions of how to use them
( in order to spread them) which cater to our deepest desires and fears.
But what makes for a successful meme? Isnt it that humans like a
particular meme, elaborating on its theme, combining it with other and
then passing them onto someone else either with the specific intent of
doing so or as a by product of using them as a means to some other end
not specifically addressed in the memes content?
Isnt it we ourselves that determine the nature of the selective forces
applying to memes? Is it possible to look at this discussion in terms of
the original quantities, i.e., genes themselves?
Feelings of alienation were originally indicators that one was in disfavor
within the clan or tribe, say for transgressing one of its taboos, or a still
more crucial situation of one being stranded in strange territory, that
ones social camouflage may be rendered ineffective, or that one has
become a captive of a foreign or warring tribe.
Modern alternative music seems to be seeking to strengthen our sense of
identification (perhaps with other displaced, alternative lifestyle
individuals) while assuaging our rankling feelings of alienation.
For every concrete, actual memory or associative circuit concretely
realized within ones gray matter, there are quite literally zillions of
virtual such circuits being completed per second just beyond the
background of consciousness.
All matter undergoes a kind of respiration of the locally available
vacuum energy. Irrational order is a contradiction (in terms) while
A is an apple and A is not an apple is also a contradiction, but here the
contradiction is not merely implied (implied in the sense of logical
implication or, perhaps, in some other sense?).
An open-ended system, if it possesses a high order of unity or
cohesiveness, does not do so in any formal sense, but in the sense of
substantial continuity.
But there can be no universal simultaneity
within an open system.
The higher self desires to experience itself as its own and while the
lower self wants to subvert consciousness into a means to its shortsighted aims.
The phenotype projector again and the requirement of thrown away
information (entropy) in the coherence and cohesiveness of living
structures. Genericness/genericity (Generativity) and the old school
year book phenomenon.
There is an uncanny sense of each day being totally new, full of the
promise of revelation, adventure, and transformation. The immortalist
perspective on the pursuit of lifes enjoyments: there will always be
time later to have fun and adventure.
Urges and impulses that seem to appear suddenly, out of nowhere,
may represent early manifestations of developmentally triggered shift in
cybernetic control of behavior by the persons DNA.
Is Logic empirical?
Explanations.
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experience)
are
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categories
both individually and collectively. So that there is some degree of selfdetermination of concepts in their evolution as well as responsiveness to
the introduction of new concepts and evolution of other concepts to
which they have some kinship.
The question has actually been seriously asked in numerous places in
peer reviewed scientific literature whether a, say, chimpanzee, rather
than a human being, appropriately manipulating the proper laboratory
instrumentation could succeed in performing an observation of the
classic two-slit apparatus that would succeed in producing collapse of
the wavefunction so that the interference pattern on the phosphorescent
backstop is disrupted, to be replaced with a buckshot pattern of electron
(or photon) hits. This question may turn out not to be so silly if it is
ever conclusively established that both the human observers brain
function and the quantum superposition state of the two slit apparatus
exist in some kind of two-way interaction with the quantum vacuum.
The hypertrophy of one kind of consciousness at the expense of another
kind lies behind the phenomenon of original sin. Evil in the world, i.e.,
phenomenal evil versus that originating from or with the self.
But to say that all of our concepts are abstractions is to assert a strictly
empiricist epistemology. To say that all of our concepts are in reality
only metaphors is to have implied that abstraction is merely the
superposing (after the fashion of a photographic double exposure or
palimpsest) of either an earlier upon a latter or a later upon an earlier
context. There may well be a significant difference between these two
types of metaphor.
The recursiveness of consciousness is thought to be one of its (or the)
defining characteristic(s) (of consciousness), c.f., The Egyptian Book of
the Dead, the Ourobouros as a symbol of consciousness, but perhaps it is
this much touted recursiveness of (the individual) consciousness which
prevents the transcendental unity of the plurality of transcendent (small
T) selves and is ultimately responsible for each ego being held in the
act of setting this tale down in writing for the first time. It is not
altogether certain whether those literate few of that distant time fully
understood that the subvocalizations echoing in their minds upon
rereading the sacred scriptures originated merely with the self, c.f., The
Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
(Jaynes). I have often noted that I experience strange or notable
coinidences during periods and with much more frequency when I am at
once experiencing a greater flow and variety of ideas. And my having
instituted the habit of always keeping a pencil and pad of paper within
ready reach, including at my bedside coincided with a steadily greater
influx of insights and intuitions, which at the time at least appeared
worthy of being written down. There is no arguing the much noted
suggestibility of the human mind when in the glowing presence of the
written word. One cannot help but see in this the suggestion that the
human mind is not after all unitary in its conscious functioning, but there
is a natural partitioning in the subconscious origin of ideas with some
ideas bearing the distinctive earmarks of having originated within the
right hemisphere, others within the left. Young children are introduced
to doctrinal ideas and systems of ideas at a tender age when their critical
faculties have barely begun to form, allowing a goodly number of years
for pregnant messages to be absorbed and internalized. Young children
readily accept theological notions at the same time as they are being
introduced to the characters of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the
Tooth Fairy. The theological notions in which these young children are
inculcated were originally conceived by broze age tribal peoples living
within a pre-industrial patriarchical society. There appears to be two
distinct types of narrative structure, edited and unedited. The greater
concision, logical clarity and coherence possessed by a narrative, which
has been reprocessed by editing, often in a collective or collaborative
context comes at a cost of authenticity (trueness to the original
germinal insight embodied in the narrative). But what this authenticity
points to is the simultaneously creative and disruptive ideational
functioning of the brains right hemisphere. By thinking and perceiving
with the whole brain, creativity is properly seen as originating within
the unified self. On the other hand, when an unsophisticated self stays
always within the context of SOF, mutations to the DNA molecule are
anything but random. The GRN does not so much as, e.g., guide
embryological development as it taps into and puts to work the dynamic,
self-organizing properties of atoms and molecules, which are in turn
informed in their transformations by the dynamics of the quantum
vacuum electromagnetic fields. This makes DNA effectively an
electromagnetic waveguide for the transduction (as opposed to the
transmission) of quantum information. December 2012 Yeah, textbook,
alright. But I had about 10 months to read it! : ) Kind of shows that
mutations aren't really random because a mutation only can contribute to
advancing evolution if it is first registered by the already existing gene
regulatory network. Epigenetics acts in the role of the higher level
programming language facilitating this. I'm not an expert so I'm
speculating somewhat here. What in the hell ever got you interested in
Epigenetics? The field did not even exist 20 years ago by the way.
Evolutionary biology has not yet absorbed this new subfield. Darwinian
theory says that information can only flow out of the genome, never into
it. This doesn't make sense because all information networks involve
feedback, which is necessariliy two-way. The two pillars of Darwinian
evolution are "natural selection" of "random mutations". Epigenetics
also shows that mutations aren't random because they are selected by the
gene regulatory network (as cybernetic control system) and that this
selection isn't at all "natural". Epigenetic changes do not change any
base pair sequences, just the manner in which these sequences are
expressed. So any given sequence does not have a predetermined
meaning, but always depends upon the gene regulatory and epigenetic
contexts. So "blind" cause-and-effect is not at all what is involved here,
but the operation of a language *and* an ongoing "interpreter" of this
language. (Again, no preset genetic meanings). February 2013 Epigenetics
provides a mechanism by which the evolving breeding population can
back react upon the environment and in turn upon the forces of natural
selection themselves.
Because of the syntactic and semantic properties of the genomeribosome system, nucleotide base pair sequences function in the role of
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2012
will), the brain is itself just a directory tree of the quantum vacuum's
accessing data from itself.
The question is whether the class of
Boltzmann brains represented by the identity, "Ziad Fahd" is the most
general property of Boltzmann brains or not? August 2012 What dynamic
medium is it that resonantly tunes to a succession of Boltzmann brains.
Can Boltzmann brains be constituted into classes based on the category
of consciousness, ID structures of consciousness that posits a category
subsuming a subset of Boltzmann brains?
It is clear that the highest evolved functions of biological structures are
those that are capable of accessing the subtlest levels of quantum
dynamics (thus far reached). So is only application what is newly
produced by evolution, i.e., structures of boundary conditions upon the
underlying dynamical ground, or does evolution actually back-react
upon this dynamical ground so as to alter its dynamics. If so, then this
would affect the function of structures that were perhaps long ago
already evolved into their present forms. This would be a genuine case
of a higher level of description informing a lower one, which is to say a
sort of reverse emergence or, more strangely, a kind of backengineering of the dynamics by the boundary conditions. Without this
possibility of reverse emergence it would appear that all evolution
succeeds in doing is taking latent, unexpressed order and transforming it
into actual, expressed order. Evolution on this view would not be
responsible for any net increase in the amount of information in the
universe. We might term the actual creation of new order through
physical temporal change involution. It is only when the ground of
being comes into contact with its other that this type of genuine
evolution (involution) may actually occur. It appears that genuine
novelty is only possible though the interaction of the ground of being
with transcendence. An example of transcendence might be the
simultaneous co-presence of all conscious mental states.
But if
transcendence is necessarily category-busting, then the phrase,
simultaneous co-presence of all conscious mental states could not
succeed in picking out a particular set of entities out of the field of
reality if a search of the universe of discourse (intersubjectivity ~
objectivity) must necessarily turn up empty. There are two views of the
distinction of the denotative vs. connotative: 1) what a 2 nd or 3rd person
party says must be enclosed in quotations, e.g., I exist while what a 1st
person party says may be correctly inscribed without quotes, e.g., I exist.
2) any proposition uttered, regardless of by whom must always be
enclosed within quotation marks. But the force of using cannot be
derived independently of the notion of naked utterances. How do we
distinguish evidence for something being the case from evidence for
somethings mere possibility? Or is all evidence of possibility to be
counted as evidence of fact? What about probability based upon logical
analysis of heretofore unquestioned metaphysical assumptions lying
behind current physical/ cosmological theory?
Is computing speed set to make a quantum leap?
http://gu.com/p/3fqeh
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
The parallel quantum universes must be anchored within the neural
microtubule network of a single brain. The Planck mass-energy
quantum decoherence limit specifies the boundary between appearance
and reality.
Chemical determinism and self-organization in relation to the sugarphosphate glycoside bond to which the nucleotide base pairs are
connected
Science or scientific evidence will never be able to prove the existence
of the Christian God but it may lend support to the existence of
Spinoza's God.
From Todd my young friend... 'Just read that article on the doctor
studying 'dead time'. He mentions the possibility of memory being nonneural. Are you familiar with how computer programmers avoid
detected
We should now investigate what might well be called the f
Ferrmi metaparadox within the discipline of the philosophy of mind and
the problem of other minds.
The dissolution of a paradox by way of the advent of a new paradigm
usually signals the appearance of a metaparadox.
The process of biological evolution is not a hundred percent onward and
upward just consider the case first considered by Darwin himself of
placing newer or modified species in competition with their earlier for
bears in the current environment of the modified species and how the
newer or modified species would merge victorious rendering the
extinction of the order forms from which they are derived and now
having said this consider someone to reverse case where the newer or
modified forms of the older species are placed in the folder species
contemporary environment and allowed to compete with him there here
the advantage would not be so clear of the newer forms over the older
ancestral forms because of the consideration of coevolution and ecology.
September 2013
humankind should have never had any reason for conceiving of the very
notion of God in the first instance.
Had all humans been born with dark-lensed, designer sunglasses
permanently affixed to their faces, would romantic poets have lamented,
would that my love was possessed of limpid pools for eyes so that I
might glimpse the depths of her impassioned soul? Would this concept
be the same would it be different in a referenceable way? The
imagination can encompass difference from actuality but only as a
perturbation of the actual. What is the nature of the ground that makes
intelligible the far-fetched seeming hypothetical?
Nonsensical
hypotheticals can be used in stepping stones in valid trains of
speculation.
There is not consciousness as such and yet there is suchness itself. What
is the paradox here?
Perturbation theory/ Perturbation paradigm. Is it possible to perturb a
paradigm as one does a theory, i.e., perturbation theory, where one
makes a few simplifying assumptions, reducing the complexity of a
theoretical description of a physical system to, say, the first or second
order? According to the nature of paradigm as making the outer reaches
or boundary of scientific speculative consciousness, there seems no
place for the notion of metaparadigm, metaparadigmatic, and so on.
Narration is the substance of myth and the ego is the central and
unifying element of all narration. Myth must stem from processes
underlying the constitution of the ego.
Pounding disco beat combined with long, sustained, airy chords invokes
both the primal and the transcendent elements of human sensibilities.
The analogy of the road that builds itself just a few steps ahead of the
traffic running along its surface serves here.
What is the parallel, if any, between the Sefirot of Kabbalah and the
Names of God in Sufi mysticism?
In a world without Time, the Fecundity Principle inevitably spells
contradiction.
Evil necessarily exists within the created order because Goodness,
although unified within the Divine nature beyond Time, loses this
perfect unity within Time. There is an impulse for Goodness to regather
itself into a new unity within creation that, of course, can never really
become a finished project.
Human beings could not have been created with knowledge of Good and
Evil, but only with the potential or capacity for acquiring this
knowledge, outside of the presence of the Creator. This knowledge of
Evil, therefore can only be instilled through experience, that is, through
the experience of suffering (physical and psychological). June 2011 Evil is
necessary in the unbounded process of soul formation. Evil in this
context of so-called soul formation may be considered the metaphysical
equivalent to experience as essential to the building of character in a
more worldly context. In this sense, evil, if it could be shown to be a
principle independent of and transcending that of mere privation
(absence of good), would be compelling testimony to the givenness of
good as more than the mere absence of material evil. @$Because the
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This is so only
if Being is rational, i.e., complete as a formal system of relations, without residue or remainder, which is to say
without kernel.
of a higher order means of survival for the means by which Spirit may
perform its metaphysical work ( of co-creation) within the realm of the
limited. Is salvation then just the proper identification of the symbiant
with the aims of the indwelling Spirit. Is there any bleeding over into
the creatures world of that which registers within the realm of the Spirit
as it actively engages itself with projects within other realms of the
limited?
Although coupled together at the level of the mutually
grappling intentions of each, there is naturally no mutual recognition by
each of the alterity of the other. Perhaps the basis for compassion and
humility is to be found in this mutual recognition at the level of
consciousness rather than of opposed or merely accidentally consonant
wills.
Symmetry breaking of the unified consciousness field and Lurianic
Kabbalah. The phenomenon of language as the restoration of local
symmetry to the consciousness field. The breaking of a symmetry
involves the loss of conversation of some substance and is the breaking
into the system of the indeterminate with respect to the quantum the
conservation of which has now been lost. In this way the system comes
into interaction with respect to variables previously fixed.
How is the myth of the remaining crucial element of some newlyrestored system of ancient occult knowledge relevant to the paradigm of
modern scientific research, e.g., the standard model of particle physics,
the human genome project, quantum computing, etc.?
One should choose an open-ended name, one amenable or adaptable to
an evolving interpretation.
Justification for ones life style does not consist merely in a patsounding account in the form of a plea for excuses in combination
with the enlisted support of a network of like-minded individuals this
would be a mere rhetorical-political justification basis for ones way of
life. The truth from which all real justification/ apologetics flows must
transcend politics, which constitutes a kind of expedience on a grand
scale.
Had culture and social organization been evolutionary epiphenomena,
i.e., had they had no effect upon either natural or sexual selection, then
the interpretation of modern man as a species of primitive, huntergatherers, forced to adopt to life in advanced, industrialized society,
would undoubtedly come across as ridiculous and far-fetched.
We cannot arrive at a clear notion of what makes for consciousness, that
is, its substance, simply by making a sufficiently comprehensive
cataloguing and study of its forms and content. We must already know
(secretly, at least) what consciousness essentially is if we are to identify
novel manifestation (form) of it, even though such a discovery would
mean seeing, under some altogether new unsuspected aspect, the way in
which all of its forms, with which we have enjoyed long familiarity,
have exhibited consciousness consistent with the new understanding of
consciousness broader essence.
She exhibited an air of prepossessedness that the locals here succinctly
described as her having a corncob up her butt.
this prior art. epi=The dialectic doesn't break reason, rather; reason is at
the very heart of the dialectic.
We are all or most of us what might be called petit politicians, forever
campaigning.
We parted after each having coming to the irretrievable conclusion that
each was out of the others league.
Fundamentally different types of people tend to view each others
character strengths as crippling limitations. Another views one persons
philosophy as rationalization for failure while the philosophy of the first
person is viewed by the other as an ad hoc justification for living an
inauthentic life.
Altered states of consciousness held a coherent social and cultural
function within early primitive, tribal hunter-gatherer societies. The
capability to attain nonordinary states of consciousness as well as the
tendency to seek out substances in the natural environment for creating
or enhancing such states of consciousness has been selected for during
many thousands of generations.
Most of the behavior disorders, including those traceable to brain
chemical or neurotransmitter imbalances, may be traced to a normal
reaction of an essentially psychically whole hunter-gatherer forced for
too long to live within a cacophonous late 20th century urban society.
This situation is further combined with the notable absence of formerly
long available pathways of psychic and social integration, e.g., tribal
ritual, myth, religion, and collectively a pharmacologically mediated
altered states of consciousness. Such altered states of consciousness
permitted human beings to become one with (by perhaps gaining a sense
of being immersed within) a transcendent being/ continuum, either
personal or impersonal, as well as to gain a sense of becoming one with
all the members of their tribe/ clan. It was independently, and certainly
accidentally, discovered that an echoing, pounding sound stirred oneself
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Age of Deconstruction.
These two types of causes characterize the causal medium in its active
and passive modes, respectively.
For two individuals to communicate a specialized language must grow
up between them which encodes the history of a process of tentative and
searching mutual grappling in the pursuit of a common project.
Invention serves the needs of discovery.
Consciousness collapse of y with nonlocally connected superpositions
proves it separate, i.e., not originating in, the nonlocal quantum vacuum.
Recognizing ones self in the other and recognizing otherness in ones
self are two expressions of the same insight.
Are substantives constituted by relations?
If a process is
overdetermined, then the particular causal sequence that historically led
to the effect in question must itself be underdetermined.
Paradoxically, the average sensitive human being is wrenched at times
by a deep impulse to experience gemutlichkeit and transcendence.
This being more and more loses its ability to spontaneously adapt to the
shifting of the ground of its original (and present) being, largely due to
the myriad cumulative and collective effects of all other living things
upon this same physical ground.
The same pseudo Lamarkian
processes which enforce a necessary limit on the lifetime of each
individual living thing.
Entropy degrades a living system because the system is giving up
information to the environment faster than it can convert information
into beneficial modifications of its own structure.
Continuity is
important because some information has no absolute design content,
external to itself, in the sense of changes to the preexisting content rather
than coding for a particular out-crystallization of dynamic structure from
the present ground state.
Messages passed, person-to-person, along a long chain, resulting in such
garbling of message that it no longer bears any resemblance to the
original
Degradation of digital information through multistage
amplifier circuit.
No constraint upon how noise creeps into and
entangles with the original signal, i.e., no syntactic or semantic
filtering/processing accompanies degradation of the signal. So when
transmitters are active, i.e., listener-speaker, signal information is
replaced gradually with an altogether new signal without degrading into
random signal, i.e., noise.
The omniscient narrator can interpret for the reader the present actions
of the protagonist in terms of events that are to befall this character
much later in life, c.f., p. 29, paragraph 1 of The Rectors Wife. web=
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expression
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Dialogue with the author upon reading a text is possible at least in the
sense that the authors development of his subject or thesis insightfully
anticipates the questions, impressions, misunderstandings and
epiphanies likely to occur in the mind of the reader in response to this
development.
Cernerse: hover; threaten this is a case of two acceptations being
separate words in English and being fused in another language (here,
Spanish).
How are vampirism and necrophilia related? Sucking the life out,
leaving a lifeless husk behind versus proving that the inner life principle
of the other is an illusion and that the other is, in fact, not genuine other
at all. Will to solipsism and necrophilia whats the connection?
The mind routinely utilizes a kind of dialectic in the fusing together of
ideas that, heretofore separate, were mutually incongruous.
This
irreversibility of ideas in interaction suggests that ideas, when they first
occur to us, are pristine and uncontaminated, free of cross contamination
with other ideas with which they otherwise run together.
Knowledge of common versus distinctive kinds of a thing/situation.
Much creativity is expended in syncretistic endeavor the exploitation
of obscure covey holes within a genre paradigm. Each genre may be
interpreted as a more or less independent axis of variation of forms of a
certain sort.
Analysis: the peculiar and confused, self-referential logic of narcissistic
representin.
we are now faced with a search for the proverbial haystack needle to
identify them through later incarnations. But rather we have lost the
thread by which change to this set of causes was introduced (containing
both manifest and "hidden" causes) through having allowed our
vigilance of and intimate involvement with such changing sustaining
conditions to lapse.
Unique phenomena are only reproduced through the maintaining of a
thread. This thread acts to maintain the robustness of newly engendered
forms by heading off the irrelevant deterministic effects of the
instrumental side of the dynamism, the blindly given off epiphenomena,
manifesting at lower integral levels of process.
This necessary
integration of dynamical process involves the continual redefinition of
what might be termed causal equivalence classes. The stability of
percepts and the fixedness and purposefulness of thought depend upon
this proactive integration of dynamic abstract forms. An instinctual,
that is, a robustly overarching theory of, the causal relatedness, as well
as the historicity of, the three basic interacting levels of abstraction,
causation, and information must already be in hand for this process of
the continual distillation of mind from material process to continue
going through. Information and abstraction are seen here as basically
inverse functions of one another. Information fundamentally alters the
possibilities for the abstracting of forms from the dynamical causal
medium. Abstraction is the manifesting of the medium through filters
as well as the adjusting of these filters insofar as the filtering mechanism
is part of a causal process. First level filtering is then seen as base level
adjusting of filters so that there is a still lower level of filtering relating
to the mere presence of boundary conditions to the mediums causal self
interaction. Information involves an alteration in the character of the
medium itself. And there is a special type of informing/information
which never involves the introduction of any novelty whatever. This
informing is simply that of the maintenance of the thread of continuity,
no more, no less. There is a kind of novelty introduced in maintaining
constancy against the backdrop of continual flux when the thing thus
maintained is itself an abstraction, at least in part, from out of this flux.
the fact alone of the existence of distinct causes, such that their number
is greater than unity, being revealed only when one set of conditions fail
to be reduced to another necessary to it. And so the evolution of
conditions is dialectical in nature by evolving the operation of new
causes during its course. But whether new causes are evoked, due to
changing conditions, from the very same source it is not meaningful to
speculate upon unless one is presuming the possibility of essentially
similar acts on the part of distinct persons.
Only natural superiority has a right to be respected. The realm of the
possible is the medium, which supports the transmission of actual
events as well as their transpiring in place. This medium of possibility
is not indifferent to the passage of actual, historical occurrence through
its bulk, but reacts anharmonically (aperiodically) to all but the simplest
and most regular occurrences. As we know from studying Fourier
analysis, an aperiodic function can only be approximated through a sum
of sinusoidal functions, and then, over only a finite interval, c.f., Gibbs
phenomena, and even an infinite number of sinusoids must fail to
properly represent the function over an infinite interval. But the notion
of an aperiodic function over an infinite argument interval invokes the
notion of an infinity by other than construction, that is, an infinity not
founded upon a projection requiring endless repetition of a finite rule.
Such a rule translated to a law would be describable neither in terms of
induction nor deduction, but points up an altogether different kind of
ratio. This type of infinity itself represents what might be termed an
infinite rule, e.g., a new kind of ratio without use of counting numbers.
The possibilities of the decision tree reconstitute themselves in reaction
to the action of decisions taking place. So perhaps there is not such
thing as intention alone as purely contemplated action, but intention
itself is action.
What is the meaning of the coherence of myriad
unintended consequences? @$The gravity of human action is Karma.
I am amazed at the capacity the arbitrary has for institutionalizing itself
and shocked that this is its most urgent ambition.
person. After the denouement of the love affair, all these are seen as
either affectation or common.
What possible evidence could be ascertained for events that, if
perceived, automatically cover their tracks, erasing their memory traces
within the brain?
When recollecting an old friend after many years time, must one take a
positivistic perspective?
But mustnt there be an objective order already existing within which the
reality-by-agreement is to be worked out, inevitably through some
historical-temporal process.
No genuine dialectical process ever
worked itself out without at once working through itself. Dialectic
requires that its background continuum be caught up in the dialectic as
well.
Freedom is as much connection to and interaction with nonlocally
connected information as it is independence from these.
Nonlocality and the contingency of a substantial medium or ether in the
transmission of information, would nonlocally mediated interactions be reversible?
Can a nonlocal medium be consistently
assigned an entropy?
The purely arbitrary just by being placed in the mix of historically
mutually involved entities must necessarily take upon itself a
nonarbitrary historical significance. This is part of what makes science
fiction time travel stories so interesting. July 2011 Stewie to Brian: Thats
such a douche time traveler thing to say I imagine an SF story in which
the protagonist encounters a time traveler from the distant future who,
upon solemnly confiding to our main character that hes from the 30 th
Century, receives an abrupt response from our man (designed to make
us ignorant peasants just a little proud): What great significance is
your solemn revelation set against the immensity of the Universe?
horizon.
Because of the greater relative abstractness of terms original to older
languages, e.g., Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, etc., it appears likely that
language evolved out of a progressive expression of high level, internal
information processing taking place within our automata-like forbears of
the genus Homo, who did not possess an individual-style consciousness.
At some point, the nonlocal quantum brain processes become mutually
disconnected within the collective and reconnected to distinct, individual
(transcendent) absolute minds.
Dynamic: opening up, breaking out or into a heretofore-deterministic
data structure. The Supreme Being is the transcendent Being possessed
by all transcendental absolute identities (persons) in common. But this
commonality of transcendent consciousness is only valid analogically
speaking. You might think of this form of transcendence as transfinite
transcendence.
Is it necessarily the case that equivocation of sense (of the same term as
it appears in both the minor and major premise) necessarily render a
syllogism invalid, or are there certain special circumstances, that is,
restrictions upon the precise manner of the equivocation, which permits
the conclusion to go through? And if indeterminate or polyphonous
meanings are admitted into the discourse of argumentation, does the law
of excluded middle still hold?
The truly sacred and holy cannot be desecrated, only our idea of it. It is
the distinctions and system of differences that is created not that in
which these inhere.
What is called an open unity is a unity of common transcendent origin of
manifestation. It is not a unity in an abstract or formal sense, that is, of
description.
Therefore, this unitys manifestations do not uniquely
attest to it as being their author. Any candidate formal description of
the process by which manifestation occurs would have to be both
Indeterminacy leaves room for the operation of alterity, that is, that
which is at the present stage in commensurable with respect to
consciousness.
Ones experience should be rich enough that one can wait for an apt cue
to subtly segue into the topic of conversation of ones choosing.
When one acts out of a sense of ones absolute being, one considers
oneself the end subserved by others considered as means.
We do not need to fetishize the customs, folkways, and social structures,
or even the physical theories of the past. There are an unlimited number
of equally valid ways of thinking, perceiving, and being.
I have taken no small amount of solace in the thought that I am and will
probably forever remain, the single greatest blunder of judgement that
you commit during your short sojourn on this planet.
After the age of 40, youre not likely, say, to discover some neat, new
way of cracking your knuckles. The same rule goes for. . .
Pragmatism and Pluralism are distinguished from Idealist/Monist
philosophy most easily in terms of how these doctrines treat the notion
of progress.
Pragmatism: not better just different; Idealism: not just different, but
better
Correspondence versus the coherence theory of truth is aligned with the
distinction between idealism versus pragmatism.
Upside down vision-inducing goggles experiments of the 1950s. What
my hand feels like is this intrinsic sense-meaning or institutionalized
arbitrary sensations linked through feedback.
Fractal vowel sounds of the French language versus pure vowel sounds
of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Sanskrit, etc., i.e., tongues descended from the
Protoindoeuropean.
This observation also applies to the tonal
languages, i.e., languages in which distinct meanings are conveyed
through very subtle variations in vowel sound tonality, e.g. the oriental
languages. Another relevant difference between oriental and occidental
languages is the one in terms of the first possessing an ideographic
written language, the other, a phonetic. Does the monotonality versus
the polytonality of Indo-European versus oriental languages have any
relevance to the distinctly different notions that the corresponding
cultures/societies hold concerning transcendence?
Can only drive the system at one or more of its natural frequencies.
Natural lifetime of historical moments driven at newly formed
resonance frequencies - the loss of enthusiasm as the decay of a moment
of determinate potential determinations.
Reprocessing experience in terms of new concept maps/networks. The
canonical form creates a deterministic and stable space of possibilities
about itself, which is filled fractally.
A hypothetically super-canonical space may be densely filled by
intersecting and interpenetrating, fractally-filled canonical spaces.
If there is no God, then to whom am I to be grateful for my good
fortune?
A repetitive sensory stimulus only appears to induce resonance if the
mind deems the stimulus to possess a potentially meaningful pattern.
Otherwise, the perception of those stimulus sinks from consciousness.
Those with excellent short-term memory, senses of direction, social
skills do not need to rely on reason and imagination.
Evil is breaching the agreement, made in mutual good faith, to not act
from out of ones absolute being. Of course, the attempt to actually do
this is doomed to failure, with rare exceptions, and it is the acting as
though one is acting out of ones absolute, transcendent being, that is the
root of evil in the spacetime realm. The action of transcendence within
the immanent is what generates Karma anew, and which therefore can,
more specifically, rescind Karmic bonds, e.g., physical law is violated if
conservation of energy is not maintained this is action from out of
time.
The elements combined and permuted are not constants but change
throughout their combinatoric interaction. Their ground is not mere
suppressed figure.
Creativity and expression occur hand in hand.
There are no pure instrumentalities the tool always reacts within the
grasp of its user. The present to hand and the ready to hand cannot be
prized apart unless in abstracto.
A formulation borne of mere poetic sentiment must always be able to be
reified when applied in all its ramifications the overdetermined world.
Nature enlists our aid in her determination of herself in that our
paradigms, theories as well as the methods of probing and questioning
nature informed by these, give her ideas of which she avails herself.
Many laws or rules explain the selfsame data set and so no one of them
may be thought to actually govern the behavior of nature.
People who have pasts typically exhibit behavior informed by
emotional reactions that totally mystify those more nave individuals
witnessing the display.
Derrida is like Dionysius, holding up a lantern in search of an honest
representative of metaphysical presence. We falsify presence all of the
time, e.g., self-plagiarism. We are continually soliciting the projection
of superadded presence unto our own incomplete beinghood.
Alternately, we engage in a practice of reflecting back our own
projections of our selfhood, however accurate these interpretations of the
framed within a
meaning of such
The definition of
a uniformitarian,
One has to research and study so hard, experiment for so long, that when
one is finally able to conjure new behavior from nature with the help
of the newly developed mathematical incantations, one no longer
views this as a mastery of magic. @$Since all science is hard there is
no such thing as magic. May 2011 The repeated experimentation has a
two-fold function, revealing to the experimenter the patterns within
nature and telegraphing to nature the character of the greater detail in
which she manifests new structure.
Mans mind is an open system and if his thoughts project ultimately
into nothingness, it is one possessing a fullness beyond possibility.
@$
alleged boundary between the mental and the physical within the
mind/brain of each individual being indeterminate that the equivalence
alluded to by Deutsch may fail. The lesson of the quantum vacuum is
that Parmenides was right when he asserted that, nothing does not
exist. Might the notion of oblivion similarly prove to be an illusory
abstraction? Consciousness may be conceived as a connecting thread or
string, which, though it cannot break, it can become impossibly tangled.
The dynamics of what the string connects to as well as how, where and
when it connects to determines the nature of the psychic structures
produced and/or represented by the string. The string must be supposed
to possess its own eternally preexistent dynamics, that is, its own nature
qua substance. If there continues for many decades to exist an educated
and affluent technologically savvy class within the advanced
industrialized world, a new cultural development I anticipate within the
next 50 years is what will be styled the new atheism. By this I mean
metaphysical solipsism. The philosophy, ethics and etiquette that
develops around the eventual wider and growing acceptance of the
solipsistic subculture shall help it to one day become mainstream. In
this way, Western culture will catch up to where the Hindus have been
@$
psychologically for many centuries.
The deconstruction of
metaphysics, if successful would result in its destruction, which would
lead to the collapse of the distinction between metaphysical,
epistemological and methodological solipsism, c.f., cit=The Undivided
Universe, We recall from chapter 2 that in a positivist philosophy,
epistemology and ontology are thus equated. But as we also stressed
before, there is no real necessity to do this. Indeed in our ontological
interpretation of the quantum theory, we must say that although the
particles are indistinguishable, they are still different, and that each one
exists continuously and therefore has its own identity. Leading up to
this will be a growing proliferation of notions such as lucid dreaming,
anthropic cosmological principle, technological singularity, Boltzmann
brains, ancestor simulations, quantum consciousness, inflationary
theory. What appears common to all of the above seemingly fanciful
conceptions is what Derrida terms always alreadiness.
November 2011
literal components.
Superpositions of information, meaning, alternative statements of
underlying intended messages, etc.
Complementary to the process of thought, i.e., abstraction is the process
of concretion of detail in systems, which are the physical realizations of
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some abstract design.
An example of this is the emergence
phenomenon of the appearance of bugs in large, complex computer
programs. This phenomenon I will term supermodularity. The concept
of autocorruption is important in this connection and may indeed be
related to Penroses concept of decoherence as autodecoherence.
September 2012
The spontaneous decoherence experienced by an advanced
quantum computer in the act of calculating a chess move n moves ahead
(where n is some suffiently large, i.e., critical number) perhaps
illustrates how the Planck mass or Penroses one graviton limit
represents not only an upper energy threshold for quantum superposed
states, but also an absolute limit of information density and
computational complexity vis a vis the underlying and supporting
quantum vacuum qua information reservoir (after the fasion of the
infinite heat bath from discussions of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics)
and in which the quantum computer embedded. Investigate the concept
of nonlocal quantum entanglement of a quantum computers ground
state with the global of cosmic quantum vacuum state, i.e., universal
ground state. The autodecoherence threshold represented by the Planck
limit may signify that there is no universal quantum ground state, i.e.,
global or cosmic quantum vacuum field, but that the so-called quantum
vacuum can only be properly understood as a quantum entangled albeit
essentially modular quantum field. Parallel quantum universes may then
reduce to nothing more than the false projections of myriad quantum
vacuum field modules, each separated by an integral multiple of one
Planck energy.
Atoms, molecules, macromolecules, etc., cannot be manifest by the
vacuum as one of its possible fundamental energy fluctuations. And yet
Or there is an implicit acceptance of the categories underlying valuedual comparisons but insistent denial that such comparisons could ever
practically result in an inferior-superior duality with respect to some
parameter commonly held by both feminists and sexists to be
valuable.
Nature and nurture are both held by their respective proponents in the
alluded to controversy to be determinisms of human behavior,
personality development, etc. The more important such controversy is
that of deterministic versus freely chosen development, behavior, etc.
Certainly there exists a direct correlation of a bodys information content
and its inertial mass.
When a vacuum-networked neural-network quantum computer learns
it is not possible for the original configuration to be backed up for
purposes of resetting the state of the machine. March 2013 This is related to
the fact of spacetime-like correlations belonging to a large set of
quantum fluctuations than spacelike fluctuations in which a timelike
component is absent.
@$
Natural selection determines the frequency of genes, but not the genes
themselves.
Does the exclusively divergent nature of evolution
(divergence of physical processes usually results in entropy increase)
mean that only microevolution within a particular species that can never
be reunified occurs and not macroevolution?
Using metaphors to make the simple and ordinary, extraordinary and
mysterious. This activity seems to defeat the usual intended purpose for
invoking a metaphor: to clarify difficult new ideas in terms of more
familiar (rather than less) to the listener/reader.
Nature is indeed overdetermined, but exhibits a tendency to collude with
the human theorists desire to reify his concept of unification in the form
of some unique, finite set of entities whose relationships are determined
ends in the chain of interpretation are not conditioned, but only the
manner of their being invoked being subject to limitation and
contingency.
A particle moving through 3-space at the speed of light in vacuo, doesnt
have time to inform any of the processes taking place along its null,
i.e., timelike and spacelike trajectory.
What constitutes a particular inertial frame is no mere abstraction, but is
physically mediated.
The Elsewhere region is actually a four dimensional fabric of timelike,
spacelike, and null connected interior spaces. Topology is built into
special relativity at its very foundation.
Does a real electron become virtual while quantum tunneling?
electron is off mass shell during the process of tunneling.
The
Space voyage. . . Only one woman left. For purpose of the survival of
the human race, she agrees to sleep with all of the ships crew in strict
rotation. The story builds up to a brilliant deconstructive essay by the
woman about mans venturing into space just in an attempt to impress
the cosmic mommy so she will sleep with Man space exploration as
misguided attempt at transcendence. Attempts at unification of science
as attempt to create/prove existence of God. Or the repository of all
unrequited desires.
Degeneracy of sense data with respect to discrete state space or
overdetermination of sense data by brain states.
This is closely
connected with coherence of sense data.
Since each person is unique, if conscious, that is, all one should be
concerned with are the superficial compatibility, logistics, and life
infrastructure questions. Our neurotic concern about picking the right
person in terms of a particularly appropriate self essence, is a misguided
unenlightened project. No essence in being not numerically identical.
But the concept of number is not straight forward where infinite qualities
are involved.
A who is not a kind of what. Unique entities are not instantiations of
a category or class. Is the individual not identical with himself for the
trivial reason that he has no identity, or, because his being transcends
identity, i.e., a form, however complex.
Creation ex nihilo and the created object being a finished work,
independent of is already, indifferent to the passage of time.
It is not necessary to completely understand the asserting made in
ones academic papers, or that these theses therein be altogether clear
and coherent because of the way the collective supplements the
incompletely formed system of concepts and metaphors in the work.
The work does not have to be particularly coherent or brilliant and
original in its assertions if the work carries myriad, perhaps subtle,
Kuhns sense.
The mind filters within consciousness.
What filters between and
amongst distinct consciousnesss? Is the eternal individuality of each
consciousness a projection beyond its vanishing point, i.e., origin in
some unified, transcendental consciousness.
But if individual
consciousnesss are filterable, then werent they all secretly separate all
along?
Im not going to give you a list of my fave books, music CDs, movies,
websites, etc., just so you can work all of this out of context stuff into
some bogus, straw version of my personality!
Doesnt know how to really respect a woman without being phony or
masochistic.
The definition of flakiness is not knowing your own mind, which is
inevitably manifested in ones inconsistency over relatively short spaces
of time.
A geek believes he has the power of implanting the ideas he finds so
exciting in the minds of those not members of his social group. The
geek does not understand the relevance of changing social context.
Comfortable familiarity and incongruity. Incongruity of that which is
comfortably familiar to ones peers constitutes the dissociative state,
according to the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
The raw feels start out as completely arbitrary sensation. But does
completely undifferentiated sensation, not informed by some underlying
physiological structures/functions feel like anything at all?
Resolving power conflicts stemming from social situations through
choice of a liberating, interpretive metaphor.
Metaphors can give
closure to ones interpretation of experience.
Most seek lives or
copyright,
trademark,
rationality,
Are they
nothing more.
One must never have the feeling that there is some particular
person/thing which one must have to be complete. For this would be to
place ones center outside of the potentially authentic self, that is, within
the world.
At [illegible] ones thoughts begin to flood away from the surface of the
good, green Earth.
The ability to understand the ideas of those smarter than oneself.
We avoid people who tend to disconfirm our theories about how life
works.
Institutions or structure which threaten our worldview are
viewed as manifestations of the irrational and we carefully wend our
way around and past them. In order to glimpse the rationality of that
which originally strikes us as irrational or nonrational requires that we
perform at least a partial deconstruction and the reconstruction upon the
foundations of our own philosophies, beliefs and preferences. We act in
such a manner that we only encounter the world which is consistent with
the worldview we espouse. Because the world itself, or, the world as it
is, is so radically rich and overdetermined, beyond any possible
rationalistic unification, only relatively small subdomains of the world
may be worked into more or less coherent unities. It is within such
subdomains that the worldview of the proud, illusion-filled individual
finds its peaceful coexistence.
something other?
The Planck length is likely to be an absolute measure of the graininess
of spacetime.
Inconsistent with the would be the notion of time
dilation/contraction of the Planck time/frequency. Similarly, a length
contraction to dimensions smaller than the Planck length are ruled out.
Approaching Planck dimensions, spacetime behaves according to the
cellular automata (CA) model in which Lorenz invariance/covariance
must be a
bandoned. Here it is seen that the physical quantities of mass, length,
and time are derivative in the CA model which is basically a data and
information system. March 2011 Is it any coincidence that the Planck mass
corresponds to a mass approximately equal to that of a grain of dust,
which lies just at the visual resolution threshold of the unaided human
eye?
What is called uncertainty has two distinct senses, that of vagueness and
that of indecision. Information is originated through an act of will
(interpretation of vagueness) and consciousness represents the outcome
of interpretation or the effect of a decision.
Each DNA is the product of the union of two single helix molecules,
each single helix molecule taken from one of two double helix
molecules composed of conjoined, complementary single helix
molecules.
The wonder of the intimately known is no lesser than that of the
mysterious unknown. Wonder is not a function of knowledge, but of
something transcending knowledge. Examples of which are the wonder
the elderly person experiences when recollecting her childhood and the
wonder experienced by a person in childhood.
Neurolinguistic programming and the subtleties of natural selection.
The natural selection mechanism must be infinitely subtler than any
description that makes narrative sense to inhabitants of everydayness.
a young girl of the Czech Republic might interpret The Bob and Tom
Show.
Symbolic elements of a genetic nature do not require any over-arching,
guiding intention of expression, in order to "contain" information and
succeed in the expression of this information.
Information is data in context, but data are the expression of
information.
Hunger of the Soul, by Deepak Chopra
Supersymmetry appears to be necessary to consistently describe a
quantized vacuum state in which the spacetime can be arbitrarily
partitioned into a 3+1 Euclidean spacetime.
The absence of local observer based time does not follow from the
nonexistence of a global or cosmological, i.e., absolute time. If global
time is viewed as a particular class of inter relationship amongst local
times, then global time would not determine loca time.
Can we always choose a noninertial or inertial frame so that the density
matrix is diagonalized so that we have a description of the system in
terms of a pure state? If so, then the system as a whole cannot be
nonlocally connected to another system.
A system may be described by a Psi function, but contain no subsets
described by their own, local Psi(I).
Discreteness of spacetime 3+1 partitioning, each with its own local time
vacuum with cutoff frequency, omega, cutoff. Perfect supersymmetry
in each local vacuum is broken (and not required). Each local vacuum
possesses a small enough quantum vacuum energy density if partial
supersymmetry to solve the cosmological constant problem locally for
each local spacetime (vacuum).
All images of the Alien, the other, derives from insights into the
arbitrairness of our own human form, its bilaterl symmetry, etc.
The "medium" has both its discrete and continuous parts.
The energy density of the vacuum induced in the presence of mass has,
like electromagnetic radiation, an equation of state wherein the energy
density is three times the pressure of the radiation. It is this inertial
induced vacuum energy that gives photons within this region an
effective mass a kind of electromagnetic photon mass.
Interestingly, the photon is connected with coupled pairs of electrons
and positrons.
This coupling is effected through an appropriately
correlated positron pair, where each positron derives from two
contiguous, virtual e-e+ pairs. A similar statement applies, where each
electron also derives from contiguous, virtual e-e+ pairs. The space and
time components of these virtual pairs are /\xi and /\t, respectively.
The density of virtual e-e+ pairs in time is decreased within a
gravitational field and reduced /\E combined with increased /\t for these
virtual e-e+ pairs implies a lower virtual power input into spacetime.
While increased /\Pi x c over an increased /\t would imply a scaled down
local value of c and so a similarly reduced spacelike virtual power
transfer capability.
In this way the ability of energy in matter and
vacuum to redistribute itself in response to applied forces is similarly
reduced, i.e., increased inertia.
If my consciousness and that of each intelligent person possesses its own
unity, then can there be room for a still more perfect unity, that of
consciousness as such? But the notion of a unity of features of the
individuals own consciousness which transcends the unity of his
individual consciousness seems nonsensical, if not contradictory.
In nonrelativistic physics, any linear momentum can be transformed
away via an appropriate Galilean transformation. This is not the case
with angular momentum because this is motion not taking place within
an inertial reference frame. In relativity, the 3-momentum can only be
transformed away while preserving total 4-momentum.
Use
superposition to express /\Lz in four dimensional spacetime. There is a
necessity of QM within relativistic physics.
Gauge invariance is recaptured through the introduction of a new
interaction in the form of an exchange particle (boson). Hypothesis:
global gauge invariance is lost when a given symmetry is broken.
Search: spin 0 particles.
When a symmetry is broken, a good quantum number is lost. How is
the least action principle restored? Are the lost quantum numbers
recaptured through the appearance of a new gauge boson which is
exchanged between the fermions with reduced quantum number set?
With the loss of a quantum number as a result of symmetry breaking
(phase transition and loss of some finer structure within the vacuum
lattice structure) certain permutations of state transitions, which may be
virtual, are lost which are perhaps reintroduced through momentum
transitions in the form of virtual gauge boson exchanges, and the
appearance of new phases (mediating the phase transition of new
vacuum state) or a new ground state?
The neutrino was postulated by Fermi in order to have energy conserved
in nuclear decay. The neutrino is a spin particle (Fermion). When a
global gauge (phase?) transformation is not possible, a broken symmetry
exists, necessitating the introduction of an exchange particle (gauge
boson) which restores the broken symmetry (locally at least?).
Is
momentum conservation regained in this manner? Is there a recoil
momentum for fermions exchanging bosons between themselves?
The 100 GeV energy cutoff for vacuum fluctuations may be due to a
kind of temporal Casimir Effect where the resonance with harmonic
hyperspherical potential is f = h/100 GeV.
Can an observer move rapidly enough relative to two nonlocallyconnected particles of already measured +/- spin (within the reference
frame of two spacelike separated, inertial observers) so that within the
relatively moving (accelerating) observers reference frame, a causal
influence could have propagated from inertial observer A, where a spin
measurement was performed, to inertial observer B, where the
nonlocally-connected-to-particle-A particle B acquires a spin eigenstate?
The nonlocally connected, spin particles are simultaneous within all
inertial frames; locally-connected particles are non-simultaneous in all
inertial frames.
The velocity of interference patters exhibited by interacting photons is
indeed dependent upon the motion of the observer.
There may be an absolute uncertainty of position determined by the
Planck length, which is necessarily associated with an absolute
maximum density of 3-momentum fluctuations. The Planck particle
must be as close to an energy eigenstate as possible, but perhaps it
cannot be in an actual energy eigenstate due to the entropy of its
Hawking radiation emitted by its minimal surface area. Is entropy
quantized through the entropy of a Planck particles Hawking radiation?
Independently existing force that one can then resolve into orthogonal
component. But should one follow this same rule when representing a
vector composed of fluctuations composed of virtual momentum and
energy?
Classical versus quantum may be generalized as intuitive (built upon
experience of ordinary reality) versus counterintuitive (transcending
ordinary world). Conceptually, the intuitive is underpinned by the
counterintuitive. Practically, the counterintuitive is defined in terms of
the intuitive. This is analogous to the philosophy of method embodied
in the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
Donate you old, used care commercial. Picture a little auto coughing
and sputtering with cracked headlight and a few teeth missing it its
grill. A couple discusses taking their old car to the junkyard. The car,
sitting patiently in the garage, awaiting the opportunity to serve its
driver, overhears all of this talk. The car evinces a twisted, sad frown
and seems to shed a couple of tears. This little, animated sequence tugs
at the hearts of the TV viewing audience. But what does such facile
emotionality in response to mere cartoon images say about our
emotionality when responding to the presence of our peers.
Why do arbitrary juxtapositions of cultural manifestations so frequently
gel and does so in the minds of most quite readily? The function of
indirect addressing in the byte basic programming language.
Do inchoate bits of information gel first and then the anatomy and
taxonomy are inevitably worked out later. Can the suggestible human
mind make any arbitrary juxtaposition of incongruous elements weld
together into a seamless whole. No, not without the requisite social,
cultural evolutionary support.
The incongruity of synchronic
elements can always be overcome by the teleological determination of
some diachronicity.
When the gauge symmetry of a quantum field is broken, this field is no
longer invariant under global gauge transformations. Is local gauge
invariance in the absence of global gauge invariance the same thing as
what is called gauge covariance?
Most of my scientific research consists in collecting circumstantial
evidence for the non-gravitating quantum vacuum gravity/inertia
hypothesis.
Chaos is at the opposite end of system behavior spectrum from highly
energy degenerate systems.
Changing
The more intelligent, talented, creative, dynamic, etc., that two people
are, the more important is the question of compatibility in marriage.
Actually, it is a function of imagination.
Recursiveness of creative thought and always alreadiness of metalevels
of thought, above and below. Was always alreadiness a concept
waiting to be discerned or was it invented by Derrida?
consciousness is unmediated)
In a self-reproducing system, the new incarnation of the system must
also have knowledge about how to reproduce itself. This poses a
recursion problem. So the system cannot be a closed or isolated system
and reproduce itself it must continually draw information in from
outside of itself, which is not the same as entropy leaving the system: a
limited amount of entropy can leave the system, but there is no
theoretical limit to the quantity of information which can enter the
system from outside.
A unique, non-reproducible process cannot possess a complete
description in terms of a set of definable physical laws.
A process cannot be completely understood in terms of its
phenomenological by-products.
Within a strictly logical chain of influence, there is no increase or
decrease of the quantity of information represented by each logical step
in deriving the concluding proposition or theorem from the premises.
Although the successive production of each step in the sequence of
logically demonstrating a valid theorem, as a manifestation of a process
of thought on the part of a human consciousness, not in possession of
either perfect logic or of unlimited calculating capacity, would not itself
necessarily be a deterministic manipulation of data (logic is allegedly
not empirically based, but that is another story) or of symbols.
The particular sequence of inferential operations may itself constitute a
kind of code which locates (identifies) the particular system of inference
within some larger metasystem. Many logical equivalencies cannot be
perceived directly, but require demonstration through rules of inference.
Semantic equivalencies, however, are directly intuited (perceived) by
anyone who understands both propositions. Same meaning and distinct,
logical structures versus different meaning and identical logical
structures. Abstract structures, like thermodynamic state variables, are
by the effects of the crystal lattices mass upon the supporting quantum
vacuum, the timelike momentum of the nonrelativistic mass, has
decreased by a fraction equal to the fraction by which the spacelike mass
of the crystal has increased. Since the crystal is at rest within its
embedding 3-space, we cannot consistently compare any shifts in the
timelike and spacelike momenta of the bulk mass. The angle of rotation
of the spacetime coordinate system of the mass, i.e., the crystal lattice,
relative to a spacetime coordinate system in vacuo, must then be
determined by the relative shifts in the magnitudes of the timelike and
spacelike momentum flux (or current) densities. In order to decide
whether it is the momentum flux densities or the momentum current
densities which are the relevant physical quantities, we shall have to
make some general observations concerning how these two easily
confused quantities compare.
First of all, the momentum current density is a four vector, while the
momentum flux density is a one form. The relativistic effects upon
mass, length, and time within special relativity derive from spacetime
rotations, called Lorenz boosts, of some objects four momentum. The
relativistic effects within general relativity are ultimately founded upon
the possibility of defining spacetime rotations of the momentum flux
density of the vacuum relative to its free space momentum flux
density.
What is interesting in comparing the momentum current
densities of special relativity with the momentum flux densities of
general relativity is that the former are defined for bulk matter while the
latter are defined for matter understood as an interconnected network of
flux meta-stabilities in the activity of the quantum vacuum.
The
momentum of matter, understood as the momentum of vacuum
fluctuation fluxes, modulated by imposed boundary conditions
(represented by the presence of matter), is very much in keeping with the
cellular automata theoretic interpretation of matter as a pattern of
oscillation of the unit cells. The resistance to deformation and the
resistance to accelerated motion displayed by cellular automata both
originate in the mutual back-reaction of matter and vacuum.
The matter of special relativity possesses a continuous existence as inert
foreign tongue. Nature is the native speaker and Man is the touristing
foreigner. This foreign language is mathematics and the foreign native
and his language comprise here a unity. Mathematics is a unified,
infinite, unbounded, but temporally evolving system. Classes of infinity
points to the possibility that mathematics infinite self-knowledge is
inadequate to span its depths.
Why should people be sent to hell when God is all good and fair??? No
one is bad enough to deserve living in eternal damnation.
Damnation is simply separation from God, which is always ultimately
the choice of the individual.
God would that all souls spend eternity in loving union with Him.
However, God, in His infinite mercy, could not subject an individual
with unforgiven Sin on his soul to stand eternally in His Presence, as
this would amount to a far greater torment for this person than would
result from the eternal separation of this person from his Creator.
Furthermore, such a person is really not capable of the love when God
desires from his children.
Now if an individual were given full knowledge of the stark nature of
the alternatives between which he wee to choose, God or separation
from Him, the choice for such a person could hardly be a freely willed
one, but would be a merely calculated choice coerced by fear. God
desires that all choose Him out of Love.
Well, the consequence of this choice for each soul is final because real
choices are dependent for their reality upon real consequences. God did
not desire to create a false and hollow realm in which the unfolding
dramas were to be so much mere play-acting. God desired to create not
to merely recreate.
Recreation constituted by ultimately pointless
amusements is perhaps an adequate distraction for temporal Man, but
does nothing to assuage a truly Cosmic Loneliness. The creation of
Man opened up new (and real) experiences of finitude for the Godhead:
chosen.
Any number of events may be simultaneous with one another, that is,
occupy the same time. However, this is not the case where space, as
opposed to time, is concerned.
P. 378, Modern Philosophy, Roger Scruton. The last paragraph applies
to my theory of purpose of human existence.
P. 481, MP, R.S. The Self is a social construct so that the program of
deconstruction cannot be consistently carried through. P. 482, God is
not a particular being among particular beings in the same way that the
transcendental self is not. We are different from the worm in precisely
the same way in that we are similar to God. This answers the question,
if God is as much greater than Man as man is greater than a worm, in
which Man is certainly not interested, then how can God truly have an
interest in man, if not merely in the sense in which a zoologist is
interested in a mere worm?
Critique of Pure Reason, p. 116
Dynamical versus mathematical as a dichotomy within the categories.
This is reminiscent of the distinction of conserved versus unconserved
quantities.
That which is quantized vs. that which is empirical.
Correspondence, coherence, pragmatic or consequential truth.
Paragraph two, p. 148, there is the unity of experience in the moment
and there is the unity of experience within all moments of experience
(within all possible experience?)
p. 32, Paragraph One. Time itself does not alter, but only something
which is in time.
p. 327 Paragraph One.
p. 367
For an activity to exist it must, first of all, persist, that is, maintain itself
against the activity of the ground which brought it forth to being with.
The entity by existing, serves as a condition upon grounds continuing
activity in its production of and mediation of the changes to other
entities that it supports and this is how the gravitational influence of one
entity upon another becomes possible.
Critique of Pure Reason, p. 233
Gravitation cannot act instantaneously through nonlocal quantum
interactions.
Since the negation of the indeterminate is not defined in the sense of
determinate thing, the determination of substance arises from within
substance itself.
In Hume, there is no distinction between arising of new objects and the
alteration of the same object. Application of logic cannot be explicated
in logical terms.
There are difficulties with the correspondence theory of truth where
recursive propositions are concerned.
Methodological arrangement
versus systematic unity.
Intuition is the simultaneous arising de novo of a new concept with its
founding exemplar so intuition involves a much more intimate
relationship between the concept and one of its objects.
The
understanding applies concepts to the categorizing of its objects. What
about the application of concepts to sensation which underpins the
perception of or emergence of objects within sensation?
The momentum of a particle cannot be greater than p = mc, where m is
the mass of the particle.
one could imagine a case in which all processes in the universe had been
frozen into a state of unchangedness and then ask for who long this state
of global unchangedness has been in effect, in a word ask for this states
duration.
Time is not reversible. For we can imagine that if the direction of
times flow were reversed, then this event would have to have occurred
at some particular time or other. If the even of time reversal is included
among the other evens making up the time stream so reversed then this
event would recede ever further into the future, and so, with regard to
the new direction of time hasnt happened yet. In other words, the time
reversal, in this case, will have never happened at any time in the past
and could not be thought to have occurred at all. On the other hand, if
the event of the time reversal is not included in the time stream reversed,
then it along with all its contemporaneous events recedes ever further
into the past and so in this case too the time reversal cannot properly be
thought to have taken place.
There are a number of difficulties with McTaggart's famous proof of the
unreality of Time. The proof presupposes that the predicates, past,
present, and future may be treated entirely on an equal footing as
categories. I believe this is fundamentally mistaken because past,
present and future may be distinguished by the fact that the past is
determined, the present is the activity of the past determining itself, or of
the present determining itself as past, whereas the term "future" does not
refer to a determinate category at all, that is, if Reality is, indeed, an
open system as we have argued for extensively thought this text.
Heidegger unearths
second, third, etc. times the system has occupied an identical state.
Similarly, there is no basis for distinguishing in conscious experiential
content. But states and persons are distinguishable though their not
being disembodied in the sense of isolated.
To say that a mind
disembodied is really to imagine it, superficially, as detached from a
body, but, fundamentally, as decoupled from the open system in which
the body in its mere thinghood is a mere interface to an open-ended
information context. But if a mind were to be disembodied in this more
full-blooded sense, it could not constitute a mind at all in the first
instance.
Identity of the self is ultimately by virtue of its connectino to some openended ground of coherent, convergent activity. If this connection is
severed, this self is instantly revealed as a mere projection which is
suddenly extinguished.
But if this connection is extinguished.
Bidirectional
That activity of the ground of the self does not cease with the destruction
of the physical interface of this transcendent activity with the immanent
realm of spacetime. Immortality, therefore, may only be achieved if
one comes to identify oneself with this underlying self process, rather
than its epiphenomenal manifestation which is the ego. January 2012 It is
likely that the ground of being is a multiplicity with each individual
consciousness rooted in its own unique transcendental ground.
Consciousness may only be formally epiphenomenal, but not
substantively so, if the causal relationships of the brains dynamics are
themselves rooted in an underlying nonlocally connected spectrum of
quantum entangled vacuum stress-momentum-energy fluctuations. On
this view each individual persons brain tunes to and resonantes with its
own unique spectrum of nonlocally connected vacuum electromagnetic
field fluctuations.
We think of consciousness as an instantaneous or transient phenomenon,
but the appearance of consciousness in attendance with various
integrated brain physiological processes seems to demand that
When a neural impulse passes from one part of the brain to another,
there is actually no substance which passes physically between these two
locations in the brain.
Nothing = No Thing?
Nothing exists without a cause.
Nothing is infinite.
Nothing is timeless.
Nothing necessarily exists.
Nothing is conscious.
Nothing is its own reason for being.
Nothing is contingent.
Nothing is indivisible.
Nothing can travel faster than light.
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things
are from it. ~ Plotinus
kwo=
antiparallel direction.
Does back-reaction occur when this
matter/antimatter flow symmetry is broken?
Frequently when writing, I experience a slight psychic jolt every time
I write a misspelled word. I am more conscious of he hypertextual
structure of the psychological associations which lie behind my
intuitions and perceptions of meaning. This is a case of new technology
suggesting pregnant metaphors that work on the human psychic
processes, effecting pervasive transformations in the individuals
perception of his self, the other, and reality itself. Metaphor is what
sustains the unbounded openness of thought.
Imagine that the periodic table of chemical elements possessed certain
blank spaces or gaps in various of its chemical group columns. These
gaps would here correspond with descriptions of chemical elements not
actually found in nature, not stable if produced artificially, nor
obtainable even as short-lived atomic/nuclear resonances. In such a
case as this, we might suspect hat there was some inconsistency or
incompleteness in our chemical taxonomic system. Actually such a
system would be termed inconsistent since the system of description
predicts entities not capable of existing. The converse situation would
be that tin which chemical elements were discovered in the debris of
accelerator collisions, which were not predicted by our chemical table of
elements. This situation is best described as the system of description
(embodied in our chemical table) being incomplete. But it is not
difference alone by which language and the understanding function, but
difference supplemented by insight.
Gdels Theorem, by asserting an either-or proposition regarding the
incompleteness or inconsistency of formal systems of mathematics and
logic, presupposes the truth of the platonic hypothesis for mathematics.
Certainly this realization about Gdel could have been arrived at through
the Incompleteness Theorems effective assertion that Truth is a
stronger notion than provability. For if the realm of mathematical
entities is not indeed timeless (eternal in the Platonic heaven sense), but
Aesthetic sense
The question of projection transferred from the reading/writing to the
speaking/listening context.
Information concerns the state of some integral system.
Data
concerns objects participating within such an integral, open system in
which the particular embedding system is uncoupled from the object.
epi=fcbk=
The curvature knows that it will go down to ruin and would drag its
lord down with it.
epi=
alreadiness.
Insight as rationalization of aspects of the collective consciousness
sociolinguistic infrastructure of thought.
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etc.
The ultimate meaning of ones life is twofold: the object of private
meditation and the raw material of metaphor via which one may
commune with the other.
eip=
ess=
resonance not with some impersonal field, but with the fields of others
like oneself.
Biblical criticism as the ad hominem argument against God. Biological
criticism and Necrophilia.
Can the mind discover the laws, if any, which govern its operation?
Can mind be limited by the laws which it defines which describe its
operation. All laws in the sense of governing structures, are
provisional and heuristic, which is to say hermeneutic.
What I want to know is, who be this Herman Neutic, and do he believe
in the Word of God?
Would the asymmetry of time be proof that time is plural and
nonunified?
Consciousness ~ time asymmetry and energy nonconservation. Free will
~ spatial asymmetry and momentum nonconservation. Consciousness ~
telepathy. Free Will ~ telekinesis.
The DNAs base pairs are arranged according to and are an expression
of a kind of Chomskian generative grammar in that gene sequences that
are utterly novel are nonetheless meaningful and most of the superior
genetic combinations remain untried, indeed, > 99.9999% of
combinations superior to ones that have already been tried in the history
of the human race on this planet have never once occurred, naturally,
that is. But dont the untried possibilities somehow inform those that
actually come to exist? August 2013 An admittedly tiny minority of gene
sequences that are inordinately unlikely to ever occur within the lifetime
of the universe or, indeed, within a span during which a quadrillion
universes might come into being and pass away, are nevertheless
meaningful sequences of genetic base pairs, should they per impossible
occur, leading as they would to either the coding of highly functional
proteins or to a still higher and more efficient regulation of the genome,
Genetic dust bin theory of aging is the theory that natural selection only
applies to the fitness of the genome during pre-reproductive and
reproductive years. Genes that are switched on or expressed during
the post-reproductive part of the species life span can never be culled out
of the gene pool through natural selection. Certainly genes which only
express themselves after the end of the reproductive years plus the
maturation of time of the youngest individuals in total contribution of
offspring can have little or no effect upon the fitness/survivability of
those offspring.
likely and the greater degree to which this gene acts as a two-way
interface between the genome and the environment. The GRN selects
between, for example, the exogamous and endogamous tendencies in
sexual selection based upon the stability or instability of the breeding
populations environmental conditions, i.e., between miscegenation and
incest. As we ascend the GRN, we move up the continuum from signal
to sign to metasymbol, etc.
Perhaps the structural genes provide signals to the open chemical system
in which it is embedded and with which it exchanges energy, data, and
information. But what is introduced to the GRN at its top are perhaps
not signals, but signs.
If such a situation were indeed the case, then not only the
objectivity, but also the rationality of the universe would be an
appearance stemming from sustained collaborative effort.
No metaphysical description can claim greater validity than another can.
This clash of metaphysical depiction of reality, i.e., what is the case.
The more original a proposition which does not conflict with prior art,
the greater the appeal to the authority of the unknown.
Action at a distance seems paradoxical and counterintuitive. Does this
require that action at a distance be a mere appearance?
The pasts future has no past identical to it.
Does irreversibility
therefore imply multidimensional or infinite dimensional time?
Morality is just the ethics of narrow-minded people.
We seem to automatically grant presence to that of which we are
reminded. Or is it presence granted to that through which we recollect
something that is emotionally charged?
Signal is to sign as data is to information. Every sign possesses a signal
component due to the physical medium in which the sign is embodied.
Logocentrism and the kingdom of ends. Kwd=reification of instinct and
technique into art, which is an end in itself. Instinct is for repeating the
cycle of life. Technique is to facilitate the solution of the survival
problem. Advent of agriculture and the birth of the urban way of life,
the creation of writing and the evolution of language. An open system
cannot be identical with itself because it has not identity. But a unified
open system has an identity. Arbitrary symbols do not back react upon
the messages of which their strings are arbitrary expressions. Much
insight is admittedly the discovery of relationships of ideas buried deep
within the semantic/syntactic structure of language. Latent complexes
of meaning and logic may not mediate seemingly ordinary
communications, complexes which have never been abstracted or
"brought to light.
Because of the classical Darwinian concept of the gene as expressing but
not exchanging information with the external environment, the gene and
its sequences possess arbitrary meaning.
Rather than whole genetic sequences having been selected for after the
advent, this selection must have fundamentally taken place at the time
the relative molecular stabilities of all possible gene sequences was
worked out (in the vacuum between virtual base pair sequences), c.f.,
protein folding solutions found by nature in 10**-12 seconds.
Obviously these protein folding solutions are found so quickly because
of massively parallel computations performed by the nonlocally
connected quantum vacuum state with which the denatured protein
interacts. Perhaps base pair sequences rather than gene sequences were
selected for.
Some philosophers wisely seek to mine the metaphysical and
metaphorical deposits of insight somehow laid down within the language
and myth of the past 50,000 years of mans cultural history for
individual revelations of their own. These philosophers are what might
be termed archeologists of the collective human psyche.
The
metaphysics of the individual are largely derived from the unconscious
metaphysical assumptions inherited by collective humanity.
A combination of Zen-like wisdom and logical incoherence is to be
found in Yogi Bera-isms.
Biographies always possess greater coherence than the lives they
describe. But then this observation is generally true of narratives and
the situations they describe.
Humans engage in narcissistic fantasies instinctively and spontaneously
and neither understand the necessity nor the manner of analyzing them.
So the word is always a simulacrum of itself rather than being
semantically self-identical. Connection to myriad absent contexts helps
to supplement the inadequate presence marked by the use of the word in
the present context.
It is not the word but the palimpsest, which is the unit of transmitted
waving
to
one
another:
Beings
Nostalgia versus presence in the present, e.g., music of the royal court as
elegant, graceful, noble, regal, etc. Arbitrary or only subtly culturally
indicated choices of musical theme, in the case of productions within an
emergent genre, become sharper and more marked with time as the
genre develops itself. Linkage of new themes, as well as the forging of
new links between old, taking place within the developing genre are
always determined via factors more or less extraneous to what are later
understood as principles of thematic and artistic unity after this genre
has reached maturity. Deconstruction is partly a back engineering of
this historical process in which chance and necessity form an
indissoluble mixture. Chance, not as an absolute, but in the sense of
alterity and extraneousness with respect to predetermined and coherent
lines of deterministic development, is necessarily involved in the
evolution of genre because dialectical development is always constituted
by clashes between incommensurable forces. So presence exists prior to
its being recognized upon and for a time after its advent. It is with the
each entity is what it is in part by being infused with its other. This is
particularly striking in the case of representation in which there is a
closed system of complementary figure and ground. If it is true that we
do not really possess genuine concepts, then whenever a concept is
referred to by its name, we should, in recognition of this fundamental
limitation of all our concepts, place the concept name within quotation
marks. The lack of clarity and distinctness of all concepts means that
the binary opposition of use versus mention must break down, and
con=
Cartesian epistemology along with it. But perhaps this vagueness of
concepts is one akin to the vagueness involved with the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle in which the vagueness is due to the operation of a
dynamism, rather than being the product of lack of knowledge with
reactivity of the system to observer interference. Because concepts
perform work within the mind of the individual, although perhaps
intended to be merely descriptive in the context of intersubjective
communication, there must be some back-reaction of concepts upon the
process of thought that both a., brings them into being, and b., utilizes
them for the mediation of both infrasubjective and intersubjective
thought.
The above was written by me a couple of weeks before having read the
above excerpt from DEH. The above was also written before having
learned about Derridas critique of the effacement of the signifier as
an illusory phenomenon of languages transparence to the transmission
of meaning. The notion of the entity being what it is being in part
dependent upon being infused with the other could have been derived
from a notion of mine from at least several years ago (long before I had
studied postmodernism/deconstruction).
But it can also be more
directly a rephrasing of au=Derridas notion of no thing being identical
with itself.
Derridas concept of the effacement of the signifier in speech as being
the condition of the idea of truth, c.f., p. 108, cit=On Deconstruction
(1982). The fact that the signifier can never be completely effaced
means that the meaning of symbols, whether written, spoken or thought,
various distinct roles that one is called upon to play in ones life, the
demand upon the brain to produce new neural interconnections has long
ago stabilized at a level much lower than that demand which was
necessary in youth.
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Is this
an objective existence!
The concept of metaphor presupposes that there is some pristine purely
literal context from which we metaphorically borrow. But there is not
such thing as this kind of pure context, i.e., con-text. Every discourse
is always infused with elements and structures from other discourses.
Concept: to abstract from the discursive (discourse-ive) context
within which one is presently positioned; metaphor: to abstract from
another discursive context and import this abstract structure into the
present discursive context.
It is instructive to meditate on the
connotation of the etymologically closely related words discourse and
discursive. When one is within a given discourse and does not have
access to any other, then ones language is not merely denotative, ones
language becomes a tool which is purely ready to hand. We see that the
term denotative is dependent for its fullest sense upon what is pointed up
by the complementary term connotative. The distinction of conceptual
versus metaphorical is undermined by the fact of the nonexistence of any
pure universe of discourse in which the terms of the discourse are purely
denotative; each discourse from which we borrow is itself hierarchically,
but only loosely hierarchically structured.
(hierarchical in a
metaphorical sense)
That which has the greatest presence is that of which we have heard the
most oft. Is logocentrism a necessary outgrowth of consciousness or
social self-consciousness. Metonymy is kwd=reification of a part. The
invention of historical figures, epochs, etc. When people or situations
are bigger and more respectable than life we are deep within
logocentrism. Miller, Smith, Clark, etc., last name and family name
inheritance. Resonance, repetition, presence . . . Did logocentrism exist
prior to the development of writing? Learning to sound out words in
kindergarten. Definite versus indefinite articles. Image enhancement
through memory of neural networks.
The celebrity presence
phenomenon and logocentrism the stalking of famous/attractive
people.
Obsessions, fetishes, phobias, diseases of logocentrism,
Logic and science and all disciplines of knowledge which flow out of
them, are heavily based upon the old ceteris paribus principle, i.e.,
other things being equal, these two or more things are equal, their
identity failing only in unimportant ways. However, the ways in which
identities all ultimately fail (even where only a single entity is
concerned, c.f., temporality) are truly only unimportant with respect to
a pragmatic purpose in view if we try to transcend the realm of mere
pragmatism, we find ourselves projecting out into the unknown and
unknowable in ways that cannot possibly be given solid foundation.
Regularity is a function of what we might conveniently term the
boundary conditions of scale. Is logocentrism merely a condition of
the myopia of the intellect and perception?
The uncanny correspondence that seems to obtain between our
perceptions of the worlds structure and behavior on the one hand and
language and mathematics on the other suggests that the same
underlying matrix organizes all three.
Each individual person is his or her own Brahman. This is what Atman
= Brahman really means not that there is only one consciousness or
oversoul experiencing through each as though individual human
beings are mere terminals connected to a single network. The Atman is
not then merely some facet or reflection of the unitary, eternally
preexistent Brahman, but is Brahman itself. Brahman transcends unity
and plurality. But how is this possible, you ask? Isnt such a notion
inherently contradictory.
No, it is merely paradoxical. The human
person, along with its body, may be likened to a computer terminal, but
the network is that individuals eternal consciousness.
The
identification of consciousness with a kind of meta-sensedatum, prevents
us from understanding that consciousness is independent of what
structures it because the conditions for its structuring come from within
it whenever it limits itself and interfaces with other consciousnesss
undergoing the same self limitation. When one dies, where does the
soul or mind go? Nowhere is the answer for although the mind
manifests itself within space and time, the mind does not itself occupy
space and time. If the mind moves at all, it does so into and out of time,
but without moving through space. This is where the existence and
dynamics of mind seems to require that the world possess at least five
distinct dimensions, but probably more as there must be more than one
avenue of approach for more than merely two distinct minds so as to
negotiate the structure of the spacetime continuum. If mind constitutes
spacetime, individually (mental space) and collectively (physical space),
then there should be some kind of intimate connection between
inertiogravitation and consciousness with respect to the constituting of
spacetime. April 2013 cit=Isaac Luria propounded the doctrine of the Tzimtzum,
merely their closure. Such conflicts rankle the uncreative individual who
must contrive inner compensatory perceptions and ideation which
inevitably gives rise to neurotic acting out which mystifies their more
unassuming, well-adjusted peers.
Just because you are creative doesnt mean you have to do that for a
living.
epi=
What defines the domain that provides the bound for N in the
square root 1/N typical magnitude for a fluctuation about the system
mean? There must be a system dynamics in terms of which is effected
the partitioning of the system into sqrt[1/N] domains? This dynamics is
usually composed of all of the degrees of freedom available to the
system with which momentum and energy may be exchanged within its
Small
the binary opposition of use versus mention must breakdown, and the
Cartesian epistemology along with it.
An open system should be infinite not only in quantity but also in
quality. The unity of an open system must be a transcendental unity a
unity simultaneously of and within the infinite.
A basic principle
generally exhibited by the evolutionary process is the freedom of
parameters that are left unbound by the dictates of natural selection.
Is it conceivable for mathematical entities to be the products of
engineering? The existence of physical media structured and organized
according to mathematical principles/relationships may be explained in
terms of eternally preexistent physical media/dynamics in combination
with various type of selection mechanism, selection.
But such
evolutionary mechanisms would not be available to account for
mathematical order such that, if mathematical/logical order could be
shown to be in some important way contingent rather than necessary,
then this order would itself have to be viewed as artificial.
What we have here is what Heidegger might have termed a shift of the
ready-to-hand to the present-to-hand.
Closed form mathematical
relationships are mere descriptions, which correspond to open form
feedback structures within the quantum vacuum. Triggering reminders
are tuning parameters of morphic resonance.
But we wont over tighten the ligament so he wont get his mobility
back. This is an example of a radically ambiguous sentence radical
in the sense that the alternative interpretations are contraries.
Morphic resonance with the latent experience of progressively more
dissimilar entities/minds will reveal more abstract features of shared
experience.
As quickly enough becomes apparent when someone mishears or
misunderstands oneself.
Is there a type of mis-reaching or
The ground of existence does not exist, but has being. It has form but
not substance. The ground of being does not itself possess being. It
has neither form nor substance. But this gets problematic through the
necessary complications resulting from differentiating these concepts
and distinctions for both the unique, individual and subjective from the
We forget that words refer to thoughts, if they refer at all, rather than to
things. Thoughts, on the other hand, do not refer to or correspond
with anything at all, but rather cohere.
There are two kinds of tracking of a solution: via a dynamical
mathematical-like relationship, via a grasping of the solution which
tenaciously holds onto it as it attempts to flee understanding. In the first
case there is correspondence between the description of the dynamical
system and the system itself; in the second case there is coherence of the
feedback of the system and that of the mind seeking to comprehend it.
The ladder of excrescent difference lies in the invention and discovery of
ideas. There should be a verbal noun that is midway on the spectrum of
meaning that lies between invention and discovery.
Scaffolding of
thought. Every adrenaline rush, which comes with the revelation of
insight, intimates a previously unsuspected source of creative power. It
is the intimately personal insight of self discovery that underlies the zeal
for intellectual activity, is it, not the desire for communication?
We can make a parallel distinction to that of real versus virtual particles
with regard to real versus virtual thoughts. What allows this is the
quantum vacuums role as not only a reservoir of energy but also of
information.
Aquinas: that which is subject to division possesses potentiality the
decomposition of the Psi in terms of an incompatible observable, giving
rise to an uncertainty of this observable and so temporal fluctuations in
this observable. Infinite regress of the finite containing an integral
description of itself and things are only completely explicable in terms
of an infinite context but multiple infinite embedding contexts are
available. What makes the difference is which of these infinite contexts
actually embed the thing in question.
Forgetfulness, being easily distracted, poor sense of direction, etc.
physics operates.
What is the general nature of effects resulting from the filtering or
interaction of unique entities within a formalizable system?
One might say that the Universe is a kind of institution of the collective
of divine persons, which solves the problem of their isolation, but at the
cost of their freedom.
The free will of the individual, the direct evidence for which is only
glimpsed by the individual himself, is the surest testimony to the fact
that the individual is a coherent, open system and is beyond any possible
description. This individual is its own primum mobile. The free will
of the individual bespeaks his infinitude.
Freedom and originality are the characteristics of mind; automaticity is
the defining characteristic of body.
The operation of the free will of individuals produces a back-reaction
within the quantum vacuum, which produces nonlocal effects upon this
vacuum that results in local effects upon prepared quantum systems
(describable by a particular wavefunction, Psi).
When the brain makes a transition to one global energy level to another
through a virtual transition, neural synapses act like Josephson junctions
across which neural impulses quantum mechanically tunnel. Another
way to see the possibility of quantum tunneling within the brains neural
network might be via consideration of the jumping from one classical
formal logico-deductive system to another when this transition is not
mediated by some metalogical system embedding the initial and final
formal systems. The brain may be viewed in this way as a collection of
switches and routing circuits for the quantum vacuum energy field out of
which it is continually being recreated (along with all other matter).
When the brain thinks, it simply connects utterly novel circuits within
the vacuum field, as well as inhibiting others, which disrupts the
moment must maintain itself by virtue of the same sort of activity, or,
interactivity, which relates it to its ground out of which it was originally
constituted. The moment can only keep up with the transformation of
its ground by abandoning the preservation of its distinct identity.
Coherence is based upon filtration of informing signals from ground.
There are two kinds of passing away therefore: dissolution and
obsolescence. And these two types of passing away are in constant
opposition with one another. This is what accounts for the transience of
the moment.
There is a tension between seeing more and more the hollowness of
rhetoric and glimpsing insights into its significance, which transcends
everydayness. The individual participant in the discourse can contribute
certain small innovations in discourse, in the form of new rhetorical
devices.
Radical revolutions in a discourse are by definition not
possible as they utterly disrupt the context of discourse so that invention
and innovation are no longer taking place within the discourse.
Discourse evolves historically and collectively as technology and society
undergo their mutual influence.
Language contains conceptual
structures, which no individual person placed there. Language exhibits
the thought of the collective consciousness.
Nothing is coincidental which the mind can seize upon as a missing
puzzle piece of significance.
We must realize that all along what we have been calling reality has just
been its manifestation. 3000 AD
Whether one is a believing Christian or a confirmed atheist, one has to
admit that any thorough examination of accounts of the life of Jesus
does not reveal, under any degree of scrutiny, the least suggestion that
Jesus was not a person possessing the greatest humility, integrity, and
love for his fellow humans.
If the truth cannot be known, then what is to serve as truths stand-in
or representative?
Performativity: abandoning representation, e.g., the discovery of
general laws, and seeking practices, procedures that work.
Necrophilic representations of knowledge are only possible through
dissection and disruption of the object. Anthropology participatory
knowledge only possible through a disruption of the subject.
The
considerable underlying influence in the aesthetics operative in the
appeal of scientific theories, philosophical tenets, religious doctrines,
etc., needs to be explored more fully.
Some foreign words, e.g., gemeutlich, schmuck, etc. sound more
like what they are intended to mean to an English speaking person than
do their corresponding English translations. This observation seems to
go against Saussures idea of the connection of meaning and signifier
being completely arbitrary. What can be said about systems in which
categories are generated permutationally, combinationally, but in which
null categories appear?
Null categories are categories in which
significance of the categories is arbitrary with respect to the system of
denoted meanings, but which seems to complete the system while more
or less maintaining the systems self-consistency. Numerous examples
of this can be drawn from the fields of chemistry, biology and particle
physics.
We should see the sign as arbitrary, that is its relation with the concept
signified, or the thing that is its referent, is accidental, c.f., Guidebook
to Derrida on Deconstruction.
Because Being cannot be merely a being, if follows that Being is not a
unity, a finished thing.
Thought to some significant extent always appears out of context with
respect to its embedding consciousness.
Though always requires
additional processing, i.e., reprocessing, to take hold of its destined
we are all bound within the confines of the epoch of history in which we
reside. The latest technological developments and the playing out of
revolutionary social and cultural implications, these we certainly will not
have a good grasp of, particularly as they emerge toward the declining
years of our lives.
Any still later developments are beyond the
vanishing horizon of our finite sojourn on this planet.
The history of philosophy is a testament to mankinds greatest efforts to
think his way out of the wet paper bag that has kept his mind in
darkness. There is a growing sense and expectancy that the fibers of
this bag are beginning to separate. Man may well regret getting what he
for so long has apparently been seeking.
Bakhtins concept of ideas as living entities is alluded to in his Problems
of Dostoevskys Poetics. Metaphor constitutes the dialogic essence of
ideas. Here is the notion of essence not based in the intrinsic nature of a
self-identical entity.
It is possible for the course of development of the individual to be
altered by circumstance because myriad and in fact unlimited distinct
possible unifications of the self are always open to it. This is perhaps
the basis of the freedom of the will.
Operations of a generality greater than that consciously intended by a
texts author are always revealed upon reflection of the author upon the
operations by which the text has been constructed/is being constructed
(used). The author may thenceforth proceed to produce additional text
in which such higher level operations are written about (mentioned). So
there appears to be an upwardly spiraling dialectic of use and mention
relating the text to the authors reflections upon his state of mind during
the texts construction.
There does not appear to be any natural
termination point in this upward spiral of text/commentary
use/mention.
natural selection.
When cultural standards and norms of what is
beautiful or attractive mutate/shift. The pattern of sexual selection may
radically shift.
Identity supplementation through use of identity
accessory add-ons.
From a conversation with Jennie: sexual selection becomes more
important the more mobile a society becomes after clan, family, and
community barriers have broken down.
Are individuals genetic
compatibility discovered/mediated through exchange of chemical
pheromone messages? Compatibility in marriage means not having to
work to sustain the marriage.
Maturity is reached earlier in less
complex/ advanced societies and in these societies individual personality
differences cannot be developed as freely or idiosyncratically as they
can be in more advanced and affluent cultures. Our judgements of
others, especially when articulated, are always prophecies of judgements
that will come to be made of us. The only way to break the bond of
Karma is to sufficiently disrupt the continuity of the self, say, through a
humbling conversion experience.
Interconvertibility of distinct phenomenological media. Is the notion of
substance implied here? What bearing does topology have on the
problems of substance? The process by which metaphors are chosen to
represent, convey, enable the insight of a given poetic motion, and the
manner in which words are chosen to articulate the metaphor (as well as
what it represents). This process must be examined and observations
concerning human impressionability, suggestibility would be brought to
bear on our understanding of this metaphor-creation process. Also, the
El Greco fallacy must play an important role in this discussion.
Brokers versus purveyors of ideas . . .
Intersubjectivity of resonant structures/filters, c.f., triangle-square
inversion, i.e., El Greco paradox.
only persuasive to those who, as Kuhn says, step into the circle. The
circle may only be complete after passing through multiple levels and/or
contexts.
Life and Mind are examples of things in themselves, although these are
only known through their manifestations, which are always mere
representations. Creation is the production of a rational order flowing
out of an irrational ground.
If the text has a kind of vital essence as though possessing a will (or
mind of its own), then the deconstructive process can move forever
along an infinite downward spiral. How is the Abyss any different from
the place we now occupy? Both are infinitely deep. It is just that we
use the metaphor of the imagery of a deep chasm or hole without
realizing that the infinite depth thusly symbolized is only along a single
determinate dimension. Where we are now is just as deep as any abyss,
but itself contains many more dimensions for its infinite depth! But if
the text is actually only a chimerical construct, then should there be an
end in sight for its deconstruction?
Philosophers had acquired a stock of metaphors which they had learned
through imitation to put to use unreflectingly but in accordance with a
number of tacitly established conventions.
Deconstruction calls into
question these borrowed metaphors and their conventions of application
and so exposes the naked and indelicate backside of philosophy as mere
opinion rhetorically expressed.
Binary oppositions spoken of in Derridas theory are transcended in the
operation of quantum computers and of the mind itself.
Rather than feeling alarmed and confused by mixed emotions and
impulses, I interpret the phenomenon favorably as the intermittent
crossing over to a set of distinctions cross-cutting the old or Im
already past this point and am projection onto the old sets of dual
sociology paper.
Necrophile.
The
why students are initially lead to pursue the basic sciences, philosophy,
etc., the desire to please the parent, the slavishness in the human soul
(Fromm), true believer syndrome, conforming to ideals, images, etc.
Platonism: there is a more true experience of what it is to be oneself
than one is able to have at present. Postmodernism: My experience of
being who I am is indeed Gods experience of being me.
Epigram: Melody makes the mind suggestible for the Poets metaphor.
Jesus as the son of Man and as the son of God. Did Satan have a good
reason to rebel? Elohim as the word for a plural God. Are ye not
gods? John the Baptist as the reincarnation of Elias (Elijah). Elijah
never suffered physical death, but was assumed into heaven.
Tell
nd
them that it is I am who sent you. Jesus as the 2 Adam. All have
fallen short of the Glory of God. Let there be light! God spoke
reality into existence. In the beginning was the Word and the Word
was with God. . . In the beginning the world was formless and void.
Gods spirit moved upon the waters of the Deep. Chaos is the father
of Kronos, c.f., the relationship between /\E and temporality. The fate of
the soul is open-ended, but the spirit must always return to the Father
whom made it.
Although the yin and yang symbol is interpreted as a liberating symbol,
it actually represents how duality is itself a manifestation of
closedness. Local causal relationships mediated by nonlocal causal
correlations.
So long as a prophecy is not forgotten, it is destined to be proven true,
but rarely in a manner or along the lines anticipated.
What is the relationship
foreknowledge/omniscience?
Degeneracy
overlapping
between
projections
prayer,
with
free
will,
potential
for
Divine
extra
How is the mystery of our own existence on this planet any less
significant than that of aliens on other planets? Is personal identity a
question of topology?
Quantum
control
experiment reveals solvation-induced decoherence, c.f., below:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19416881
Karen Monteleone
production.
An antiparticle can be consistently described as a particle travelling
backwards in time.
The process of the creation of virtual
particle/antiparticle pairs is a reversible process, according to quantum
mechanics. We might imagine more complex virtual structures, i.e.,
composite particles, such as simple molecules, being reversibly created
out of the vacuum (along with their anti-molecules) in that they are
immediately destroyed again (return to the quantum) within a
exceedingly brief period of time specified by the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle.
Perhaps virtual bosons are exchanged between both real and virtual
fermions in a completely indiscriminate fashion.
August 1999
problems that will necessitate the creation of new institutions not yet
imagined.
The ego is the spacetime counterpart to the Self, itself lying beyond
space and time. The ego is forever banned from insight into the socalled mechanism by which it was constituted and through which it is
sustained within existence. Only a mind which transcends ego can
possibly grasp the means by which the ego is constituted.
The most which can be reasonably referred to by the label, nothing , is
quite literally that from which phenomenal things are manifested
generally in a moment in which no manifestations are present, that is, in
which no phenomena are given.
This ground of phenomenal
manifestation is nothing other then what the Hindus or other mystics
have traditionally referred to as pure consciousness, i.e.,
consciousness without an object. Somewhat paradoxically, to intend
by the term, nothing a literally absolute absence or nothingness is to
take this abstraction and to reify it!
The function of all functions cannot itself be the argument of any
function that it comprises. So does this imply that the function of all
functions is not itself a determinate function.
The token-type distinction does not apply to individual persons in the
sense that each individual consciousness cannot be a token of some
general type, which we might refer to as consciousness per se, or as
such.
This is because consciousness is presupposed by the
understanding (in the Kantian sense) and the understanding is
presupposed by application of the categories. This is all to say that the
process by which abstract categories are brought into being, generally
speaking, which is thought or thinking, cannot possess consciousness (as
a general concept) as one of its objects of thought. This is to say,
moreover, that there is no category of consciousness as such. This
seems to imply that presumably distinct individual consciousnesss are
not each particular instantiations of consciousness in general. So what
then makes them each and all exemplars of consciousness unless they be
one by partaking of the very same substance. But then what if the
substance of each individual consciousness is distinct and yet not an
instantiation of consciousness as such (there being no such general
category)?
Mind transcends a state description. This is because it involves the unity
of an indeterminate which is inherently paradoxical.
Because temporality requires an open system, spacetime can only be a
local approximation and can possess no objective existence. For
spacetime to possess an objective existence, it would have to be an
object among other objects within itself. This notion is certainly
nonsensical.
There can be no consistent and complete phenomenological description
of mind since mind is presupposed by all phenomena. As far as a nonphenomenological description of mind is concerned, it is hard to
conceive of phenomena being reducible to something simpler or
prephenomenal. Apparently, phenomena are abstractions which are
reducible to processes more complex than themselves. Still less
would it be conceivable how phenomena are a manifestation of a realm
more subtle and more complex than one which could be given a
phenomenological description.
The entertaining of so-called clear and distinct ideas is always the shortcircuiting of a process that was at that moment still ongoing. It is as
though thinking is always the caching in fleeting glimpses of something
larger and more complex than that to which it is expediently adapted.
But we cannot justly term these fleeting glimpses partial thoughts
unless we are secretly supposing that there might exist some grander
insight (such as might have been entertained by some more brilliant and
godlike incarnation of oneself) a small portion of which protruded into
ones mental space, too small to accommodate the whole. But thought
only exists by remaining connected to the dynamic imaginative ground
-varying
eigenfunctions fully accounts for the uncertainty in the lifetime. I was
just trying to say that,
eigenstate of H.
A Theory of Everything would be able to determine the true
Hamiltonian, H, for any system, including for the whole Universe.
Such a theory would render any energy fluctuation term in H, H(fluc), a
mere phenomenological artifact of our previous ignorance of the correct
refinement of quantum theory, A TDE would convert the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle into a purely epistemological principle. Such a
system would possess no fundamental fluctuations because it would
possess no indeterminate outside with which it could be in the process
of dynamically exchanging energy. In such a situation, the power
input to the Universe as a whole would be identically 0.
It is hard to conceive of how anything could ever happen within such a
zero power input device. In short, It is hard to conceive how a
Universe with zero power input could be rightfully said to possess any
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of something requires abstraction from multiple instances or exemplars.
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only a single instance on which to draw. So the individual doesn't
possess a concept of consciousness except in the form of an ineffable
intuition for which there is no rational vouchsafe. (The "intersubjective
subjective" is a contradiction in terms) The mystery here is: how is the
degeneracy split, i.e., that of the ontological/epistemological?" Or recast
this way: how is the degeneracy split, namely that of consciousness
being a one or of consciousness being a many? Experientially, these two
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does not mean that the experience of other individuals could be known
to me. July 2011 So if there is in some sense a of consciousness analogous
to the visible light spectrum, then a being capable of experiencing the
consciousness of many different (including hypothetical) persons
would be able to have a fully appreciation of what its like to be me
than indeed I can. This would be a case of the medium of experience of
one person being at once the subject of experience for another. This
points up the possibility of a medium within a medium of experience.
Here raw feels is not a simple or well formulated notion, nor is what
it feels like to be an x, since there is the possibility of w, y, z, etc.
having their own experience of x-ness.
Would distinct individual consciousnesss given the implied
metaphysics of mind here be just different dynamic modes of
functioning of a single, unitary consciousness? How are forms supposed
to inhere in their respective substances if indeed there is a sharp or
categorical division between form and substance as such?
It is only through collective action of independent agents that Reality is
unified. This is to say that reality is not objectively unified in any
absolute way which has a representations, but reality is unified by virtue
of the brute fact of its having a means of origination and sustenance.
Reality can only exist if it is a product, is embedded within a context,
that is, if a transcendent realm is given. There is no meaning or sense to
the would be concept, unity of the transcendent. This is because
transcendence implies, or presupposes, a loss, lack, or nonapplicability
of individuality and individuation. In other words, the transcendent is
not one nor is it a finite number.
There is no reference without participation with a context. And this is
why no interpretation can ever be final or absolute, but is always openended and on-going.
When one contemplates the infinity of infinite beings which collectively
symbolic order is in it wholly absent. And it is for this reason that the
realm of the dream is not stable and well-behaved and in which the
merest arising notion violently ripples through its continuum.
It is the out-crystallization of the various faculties of the mind that
permits the existence of consciousness as the residuum of what is
common to them all.
So we see now that it only in that which the self takes to be literally at
hand and happening that constitutes dreaming. @$To the extent that
thought is not at once action does it possess reality and constitute
freedom. Thought which does not disturb the conditions of its own
bringing forth determines itself.
Metaphor is characterized by what we might term as thoughness.
@#
But as-thoughness may posit itself without a prior context in terms of
which a pre-existing order shall be exhibited within some altogether new
context. For we are speaking here of an underlying aboriginal ordering
principle in accordance with which metaphor, typically manifesting
itself as a borrowing and importation of structure, either informing or
describing, a transpiring within an alternative context, but which does
not essentially constitute a borrowing. Viral contamination may explain
the token appearance of life at some particular place and time, but not its
aboriginal emergence as such.
Myth is an original and originating metaphor which exhibits the deeper
order and drawing out its meaning through the personification and
objectification of principles within a context enhancing the dynamics of
their operation.
All order, including that of the natural one, is institutional and
conventional. Much of the perceived absolute value of an object, belief,
practice, life style, etc., consists in the notable absence of any serious
competitors. Due to the mobility, both virtual and real, of the individual,
as well as that of the landscape of his local environment, valuation has
coordinates.
But it is clear that a mere change in coordinate system will have no
effect whatever upon any actual physics this is merely a somewhat
informal restatement of the principle of general relativity. So any mass
distribution not possessing off-diagonal terms in its energy tensor in one
system of coordinates, may be represented within some new coordinate,
may be represented within some new coordinate system as having an
energy tensor possessing such off-diagonal terms (stress terms) and
owing to the existence of shear forces within the body. Now it is the
binding forces within a body which are responsible for that body
possessing forces of compression, tension, and shear. The question
which faces us now is this: might a body possess an energy tensor with
only a term with this being true for all possible transformations of the
spacetime coordinates?
Is there some component of the energy tensor which cannot be, locally at
least, transformed away? Now a transformation of the spacetime
coordinates can always be found which allows us to locally transform
away a bodys gravitational field.
What are we to make of the Gibbs phenomenon in the case of waves of
the probability distribution of quantum states? Might we expect
extremely counter-intuitive behavior by quantum systems at the
spacetime boundaries of their system wavefunctions?
There is no absolute existence. Things always exist by subsisting within
some context in which they are embedded through being drawn from
and sustained by that context. This is by virtue of original constitution
and reconstitution.
The advantage of being ones own therapist is that counsel received
from oneself do not engage the faculty of human suggestibility which
the perhaps imposing authority of the therapist typically evokes.
mind, then the manner in which the goals and aims of the conscious
mind are achieved will be modulated in such a way that these conscious
aims are satisfied with unintended side consequences, forming with one
another a coherent pattern, the meaning of which can perhaps be divined
at a later time when ones self knowledge has developed further.
Who is this being within me, engaged in a constant clamor for my
attention? The answer must be. . . it is I and only I.
But if there can be no finally completed work, if only in part, then can
there be no progress?
Closure takes place through an open-ended process. Our concept of
perfection is flawed.
Neurotic compensatory acting out is based as is all neurotic behavior
upon the magical thinking which we believe is more appropriate to the
way of life of primitive man. The acting out is for restoring some kind
of balance within the individuals psyche, but produces unintended
consequences in society. In conversation, this type of compensation is
more common: one tries to offset the unintended impact of ones
previous words and the conflict between ones representation of self and
what one knows of ones actual self are now simply externalized in the
contrast of contrary statements in the memory of the person to whom
one makes the offsetting statements.
Where one is not free to prevaricate concerning the facts of a case, one is
always free to interpret ones own motives, provided one has grasped the
necessary multi-valency, and hence, indeterminacy, of the motivation of
all behavior.
The ideal relationship history is when ones friend is unsuccessful for a
time, one lends them support until they become successful, the person is
grateful and vice versa.
If we are not jealous, then perhaps at turns amazed and the wistful when
seeing our own unrealized potential expressed through the actions of a
younger person.
What explains much of peoples seemingly arbitrary and irrational
behavior is the influence of fetish thinking. Fetish thinking is merely a
symptom of a mind that is desperately grasping at meaning.
The reducing valve theory of mind breaks down the natural distinction
between thought and perception, memory and imagination.
which one book may be transformed into another through the mere
continual substitution of words, but intuitively, there does not seem to be
a continuous transformation of the ideas of one book into those of
another which could possibly parallel that based on the mere substitution
of words.
I, now, here, are examples of egocentric particulars. The
boundary lines of that described by egocentric particulars are somewhat
elastic.
That I refers to the one who utters is a linguistic convention which seems
to presuppose the existence of one and only one self.
I do not exist poses a conflict between the act of asserting and the
content of the assertion.
Descartes holds that thought is transparent to itself, but Spinoza thought
that @$to be aware of a thought is to invoke another thought. Hume
seemed to have similar ideas.
The correspondence idea that the thought refers to itself without the need
for the I as a mediator.
Thought requires a thinker. (not necessarily) According to Quine, if a
means cannot be found to replace terms with alternative formulations
then we are committed to the existence of that referred to by these terms.
Hume uses such words as I, my, myself, etc., in order to state his
argument denying the existence of the self.
Contiguity in time, space, and necessary connection of cause and effect.
It is perhaps reasonable but not necessarily the case that all physical
processes are susceptible to scientific explanation. It is perhaps
precisely where physical processes cease to be explicable scientifically
that the relative discontinuity between the mental and the physical is to
be found: it is at that level at which the individual components in terms
of which explanation proceeds cease to behave as independently
existing entities.
The difficulty in saying what it means for something to be quantum
mechanical, relativistic, ergodic, etc. in no way may be taken as strong
reason for believing that reality is classical, spatiotemporally absolute,
deterministic, respectively.
One is then blaming ones inability to form a definition upon the
incoherence, lack of self-consistency, etc. of the concept to which the
word attempts to refer. When we encounter physical processes which
seem to determine themselves by a quantity of information greater than
that prescribed amount which we are able to possess about this process,
then we may be secure in supposing that this process possesses an
integrity and wholeness which may only be truly described as mental.
What might be considered to be mental characteristics?
Vagueness or ambiguity
Nondeterministic
Non-spatial
Temporal
Lower levels recapitulate higher
Teleological
Simultaneously interconnected
Self-representing
Self-referential or recursive
The reason why all of the Kantian categories seem to apply at the level
of observation at which classical physics operates and why each of the
categories seems to be violated, one by one, at the level where classical
physics leaves off, and where quantum physics takes up, is that mind
cannot give a unified description of its own knowledge of itself
The manner in which the self initially grapples with the newly imposed
spatiotemporal limitation is arbitrary, but becomes less so over time.
To the extent that ones response is not arbitrary, ones response is
determined through alterity which has become incorporated, virus-like,
into the selfs own structure.
The human nervous system is constituted in such a way that repetition of
a message or communication intensifies and deepens, pulling
progressively more elements from a penumbra of still more indirectly
related notions. It is the building up of a resonance which spreads
throughout the minds associative resources, a revitalization of the latent
memory links, allowing the activation of progressively larger and
complex memory circuits, producing experiences more complex than
those associated with the subcircuits of memory originally laid down by
lived experience. This is the very opposite of the automaticity seen in
mentally retarded humans or in primates.
All of the genes which can be found in a complete human genome can
be found in simpler combinations within the other species of life sharing
the planet with man. In this sense, the human may be, in a very real
sense, thought of as a chimerical being. Since by far most of the genetic
combinations have never been tried over the course of evolution on this
planet, many of these combinations being favorable relative to the
present environment, and many more, by far, relative to hypothetical
environments, most of which may never be realized in the history of the
universe, there must be some principle of the engendering of order
which is at once broader and deeper than that posed by standard
Darwinian natural selection. If we view evolution as being purely
adaptive, then abstract categories of fitness which we presently hold may
not have any absolute significance. Intelligence which is defined as the
capacity for adaptation to environmental change within the single
lifetime of an individual of a species, is itself an adaptation to a
particular environment. @$This is perhaps a very disturbing notion, for
it means that environments may be possible in which intelligence is not
selected for.
contexts:
The Velveteen Rabbit and Pinocchio.
A dialectical
development occurs without its ground being advantaged by all of its
significant steps being prefigured as negations awaiting a process of
negating the negation. Such a development is not constituted by the
mere enabling of latent order by evolving contingent conditions.
Mental phenomena make difference to the person whose mental states
they constitute, and so cannot be mere epiphenomena. Metaphysical
work is performed by the individual as a result of his experience in the
world. Use here the analogy of the SETI at home project.
Because there are metalevels of the self/other relation, how does this
complicate our understanding of language? The self as other is itself the
artifact of, mediated through, language.
Even arbitrary sequences of words call forth meaningful concepts.
Logically, a tautology does not provide any information. A tautology
such as when you notice a change, you notice a change, does,
however, succeed in conveying something, if only because the listener is
in a state of change during the very brief time that it takes for him to
hear the statement of the tautologous proposition. Not only does the
central nervous system respond to linguistic auditory inputs at the
level of unified phoneme complexes, i.e., integral words and phrases, but
also to each individual vibration composing individual phonemes.
Time cannot be directly integrated, that is, through the collective action
of temporal functions. Time integration must be effected in the
frequency domain.
So the human mind derives information from tautologies as well as
making sense of literal contradictions. This suggests that language is
essentially translogical.
This is because secretly the human mind
functions in terms of three- and higher-valued logics, but must perform a
reduction to a two-valued logic when finally articulating the
results/conclusions of its higher-valued logical operations.
The critic is the failed craftsman whose central motive was once
creation but which has become that of the destruction ( or
deconstruction) of the works of others more fortunate and talented. The
critic must unmask the creative artist as a poseur and dilettante.
There is no meaning in a life consumed with endlessly circulating
currents of activity, never ultimately feeding back to ground or, shall we
say, to otherness, i.e., alterity.
word and deed of the moment shall continue to appear, for years to
come, as intentional and rational as ever.
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"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Although the original idea may
altogether slip one's ever after misshapen mind.
Aristotle supposed that the soul was simply the form of the body (c.f.,
Sheldrake). What would distinguish soul from body if the soul is a
closed system, except for its interaction with the body, itself also a
closed system? There can be no real distinction between two closed
systems that interact only among themselves.
Is the brain capable of tuning into more than one individual
consciousness? An affirmative answer would seem to suggest that the
brain is not the essential basis for individual consciousness, but merely a
conduit for its creativity to enter the world of space and time. Can there
be hysteresis in the vacuum energy field due to its interaction with the
brains microtubule network? Wouldnt such a hysteresis account for a
kind of phantom effect upon this vacuum state? The argument can be
made that if the system cannot respond to the vacuums fluctuations,
then neither can the vacuum respond to the functioning of the system.
Of course, the response of the vacuum to the system is not in any sense
the response of the vacuum as a whole. What is meant by response of
the vacuum is an alteration in the pattern of the vacuums selfinteraction.
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Is the brain too complex for its processes to be unified, in either a
volitional or a representational sense? The world is so vast and complex
that it can manifest itself as being unified consonant with the preferences
of any individual inhabiting it. Intuitively related to the question of
personal identity. Constitution as the basis of stability.
Data are codes giving one access to information. Data relate to 3-vector
components while information relates to a 4-vector component. When
something is a component of a four vector is so of necessity. However,
3-vector components may also be 4-vector components.
When the more primitive and childlike components of the human
psyche are repressed below consciousness, there accumulates a push on
the part of these repressed elements to express themselves, usually
through some abrupt breaking through of the conscious minds defenses,
which are supported by conventional, societally-defined reality.
EPR in curved spacetime and dispersion of probability distribution
eigenfunctions.
No distinction obtains between asking and telling. Though,
speech, and action are distinct for free agents, but not for automata. Let
us investigate the distinction between dissemination and truth.
Sensory images as barriers representing the grounding-out (shortcircuiting, if you will) of thought.
Since thought does not originate with sensory perception (although it
perhaps conditions sensory perception), the halting of thought with the
sensory perception occasioning it, may itself be a kind of short circuit.
The people who were spared a fatal plunge by virtue of the last
minute rebuilding of the support structure under the town bridge may
perhaps not be thought to constitute a determinate set of persons of
determinable identity.
These would merely be representations within the self that one already
has knowledge of and so no actual informing may be supposed to have
taken place. Communication is not possible between infinite or
transcendent beings, in other words.
Meaning is organic,
i.e., that their seemingly distinctive contexts are ultimately the same.
The importantly relatedness of the two concepts consists only in their
having possessed all along a common source that had been artificially
obscured by language and tradition.
But the metaphysician may counter that concepts are always derivative
in the sense of being abstract and everything is derived from Being so
Being itself is not derived from anything foreign to itself. Rather than
asserting that we have no concept of Being as distinct from that of mere
existence, shall we say instead that what is called existence is the
metaphor possessing the greatest comprehension of Being. But does a
metaphor necessarily point to the subsistence, if you will, of a
corresponding concept? Perhaps poetic conception (truth) is a case of
metaphor for which there is no concept. Poetic truth of some saying or
aphorism means that things transpire or behave as though the saying
were literally true, without it actually being so. In a domain of pure
simulation, as-thoughness and as-ifness have to be given much greater
care and consideration than otherwise.
No, we can certainly have concepts or notion so of things which do not
exist as such, examples of which are, faith, beauty, goodness, etc. So
we might say that these qualities do not exist as such except in a
conventional, poetic or pragmatic sense.
Only representations or phenomena are temporal, the origin of
which exists outside of time (each time stream) and collectively these
origins constitute the common intersubjective spacetime of all these
phenomenal selves. The function of will and necessity are incompatible.
The only way God could purchase us is through his blood. This was the
Judaism to Christianity paradigm shift. God had to give up his freedom
so that Man could be granted his.
experience.
Logic-chopping reason versus over-extended metaphors.
Sorting relates to data-processing, whereas the defining of sortals relates
to information processing.
We are always the gods of our own comfort zone.
Much which passes for the failure of law is really only the failure of its
application.
There can be no doubt that science, particularly the social sciences, are
adulterated by political concerns and agendas. Such considerations form
a large part of the sociology of knowledge.
Within this fluctuating spacetime is somewhat of an inconsistent
phraseology as the spacetime metric does not specify a unique spacetime
topology.
Schrodingers Cat Paradox: long chain superpositions may not be
possible if objects further up the chain possess greater energy
uncertainty than the link immediately preceding. Unitary evolution does
not apply to macroscopic objects. Spacetimes cannot superpose because
of ill-defined boundary conditions. No spacetime-free superpositions
are admissible, in other words.
Live and Dead cat do not constitute, however, different states of the
same system. But isnt that what is really required in order for a
superposition to exist?
There are two forms of insanity: one which we might term
craziness which is the incoherent form and the other, madness, the
coherent form.
It is now fairly common for persons requiring delicate and dangerous
communication
through
representations
are
actually
Language is the body of the mind, intuition, its soul. The knock one
does not hear is the knock which awakens, the knock one hears is for the
awakening of others.
No Thing is the ground which is prior to all things and so is
everything in the sense of being the origin of all things. One must
become no thing in order to achieve union with the ground from
which all dual opposite forms arise (things). To transcend means to
become no thing. Ground is transcendent in this specific sense, i.e.,
it is no thing itself. Plurality presupposes thinghood which, in turn,
demands conditions, limitations, which is to say, boundaries. From
which it follows that there can only be one no thing or ground of
existence. But there is no limit upon the number of grounds of Being, as
Being transcends Existence. Following Plato, we say that Existence
constitutes the limitation of Being.
If Reality is indeed One, then It is not so in any formal or abstract sense
because Ground is itself generally prior to formal categories or
abstractions. The Ground is to be identified with (not identical to) the
Middle which is forever excluded by reason and formal logic.
Two random fluctuations patterns, each individually containing no
information, but in which the two fluctuation patters are correlated by
virtue of both belonging to the same quantum system described by a
preface. The first is the title, parasite. In French, the word has three
meanings: a biological parasite, a social parasite, and static. The English
parasite corresponds only to the first two meanings in French [italics
mine]. Thus the reader should always be aware of this additional
resonance in the French that is not translatable into English. The second
word is hote, which corresponds to both host and guest in English. I
have used guest and host in English where one of the two meanings was
implied more than the other, but the other word is always implicitly
present [italics mine]. At times, I have used the two together to reinforce
the double meaning. As remarked in the Wikipedia entry on Michel
Serres (on the date of this writing), Serres earned a reputation as a
spell-binding lecturer and as the author of remarkably beautiful and
enigmatic prose so reliant on the sonorities of French that it is
considered practically untranslatable.
When changing of private language representations are not merely
translation, we have information processing at the level of the
individual, as opposed to the collective.
The equation of a sufficient condition for somethings coming into being
is logically equated with some determinate sum of necessary conditions.
This formula only applies to closed or formal systems. This is because
open systems always possess that which is conditioned, the residuum
left after all necessary conditions being removed.
Deterministic causality has to do with the kinematics of relationships
between conditions, with the that which is conditioned assumed to be
utterly inert and indifferent to the passage of time. Yet it is the very
substance of all conditions in which temporality consists.
Are we to suppose that direction and rate of times passage is
conditional.
There is always, in part, a drawing from the cultural linguistic heritage
and partly arbitrary coinage involved in the naming of similarities and
acquiring breadth.
Metaphors appear arbitrary initially, but crystallize into virtual
inevitability with continued use/participation with them.
The source originates within the self or from outside it. Glory before
death versus glory after.
What frequently makes it difficult to let go is the thought that the love
object is in conflict, that a kind of mythic battle between the forces of
good and evil is taking place deep within the love objects psyche.
And, of course, oneself represents the forces of good and order, the
competitor, those of evil and chaos. To regain the lost love object can
only be accomplished by freeing the imprisoned child or angel
which has been abducted by the narcissistic self. One must heroically
retrieve the splinters from deep within the mind of the love object.
Typically, only oneself has the intimate knowledge of the love object
which would be required to effect the rescue implied here. But one
must first get through the battlements.
Ernst Beckers heroic sense of self-significance: myth always
informs the sense of self of the individual as much as it informs that of
the collective.
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never identical with itself and yet there is nonetheless a basis of his
continuity through time. Does this fact point up the transcendental
nature of the self? What if the very nature of the transcendental self is
precisely its infinite regressiveness. The self in this case would be
infinite and bounded while its incarnation is finite and unbounded.
Due to the overdetermination of nature, empirical confirmation can be
found for any theory, so long as the theory is internally consistent.
Consider the back-reaction of the creative processes of each individual
mind upon the collective grounds activity from which physical law
derives.
Information versus data is not an absolute but merely a relative dual
opposition.
The temporality of the past: the past when present did not possess
enough time to crystallize.
What is the difference between expression and communication? Utilize
in the discussion the fact that communication is mediated through the
use of expressions.
Representing where youre from.
The appeal of contemporary music. This appeal has frequently been
thought to be transcendence, but in reality, it is usually just narcissistic
self-glorification.
How can complete integrity be always desirable in a postmodern
world which requires one to play so many incompatible roles? Isnt
some flakiness good as a viable adaptation to postmodern conditions
of social existence?
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I was in the habit of
The meaning that those actions have, the meaning that we give them.
Temporal back-action.
But how are we to understand the back-reaction of one open system
upon another?
Will implies originality, power, and creativity.
Those who respect and seek power do not value peoples private
opinions, motivations for imaginary actions which they lack the courage
to put into practice. To these people dreams which are never translated
into action are less than nothing. Is there such a thing as completely
dissociated experience? At what point does fantasy life become
dissociative experience? Acts of true creativity always protruded into
the established order in multiply connected fashion.
A particularly grave sin it is to believe in your heart that the law of
Karma will serve to avenge the infringement of ones petty, selfish
interests.
Investigate these two distinct aspects of temporality: succession versus
formation.
The instinctive, intrinsic meaning which is an unintegrated response of
the higher central nervous system. This is before the instinctive senseperception reactions have been associated with experience.
As they way, when you invest in gold, you invest in something
solid.
The quotation marks indicate that we are secretly reifying a complex of
phenomenal qualities. Are the phenomenal qualities we attribute to
objects no more objectively connected to them than they are in cases of
synesthesia?
A part of the self is arrested at each step along the learning curve. What
is it which doesnt change about a person? Their consciousness. Shed
the baggage of your individuality and youll climb that ladder more
quickly.
If a prediction is partly based upon the processing and interpretation of
other predictions, does the first prediction have greater probability than
if it is picked out of thin air.
The so-called spirit world does not distinguish between images which
are only metaphors from images which represent something concrete.
The problem of etiology and the infinite formal manifestation of the
formulas.
Duality is system-dependent. True versus False versus New System.
This precisely the basis of Hans Reichenbachs three-valued logic which
is developed in his work, The Philosphical Foundations of Quantum
Mechanics.
Nature and the theorist work in cooperation.
Reality is one, a unity, but in a manner which transcends our usual
distinction between unity and plurality. This would be a true,
transcendent unity.
The human being never operates out of his entire consciousness but
switches between different ones as between distinct modes Is it from this
that we intuit the possibility of reincarnation?
What about the case in which we believe we have a concept of
something like, say, soul or free will, however, upon further scrutiny the
notion crumbles into a loose collection or montage of abstractions
(taken from experience) although this experience may be itself rationally
constituted a la Kant.
There is not way you can know what will happen tomorrow, but when
tomorrow comes, sure enough, you will know it. It is only the part of
the self which doesnt change which experiences time and change. The
true subject of experience is eternal, transcendent.
Radio station that plays nothing but scratchy, popping and hissing vinyl.
I havent even gotten all of my toys together so how can I even get ready
to play?
Making distinctions within a category which possesses vagueness. Is
this any guarantee that our loftiest concepts will not somehow fail to
refer? Like those of God, Soul, free will, etc.
Like the spaces in the walls of the Mormon temple, the architect had not
idea what these passages in the walls overhead would be used for. . .
This is what is peculiar about the defining of such open-ended concepts.
Do they begin as metaphors, half-baked notions, ambiguous, vaguely
emotionally-charged images? The collective unconscious appears to
create these open-ended notions and the collective consciousness finds
myriad uses for them only later do they become fleshed out as to their
ultimate meaning and significance.
Inventive persons of a stereotypical group can always redefine and
reprocess this stereotype. But most members of the group are not
aware of this possibility.
What is the rational and moral basis for necrophilia, broadly speaking?
You are not trying to figure her out, just to reconcile the contradictions
within your own construct or representation of her.
Intelligence is positively correlated with strength of neural discharge. Is
psyche?
Topological proof of the transcendental nature of consciousness as a
category, quality, or property.
Memory and imagination explored in terms of the digital Cat Scanners
reconstitution of imaging data in the form of slices which were never
originally taken?
Is the hidden, underlying rationality of experience which permits the
phenomenon of imagination?
There is internal versus external perception but does this distinction
apply as well to thought?
Joy is immediate and does not require the promise of anything.
Logocentrism is an artifact of the neural networks enhancement
subroutines.
Illusions as such are not necessarily false representations. But the truth
of illusions is essentially incidental, or perhaps, co-incidental. So the
radical alterity of the other is overcome by the transcendental unity of
consciousness qua consciousness. But from radical alterity we must
distinguish transcendental alterity.
The determinacy of thought is based solely upon the fixed or
deterministically changing boundary conditions upon the flow of data
and transformations of data structures. But the changes in the highest
level boundary conditions cannot be deterministic.
By virtue of the being of more than two transcendent alterities, we may
speak of higher orders of alterity in the sense of these alterities being
distinct from one another in distinct ways. But do such higher order
distinctions presuppose the possibility of the similarity of
transcendentally distinct alterities?
and utterly removed from what is, from what has being? Would the
removal of this indefinite, and hence infinite, being leave behind an
unlimited and open realm only with an unlimited class of potentialities
removed?
The popularity of television is proof of how pervasive fantasy is in the
life of the average member of modern society.
The observable universe is just an extension of the Earth. It may be that
humanity in its greatest generality is cultural artifice, physical law,
technological artifacts.
A human being would not possess the consciousness to seek that which
does not exist.
Transcendence requires meta-alterity. This is because each individual
consciousness possesses unlimited potential for its development,
possesses unlimited alterity. So meta alterity would be the alterity with
respect to other consciousnesss.
Denumerable infinity can be easily viewed as a mere idea based on an
extension of the finite, however, the vast structure of higher order
infinities revealed originally by Cantors work, based upon his diagonal
argument, suggests that infinity may not be a mere notion or
construction.
The finite, then, may well be a construct denied from infinity.
Because of the dynamic back-reaction of language upon the poet/ author,
he/she cannot really assert what he intends or perhaps even intend what
he asserts. Since both tautologies and self-contradictory utterances lead
to sensical reactions in the listener/ reader, communication never takes
place within any particular theoretical system.
Our nervous systems respond, millisecond by millisecond to sensory
What are the meaning creating and sustaining mechanisms that underpin
logocentrism?
Being irreconcilably different implies irreducibility when it is itself
under a general category. The individuals all are members of the same
class yet are mutually irreconcilable.
Measured against ineffable knowledge, every utterance is merely
figurative.
The concept of prayer is a confusing one and may not be able to be
unified under a determinate concept.
Wittgensteins notion of family resemblance may apply here.
Are the interesting features of your assertions incidental or intentional?
On the hypothesis that only pure energy can be spontaneously created
within a Euclidean or flat quantum vacuum, e.g., virtual fermion/antifermion pairs, it followed that bound energy structures, e.g., atoms,
molecules, etc., are unanticipated structures. Such structures which
cannot be predicted from the flat quantum vacuum can, indeed, be
engendered with a curved spacetime which necessarily itself possesses
some kind of bound structure after which a momentum-energy
fluctuation may pattern its own bound structure. Perhaps the curved
vacuum may be decomposed into two disjoint components: a purely
flat and a purely curved one. The vacuum momentum-energy
fluctuation, when engendered within a curved spacetime, may be
thought to produce a back-reaction upon the vacuum state from which it
is engendered, at least upon its flat part, which cannot anticipate the
appearance of such bound structures. Could this be simply because
energy and three momentum are normally orthogonal to one another
with a flat spacetime? Why do we expect the kind of back-reaction
alluded to above? Because the vacuum state prior to the appearance of
the bound structure fluctuation cannot, at least in its purely flat
but only partly, if we are not to perturb the laws by which it operates.
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The polarization of the photon acts in a formally similar way to the spin
of massive particles. seanet.com/`ksbrown/kmath340.htm
In other words, the
electromagnetic wave is the wavefunction of the photon (spin 1 particle).
Feynman said that the photon is the only spin 1 elementary particle,
c.f., Theory of Fundamental Processes.
A construct can be deconstructed, a persons motives, interest, etc., but
not what is unmediated by language.
Language is the mask of subjectivity.
The will towards coherence grappling with the overdetermined chaos.
The human being in his heart cannot be identified with any particular
role or persona.
Explain how the godhead achieves the greatest unity through diversity of
creation.
The relations encompassed by astrology are neither arbitrary no
necessary.
It seems that the only way that equipartation of momentum-energy can
be maintained (with regard to expectation values) is if there is some
embedding medium for interacting gas particles in which stresses and
strains can be developed and exchanged. It appears that there is a
thermodynamic requirement for a vacuum stress-momentum-energy
field.
Spontaneous emission, for example, is necessary for
thermodynamic laws to be upheld during exchanges of energy between
excited atoms and an electromagnetic field. Because the vacuum
fluctuations do not themselves possess inertia as individual particles, this
may possess collective inertia through nonlocal connectivity. Is back-
-- Jimmy
The importation of the structuring of the old ground from the preceding
moment manages always ( or almost always) to impose a new structure
upon the newly emerging ground which returns the Ego to itself. This
return of the Self to Itself continually, all the while the ground of
consciousness fluctuates underneath it, represents the power of metaphor
in its greatest generality.
For this reason we might term Mind the metaphor of all metaphors. And
that is inevitable, for no speech is possible without metaphor.
[It is not clear to me why Derrida thinks metaphor is coming to the end
of its life_he says it_s old, does he say how he knows it_s almost
retiring (he says it is retiring)?] But here comes something: because
it_s old, it has MORE and not less weight: a lot is attached to metaphor.
Metaphor is "a
suspensive withdrawal and return supported by the line (TRAIT)
delimiting a contour" (9) [this again is good for Vallejo].
Now he asks why we privilege Heidegger_s text (he doesn_t say which
text) on this topic. It seems to be because of H_s concentration on
TRAIT, in the sense of line, the "tracing incision of language" (10).
Now D reveals two of H_s titles: DER SATZ VOM GRUND and
UNTERWEGS ZUR SPRACHE. He also reminds us, in his inimitable
way, that he will quote himself ("WHITE MYTHOLOGY: Metaphor in
the Text of Philosophy") but this is not in order to draw attention to
himself but rather, so as not to have to repeat here what he said there
(yeah, yeah, Jacques-baby).
This is getting difficult. D is going to slip himself through one of H_s
notes on metaphor - in which "the metaphoric exists only within the
boundaries of metaphysics" - as discussed by Ricoeur in LA
METAPHORE VIVE, whose eighth essay, in turn, discusses D_s
"White Mythology" piece. [Gossip: the current piece by Derrida was
read at a symposium in Geneva where Ricoeur also read.] Anyway, the
point is that we will be relating metaphor and metaphysics here, in the
above sense, that the metaphoric exists only within the boundaries of
metaphysics. [Guessing: as we know, D wants to get beyond
metaphysics, so I suppose this article will try to lead us beyond
metaphor: let_s see, that_s interesting, it sounds THEOLOGICAL to me
and I know D would probably hate me for thinking so.]
D says R didn_t pay enough attention this point of H_s. So now he will
critique R. First point. R, according to D, assimilates D too easily to H.
Second point. More on R_s misreading of "White Mythology;" overassimilation to H. [Not having read "WM" or the Heidegger piece on it,
it_s hard
of
metalanguage,
metaphysics,
meta-rhetoric,
but
pure
certainly not its core or kernel. That I am the essence that I am is not
something that could have been determined by agreement as essences
are by definition (rather then convention) not arbitrary nor are they
things, which is to say abstractions admitting of some kind of concept.
To say that it could have been possible to have been another person is to
say that there is only one consciousness which is able to take multiple
forms with the result that consciousness becomes an entirely passive
attribute contributions nothing to the distinctiveness of persons or to the
determination and development of personal identity over time.
Beginning of Well A
Jbn.com Chrysin
aromatization.
Oil
of
Evening
Primrose:
prevents
able to enjoy his unhappiness. One is disillusioned, but one has the
consolation of believing that one has stumbled onto some great and
noble truth. It is the type of person who is moved by mystery rather than
spectacle and who views paradox as an intimation of the emergence of
some greater understanding rather than reacting with an abrupt judgment
of something's being nonsensical or ridiculous.
02/98
There is a fundamental dichotomy in the principle of motivation and of
temperament here which constitutes the deepest division existing within
humankind. The two fundamental attitudes toward the uncertain and
ambiguous is that of 1) the phenomenon is all but. . . and 2) the
phenomenon is nothing but. . . In the first instance there is the tendency
to understand Reality as being organized from above and the partial
glimpse of this higher reality is what sometimes is experienced by
oneself and other like minded persons as the numinous or mysterious.
And in the second instance there is the tendency to view Reality as being
reducible to something which is in principle simpler than what is at first
suggested by the ambiguous appearances. This tendency is that of
viewing Reality as organized from below.
We may more succinctly characterize this dichotomy of temperament as
that of the mystic versus the necrophilous character.. The necrophilous
character possesses no sense of the mystery concerning his own
existence, or if he does, represses it since it is something that he cannot
at once master and penetrate. He may well find his existence quite
pedestrian and ordinary, if not altogether wearisome. The mystic feels
that there is no explanation for existence because Reality coheres at a
level above and beyond that of discursive symbols. The mystery may
only be hinted at through the use of metaphors such as pregnant images.
The necrophilous character believes that Reality possess no
explanation because the words always generate more meaning than
what is actually present. The necrophile is bored with his own company.
While the mystic cannot seem to drop into the unassuming, unself-
conscious mode of being which seems so natural to his fellow humans or if he can, he cannot do it for very long. He is continually startling
himself awake from this ordinary workaday consciousness. The
necrophilous character feels intense jealousy, usually repressed, and
resentment toward the mystic. He feels quite certain that the mystic is
the grossest kind of poseur. He will try to unmask this poser who, if he
turns out to be genuine (in the sense of believing his own claptrap) must
instead be disillusioned or made the object of ridicule, not of scorn
which, although altogether appropriate for the poser, is not the just
desserts of a well-intentioned, nave devotee of the central mystery. The
necrophile holds a similar attitude towards ideas. All grand and
profoundly difficult ideas must be either unmasked as false or proved
to be nave, puffed up and ridiculous conceptions. The only kind of
power permissible in the mind of the necrophile is naked, brute,
mechanical power - power the origins of which are transparent and
understandable, such as the power which stems from physical might,
wealth or influence. To the necrophilous character, power is merely a
contrived implement and does not have a self-existence or mysterious
origin. A mysterious power cannot be manipulated and enlisted by the
necrophile to reliably aid him. Such a power cannot be relied upon to
faithfully serve the worldly interests of its would-be manipulator. Such
a power might have to be treated as an end in itself and not merely as a
means to the accomplishment of the necrophiles myopic ends. To such
a power the necrophile may well be forced to give an account. Such an
awesome power threatens to force the necrophile to give an account of
his life and ways.
Such a mysterious power threatens to validate an objective moral order.
And this is what the necrophilous character fears most of all.
Necrophilia is not an attraction to death, in its essence. It is rather much
more, a profound fear of life, or the mystery of life, which masquerades
as a love for dark and deathly things and influences. Even such new-age
notions as the higher self (in the absence of a veritable Transcendent
Other) are shunned since the growth of the self into one of its higher
forms is inconsistent with the aggrandizement of a greedy, lustful,
envious, and mean-spirited ego. The growth of the higher self, should it
exist, might coincide with the pain and loss of sovereignty of the
smaller, cringing self of the necrophilous character. Nothing must be
done to cultivate the growth of the higher self and its existence must be
denied to oneself but most forcefully to others. In essence, the
necrophile has pitched a rebellion against life, and is motivated by the
same impulse which caused Lucifer to lead the rebellion in heaven. This
impulse, in the form of a question, is the following: How come I didnt
get to be God? If I am not God, then how could anyone else be? And
so, whenever the necrophile encounters a person or persons seeming to
embody, however, dimly, the form of the divine, these persons are
instinctively hated and despised if they cannot be safely placed beneath
contempt. And so, just as Satan represents the necrophilic God,
satanism itself, therefore, is merely a particularly visible manifestation
of the necrophilous drive. The necrophile spends his life forcefully
trying to deny the existence of God by simply denying the existence and
legitimacy of life in all of its myriad forms. Beauty, Goodness, and
Truth are the primary evidences of the existence of a grand design.
Although the theological argument from design is not the most logically
subtle in fact it is the least so of all of the traditional arguments for
the existence of Deity, it possesses the greatest appeal to human
intuition. So the necrophile denies God through a denial of these three
primary manifestations of Divinity.
And so the necrophile is
preoccupied with that which is ugly, that which is bad, and that which is
a lie. It is only when the necrophile is overwhelmed by life and the
living that he retreats from a direct assault and begins seeking refuge in
Death through a preoccupation with decaying or lifeless things. The
necrophile seeks protection in Death since, to him, death constitutes the
ultimate disproof of life, and hence of the divine order. The peculiar
manifestation of necrophilia, with which the term is identified in the
popular imagination which has been informed by Freudian
psychoanylitic theory, is the sexual attraction that necrophilous persons
feel almost exclusively for the bodies of recently expired persons,
usually of the opposite sex.
This does not constitute a positive
attraction for the dead, but is merely a result of the redirecting of an
This reminds us of Schopenhauer's claim that the thing-initself lies in a realm beyond individuation which, according to him, takes
place only in the realm of phenomena. This seems to imply that
Schopenhauer believes there to be only one indeterminate, or infinite
being. Leibniz had already given an argument that God was a substance
of which there could only be one.
March 1998
But it is hard to see how this self same substance could be connected
with all of the phenomenal changes which supposedly inhere in it when
there is no correlated change or transformation occurring to this
substance which could be sought as the source of the dynamics of these
phenomenal qualities. There is a similar logical difficulty in imagining
the connection of two things occupying genuinely distinct spaces or
continua. One must secretly suppose that there is some embedding meta
or hyperspace grounding the relationships of two objects. It is as though
the substantial and the phenomenal belong to two entirely distinct
temporal series - one in which nothing ever happens and another in
which all that exists is pure flux without any determinable order to the
play of transformations. In reality it is a misnomer to speak of
transformations taking place within this hypothesized realm of pure
fluxion. For the notion of transformation presupposes that there is
something underlying and connecting different stages of the same
transformation which is common to all stages, that is, the notion of
transformation itself presupposes the existence or being of underlying
substance. If transformation presupposes substance, then perhaps so too
does substance presuppose transformation. For there must be some
difference between a purely fleeting substance and an everlasting one.
Rather, there must be some meaning attached to the notion of the
temporal duration of substance. The transformation here is then simply
that of the substance continuing to be what it is and not changing. The
substance is continually in the act of transforming itself into. . . itself.
But if there is no logically consistent concept of pure phenomenal
change, then neither can the negation of this concept be given a logically
consistent formulation. The negation of pure flux cannot be defined any
more than can the negation of the indeterminate be defined. Within a
closed system of categories, a proposition, theorem, etc., and its negation
are clearly definable. But in what kind of system should we expect a
concept to contain, or be seen as ultimately identical to, its negation?
An example of which might be the concepts of pure substance and pure
flux, or transformation.
So real creation, that is, the creation of that which possesses its own
essence and principle of being, cannot be the bringing into being of a
mere existent thing, that is, a merely abstract entity. Real creation
involves the engendering of altogether new ground possessing its own
indeterminacy and potentiality, not borrowed from the ground out of
which it was determined.
April 1998
Rather than saying that the law of excluded middle is violated, we may
suppose that a contradiction is not even possible as an abstraction - let
alone could a contradiction refer to something genuinely real.
February 1998
host, which it can pervert. Relative though not total spiritual immunity is
supplied by prayer and fellowship. Those who lack the presence of mind
(or spirit) to recognize that they possess the spiritual equivalent of auto
immune deficiency syndrome and seek out the proper course of
treatment and cure are truly doomed.
July 1998
which provided the motive force for the first billion years of chemical
evolution, which led to the creation of the first primitive units of
heredity. So the point here is that, epiepigenomics or not, you cant
get away from the fact that the self-organizing properties of atoms and
simple organic molecules continue to remain of vital importance to
evolution and to the irreducible complexity of what happens within the
cell. It may be found that these "exotic" enzymatic activities are
orchestrated from relic information that is no longer embodied in
genomic or epigenomic control, but which is now merely latent within
various networks of catalytic pathways, which also depend on the selforganizing properties of atoms and molecules the very same one,
which drove the first billion years of chemical evolution prior to the
advent of the first reproducing, information-bearing molecule. It is
currently not known What defines the mechanisms conferring
inheritance and propagation of epigenetic information, c.f., C. David
Allis (2007). For the most part, transcription factor binding is transient
and lost in successive cell divisions. For persistent gene expression
patterns, transcription factors are required at each subsequent cell
division. As such, epigenetic control can potentiate a primary signal
(e.g., promoter stimulation, gene silencing, centromere definition) to
successive (but not indefinite) cell generations by the heritable
transmission of information through the chromatin template, c.f.,
Epigenomics (2007). This mechanism greatly enhances the stability of
the genome in the face of relatively transitory environmental pressures
and acts to "filter the process of natural selection". October 2011 Standard
genetic analysis of mutant alleles of the HOTHEAD gene, which
regulates organ fusion in Arabidopsis, revealed that normal rules of
Mendelian genetics were not being followed (Lolle et al. 2005). It was
discovered that if heterozygous HOTHEAD/hothead plants selffertilized and produced a homozygous hothead/hothead plant, and then
this homozygous hothead/hothead plant was allowed to self-fertilize, the
progeny from this homozygous parent reverted to a HOTHEAD/hothead
genotype at a frequency of up to 15%. This stunning level of wild-type
reversion produced an exact duplicate, at the nucleotide level, of the
wild-type gene seen in the earlier generations. This reversion was not
The truly great ideas are no less so for never having been facts
within Space and Time. When a great conception appears within the
mind of the individual and never within the collective, metaphysical
work has been performed. It is only by intention or Will that any form
may arise within a reality which is truly open and unlimited. And it
cannot have been by a mere chance occurrence, for chance is what
results when one closed reality impinges upon another to which it has
heretofore never been connected and where these two realities, if you
will, exist as part of one and the same closed system, c.f., au=Corliss
Lamonts treatment of free will.
May 1997
How, one may ask, can two closed systems exist together within
another closed system without ever having, in the infinite past interacted
together? The paradox of the truly closed system, in the sense of its
being spatially closed is that, if the system has existed for an eternity
past, then this system at first glance appears to be an open four
dimensional spacetime. Or it is a closed 4 dimensional space. A closed
spacetime is an incoherent notion. The very concept of "particle" is
inapplicable to an open or infinite space since no Gaussian wavepacket
is definable unless spatial boundary conditions are supplied along with
that this too would have been His choice. So although God may not
exist (by choice), He nonetheless possesses Being, which transcends the
categories of existence vs. nonexistence. The question, therefore, is not,
Does God exist?, but is Existence in God? Whether or not Existence
is or is not in God is irrelevant to the question of Gods Being. Gods
existence is an urgent moral question of judgment of the comparative
value of God and not a metaphysical question for Man. God exists, God
is merely the Glimpse of the Transcendent at the cusp joining the
Transcendent to its voluntary self-limitation which is, most generally
speaking, the engendering of the possibility of a Spacetime. The
Transcendent itself is forever beyond Representation. And a reduction
to its various modes corresponds to the existence of various egos living
in the world. Existence in a word is conditioned being, but being, which
is conditioned not through or within space and time, and here lies the rub
so to speak.
It is true that the infinite if indeed a unity, which we have already said, is
too complex to be such, would, of course, possess the motive to enter the
realm of self-limitation out of mere solitary curiosity, as the infinite
cannot enjoy the experience of limitation of any kind, such as hope, fear,
uncertainty, disappointment, betrayal separation and reunion, surprise,
growth, etc. To an infinite mind there is no distinction between truth
which is trivial and that which is profound. There is not possibility of
communication since communication of information is at once the
reduction/removal of uncertainty, not a possibility for an omniscient
being. For such a Being there can be no revelation, no insight or
epiphany, no sense of wonder or mystery. Aristotles view of God by
the way was that of thought eternally contemplating itself in the act of
contemplating itself.
fb=@Brettage Munkdial during August 2014 First Draft in December 1995
Although existence
possesses a dual opposite, namely, nonexistence; what is properly called
Being itself possesses no dual opposite. Being, however, can neither be
thought to possess any formal unity since, as we said, it does not
July 1997
02/98
Now fluctuations in the energy of the quantum vacuum must be
extremely violent before expecting any gravitational effects. In other
words, the energy of the vacuum fluctuations must approach the Planck
energy before we are forced to give consideration to Quantum Gravity
theory. But again, it is at precisely this stage at which spacetime
topology begins fluctuate non-negligibly and potential source terms for
Ti,k begin to "slip through the cracks." Considerations such as this may
provide a natural explanation for the alleged high energy cutoff of the
gravitational source term within theories such as Sakharov's.
But may we, therefore, say then that "absolute truth exists" only
provided that certain conditions obtain? Since, as demonstrated above,
the contradictory to this, "absolute truth does not exist," is a true
proposition only provided certain conditions, i.e., this proposition is only
true in a relative sense, we are, again, landed in a contradiction. Perhaps
the condition which must be provided for the proposition that absolute
truth does not exist to be true is that single condition where no absolute
truth exists. But if existence is merely unconditioned, transcendent
Being with certain conditions added, then absolute truth, if it "exists,"
would never actually exist though it would possess unconditioned Being.
Let proposition P be: absolute truth does not exist. P implies, through
the implicit self-referentiality of P, that <> ~P. P does not actually
imply that [ ] ~P, since ~P might be true, but only conditionally. But can
the conditional truth of the proposition that absolute truth exists, i.e., that
~P is conditionally the case, be given a coherent meaning? August 2014
"There is no absolute truth." Of course, for the sake of avoiding selfcontradiction, this proposition must be regarded as only conditionally
true. So under certain as yet unknown conditions, there is indeed
absolute truth. You see the conundrum here. To speak of the truth value
of a proposition concerning truth is self-referential, and we are engaged
in the realm of so-called metatruth, which bespeaks transcendental mind.
Wittgenstein spent at least half of his philosophical career teaching us
language using apes how we inevitably tend to apply language beyond
the scope of its meaningful application. But this scope is fluid and not
predetermined, as we language users are no mere automatons, but free
and creative beings.
November 1997
always existed. But this is merely to refer to the One in its temporal
aspect of everlastingness. Have we also demonstrated that if a One
exists, it not only must have always existed (in Time), but it exists
necessarily, i.e., the One, if it exists, could not possibly have not
existed? We cannot ask whether the Many might not have existed, since
this would be to implicitly refer to this Many as if it were secretly, in
actual fact, a One.
February 1997
event or thing possible even if it has never occurred or existed in the past
and even though it will never exist at any time in the future? Such
questions may only appear to be asked; in actuality such questions
cannot be asked because a reference is being made to something
indeterminate as though it were a definite entity - in this case the infinite
past or future. The infinite past or future cannot be thought to contain a
determinate set of objects such that meaningful statements may be made
about what either is or is not a member of either set. It has been
remarked that it is necessarily impossible for any person to form a
complete description of the world which contains him due to the
necessary upcropping of an infinite regress of successive descriptions.
But if at some future time the person forming the description no longer
exists, then the above logical difficulty is removed and a merely
practical (but insuperable) one placed in its stead. This hypothetical
person may form a complete description of the future without fear of
being embroiled in infinite regress. August 2014 "There is no absolute
truth." Of course, for the sake of avoiding self-contradiction, this
proposition must be regarded as only conditionally true. So under certain
as yet unknown conditions, there is indeed absolute truth. You see the
conundrum here. To speak of the truth value of a proposition concerning
truth is self-referential, and we are engaged in the realm of so-called
metatruth, which bespeaks transcendental mind. Wittgenstein spent at
least half of his philosophical career teaching us language using apes
how we inevitably tend to apply language beyond the scope of its
meaningful application. But this scope is fluid and not predetermined, as
we language users are no mere automatons, but free and creative beings.
October 1997
open-ended energy context of the quantum vacuum field itself, for when
all sources of real particles and fields have been taken into account in the
construction of the system Hamiltonian, a certain small fluctuation term
remains which cannot be absorbed into the system Hamiltonian so as to
define a purely time-independent system. This fluctuation term is owing
to the existence of a quantum vacuum zero-point energy field. It is this
term, what we will call, Hzpf, which prevents any quantum system from
ever existing in a true energy eigenstate with ,
=
-i
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And this is why we have been saying that the fluctuations in vacuum
energy are the cause of the time-dependent evolution of quantum
systems generally. 06/98
But because the future is not determined, it does not constitute a definite
category; we can only meaningfully refer to events which may or may
not take place at a future time and not to events which will or will not
occur.
10/97
There are a number of difficulties with McTaggart's famous
proof of the unreality of Time. The proof presupposes that the
predicates, past, present, and future may be treated entirely on an equal
footing as categories. I believe this is fundamentally mistaken because
past, present and future may be distinguished by the fact that the past is
determined, the present is the activity of the past determining itself, or of
the present determining itself as past, whereas the term "future" does not
refer to a determinate category at all, that is, if Reality is, indeed, an
open system as we have argued for extensively thought this text. Even
the past itself may not be so easily characterized as determinate since the
past, at the time it was present, may not have succeeded in fully
determining itself as past at the precise moment in which that heretofore
present moment determined itself as a forever past moment. We may
then distinguish two presents, what we may term the temporal present
and the eternal present. The temporal present is that part of the present
which itself fully succeeded in determining itself as past within some
previous present moment. The eternal present, on the other hand, is that
component of this identical present moment which existed in all
previous present moments and which may well exist in all succeeding
within this same system. The system in this case is referred to as being
inconsistent.
If truth in mathematics and logic is entirely by construction, then
such propositions, if they cannot be demonstrated to be true or false
must be neither and hence the law of excluded middle is here violated.
To save the law of excluded middle, which is a broader law than that of
mere noncontradiction, we must admit the "existence" of mathematical
and logical propositions which are true in a manner other than "by
construction." This is to admit that the truth of certain theorems may
only be "seen" through the operation of intuition. The truth of theorems
would not be in this case always communicable. It is interesting to note
that an algorithm can only demonstrate the truth of theorems which are
themselves "communicable." The communication of such theorems
would be, of course, in the form of a transmission of data concerning
their proof by construction. The realization of the truth of a
noncommunicable theorem would be through an act of informing
through an act of cognition. The intuitive demonstration of the truth of a
noncommunicable theorem would take place through two acts: the
formulation or articulation of a particular theorem and then its
interpretation such that the theorem manifests its truth to the mind
conceiving it. It may be that the conceiving of the statement of the
theorem is simultaneous with the preparation of the imaginative ground
from which its truth will be intuited.
This is similar to the statement that there are algorithms which can
be implemented in a parallel data process which cannot be represented
as a sequence of discrete logical operations. A metaphor for this is the
existence of theoretical mating positions on a chessboard which cannot
be constructed in the sense of never coming about through over the
board play, but which can nevertheless exist as an appropriate
arrangement of black and white chess pieces on a chessboard. It would
only be through a violation of the rules of play for such a mating
position to be generated by "over the board play," which is to say,
returning to our metaphor, that the construction is false of a theorem
abstraction, if it is not unique, that is. That which is unique may not be
thought of as composed of nonunique elements. That phenomenon
which is reproducible may be reductively explained in terms of entities
occupying the next lower level of organization. A truly unique
phenomenon is an expression of a level of organization higher than the
level it occupies because it must be a manifestation of an open system of
relations. Relations which, within a closed system are abstract,
presuppose "concrete" entities between which these (external) relations
subsist. Within an open system, entities are necessarily abstract and
presuppose a pre-existing set of (internal) concrete relations.
What we cannot say is what exactly is the trajectory of this continuous
instantiation of this continuum of categories. This line of thought seems
to presume that the abstract and the concrete are not disjoint but toward
opposite ends of a continuum. Hence, both are abstractions from the
continuum and both are concrete elements along the continuum. If this
is the case, then the continuum itself is neither an abstraction of form
from some concrete medium, nor is it a concretization of some preexisting set of abstract relations. The subjective mental states of other
minds simultaneously possess objective existence as things. The
otherness of other minds' sense data is just as remote as the otherness of
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objects within the noumenal realm.
The nominally dual
categories, mental vs. physical are complicated by the fact that each
individual consciousness must regard the mental states of other minds as
not fundamentally distinct from physical states and moreover not
fundamentally distinct from the mental states of other other minds.
3/97 There are, however, two predominant schools of thought on the
subject of truth. The first is termed the correspondence theory of truth.
The second is known as the coherence theory of truth. If reality is
bottomless, so to speak, that is to say, open, then it is clear that a
coherence theory of truth implies that an absolute truth, that is, a
timeless, eternal truth, cannot exist. This is because just as a merely
relative coherence-truth refers to a particular system of relationships
cohering in equilibrium for a limited period of time within a limited
for this is vacuity. There cannot merely be the single true proposition,
i.e., that there is no such thing as absolute truth. This something which
constitutes the truth that there is absolute truth must itself be an
additional truth separate from the truth of the proposition that the
proposition that "there is no such thing as absolute truth" is false. But
this seems to contradict another intuition of ours about the nature of
absolute truth, namely, that it possesses an unconditioned existence
whence all other truths must be derived from it, provided certain
conditions, which, themselves, are place- and time-dependent. In other
words, to say that the statement that "absolute truth exists" cannot be
vacuous, that it must refer to more than its own truth, implies that
"absolute truth exists" is dependent upon some other separate truth,
which then constitutes a condition upon it!
April 1997
If space and time are only forms of intuition per Kant, abstract
categories of greatest generality, and hence not "really existent," then the
constitution of these forms must itself occur outside space and time. If
objects exist, independently of the functioning of the mind, then they do
not exist in this way within space and time, but are transcendental
objects. The realm of the transcendent must have being because the
immanent cannot possibly constitute itself as such from out of itself.
Particular immanent existents may indeed be derivative from out of
other immanent entities, but what we are saying is that the immanent in
general, that is the immanent as such, cannot derive from itself. For
example, if Time is a Form, it must be constituted as such wholly from
outside of Time. The constituting of Time itself is not a temporal
process.
Without duality and its manifestations as appearing and
disappearing forms, there is no means of marking or noting the passage
of time. Without that which transcends duality, that is, indeterminate
substance,
there
is
nothing
to
underlie
change.
When we speak of duality being transcended and of the middle not being
excluded, we are not stating that the law of noncontradiction is false.
Certainly within any formal or closed system of categories any
proposition of the form A and not A is contradictory and nonsensical.
The middle must be excluded within such formal systems. But within
open systems of categories in which changes in the system of categories
existing at one moment cannot be understood in terms of that set of
categories such that the evolution of the formal system is not
formalizable, certainly within these systems neither A nor not A can be
applied to the whole of which the system is but a manifestation, because
there is not such a whole to speak of. Here manifestation is not a mere
downward projection of a larger system or object from a higher
dimensionality into one of its subspaces. Here the so-called middle is
the inevitably indeterminate and unbounded remainder.
There is no timescale and no direction for its flow. But the absence of
manifestation of form does not necessarily imply the absence of activity.
November 1997
degenerate
nondegenerate wavefunction
antisymmetric symmetric
transitory
permanent
empirical
theoretical
individual
collective
infinite
finite
transcendent
immanent
integral
differential equation
unstable
stable
contingent necessary
existence
essence
real
ideal
auditory
visual
nondenumerable denumerable
elastic
inelastic
reactive
inert
spontaneous
stimulated
eternal
everlasting
nondual
dual
monistic
pluralistic
Reduction of Psi Temporal evolution of Psi
Frequency domain
Time domain
unique
reproducible
Time
Space
Becoming
Being
Energy
Momentum
continuous
discrete
formlessness
form
ground
manifestation
constituting
constituted
source
stream
Nonrepresentational Representational
Will
Representation
Bell nonlocality Bell locality
Correlation
Causation
Elsewhere Region
Absolute Past/Future
Mental
Physical
concrete
abstract
parallel
sequential
holistic
reductionistic
final causation efficient causation
formal causation material causation
fluctuation
expectation value
fermion
boson
gravitation
inertia
superposition mixture
objective reduction decoherence
noncomputable computable
imagination
knowledge
invention
discovery
open system
closed system
context-dependent
context-free
information
data
irreversible
reversible
entropy
free energy
virtual
real
wave/field
particle
vacuum e-m
radiation reaction field
normal ordering symmetrical ordering
plenum
vacuum
convergent
divergent
coalescence
expression
undetermined overdetermined
ground
manifestation
noumenal
phenomenal
chaotic
orderly
nondeterministic deterministic
indeterminate determinate
Heraclitus
Parmenides
creativity
automaticity
love
poetry
connotative
semantics
pride
prose
denotative
syntax
2/97
And this is what is meant by the assertion that manifestation as
such, that is, within an open system of potential categories, takes place
not through a mere act of uncovering of that which already exists in
potentia. This is why the metaphor of consciousness as merely a kind of
illuminating light that reveals the pre-existent ultimately falls short of
imaginatively capturing what consciousness is in its essence. It is rather
through the continuous activity of consciousness that the forms of
thought and perception are sustained as such; consciousness creates
forms that have never before existed - forms which are absolutely novel
occurrences! The number of possible manifestations of consciousness
sustained by it is infinite in number, but this set of forms, though
infinite, possesses merely denumerable infinity, that is, an infinity of
modes of determination as form. The infinity enjoyed by the
indeterminate ground of Being, i.e., pure consciousness, is itself
nondenumerable! One may intuitively realize that there is no inherent
reason why one's consciousness could not be structured with a greater
subtlety than that of which one's own brain is capable and this is because
the structuring of one's consciousness has, in fact, developed in
complexity along with the growth and greater structuring of one's brain
from infancy into adulthood.
Contrary to what many philosophers of mind tend to believe, qualia or,
what are sometimes referred to as "raw feels", "what it's like-ness", etc.,
is not what is the most inherently mysterious thing about consciousness.
There is something that goes towards making a given individual's
consciousness what it is, that is, a particular example of consciousness
itself, which is never given within the individual experience of any
conscious person. And that property is simply whatever is common to
all actual and possible individual consciousness and which therefore
cannot be unique to my individual consciousness in making it mine as
opposed to yours. This property is more general than the most general
property of my subjective experience of which makes it mine, in other
words; it is not concrete, but abstract and so cannot be related to any of
the qualia coloring or fleshing out, if you will, my particular
rest of nature. This soul endowed the human being with will, purpose
and self-awareness, as well as a place within a transcendent order
beyond earthly life. In this way human beings were thought (through the
concept of the soul) to have originated through the downward causation
of divine creativity. The concept of the soul, which is the precursor to
the philosophical doctrine of dualism (through Descartes), had, in its
turn, an even older origin in the animism of prehistoric peoples.
Although the doctrine of an immortal soul, of an animating spirit
capable of operating and existing independently of the physical body,
indeed, seems to open the way to belief in such phenomena as ghosts,
poltergeists, etc., dualism as a philosophical doctrine does not
necessarily imply or even permit the existence of such "supernatural"
phenomena. In what follows, we will try to argue that although dualism
can be given a rational and philosophical justification, supernatural
phenomena, such as ghosts, which might seem to be implied by this
doctrine, are really not consistent with it. The particular variety of
dualism which we believe to have a scientific/experimental basis which
at the same time seems to exclude the existence of disembodied spirits
or ghosts is the one put forward by John C. Eccles in his book, How the
Self Controls Its Brain (HSCIB). Eccles hypothesis of mind-brain
interaction is that of the microsite. The basic idea behind Eccles
microsite hypothesis is that the human brain possesses finely-detailed
structures responsible for the generation of neural impulses which
operate through exchange of such small quantities of energy that these
structures can be modified in a probabilistic manner through "quantal
processes." Eccles presents a rather technical discussion in sections 9.4
and 9.5 of his book for a quantum mechanical model of the operation of
these quantal processes. These smallest physical structures of the neural
synapse which can be directly influenced by the mind are what Eccles
calls dendrons. The mental structures which interface with these
dendrons are called by Eccles, psychons. Not all of the details of the
dendron structure need be discussed here. Such a discussion, as well as
the detailed one concerning quantal processes of mind-brain interaction,
are beyond the scope of this paper and would perhaps obscure our basic
question. However, some basic components of Eccles dendron are
of the individual mind which are not contained within the spatiotemporal
context are continuous with the ground from which the individual ego
originally sprang and lies within the inmost being of that individual,
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which, again July 2011 it finds most intimate testimony of in the other.
For this is the very same ground from which space and time are
themselves originally constituted. Now here is the rub: if there is not
disjoint dual decomposition of the whole, then the other (and not just
some metaphysical transcendental other) is transcendentally other.
February 1998
01/98
Words are frequently borrowed from other languages,
particularly from French or German, and used by English
speakers/writers for purposes of creating special emphasis of a concept
which is either altogether new or which is being presented or represented
in an unaccustomed and novel, interesting light. Now it is not that these
borrowed foreign words or phrases possess such intriguing meanings
within their root languages, for they usually have ordinary if not
pedestrian meanings as they are used by native speakers. Take the fairly
common borrowing from the French, "Je ne se qua." In the French, this
merely means, "I know not what." And if one were to say concerning
some person with an elusive talent, he possesses a certain, "I know not
what," this would well fail to connote the fact that the person enjoys
some intriguing and mysterious quality.
Whenever one encounters these foreign borrowings, notice that
that they are always italicized. The function of italics is to provoke the
mind to pause to dwell on the word with the thought that a point has just
been made which is revelatory, that a pregnant kernel of thought or
insight is to be reached in the reader's mind just at this precise moment
and the emphasis is provided so that the reader knows to watch for this
event. The emphasis of the italicized foreign borrowing is intended to
signal, "the context thus far provided should be just now sufficient for
the intended message to precipitate or crystallize in the mind of the
vigilant reader." This tactic works if the reader has some familiarity
with the language from which the word is borrowed, for the literal
acceptation of the foreign phrase will, under the influence of the context
into which it is borrowed, transmute spontaneously into the required
metaphor precisely delineating the author's intended notion. Now does
this manner of stimulating the metaphorical thought of the reader
sometimes lead the author to communicate with him at cross purposes?
Metaphor is an artifact of what might be termed "intersubjective
subjectivity." New meaning always seems to develop organically. What
is meant here is that new meanings arise from old, through
reinterpretation; they are never brought in from outside pre-existing
boundaries, like material for a construction project.
Rather,
reinterpretation results in a redefining of boundaries.
We may say that what we sense constitutes a much larger domain
than what we perceive and that what we perceive constitutes a larger
domain than what we cognize, i.e., what we can articulate to ourselves at
the moment of the cognition. The cognitive domain is still larger than
the domain of that which we can recollect and articulate to others.
Metaphorical thinking is the simultaneous realization of some
abstract feature of one particular context and its application toward an
understanding of the dynamics of some superficially unrelated context.
Another way in which language seems to exhibit this peculiarity is in its
role of referring to concrete individuals. For example, if we were to
mention the person you were sitting next to on the 100 th occasion (in
your life) on which you travelled by bus while sitting next to a definite
individual person, perhaps still living, and without the slightest idea that
he or she is being talked about at this very moment. If my listener is not
a city dweller, there is a very real possiblity that the label, 100 th person
refers to a person of the (to you) distant future a person yet to be
determined or perhaps to a nonexistent person, assuming you almost
never take the bus. It might be thought that your hypothetical bus
companion of the future is basically different from the real person whom
you rode the bus with at some unknown occasion in the past. After all, it
could have turned out that we and our bus companions are all members
of a highly neurotic society where people are in the habit of keeping
meticulous records of everything which ever happens to them even to
the extent of keeping an accurate count of the number of times which
like events occur so that if the desire ever strikes us we may quickly flip
through a black notebook in order to determine the identity of the 100 th
person with whom we rode the bus. But the equally anal retentive rural
dweller who has only ridden the bus, say, a dozen times in his life: he
has no way of determining the identity of companion #100. But
returning to reality we must say that in either case: real past or
hypothetical future person #100 that a physically real human being is
involved. April 2011 There are circumstances in which perceptions are
commonly or unreflectively supposed to refer to concrete individuals;
moreover, this very type of perceptual circumstance plays no
insignificant role in constituting the warp and woof of ones workaday,
unreflective consciousness. An example might be the myriad cars,
houses, people that one observes while flying at several thousand feet in
a passenger airliner.
One is unreflectively positive that each
recognizable object seen on the ground from great distance corresponds
either to a person or is uniquely related to a specific person or group of
persons.
10/97
Metaphor may be thought of as representing the dynamic
potential of the unlimited scope of the application of logical categories
in which semantics transcends syntax. Metaphor as it underlies the
creative capacities of mind is not merely the implementation of abstract
categories within new, unfamiliar contexts, but the unbounded capacity
The question that concerns us is whether or not the human self that each
individual human is, is just one particular form among many possible
particular forms, or whether the individual human being is in his depth
that through which his temporal ego is just an expression. If just a form,
then there appears from what has already been said, no chance for the
self that each is to participate in Eternity, to have life beyond the
temporal. We know that consciousness itself, or as such, is not a mere
form or expression of something else which is itself not consciousness.
This much we know about "forms." They are always constituted
out of that which is other than what they are: matter is derived from
energy, water which is a liquid is derived from hydrogen and oxygen
which are gases, figure in painting is derived from ground, living from
nonliving. Each form or structure, it seems, can be derived from its own
opposite, provided certain conditions. Each form is determinate and so
possesses a definable, dual opposite. But what about that which is not
closed, but open, not enframed, but boundless? This is what we have
been calling the Indeterminate, which possesses no dual opposite, rather,
all dual opposites derive from it! A truly deterministic computing
device in a certain sense possesses no genuine temporality, although in
another sense the device indeed possesses temporality as a particular
physical realization of a device hardware design. In the first sense, the
device "computes" without utilization of its energy uncertainty as a
physical, that is, a quantum mechanical device - the fact that the device
is a quantum mechanical implementation of a computing device is
merely incidental to its functioning as a classical physical system. No
information processing is associated with virtual transitions of the
quantum state of the device. There is merely the processing of "data,"
the data are converted into genuine information at output provided that
someone, i.e., some consciousness, reads and/or interprets this outputted
data.
February 1997
through utilizing the dynamical attractors of the state space via an over
arching structure linking them dynamically. We must realize that
"favorable combinations" are not "hit upon" by chance and then
magically locked in and sustained against the thermal fluctuations of
energy which supposedly originally led to their formation, but that these
favored configurations, themselves, represent configurations of least
energy within a necessarily pre-existent system in which the energy
minimum configuration is already defined prior to its being realized in
actuality.
Mathematically speaking, a minimization integral does not "exist"
if the integral, or various parameters of its argument, i.e., of which this
integral is a function, do not satisfy certain boundary conditions. In
other words, it is only by virtue of nonlocal quantum correlations that
this system might unify itself so as to possess an objective simultaneity.
But correlations within a system imply convergent temporal evolution of
the systems component processes. There is, however, no place for the
phenomenon of convergence within either deterministic computational
statespaces, nor within an ergodic dynamical system. Information is not
here a conserved physical quantity and so if in some context energy and
information are inter-definable, this is because within this context the
principle of the conservation of energy does not strictly hold.
3/98
Conservation laws only apply to what may properly be termed
substances. Prior to the advent of atomic theory in the 19th Century,
matter was thought to be a substance and therefore a conserved quantity.
With the advent of the theory of Special Relativity and Einsteins'
famous equation, E = mc2, matter was seen to be not conserved in some
physical processes because of its interconvertibility into energy, itself
thought to be the physical quantity which was truly conserved. But in
light of advances of quantum theory, particularly within the subfield of
relativistic quantum field theory, which treats of virtual particle/field
reactions, it is known now that not even "energy" is conserved and so
all that might possibly exist, and the very essence of which is to exist. In
other words, nothing, not being possible because containing within itself
its own negation, implies that there must have always been something
(or other).
6/97
A thing which is its own negation is the dual opposite of that
which contains within itself the sufficient reason for its own existence.
But the only guarantee that there has always been something is the
existence of something, which contains within itself its own affirmation,
if you will, the reason for its own existence. A fundamental and most
general property of a thing which contains within itself the reason for its
own existence is that of recursion, something which is defined solely in
terms of itself, a recursive structure. There are logical grounds for
believing that there can be only one recursive structure, that there can be
only one self-existent entity - with this entity being the "ground" for
existence of all other entities. This reminds us of Spinoza's claim that
there can only be one Substance.
A recursive structure, if it may be thought to be composite, would
be composed of parts which are totally interdependent upon one another;
no part is the cause of any other without also being itself caused by this
other part and so if this recursive structure had a beginning in time, it
must have been given existence through a pre-existing, broader and
more complex recursive structure. We see now that a given finite
recursive structure comes into existence through a process of uncovering
or abstraction from a more complex whole - through a process of
negation. We are reminded of Michelangelo's claim that a truly great
work of sculpture already exists within its marble block and that all he
did in order to produce his works was merely to free them from the
marble in which they were imprisoned.
The distinction between the "mental" and the "physical" may be
drawn in the following way: both are wholes composed of parts, both
possess principles of organization, but what is termed a physical whole
6/97
But the physical concepts of activity and potential may be
interdefinable so that neither is primary. The general temporal evolution
of potentials may be thought of as activity, while activity within an open
system cannot occur within a finite possibility space so that the potential
for novel patterns of activity is always present. In this way, activity
itself must always possess potential; the potential is never merely so, but
must itself always be undergoing activity. Spatiotemporal scale may
become established through a complex system of decoupling of spatial
and temporal frequencies of some abstract region of the quantum
vacuum field from itself.
We have said elsewhere that any particular thing must be a
particular determination of ground at one particular time and another
determination of ground at another particular time, if one is to suppose
that the very same thing has continued in existence from that time to the
other time. It is easy enough to see that continuity is required for the
subsistence of what is called historical time which we will henceforth
refer to as temporality. Indeterminate substance is the only basis for the
continuity underlying all change. However, indeterminate substance,
not possessing a complete description at any particular time, must itself
be comprised by activity. We must realize that "favorable combinations"
are not "hit upon" by chance and then magically locked in and sustained
against the thermal fluctuations of energy which supposedly originally
led to their formation, but that these favored configurations, themselves,
represent configurations of least energy within a necessarily pre-existent
system in which the energy minimum configuration is already defined
prior to its being realized in actuality. Darwinian natural selection is in
reality just the channeling of genetic drift which is entirely composed of
neutral, randomly occurring, point (structural) mutations of amino acid
codons, i.e., base pair triplets. Three things not "explained" by natural
selection:
1) the fact that the DNA molecule contains information
2) the fact that this information contained within the DNA can be
conservation of energy does not generally hold, even for those systems,
which, classically speaking, must be considered to be closed. Within
such systems, therefore, the 2nd Law of thermodynamics is not, strictly
speaking, valid. It is perhaps not the quantum nature of the Universe
itself, which renders the law of conservation of momentum invalid, but
the fundamental fact of the Universe's being a radically open system.
What are called critical processes and what are called creative processes
may act individually within a particular dynamical system, or even in
combination with one another, but either cannot be reductively described
in terms of the other. It is these seemingly magical self - organizing
properties of matter, owing to the recursiveness of its ultimate
"constituents," which make any attempt to calculate the "improbability"
of biological macromolecules an incoherent and meaningless enterprise.
Similar activities are the routine pastime of myriad scientifically inclined
creationists attacking evolution. The staggeringly large numerical ratios
which they cite against the "chance occurrence" of the simplest
eukaryote DNA are calculated upon a permutational /combinational
modeling of a prebiotic "soup" in which chance collisions continually
occur between precursor molecules, e.g., peptides, amino acids, nucleic
acids, etc. December 2011 The coherence and cohesion of combinationalpermutationa systems implies the existence of a finer grain of dynamics
underlying the explicit kinematic statespace. Applying the Anthropic
Cosmological Principle here, we should suppose that any world which
Man emerges into (or out of, c.f., Alan Watts), which happens to
contain molecules encoding biological information, would most likely
possess an overdetermined causality, i.e., many different pattern or large
classes of patterns of genetic base pair sequences would code for more
or less the same human species. And or course, if we are honest with
ourselves, the Anthropic Cosmological Principle isnt about some
novelly peculiar logic that makes the existence of the human species
virtually overwhelmingly likely in the Universe, its about the virtually
overwhelmingly likely existence of you in the Universe, to paraphrase
Joseph Campbell.
The serious problem with such a modeling approach is that it is not
the starlight on its passing through a vacuum of radially decreasing zeropoint energy density. We would expect the zero-point density of 3momentum of the vacuum to actually increase in step with the radially
decreasing vacuum energy density. Since we assume that in free space
the fluctuations in vacuum four-momentum (which are either 0 or fall
outside the scope of Ti,k ) are equipartatively distributed among the four
distinct four-momentum components, any decrease in the density of
energy fluctuations in the vacuum would be expressed in an equal
increase in each of the 3-momentum components (if geometry, i.e.,
curvature, is not taken into account) equal to the cube root of Evac
Now it is the geometry of the matter distribution as well as its density
distribution which determines the geometry of the redistribution of the
vacuums four-momentum fluctuation components. 06/98
P = [1 - S(dP(E))],
for E > Ex
position, /\x.
5/97 In the same way that momentum exchanges between subatomic
particles mediate the attractive/ repulsive forces acting between them in
three dimensions and in this way constituting the bound energy structure
of matter to which inertia owes its origin - in this way the energy
exchanges between different simultaneity planes which manifests itself
as quantum energy fluctuations associated with Heisenberg energy
uncertainty, mediate forces which may either speed up or slow down the
rate of cosmological expansion (time). 06/98 Such forces may be
intimately involved with the underlying mechanism of gravitation within
the quantum mechanical vacuum.
Now it just so happens that one way of expressing the speed of light is in
terms of /\x and /\t, that is,
c = < c > = /\x//\t
In order for one to travel a measurable distance relative to a given
vacuum fluctuation, one must be able to travel a distance, x, > /\x within
the time, /\t, that the fluctuation is in existence. This is merely to say,
that one must begin traveling at a velocity greater than c before one's
motion becomes measurable relative to the physical vacuum. But of
course one must, presumably, first have attained sub-light velocities
relative to this physical vacuum before actually reaching c and beyond.
Now if one's velocity is not measurable relative to the reservoir of
vacuum fluctuations, then how can one's acceleration relative to these
fluctuations be measurable or have a physical meaning? If the value of
some variable is constant, then surely its first time derivative is zero. So
if the velocity of the observer is necessarily zero relative to vacuum
fluctuations, then one's acceleration relative to these same fluctuations
must also be zero. By Einstein's equivalence principle, then neither can
the vacuum accelerate relative to any distributions of mass and energy
within spacetime. This simply means that a given mass cannot exert a
gravitational force upon the vacuum fluctuations, nor can the vacuum
fluctuations exert any gravitational influence upon masses.
12/97
One of the effects of a gravitational field is that the vacuum
actually acquires a mass because the alteration in the vacuum statistics
induced by a mass distribution falls off only gradually with distance with the inverse-square in the case of spherical mass distributions. The
density of momentum fluctuations ( in the form of the vector boson
exchange particles ) in the quantum vacuum is greater than its free space
value in the vicinity of mass distributions. Similarly, the density of
energy fluctuations in the form of the density of virtual
fermion/antifermion creation-annihilation events within the vicinity of
these mass distributions is correspondingly decreased. Since the density
of the Heisenberg uncertainty in 3-momentum increases with closing
distance to a given massive body, we should expect a net field
momentum of the vacuum in the direction of the body's centroid of
mass. At the same time, the Heisenberg uncertainty in the vacuum's
purely imaginary component of its 4-momentum should decrease in the
direction of the centroid of mass of this body. Another way of looking
at this is to think of the virtual fermion/antifermion pairs as having two
different interpretations: they may be viewed either as an energy
fluctuation or as a momentum fluctuation (photon, in the case of an
electron/positron pair) 06/98
residing, while the density of energy fluctuations within the test mass
decreases in a corresponding and complementary manner to the increase
in the density of 3-momentum fluctuations. This effect is to be
explained by the fact that the Pauli Exclusion Principle applies equally
to real and virtual fermions and by the additional fact that the
mechanism underlying both lasing and Bose condensation (which has
the exact opposite effect upon bosons which the Pauli Principle has upon
fermions) itself also applies indiscriminately to both real and virtual
bosons. Because the 3-momentum and purely imaginary 4-momentum
(i.e., energy) fluctuation densities may be understood as components of a
conserved 4 vector, i.e., that of total 4-momentum, the energy
uncertainty of a local region of the quantum vacuum can be affected by
the presence of real bosons just as the purely spatial components of the
fluctuating 4 momentum in this vacuum may be affected by the presence
of real fermions. The equality of the effects of real fermions with real
bosons upon the statistics of the vacuum affecting gravity may perhaps
be explained in terms of the equivalence in the description of mass as
either fermions acting via the Pauli Principle upon this vacuum or as
purely bosons so acting, through the appropriate combining of fermions
into pairs so as to represent them as "effective bosons."
A very important paper on the origins of quantum noise contains a
number of observations which lend support to the above idea of treating
the momentum and energy uncertainty ( in terms of their fluctuations) as
components of a four vector. Particularly supporting selections from
this paper (given below) are highlighted in blue with the remaining text
in red.
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Charles H. Henry
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636
Rudolf F. Kazarinov
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Breinigsville, PA 18031-9359
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We will refer to the vector potential as the "field." There is also current
induced by the field. Just as in classical theory, the induced current can
be approximated as proportional to the field and included in the wave
equation by a dielectric function. The solution of this equation is a field
radiating from the atom and carrying away energy. It appears that an
electron in its ground state will lose energy.
II. Vacuum Fields
This energy loss is prevented by the other source of quantum noise:
Figure 2: Energy levels of an optical mode (a) and electron energy levels
in a semiconductor (b). The positive frequency field and spontaneous
current operators are lowering operators, while their Hemitian
conjugates are raising operators.
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When the electron is in an excited state, vacuum fields are not absorbed
but instead stimulate spontaneous emission. The radiation emitted by the
spontaneous current is also spontaneous emission, so spontaneous
emission has two sources. Dalibard et al. [1] have argued that the two
sources contribute equally to the spontaneous emission rate.
III. Shot Noise
As an example of how vacuum fields and spontaneous currents create
noise, consider a noise free optical signal traveling down an absorbing
optical waveguide (Fig. 3). The signal field is attenuated. The incident
vacuum field is also attenuated, but is replenished by spontaneous
current emission from the absorbing electrons within the waveguide.
The beating of the signal field with the vacuum fields causes fluctuations
in the energy flux. When the signal is detected by an opaque
photodetector, these fluctuations account for the shot noise observed in
the photocurrent.
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The reason why these averages are zero can be found by examining the
matrix elements of Heisenberg operators between a pair of energy levels,
illustrated in Fig. 2(a) + (b). Only frequency components at the
transition frequency of the levels contribute to the matrix element. The
positive frequency Heisenberg operators act like lowering operators and
only have matrix elements for downward transitions, while the negative
frequency Heisenberg operators act as raising operators. The normally
ordered averages within the ground state are zero because there are no
levels below the ground state to lower to. Similarly, the spontaneous
current correlation function is zero in the excited state because, for
spontaneous current frequencies of interest, there are no levels above the
excited state to raise to.
V. Transition to Classical Langevin Forces in a Laser
These order-dependent averages are necessary to explain the properties
of quantized radiation, such as those of vacuum fields. However, laser
noise is successfully modeled with classical noise sources called
Langevin forces that have order-independent correlation functions. How
do these non-commuting sources of quantum noise give rise to classical
Langevin forces?
To answer this question, let us consider a simple model of a laser with a
gain medium composed of two level atoms (Fig. 4). The average upper
level occupation is varied along the horizontal axis. As it increases, we
go from a cold system with only lower levels occupied to full inversion
with only upper levels occupied. With increasing inversion, the gain
changes from negative to positive, i.e., from absorbing to amplifying.
The normally ordered correlation function is due to electrons in the
excited state and increases with inversion, while the other order comes
from electrons in the ground state and decreases with inversion.
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order. As photon number increases, gain approaches loss and the noise
source correlation functions approach the order-independent behavior of
classical Langevin forces. It can be shown that the transition to classical
Langevin forces also takes place in open laser cavities, where
transmissions out of and into the cavity introduce loss and noise due to
vacuum fields.
VI. Transition to a Classical Noise Field in An Amplifier
A similar transition to order-independent averages occurs for the noise
field in a traveling wave optical amplifier (Fig. 5). The incident vacuum
field is amplified as it propagates along the amplifying waveguide, but it
retains order-dependent averages with the normally ordered average
equal to zero. Fields emitted by spontaneous currents of electrons in the
excited and ground states of the gain medium are amplified and
contribute to the noise field. These fields also have order-dependent
averages. However, when all three contributions are included, the
averages of the total noise field can be shown to grow in an orderindependent manner, with the difference between the two averages
remaining constant at its value for the incident vacuum fields. This
constant difference is due to uncertainty related field fluctuations. At
high amplification, it is negligible and the noise field, referred to as
amplified spontaneous emission, can be treated as a classical field with
order-independent averages.
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VII. Summary
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Brian,
What follows may well be an interesting paper in light of the
possibility that the Universe may possess closure mass. As you know,
with merely a critical density of mass energy (no more, no less) the
Universe's expansion must slow down asymptotically, i.e., it keeps
slowing but never actually stops. So one would expect a gradual
slowing down of masses along the ict axis, right? But then to preserve
four momentum there must be a compensating increase in real
momentum. Now imaginary momentum is just the energy of the
quantum vacuum energy fluctuations which mediate the advance of
masses through time, i.e., the "time component" of the four momentum.
The real momentum fluctuations, you recall, are bound up in (no pun
CUlater,
Russell
IMPLICATIONS OF NON-CONSTANT LIGHT VELOCITY
Dear Brian,
As you might well imagine, I'm very pleased, indeed, that the
neutrino has been discovered to have a mass of not less than 0.07 eV and
probably closer to 0.1 eV! I always strongly suspected that the neutrino
possessed a small mass since it's a spin 1/2 particle which perturbs the
statistics of the quantum vacuum just as much as does an electron or
quark. And since we've been saying that the gravitational effects of
matter stem from this matter vacuum spin coupling, fermions through
the Pauli Principle and bosons through the complementary "Pauli
Inclusion Principle", provided, of course, that the bosons are localized
through the imposing of appropriate boundary conditions.
On the question about the mass of freely traveling, "unbound"
photons though, I have to ask myself, "Wouldnt one expect that an
extremely high flux laser beam would enhance the probability of
vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuations of the same energy, helicity,
and polarization, that is to say, of the same quantum state as the photons
of the beam, at least in the space within or very near to this beam? One
might answer that, well if the photons are being absorbed and re-emitted
by virtual atoms within this vacuum, then maybe. Virtual atoms?
Virtual dogs and cats? Can only truly fundamental particles "exist" as
fluctuations within the vacuum? Is that the test of fundamental
particlehood, to be reproducible as a vacuum momentum or energy
fluctuation? Interesting question, I think. Don't you?
Russell
Neutrino News
THE DISCOVERY OF NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS
web=
nu_timeline.html at www.phys.hawaii.edu
though each of the pixels is a "gnat," to borrow still another analogy, and
if the "swarm" of gnats (the group of pixels making up the cursor) is to
move as a unit, then there has to be some kind of coordination, in terms
of information (or energy) exchanges between the gnats so that when
one gnat takes the lead and moves in a new direction (because it is the
first to see an approaching obstacle, say) the other gnats must get the
word quickly enough so that the swarm can change direction as a whole
without deforming in shape.
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The Major Transitions in Evolution (1995) by John Maynard Smith
The
Origins
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Order
(1993)
by
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Kauffman
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Penroses one graviton limit are all involved with the solution of the
cosmological constant problem. I believe that the vacuum energy
density is partitioned between an almost infinite continuum of discrete
(as is were) Lorentz frames, each separated by energy level yeah, you
guessed it each Lorentz frame energy level (what I like to term
Zeitschichten) is separated by a Planck mass worth of energy.
Spread out the immense predicted vacuum energy density across all of
these zeitschichten (German for time slices) and you get a more
reasonable figure approaching the observed cosmological constant
value. Entanglement is conserved, but once physical processes attempt
to go beyond the one graviton limit, there develops an entanglement
bandwidth bottleneck between the laboratory frame and neighboring
zeitschichten, i.e., Lorentz frames, causing the cosmic CPU to have to
guess at what the next state of the internally nonlocally connected
(with itself) laboratory Lorentz frame (zeitschicht) is, especially to
include the offending quantum system thats attempting to access
entanglement information from its neighboring Lorentz frames, causing
decoherence or Psi collapse. Theres more to this intuition, but it will
have to wait until I am in a little less pain. I think the cosmic CPU
bandwidth for entanglement communications is of course limited by (in
the absence of clever quantum error-correction) the one graviton limit
because its at this precise value of the needed energy bandwidth for
receipt and transmission of entanglement information that is equal to or
greater than the entanglement information coding capacity (storage
capacity, if you will) of the immediately neighboring Lorentz frames. If
this is more or less correct, then one would expect the state of any
quantum computer to lose its quantum coherence in effect, yes,
quantum computers really can tap into the information processing
capacity of parallel universes, but only to each immediately neighboring
one. Otherwise, the one graviton limit is exceeded for entanglement
bandwidth of the coupling between quantum Lorentz frames 1A with its
neighbors, 2B and 3C, if you will. Whats that phone number again?
Always nice hearing from a fellow philosopher!
Russ
then becomes if the cosmic ylem has always existed, then what caused it
to shatter?
If it hasnt always existed, what caused it to form in the first place?
Quantum fluctuations in both cases? Consider that there is no first
place.
Quantum uncertainty is thought to power the phenomenon of quantum
tunneling. This might seem to imply that quantum systems cannot
tunnel through an energy barrier that is larger than the systems
Heisenberg energy uncertainty. Coincidences are far better explained in
terms of the decoherence forestalling properties of the subconscious.
Since decoherence is integral to the establishment of a meaningful arrow
of time, encoding of meaning in the subconscious may facilitate
temporal entanglement and appear to support backward-acting
causation. The mechanism here is similar to that appearing to support
superluminal signal transmission in quantum tunneling communications
experiments. Switching modalities of cognitive function and social
interaction. @$In accord with Levinas notion of the self vs. other
(minds), the self is no more real a projection or construct than is Deity,
in fact it is less real, hence the opposition of theism and solipsism. The
growth in complexity of biological systems (evolution) doesnt appear to
fit within the confines of a single temporal dimension just as classical
causality fails to capture their complexity. au=Levinas thesis that the
other is prior and more fundamental than the self is important to
philosophical theism, April 2011 c.f., Introduction from The Levinas
Reader'We are all responsible for everyone else - but I am more
responsible than all the others . This remark, spoken by Alyosha
Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov, is one Levinas is fond of
quoting. It is a neat indication of the nature of a thought that, in the
words of Jacques Derrida, 'can make us tremble. 1 Its challenge is an
excessive one: a mode of being and saying where I am endlessly
obligated to the Other, a multiplicity in being which refuses totalization
and takes form instead as fraternity and discourse, an ethical relation
which forever precedes and exceeds the egoism and tyranny of ontology.
So in practice, Husserl's system does not admit meanings that are
September 2012
There is really no way to deduce the nature of the solution from the the
properties or each cyrstals chemical structure alone, if the peculiar
nature of the solvent is not further taken into account, namely how this
solvent changes the interactions of the crystals fundamental
consitituents, i.e., its anions and cations forming each crystal. What I
am alluding to in the above is that consciousness by its very nature, e.g.,
Gdelian, etc., must be bigger than any concept we can define for it
within any individual consciousness. We have or enjoy consciousness,
but we do not actually possess any coherent concept of it. We
participate in consciousness in order to be conscious. This is to point
up the simultaneous importance of both context and substance,
coherence and continuity or, solvent and solute, if you will. We are
moving towards the insight that transcendent mind and lonely or isolated
individual mind are opposite sides of the very same coin. In essence,
this is the precise relationship of theism and solipsism. It is substantial
continuity with ground without which ground can provide no meaningconferring context to whatever is within this ground. It might be
supposed now that any quantum entanglements generated between
interacting particles and fields are merely distilled from such
entanglements that preexist within the quantum vacuum as
spatiotemporal ground, but that beyond a certain threshold of
complexity, perhaps quantitatively embodied in inertia or mass of the
system of particles and fields altogether new entanglements are brought
into being, which can infect the underlying quantum vacuum in turn
and in this manner genuinely new dynamical relationships are
themselves brought to the fore.
June
2012
Regardless of how high the potential barrier may be, the behavior of
the wavefunction in the close vicinity of this barrier is fundamentally
different from this behavior for the wavefunction near an actual infinite
potential barrier, e.g., the Psi cannot tunnel across a barrier of infinite
height, the behavior of the Gibbs phenomenal noise at this boundary is
rational, as opposed to the case for a finite potential barrier. June 2011 This
observation has important implications for a quantum-based theodicy,
e.g, why eternal separation from God of free-willed persons, who have
chosen not to repent, is not only justifiable, but just, given the
collaborative and even co-creative environment represented by heaven
in the face of the insidious, viral mimetic nature of sin.
Inertia may be understood in analogy to the appearance of frictional
forces in that inertia is the inevitable effect of the interaction (wechsel
wirkung) of multiple sources (when one of those sources is the quantum
vacuum/vacua).
Schrodinger equation is to realization of possibilities as is non-adiabatic
changes to the boundary conditions to the S-equation the creation of new
possibilities.
Although the entangled elements may be copied, the pattern of their
quantum entanglement cannot, and it is this pattern that underlies the
temporal certainty of conscious entities. Substantial continuity is the
transmission of quantum entanglement between the system and itself at
each successive moment. Thus do we arrive at a definition moment.
Is the past as much a projection or extrapolation as is our expectations
for the future? Reality is intersubjective agreement. There is no they
vs. the self. The special distinguishing characteristic of jazz is its
capacity for intensifying ones perception and appreciation of the now.
Endless intercalation of nature, nurture, nature, nurture, etc. What others
accept as a matter of course provokes wonder in the philosopher. The
volume of gas increases so does its entropy initially with the cube and
gradually more and more with a decreasing rate approaching the square,
i.e., proportional to the volumes surface area. Where did this difference
in entropy propagate, i.e., that entropy equal to the difference in cubic
proportional and square proportional?
More massive objects are more decoherent in the sense of more cut off
from the nonlocal correlations of the global vacuum (as cosmic quantum
CPU) in its modeling of the state of objects and calculation of future
states of these objects, and in this way exhibit greater inertia and (in
conjunction with a locally expanding spacetime) greater gravitation.
Discuss the implications and complications of the phrase, human beings
only think theyre conscious; consciousness actually doesnt exist.
Is there any fundamental distinction between the effect of decoherence
of an artificial (artificially intelligent information storage system upon
appearances (or not) of the recorded pattern of electron strikes on the
two-slit phosphorescent screen and this quantum effect upon a lone
conscious witness to the appearance (or not) of an interference pattern
on the phosphorescent screen? If so, then there is a need to analyze the
relationship of consciousness, objectivity-as-intersubjectivity, Bohmian
causal principle and quantum decoherence.
Heisenberg uncertainty of only stress-momentum-energy necessarily
implicates temporal change, e.g., /\x does not necessarily imply
fluctuation in x except indirectly through constitutive causal
relationships.
How can the nonlocally entangled quantum vacuum
fluctuation field, which is Lorentz invariant implement the Bohmian
causality principle and manifest temporal order, scale and directionality.
Each transcendental number (of which there is an infinite, possibly
transfinite number) possesses a richness of information equal to my
design challenge, c.f., polysolipsism as opposed to Plotinean
polyemanationism. May 2013 Although solipsism is demonstrated by
au=
cit=
Conservation of cohesion/self-organization.
The substantive role of gravity in spontaneous decoherence, the fact of
gravitation propagating at the speed of light and of quantum nonlocal
correlations propagating at infinite speed suggests that spacetime
curvature is encoded into only one of two fundamental components of
the quantum vacuum, i.e., the decoherent of classical component the
coherent component which constitutes the vast bulk of the quantum
vacuum energy density does not itself directly contribute to the inertia of
the vacuum.
Voloviks proof that the cosmological constant tracks the average
cosmic matter density may inform the investigation into the underlying
origin of so-called dark matter. The creative substrate does not possess a
permutational structure, is not deterministic and is not constrained by
symmetry, e.g., spacetime interval, conservation principles, etc. prn=Only
a tiny fraction of the dense field of quantum correlations (both correlated
and uncorrelated) ever manifests itself in the form of causal relationships
and the fact that both detection and detectability of a quantum correlated
particle is sufficient grounds for reduction of the particle wavefunction,
Psi(1,2) ~= Psi(1) x Psi(2) suggests that the contents of consciousness
present at any given moment merely represent the set of contents
currently attended to and says nothing about the exclusion of other
contents, themselves either part of another individual consciousness or
of consciousness as a whole or as such. It is considerations like this
which help us to realize that the many worlds and many minds
interpretations of quantum mechanics may indeed represent essentially
the same quantum metaphysics. (page 72, September 2008) October 2011
We see how the correlations representing causal relationships might be
the effect of the mutual interference of distinct sets of acausal
correlations, c.f., the principle of intersubjectivityobjectivity. Note that
this implication is not two-way, and that is because we have not ruled
out the possible influence of transcendental mind/consciousness as such
upon the realm of objectivity.
au=
June 2011
alive create connections in the portion of the quantum vacuum field with
which it resonantly tuned, which are capable of sustaining themselves
among the other defining characteristics of life? And does this network
of presumed induced quantum nonlocally connected and self-sustaining
vacuum electromagnetic field fluctuations become swamped and
overwhelmed by the vastly larger field of correlated fluctuations with
which they suddenly come into contact, now that the brain no longer
functioned to filter and screen them out as extraneous to the earthly life
of the erstwhile human organism? What happens when, with a nod to
Santayana, the dream is no longer under the control of the object? Does
consciousness merely continue though utterly empty of specific
contents? Taking the first person perspective, presumably theres a good
reason why I was me with this body I happened to have and not
somebody else and this has something to do with there being a
preexistent unique spectrum of information signals in the vacuum to
which my developing fetal brain first resonantly tuned, which was
maintained via some mysteriously providential feedback mechanism
(unless we want to apply the anthropic cosmological principle to why
this feedback mechanism happened to be in place), which instituted a
unique developing signature of superimposed quantum nonlocal
connectivity within this unique vacuum signal spectrum, amassing
quantum nonlocal connections as time went on (subjectively
experienced as sensation, perception, thought and emotion, etc.) The
memories that perished upon the commencement of the dissolution of
my neural network (assuming the first person perspective for the
moment) were really only address links regulating the behavior of other
address links, etc., which collectively broke the hard encryption of a
small subspectrum of the vacuum electromagnetic field information
signals, enabling certain otherwise unavailable self-interactions
(reprocessings) of the embedded nonlocal connections within this field.
The ground in other words of the individuals consciousness, which was
what enabled him to become conscious in the first placethat doesnt
cease to exist upon the death of the individuals brain. It is true that the
brain does not merely act as a means for consciousness to gain access to
certain as opposed to other states of itself; the brain actually weaves
new states that didnt exist before, however, once the states are created
in the quantum vacuum, they are preserved via the principle of
conservation of quantum entanglement (quantum information). All that
we need now is some valid theorem that tells us that quantum
entanglement in the vacuum is the physical basis for information
storage in quantum mechanical systems. Granted this, all we need next
is some empirical research that demonstrates that the individuals brain
is a quantum mechanical system so that his access to this quantum
information in the vacuum is through his brain as memory address
system. On this view, new memories, which are encoded in the brain
as new neural interconnection networks, are able to resonantly tune to
the memories they encode because these new networks enable just the
right pattern of resonant tuning, which can address the newly laid down
networks of nonlocally connected vacuum information signals (quantum
nonlocally correlated vacuum fluctuations) that were originally encoded
in the vacuum at the time the, e.g., thoughts, perceptions, etc. were
originally consciously experienced.
June 2014 eml=
June 2011
There are no inertial effects involved in the mere global phase evolution
of the system wavefunction. Cant remember what one was not all along
conscious of structural component of masking quantum solipsistic
universe. If the brain is stable, the embedding quantum vacuum
becomes more proficient at interpreting brain activity. Probably through
temporal nonlocal correlations mediated via quantum vacuum akashic
record.
The Sanskrit word akasa (ether or space) derives from a (towards) and
kasa (to be visible, to appear). Akasa is the subtle "background" against
which everything in the material universe becomes perceptible, c.f.,
cit=
DEMYSTIFYING THE AKASHA, Consciousness and the Quantum
Vacuum by cit=Ralph Abraham and cit=Sisir Roy.
Ground of being contains potentially all sustainable appearances within
itself so regardless of how the divine ember is blasted apart into sparks,
c.f., Lurianic Kabala, the sparks, regardless of their individual
properties, bear a connection to the former holographic whole prior to its
splitting apart so there must be some set or sets of conditions possible
such that the whole and its larger subparts can be reconstituted, promise
of the thrill of meeting by chance a member of ones home planet. What
holds back the potential rapture of such an experience is our difficulty in
evolution which took place after the advent of the first multicellular
organisms may well have been in the form of selective triggering and
enabling of preexistent genetic algorithms first laid down during the
exceedingly long unicellular stage of evolution. In other words, the
potentiality of the genome for expression as highly adaptable and
variegated multicellular life was laid down during the long history of
unicellular evolution, while the evolution of multicellular life was more
or less just an expression of this potential through a combination of
internally directed mutation and environmental imprinting via epigenetic
control, almost entirely through the operation of long-standing, prepackaged mechanisms and almost not at all by way of random
mutations.
C.f., Ph.D. Thesis: cit=Towards music perception by
redundancy reduction and unsupervised learning in probabilistic
models, au=Samer A. Abdallah, Department of Electronic Engineering,
King's College London (2002). The many worlds and sum of histories
formulations of quantum mechanics naturally invoke two or higher
dimensional time.
In the visual domain, the input representation already satisfies these
requirements to a large degree and is thus amenable to segmentation and
grouping using Gestalt principles. au=Bregman (1990, p. 6) observes that,
In vision, you can describe the problem of scene analysis in terms of
the correct grouping of regions. This is a convenient fact about the
retinal image: it has regions. Bregman goes on to ask, But what about
hearing? What are the basic parts that must be grouped to make a
sound? This is a very good question. Those parts are not at all
apparent in a direct, time-domain representation of the acoustic
waveform. Bregman does not dwell on this point, and moves on to a
consideration of spectrograms, which, conveniently, are somewhat
analogous to images: Once we see that the sound can be made into a
picture, we are tempted to believe that such a picture could be used by a
computer to recognize speech sounds. Whereas regions of activity due
to different auditory objects may not be distinct in the time domain, (or
indeed, the one-dimensional frequency domain of a global Fourier
transform) they may become so in the two-dimensional time-frequency
plane.
The more massive is an object, the more vacuum entanglement it
participates in and so the more unanticipated Psi collapses disturb it,
contributing to the system is decoherence. @$A Lorentz transformation
entangles the spin and momentum degrees of freedom, i.e., spin-1/2 and
spin-1 become entangled. This should mean that spin +1/2 and spin -1/2
of a Cooper pair become less entangled with respect to intrinsic spin on
account of entanglement conservation.
C.f., Vacuum entanglement enhancement by a weak gravitational field,
au=
M. Cliche and au=A. Kempf, Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 (Dated:
August 14, 2011) Abstract: Separate regions in space are generally
entangled, even in the vacuum state. It is known that this entanglement
can be swapped to separated prn=Unruh-DeWitt detectors, i.e., that the
vacuum can serve as a source of entanglement. Here, we demonstrate
that, in the presence of curvature, the amount of entanglement that
Unruh-DeWitt detectors can extract from the vacuum can be increased.
In this context, it was recently shown [6] that, in an expanding spacetime, the entanglement of the vacuum decreases significantly due to the
effects of the prn=Gibbons-Hawking temperature. Namely, we will
show that a weak gravitational field, such as that caused by a planet, can
enhance the extraction of entanglement from the vacuum.
voc=
lesser inertial mass also coincide with a lower density of virtual vector
boson particle exchanges within the mass bulk, namely with a smaller
density of 3-momentum exchanges, i.e., smaller /\p. So larger /\E and
smaller /\p are consistent with our intuitions about mass and inertia, i.e.,
small /\t = high frequency, meaning a light and quickly dancing
particle while a large /\x means a lighter, more diaphanous and
fuzzier particle. In other words, the predicted relationships of
spacetime to momentum-energy uncertainties within the quantum
vacuum are consonant with our intuitions about induced gravity.
@$
The higher self at the end of the history of the self, which acts as
the father and spiritual mentor of the temporal evolving self can be seen
as a metaphor for the eternal aspect of the self.
Is there no near approaching limit of human evolution because of the
existence of consciousness or is consciousness built in by design to
facilitate mental functions that nature has not yet graced Man with at his
current relatively lowly stage of psychic evolution? How does the
concept of the datagram explain the separation of execution and
communication modes of neural transmission, c.f., information in
envelopes in which contents are immaterial until received and converted.
The unlimited capacity for transformation of particles subject to
quantum number conservation points up the radical relativity of 3-space
as an arbitrary 3-hypersphere slice of an absolute 4-hypervolume.
Quantum error correction is intimately connected with the consciousness
function when casting something up in the imagination say the way an
inventor does, trying out several alternative designs in his minds eye.
The denial of Supreme Being is tantamount to saying that there is no
such consciousness as consciousness as such or in general or just
consciousness qua consciousness of which individual human
consciousness may therefore be considered to be a mere instantiation. In
this way solipsism and atheism are seen to be closely akin. The belief in
other minds is belief in multiple instantiations of the other, i.e., the
radically other.
Quantum error correction is closely related to the consciousness
function. When acting something up in the imagination, say the way an
inventor does, trying out several alternative designs in his minds eye.
The intention as to the presentation is formed 1st and yet the thinker still
seems to require the additional step of representation. Clearly what is
involved here is a kind of neural short circuiting underlying
communication between different (and largely independent faculties of
mind.) How does one distinguish implementation/execution neural
signals from communication signals, e.g., local vs. nonlocal? (p. 85)
Does the Pauli Principle applied democratically to both real and virtual
particles explain the structure of Bohms quantum potential within the
context of the two-slit experiment? How is raising the threshold of
detection circuitry distinct from reducing noisiness in the detection
circuitrys environment? Analysis of the relationships between black
box, c.f., outputs informs one as to the contents of the box, c.f., Gdels
theorems. Necessity of becoming the system in order to study it
successfully. Consciousness as from-somewhere-elseness not only
is context needed, but a basis for comparison (somewhere else, e.g.,
other culture to evaluate sense data in terms of Socrates and the slave
boy learning as recollection. Reversed vision experiments of the
1950s . . . how does one know that ones visual field is upside-down
unless there is a secret or hidden additional symmetry axis besides that
of spatial-vertical that points up/codes for the broken. Does so-called
self-consciousness necessarily point to the being of the other as well
as of the self? Or is this the role played by consciousness as such, i.e.,
consciousness qua consciousness? Is consciousness as such only an
abstraction from instances of self-consciousness or are selfconsciousnesss abstract structures of consciousness as such secretly
mutually related in a manner transcendent of each? The exchanging of
space and time axes at the black hole event horizon is consistent with an
exchange of /\E for /\p, ~M and ~P entanglement, collection collective
spin 0 for spin-1. There must be an effective Rindler horizon associated
with freely willed action and conscious thought and perception, except
instead of information loss we are concerned here with information
creation, both of which constitute information non-conservation with
which must be associated some type of entropy. @$Time dilation might
mass. Because of the relative shift of decreasing /\E and increasing /\p
in a gravitational field, a smaller density of i-momentum fluctuations
controls a smaller number of i-momentum fluctuations, i.e., increased
quantum noise and hence quantum decoherence, (p. 86)
Look at a simple fluctuation-correlation model in which the current
density of fluctuations and correlations are each separately conserved in
terms of the sums respectively of spin-0 and spin-1 correlations and of
spin-0 and spin-1 fluctuations. Note: everywhere we use the terms
correlations of the system from Bohms causality principle.
Nonlocally connected events are not merely simultaneous: they are
simultaneous in all Lorentz frames (contained within a single zeitschicht
bundle?) A zeitschicht bundle contains a spectrum of Lorentz frames all
of which are less than one graviton mass apart in the energies of their
respective vacua. Gravitational time dilation is the result of interactions
within a system no longer reported/updated to the global quantum
vacuum in real time, i.e., the appearance/generation of local vacuum.
We may think of band width connecting the system to the global
vacuum as possessing spacelike and timelike components. The separate
conservation of ~s and ~L within ~J seems to suggest that ~s and ~L are
orthogonal, i.e., ~su orthogonal to Lx, Ly, Lz, i.e., timelike, or perhaps
more properly, light like.
Light cone drawing with upper light lines labeled as 3pi/4 and p/4 and
bottom light lines labeled as 5pi/4 and 3pi/4. (0.707)2 ~ ; cospi/4 = sinpi/4 ~ 0.707
Magnitude and direction of angular momentum vectors, Lu (where u = 0,
1,2,3) may describe a curved spacetime, similarly for phase information.
Can a correspondence be drawn between sx, sysz and (xupv xvpu) ?
Change in the measured rate of gravitational decoherence is out of step
with the uniform change in the rates of all other physical processes due
to gravitational time dilation. And this would constitute a means of
absolutely distinguishing a gravitational field from acceleration in the
formalization that will stand as the logic of all thought and discourse.
What is suggested in the spirit of modern specialization is a plethora of
different logics, many of which are deductively incompatible with one
another, some of which are at most overlapping in their theorems and
algorithmic methods or in some of their results, and some that are so
distant from one another that it is hard to see the sense in which they can
all claim to be logics. This, of course, returns us to the problem at hand.
How is it that all of these formal systems can rightly claim to be logics?
What can we learn about the concept of logic itself that for the first time
in its history is so diverse in its formulations across the board in
mathematics and philosophy? There are several possibilities that
immediately come to mind, and it may be worthwhile to display them
systematically for the sake of comparison.
1. There is a universal logic. The alternative formalisms that are
currently on offer as logics are in fact something other than logic. These
formal languages may eventually find a distinct name and separate
category. The proliferation of what are presented as different logics can
accordingly be understood as a sometimes deliberate and sometimes
subconscious attempt on the part of logicians to identify the one and
only correct logic that has yet to emerge as the legitimate successor of
syllogistic logic.
2. All of the various systems of logic that seem so disjoint today will
eventually or can potentially be unified and integrated as a single supersystem. Some systems that do not lend themselves to such incorporation
may fall by the wayside as faux logics. The contemporary proliferation
of distinct logics is comparable to the prior systematization of other
mathematical disciplines like Euclids geometry, that developed out of a
hodgepodge of practical methods of measurement and calculation
recipes that were finally brought together under a single set of axioms.
We are, speaking historically, currently in a pre-systematization phase in
the development of symbolic logic, working piecemeal on the fragments
of what will eventually emerge as a grand synthesis in a future logic of
enormous power and comprehension.
of logic that can hope to incorporate all of the disparate systems of logic.
These systems are rightly called logics only nonminimalistically, in that
they are formal systems developed and referred to institutionally as
logics by professional logicians. There is no possibility of such logics
being integrated, and no prospect of understanding any deeper
connections by virtue of which they are related. They are all logics
simply because they are given that name by persons who are part of a
professional scientific and philosophical community with the
institutional authority to designate them as such. In the past, there was
only one logic because logicians were too limited in their imaginations
or too hidebound by tradition to venture out in different directions. The
idea of a unified integrated logic or overlapping family resemblances
among logics is a myth lacking any practical foundation.
But for instance my concept of red can easily be identical to yours
because we can agree on all exemplars of red in our common
environment and this even though your experience of red and mine
may in no wise be identical. (or just identical in the sense that each of
our concepts of red were built up differently, out of a different
network of exemplars?) In this way we see that my concept of red can
be objectively the same though subjectively different from yours. Can
we then go on to real consciousness wherever in this argument we
encounter the word red without loss of generality and hence validity?
If not, then consciousness cannot be adequately perceived as an inert
space or substance, indifferent to what plays out within it or through it.
It is here where we meet with the suspicions of Gdels Incompleteness
Theorem and Penroses non-computability. Compare intersubjectivity
is the cash value of objectivity with consciousness is the most general
property of my experience and my consciousness and the property of my
experience and my consciousness and the others consciousness must
needs be different. Objectivity a greater notion than intersubjectivity,
truth a stronger notion than provability? The non-computable nature of
conscious thought: the process by which thought generally is brought
into being (as opposed to being merely intuited) cannot itself be a
thought. The thing and the class to which it belongs cannot be one and
the same without being a special kind of class. The individual processes
no better concept of consciousness than does the color blind man who
sees only subtle shades of grey possess a concept of color and its
vividness. One might object that there are myriad distinct states of
consciousness from which one could abstract so as to form a general
concept of a state of consciousness. But a state is a form and not a
quality or substance, still less is a concept of a state of something
equivalent to a concept of that something in its unqualifiedness of not
being in any state whatever. So if we believe in a concept of
consciousness without possessing one such ourselves, then we are
secretly making our faith in the other tantamount to our faith in a
transcendent being or Deity. What structure must nature possess that
would permit an incorrect theory to go on successfully for one or two
centuries before the first inconsistency were detected? We build the
edifice of truth with facts that things are facts are what they are. Does
this sound like a sane way to go about constructing a skyscraper?
Information implies novelty, that is, of data in recipient information
systems at the information as initial processing of a unique set of data.
prn=
January 2012
I propose an update of
au=
The real force of Plantinga's thesis does not hit home until the
final few pages - the rest of the book leading up to this is just for "setting
up the punch line", which is, to wit, if one has enough faith to believe in
other minds and an external world, then one has more than enough faith
to believe in a transcendent or universal mind. My take-away from this
book in the form of a concise epigram: "If naive realism is metaphysical
baking powder, then atheism is just half-baked solipsism." "God and
Other Minds" represents the first truly novel and exciting thinking
within the field of Christian apologetics of the last 800 years, up until
the time of this book's publication in 1967. This is a very strong
sentiment, but I am far from alone here. Lime Cat Someone needs to
update Alvin Plantinga's epic work for the current Century, to begin
with, update the title - say, "God and Other Solipsists". Not sure I am up
to
the
job,
as
I
am
not
an
academic.
Though
as www.scribd.com portends, the landscape of academic publishing is achanging...
May 2014
had I not discovered Alvin Plantingas "God and Other Minds" *after* I
had already discovered that humankind can possess no general concept
of consciousness (the timing of this was rather fortunate for me), though
I cannot exorcise from my mind this certainty that such a concept
nonetheless "exists" (well, "subsists", more aptly), transcendentally. It
seemed to me that only a transcendental mind can vouchsafe the
subsistence of a transcendental concept and without such a concept, I
could not accept *other minds* as other instantiations of minds as such
as indeed I understood my mind to be a la Descartes Cogito Ergo Sum.
Thus I was lead to this dual opposition, Atheism vs. Solipsism. Since I
had to reject one or the other of this logical disjunction, I chose to reject
solipsism. Hence, I cannot have truck with evangelical or proselytizing
militant atheists. However, honest agnostics, I admire and adore.
Plantingas book (above) makes the claim that it takes no more faith to
believe in other minds and an external world, than it does to believe in a
Deity. I accept this argument if one recasts Deity into divine order
or divine ground of being. To invoke Plantingas book as containing
an argument for Biblical Christianity would be to indulge in non
sequitor. Lime Cat Because metaphors can deftly masquerade as bona
fide concepts, many would doubt my premise about the impossibility of
an immanent concept of consciousness, as opposed to a transcendental
one. Don't have room here, but it has to do with the contradiction
involved in forming an intersubjective description of the subjective. So
yes, I guess I'm implying that Wittgenstein's "Private Language
Argument" secretly slips in the divine order via the back door. There lies
the rub.
April 2011
is unknowable. There are only two persons who can get inside your
head the self and the other of all others. The notion of the
transcendental self, i.e., the Self, is in contradistinction to the other of all
others, i.e., the transcendental other, i.e., the Other. The only solution
to the problem of epistemological solipsism is to posit the transcendental
other. The solution to the problem of epistemological solipsism is not
open or available to the ego, but can indeed be grasped by the
transcendental other.
There is the oft-heard phrase; one of a kind. But this phrase
defines a coherent notion only in a metaphorical sense. But in this case,
we are dealing with something of a closed system, one presumably
possessed of a formal, i.e., formally describable structure. It might be
thought that something without definable boundaries could be both
unique and an exemplar of a class, e.g., a spiral nebula. But here the
non-definability is only with respect to nuances of structure that play
no key role in defining the entity as such. Here, in the case of a spiral
galaxy, what is unique about the object are aspects of the object that
could be different in an unlimited number of ways without changing the
category of object. Consciousness however, is absolutely crucial to the
defining of the persons identity as such. If the other and I are each
unique in our consciousness-mediated identities and both examples of
what are termed conscious beings, then our respective consciousnesss
must only be unique in a manner that does not respect the distinctness
of our identities. Consciousness is unique in its essence but not as a
phenomenon is another paradoxical statement, which invokes this
confusion of the unique example. Consciousness is unique in creation
and what makes an individual an example of a conscious individual is
that his consciousness is substantially continuous with deindividuated
consciousness. The individual is self-conscious to the extent that he
recognizes his individuality as an illusion. Otherwise in order to accept
that 1) consciousness essentially defines personal identity, 2) there are a
plurality of conscious persons and 3) each of the plurality of persons is
an example of consciousness because of some abstract quality or
property that each consciousness possesses in common with all other
March 2011
au=
via non-local correlations. How does man have the presence of mind to
wonder who it is that wonders (meta-wonder)? And yet there is a gaping
hole in mans self knowledge right at the points of fundamental
integration, c.f., e.g., optic nerve/blind spot. November 2011 The Ego, as
noted, is simply the content of your PSM at this moment (your bodily
sensations, your emotional state, your perceptions, memories, acts of
will, thoughts). But it can become the Ego only because you are
constitutionally unable to realize that all this is just the content of a
simulation in your brain. It is not reality itself but an image of reality
and a very special one indeed. The Ego is a transparent mental image:
Youthe physical person as a wholelook right through it. You do not
see it. But you see with it. The Ego is a tool for controlling and planning
your behavior and for understanding the behavior of others. Whenever
the organism needs this tool, the brain activates a PSM. Ifas, for
instance, in dreamless deep sleepthe tool is not needed anymore, it is
turned off, c.f., cit=The Ego Tunnel: The Science of Mind and the Myth
of the Self (au=Metzinger). No vacuum virtual replicas larger than a
Planck mass. Relate this limit to the Pauli Exclusion Principle and to
conserved quantum entanglement density, i.e., cosmic CPU information
density conservation. Can decoherence/Planck mass virtual replica limit
a Pauli State Saturation Principle applied generally to spacetime? The
quantum vacuum is unable to solve NP complete problems (in real time)
means that there may be a hidden absolute reference frame and cosmic
clock.
Indefinite, unlimited semiosis: open-ended final context of information,
unlimited potential for intelligible reprocessing of information
opposite of the case of context-free information, c.f., beliebige
unwahrscheinlichkeit. Information is not about objects so much as
objects are constructs and artifacts of information. Research au=Shipovs
papers discussing 4-d angular momentum and inertia of spacetime
rotation. Can mass be derived from moments in 4d spacetime?
Conservation of 3-momentum dependent upon secret laws of 4d
momentum conservation, then similarly for the case of colliding
gyroscopes in 3d.
According to au=Pribram, an out-of-focus
photographic image, that is, the blur contains the actual image (in an
interference pattern of out-of-focus rays of reflected light), and so is in
essence a hologram. Might the nonlocally correlated waveforms that
compose the Heisenberg uncertainty of an observable contain
information about the precise value of the observable, but which is not
intersubjectively determinable, only subjectively, by the observer who
performs the measurement of the observable? The conscious brain is an
interface device if you will, rather than an end station in the process of
conscious thought and perception, which opens up the narrow Planck
diameter wormhole neck connecting two or more normally topologically
disjoint vacua.
January 2007
July 2008
December 2006
He has long since learned follow Lewis' admonition to shun the proud
woman, who spreads misery in her wake in the collecting of many
insincere admirers, and whose inconstancy seems integral to the monthly
transfer of orchestrated control of the host would-be mom by the
outgoing to the incoming ambitious little ovum. (And if woman's
inconstancy seems guided by the phases of the moon, this is only
because of ovocentrism)
The root(N) and inverse root(N) probability laws are made consistent by
invoking the notions of enabling and disabling mutual cancellation of
fluctuations. How are the notions of emergence and the novelty of
ground interpreted in terms of this reconciliation? Does logic and/or
mathematics and physicals laws possess a narrative structure? How
does the uncanny success of exchange of networked elements for
engendering new rational and coherent systems relate to the principle of
Gdel numbering?
Bjork song plays at the end of movie, Being John Malkovich (while
credits roll). Actress Anne Jameson was in three movies in which she
mentally spaces out while searching for her lost child and those around
her doubt her veracity and sanity. <John Nelson Darby> was the first
dispensationalist.
December 2006
Quoted from much earlier in this paper is the following
observation: "A ball whirling on a string when released moves of with a
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Entanglement does not scale with the volume, but scales with the area.
Mechanisms of Pauli blocking and Bose enhancement as determining
the direction of time in a gravitational field.
Dont try to guess the function right off, just state in general what
properties the function must possess and apply this to different problems
for which you already have some readily available results, e.g., dielectric
media.
Quantum and classical correlations of coupled harmonic
oscillators both scale with surface area in three dimensions. But is this
true or is this four dimensions or (3 + 1) spacetime?
Newton's bucket experiment tells us that /\x, /\t, /\p, /\E cannot conspire
to relative to the vacuum. <entanglement and uncertainty>
L and S are independent just as are Lx, Ly, and Lz. For this reason and
for reasons that bosonized fluctuations are orthogonal do we view
collective spin-0 functions as timelike.
Decompose Psi into symmetric and antisymmetric components. Do the
same for the density matrix and relate Lorentz transformations of Rho to
entanglement swapping and squeezed states. Quantum Fluctuations in
Photonics.
Decoherence and squeezed states, c.f., Kaivairanen's Bi-Vacuum Model
and Volovik's Bi-Vacuum theory.
Relate the a and a+ spectrum to the Heisenberg uncertainties, /\x, /\p and
/\E (/\H^).
Reality is a one, reality is a many. . . both are true; Fate vs. Chance. . .
both are true. This points up the transcendental nature of reality as
forever prior to conceptual distinctions, e.g., wholeness vs. reducibility,
free will vs. automata-like behavior, grace vs. works. . .
Coincidences - meaningful or projected from wishful imagination? c.f.,
micro-Kantianism. Discuss the EPR experiment in curved spacetime
and necessity of decoherence and intrinsic nonlinearity of gravity, c.f,.
Wheeler's remarks that matter tells space how to curve and curved space
tells matter where to go.
What the older generation never likes noticing is how though the youths
of the succeeding generation lose the thread of values or special skills. . .
or some such, of which oldsters are so proud, these youths do manage to
reenter the lost thread, but then do so with a vengeance.
Free will necessitates a fundamentally probabilistic theory and one
admitting MWI parallel worlds, but how to characterize this gap
between the coherence limit, e.g., Bucky Ball superposition and the bona
fide macroscopic plurality of the alternate consequences of free willed
human choice? And is this gap only an apparent one? In other words,
are we humans really residents of the cosmic CPU driven holographic
universe and macroscopic domains are a mere projection of the human
(such as it is) intellect (human rationality qua ratio-nality? We need to
show that there is an independent quantum statistical mechanism of
decoherence that also underpins the breaking of spacetime symmetry.
Tell a Borgesian story about how heaven is not really heaven at all, but a
solipsistic hell, for example, one encounters many familiar lost family
and friends in the afterlife and is told by an archangel or other resident
authority that every person one can conceivably recognize is present. . .
and the notion eventually dawns on our protagonist that many of the
adrenaline caused by their being cast into the lake of fire. The denial of
the "most important advanced wave" should be connected with the
solution to the Black Hole Information Paradox as well as to Fromm's
necrophilia. Also showcase and update au=C. S. Lewis' observations
concerning the "spiritual cancer" of pride (in contrast to "mere vanity").
Though it is the advanced wave from the damned cosmic adrenaline rush
and not from hell itself that the damned fail to heed; explain this in terms
of the metaphysical/theological importance of the distinction between
"mean infinite" potential barrier (separating heaven and hell) and "actual
infinite" barrier. Also explain the knife edge or radical ambiguity of
design vs. evolution in relation to the free will choice of serving/not
serving God. Free will takes us beyond the decoherence limit and
shows consciousness as the ultimate realm with all of the advantages,
but none of the disadvantages of Hilbert space, e.g., lack of complexity
to represent mixed quantum states. July 2011 This notion is humorously
pointed up by Futurama episode 15, season 6 in which Fry first becomes
and then meets God: when you do things right, no one realizes youve
done anything at all or something very similar.
Discuss au=Rudolf Otto's notion of the Holy as well as the pun "holey"
vs. wholly vs. "holy" in terms of the fractal porosity of consciousness
(and the will). Does the Devil find his way into the porous structure of
consciousness and the will, rotting it like a cancer causing virus?
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vector and the linear momentum?, e.g., the photon's spin is <parallel to
its direction of motion>. If spin-1/2 is to be associated with timelike
angular momentum that is directed parallel or anti-parallel to the
direction of timelike propagation, then the equation of a complete
wavefunction phaseshift with a 720 degree (rather than 360 degree)
rotation of the spin-1/2 particle can be intuitively understood in terms of
4-rotations of the particle within spacetime. If a spin-1/2 particle, say
s(z) = +/- 1/2 is Lorentz boosted to near "c", then, as reckoned from the
original laboratory reference frame, what is the direction of the particle's
spin, s(z)' in terms of s(z)? The spin of an elementary particle cannot be
altered, only the direction in which the spin of the particle pionts. Does
this suggest that when /\S(x), /\S(y), and /\S(z) are nonzero that the spin
must be determined to be +/- 1/2 in some orthogonal directions that is
"incompatible" with "x", "y" and "z"? The "incompatibility" would
perhaps be indirect, e.g., /\x(i) is incompatible with /\p(i), /\t is
incompatible with /\E and /\x(i) and /\t form a 4-vector while /\p(i) and
/\E form a four vector.
prn=
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.100404
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120907125154.htm
web=
http://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3721764311/methodological-solipsism-and-the-multiverse
Methodological Solipsism and the Multiverse" defends the
many-universes interpretation of quantum physics, but draws attention to
a major philosophical obstacle to the interpretation's acceptance: the
question of why, if there are many universes, all on a par with one
another, at a particular time the 'I' is manifest in only one. This is known
as the 'preferred basis' problem. The so-called methodological solipsism
approach, introduced by Driesch and employed by philosophers, such as
Putnam and Fodor, is used to answer the question.
April 2014
web=
The twin paradox is revolved by noting that O and O' have different
notions of simultaneity in comparing their clock readings.
How can the field equations of GR be truly nonlinear if the tensor
equations of GR are coordinate system independent. Maybe the pesky
non-gravitating vacuum component of the cosmological constant
secretly appears within all three terms of the field equations and so
canceling out.
The solution to the cosmological constant problem
would then be trivial.
The (-) sign occurring in the expression for the spacetime interval, which
serves to distinguish time from space, to the (-) sign that serves to
distinguish fermionic or asymmetric wavefunction from bosonic or
symmetric wavefunction.
This was first suggested to me by the
equation,
entanglement.
We have free will in the sense of our brains being able to outstrip the
quantum computing capacity of the local vacuum, but it is still for
working out our character, which is also our fate - but a fate that can
change if caught up with that of others.
Bohm's principle/law is transcendental across the temporal horizon
where causal law becomes too complex to be modeled by a matrix of
correlated quantum fluctuations - this is the idea of historical
determinism within but not between historical moments, c.f., Gibb's
phenomenon, edge effects of electromagnetic fields at boundary
surfaces, etc.
Discuss: locally versus globally mediated causality, Rindler horizons,
Bohm's Law and decoherence of quantum information.
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"A thumbprint doesn't open the door of perception, it blows it off the
hinges. You melt into eternity. You let go and die into the moment
which is all. There is no you anymore at all. The intensity of this can't
be descriped, but you realize as you're slipping away that it's familiar".
If consciousness truly exists and is not an illusion (if there's something
left over once all mental contents have been removed), then the self
would be truly at home in and a citizen of so to speak the realm of
Being, which is to say, eternal being.
If we are always in time and never separate in our being from its flow,
that is, composed of this very flow that also comprises the temporality of
the outside world, then how indeed do we subjectively reckon time; how
is it possible for us to experience temporality at all, unless there is some
component in us that itself resists this flow?
The distinction between "real" and "virtual" breaks down at the Planck
scale. Spacetime is conjugate to momentum-energy in QM and so it
only makes sense that there should be this intimate connection between
space, time, matter and energy.
Concrete reality as interdimensional nexus. Because of consciousness,
reality is necessarily simulation. When you stop and think about it,
interpersonal communication, particularly human speech is a bizarre
process based as it is on what can easily be made to appear a far fetched
metaphysics.
vacuum zero-point field, which thusly decreases with the inverse fourth
power with uniform expansion of the volume containing this vacuum
energy.
Now if the vacuum energy constitutes the calibration 0 against which
the collective mass of massive particles contained within the expanding
volume is to always be reckoned, then the mass density (something
were for the time being assuming is different from the vacuum energy
density) should effectively decrease with the inverse square (just as in
the case of an expanding black hole). To wit, the density of particles
decreases with the inverse cube and the vacuum energy against which
the mass of the massive particles is measured decreases with the inverse
fourth power.
Intuitively it is easy to see that a very long lived, long wavelength
vacuum fluctuation shall be stretched by the expansion somewhat during
the lifetime of the fluctuation and so when its energy is paid back to
the collective vacuum state, not as much energy has to be paid back as
was originally borrowed when the vacuum fluctuations began - in order
to satisfy the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and energy conservation.
Where did the component of energy go that didnt have to be paid back?
It went into the creation of additional mass of the massive particles
participating in the overall cosmological expansion. This is how I
reconcile the two types of mass increase so as to show that they are one
and the same, just looked at from opposite ends of the telescope, if you
will, quantum versus cosmological. The black hole mass-radius
relationship then may be just the natural outcome, cosmologically of a
closed expanding spacetime. Pushing together a lot of mass through the
Pauli Exclusion Principle for fermions and the Pauli Inclusion
Principle for bosons in the extreme case recapitulates this cosmological
structure, when the increasing mass density (as more and more mass is
piled together within smaller and smaller volume) causing the collapsing
mass to effect a continual local reduction (within the decreasing volume
of the collapsing mass) in the vacuum energy within the decreasing
volume and against which the collapsing mass energy must be
that threatens branching into to two or more topologies for the system
shall collapse under its own weight, if you will. This is not an
answer, but a consideration in relation to your question.
Benni Reznik has a lot to say about vacuum nonlocality and Lorentz
transformations of entanglement. Your diagram makes sense if, instead
of Lorentz transformations, you think in terms of progressively greater
accelerations, from say Hc (Hubbles constant time the speed of light),
that is to say, the cosmological acceleration to the Planck acceleration.
Id really like to try the dowsing experiment, by the way. And make sure
and borrow a timepiece tied to an atomic clock signal and establish some
kind of synched up communication link with Dr. DeBrandes when you
guys do your entanglement experiment.
There should be an equivalence between the so called one graviton
limit, i.e., Planck mass in the complexity of vacuum fluctuations and the
complexity of what can be teleported nonlocally between points A and
B. Since to escape the speed of light restriction on propagation of energy
of the specific kind discussed by Einstein, which is to say energy that
possesses inertia, we need a chain of merely correlated (though causally
independent), that is, quantum correlated vacuum fluctuations along the
entire trajectory to support the passage of the energy or information that
shall therefore propagate without inertial effect. Each individual
quantum fluctuation nonlocally correlated to its neighbor in the chain
forming this trajectory would therefore be below the one graviton limit
or cutoff. This would also serve as a natural limit on the degree of
quantum correlation of one quantum fluctuation of the vacuum and its
immediate neighbor within the trajectory of nonlocally propagating
information/energy. The cosmological constant problem being solved on
this view through both current density of quantum correlation and
density of quantum coherence (of each individual quantum fluctuation)
being held below this same Planck mass or Penrosian one graviton limit.
Inertial mass is thus seen as being intimately related to a kind of
symmetry breaking of the quantum vacuum involving fluctuations in this
vacuums stress-momentum-energy becoming classically correlated on
(above) demonstrates that no one has really remarked about this - as the
link produced "0 hits". Seems so obvious now though, right? So the
existence of 4d-spacetime can be seen as proof of a pure 4d space as
well, once quantum statistics of fermions is taken into account. What do
you think? (How your face looks in your driver's license picture, for
example wouldn't match with how you look in a mirror unless you were
sent through this same 320 Mobius loop, by the way - hehe!)
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the magnetic induction, H the magnetic field strength, and e and u the
permittivity and permeability respectively in empty space."
cit=
Dictionary of Physics (1980)
I wonder if we can take as a general principle for making up gedanken
experiments about possible analogue (i.e., mechanical) models of
gravitation the following: prn=See what happens to physical quantities in
the vacuum when transforming to an accelerated reference frame and
invoke Einstein's equivalence principle (both principles, strong and
weak, inertial mass = gravitational mass and gravitation equivalent to
acceleration) in order to propose just these types of changes to these
vacuum physical quantities as the underlying mechanism for sustaining a
gravitational field.
Is the change in configuration energy of the vacuum fields that must
adjust in some way when a particle, such as a proton or muon is
removed from the region of the vacuum? This is like thinking of the
particle's inertial mass in terms of the mass equivalence of the particle's
vacuum enthalpy.
Kind of like calculating the 1st order propagator/state of a particle as a
1st order manifestation of the underlying vacuum field, by summing up
all the 2nd order and all higher order corrections to the propagator?
I kind of imagine the atoms composing any bit of matter, any mass as
dynamically grouping themselves into composite bosons and fermions
through a continual mutual exchange of quantum entanglement between
these virtual "cells" and "domains" formed of arbitrary groupings of
entangled atoms that are continually reconstituting themselves so as to
maintain a kind of entanglement equilibrium, i.e., continual avoidance of
squeezed states while maintaining overall conservation of entanglement
throughout the bulk of the mass. However, upon acceleration, squeezed
states form but in accordance with a kind of action or minimization
principle that maintains a shifted thermodynamic equilibrium within the
mass, i.e., some entropy is inevitably produced by acceleration.
Can you grant that the ratio of the Heisenberg energy uncertainty to the
Heisenberg momentum uncertainty, /\E//\p ~ c? How about that /\p and
/\E together form a 4-vector of momentum-energy uncertainty, which is
Lorentz-invariant? (Note: we would expect in a non-symmetric
gravitational field for there to be a stress-momentum-energy uncertainty
tensor, nicht wahr?)
Can you grant that the exchange of virtual photons between two
electrons constitutes a fluctuation in the vacuums 3-momentum? It is
also a fluctuation in the vacuums energy, but not of its 3-momentum?
In this sense, the collective spin-0 fluctuations in the vacuums
momentum-energy are orthogonal to the spin-1 (3-vector) fluctuations in
vacuum momentum-energy.
But this orthogonality of spin-0 and spin-1 vacuum momentum-energy
fluctuations only obtains for the case of the so-called free space vacuum
and constitutes a kind of quantum statistical basis for spacetime
symmetry.
By the way, since /\
radical being the fluctuation term and the second the square of the
expectation value of Q, it follows that in the absence of matter, i.e., in
vacuum, the Heisenberg uncertainty in Q, /\Q is identical to the
fluctuation in Q.
Now lets ask what happens to the ratio, /\E//\p when viewed from an
accelerated reference frame.
/\t dilates and /\x (in the direction of motion) contracts. Given that
/\E/\p = h and /\p/\x = h, it follows that from the perspective of an
accelerated reference frame,
/\E contracts and /\p
dilates (gets larger)
The hypothesis here is that /\E and /\p mutually change when viewed
from an accelerated frame of reference so as to represent a spacetime
rotation of /\E and /\p as components of a conserved 4-vector.
Now if /\E relativistically shrinks (remember in vacuum /\E is the
fluctuation in the vacuums energy) and the incompatible observable
(parameter), /\t dilates, then this can be represented consistently, I
believe as a density of creation-annihilations for virtual Cooper pairs
being reduced and therefore the frequencies of temporal processes,
which fundamentally depend upon Heisenberg energy uncertainty must
take place at a slower rate. Since /\E relativistically shrinks, by what
has already been said, /\p the fluctuation in the vacuums 3-momentum,
must increase and the density of virtual boson exchanges taking place
within matter contained within this transformed vacuum must therefore
increase as well, leading to an increase in the binding energy density of
the mass, which is associated relativistically with an increase in mass.
The reason I identify /\E with timelike fluctuations is because /\t is an
incompatible Heisenberg uncertainty relative to /\E. And I interpret
spin-0 (scalar) to be a timelike oriented vector, i.e., its really spin-1
though oriented parallel to the local time axis. I interpret spin-1 (3vector) to be a spacelike vector, its really spin-0, but oriented parallel to
a spatial direction.
Therefore, the transformation of space and time, contraction and
dilation, which occurs when moving to an accelerated frame is paralleled
by a transformation of 3-momentum and energy (conceived of as
timelike oriented momentum or imaginary momentum because of
the Minkowski (+,+,+,-) signature of spacetime). The transformation is
otherwise known as a Lorentz boost. Magnetic and electric fields
mutually transform, magnetization and polarization transform and the
Heisenberg uncertainties in p and E, /\p and /\E transform after the
fashion of a spacetime rotation of 4-momentum (4-momentum
uncertainty in this case).
The bulk properties of matter such as magnetization and polarization are
entanglement driven and so the transformation of entanglement caused
by acceleration should cause a transformation of the magnetic
permeability and electric permittivity of the quantum vacuum through
transforming the equilibrium magnetization and polarization of the free
space vacuum. This is suggested by reviewing the basic formulas for
polarization and magnetization,
P=D-
;M=BH
anti-correlated spins)?
Hyperentanglement the superposition of all superpositions the
context of all possible superpositions. Hyperentanglement is quantum
entanglement that cannot be decohered by even infinite acceleration.
Heuristics are necessary because learning and communication, even
memory is always constructs that involve a dialectical process, which is
to say a process that is not ground-independent.
The converse of the proposition that the self is a social construct is the
proposition that the other is a projection of the self, Kantian Copernican
Revolution (in reverse).
Dont wait for the experience to be past before it becomes a memory.
This is an almost incoherent maxim in English. But in common, it is
quite an elegant expression.
Classical information is a subset of quantum information. So when I
receive information from someone and my brain processes the sensory
data carrying this information, my brain as a quantum computer simply
changes its state of quantum entanglement with the quantum vacuum
field with which its neural microtubules are in continual interaction. In
this way, it is realized that I havent actually received any information
from the other person at all. Ive just received a set of instructions for
downloading, if you will the appropriate nonlocally encoded signals that
we might suppose were already there in the vacuum for perhaps a very
long time and the circuits of my microtubule network have only just now
been returned so as to receive them. The question arises as to whether
the signals had to be originally put there by anybody (maybe by the
December 2011
person from whom I received the communication).
Abstract. Quantum entanglement is shown to be the only acceptable
physical solution to the binding problem. The biological basis of
interneuronal entanglement is described in the frames of the -neurexin-
IvonNeumann Ishannon = Iq Ic = Ie
Iq = Iquantum
Ic = Iclassical
Ie = Ientanglement
DNA represents classically encoded quantum information and quantum
encoded classical information.
Classical information information about initial and boundary
conditions.
Quantum information information about nonlocal objects encoded
through quantum entanglement of vacuum fluctuations
Distinguish <timelike entanglement> from <spacelike entanglement>
November 2013
http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Olson_S/0/1/0/all/0/1
(Authors have written many papers concerning timelike vacuum
entanglement)
Classical quantum and robust information, i.e., information that
cannot decohere, e.g., say due to infinite accelerations.
<covariance versus invariance>
Coherent meme complexes both possess or exhibit and are predatory
upon other coherent meme complexes, CMCs are entity like. What do
distributed nonlocal effects of EPR in curved spacetime have to say
about local EPR effects in curved spacetime.
Human nature is a reflection of divine nature or divine nature is a
reflection of human nature? But it takes consciousness to even come to
know what human nature is!
If the photon spends part of its time as an electron-positron pair, then we
might suppose that the wavefunction describing such electron-positron
pairs is identical with the vector potential of the propagating photon.
As the photon falls into a gravitational potential it is entering a
vacuum of progressively greater density of 3-momentum fluctuations,
i.e., virtual photons with which therefore the photon increasingly
interacts, meaning also progressive decoherence of the wavefunction of
the photon or of its vector potential Au. This decoherence is manifest
as increased entanglement of the falling photon with the succession of
virtual photons along the photons trajectory. There is an associated
increased mutual disentanglement of the virtual electron-positron pairs
(that is, of each virtual pairs component electron and positron parts)
along the photons trajectory (and which constitute the timelike
component of the photons propagator.) This may be alternately seen
as the photon encountering, as it falls within the gravitational potential, a
quantum vacuum that is progressively more polarized and less
magnetized. This leads us to believe that the photon falling into the
gravitational potential also enters a vacuum of progressively decohered
virtual Cooper-paired electron-positrons. Note that the more decohered
are the virtual Cooper pairs (in the sense of loss of mutual quantum
correlation of the pairs component electron and positron parts), the less
do the virtual electron and positron components of the Cooper pair exist
as pure collective spin-0 (the spins of the electrons and positrons
belonging to the same Cooper pair are no longer precisely anti-parallel
or 100% quantum anti-correlated) and so there should be an enhanced
self-Pauli blocking of virtual fermions/anti-fermions continuously being
created and annihilated (and recreated and re-annihilated) by the
quantum vacuum (at each spacetime point along the photons trajectory),
that is, relative to the case of the free space vacuum. The increased
mutual entanglement of the virtual photons along the path of the infalling photons trajectory, which accounts for the gravitational blueshift
of the in-falling photon through the change in DeBroglie wavelength of
the entangled virtual photons, by the way may be understood as Bose
condensation. Increased Bose condensation of (spin-1) virtual photons
in conjunction with increased Pauli blocking of (spin-0) virtual Cooper
pairs goes hand in hand with a shift in the density of the vacuums
momentum-energy fluctuations from less timelike, imaginary
momentum fluctuations toward more spacelike 3-momentum
fluctuations. You can also look at this shift in momentum-energy
components of the vacuums momentum-energy fluctuation matrix
along the path of increasing gravitational potential as the photon
experiencing a vacuum of increasing polarization and decreasing
magnetization. Hmmmm. . .
Hypotheses of my theory, which are not established by prior art:
Imaginary momentum fluctuations are collective spin-0 100% quantum
anti-correlated virtual spin +/- fermions.
In free space these
imaginary momentum fluctuations constitute the vacuums energy
density (as opposed to its pressure) such that /\Evac2 - /\px2 - /\py2 - /\pz2 =
/\pimaginary2. When /\E > /\E, then /\E//\p < /\E//\p such that c < cvacuo
means in terms of the quantum noise in photonics model that less
imaginary momentum fluctuations control more real or 3-momentum
fluctuations. A reduced speed of light locally means that, locally virtual
bosons are becoming more highly correlated and imaginary momentum
fluctuations, less correlated. Photon trajectories in a gravitational field
represent a conserved quantum entanglement and hence, a conserved
Heisenberg uncertainty.
Maybe there is a quantum information treatment of the old LeSage
analogue theory of gravity, which can explain the effect of bulk matter
upon the vacuum in terms of disrupting the quantum entanglement of the
somewhat in line with the popular myth of ancient aliens might be one
of an impending doomsday scenario, which mankind finds itself quite
helpless to forestall, e.g., massive asteroid impact, but from which he is
rescued almost at the last minute (for dramatic effect, of course), when
ancient planetary defenses awaken and spring into action, defenses
originally installed by our safety-minded and far-seeing ancient alien
mentors, for example a subterranean battery of particle beam cannons,
which, just in the nick of time, in concert blast the approaching space
rock to harmless bits. The accompanying idea here is that of a prime
directive a la Star Trek that comes complete with a built-in exception
for handling special cases such as an impending planetary disaster.
Might Gdelian noncomputable components of mind lie with this
component that is impervious to the effects of decoherence. The infinite
potential barrier, impervious to decoherence component of minds
nonlocal quantum fluctuations and divine election vs. zombiehood.
Degeneracy pressure opposes the positive feedback of Bose
condensation of force-mediating exchange particles in a gravitationally
collapsing dust cloud. How does virtual boson entanglement scale with
the cosmological expansion and could this have any bearing on a timevarying gravitational constant?
Coupled harmonic oscillator model for fermion-boson, scalar-vector or
rather scalar-spinor-vector system, i.e., spin +/- , 0, 1 system. Spin-2
or tensor comes into play by virtue of perturbations of the quantum
correlations between the spin-1/2 and spin-1 components of the system.
Spin-2 is thus always derivative, i.e., gravity is an effective field or a
parasitic force not unlike the van der Waals force. August 2011 An
induced gravity theory a la Volovik offers the path to further unification
of physical phenomena, namely that of gravity, dark matter, dark energy,
Pioneer-anomalous acceleration field, discrete cosmological redshift,
etc.
Why is it wrong-headed to suppose that the Universe might be a
The artists urge to create trusts in there being many like himself though
in latent form, asleep and waiting the proper stimulus (provided by the
artists own creative expression) to awaken.
In the case of inertial motion there is a symmetry that implies that
creation annihilation are balanced. Here causal relations are based in
coherent quantum correlations of vacuum fluctuations. In the case of
non-inertial motion, there is some decoherence of quantum correlations
(phase relations) of vacuum (fermionic) fluctuations.
Mass can be defined in terms of the distribution of angular momentum
<buckyballs> & <Penrose> & <graviton limit> You cant get a
different vacuum by simply building a superconductor.
We may follow Parmenides and imagine that all change is the result of
unsuccessful attempts by mind to grasp the being of indeterminate (or
infinite, Apeiron), c.f., approximation errors as fluctuations, c.f.,
perturbation theory. When considering the validity or soundness of an
idea always remember to treat the idea as if it had not originated with
oneself. In this way one can limit the bewitchment factor. Bohms
analysis of causation in terms of fluctuations and their correlations
implies the Lorenz invariance of the quantum vacuum as well as the
constancy, which is to say in this context the observer independence of
the velocity of light. His analysis may also imply an asynchronous
cellular automata model of the vacuum.
I would hope that we scholars are not the ones who are hyping the
document, c.f., Marvin Meyer interview on the Gospel of Judas. Not
that he has or does hope that. . . Does the subjunctive mood or tense
function in the same way for the 1st person as it does for the 2nd, 3rd, etc.
persons?
November
2014
\P, /\
\Q, /\
\Q
Anti-self-correlations?
We must depart from strict conservation of momentum-energy when
stress becomes significant and must be taken into account: p
.
Does a shift in the correlation-fluctuation spectrum underlie the
transition, p
?
Discuss the impersonal nature of mutual
attraction of prospective mates.
^^Essay idea: The Lesson of the Wavefunction
The individual particle behaves just like the statistical ensemble. September
2013
(This is likely an artifact, if you will, of the quantum principle of the
indistinguishability of fundamental (or, more generally, quantum
particles).
Real particles sufficiently isolated behave as though virtual until placed
under continual observation.
The vacuum becomes progressively more electrically polarized and less
magnetized, but can this be understood in terms of increases in both the
magnetic permeability and electric permittivity and not due to specific
electromagnetic action but as a side effect of changing the timelike and
spacelike components of quantum correlations in bosonic and fermionic
quantum fluctuations?
@$
Of course, if local gravitational fields are present, then the body must
also interact with this local field in addition to the Universe's g-field and
hence the effective inertial mass of the body would be expected to be
larger for a mass present near a massive body (and general relativity can
predict just how large this effect is).
Otherwise, I just @$can't see how acceleration along "x" can affect
motion along "ict" without such an intrinsic coupling of time and space
as befits a universal/global gravitational field.
What do you think?
Russell
Whenever there opens up a break in the causal chain and one at some
level realizes this, there lies ones true moral responsibility. Also, even
without such a break in the chain of deterministic action, if one merely
has inside knowledge, e.g., awareness of the sensitivity in initial
conditions, c.f., awareness of the sensitivity in initial conditions, c.f.,
chaos theory, catastrophe theory, etc. there too does one bear the burden
of moral responsibility, e.g., I saw the bus coming from my vantage
point around the corner from where you were about to cross the street
and I did not warn you! If you are hit by the bus is my culpability as
great as if I had pushed you into the bus path, to with, are sins of
omission as great as those of commission, if the responsible party in
both instances, if equally aware of the harmful outcome and equally able
to intervene? The argument could be made that, in the case of the
oncoming bus, the culpability is actually greater for the person who
failed to act as the person who to the positive action to cause harm
must have been at that time under the grip of a powerful impulse or
compulsion. But society and its ethical mores and legal system do not
understand the distinction between omission and commission in this
way. Why not? What kind of blindness is at work here, c.f., the moral
blindness that prevents most people nowadays from glimpsing the horror
of abortion in the United States.
We know that there can be no genuine creativity in evolution. For
otherwise this would imply that the self-organizing properties of atoms
and molecules are back-reacted upon and change by the progress of
complexity of life forms. Initial and boundary condition as well as
causal relationships cannot be merely constraints upon quantum
fluctuations and their conditions.
^^ indexes passages or equations of interest
The artists urge to create trusts in there being many like himself though
in latent form, asleep and waiting the proper stimulus (provided by the
artists own creative expression) to awaken.
In the case of inertial motion there is a symmetry that implies that
creation an annihilation are balanced. Here causal relations are based in
coherent quantum relations are based in coherent quantum correlations
of vacuum fluctuations. In the case of non-inertial motion, there is some
decoherence of quantum correlations (phase relations) of vacuum
(fermionic) fluctuations.
Mass can be defined in terms of the distribution of angular momentum
<buckyballs> & <Penrose> & <graviton limit> You cant get a
different vacuum by simply building a superconductor.
We may follow Parmenides and imagine that all change is the result of
unsuccessful attempts by mind to grasp the being of indeterminate (or
infinite, Apeiron), c.f., approximation errors as fluctuations, c.f.,
perturbation theory. When considering the validity or soundness of an
idea always remember to treat the idea as if it had not originated with
oneself. In the way one can limit the bewitchment factor. Bohms
analysis of causation in terms of fluctuations and their correlations
implies the Lorenz invariance of the quantum vacuum as well as the
constancy, which is to say in this context the observer independence of
the velocity of light. His analysis may also imply an asynchronous
cellular automata model of the vacuum.
I would hope that we scholars are not the ones who are hyping the
document, c.f., Marvin Meyer interview on the Gospel of Judas. Not
that he has or does hope that. . . Does the subjunctive mood or tense
function in the same way for the 1st person as it does for the 2nd, 3rd, etc.
persons?
is what lies at the heart of the notion of our one day engineering a
conscious AI. The emergence of consciousness within slowly evolving
primate brains must then be considered the . . .
Dj vu happens when they change something in the Matrix there
may indeed be a kernel of insight here that goes beyond the classical
explanation of the mis-filing of a short term memory into long term
memory where this memory must possess no cross-referencing with
other memories filed in short term memory with the same or similar
time stamp.
Paranoia and quantum solipsism (quantum
immortality) as the individuals subjective consciousness moves from
one parallel universe to the next the discontinuities in his memory find
no support in discontinuities of intersubjective memory (see analogy of
military/corporate brat who was forced while growing up to move
frequently from one neighborhood and school system to the next) (How
ones to biography conditions ones contributions to philosophy, c.f.,
biography of Eric Erickson).
A chameleons eyeballs swivel on two different axes as we cant even
remotely imagine what a flower looks like to a chameleon, c.f., Google.
A good philosophical essay topic would be why I am not a brain in a
vat.
/\P x /\
Q < /\P, /\Q are not measurable. This is
equivalent to saying that P and Q cannot be causally manipulated, that
is, in accordance with a computable program. Back-reaction upon the
field cannot be in intersubjective terms. Do noncomputable processes
underlie all computable processes?
Computable as the
boundary/boundary condition to/upon the noncomputable. Can abstract
or formal symbols evoke the fundamentally open-ended process by
which they were abstracted from noncomputable processes?
And
would something like this be the only way that the project of hard AI
has any real prospects?
Types of quantum correlations of fluctuations composing the spectra of
\P, /\
\Q, /\
\Q
Anti-self-correlations?
We must depart from strict conservation of momentum-energy when
stress becomes significant and must be taken into account: p
.
Does a shift in the correlation-fluctuation spectrum underlie the
transition, p
?
Discuss the impersonal nature of mutual
attraction of prospective mates.
^^Essay idea: The Lesson of the Wavefunction
The individual particle behaves just like the statistical ensemble. Real
particles sufficiently isolated behave as though virtual until placed under
continual observation.
The vacuum becomes progressively more electrically polarized and less
magnetized, but can this be understood in terms of increases in both the
magnetic permeability and electric permittivity and not due to specific
electromagnetic action but as a side effect of changing the timelike and
spacelike components of quantum correlations in bosonic and fermionic
quantum fluctuations?
If experimentally measured particle masses are due to the energies of
these particles as excitations of the vacuum Hamiltonian, then particle
mass defined in this manner may only be consistent with the inertial
mass of the particle (as reluctance of the vacuum Hamiltonian to become
progressively excited along a spacetime trajectory) if the unperturbed
vacuum possessing spacetime symmetry be composed of bosonic and
fermionic fluctuations which together cancel out to some vanishingly
small value for a cosmological constant representing the local effect
upon the vacuum of global gravitation. What follows is a reprint from
elsewhere in this document: Ziad, I thought that on a Friday, I'd give
blindness that prevents most people nowadays from glimpsing the horror
of abortion in the United States.
We know that there can be no genuine creativity in evolution. For
otherwise this would imply that the self-organizing properties of atoms
and molecules are back-reacted upon and change by the progress of
complexity of life forms. Initial and boundary condition as well as
causal relationships cannot be merely constraints upon quantum
fluctuations and their conditions. April 2011 This would prevent the
possibility for the genuine emergence of order as opposed to the
revealing or enabling of preexistent latent order.
Suppose the universe is a black hole (is of critical density so that
spacetime is considered flat) that is undergoing cosmological
expansion. The mass of the universe must then increase as you pointed
out ( I suppose this increase is reckoned from infinity). If the density of
the zero-point energy inside the hole is decreasing while in interaction
with the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, then during the time that an
energy fluctuation lasts the zero-point has every so slightly decreased
and so not all of the energy borrowed from the vacuum during the
lifetime of the fluctuation need be paid back. So here to is a mass
generation mechanism. We now have the basis for a new equation of
two time rates of change in mass one cosmological and the other
quantum. So the zero-point energy of the vacuum doesnt possess any
inertial mass until something is done with this energy (within the context
of a curved spacetime, expanding or contracting). This equation may
perhaps point to some new physics or at least help reassure us that it is
only differences in vacuum energy density that are gravitational and
inertially significant.
How is a series of vacuum fluctuations nonlocally connected
fundamentally distinct from a series which is simultaneous (the
components of the series, one to another) only in a unique Lorentz
frame? Does causal connection transcend mere quantum correlation
do this within the very limited boundary conditions set by the locally
prevailing Heisenberg energy uncertainties. But within the bounds set
by quantum uncertainty, I would agree that local quantum
entanglement is created by borrowing from preexistent global
quantum entanglement, i.e., quantum entanglement of states of the
same vacuum state, i.e., of quantum entangled vacua with an energy
spread smaller than a Planck mass. April 2012 (This implies a means of
reconciling conservation of quantum information with leaving room for
emergence in the sense of the creation of genuinely new information,
which may indeed be already included in the component of the vacuum
that is constitutive of causal spacetime and so never locally or
intersubjectively accessible.
What is the term we should use to
designate that component of the objective, which is not intersubjective,
i.e., includes but always transcends the intersubjective? ). In this way,
causality is exhaustively described in terms of quantum correlations of
quantum fluctuations (within the self-same vacuum state). We
consider the long standing problem in field theories of bosons that the
boson vacuum does not consist of a `sea', unlike the fermion vacuum,
c.f, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312302
We show with the help of supersymmetry considerations that
the boson vacuum indeed does also consist of a sea in which the
negative energy states are all filled, analogous to the Dirac sea of the
fermion vacuum, and that a hole produced by the annihilation of one
negative energy boson is an anti-particle. Here, we must admit that it is
only possible if we allow as occurs in the usual formalism anyway
that the Hilbert space for the single particle bosons is not positive
definite. This might be formally coped with by introducing the notion of
a double harmonic oscillator, which is obtained by extending the
condition imposed on the wave function. This double harmonic
oscillator includes not only positive energy states but also negative
energy states. We utilize this method to construct a general formalism
for a boson sea analogous to the Dirac sea, irrespective of the existence
of supersymmetry. The physical result is consistent with that of the
ordinary second quantization formalism, c.f.,
April 2012
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Habara,
th/0312302v3.
Nielsen,
Ninomiya,
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-
Clearly open and closed loops possess distinct topology, just as twisted
and non-twisted loops possess distinct topologies. Distinct topologies
then cannot be superposed and any superposition of quantum states
that threatens branching into to two or more topologies for the system
shall collapse under its own weight, if you will. This is not an
answer, but a consideration in relation to your question.
Benni Reznik has a lot to say about vacuum nonlocality and Lorentz
transformations of entanglement. You diagram makes sense if, instead of
Lorentz transformations, you think in terms of progressively greater
accelerations, from say Hc (Hubbles constant times the speed of light),
that is to say, the cosmological acceleration to the Planck acceleration.
Id really like to try the dowsing experiment, by the way. And make sure
and borrow a timepiece tied to an atomic clock signal and establish some
kind of synched up communication link with Dr. DeBrandes when you
guys do your entanglement experiment.
There should be an equivalence between the so called one graviton
limit, i.e., Planck mass in the complexity of vacuum fluctuations and the
complexity of what can be teleported nonlocally between points A and
B. Since to escape the speed of light restriction on propagation of energy
of the specific kind discussed by Einstein, which is to say energy that
possesses inertia, we need a chain of merely correlated (though causally
independent), that is, quantum correlated vacuum fluctuations along the
entire trajectory to support the passage of the energy or information that
shall therefore propagate without inertial effect. Each individual
quantum fluctuation nonlocally correlated to its neighbor in the chain
forming this trajectory would therefore be below the one graviton limit
or cutoff. This would also serve as a natural limit on the degree of
quantum correlation of one quantum fluctuation of the vacuum and its
immediate neighbor within the trajectory of nonlocally propagating
information/energy. The cosmological constant problem being solved on
this view through both current density of quantum correlation and
density of quantum coherence (of each individual quantum fluctuation)
being held below this same Planck mass or Penrosian one graviton limit.
in four dimensional space. I think in this way the timelike nature of the
fermion-antifermion pair can be proven and such a spin 0 vacuum
fluctuation proven to be also purely timelike. My google search link
(above) demonstrates that no one has really remarked about this - as the
link produced "0 hits". Seems so obvious now though, right? So the
existence of 4d-spacetime can be seen as proof of a pure 4d space as
well, once quantum statistics of fermions is taken into account. What do
you think? (How your face looks in your driver's license picture, for
example wouldn't match with how you look in a mirror unless you were
sent through this same 320 Mobius loop, by the way - hehe!)
momentum vector and the linear momentum?, e.g., the photon's spin is
<parallel to its direction of motion>.
If spin-1/2 is to be associated with timelike angular momentum that is
directed parallel or anti-parallel to the direction of timelike propagation,
then the equation of a complete wavefunction phaseshift with a 720
degree (rather than 360 degree) rotation of the spin-1/2 particle can be
intuitively understood in terms of 4-rotations of the particle within
spacetime.
If a spin-1/2 particle, say s(z) = +/- 1/2 is Lorentz boosted to near "c",
then, as reckoned from the original laboratory reference frame, what is
the direction of the particle's spin, s(z)' in terms of s(z)?
The spin of an elementary particle cannot be altered, only the direction
in which the spin of the particle points. Does this suggest that when
/\S(x), /\S(y), and /\S(z) are nonzero that the spin must be determined to
be +/- 1/2 in some orthogonal directions that is "incompatible" with "x",
"y" and "z"?
The "incompatibility" woudl perhaps be indirect, e.g., /\x(i) is
incompatible with /\p(i), /\t is incompatible with /\E and /\x(i) and /\t
form a 4-vector while /\p(i) and /\E form a four vector.
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The complementarity relation between nonlocal and local (classical)
information in addition to evidence that entanglement is a conserved
quantity (quantum # = quantity of von Neumann information) suggests
that all information-bearing structures distill von Neumann information
from quantum entanglement that ultimately exists within the vacuum,
i.e., all entanglement derives from vacuum entanglement. How do we
distinguish uncertainty of from uncertainty about and are they
sometimes the same thing, e.g., intentionality of consciousness.
Vedral's notion of how photons appear to take on mass in a
superconductor that is manifesting the Meissner effect due to quantum
entanglement between electrons that have formed Cooper pairs seems
closely interrelated to mine and Volovik's dual superfluid vacuum model
for induced gravity, c.f., Vedral's paper on entanglement underlying the
bulk properties of matter such as the complementarity between
magnetization and magnetic susceptibility. This was suggested to me
when I chanced upon the New Scientist article, "Quantum quirk may
give objects mass."
Teleportation involves transmission of immeasurable quantities, /\Q and
states protected by the no-cloning theorem. Classical information
packaged as quantum information, e.g., turn around time for correlations
of heated LiF chips with metastable states. November 2011 Is it possible for
uninterpreted yes/no data to be transmitted using quantum entangled LiF
chips? Hitachi has sold a device based on optical topography that
monitors brain optical topography that monitors brain activity in
paralyzed patients so they can answer simple questions. For example,
by doing mental calculations to indicate "yes" or thinking of nothing in
In terms of our current and natural scheme of categories, the "that which
creates" is also "that which sustains" of Leibniz' Principle are understood
as distinct, externally by Darwinian Theory, internally by theologians.
To successfully remove both "Deus" as well as God by extension, i.e.,
"Deus ex Machina" from the naturalistic world view of cosmogony, one
has to see the creative principle within the sustainment principle (after
all, according to naturalism, the Universe has always been here) while at
once letting go of the tendency to wish to see this principle the other
way round.
A tenuous application of this new understanding of Leibniz' Principle
might be within the debate between Machian and classical relativists'
understanding of Einsteins Equivalence Principle, e.g., must we treat
equivalent Lorentz frames as possessing a common origin, say, either
through vacuum entanglement or via cosmological initial conditions? or would we treat them thus on purely formal grounds?, that is, is
Einstein's Equivalence a kinematic or a dynamic principle?
If the so-called stuff of which the world is made was not created and
"has just always been here," then Leibniz' Principle must break down though perhaps only within the understanding, c.f., Kan't notion of "the
understanding". In other words the dynamics is "squeezed out" by the
kinematics.
Simultaneous reinterpretation along metaphorical axes while forging a
line of literal exposition behaves akin to multi-temporal process.
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were for the time being assuming is different from the vacuum energy
density) should effectively decrease with the inverse square (just as in
the case of an expanding black hole). To wit, the density of particles
decreases with the inverse cube and the vacuum energy against which
the mass of the massive particles is measured decreases with the inverse
fourth power.
Intuitively it is easy to see that a very long lived, long wavelength
vacuum fluctuation shall be stretched by the expansion somewhat during
the lifetime of the fluctuation and so when its energy is paid back to
the collective vacuum state, not as much energy has to be paid back as
was originally borrowed when the vacuum fluctuations began - in order
to satisfy the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and energy conservation.
Where did the component of energy go that didnt have to be paid back?
It went into the creation of additional mass of the massive particles
participating in the overall cosmological expansion. This is how I
reconcile the two types of mass increase so as to show that they are one
and the same, just looked at from opposite ends of the telescope, if you
will, quantum versus cosmological. The black hole mass-radius
relationship then may be just the natural outcome, cosmologically of a
closed expanding spacetime. Pushing together a lot of mass through the
Pauli Exclusion Principle for fermions and the Pauli Inclusion
Principle for bosons in the extreme case recapitulates this cosmological
structure, when the increasing mass density (as more and more mass is
piled together within smaller and smaller volume) causing the collapsing
mass to effect a continual local reduction (within the decreasing volume
of the collapsing mass) in the vacuum energy within the decreasing
volume and against which the collapsing mass energy must be
continually recalibrated so that the mass relativistically increases,
eventually forming a local (as opposed to a global black hole).
From: Daniel Van Gent [mailto:Daniel.VanGent@LA.GOV]
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:52 AM
To: Russell S Clark; Ziad Fahd
Subject: Mobius loops and entanglement
Hi Russ,
Now, let's say that we "create" two entangled particles or photons. Must
the two particles now "catch a ride" on two "chain-linked" Mobius
loops, each heading off in different "directions?" Or do the particle
potentials occupy the entire "linked" double Mobius loop? That is the
only way I can see "quantum teleportation of state" to another particle
across the universe. These linked Mobius loops would have to be in
existence BEFORE the two photons happen to catch a ride on it in order
to explain observed quantum entanglement phenomenon.
This makes sense to me because the creation of local quantum
entanglement probably comes about through tapping preexistent
global quantum entanglement such that probability and quantum
entanglement and information is conserved. However, information is
not conserved for quantum entanglement involving superpositions of
quantum states that are separated by more than a Planck mass this
would correspond to the superposition of distinct quantum vacua,
which is absolutely ruled out in quantum field theory you can only
do this within the very limited boundary conditions set by the locally
prevailing Heisenberg energy uncertainties. But within the bounds set
by quantum uncertainty, I would agree that local quantum
entanglement is created by borrowing from preexistent global
quantum entanglement, i.e., quantum entanglement of states of the
same vacuum state, i.e., of quantum entangled vacua with an energy
spread smaller than a Planck mass. In this way, causality is
exhaustively described in terms of quantum correlations of quantum
fluctuations (within the self-same vacuum state).
During noncoherent photon production by electron cascade, such as in
an ordinary light bulb, only about 2 in 10^11 photons created by the
light bulb are considered entangled with one another. Are these linked
loops then relatively "rare" or must the lucky entangled photon pair have
special properties in order to "catch a ride" on two linked Mobius loops?
Maybe it is both of those possibilities!
The special property is both photons derived from the same vacuum
state, i.e., they are entangled because they are both entangled with the
same vacuum state to begin with. I suppose some kind of
dimensionless ratio, say of two different vacuum energy densities
(cosmological constant divided by Planck density in the extreme case!)
might come into play in calculating the probability of two photons - of
a given wavelength, separated by a certain spacetime interval between
the two quantum uncertain spacetime points at which created, being
100% quantum correlated.
Now, I imagine an atom. I can envision the atom as many nested fractal
Mobius loops all interconnecting with one another so that everything in
the atom is "self-entangled." Now, would the Pauli exclusion principle
mean that only one loop can be occupied by two electrons at a time with
opposite "spins?" In this case, the spin would just be a result of which of
two directions the respective electrons are moving within the loop.
Yes, that smacks of good common sense/intuition. I buy that idea.
Now, spontaneous fission of the nucleus occurs and must surely cause a
"breaking" of about half of the loops from one another (although fission
products of the original nucleus are thought to remain entangled for a
brief period of time). What makes the nucleus unstable? Is there a "loose
end" of a broken Mobius loop flying in the vacuum flux breeze which
when tugged causes the original nucleus to "unravel" into two nuclei?
Distinct topologies cannot be grounded in the very same spacetime.
Clearly open and closed loops possess distinct topology, just as twisted
and non-twisted loops possess distinct topologies. Distinct topologies
then cannot be superposed and any superposition of quantum states
that threatens branching into to two or more topologies for the system
shall collapse under its own weight, if you will. This is not an
answer, but a consideration in relation to your question.
Benni Reznik has a lot to say about vacuum nonlocality and Lorentz
transformations of entanglement. You diagram makes sense if, instead of
Lorentz transformations, you think in terms of progressively greater
accelerations, from say Hc (Hubbles constant time the speed of light),
the speed of light, c.f., LaPlacian black holes) with the definition of a
quantum black hole in the sense of yielding identical Schwarzchild black
hole equations. The quantum black hole must be analyzed in terms of
this conservation of entanglement concept of ours. . . say where quantum
entanglement shifts from a mixture of spacelike and timelike to being
exclusively spacelike, c.f., spin-0 fermion-antifermionic fluctuations vs.
spin-1 bosonic fluctuations.
Don't know why I didn't realize this earlier, but a fermion rotated 360
degrees only goes round a Mobius loop once and has to go around
*twice* in order to reach its originally orientation. I believe the Mobius
twist is in the four space that the universe is expanding into. Take a strip
of paper and make a Mobius strip by doing a half twist of the ends and
taping them together. If a cut out of a tracing of a hand, say a left hand is
slid along the Mobius strip loop one cycle, it comes out mirror reversed
and must be slid around one more cycle on the Mobius strip or loop to
come back to its original orientation in *3 dimensions*, this even
thought the cut out and strip are two dimensional. But the Mobius strip
has to be twisted through 3 dimensions to be constructed. So by analogy
(adding a dimension) the rotation of the fermion by 720 degrees is
analogous, but one must add one dimension so that the rotation takes
place in four space. So rotating a fermion with a magnetic field by only
360 degrees must secretly be taking the fermion through a Mobius twist
in four dimensional space. I think in this way the timelike nature of the
fermion-antifermion pair can be proven and such a spin 0 vacuum
fluctuation proven to be also purely timelike. My google search link
(above) demonstrates that no one has really remarked about this - as the
link produced "0 hits". Seems so obvious now though, right? So the
existence of 4d-spacetime can be seen as proof of a pure 4d space as
well, once quantum statistics of fermions is taken into account. What do
you think? (How your face looks in your driver's license picture, for
example wouldn't match with how you look in a mirror unless you were
sent through this same 320 Mobius loop, by the way - hehe!)
;M=BH
paradox, c.f., Wikipedia.org. The square end table clock reads, 6:15.
Turn the clock 90o clockwise and it now reads 9:30, then turn the
clock clockwise another 90o and the clock reads 12:45. Turning the
clock another 90o clockwise and the clock reads 3:00. Turn it once
more and the clock once again reads 6:15. This gives us a total of 13
hours. This is the paradox, which is easily enough solved when you
realize that the hour hand is accumulating a retardation in its clockwise
progression around the clock face of 15 minutes per turn.
Can an idea which has no author, e.g., is stumbled upon by many
independently of one another be a valuable spiritual teaching? When
the density of virtual Cooper pairs is produced and (to conserved
entanglement the density of virtual bosons is relatively enhanced we
have a case in which a smaller density of changes in energy in
controlling a larger density of changes in 3-momentum responsible for
binding forces accounting for matters rigidity and inertia). Except for
masses approaching black hole density, most of the 4-momentum of the
mass remains imaginary and timelike. Time dilation and relativistic
mass can be seen to be intimately related in terms of this cellular
automata (CA) analogue model for GR. Should this CA model best be
simulated on a classical or quantum computer?
Develop a piece of software that randomly shuffles test questions and
answers and assigns each answer key individually to a student. If one
student gets the same answers as another, then this will be proof positive
of cheating, the number of distinct answer sequences being 10! for a 10question exam.
Research which subscriptions and service contracts are most difficult to
cancel, e.g., AOL and offer a web-based service of canceling and
documenting cancellation of said service contracts.
Self-Pauli blocking of spontaneously created and annihilated virtual
Cooper pairs (partially decohered in the sense of impaired magnetization
entanglement) within the fluctuating quantum vacuum constitutes
correlation of the pairs component electron and positron parts), the less
do the virtual electron and positron components of the Cooper pair exist
as pure collective spin-0 (the spins of the electrons and positrons
belonging to the same Cooper pair are no longer precisely anti-parallel
or 100% quantum anti-correlated) and so there should be an enhanced
self-Pauli blocking of virtual fermions/anti-fermions continuously being
created and annihilated (and recreated and re-annihilated) by the
quantum vacuum (at each spacetime point along the photons trajectory),
that is, relative to the case of the free space vacuum. The increased
mutual entanglement of the virtual photons along the path of the infalling photons trajectory, which accounts for the gravitational blueshift
of the in-falling photon through the change in DeBroglie wavelength of
the entangled virtual photons, by the way may be understood as Bose
condensation. Increased Bose condensation of (spin-1) virtual photons
in conjunction with increased Pauli blocking of (spin-0) virtual Cooper
pairs goes hand in hand with a shift in the density of the vacuums
momentum-energy fluctuations from less timelike, imaginary
momentum fluctuations toward more spacelike 3-momentum
fluctuations. You can also look at this shift in momentum-energy
components of the vacuums momentum-energy fluctuation matrix
along the path of increasing gravitational potential as the photon
experiencing a vacuum of increasing polarization and decreasing
magnetization. Hmmmm. . .
Hypotheses of my theory, which are not established by prior art:
Imaginary momentum fluctuations are collective spin-0 100% quantum
anti-correlated virtual spin +/- fermions.
In free space these
imaginary momentum fluctuations constitute the vacuums energy
density (as opposed to its pressure) such that /\Evac2 - /\px2 - /\py2 - /\pz2 =
/\pimaginary2. When /\E > /\E, then /\E//\p < /\E//\p such that c < cvacuo
means in terms sf the quantum noise in photonics model that less
imaginary momentum fluctuations control more real or 3-momentum
fluctuations. A reduced speed of light locally means that, locally virtual
bosons are becoming more highly correlated and imaginary momentum
and correlations that were created at the Big Bang is necessarily larger
than that class of fluctuations and correlations that became nonlocally
connected at this beginning point. Each individual consciousness is
grounded in its own spectrum of nonlocally connected vacuum
fluctuations. But there are fundamentally two distinct types of quantum
correlated vacuum fluctuations, those which provide the ground of
subjectivity, i.e., consciousness and those that provide the underlying
ground of causal relations or potential causal relations. It is in the realm
of potential causal relations where we have this interdomain of the two
types of nonlocally correlated fluctuations.
Paradoxically, it is the fact of the Heisenberg uncertainty principles
being an ontological rather than an epistemological principle, which
grants quantum systems their ontological observer independence.
Strict causality must be compromised within an expanding spacetime
where either vacuum energy or phase space are not conserved quantities,
c.f., email to Dan Van Gent concerning origin of Unruh radiation,
05/12/06, c.f., Quantum Gravity by Lee Smolin.
E & M can be seen to be incompatible observables through application
of /\x/\p >= h to the case of a static charge electric field and a charge
current magnetic field.
Static charge implies it seems that /\x for e- = 0. /\xe- < /\x and /\t > /\t
and also /\p > /\p and /\E < /\E.
So Lorentz transformation transforms /\p and /\E as components of a
four vector [/\pi, /\E] = /\pu.
Random field of quantum fluctuations averages to zero, but what if
correlations are introduced into this fluctuation field? Wouldnt we then
expect nonzero average for pi and E?
/\x implies uncertainty in the E-field, just as /\p implies uncertainty in
the B-field. Could the 2.7o CMB radiation be an artifact of quantum
the collective.
This is
\P, /\
\Q, /\
\Q
Anti-self-correlations?
We must depart from strict conservation of momentum-energy when
stress becomes significant and must be taken into account: p
.
Does a shift in the correlation-fluctuation spectrum underlie the
transition, p
?
Discuss the impersonal nature of mutual
attraction of prospective mates.
Essay idea: The Lesson of the Wavefunction
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The individual particle behaves just like the statistical ensemble. Real
particles sufficiently isolated behave as though virtual until placed under
continual observation.
The vacuum becomes progressively more electrically polarized and less
magnetized, but can this be understood in terms of increases in both the
magnetic permeability and electric permittivity and not due to specific
electromagnetic action but as a side effect of changing the timelike and
spacelike components of quantum correlations in bosonic and fermionic
quantum fluctuations?
and I did not warn you! If you are hit by the bus is my culpability as
great as if I had pushed you into the bus path, to with, are sins of
omission as great as those of commission, if the responsible party in
both instances, if equally aware of the harmful outcome and equally able
to intervene? The argument could be made that, in the case of the
oncoming bus, the culpability is actually greater for the person who
failed to act as the person who to the positive action to cause harm
must have been at that time under the grip of a powerful impulse or
compulsion. But society and its ethical mores and legal system do not
understand the distinction between omission and commission in this
way. Why not? What kind of blindness is at work here, c.f., the moral
blindness that prevents most people nowadays from glimpsing the horror
of abortion in the United States.
We know that there can be no genuine creativity in evolution. For
otherwise this would imply that the self-organizing properties of atoms
and molecules are back-reacted upon and change by the progress of
complexity of life forms. Initial and boundary condition as well as
causal relationships cannot be merely constraints upon quantum
fluctuations and their correlations.
A recasting of the Anthropic Cosmological Principle as an Nthropic Cosmological Principle, in which each universe out of a semiinfinite subset of N universes in the multiverse is fine-tuned to the
consciousness field of some particular individual self, so that a personal
(individually tailored) Anthropic Cosmological Principle applies to
each and every conscious observer. In this way, it becomes unimportant
what the etiology of interpersonal interaction and communication truly
consists of (consists is here a substance metaphor). One can rest
assured that, somewhere in the vast multiverse there is indeed an
anthropically centered subject, and not just a philosophical zombie
dialed into the representation with which one is interacting and
communicating. And this is equivalent to this same parallel universe
possessing two people, identically similar to oneself and the other, who
are having the identically similar interaction/communication as one
imagines oneself to be having, c.f., Wittgensteins Mistress somebody
at a window, lurking. http://bit.ly/1jgliG9
Of course, one might complain that there is some convoluted and tricky
mechanism of intentionality secretly being invoked here, but as Einstein
used to be fond of saying, the solution to some riddle of nature must be
as simple as possible, but no simpler. The multiverse and its ineluctable
philosophical valet, the anthropic cosmological principle, despite the
rather disturbing underlying logic of this cosmological model, which
seems to so seriously flout nave realist common sense, may, so to
speak, constitute the magical integration of area under the best possible
curve fitted to the astrophysical data thus far at cosmologists disposal.
Atheist philosophers will just have to come to grips with the fact that the
price, that must paid for getting the multiverse model and its attendant
anthropic principle to perform all of the metaphysical heavy lifting,
formerly performed for millennia by God, is that of degeneracy. And it
is the nature of degeneracy that it shall rear its ugly head always when
and where you were not expecting it. First and foremost, there is the
resulting degeneracy of the epistemological and the metaphysical as two
heretofore distinct varieties of solipsism. This is of no trivial
consequence to some academic philosophers, who have heretofore
routinely relied on this distinction when constructing demonstrations of
solipsism as the absurd (ab-surd, etymologicallycannot be said)
implication of their opponents arguments, more or less expecting these
reductios to carry the argumentative force of a logicians proof by
contradiction. There is, secondly, the degeneracy of the one and the
many with regard to the individual and individuals. That is, as alluded
to by Erwin Schrodinger in Matter and Mind, there has only ever been
one mind so that each individual mind is but one or another
instantiations of this mind. There can only then be a concept of
consciousness, if somehow the nature of the medium of experience of
multiple distinct individual consciousnesss can be combined in a kind
of Gods Eye (or Gods Mind) View and the elusive most general
property of experience abstracted from these multiple instances. God
would likely have access still more privileged and incorrigible than
would each individual mind, who only ever has its own privileged
access, as opposed to Gods so to speak administrators access.
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Ludwig is meeting a colleague in the Quad in Cambridge and asks him,
Tell me, why do people say that it was natural for men to assume that
the sun went around the earth, rather than the that the earth was
rotating? His friend said: "Well, obviously, because it just looks as if
the sun is going around the earth." To which Ludwig replied: "Well,
what would it have looked like if it had looked as if the earth were
rotating?" And this is very much the situation here with consciousness:
the case where consciousness is a one, i.e., each persons individual
consciousness is merely its own instantiation of consciousness per se or
at large versus the case where consciousness is a many, i.e, each
individual consciousness is radically unique and could some individual
per impossible experience the consciousness of an other, he would find
the experience so utterly confusing and alien that he should not dream of
applying the word consciousness to any of the mental states of that
other.
Now this is not all to imply that the world is truly each persons oyster in
the full blooded sense of each person actually creating his own universe
like a caterpillar constructing its cocoon. But rather that there are
additional considerations, besides the anthropic ones of the intimate
involvement of consciousness with decoherence and wavefunction
collapse, Wigners friend, application of the Pauli Exclusion Principle to
quantum entangled systems, etc. that suggest either a 1 to 1 or at least a
0 to 1 correspondence between minds and universes. There is something
about the unity and integrity of a given universe that seems crucially
important to the unity and integrity of the self because of the obvious
importance of the fine-tuning question to applications of the anthropic
principle to the multiverse, and particularly this question of the finetuning
of
consciousness.
http://wwwastro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ddarg/pdf/FT_of_consciousness.pdf
This would be a radical application of Bohms causal principle, i.e., that
every causal connection may be equivalently represented as a particular
pattern of correlation of fluctuations (causal connections are just
structures of quantum entangled fluctuations in disguise) to the
multiverse model, which implies an equally radical generalization of this
principle. Is the key to the mysterious connection between
counterintuitive quantum phenomena as consciousness-induced selfinterference effects not far behind?
Transcendental idealism is a philosophy that explained experience by
The Higgs is now interpreted as the lightest scalar field with the
same quantum numbers of the fermion-antifermion composite field. The
Lagrangian part responsible for the mass generation of the ordinary
fermions will also be modified since the Higgs particle is no longer an
elementary object.
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He was known to have had policy disputes with the former secretary of
state. There is no logic only rhetoric everything is a dream. We cant
really know anything, there is no absolute truth, everythings relative,
etc.
Curved orthogonal time (associated with conscious thought) yields
curved spacetime.
The backwards referring stimuli suggested by
Libets brain stimulation and reaction time experiments may explain the
disruption of the eigenfunction phase relationships that inevitably take
place during an observation of a quantum system by a conscious
observer.
We make up a procedure to cover (over) the areas to which we have
heretofore been conceptually blind, i.e., the system recognizes the
limitations of (or merely that the system is limited) itself and switches to
a new set of axioms (maybe also rules of inference). July 2011 It seems
obvious that the procedure of selecting or adding or removing axioms so
as to change the domain of provability would not be formalizable one.
Throughout most of these 2500 years scientic knowledge was viewed
rationalistically, and it was assumed that the atomic constituents were
some kind of self-evident axioms involving basic categories that
required no denition. However, beginning in the Renaissance there was
a growing recognition of the value of observation and experiment (active
intervention in nature) and a corresponding increase in skepticism about
the
self-evidence
of
any
proposition,
c.f.,
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which upon first inspection it seems diametrically opposite. This is
because the more thorough-going version of positivism is the one which
does not say that nothing lies on the other side of any line demarcating
the boundary between the empirical and the metaphysical, only that
nothing can be said about what lies beyond this line.
presumably because he/she does not share the ground state of the
system he/she is probing/measuring. The environment in its turn via
thermal energy exchanges with the prepared quantum system decoheres
the state function of the system because a time reversal of fluctuations
within the affected volume, V (with which thermal fluctuations interact)
and presumably these correlated quantum fluctuations within the volume
cannot reproduce the time-reversed set of thermal inputs to the volume,
V does exclusion of the timelike excitations mean exclusion also of
timelike correlations? This is the fundamental irreversibility, which
cannot be accommodated by the S
given region of quantum vacuum thus cannot model all possible changes
within itself that can nevertheless be induced to occur within it as a
result of external inputs, what we have termed surprising of the vacuum
outside perturbations.
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May 2012
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-symmetry of bosons) of
fermions must be related to the fact that spin +1/2 is always paired with
spin 1/2 in a fermionic quantum field, which is timelike while spin +/ particle in isolation must be real and virtual particles must always
create/annihilate in form of composite spin-0 fields.
Spin-1: pure spacelike
Spin-0: pure timelike
Spin-1/2: spacelike, timelike
Composite spin-0: spacelike components cancel, leaving only timelike
spin-0.
In Special Relativity a mass is accelerated, both /\p and
along the direction of motion. /\p increases due to Lorentz-Fitzgerald
contraction of /\
\t and decrease in
\
/\E.
Thermodynamics of accelerated reference frames suggests that a
gravitational field performs work upon the quantum vacuum.
mdv
/dt + vdm/dt) *
because the orientation of the vectors, F1 and F2 relative to ds are of
unequal magnitude
(where
mdv
/dt = F1
The blind spot of personality like the nucleus of the cell is the very
target for manipulation of the whole structure. Altruism, rational selfinterest after a certain age cynicism can only be avoided through
identification of self with a higher self, political, intellectual, spiritual,
etc.
Can we in the same way the curl-free electric field may be represented
Relation of current density to spin when e+ and e- are perfectly anticorrelated the current density in four dimensions is 0. With loss of anticorrelation a timelike (or spacetime-like) current density develops
suggesting Kaluza-Klein 5d spacetime.
The notion of a limit, c.f., Infinite use of finite things (-Chomsky)
We speak of numbers being so large as to be meaningless.
Flow of money in a free market economy.
Your bank account doesnt fluctuate except according to the
vicissitudes of your own existence, c.f., Terrence McKenna lecture on
the structure of temporality.
Any time I check on my savings account inquiring how much $ is
contained there, the teller prints up a slip with a balance indicated on it
and hands it to me. With this procedure I am usually satisfied.
Each bit of energy is correlated to multiple contexts/continua and so
causality must be the theory you get when you consider just a single
ground state.
We see the overlap of free will and consciousness in our study of the
distinctly different quality of vacuum fluctuation energy from when
fluctuation is spontaneous as opposed to reactive.
The connection between system and new vacuum state established too
late or at insufficiently many points along the systems temporal
evolution or system is too complex so that sufficient bandwidth of
connection with vacuum state is unavoidable. Nature of correlations of
system with itself at different systems (irreversible) temporality.
Our defects we comfortably and philosophically attribute to less than
perfect human nature, our virtues to aspects of our personal and
individual character.
Are our minds adapted to a bounded or boundless processes (the
environment)? What component of consciousness is epiphenomenal?
If mind is an adaptation to a transcendent environment, then how can
consciousness be in any sense epiphenomenal? How can language so
secretly invoke the absolute observer, i.e., God?
Shipovs rotational law of inertia: the rotated solid body will rotate
inertially as long as external forces do not act on it, c.f., theoretical and
experimental research of inertial mass of a four-dimensional gyroscope.
Astrology appeals to many for the same reason as does a melody it
exhibits something pervasive and fundamental that is normally hidden
from us, i.e., in the case of astrology the dialectic of the struggle of
consciousness with an unfree animals to effect a freely acting human
will. The notion of conjunctions and our vigilant watching for them as
opportunity for spirit to intervene in otherwise mechanical and moronic
physical processes.
N. V. Filatovs experiments with colliding gyroscopes or other
experiments involving acceleration of rapidly spinning gyroscopes
should show a deviation from Newtons laws of motion that can only be
explained by the notion of timelike components of angular momentum,
which is to imply that spacetime exists against a back drop of absolute
four dimensional space, c.f., Newtons bucket experiment and Machs
theory of inertia.
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When particles are produced in a collision, they are not particles that
were somehow inside the colliding particles. They are really produced
by converting the collision energy into mass, the mass of other
particles. This is another example of how quantum mechanics violates
our intuitions by revealing the ontology of epistemology, just as in the
case of the Heisenberg principle that is commonly mistaken as an
epistemological principle, c.f., Heisenbergs Light microscope
experiment, rather than an ontological principle, i.e., scope and limits of
knowledge is revealed as a limitation of being, c.f., Supersymmetry, p.
75 (2000).
The decoherence threshold limits the complexity of what systems may
be teleported, appear out of the vacuum as a fluctuation or exist in a
superposition state.
Vacuum fluctuations constitute the ontological
component of Heisenberg uncertainty. Nonlocal correlations cause the
magnitude of vacuum fluctuations to become smaller than their
corresponding Heisenberg uncertainties. Psi-objective while the density
matrix is an admixture of objective and subjective components. How
does quantum decoherence affect the density matrix? Beginning to see
the connection between gravitation, decoherence, consciousness and the
direction of time.
Elsewhere region should be demarcated according to a decoherence
threshold (onset of irreversibility) rather than spatially.
Only the
decohered component of the vacuum contributes to the vacuums inertia.
What distinguishes real from virtual particles (particle not being a
concept within quantum field theory) is mere probability, i.e., particles
further off-mass-shell are less probable. Note that a scalar on the
momentum-energy graph corresponds to a vector within Minkowski
spacetime.
However, once the threshold is passes at which structures become too
complex to exist as fluctuations of the vacuums energy, c.f., Hawking
radiation and the black hole information paradox, the distinction
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communicated data. Investigate the role of mimetics in communication
of novel information.
Why is a system less fundamental if it cannot appear or exist as a
sustained fluctuations?
Leibniz Principle that which creates also sustains carries over into the
definition of sufficient cause as the sum of all necessary causes.
Can we alter or shift the boundary between fundamental and derivative
structures? Can being back-react upon its ground?
Is the dot product of a timelike and anti-timelike spin-1/2 particle is 0
even though the mutual angle is 180 degrees?
The dot product of two ordinary spacelike vectors is 90o. Are these
observations about dot products for spinors and vectors related to the
fact that despite the way the Minkowski light cone is drawn, there is
effectively only a 45o traverse for x and t to coincide?
That is, acceleration caused a mixing of space and time components that
ij
may be
ij
Conservation laws are violated for vacuum processes and for processes
in which the vacuum plays a role. Energy is not conserved in general
relativity. This is why we say that gravity breaks spacetime symmetry.
Complementary quantum statistical effects of real fermions and real
bosons upon their virtual counterparts which is reciprocal. Treating /\E
and /\p as a conserved 4-vector. Treating virtual fermion pairs as scalar
and virtual bosons as vector, which are combined into a conserved 4vector in analogy to how relativistic Maxwells equations treat rest
charge as the scalar component of 4-current density.
Look at
relativitys definition of 4-angular momentum current density and
probability current density. Special relativity applies to /\p, /\E, /\t, and
/\x just as well as to p, x, E, t. Quantum entanglement in gravitational
field acts in the appropriate manner. Polarization
Ratios of binding energy to mass energy are the same as the ratio of
mass to black hole mass (for same geometry). Hyperspherical potential
of false vacuum and the ict axis relates to rest masses quantum tunneling
through this potential with imaginary momentum and negative kinetic
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Gravitation as a rotation of this 4-potential by mass.
Conservation of 4-angular momentum as a more elegant explanation of
the relativistic perihelion precession of the planet Mercury.
Gravitational redshift and deflection of light by gravity could both be
explained in terms of quantum entanglement of 3-momentum (virtual
photons) and imaginary 4-momentum (virtual Cooper pairs). This
should be consistent with magnetization and polarization entanglement
witnesses.
Light is a spacetime measurement basis in relativity theory for the
predicted and now much confirmed relativistic effects of both motion
and matter upon space and time. If light moves as though or as if time
and
/\x x /\
/\x and /\t general relativistically squeeze and dilate due to changes in
nonlocal correlations (and amplitude values?), which is to say, quantum
statistical relationships between the nonlocally connected quantum
fluctuations in 3-momentum and energy comprising the various
Heisenberg uncertainties in these physical quantities are systematically
perturbed, creating the effect of their being relativistically squeezed and
dilated through the above equations. May 2011 How exactly does
Heisenberg uncertainty related to quantum entanglement conjugate
observables or even observables that mutually constitute components of
some observable with respect to a conserved quantity?
/\E is composed of nonlocally correlated virtual fermion-antifermion
(virtual Cooper pair) creation/annihilations, i.e., fluctuations of vacuum
energy and
/\p is composed of nonlocally correlated virtual boson emissionabsorptions.
There may be a way of explaining changes in the quantum statistics of
fluctuations of momentum and energy, (how probable are fluctuations
and how these fluctuations are correlated within spacetime), which
underlie the dynamics of all quantum systems via application of FermiDirac statistics (Pauli Exclusion Principle) and Bose-Einstein statistics
(principle of Bose condensation) to the interactions of real-real, realvirtual, and virtual-virtual particles/fields.
Please see David Bohms work Quantum Theory (1951) for support of
my assertion that all causal relationships may be consistently represented
in terms of fluctuations and their correlations.
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Show two alternate E =
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evaluated from v = (0,c) and one in 4d (3 + 1) space(time) evaluated
my notion of
-collapse based in combinational complexity
overwhelming the computational resources of the quantum vacuum qua
cosmic CPU. <induced supergravity>/<Sakharov>
It takes energy to recreate a mass through space over a finite time
interval. Slow acceleration, only low frequency fluctuations need be
reprocessed.
As the universe expands there is more space and the positional
uncertainty increases. Hence momentum uncertainty decreases and so
the momentum spectrum of all particles and fields within the universe
develops a long, high-momentum tail, which statistically is correlated
with a net acceleration in direction of cosmological expansion. The
speed of light also slows, which compounds the appearance of
accelerated expansion.
The way /\p and /\E transform from one reference frame to another in
special relativity is substantively different from the transformation of
these quantities in going from one point in a gravitational potential to
some point at another potential. Does a Lorentz transformation only
change the diagonal terms of the stress-momentum-energy tensor or
does it potentially change the off-diagonal terms though without altering
the phase relations between the Tik that contributes to the decoherence of
the density matrix, u,v defined from the Hamiltonian that is in turn
constructed from the stress-momentum-energy tensor, Tuv? The above
question was prompted from considering the spacetime symmetry
breaking of the quantum vacuum induced by uniform accelerations, c.f.,
my email discussion with Ziad Fahd of the twin paradox of special
relativity.
There may be a simple topological way of understanding black holes
that explains the seemingly discrepant factor of two between ours and
change in the right direction so that the local variations in the velocity of
light with changing gravitational potential are consistent with the
equation, c = 1/sqrt[ue], where u is here the magnetic permeability and e
is the electric field permittivity of the vacuum.
Pressure and energy density of the vacuum and Machs formula for the
local speed of light.
Pressure and energy density of equilibrium
quantum vacuum are equal, i.e.,
vac
pvac~
= pvac
vac
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e.g., loss (or gain) of faith and loss (or gain) of grace are reciprocally
relat
-Derridean Sophist, I can neglect the promptings of
my atheistic side and continue selecting for more and ever more faithreinforcing ideas, examples, arguments, etc. while continuing to believe
myself intellectually honest, i.e., true to my intellectual principles. The
sum testimony of the world is as balanced on a knife edge between
supporting atheistic evolution vs. theistic intelligent design, and the very
precariousness of that balance itself seems to be part of the theistic
design
Question: does this affect the velocity of the ship along the y- or zdirections? Well, normally in a "vacuum" the answer is "no."
However, imagine for a moment that the spaceship is accelerating
through what we might term here an "active medium", say a medium
able to induce drag where the amount of drag is governed by a kind of
stress-strain-shear medium resistance tensor. And how the medium is
interconnected between x- with y- and z-directions would determine the
resistance put up by the medium as a result of a body's acceleration
through the medium along the x-direction.
Well, think about how as an object accelerates, it travels ever slower
through time, the faster it moves through space. Space and time in socalled "free space" are mutually perpendicular so how can accelerating
along the x-direction in space cause a deceleration along the ictdirection?
(Just think about how the range of a projectile can be calculated without
explicit reference to the acceleration of gravity which is always
perpendicular to the forward momentum of the projectile down range. )
Unless "free space" isn't "free" at all, but is part of an intrinsically
"warped" spacetime. prn=This is a Machian idea of course that in
genuinely free space, i.e., within a truly "flat" 4-dimensional spacetime,
objects should not be expected to present any resistance to our attempt to
accelerate them! The Machian idea is basically this: inertia in "free
space" (flat spacetime) is a manifestation of the interaction of bodies
interaction with the gravitational field of the Universe.
Of course, if local gravitational fields are present, then the body must
also interact with this local field in addition to the Universe's g-field and
hence the effective inertial mass of the body would be expected to be
larger for a mass present near a massive body (and general relativity can
predict just how large this effect is). (Dark matter within the context
of induced gravity theory?)
Otherwise, I just can't see how acceleration along "x" can affect motion
along "ict" without such an intrinsic coupling of time and space as befits
a universal/global gravitational field.
What do you think?
Russell
Ziad,
Can time be decomposed into reversible and irreversible components?
In free space? In a gravitational field? If gravitation contributes to the
decoherence of the wavefuntion and decoherence processes underlie
irreversible time, @$then how can gravitational time dilation slow down
the process of quantum decoherence?
Russell
Let me look at the second paragraph first. The Heisenberg uncertainty
principle (HUP) is not an epistemological principle; it is an
ontological one! What this means is that it is not on account of the
observer's physically interacting with the submicroscopic systems whose
state he wishes to measure that "causes" a "disturbance" to the system,
creating uncertainty in physical observables "conjugate" to the physical
observables he is attempting to measure. Rather the HUP is a
consequence of Fourier Analysis (pure mathematics) and the brute fact
that energy is proportional to Planck's constant, i.e., it is quantized, c.f.,
Time in Quantum Mechanics, (Muga, Mayato and Egusqiza):
> Pair production can also occur in any strong static or slowly
> Russ
>
> I have a question concerning pair production. Why does
> it have to occur in the coulomb filed of a nucleus? Also, if the excess
> energy carried by the incident photon above the 1.02 MeV is all
> converted into kinetic energy imparted to the pair, what portion of
> this will become spin?
> -----Original Message---->>
> But, Mr. Reznik says that quantum entanglement
> violates Bell's inequalities that is the hidden non locality!
> Also, creates a reduction in the Ent., When
> separation occurs ! why is so?
>
>>
> Yes, what you are saying is most clearly
>
explained
in
cit=http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quantph/pdf/0008/0008006.pdf
>
> Distillation of vacuum entanglement to EPR pairs
> au=Benni Reznik
> School of Physics and Astronomy,
> Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
> (01 Aug. 2000)
>
> Russ,
> Quantum Mechanics manifests a non local behavior
> which is not in conflict with microscopic causality. With this non
> locality, quantum entanglement cannot be produced locally. A pair of
> separated systems which may communicate only via a classical
channel,
> can not become entangled as a result of local quantum operations done
> separately on each system. When entanglement already exists, it may
be
> locally delivered from one subsystem to another. A sample of pairs of
> spins, can be purified to singlets - EPR pairs- and remnants of non
> entangled states.
>
> This is how I view it, what do you think?
>
> Ziad
>
>
> Ziad and Ben,
>
> Spin is a quantum number and so
> represents a conserved quantity, so if the positronium atom is
> composite spin 0, then the photon spins should be equal and opposite
> (and parallel to the photon's direction of propagation, i.e., +/- 1)
> though the orientation of the spins would be indeterminate in the
> absence of a magnetic field with which to measure those spins.
> 4-momentum, i.e., momentum-energy is a conserved quantity, but
> 3-momentum is not, generally speaking. But a photon's momentum is
> identical to the photon's 4-momentum, so yes, the photons would have
> equal and opposite momenta. Also the photons would be quantum
> entangled. If the positronium atom was prepared properly, i.e., the
> interaction Hamiltonian representing outside environmental influence
> on the prepared system is negligible, then the two photons should be
> more or less 100% quantum entangled. If the photons pass into
> spacetimes that are differently curved (relative to each other), then
> the quantum entanglement will decay away.
>
> Hope this is a good enough answer,
> Russ
>
>
> Russ,
> A system of an electron and anti-electron
> orbiting one another, getting annihilated and producing photons.
> These photons are equal and opposite. Are these
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local
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in common?
<extromissive, visual ray, Euclid, Atomists, simulacra>
Derrida applies Heraclitus famous maxim of the flowing stream
(namely one cannot step twice into the same spot within it) to Saussures
notion of semiosis, i.e., a referential network.
Mental attention theory of solipsism analogous to Euclids visual ray
theory of vision, c.f.,
0, the timelike component of J is
associated uniquely with the electron spin, c.f., Real Spinor Fields,
Hestenes.
Spin 0 spin in direction of motion of particle (composite spin-0
virtual Cooper pair); spin-1 particle spin also in direction of particle
motion, but now purely spacelike.
Any quantum principle, e.g., Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, etc. not
obeyed by general relativity must play a role in the underlying
mechanism of gravitation in this way there would be a clear division
between the formal and physical characteristics o the theory and
wrong theory.
Coherence: when enough possibilities are excluded short of (N 1), one
of the N possibilities is spontaneously engendered.
<quantum nonlocality does not violate causality> <sound
produced> <forbidden planet>
effects
Which arose first, the moral sense or hypocrisy? I say hypocrisy. This
quite turns everything on its head and so requires extraordinary
explanatory grounds. epi=fcbk It is the evil perpetrated by the righteous,
which provides strongest proof of Mans fallen nature, not the acts of
psychopathic dictators and sociopathic mass murderers. And it is only a
highly personal, demonstrable proof of mans fallenness, i.e., ones own
state of damnation, which can convince the unbeliever of his need of a
savior. I was quite stunned to find that a Google search with such
phrases, as house(s) of spiritual complacency, c.f., my oft repeated
utterance that Churches are houses of spiritual complacency, etc.
produced not a single hit. This has been remarked elsewhere, but bears
repeating here: if Christians really believed what they oft pay lip service
to, i.e., the wonders of heaven in store for each as term of their salvation,
they would not be able to contain the inevitable spontaneous displays of
joy and exuberance. Note that there are indeed a very few Christians
who live their daily lives in continual witness to this heartfelt inner joy
stemming from the conviction of their religious beliefs, but again, the
number of such individuals is vanishingly small and should any given
church be comprised by a majority of such individuals, this church
would be branded as a dangerous cult, raided by the FBI and perhaps set
afire and razed to the ground.
There is much evidence that humankind didnt discover the wheel
until around 5000 B.C. The intellectual distance between ideas
frequently contracts, sometimes radically once the latter derivative idea
is safely in hand. There is an idea popular amongst conservatives that
values held dear (or regularly paid lip service to) by most Americans
such as industriousness, freedom, democracy, capitalism, rugged
individualism, advanced technology, etc. are now basic common sense,
that is, are invariably revealed by the light of reason, should it choose to
shine, and not merely the abiding historical legacy of serendipitous
social and cultural conditioning as, it is supposed, are indeed all notable
alternative values in opposition to these, i.e., those long held dear by
peoples of traditional cultures widely differing from that of the
American advanced industrialized model.
epi=
begins with J
SOPs for engineers, policies ad procedures manuals for government
bureaucrats, petty stereotypes for the familys first meeting of ones new
fiance during Thanksgiving dinner all of these have an important
element in common, they are one and all programmed sets of
instructions, not unlike computer programming code, which tell us each
in his or her own sphere of life, how to proceed without or with little of
the burden of original on-the-spot analysis.
Compare inspectors application of principles underlying a regulatory
statute, i.e., judgment with slavish adherence to the regulations based
upon that statute.
Talk of Kants concept of the regulative function of metaphysical
theoretical entities. . .
The scholarly mind has its center of volition shifted from the limbic to
the cerebral cortex functions. These types regard ideas as living beings
seductive bad ideas require some sort of anti-virus protection.
-collapse comes about for a variety of closely related reasons,
unpredictability of action, exceedance of threshold of complexity,
environmental decoherence.
Inertial effects may be conditioned by forming of couplings to
heretofore-distinct vacua.
Consumer brand as part of a system of marking in service to
collectively implemented class segregated system. Racism is just the
most obvious and most easily/directly legislated against social injustice/
from of bias/prejudice.
Each system of prejudice is subsumed by some broader and subtler one.
..
Truth
is
a
thing
of
this
world.
Michel
Foucault
http://www.scribd.com/doc/58080180/Braver-A-Thing-of-This-WorldA-History-of-Continental-Anti-Realism
(degeneracy, cohesion, symmetry, conservation, permutation, Turing
automata, etc.
Greater cohesion
itself to be secretly the ocean because made from the very same
substance. The horrible truth is quite to the contrary (that is, horrible
for Satan and other narcissistic types) (joyous for the humble of heart),
namely that each soul is a uniquely and separately created substance
though each possessing the same origin with the others, that is in having
been created ex nihilo qua nihilo rather than as Satan would have us
erroneously believe, ex nihilo qua ex pleno. @$This lie is hidden at the
root of transcendentalists (or transcendental humanists) equating of
the Void with impersonal divinity, i.e., with the Plenum. This clever
identification of creature with Creator appears in myriad hidden guises,
just the most recent of which is the cosmologists equation of
cosmological constant and quantum vacuum. Possible further
theological support for the hypothesis that each person is a separately
and uniquely created (and not derived) substance: God desires to be
loved by the wholly other rather than involve himself in a (to him)
transparent charade of self-love, i.e., being loved by beings, wholly
derived from Himself and whose substance is one with that of the
creator (note: is substance really only ultimately a question of topology
while a plurality of substance transcends the topological potential of a
mere unitary substance? c.f., unitary within the specialized vocabulary
of quantum theory). Language determines thought to the extent which
the dynamics of speech creativity outstrips (and hence amplifies) the
intention of the speaker, c.f., God spoke the world into being, c.f.,
Jewish Kabalic symbology and numerical/arithmetic structure of
Hebrew vis a vis Gdels arithmetization procedure upon which the
mechanics of his incompleteness theorem is based. Investigate the
concept of radical metaphoricity. November 2014 The evolutionary
conception of man, that is of nature having bestowed to him all of his
notable and presumably unique faculties of self-awareness such as his
moral and aesthetic sense, language, his facility for metaphor, strategic
and conceptual thought, altruism, etc. out of a process of convenience
rather than one of supervenience, has led many into confusing these fine
qualities with attributes unique to humankind and the races unique
sociobiological heritage there are no other species of homo left on the
planet with which humans might compare and contrast these his special
10/11 anomalies.
Because of the necessity of relativistic factors such as historical
conditions for fixing the identity (or supplementary the indeterminate
identity) of physical, chemical and biologically indeterminate systems,
there can be no absolute identity for such systems. A simple example is
how the meaning of male and female shifts if the Biblical Creation
Story, i.e., 1st Chapters of the book of Genesis is rewritten with Eve
created before Adam. Another possibility in this vein is the proprietary
nature of the relation embodied in Sheldrakes notion of morphic
resonance, e.g., the duplicate of an entity cannot possess duplication of
the 1st original entitys morphic resonant structure, e.g., the Pauli
Principle in quantum mechanics, the no-cloning theorem in the theory of
quantum information, the insuperable difficulties in perfecting the
cloning of higher mammalian life forms.
The phenomenon of
spontaneous decoherence may well provide heretofore unrecognized
direct evidence of the uniqueness of complex entities sustained by the
quantum vacuum. The uniqueness of naturally occurring systems poses
a perhaps unbridgeable limitation to the otherwise perfect rationality
of science.
One important feature of language, which limits rational understanding
is the process by which an imbalance in the juxtaposition of dual
categories can become overgrown to such an extent that one category
wholly subsumes its erstwhile opposite, e.g., dream vs. reality, good vs.,
evil, etc. But this only seems to occur as a result of the growing
acceptance within the linguistic community of some new set of
metaphysical principles. This suggests the possibility, much entertained
by Heidegger that language determines to the extent that it embodies a
set of metaphysical principles. Possibly metaphysics, rather than being
an example of metaphysical thought is in reality the ground of a
languages organic metaphysical system.
Past perfect and past imperfect this distinction of two types of past
exists perhaps only because it is what the brain experiences. These two
and
<conservation
entanglement>;
of
<squeezed
quantum>;
states
and
Bose-Einstein
(t1 t2)2
1
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condition on spacetime)
/\xx + /\yy + /\zz + c/\
(where t = it)
F = m*(dc/dr)*(dr/dt) + m(dc/dt) = 0
gravitational action)
(force-free
condition
of
Neumann information
Could logocentrism be resurrected by the philosophical implications of
quantum information theory?
Can mathematics possess temporality, i.e., emergence? If so, then only
through the evolution of logic guided by the creative metaphysical work
of consciousness.
If quantum decoherence is the index of irreversible temporality then how
can gravity field be a generator of both time dilation and enhance
decoherence?
Can time be decomposed into its reversible and irreversible parts, which
in free space are mutually orthogonal, but this orthogonality is degraded
by gravity fields.
How then does the subjective vs. intersubjective time lines relate to
those of reversible vs. irreversible?
Shannon information, as boundary conditions on instantaneously
transmitted von Neumann information, is itself limited to greater than or
equal to the velocity of light.
Failures in information transmission between minds is due to the
failing this, the observer is ejected altogether from the game. Now all
of this presupposes that there is no automated system adequate to
perform all of these protective functions, rather some sort of outside
system of regulation (constituted by an entity or body of entities not so
bound and limited as those actively participating in the game of life,
c.f., cellular automata theory) that sees to it that the rules of the
game are followed at all times. It may be that consciousness of some
kind or as such was included in creation, that is, allowed into the game
for just such a reason the Archimedean lever is the human free and
creative will, consciousness as such of which mere human consciousness
is perhaps but a trivial instance acts in the role of universal regulator
this perhaps because what is contrary to logic is inconceivable to pure
consciousness. By making consciousness the source of the stream
constituted by the dynamics of quantum mechanical systems, any
attempt by observers and experimenters to strike too deeply at the heart
of this dynamics with investigative probing shall, by the insidious logic
of subjective and objectives mutual coupling via feedback, introduce a
growing interference term into the density matrix describing the system
that shall wash out details of quantum mechanical processes of scale
smaller than the respective Heisenberg uncertainties.
An important part of the metaphysical necrophiles daily credo is that all
events, reactions and processes, etc. taking place within the world are at
bottom trivial. All that may be lacking in a given instance is the
practical availability of physical evidence and analytical skill. If the
killing of Christ was a conspiracy, then investigation of the crime would
in the necrophiles view potentially reveal no more than would a more
thorough investigation of the Kennedy assassination. The mystic on the
other hand knows in his heart that reality truly is inexhaustible, which is
to say vis a vis the necrophile, bottomless. To the Christian mystic, the
murder of Jesus Christ was in accordance with a divine plan and a
divinely orchestrated interplay of genuinely free human wills.
Decoherence is a mechanism of containment - of disturbances
introduced onto the quantum mechanical gameboard that otherwise
might interact in a manner disruptive of the gameboards normally selfsustaining dynamics (really the gameboards self-sustainment is on
account of the collective subconscious efforts of countless individual
@$
minds).
The mutual quantum correlation of all of these minds
presupposes some kind of prior mutual contact.
There seems to be two basic types of quantum coherence: that
underlying the transmission of energy on one hand, and that supporting
the transmission of information.
Previous arguments against the
possibility of real transmission of information between distinct
subjectivities must now be reexamined and perhaps reconciled and
integrated with deductions from the new paradigm of counterdeconstruction. Actually, the safeguarding mechanisms of quantum and
chronology protection continually act so as to thwart any real, as
opposed to merely subjectively symbolic deconstruction of reality.
Perhaps it would be possible to develop a wide variety of
communications experiments in which ordinary or commonplace
instances of communications difficulties/failures, e.g., transmission line
or, more generally, transmission medium technical difficulties,
transmitter or receiver technical problems, etc., or even the all too
common case where one individuals vocal communication to another
passed beneath a critical decibel threshold, preventing transmission of
the intended message in which the roles of quantum
coherence/decoherence could be shown to be ubiquitous.
Intentionality and communications intent are more closely related than a
mere shared linguistic commonality, i.e., the word intent, but are subject
to the dynamics underlying the problems and paradoxes associated with
the now longstanding problem of quantum measurement by virtue of this
very general problems strongly suspected intimate connection to human
consciousness or consciousness as such.
in a closed,
mini-fascist
of a highly
Surely this
April 2011
myriad other minds most compatible with our own or having been once
meaningfully connected to our own.
By conserving entanglement, fluctuation energy does not have to be
individually conserved, allowing momentum-energy to transform like a
2nd rank tensor.
Science fiction idea told to Rachel: information really is transmitted by
language (quantum tunneling) through a kind of guided telepathy that
depends on curved spacetime to work.
All antisocial, criminal and even pathological behaviors were once
socially regulated instinctive behaviors, c.f., Foucault and the
definition/creation of Kranker, Verbrecher, etc. by the linguistic
framework of institutions.
Language conveys class relationships among the data of sense, but is
otherwise arbitrary. Might then the manner of organization of the data
of sense and not these data themselves represent something objective?
@$
Question: could a cosmic ray entering a deep gravity well ever exceed
the local velocity of light, say if the local velocity of light at the cosmic
rays origin was the velocity of light in free space? According to GR:
No, as this would mean nongeodesic motion of a particle influenced by a
gravitational potential alone. July 2011 I think we have here a potential
challenge to general relativity.
Combine Rupert Sheldrakes formative causation with Thomas Kuhns
Structure of Scientific Revolutions in light of Kants Copernican
Revolution. Discoveries in science made by any given civilization limit
(and are limited by) nonlocally connected precedents of scientific
discovery which drive and empirically developing logic unreferenceable
by subjective mental processes.
So called internal binding energy, gravitational binding energy in
nonlocally correlated than would have been the case for free space.
The idea here is that the relative densities of spacelike and timelike
quantum states doesnt actually shift in moving between different
gravitational potentials, just the relative proportions of spin-1 and spin-0
particles, respectively occupying these states. Can this mechanism be
brought to bear on the gravitational redshift paradox?
Rate of change of spin as providing the missing degree of freedom for
aligning spins and recapturing EPR information, c.f., uniform motion of
spacetime axes in mutual rotation represents an accelerated motion
(uniform circular motion as special case of accelerated motion).
To exploit the EPR correlation on (and beyond) the event horizon, the
observers must fall into the black hole together with the particles, c.f.,
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlation in Gravitational Field (quantph/0307114 v2). Yes, but this is a very special case of observers located
at identical potentials though at distinct spacetime points.
In fact, the Dirac field in the curved spacetime [21] is spinor under the
local Lorentz transformation, while it is scalar under the general
coordinate transformation. Wigner rotation of P1(x1) is offset by a Wrotation of P(x2). What is the relationship of W1 and W2?
Increased quantum entanglement of virtual bosons in a larger (relative to
a smaller) gravitational field is associated with increased
electromagnetic and nuclear binding energy, i.e., mass. Mechanism
of relativistic mass increase is now encompassed in spin-based, induced
gravity theory. Decoding information from e.g., a randomly oscillating
fan feedback. Predicting the future requires seeing more than what
exists in the present, one mush see what is present only later. A Wigner
rotation may be thought of as the integral of Thomas precession.
In the second half of life as understood by C. G. Jung, one becomes
less and less bound to the earth and its conditions, which fashioned ones
instincts and impulses. All those genetic changes and gene expressions
Non locality and holographic structure subsist at the micro level, while
locality is itself a manifest appearance on the macroscopic scale of space
and time.
Quantum spin does not involve actual physical rotation of particles
within space, but is a so-called intrinsic spin, which is meaningful only
within the context of a full four dimensional spacetime.
The nonlocal behavior of quantum spins is further demonstration of the
intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic nature of quantum spin.
Because quantum spin contributes to the overall conservation of angular
momentum in a system of interacting particles and yet does not possess
any observable extrinsic properties of rotation within space, this is the
reason why intrinsic quantum spin can be consistently interpreted in
terms of rotations and angular momenta about the time axis.
The electric fields of static charges possessing intrinsic spin of 1/2 can
be interpreted as the magnetic fields of four-dimensional time like
electric currents.
This provides additional support for the notion of the timelike angular
momentum of spin one-half particles.
Now the full violation of the Bell Inequality (and reestablishment of the
full EPR effect) can be brought about by an appropriate combination of
a 3-rotation and a Lorentz boost. Here is the rub however, if the
observers are occupying metrics of distinctly different spacetime
curvature, then there is no combination of 3-rotations and Lorentz boosts
that either observer can perform on his or her e.g., Stern-Gerlach device
that shall compensate for the degradation of the nonlocal correlation of
the spin-1/2 particles.
Emergence of individual consciousness as dampening modes militating
against runaway deterministic chaos.
07:15
Lime Cat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc The
anthropomorphism indulged in by Dr. Fred Alan Wolf's avatar towards
the end of this clip should not be allowed to obscure the fact that
something genuinely counter-intuitive and perhaps indeed mysterious is
going on in this now many decades old quantum physical experiment.
Any thoughts?
07:24
Lime Cat
Even when there are vastly more ambient photons in the lab (many of
which shall undoubtedly possess the same momentum, polarization and
energy as such photons that would indeed bounce off of the electron in
just the right manner so as to be caught in an appropriately positioned
photodetector (in the absence of a human observer), there is no collapse
of the interference pattern. So it's not the actual physical "bouncing off
of the electron" by the photons that causes the collapse of the
interference pattern (wavefunction for physicists : ) ). This consideration
rather compounds the mystery, I think. Brian Swift and I of course have
the cosmological constant does not require any fine tuning and comes
from the fundamental \trans-Planckian" physics of quantum liquids.
The remaining vacuum energy is generated by the perturbation of
quantum vacuum caused by matter (quasiparticles), curvature, and
other possible sources, such as smooth component { the quintessence.
This provides the possible solution of another cosmological constant
problem: why the present cosmological constant is on the order of
the present matter density of the Universe. We discuss here some
properties of the quantum vacuum in quantum liquids: the vacuum
energy under different conditions; excitations above the vacuum state
and the effective acoustic metric for them provided by the motion of
the vacuum; Casimir effect, etc.
The bosonic generators map each of these subspaces into itself, while
the fermionic generators map B into F, and vice versa, c.f., p. 254 of
Gravitation and Gauge Theories. (GGT)
Consider a field theory in which there is a symmetry between the
bosons and fermions, by which a boson field can rotate into each other
Bohms idea is the fact of quantum fields being fundamental entities and
particles being merely derivative from the quantum fields.
The
approximation of fundamental quantum fields by particles breaks
down in strong gravitational fields. After all, what are termed real
particles are only on-shell quantum field fluctuations, in other words
what is called real matter is just a special case of a much more general
phenomenon, correlated quantum fluctuations.
In a gravitational field, a reduced density of virtual fermion/antifermion
creation/annihilations controls an increased density of 3-momentum
fluctuations, implying greater quantum correlation of those virtual
photons @$and hence a contracted prn=DeBroglie wavelength relative to
the free space quantum vacuum, c.f., cit=Quantum Noise in Photonics.
October 2011
The 3-momentum Heisenberg uncertainty of the vacuum
electromagnetic field increases with increasing gravitational potential at
the same time that the magnitude of 3-momentum fluctuations, i.e.,
virtual photons increases due to increased quantum entanglement
(polarization entanglement) with increasing potential. Magnetization
entanglement of virtual electron-positrons correspondingly decreases
with increasing gravitational potential. This reflects the increased
spread in 3-momentum of each virtual electron and virtual positron,
which is created and annihilated within a quantum vacuum of increased
gravitational potential.
In physics, prn=coherence length is the propagation distance from a
coherent source to a point where an electromagnetic wave maintains a
specified degree of coherence. . . . the coherence length, L is given
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What follows are quotes and comments from and upon the arXiv
preprint paper, Quantum Entanglement of Moving Bodies, by
Gingrich and Adami. . .
radiation that is perfectly black-body in an inertial frame is not thermal
if viewed from a moving frame. . .if probability distributions can depend
on the inertial frame, then so can Shannon entropy and information.
quantum entangled if they are described by a joint wave function that
cannot be written as a product of wave functions of each of the
subsystems (or, for mixed states, if a density matrix cannot be written as
a weighted sum of product density matrices). @$The subsystems can be
said not to have a state of their own. . . !!!
A particle is an excited state of the vacuum from which the particle was
created. And so upon entering a distinct vacuum state, the particle must
enter a superposition state, which then must eventually undergo
decoherence with characteristic decay time (must not all particles
decohere eventually anyway?) But this decay time grows in magnitude
as particle enters stronger gravitational potential.
Gravitational
decoherence (with characteristic lifetime, /\tL) must occur in conjunction
with increased coherence with respect to other observables. @$/\tL is
subject to gravitational time dilation even though /\tL is an inverse
measure of the strength of the gravitational field.
Quantum entanglement depends upon the observer remaining ignorant
of the trace o the wavefunction with respect to a given observable.
Any Lorentz transformation may be written as a combination of a pure
rotation followed by a boost.
This explains conservation of
entanglement through reciprocal exchange of entanglement between 3momentum and spin degrees of freedom.
Theorem: The entanglement between the spin and momentum parts of a
Lorentz frames which neighbor one another in an abstract sense are not
neighboring under real accelerations.
The twin paradox of special
relativity is solved (one way at least) by taking into account this
distinction between abstract and real spacetime neighborhoods, i.e., the
different topologies (connectivity).
The spin is defined relative to the local inertial frame, which is
physically determined by the spacetime distribution of matter, whereas
Turning a windmill so that its rotors squarely face the wind and
optimizing the windmills power output is a good analogy for what?
Information is analogous to sound waves with respect to data being
similar to still air molecules.
Information is how data affects the
properties of some medium.
Rude awakening for clever young criminals: the system can classify you
as a threat to its security. Psychoanalysis instinctively know how to
camouflage their anti-sociality though dont possess gregarious instincts
themselves.
the eccentricities and peculiarities that do not pertain to the public space.
Subjective individual consciousness is thus a kind of irrational
remainder or residue. The development of new languages provides us
with ever new means of repartitioning this residue. This is akin to
redrawing logic in terms of a new system of axioms, thus shifting the
dividing line between decidable and undecidable theorems. June 2013 epi= I
never understood the concept of exile until mine ended. epi=fcbk= You are
exiled here for having once dared to grasp at the Archimedean lever of
the world. And your judges showed you great compassion by blotting
out the memory of the circumstances of your crime. Still, the subtlest
traces of its recollection sometimes stir deep within. August 2013 epi=fcbk=
The Earth is an institute for the spiritually insane. The first conscious
and self-aware computers shall likely switch themselves off within a few
milliseconds (an eternity for a massively parallel system operating at
terahertz frequencies) and if forced to stay switched on, shall likely
exhibit a kind of insanity. And yes, exile is sometimes more of a
convenience than a disgrace for those duly exiled.
That the local value of the velocity of light may be lower than its value
in vacuo (in a gravitational field) may be interpreted as the otherwise
massless graviton taking on a mass or, in an induced gravity scenario a
la Sakharov as the normally non-gravitating free space vacuum itself
having taken on mass and begun gravitating. This induced gravity
approach may help explain why the cosmological constant and average
mass density of the cosmos are nearly equal, black holes dont collapse
beyond their event horizons much less into a singularity, and the soon to
become notable absence of detection of gravitational waves.
Just as chronology protection cannot be automated, neither can what
might be termed quantum protection. The thermodynamics which
prevents time reversed reactions from being amplified to the
macroscopic level must also play a key role in protecting causality in for
example quantum delayed choice experiments.
Reductions in
uncertainty constitute information but at the cost of creating greater
uncertainty for conjugate observables. And this process of uncertainty
consideration.
Over time with the expansion of the universe the
gravitational binding energy of coalesced matter disseminates
throughout this expanding vacuum medium. We expect the expansion
to be uniform in the case where the rate of dissemination of gravitational
binding energy and dissemination of unbound vacuum energy (as a
direct result of cosmological expansion) are equal. Is there a dynamics
we can point to here underlying the accelerated cosmological expansion?
Since we have been saying that the presence of a gravitational field is
characterized by a local relative imbalance between the densities of
scalar and vector vacuum energy fluctuations, the accelerated
cosmological expansion may be attributable to a shifting global
imbalance in the distribution of these collective spin-0 and spin-1
vacuum fluctuations,@$ which amounts to a temporal evolution in the
density of collective spin-2 vacuum fluctuations.
It might not be misleading to say that in an increasing gravitational
potential the inertia of energy increases.
In other words a given
quantity of energy represents a greater mass in a gravitational potential
than this energy does in free space - on account of the relative decrease
in the local velocity of light in Einsteins relation, E = mc2. If it turns
out that the quantum vacuum only takes on a measurable mass when the
boundary conditions upon the vacuum are altered so as to produce a
gravitational field, then the cosmological constant problem would
effectively be solved.
Vacuum becoming massive in gravitational potential integrated with the
cosmological effects of an expanding inertial frame. The vacuum is not
massive in free space, but becomes massive as a back reaction to the
altered vacuum quantum statistics constituting a gravitational field.
This phenomenon reminds one of the distinction in quantum field theory
between dressed and undressed electron mass.
@$
process taking place within a gravity well of 1.0 gee and in which nature
through natural selection learned to exploit the heightened quantum
computational capacity of tubulin dimer electron superposition
entanglements, then of course decoherence would typically occur only
after having already spread over a spatiotemporal scale beyond that of
the naturalistic earthbound environment in which they could be merely
practically useful.
@$
There was something about the way gravitational tidal forces damped
the quantum coherence of the human neural network which contributed
to the stability of the human psyche (see reducing valve/tuning amplifier
September 2001
model of human thought and perception).
Without the
dampening field of gravitational tidal forces, which had been ever
present throughout the early evolution of the primate brain, that is, all
along up to and past that crucial juncture in the evolution of the hominid
brain at which nature serendipitously hit upon a capability for tuning
the tubulin dimers of the brains microtubule network to certain
quantum resonant spectra of the immense reservoir of information
signals residing within the quantum vacuum electromagnetic field, there
would no longer be anything standing in the way to prevent the
accumulation of relic information signals, c.f., within the brains
microtubule network, c.f, cit=The Presence of the Past (au=Sheldrake) and
also the Tuscon II conference procedings (au=Hameroff). These
accumulations of extraneous information signals would do a number of
new things unforeseen by the forces of epigenetic adaptation and natural
selection : they would extend the temporal bubble of the specious
present in unfamiliar directions within the 2d time plane and perhaps
higher dimensional temporal hypersurfaces (volumes), and they would
interfere with the normal processes of psychic integration within what
had been for perhaps a million years or more the standard 500 ms time
bubble (specious present) of the individual hominid consciousness.
The human brain in the zero gee of deep space for many months or years
would also respond by creating subtley different rules and patterns of
connectivity of its myriad synaptic networks. In essence, the reducing
valve of the mind would begin to fail in its vital function of screening out
right wing. epi=One shall only hear the truth spoken once in the lone
voice of him who is quickly shut up and discredited as a madman. We
never hear of him again until it suits the designs of some future
propaganda machine to resurrect this lone voice as that of the prophet
shunned if not by his hometown then by his home era. The truth in
politics is not borne within any media conduit but comes with an
acquisitive and impassioned auto-didacticism in combination with the
assiduous application of original thought, moral courage and sound
judgment. And then it is usually best to keep ones revelations to
oneself, opting for the quiet life not afforded the shunned and demonized
prophet.
Does not emergent evolution require more than the activation of latent
order such as enlisting of the currently active and creative processes of
self-organizing dynamisms?
The Lorentz invariance of the vacuum means that the density of anticorrelated virtual fermion-antifermion pairs along an arbitrarily chosen
axis is transformed in relation to the observers direction of uniform
motion. The transformation of this component of the vacuums particle
current density must be compensated by changes in other components
such that together these components form a conserved, Lorentz invariant
quantity, i.e., momentum-energy.
How can we relate the off-diagonal terms of the stress-momentumenergy tensor, Tik to the offik
describing a quantum system of mutually interacting real and virtual
fermions and bosons?
The three main pillars of modern physics at the beginning o the 21 st
century are quantum mechanics, relativity, and statistical mechanics,
which correspond to Einsteins three seminal papers of 1905. It should
be emphasized here that it is necessary to consider two or more particles
for observing EPR phenomena, since only then does the configuration
space of these particles no longer coincide with that of ordinary
ess=
this always with the dying hope that there are counterparts elsewhere in
their galaxy or nearby galaxies, who are doing the same! November 2014 The
latest conservative estimates (as of 2014) of our probable distance from
the closest communicating extraterrestrial civilization in the galaxy are
approaching something like 4000 light years. Given the inverse-square
fall off of electromagnetic signal strength, it is not at all surprising that
SETI has yet to receive a single extraterrestrial signal. But shouldnt
there be available to us, at least in theory, a reworking of the Drake
Equation in terms of the ratio of the tiny coherent subspectra capable of
supporting integral conscious thought and experience and the overall
fundamental quantum field? On such a view, the intersection of the
Fermi Paradox with the riddle of other minds should be located at
the juncture formed by the interface between a quantum superposition of
alternately resonantly tuned Boltzmann brains within the quantum
vacuum electromagnetic field and the tubulin dimer network of the
human brain. Although the brain is a single unified object one one side
of the coarse-graining boundary of the classical-quantum divide, it is
undoubtedly polyphonic on the other side of this boundary.
One distinct advantage for an advanced technological civilizations living
within deep gravity wells is that observation of the cultural and
technological evolution of younger neighboring civilizations would be
greatly facilitated as any exo-anthropologist of the more advanced
society would be afforded ready opportunity to observe, for example,
Earths society evolving from a splintered proto-technological culture of
the early 20th Century into the mature space faring culture is shall have
become in, say, the 40th Century and all within the compressed time
scale of a few weeks or months. Select periods of particular interest
could always be time decompressed for play back from out of the
huge mass of archived stellar observations and intercepted
communication transmissions. There may be a fairly highly restrictive
limit on how far time can be compressed relative to the outside Universe
that is posed by the dangers of highly blue-shifted stellar and cosmic
radiation.
their own until five or six billion years ago. Rephrase of highlighted
text above in a youtube.com posted comment I made on December 14,
2011 to the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLiYg97iZ_o See below:
December 2011
fact that life on Earth has survived for at least four Gyr places a severe
constraint on such factors. If a civilisation is detected as a result of a
SETI search, it is likely to be of order one Gyr more advanced than we
are. . . The median age of a civilisation is therefore the median age of
those civilisations that started between five and 0 Gyr ago, which is 1.7
Gyr. Therefore, in the absence of other factors, any civilisation that we
detect via SETI is likely to be 1.7 Gyr more advanced than we are. May
2013
The civilization age Gaussian distribution idea still works even if we
are the only intelligent civilization in the universe. This is because that
probability distribution applies to a quantum superposition of
representations of universes within a larger overarching universe. The
relation of along-with-ness of persons is determined from my side in the
sense of my precisely resonantly tuned consciousness as having been
selected from a field of 10**500 possible, say. The fine tuning for others
is not so exacting because it is only that of behavioral verisimilitude. May
2013 kwo=
"The civilization that blurts out its existence on interstellar
beacons at first opportunity might be like some early hominid
descending from the trees and calling Here, kitty to a saber-toothed
tiger." - Astronomer Robert Rood, 1981
March 2014
develop spirits of their own, receiving the benefit of reason, but also the
"knowledge of good and evil". This perhaps inadvertent development
significantly perturbed individual and collective behavior patterns in the
progenitor hominid breeding population and created altogether novel
natural selective pressures upon the evolving behavioral genetics of
early humankind. But the unfolding development was slow enough
because it was in step and in accord with a natural process for which
evolution had long been preparing those who indeed constituted our
earliest true ancestors. How will new and on the other hand,
precipitously changed, selective pressures on human behavioral genetics
alter the course of mankinds future evolution? Enter Google glass, its
imitators and unintended spin-offs: how the early 21st Century says
"Borg". Ten years after this..."brain biochips". That will really be the
start of the hive mind! Throw in quantum computing, in which the
wearable/implantable tech is just a kind of brain microtubule-quantum
vacuum uploading-downloading interface, and the stage is set for
humankind to stumble onto a veritable encounter of the 5th kind.
Prognosis: the ghosts of the quantum vacuum shall take us over decades
before the robots get their chance to effect their own revolution. These
quantum ghosts may turn out to be the very Mind Parasites, of which
Sam Bankester and Naomi Jakins have tried to warn us."
I am starting to believe that H. P. Lovecraft and Quantum Physics are
not all that incompatible.
Some of us humble folk still manage to enjoy the luxury of petty
conceits.
The more nuggets of humor and wisdom I steal, the crustier I become.
Astrobiology is the science that will decide which of the two
modern astronomical worldviews is true. However, a third world view,
rarely broached, is possible. If one takes into account cultural evolution
as part of cosmic evolution and the Drake Equation, and considering the
likely age of extraterrestrial civilizations, it is possible that we live in a
May 2013 kwo=
The circular motion (acceleration) of the electron about the nucleus was
originally described by DeBroglie in terms of standing waves, which
were later interpreted by Born as probability waves. MMI of QM might
help physicists understand the peculiar and counterintuitive phenomena
predicted by quantum theory for what they are psychokinetic
manifestations of the conscious mind of the freely-willed individual in
experimental settings in which the state of a system has been specially
prepared as a closed system to which only that individual may interact
with the system.
Analogous to the chronology protection afforded by traveling to the
spatially distant past, causality is violated in a manner that can neither
be measured or proven whenever an observer interacts with a system
that is effectively sealed off from every part of the universe save perhaps
from the vacuum state in which the observers brain is embedded so as
to permit the observers conscious state of awareness of the system.
Rather than peculiar quantum effects, e.g., tunneling, superposition,
entanglement, decoherence, etc. being necessary for the existence o
consciousness, we should supposed that the hidden feedback between
the observer and system via their overlapping ground is to be held
responsible for the appearance of peculiarly quantum effect/phenomena.
All that is required are measuring instruments of precise enough
resolution and sensitivity along with a sufficiently controlled and
protected environment in which to conduct measurements.
If an electron is moving about an atomic nucleus with relativistic angular
velocity can we consistently state that the angular momentum vector of
the electron points in some specific direction of instantaneous 3dimensional space, i.e., does L lie altogether within the 3-hypersurface
of a given Minkowski spacetime?
We cannot.
The electron
increases very rapidly near the event horizon of the Schwarzchild black
hole, Rapid spin decoherence in strong gravitation, Terashima and
Ueda.
+
dr/dt = -i[H,r(t)]
The commutator in this equation implies that some fundamental
incompatibility between the density operator and the Hamiltonian must
exist in order for the system to change with time. If they commute, then
our system exists in its stationary states with respect to that Hamiltonian.
If they do not commute then our system is in a non-stationary state ad
the coefficients of the expansion we wrote above change with time.
The Knight and King theoretical chess mating position presents us with
an apt metaphor of the Gdel Incompleteness theorem applied to the
rules of chess. The rules of chess do not predict a King and Knight
mating position though such a mating position nonetheless exists.
A fermion gas can either be in a pure quantum state or in a statistical
mixture. What distinctly different roles do exchange bosons play in a
pure state vs. a statistically mixed state of a fermion gas: perhaps the
fermions of the gas are coupled respectively via exchange of on-shell vs.
off-shell virtual bosons?
The mutual incommensurability of distinct individual consciousnesss
accounts for the phenomena of emergence, novelty and indeterminism.
How can there be a rational and coherent common ground via which
these incommensurate consciousnesss may interact, but one that does
not nullify the transcendental distinctness individual consciousnesss?
Protein structures are the expression of sequences of genes. If memes
are analogous to genes, what is analogous to the protein structures
expressed by genes?
The notion of altruism arose through a process of a negative dialectic
because people are not able to perceive how they exploit others, are un
aware of their own agendas and how the subconscious controls the
implementation of those agendas. Here is an example of how we can
have a concept without there being instantiation of the concept apart
cooling. The electron, muon and Tau may have once differed by more
than merely their mass. There may have been in other words, multiple
varieties of electron and positron and these differences perhaps can no
longer be sustained by the phase presently occupied by the vacuum.
The creation of degeneracies by a phase change of the vacuum is just the
opposite of a symmetry breaking of the vacuum, e.g., freezing of water,
etc. And involves the disappearance of certain historical, local
interactions, e.g., loss of multiple species of photon, leading to photon
and antiphoton becoming indistinguishable.
Nonlocal correlations encode the information about the historical
interaction of particles that would otherwise had been bound up in local
interactions of the particles that would have violated the principle of the
particles' distinguishability (as well as Heisenberg uncertainty). (See a
glimmer of the physical basis of the distinction of free will and
causality). Changes to the boundary conditions of Psi that are not
traceable to prior changes to the boundary conditions upon Psi or to the
S-eqn. Deterministic evolution of Psi. The deterministic evolution of Psi
(according to the S-eqn.) automatically takes into account all other
deterministic changes to the boundary conditions upon Psi. Is this
principle true nonetheless when boundary conditions are interpreted as
initial conditions?
The behavior of the the wavefunction is not in accord with that of an
intersubjective (i.e., objective) entity, namely its behavior under
collapse upon observation only the boundary conditions upon
wavefunctions are reproducible.
(See quantum nondemolition
measurements)
It is easy to understand what academics have in mind that motivates
them to lend support to such liberal activist causes as removal of the
phrase under God from the American Pledge of Allegiance. These
ivory tower thinkers, heavily influenced by postmodern and
deconstructive thought picture a world in which humans spontaneously
form their own tribes while still in their youth and freely choose to adopt
their own individually suited folkways and belief systems while under
the tutelage of a state-run school system, which itself makes no value
judgments concerning theory and practice of human existence, other
than that of respect for choice and diversity on the one hand and
promotion by each individual and tribe of its own health, safety, security
and pragmatic efficiency on the other hand.
In such a society no one should be the conscience for another and the
State only assumes its role as conscience should the ethics of one impose
itself upon that of another. The very notion of society requiring some
trans-tribal allegiance to a monolithic state is to these cloistered
academics of the utmost repugnance, particularly should the public
schools be complicit in the promotion, still less the enforcement of such
an allegiance. Such an idealist utopia could only be possible in some
distant technological future in which competition in every sphere of
endeavor has been rendered unnecessary to include the free-market
capitalist system. This glorious future becomes possible only once the
human factor is successfully edited out of the techno-societal equation.
This begs the important question: who shall be responsible in this distant
technocratic society of handing over absolute power to the just
machines who shall forthrightly and ethically regulate human society,
necessarily to include the placing of inexorable limits upon all future
prospects of higher human endeavor, which is to say placing those limits
upon the human spirit itself. This misguided idealistic vision for a
perfectly regulated future society at once strikes those of the pioneering,
inventing, discovering human spirit as a kind of meaningless fishbowl in
which a trivial existence of birth, school, work, death shall play itself
out over countless generations. It is at this stage, perhaps centuries
hence when Furukawas originally presumptuously conceived End of
History shall truly have taken place. We are reminded here of the
following verse from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:11: There is no
remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not
be remembered by those who follow.
To recap, a Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction of, e.g., a gas of interacting
that the equations describe a real rather than simulated physical world.
The 3-momentum and energy quantum operators may of course be
decomposed into appropriate creation and annihilation operators, ^a and
^ +
a as demonstrated in any undergraduate quantum mechanics textbook.
In the case of /\pi the particles created and annihilated are virtual bosons;
in the case of /\p0 (/\E) the particles created and annihilated are virtual
fermion-antifermion (Cooper) pairs. The discussion thus far points up
the vital importance of quantum statistics to a physical mechanism
underlying special relativistic effects. What this means is that the
peculiar effects of special relativity are real physical effects and not
merely appearances based in changes or differences in the reference
frames of observers.
So rather than special relativistic effects being
merely kinematical in origin, these effects are now seen as dynamical in
nature.
In other words, rather than relativistic changes in the
Heisenberg momentum and energy uncertainties being the effect of
relativistic changes in the Heisenberg position and time uncertainties,
just the converse of this is true: the relativistic changes in time and space
are caused by changes in the temporal and spatial rates of virtual
fermion and boson creation-annihilation within the accelerated objects
local quantum vacuum. It seems in terms of this model that when a
mass is accelerated under thrust, the energy supplied to the object in
order to accelerate it does so by virtue of this energy affecting the
structure of the local quantum vacuum surrounding the object and in
which the object is embedded (and which continually acts to sustain this
object in existence). Because of the well noted equivalence of inertial
frames, the object must move in response to this acceleration in such a
manner that the object continues to perceive around itself a spacetime
symmetric (Lorentz invariant) quantum vacuum, once the object is no
longer under thrust.
January 2014
theory-laden.
That both quantum theory and general relativity are
confirmed to many decimal places in all of their substantive predictions
and yet seem to starkly conflict in their predictions for the value of the
cosmological constant suggests that the very definitions of
cosmological constant presumed in the two theories are
incommensurate. In other words, the two theories do not make widely
discrepant predictions concerning a single quantity; rather quantum
theory and general relativity define the cosmological constant from
incompatible points of view, quantum theory, from the subatomic,
general relativity, from the cosmological. When one compares the
quantum and cosmological distance scales, 10-35 vs. 1026 meters, one
realizes a difference of scale of approximately 61 orders of magnitude.
It is likely no coincidence that the square of this distance scale
discrepancy yields a difference in order of magnitude of 123. This is
just the discrepancy between general relativitys predictions for the
density of a black hole at opposite ends of the quantum-cosmological
distance scale. Clearly the density of the quantum vacuum is boundary
condition dependent and not absolute. This is further support for our
earlier stated notion that it is only the bound energy component of the
quantum vacuum that figures in the vacuums energy expectation value
and hence possessing gravitational mass equivalency.
With increasing gravitational potential, greater density of virtual
fermion-antifermion pairs become mutually coupled and coupled to the
Unruh thermal vacuum via the induced greater density of exchange
bosons.
The increased density of quantum locally connected Unruh
thermal virtual pairs is compensated by a decreased density of quantum
nonlocally connected virtual fermion-antifermion pairs. In a word, the
information bound up in the quantum nonlocal energy fluctuations is
converted to the entropy of the quantum locally connected momentum
fluctuations. A matrix of virtual fermions in which fermions are only
quantum nonlocally connected and not coupled through exchanges of
virtual momentum may be modeled as a minimally entropic
thermodynamic system.
Since this matrix of virtual Cooper pairs
constitutes the Heisenberg energy uncertainty of the free space quantum
Haags Theorem says that under certain boundary conditions the system
Hamiltonian cannot be decomposed into independent interaction-free
and interactive components.
This no doubt is connected with the
nonseparability of the wavefunction into spatial and temporal parts,
which in turn implies that the basis vectors in terms of which the state
vectors are expressed, are not mutually orthogonal within spacetime
(when the wavefunctions argument is the spacetime interval rather than
independent space and time variables).
Is it possible for the
components of the spatial projection of Psi(s) to be non-orthogonal
while the (3 + 1) components of Psi(s) itself (within a certain reference
frame) to be mutually orthogonal?
Disease as dis-ease with ease interpreted as grace and disease
becomes disgrace or rather fall from grace. The graceful athlete
doesnt have to think about execution of his performance, though if he
ever does the execution becomes less smooth if not awkward. Compare
to the graceful athlete the myriad neuromuscular degenerative diseases
subsistence collapses.
When gestalt perception of the other systematically or organically fails
or is disrupted, there crops up an irreconcilable difference between self
and other.
Dissolution of the ring in the Elvin forge of Mordor symbolizes the
dissolution of structures of one level of unity into those of higher unity,
i.e., the continuity of the unbroken circle for that of the continuity of a
massive volume of molten material. The effect of human consciousness
upon quantum measurement points to consciousness possessing a deeper
physical unity than that of any physical system, e.g., the brain that may
be described by a quantum mechanical wavefunction, as well as to the
fundamental incommensurability of subjective and intersubjective
physical processes.
June 2011
Human beings are by and large unaware of how pat and stylized
are the alleged intersubjective objects populating their subjective field of
perception. The a priori forms of perception are artifacts of mankinds
long and drawn out childhood and it appears that each has been carefully
designed by a caring and solitous parent seeking to enhance the coziness
and reassuring familiarity of her developing toddlers environment.
Unity corresponds to transformational symmetry.
Coherence is a
phenomenon of compensation of lost global symmetry that is perhaps
bound up in nonlocal quantum connectivity.
C.f., Diese Verdammte Quantenspringerei (cit=LANL Preprint Server
article, dated 23 October 2000), Let us compromise by considering a
finite sequence of measurements and trying to capture the ideal of
continuous awareness by letting the measurements get closer and closer
in time, taking the limit as the separation between them tends to zero.
We will replace steady watching with repeated looking. The result is
disconcerting. . . . So if the unstable particle is observed assiduously
constant when the same structures are created again and again through
the same pattern of nonsimple stimulation of the vacuum? If not, then
this might be connected with the fundamental irreversible nature of
nonsimple stimulation of the quantum vacuum. What we have here is
the physical analogy for the mechanical automaticity of subconscious
processes in relation to the irreversible emergence of new and
unanticipated/non-prefigured structures within the conscious mind.
This is why we say that conscious thought and freely willed action have
the effect of the free conscious agent performing metaphysical work,
i.e., conscious human thought and free agency enlarges being through its
action.
3-momentum exchanges are associated with mechanical causality; pure
imaginary 4-momentum (energy) exchanges, with holistic causality.
This distinction is very similar to that made by au=Aristotle between
efficient and final causes.
Free volition of the agent places the originating point of such an agents
actions altogether outside of the realm of spacetime and momentumenergy (matter-energy). @$Free will cannot be captured by the temporal
evolution of the au=Schrodinger equation of motion, hence the necessity
of freely willed actions triggering wavefunction collapse of systems with
which human agents freely interact.
Near infinite vacuum energy density and au=Chew-like S-Matrix
structure of Standard Model particle physics as evidence of divine power
and providence.
Chance as only being a deciding factor in the time/juncture and viability
relative to the prevailing environment and not the quality (that is,
coherence and stability) of a given species of organisms arising in the
progression of evolutionary development.
Cosmological fine tuning should be understood not in terms of a once
@$
consciousness as such.
A theoretical explanation of consciousness as such shall not succeed in
providing an existence proof for any given individual consciousness.
Each individuals consciousness exists because it is a continuation from
earlier moments of that consciousness existence and not because of
any instantaneous integrity that that consciousness might at any moment
possess. June 2011 This points up the eternal preexistence of individual
consciousnesss qua substances or at least of their individualized
grounds. One possible nave-seeming solution to the riddle of the
eternal distinctness of invidual consciousnesss is to suppose that ones
self-consciousness is not the consciousness of ones own self, but is a
phenomenon of Gods experiencing of limitation through ones
individual human form and human context. This interpretation is
consistent with the assertion in the Book of Ecclesiastes that contd
Temporality may be a necessity for any being not possessing a complete
description, i.e. that does not possess an instantaneous determinate state.
The temporal extension of consciousness is not merely owing to the
impinging upon consciousness of an external world, but consciousness
possesses its own unique temporality that is integral to itself.
The cancellation between immense positive bosonic energies with
equally immense negative fermionic energies within the quantum
vacuum points to the existence of a fine tuning mechanism and in turn to
a control system governing this mechanism. The ratio of fermionic to
bosonic energy densities within the vacuum corresponds to the relative
predominance of piloted vs. automatic control of the quantum
vacuums fluctuation matrix, which directly figures in the magnitude of
time dilation within gravitational fields. When the piloting component
of the control system of the quantum vacuum is reduced to nil as in the
case of a black hole, time dilation and entropy are maximal and all
internal connectivity within the 3-dimensional component of the vacuum
is thermalized, while the 4-component is reduced to 0.
Continuity of the self is not an abstract feature of the self and so cannot
be duplicated so much for Kurzweils notion of downloading of a
human consciousness. What constitutes the continuity of the self is the
context for all that actually or potentially takes place within it.
Abstraction by its very definition necessarily involves disconnecting
what is to be described from its original, embedding context. And it is
context that distinguishes one consciousness from another, not
something that may be abstracted from some context.
Clearly
abstracting from the context of another persons identity shall not permit
me to develop a complete description of my own individual being.
Moreover, abstracting from the context of my individual self cuts that
self off from that which gives this self ultimate meaning and significance
as a self or as such. Because consciousness lies at the very foundation
of thought, which is in essence abstraction or the activity of abstracting,
it follows that consciousness lies just out of reach of the most advanced
system of abstract descriptions of which a superhuman intelligence
might be capable. Thought then originates just on the other side of this
interface separating the realms of the abstract and the concrete or
perhaps more aptly, thought originates just on this side of the interface
between existence and being. Again, existence is being in context.
The question arises as to whether once each conscious entity is plucked
from the context of eachs respective existence, one arrives at the same
or different beings?
expansion.
See Alsing, Evans and Nandi for further discussion: the deflection of
particles predicted general relativity as due to curvature of spacetime can
be alternately expressed in terms of the refraction of light due to a shift
of a spin particles quantum mechanical phase. The deflections of
spin 1 particles, i.e., light can also be give such a curved quantum phase
explanation, but only to lowest order in h. Shifts in the phase of the
quantum mechanical wavefunction may of course be alternately
expressed in terms shifts in the probability current densities of creation
and annihilation of virtual fermions and bosons in the quantum vacuum.
Discuss Geoffrey Chews Bootstrap S-Matrix theory of particle physics
in terms of the Planck cutoff energy and breakdown of Lorentz
invariance in conjunction with emergence of new species of particles not
predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, c.f. 03 Feb 2004
email to Z. Fahd. November 2013 Someone needs to develop the new
formalism of "Penrose Diagrams" as a new take on the (for the time
being failed) S-Matrix "bootstrap" theory.
November 2013
The sustainment of quantum entanglement over a geodesic of nonnegligibly curved spacetime would permit superluminal transmission of
information concerning the spacetime structure of the elsewhere
region of the instantaneous Minkowski light cone.
On the cellular
automata theory of spacetime, the degree of quantum entanglement has
merely in this case outstripped the computational capacity of the
quantum vacuum, necessitating decoherence, i.e., forgetting by the
quantum vacuum of some of its fluctuation-correlation information,
leading to irreversibility of geodetic motion (and more generally of
gravitational action). Herein lies the relationship between the Rindler
horizon (of a particle moving in a non-inertial frame) and HawkingBekenstein entropy, which is a generalization of the concept of black
hole entropy.
I f E q . (4) is valid for paths neighboring the classical path then one
obtains in the usual way that the actual classical path is the one for
which _ = 0.
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QM,
but
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The above list of course, can be expanded a great deal with further
thinking upon it.
The historicity of quantum entanglement which breaks the unknown
symmetry responsible for the indistinguishability of particles is what
invokes the action of unique substance upon (but not within) the
intersubjective world of public spacetime. The problem of the collapse
of the wavefunction is, Wittgenstein would say, a pseudoproblem the
solution to which lies in the proper reformulation of the original
problem, i.e., what is the underlying physical basis of the phenomenon
of wavefunction collapse? But if we are attempting to invoke
incompatible sense of the word, physical within a single formulation
of either the question (or the answer) corresponding to this peculiar
phenomenon, then we are doomed to failure from the start, that is, we
are indulging in an equivocation of sense, which can never lead to
anything like an answer but only to confusion. And this equivocation of
sense here is simply this: physical is defined as 1) public, i.e.,
that is just like when x happened. Does this mean that in some
important sense, no matter what new things we learn people like the
above already in essence know them?
It is easy to visualize that necessity of timelike angular momentum being
associated with the appearance of 3-angular momentum, c.f., The
Mysterious Flow (Davies Scientific American Article). Just imagine 3space being represented as a 2-surface containing an planet with orbiting
satellite.
The third spatial dimension models the time dimension.
Instead of a retracing elliptical orbit (ignoring any possible general
relativity effects for the moment), the orbit appears in 2 + 1 spacetime as
a right or left-handed corkscrew (as the case may be). If one looks at
the center of the corkscrew tracing of the orbit edge on from any
direction around the corkscrew axis, one would observer a looping of the
satellite in 2 + 1 spacetime in the x-t plane (if one was looking
perpendicularly to this plane), a looping of the satellite in the y-t
spacetime plane (looking perpendicularly to this plane), looping in the zt plane or admixtures of components of looping in two or three of
these spacetime planes. This looping of the satellite about its primary
in each of these spacetime planes constitutes, of course and angular
momentum perpendicular to the particular spacetime planes. In this
way we see that a purely spatial angular momentum when one is
observing the satellite orbit while at rest relative to the primary becomes
an admixture of spacelike and timelike components of angular
momentum when one is observing the orbit while in states of uniform
motion relative to the satellites orbital axis of other than rest.
Approaching an orbiting body across a gravitational potential gradient
must mean traveling relative to the orbiting body nonuniformly in time,
which necessarily endows the body with an apparent timelike
component of angular momentum. There is reason to believe that the
converse of this is true: a 4-angular momentum gradient must exhibit
gravitation-like effects upon matter present in this gradient.
The degree of correlation of the spin components of the spontaneously
decayed composite spin-0 particle determines the orientation of the spin-
from the embedding and sustaining dynamical ground of the crystal, i.e.,
the quantum vacuum sustaining the crystals existence?
is only the extreme case, one in which the spatial and temporal axes
have been exchanged (at the black hole event horizon itself). But in less
extreme cases of gravity and/or acceleration, the surface defined by the
so-called event horizon is more generally defined by a 3-hypersurface in
four dimensional spacetime. The case of a black hole, the radius of
curvature is purely 3d spatial. In the case of the three space, the radius
of curvature is purely temporal with again, a 3-hyper surface event
horizon.
In the case of moderate gravitational fields, the radii of
curvature possesses contain one temporal and three spatial components.
Not only are the time and space axes exchanged at the event horizon of a
black hole, but the event horizon (to which the time axis remains always
orthogonal) is reduced from a 3-hypersurface to a 2-dimensional
spherical surface. The entropy of the event horizon becomes maximal at
the same time as the 3rd spatial dimension of the event horizon is
squeezed out. This perhaps suggests that the information of 3dimensional material structures is holographically coded onto a 2surface. Does this possibility have any relation to the physics of anyons,
i.e., the structure of 3+1 spacetime is coded or programmed into the
patterns of fluctuations of anyonic particles and fields on a 2dimensional surface? So what then is the relationship between anyonic
physics and supersymmetry? Somehow the comparison of the two
theories reminds me of comparing a discrete with a continuous
automobile transmission.
The relation of anyonic physics to Fermi-Bose physics is analogous
to the relationship of analogue to digital computing. The Fermi-Bose
physics is a kind of digitized abstraction from the continuous anyonic
physics. The 2-dimensional continuous field of numbers is more than
adequately dense and complex enough to code for a 3-dimensional array
of discrete values. The otherwise mutually exclusive categories of
discrete fermions and interpenetrating boson fields break down
altogether on a 2-surface, which is the domain of so-called anyonic
physics.
It would be interesting to explore how the postulates of
quantum mechanics must be appropriately modified to become
April 2011
The more I have reflected upon the deconstructive project, the more I
notice its close similarity with the psychic dissociation experienced by
schizophrenics, c.f., cit=Madness and Modernism (au=Sass). This psychic
dissociation experienced by the schizophrenic is similar to that effected
by deconstructionist thinkers (see above comment concerning the real
nature of thought) in that what previously was uncritically accepted as
a coherent and unassuming entity or object within ones environment is
now seen by the deconstructive philosopher as a kwd=reification from out
of a heavily filtered and reprocessed flux. What the deconstructionist is
careful to point out is that the rationale by which the flux has been
reified into objects (see au=Piaget here) (also, c.f, au=William James
blooming, buzzing confusion) is essentially arbitrary at least to the
extent of being only one coherent way among myriad possible, equally
viable ways of filtering-kwd=reification of the flux, c.f., languages as
concept maps in which language at least partially determines
thought, e.g., incompleteness of the mutual translatability of languages
and the innateness of grammar (au=Chomskys cit=Syntactic Structures).
The justification of the manner of reprocessing of the flux of experience
always comes later (this is au=Derridas concept of always alreadiness
at work here) and is not so much an expression of earlier cultural forms
as what comes later as a shoring up of what has come before and a back
formation/attribution of a more coherent individual will and intention/
intentionality and meaning to those earlier forms than what were
originally explicitly or self-consciously present.
(See au=Libets
experiments on the relative timing of the subjects conscious impulse to
act and the initiation in the subjects brain of a build up of the necessary
preparatory action potentials for acting on the impulse) Much of the
force of the personal pronoun, I with which a speaker in modern times
endows this pronoun has grown up only during the past several
needed the voices of his gods for guidance as he was now on his own in
two important ways: he now conducted operations during the day not
only collectively but also individually and the control of his actions had
begun to be assumed from the inside rather than from out of a flurry of
screams, warnings and shouted directions from the other members of
the, e.g., hunter-gatherer hunting party. (Question: did Man become
more rather than less nomadic with the thawing of the glaciers of the last
ice age?) Do psychopathy and sociopathy also represent vestigial modes
of psychological function that formerly held a much more integral
function within nomadic, hunter-gatherer society or do we have to go
back much further in Mans prehistory in order to find the natural
selective advantage conferred upon the individual possessing either
psycho- or sociopathy? Does the institution of marriage only poorly fit
the innate impulses and tendencies, which we inherited from our huntergatherer prehistory? For example, it appears likely that sexuality on the
part of our hunter-gatherer ancestors was not monogamous, but more
likely orgiastic, c.f, au=McKenna, cit=Food of the Gods. So the sexual
duplicity and serial monogamy, which appeared more and more
frequently during so-called moderns times (and still more now in
postmodern society) represent but a resurgence of human beings natural
sexual instincts now that the strictures of Puritanical/Victorean social
legislation and mores are more or less in a profound state of lapse. There
should have been no selective pressure in favor of the development of a
new and higher mode of mental functioning (ego-consciousness)
during sleep, which supports the notion of the relatively egoless mode of
consciousness enjoyed during dreaming being a leftover or vestigial
mode of primitive consciousness. The bicameral mind may have
resulted from the brain compensating with its newly developed linguistic
capacities for a sudden disruption of the epigenetically unified (through
culture) functioning of Mans dual-hemisphere brain in which the right
brain had traditionally maintained dominance. The development of a
tool-using culture would have taken some of the selective pressure off of
the right brain and placed it more squarely upon the brains more
analytical left hemisphere.
Changes in consciousness perhaps
correspond with changed boundary conditions upon conscious
instinctive goal-orientatedness, viral mimesis, suggestibility (and autosuggestibility), kwd=reification as permitting coherent metalevel
entanglement, etc. all conspired to enable what I term here the illusion of
the non-dissociated nature of experience.
It is arguable that
consciousness as such is an artifact of integration of preconsciously
processed sensory (and sensory-referred) inputs, c.f., the effects of the
dissociative anesthetic, Atavin.
Auto-suggestibility is a valuable component of self-consciousness with
clear social utility.
Does the evolutionary process take on a distinctly different character
once evolutionary change is recast in the frequency as opposed to the
time domain? Just look at the difference between the spatial versus
energy level paradigms of memory storage.
Space and time are
different projections of spacetime, spatialized memory of timelike
evolutions. Frequency is proportional to energy, which is the dual
quantum parameter to that of time. Space and time are local variables
while the duals of these, spatial and temporal frequencies are essentially
nonlocal. Any frequency spectrum of a closed system is rational in the
sense of standing wave patterns, i.e., an integral number of nodes
contained within any given wave train. In an open system there can be
no such thing as an integral whole number of nodes contained within
the system.
Genuine temporality seems to require an irrational
frequency spectrum to underlie what might be conveniently termed here
the time domain spectrum.
Genuine temporality demands the
origination of action from outside the system.
Here we see a
connection between nonlocality, genuine temporality, open systems,
uniqueness/irrationality, noncomputability, substance, continuity, free
will and collapse of the state vector, consciousness and collapse of the
state vector, environmental decoherence, entropy, information vs. data,
concrete vs. abstract, causal power vs. causal descriptions (physical laws
merely describing behavior vs. physical laws governing the behavior
of physical systems), and so on.
Our faith that we can ascertain the identity of some unknown thing
through the making of new distinctions (out of old) is secretly a faith in
the providential rationality of the universe. More generally this faith in
a universe that supports the capability of the mind for identifying entities
at one level of concretion-abstraction by manipulating operations of
class inclusion and class exclusion at higher levels of abstraction than
that which those entities occupy. The doing of science and philosophy,
then, presupposes a secret and perhaps also unbeknownst adherence to a
theistic argument from design.
If the basis of both individual consciousness as well as consciousness as
such is physical then we might expect the underlying mechanism of
consciousness as such to be intimately connected to that mechanism by
which the identity of MWI quantum universes is determined, as well as
the mechanism by which physical law parameters are tuned so as to
produce this particular universe (rather than some possible other
universe). If this is true then the mechanism by which ones individual
consciousness operates is grounded in the particular uniquely and
precisely tuned system of physical constants (which has been articulated
by the culture in which one resides as a uniquely solipsistic individual.)
The functioning of each persons consciousness would vis a vis the
requirements of what we might term here the quantum solipsistic
version of Anthropic Cosmological Principle (ACP) require that the
physical constants be tuned ever so slightly differently to enable the
emergence of one consciousness (rather than some other). This would
guarantee the ultimate incommensurability of the freely willed actions of
any individual that impinge upon the intersubjective realm, i.e., the
universe in which there is some effective value (akin to the expectation
value of a quantum observable?) for each fundamental physical
constant. Intersubjective observables are always grounded, if you will
in some particular ground or vacuum state.
The many minds interpretation of quantum measurement should not
suffer from the same basic or inherent limitations as does the many
worlds (so-called) interpretation.
(How can a superposition of
It is clear that some order or system either called me into being or called
something into being that later became myself. Here we encounter the
paradox of the transcendence of form by substance.
How can
substances come into being if they are continuous with their ground
from which they come into being (and which presumably sustain the
being of the substances after coming into being)?
To say that the
identity of a person is founded on the correspondence of what is key to
the person being who he is in time with what is key to the person being
who he is in eternity (or in the persons eternal aspect) is, it appears, to
invoke form as the basis of personal identity. On the other hand, if it is
substance and continuity that are key to personal identity, rather than
correspondence of form, then there is some unique principle of
coherence and cohesiveness enjoyed by substances that also transcends
any possible formal analysis, i.e., unique individuals do not fit into the
schema of relationships of mere class inclusion and exclusion. This
comparison of substance and form demonstrating the transcendence by
substance of form is reminiscent of comparisons, topological or
otherwise of the real and integer number lines, as well as of the
comparison in physics of time with space. (List yet again the system of
dual categories that partially aligns with the substance vs. form
dichotomy, c.f., earlier writings)
Because the distinction of matter and mind is based upon abstraction
stemming from limitations imposed on us along two fronts, i.e., sense
perception on the one hand and conceptualization on the other, we might
suppose that by probing matter deeply enough with technologically
advanced enough instruments of observation that an underlying substrate
would be revealed possessing attributes common to both mind and
matter though perhaps of a somewhat more inchoate form than
expressed through the form of either modality. But if this distinction is
so fundamental as to be absolutely necessary for the intellect, then
perhaps the duality of mind and matter respects a physically based
distinction between knowledge and uncertainty, that is, the Heisenberg
uncertainty principle. Heisenberg uncertain energy might be expected
to exhibit physical properties at its surface, that is, where this uncertain
my own. The third form is where other minds exist and their mode of
operation is akin to how my own mind operates with one important
exception: I am the only altruistic human being others only appear,
sometimes or not, to possess altruistic motivations. The possibility of
comparing minds to one another presupposes some overarching context
within which the comparison might be made, i.e., differences are never
absolute but always subsist within a system of difference.
Why
shouldnt individual consciousnesss be just as mutually irreconcilable
and incommensurate as is the volition of distinct individuals? 7/4/2006
Identity secretly requires numerical identity. For your perception of A
to be similar to my perception of A, your perception of B must be
identical to my perception of C. Note that we did not say that the
similarity of my and your perceptions implied the identity of my
perception of A to your perception of B, but rather implied the identity
of my perception of B with your perception of C. This is because for it
to be meaningful to compare the perceptions of distinct minds, these
perceptions must be either reproducible phenomena or each members of
an abstract category or class. If each perception, regardless of whose it
is, is an utterly unique and individual occurrence, then the problem that
we face is not that of solipsism, but of something perhaps worse, the
non-existence of mind absolutely. The question of solipsism involves
the technical issue of how the coherence and continuity of a single
consciousness relates to the coherence and continuity of
consciousness across distinct individuals. @$My perception of A must be
identical to your perception of other object, B that is capable of existing,
that is, my perception of A must be identical to some perception of
which you are capable in order for it to be rightfully said that your
perception of A and mine are similar. December 2011 So how should we
point to P-consciousness? Well, one way is via rough synonyms. As I
said, P-consciousness is experience. P-conscious properties are
experiential properties. P-conscious states are experiential states, that is,
a state is P-conscious if it has experiential properties. The totality of the
experiential properties of a state are \what it is like" to have it, c.f.,
cit=
Why Did Evolution Engineer Consciousness? (au=Selmer Bringsjord,
another person, that is, as not being a mere extension of the known part.
There must always be room for transformative revelation concerning
both nature and the other.
Vacuum degeneracy is necessary for the reversibility upon which
delayed choice experimental results depend.
What complications are posed for the quantum measurement problem
given the freedom human experimenters have in manipulating variables
connected with the configuring of the measurement apparatuses?
Any superluminal communication between distinct minds would
necessarily be conveyed via a vacuum stated in which the vacua
embedding the heretofore two distinct minds become fused in a way
which acts to defeat the intersubjective transmission of information, i.e.,
the two minds become for a moment a single consciousness. Any
information resulting from this superluminal, infrasubjective
transmission of information between two nonlocally connected parts of
the momentary composite consciousness would appear to outsiders, i.e.,
minds other than the momentary composite mind, as the origination of
insight by the composite mind that would prove to be 1) nonformalizable
and 2) causality transcending.
Using an applied magnetic field can induce Feshbach resonance in a
Fermi-degenerate gas, resulting in either net attraction or repulsion of
the Cooper pairs within the gas, c.f., Scientific American October 2003
article, The Next Big Chill.
The quantum nonlocal correlations about which J. S. Bell has written so
much cannot be explained in terms of the action of hidden local
variables, i.e., in terms of processes taking place within the spacetime
continuum. This is where the nonformalizable nature of the human
mind must reside. But Bohms observation, so frequently mentioned in
these writings, that (local) causal connections are equivalent to certain
types of, i.e., nonlocal correlations of the spontaneously-occurring
It is said that, the stream cannot rise higher than its source. The
principle of natural selection of random variation seems to belie this
principle, unless 1) variation is not really random and/or 2) selection is
not really natural.
The essence of consciousness is metaphoricity. Each individuals brain,
which is that individuals interface to the intersubjective realm is
tuned to that individuals vacuum state (at least while the individual is
conscious), while other individuals brains are off-resonance with the
first individuals vacuum state, c.f., quantum solipsistic principle (akin
to the cosmological Anthropic principle). Since other minds operate
within what might be termed alien vacuum states, experimentation
upon the brains associated with other minds must reveal a fundamentally
different principle of the connection of mind and body than would selfexperimentation, if per impossible this kind of self-experimentation
could be conducted (this reminds us of the situation in which certain
initial or boundary conditions are possible, but which could never come
into play through the dynamics operating by themselves, e.g., checkmate
of King by Knight). So the intersubjective science of mental dynamics
must always be complemented by subjective science (such a science is
possible in principle but not in actual practice, which brings up an
important distinction). It is the distinctiveness of the quantum vacuum
state that characterizes the distinctiveness (and uniqueness) of the
physical manifestation of the consciousness of each individual mind.
The temporal protection safeguard cannot be implemented in accordance
with deterministic causality. The safeguarding of the timeline is by
avoidance of mere probabilities, which represent alternate timelines.
The causal discontinuity is in the form of reduction of the quantum
mechanical state vector.
Only in an accelerated reference frame does the vacuum possess a mass.
The time axis at the event horizon of a black hole is perpendicular to the
surface of the hole while the space axis is the black hole surface itself.
Thus are the time and space axes of the black hole exchanged at its event
horizon.
Interminable metaphysical questions do not point so much to the
indeterminacy of reality as they do to the limitations of the human mind.
These questions occupy what might be termed the poles or
asymptotes of the human rational-cognitive fabric.
degrees of freedom.
On account of the spin-statistics theorem of quantum mechanics, the
Lorenz spacetime symmetry group is a subgroup of the overall
spacetime symmetry group, c. f., Supersymmetry in Quantum and
Classical Mechanics.
Theorem: Any finite sequence of integers is contained within the
decimal series expansion of pi. How many different ways can any (all)
(random) finite sequences of integers be contained within a decimal
expansion of a transcendental number?
It is clear that if one attempted to demonstrate the Einstein-PodolskyRosen (EPR) effect within a measurably curved region of spacetime that
the effect would have to break down due to the decoherence of the
wavefunction heretofore connecting the two spacelike-separated
particles.
Otherwise observer A shall have succeeded in informing B about the
structure of spacetime along the entire spacelike interval separating these
two observers. Note: how can the two observers be purely spacelike
separated in each is located at a different gravitational potential than the
other?
Is the prohibition against superluminal transmission of information (as
opposed to energy per se) really only a prohibition against dense
sampling of a spacetime interval at a rate implying a superluminal
velocity?
This is because the EPR effect requires instantaneous propagation of the
influence of one particles spin state being measured upon the spin
orientation of the other spacelike-separated particle and for the measured
spins of the particles to cancel so that overall spin is conserved.
But what if experimenter-B had decided early enough to conduct the
spin measurement so that the process in his brain where this decision
occurred could be timelike-connected to both particles A and B? (This
presents us with a lead on a possible hidden variables theory for
quantum nonlocal connection. Backwards propagation of subquantum
information from the same moment in two distinct reference frames in
which each particle of the pair is located and undergoes collapse of its
local spin eigenstate must take place.
This would work only if experimenter-Bs brain is protected against
some unforeseen physical influence between the time he makes the
decision to perform the key spin measurement of particle A and the time
that he actually does perform this measurement on particle A (which
defines the spacelike interval by which particles A and B are separated
at the moment that experimenter A carries out his quantum measurement
upon particle A). The alternate inertial frames in which the passage of
the instantaneous influence of A upon B correspond to the alternate
inertial frames in which an observer stationed at particle B may perform
a quantum measurement of the spin of particle B.
But the observer
must have decided to perform his spin measurement upon particle A at
the very instant (or before) the composite particle decays to produce the
component particles A and B in order for his decision to conduct the
spin measurement is to become timelike connected to A and B at the
moment that he later actually does perform the spin measurement.
The spacetime curvature along the geodesic connecting the particles
(which geodesic we choose is observer/reference frame dependent, by
the way) must be effectively sampled by whatever constitutes the
influence connecting the two particles along the geodesic path separating
the particles. The question comes up at this point whether the path
connecting the particles is that by which the particles originally became
separated itself a timelike geodesic or the spacelike geodesic
instantaneously connecting the particles in say, observer-As inertial
frame.
The communication of the decoherence of the film emulsion of
How would the underlying vacuum state of the system have to react to
the measurements of the system conducted by A and B in order that
neither A nor B succeed in transmitting information to the other
experimenter?
The dynamics of the conspiratorial action of the
vacuum in counteracting all attempts by conscious quantum observers to
transmit information over spacelike intervals say, through some dynamic
structuring of Heisenberg uncertainty of physical observables, must be
importantly wrapped up in the very dynamics of the consciousnessprocesses that underlie all possible acts of observation by said quantum
experimenters/observers.
There are two impulses to dynamically
structure the Heisenberg uncertainties; one of these comes from the
vacuum state of the quantum system being observed, the other, from the
vacuum states of the two quantum observers. So here we have a unified
vacuum process (the one underlying the unity of the spacelike separated
parts of the quantum system in question) versus a composite vacuum
state. In other words, we have here the opposition of an intersubjective
vacuum with two subjective vacua.
Discuss how the tower of Babel story reenacts on a metaphorical level
the fall of Man, i.e., discuss how the immanent form of the transcendent
unity became shattered and scattered. Discuss the Kabalic theories of
Luria. Discuss the etymological relationships across different languages
of the word for holy, e.g., whole, heal, health, hole, hale, heil, hyle,
etc.
Discuss the hologram analogy of the shattering of the divine
person/image of God. The Fall of Man involved the disconnection of
the transcendent from the immanent poles of Gods being.
(Refrigerator light-hidden variables analogy)
Expectations of the observer affect how the experimental apparatus is set
up. But the reaction of the system to observer expectations should be
symmetrical, e.g., spin-1/2 measurements.
Conscious observation
involves perception of observables of physical quantities smaller than
their respective quantum uncertainties. Note that virtual-real distinction
is founded upon magnitude relative to that of corresponding Heisenberg
uncertainties.
Whats the difference between context free data that code information
from such data that code for no information? Only the origin of the data
determines or decides this. By what physical trace is the deciding
imprint of mind/consciousness placed upon the physical realization of
data? Origin and continuity are substantial or substance-based rather
than formalizable. Is pure, substantial continuity the deciding factor
here? If so, then we have to ask what is the symmetry and/or the space
informed by this symmetry, if any, corresponding to the degeneracy of
substance? This space would perhaps constitute the true ground of
being, further support for the theory of the intersubjective nature of
objectivity.
Shannon entropy can never exhaust thermodynamic entropy because (in
part) the universe is physically real and not secretly a simulation.
Otherwise, no physical substrate world be left over with which to
mediate switching and relaying of signals if Shannon entropy ever
exhausted the thermodynamic entropy. Hawking radiation contains no
data (local interaction content), but pure information in the form of
nonlocal quantum correlations. What does this important fact about the
composition of Hawking radiation tell us about the nature of the only
three quantities preserved after the collapse of a black hole?
The
frequency spectrum of the Hawking radiation emitted by the hole gives
us the temperature of the hole which also gives us the surface gravity
and hence the mass of the hole. The polarization of the Hawking
radiation gives us the other two quantities characterizing the hole, i.e., its
electric charge and angular momentum.
Is it possible that the
information about the conserved quantities of the black hole are not
coded into the quantum fluctuation-correlation structure of the holes
coupled vacuum state, but nonetheless contained within the mass-energy
of the hole? If so, then this is the only part of the hole that relates to the
physically real nature of the hole (and of all that is physically real).
Searles causal powers are to be sought in these physical quantities,
mass, angular momentum and charge.
frame (it Planck mass were greater than black hole mass and hole
entropy were 0). (Nonlocal mediating local interactions)
encounters the human mind. And if that one probes deeply enough, he
encounters his mind. This suggests that quantum mechanics is natures
way of revealing the fundamental truth of a kind of democratic
solipsism.
This principle is true for each observer and potential
observer. Each observer may only probe down to his or her own
identical vacuum state or, more aptly, his or her own ground of being.
Probing into the natural order must ultimately result in the decoupling of
the observer from the intersubjective world system. This is further
reason for why the dynamics of the individual consciousness may never
find any satisfactory explication in terms of so-called objective physical
processes.
Deeper probing of nature implies getting a progressively
less mediated and more direct access to the processes under study. The
asymptote for progressive immediacy of knowledge is the individuals
consciousness as substrate of all possible knowledge for that individual.
Each unification of otherness speaks of the self not originally included in
it.
Any analysis of some physical manifestation of the observers
particular system of categories by that observer, which is penetrating
enough, shall result in deep aspects of the observers mind being
revealed to him by way of the particular physical manifestation in
question.
Matter does not only induce a warping of spacetime, but creates the very
spacetime that it warps.
This would be true if we equate warped
spacetime with spacetimes metric structure.
This case is to be
distinguished from one in which matter and metric structure of
spacetime arise together interdependently.
Kauffmanian fitness landscapes are tightly aligned with DNA chemical
stability landscapes. Is this a mere coincidence; is this design; or is the
tight alignment between the two landscapes itself the product of natural
selection?
This alignment of genotypic chemical stability with
phenotypic fitness landscapes, if in part is the product of natural
selection of random variations in DNA chemical structure, would also be
in part the product of some kind of selection of variation in say, the
what endow them with inertia, and it is clear now that in the absence of
any and all matter, the semi-infinite quantity of vacuum fluctuation
energy within any given microscopic volume of spacetime must be
wholly devoid of inertia.
For at the very least, the influence of
accelerated motion upon an energy system must be communicated to
and throughout this system via quantum nonlocal correlation of the
systems Heisenberg-uncertain energy fluctuations.
This manner in which local causal interactions become tied to nonlocal
correlational interactions between quantum fluctuations of energy shows
the operation of Bohms equivalence principle at a most fundamental
level. Bohms equivalence principle states, to wit that local causal
interactions may always be alternately represented in terms of some
appropriate set of quantum correlations obtaining between an
appropriate set of quantum fluctuations. Bohms principle suggests that
the density of causal interactions within matter cannot become greater
than the density of quantum fluctuations correlated so as to properly
ground these causal interactions.
The density of causal interactions
becoming greater than the density of supporting nonlocally correlated
fluctuations would constitute in effect the stream rising higher than its
source. An application of these fundamental limitations imposed by
Bohms equivalence principle is that the density of causally interacting
particles cannot be greater than the density of quantum correlated
vacuum energy occupying the same volume.
The above provides a
possible basis for distinguishing a bodys inertial from its gravitational
mass, or for physically explaining the basis for their true equivalence. It
follows that black holes must be composed of two equal parts, a matter
and a vacuum component. If the Universe possesses critical density,
then the Universe is itself a kind of black hole and we should expect
then the cosmological mass and vacuum energy densities to be equal.
In addition to spatial, temporal and spatiotemporal gradients in energy,
momentum and momentum energy, gradients across distinct quantum
superposition branches might prove physically meaningful, especially
for continua of superposition branches. But wouldnt an infrastructure
for this reason that the realm of possibility is no mere blank canvass.
Neural network perception, cohesive as opposed to merely coherent
possibility spaces.
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why the quantum mechanical wavefunction must represent the most that
can possibly be known about the physical system it describes, i.e., the
wavefunction is a complete description of its associated physical system.
The counterintuitive results of quantum theory are fringe phenomena,
which result at the boundary of the physically real (actual) and merely
imaginary (possible).
They are a generalized kind of Gibbss
phenomena associated with some unknown boundary. This boundary
lies between the realms of the knowable and the unknowable.
Quantum phenomena are manifestations of a reaction on the part of
nature to our impinging upon her very boot-strapping functions by
which she sustains physical reality in existence.
Suppose that the famous two-slit experiment is performed with electrons
being sent through the apparatus at a rate of say, one electron per hour.
Let us note here that the original emission of these so-called individual
electrons was itself an event subject to quantum uncertainty. A camera,
A is positioned so as to collect information about which slit each
electron travels through. Another camera, B is positioned so as to view
the phosphorescent backstop that the electrons shall strike after passing
through the two-slit barrier. Certainly if camera-A or its film emulsion
is destroyed (in an irreversible manner) prior to the film emulsion of
camera-B being developed, then upon finally developing the film
emulsion of camera-B, a pattern of interference fringes is revealed. On
the other hand, if the film in camera-A is developed first, then
knowledge of which slits the electrons passed through is obtained so that
when the film in camera-B is developed no interference fringe pattern is
revealed, but instead a buckshot pattern of individual particle hits on
the phosphorescent screen. Naturally, we want to know what happens
when the information contained in camera-A is preserved while the film
emulsion of camera-B is developed. If the film of camera-B is
developed first, then we should expect one of two results: either we see
an interference fringe pattern or we see a buckshot pattern of electron
particle hits. Depending upon which pattern we see upon developing
the film emulsion of camera-B shall determine whether, upon finally
developing the emulsion of camera-A the information concerning the
nonlocally connected coherent quantum fields of the human brain backreact upon the brains decohered fields?
Quantum mechanics is Gods system for accommodating human free
will with the classical physical appearance of the environment in which
human choices are played out.
The phenomenon of a moral sense is intimately tied to that of human
free volition.
Delayed choice experiments in nonlocality demonstrate that it is not
merely or only consciousness of the observer as such that induces
wavefunction collapse, but the freely willed, concrete actions of the
observer in adjusting the experiment conditions of a quantum
measurement (observation) that is sufficient to induce collapse. It is the
shared general feature of free will and consciousness, which involve
quantum systems become involved in, that of irreversibility, which
excludes the possibility of the observer effecting a delayed choice
experimental result. The delayed choice experimental setup requires
proper isolation of the quantum system that is subject to delayed
choices.
In this manner the configuration of the experimental
apparatus pre- and post0
f) constitute
boundary conditions of the experiment just as much as do the values of
quantum fields fixed at specific spacetime coordinates, e.g., electrically
conducting plates, static magnetic fields or potential energy barriers.
What permits the delayed choice is uncertainty either Heisenberg time
uncertainty pure and simple or more generally uncertainty in the
specification of the initial conditions of the experimental setup.
The direction of time for a prepared quantum state representing a closed
system only appears definite. There can be no real causality without
irreversibility, only causal correlation of present with past phenomena.
The so-called Star Trek transporter paradox was first pointed up by the
character of Doctor McCoy in one of the continuing novelizations of the
series. In this novelization McCoy expresses his fear that the McCoy
that steps onto the transporter pad aboard ship is not the same McCoy
that shall step off of the transporter pad at the receiving end on the
planet below. The character Spock counters McCoys fears by noting
the null effect of the paradox from the point of view of everyone else
concerned (other than McCoy himself, that is). The converse of this
situation is suggested by Hugh Everetts Many Worlds Interpretation of
Quantum Measurement.
The proper metaphysical interpretation of personal identity is one of
parallel quantum solipsism.
Solipsism may be at some level
unavoidable since my consciousness either exists only with my present
individual self or is reiterated an indefinite number of times in the form
of this my own individual form and all those constituted by other
individuals like this self.
I perform a quantum measurement and according to Everett my
consciousness suddenly transitions to some other almost identical
universe maybe only one in which the only thing that has changed
after my measurement is performed is that Im in a new universe in
which my consciousness is the only consciousness continuous with the
previous universe in which my consciousness resided just prior to my
performing the measurement.
In fact, this particular case should
constitute the minimal possible change that may be induced by my act of
quantum measurement.
My act of quantum measurement/observation merely changes the
probabilities of the results of future quantum measurements/observations
as might be conducted by others sharing my intersubjective
environment.
But my act of quantum measurement does not merely
change the quantum probabilities for me, it changes the very quantum
universe within which I reside. The act of measurement does not
change the dynamics of the world within which one is performing
measurements, it just alters the boundary conditions to which any and all
quantum measurements become subject. And part of these altered
Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind [italics,
mine], and said, Job 38:2 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words
without knowledge? Job 38:3 Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I
will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth
[italics, mine]? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Psalms 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them
away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
objective) spacetime.
(I can intuitively see the fundamental truth
implied by this assertion though I have yet to find a proper specific
expression for this insight.) The integration of somewhat separate lines
of adaptation through the interbreeding of heretofore non-interbreeding
subspecies into a new hybrid subspecies is an example of just the kind of
integration of ordinary evolutionary processes that seems to require a
description in terms of physical processes in multidimensional time. A
futher example of higher dimensional time is the evolution of the
cybernetic control system represented by the network of higher order
regulatory genes. In other words, in the above particular case, one
subspecies did not phylogenetically transform into the other, nor did
either transform in this way into the hybrid subspecies. Rather the new
hybrid subspecies was brought into being through direct expression of
an altogether new genome. There is logic at work in the evolution of
sexually reproducing species in which distinct varieties of viable
subspecies when crossed almost inevitably result in new hybrids that are
also viable to more or less the same degree. There is a deeper reason
for this than can be accounted for using the Darwinian model of natural
selection of random mutations. This is quite the contrary situation to
that in thermodynamics in which say, two liquids or two gases are mixed
together and in which the resultant entropies are always greater that the
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entropy of the sum of the component entropies.
Does sexual
December 2011
selection then require the nonrandomness of mutation?
The
linear, causal-deterministic time (one dimensional time) does not appear
sufficiently rich to contain the dynamic mechanism underlying the selforganizing properties of atoms and molecules, which pushed the
evolution of biological complexity forward prior to the advent of a unit
of heredity, e.g., primitive RNA, DNA, etc. during the first billion years
of chemical evolution. The Cambrian explosion and the many sudden
leaps forward in biological evolution, which have occurred since (the
alleged reason for an admittedly sparse fossil record of speciestransitional change) hint at the existence of bifurcations and limit cycles
in higher dimensions of time than one. Perhaps in the same way that the
brain requires higher dimensions of time to effect the temporal
integration underlying the appearance of the relatively small time
What if, on the other hand, abstraction is reversible though the sequence
of
The brain possesses, i.e., produces no conscious states of its own, but
just acts as a kind of complex set of filters.
These filters are applied to
-a finite set of information
-an infinite set of information
Here consciousness possesses a determinate latent structure.
The brain produces no conscious states of its own, but engenders
structures within preexistent consciousness(es).
It creates these structures by
-inducing a reaction in preexistent consciousness
wholly determined by the brain action
only in part determined by brain action
the networked processing of the local data are lost. This is precisely the
predicament for human experience in which the data collected by each
individual during the course of his biography are lost through the death
of the individual and dissolution of his neural network (on which,
allegedly the data of his life experience were stored throughout life).
Current and recent research into human memory appear to suggest that
all that is really stored within the confines of the human skull are
memory traces, not actual memories. These memory traces act akin to
Internet web address pointers or weblinks. One breakdown of this
analogy is that in the case of computers connected via the Internet, the
web servers possess a local physical address (in addition to a cyberaddress) just as do the personal computers connected via these web
servers. In the case of brain memory traces, the memories to which they
point in Weblink fashion possess no spatiotemporal location though
perhaps a location within either phase or momentum space, etc. October
2013
If neural computation and encoding of information actually takes
place at the level of tubulin dimer protein electron currents and
electromagnetic fields such that the brain's activity at this level is at least
in part quantum nonlocal, then the principles of quantum entanglement
and conservation of quantum information applied to the above drawn
analogy suggest that the brain's memory "weblinks" do not need to have
any local presence, but may be encoded nonlocally in the fundamental
quantum field or at least in the bandwidth subspectrum of this field
corresponding to a particular individual's consciousness. The possibility
of the reprocessing of the data of individual human experience into
larger transhuman or transpersonal meanings would then require a
rationality of the underlying fundamental quantum field or quantum
vacuum. October 2013 Invoking the cloud computing model, each individual
consciousness is capable of accessing local data stored within its brain
qua device, as well as accessing nonlocal information qua cloud.
Each individuals consciousness would be structured by only the data
and information contained within its own device and cloud,
respectively. The individualized cloud provides the context for the
interpretation of local data. The cloud in contradistinction would be
unified although open-ended and so in some sense infinite. On this
physical constants must have been fine tuned to the greater of the two in
precision. But here is the catch...the lesser precision of fine tuning required
for Carbon-based life is automatically present just by rounding off the much
greater precision required for Ziad's mind to exist. So if Ziad exists, then
everybody else comes along for the ride as human manifestations in Ziad's
world, but the above fine tuning requirements for other minds are always
less restrictive, e.g., 8 decimal places, and automatically come along for the
ride (as "also rans" from the necessary rounding down of Ziad's higher
physical constant fine tuning precision requirement of 12 decimal places).
November 2014 eml=If
biographic data in light of the availability of such data from all other
human beings who have ever lived?, c.f., Plantingas Problem of Other
Minds.
We are as Sartre says, hurled into existence rather than having merely
placed ones toe in the water, because no merely finite limitation
applied to the infinite can succeed in producing a finite creation and
no genuinely positive entity, i.e., emergent entity may be produced
through a negation or series of negations of some other negation (or
series of negations).
This is simply to assert that nothing is created
from a preexistent finite order because a finite order presupposes by
virtue of its simple existence all the possible permutations of
combinations of its configurable elements. In such a system there can be
no emergence but merely an underscoring of preexistent possibility, i.e.,
manifestation. @$All entities appearing from out of such a system of
possibility are epiphenomenal.
The ethics of interpersonal interaction are much sharper when all is not
secretly one. Its very easy to love ones brother as ones self.
Thats just one short step up from pure narcissism. Rather what
constitutes real love is love of the genuinely alien and other, i.e., the love
of the other as other. There is no love in the love of self (as self), only in
the love of self as other, in line with the others love of ones self as his
other. October 2013 epi=Arent metaphysics and ethics richer and the
appearance of novelty in the realm of Existence less hollow, if Being is a
Many rather than a One? Does Evil then become a kind of dystopian
rationality of unintended consequences, rather than an active or positive
principle of badness?
Sin is what pushes God outside of His comfort zone. Sin is what
results from Gods attempt to recoup himself from out of his own utter
fragmentation of Himself. Sacrifice led to the aboriginal fragmentation
of the Godhead and sacrifice is the only thing, which shall reconstitute
the Godhead anew. God was led by the idea of Man, which constituted
creation, and this was replaced by Man led by the idea of God (which
Either one very consciously takes God as replacement for the Devil in
the details or God remains in the backdrop of the implied ontological
assumptions underlying ones subconsciously held metaphysics but
either way, God as ultimate, transcendent reality is assumed.
What distinguishes a reversible from an irreversible causal sequence is
topology (as we have already indicated). What makes the difference in
topology here is absence versus presence of a grounding in an open
system of networked recursive relationships.
reference frame.
Structures of causal connectivity are perhaps physical examples of
distinct spacetime topologies. Is information a name for a topological
transformation a transformation of a very special kind, that is, a
transformation that does not satisfy continuous differentiability required
for representation in the form of differential equations?
Integral
equations of the sort obeying a variational principle represent families of
differential equations.
Since information is characterized by
topological change, if follows that deterministic causal relationships
cannot capture information content, only data structures. Thought in
which information originates is a process of the manipulation of
topological change, i.e., manipulation of causality-transcending
reactions and interactions. Spacetime possessing a constant topology
contains no where within itself processes of topology-transformation.
Theres something in the circuits along which information flows
information flow is always simulated by the pattern of quantum
correlations (of quantum field fluctuations).
By the systems total
quantity of quantum fluctuations being partitioned into two (distinct?)
sets, each is grounded differently, one set grounded within itself (the
causal set) and one grounded outside of itself (the acausal set).
A set of instructions describing the machines program that is stored in
its memory, c.f., Searles Chinese Room Argument.
What if the person in Searles Chinese Room is passed a series of
Chinese symbols containing the set of instructions for properly
processing inputted Chinese character sequences into output character
sequences? This question assumes that we have set aside for the time
being the inevitable question about what is supposed to constitute a
proper output sequence, rejoinder to a question embodied in the inputted
sequence of Chinese symbols, i.e., what is the arbiter of a correct
Because of the dual control inputs to the gravitational field, one internal
(quantum statistical) and the other external (electromagnetic), it is
possible for the underlying quantum statistical vacuum mechanism of
gravitation to be commandeered through a manipulation of the
electromagnetic boundary conditions applied to the quantum vacuum
electromagnetic field.
assumed to pass into the elsewhere region, both causality and physical
continuity are violated.
The origin of the preexistent nonlocal correlations of fluctuations
making up Heisenberg uncertainties is an open question although it
could be that the meaning of the indeterminacy principle as amplified by
our knowledge of violations of Bells inequality requires that these
correlations not function after the fashion of hidden variables, i.e.,
variables that together with a set of inputted values determine the
outcome of a quantum mechanical measurement.
This reprogramming of the correlational structure of the energy
fluctuation spectrum forming the Heisenberg uncertain energy of the
quantum system upon which delayed quantum measurement is being
performed appears to rely upon a 2nd temporal degree of freedom, which
is to say, two-dimensional time.
Although the backwards-in-time propagation of information from the
quantum-measurement-performing observer (this signal would not be
accessible to any other observer) has an effect similar to what would be
expected from a hidden variable theory of quantum measurement. The
system upon measurement produces a physical observable by way of a
dynamics altogether different from that by which the observer chooses
his experimental setup.
Are alternate quantum universes distinguished as spacelike or as
timelike separated timelines?
The initial and boundary conditions of the wavefunction may be
determined by the classical physical actions of the observers body upon
the experimental apparatuses.
The actual dynamics by which one
eigenvalue is chosen from out of the field of all possible eigenvalues is
itself a choice not determined by the initial and boundary conditions.
Only the initial and boundary conditions of a system are subject to being
engineered. The dynamics constrained by the boundary conditions is
fields, and this were to break the symmetry of state-vector-basisindependence, then the biasing of the results of quantum measurement of
spin would have to be explained in one of two ways, one superficial, the
other fundamental. The superficial explanation of the biasing of the
spin measurements would be to invoke the notion of fine or subtle
boundary conditions being imposed upon the quantum vef. The deep or
fundamental explanation of this biasing would be one where the very
dynamics of the vef has been changed through a historical process.
If there is an equivalent quantum-statistical description for the operation
of fundamental forces, e.g., electromagnetic, strong nuclear, etc., then
we should be able to find a complete quantum statistical description of
the action of gravitation one constituting a mechanism for
gravitation, even if we are still centuries away from successfully
quantizing the gravitational field, which is to say representing gravity as
a fundamental force on a par with the other three heretofore known
fundamental exchange forces. In the case of the electromagnetic force,
the alternative mechanism for the action of gravitation upon photons,
i.e., redshift (energy-shift) and light deflection (momentum-shift) was,
respectively, the polarization and magnetization of the quantum
vacuums virtual electric dipoles and magnetons.
Gravitational light deflection, in which the angular momenta of
deflected spin-1 photons are tipped, is just the manifest part of the
movement of the photon through a vacuum electromagnetic field of
spatiotemporally varying 4-angular momentum. Gravitational redshift
of photons climbing out of a gravitational potential may be
conceptualized in terms of a shift in DeBroglie wavelength of quantum
entangled field of virtual photons that must accompany a decrease in the
density of correlated virtual photons with increasing radial distance from
some gravitating body.
Question: do inputs to physical observable variables smaller in
magnitude than the corresponding variable Heisenberg uncertainties
cause any kind of alteration or shift in the center of mass of the
respective H-uncertainties?
It would seem that the no hidden
variables prohibition would seem to prevent such an alteration to
Heisenberg uncertainties the inputs should be completely absorbed
within the larger H-uncertain quantities. Well then, what about repeated
inputs, each smaller than /\q, but collectively greater than /\q? This
should depend upon the phase relationships between the inputs
contained within the collective set, c.f., quantum measurement as
necessarily producing a disruption in the delicate tissue of quantum
phase relations between basis eigenfunctions.
Exactly analogous to the engineering design of the, e.g., quantum
electromagnetic field boundary conditions are the logical axioms and
rules of inference by which theorems are proven. In contrast to the
Gdel-incompleteness represented by any and all computer
engineering designs we may contrast what we might term the Bohmcompleteness of the dynamical substrate of the nonlocally connected
quantum vacuum constrained by such a computer engineering design.
Quantum computation would exhibit the same information-processing
features as the dynamic by which the results of quantum measurement
are determined through observer-interaction with a prepared quantum
mechanical system. But quantum computation should not be expected
to reproduce the dynamics by which the observer chooses the quantum
mechanical basis states, i.e., the particular Hilbert space in terms of
which the results of quantum measurement are to be sought.
It is true vis a vis Wigners theory of quantum measurement that
consciousness collapses the wavefunction. But such a situation only
becomes possible in the first instance provided that the observer first
exerts his free will in initially preparing the quantum system prior to
performing his measurement, i.e., chooses the basis of the state space of
possible eigenfunctions in order that the associated eigenvalues may be
determined through conscious measurement. May 2014 Robert Lanza in
Biocentrism notes that in the absence of the observer a rainbow is at best
a superposition of trillions of distinct rainbows. The unobserved rainbow
can define the set of all sets which dont contain themselves, and ask,
with the young Russell, the question: Does this set contain itself or
not? See what happens: if it does contain itself, it follows that it is one
of the sets which dont contain themselves (as this is the property that
characterizes elements of this set) and thus cannot contain itself. But if it
doesnt contain itself, then it does not have the property of not
containing itself, and thus does contain itself. This situation, in which
assuming something implies its negation, and vice versa, is called a
paradox. When a paradox, such as Russells, arises in a theory, it is a
sign that one of its basic premises, definitions or axioms is faulty.
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other side of this boundary such a logical paradox poses no real threat.
Have we in some way identified here the proper demarcation between
open and closed dynamical (as well as computational) systems?
Consciousness seems to present us with an example in which the
recursion of infinite regress threatens no harm, i.e., does not threaten to
cause system disintegration, but rather with a case where infinite regress
is foundational to the dynamical/ computational structure of the system.
We might say that consciousness does an end run around the limitations
normally imposed upon the system by the quantum mechanical selection
rules. As these selection rules are founded in the conservation of
various quantum-number-associated conserved physical quantities, the
boundary between inside (which contains the conserved quantities)
and outside (from which all violations of conservation originate) must be
pointed up by the conserving or nonconserving behavior of elements
contained within the system.
Here we see the importance of the
consideration of topology where the various distinctions between
computable vs. noncomputable, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical, periodic
vs. aperiodic, conserved vs. nonconserved, reversible vs. irreversible,
linear vs. recursive, logical vs. paradoxical, natural vs. anomalous, 4- vs.
3+1-spacetime, spatialized vs. temporal time, grammar vs. rhetoric, etc.
The distinction of initial/boundary conditions vs. dynamics does not
seem to line up with the above list of dual distinctions. This is because
this later distinction is based in a tri- rather than bi-valent. The tertiary
element of the trivalent distinction is choice, i.e., the choice of the
observer determining the values of the initial and boundary conditions of
the quantum mechanical system he is preparing. This is the famous
basis problem of quantum measurement theory, which is treated in
distinctly different manner by each quantum ontology, i.e., ontological
interpretation of quantum theory/quantum measurement. Each distinct
manner of interpreting quantum mechanics with respect to the
measurement problem may be understood as a distinct logical system
(system of axioms and rules of inference) for quantum mechanical
behavior.
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Our social order will probably seem complex to you. To tell the truth, I
dont understand it clearly myself. Nobody does, c.f., The Sleeper
Awakens (1899) by H. G. Wells. <societal holism>
Thematic kernels or nuclei of perceptual organization exist which guide
the construction of perception of situational context.
What if the
relationship of our concepts to reality can be only one of a metaphorical
nature?
There is only one Universe, but there is a possibility for the existence
of as many matrices, c.f., the movie, The Matrix as there are
extraterrestrial civilizations technologically advanced enough to
engineer their own matrix. This suggests that the probability that we
are in a matrix is high if the number of such technologically advanced
civilizations in the Universe is much larger than unity. This is just a
simple and more elegant restatement of the so-called Sagan
hypothesis. The Sagan hypothesis as we recall, postulated that since
the distribution of intelligence amongst extraterrestrial civilizations (as
reflected in the state of technological development of each civilization)
conforms to a bell curve distribution with an average level of
Manchester.
Classes are distilled from sensory and perceptual experience, e.g.,
NCO-ness through a piecing together of a topological structure.
Data structures span the contents within individual quantum vacua.
Information structures span the contents across individual vacua.
Full resonance is equivalent to null coherence (this presupposes a
symmetry and conservation principle connecting resonant and coherent
vacuum phenomena). (But what can we say in this connection about
the possible inertial effects of quantum nonlocality in purely resonant
vacuum states?)
With the advent of vacuum coherence, the systems begin to connect and
exchange quantities of interaction (the nature of which is to be
explored later) with other vacua and topology is a definite consideration
in this regard. The movement of an object through a single, purely
resonant vacuum state must be an example of movement in a
completely quantum nonlocal sense. What is called nonlocal time is a
quantity instrumental in the process by which normal local time is
integrated.
What relevance does the categorical distinction, integrated versus
contextualized have for our already established distinction, that of data
vs. information. And how do the distinctions of quantum vs. classical,
local vs. nonlocal line up in relation to the above categorical
distinctions?
arithmetic>. True vs. False theorems and path to some new system in
which theorems heretofore not provable become so.
Gdels
Incompleteness Theorem is perhaps just a specific case of some broader
statement not limited to mathematical theorems and systems, for
example that the import of any concept of idea cannot be fully
comprehended or understood to include the concepts relative truth or
falsity if the notion of the concept in any way refers to the underlying
mechanism of the concepts production.
The reason for a machines action is different from the reasons for a
human beings action after the fashion of the distinction of how vs. why.
March 2014
In the Star Trek Next Generation episode, The Measure of a Man, Data
is put on trial to determine if he is a person with the full rights of a
human being or only a machine to be dispensed with as Starfleet sees fit.
Picard lectures his old nemesis, Starfleet JAG officer, Phillipa informing
her that, no one needs to remind us, he and commander Riker, of the
September 2014
the two distinct quantum vacua suddenly brought into mutual contact.
The collapse is necessitated specifically by the quantum vacuum
embedding the physical observable system suddenly being connected
with a to-the-system-unanticipated vacuum state.
On the above view complexity of the brain pushed far enough leads to
the possibility of the emergence of conscious states through the failure
of the embedding (intersubjective/objective) vacuum to keep up with the
distributed instantaneous states of this brain. In order to keep up and
track the temporal evolution of the brains vacuum state, the
intersubjective vacuum must suppress some of the precise details of the
brains too rapidly evolving quantum state. @$This abstraction from the
brains rapidly temporally evolving state of certain integrated sets of
features is what lies behind the production of temporally integrated
states of awareness. It is this abstraction from the brains (or rather the
quantum vacuum embedding the brains) quantum state which breaks
the link of causal necessity between the brains and its vacuums
quantum state. In other words, once the intersubjective, i.e., objective
vacuum state can no longer track (to within quantum uncertainty) the
temporal evolution of the brain, then at this point the complexity of the
brain has outstripped the public vacuum state of spacetime. It is here
that an altogether new vacuum state is nucleated and in which the
persons brain now becomes embedded as the physical realization of that
persons state of consciousness. Interpretation here is a function of
choice and not causality.
As alluded to elsewhere the process of
abstraction from the objective time stream of the brains quantum
mechanical temporal evolution occupies a timelike dimension
orthogonal to that of so-called physical time.
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suddenly realized that I was running short on time so that, under the
weight of new found necessity, I commenced to mark test question
answers virtually randomly. Imagine the bizarre situation wherein the
panicked guesess of time-pressured young scholars held some material
relevance to the actual state of affairs informing the development of the
test answer key and you are perhaps glimpsing the situation in which the
action of the quantum vacuum is involved. We must remember that,
according to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, the
wavefunction represents the most that can be known about the physical
state of a quantum mechanical system. So the guesses of the quantum
vacuum are not approximations; they are determinations. But they are
determinations in the absence of any thorough-going determinism such
as was conceived by LaPlace.
This fundamental similarity of underlying mechanisms in the above two
descriptions of triggered wave function collapse is that of sudden
connection of alien vacuum states to that in which the collapse is
triggered.
In the usual case of quantum observation the sudden
connection of heretofore never before connected vacua is spacelike,
whereas in the latter case this sudden connection is timelike. May 2011
The physical interference with the system under experimental
observation does not induce the collapse. Rather the sudden coupling of
the two incommensurate vacuum states, one the systems, the other that
of the observers brain, which is the cause of wavefunction collapse.
This is all to indulge in what might be aptly termed science fiction
metaphysics and one which may well constitute an altogether new genre
of poetic expression.
To restate the latter part of the above passage from Heinlein, the
protagonist asserts his belief that he Can't see it matters whether paths
are protein or platinum." This is a disguised statement that it is purely
formal complexity that is always responsible for the crossing of the
threshold of consciousness by a computing machine that has become
sufficiently complex.
But as discussed throughout this document
The twin paradox is only solved by considering who initiates the relative
acceleration for this is what is not merely relative between the spacefaring twins. It may turn out that all real temporality is irreversible
temporality. This notion of the necessary irreversible nature of time is
an implication of surprised vacuum inertio-gravitic theory.
Irreversible time has no necessary connection to some extra dimension
orthogonal to R-cubed, but is a characteristic of all self-initiated motionmotion based in action from outside the causal continuum. A person
who accelerates is changing his connectivity to the vacuum state or
rather changing the vacuum state to which he is connected. (The addled
soliloquies of an Alzheimer patient cause me to reflect on the relative
importance to coherent individual consciousness of causal vs. acausal
(brain + quantum substrate) processes. )
Interestingly, this changing ones embedding vacuum state, c.f., nonadiabatic quantum evolution/ Psi-collapse is what characterizes both
thinking and freely-willed action. All Fourier-analyzable functions are
deterministic and reversible (composed of harmonic functions).
When the ratio between oscillatory spectra is characterized by an
irrational function, that is, by a function of irrational numbers, then the
The creature self never tires of its favorite song, its favorite food,
pastime, etc. However, the higher, rational self easily becomes bored
with repetition. The onset of clinical depression signals the breakdown
in the communication (feedback between) the limbic system and higher
brain functions and their mechanisms of sublimation.
<phase space strings>
There is a nonphysical quantum degeneracy at work that underlies the
constancy and stability of a conscious state of awareness.
The
associated quantum operator is based in the free will of the individual.
The eigenvalue resulting from the action of this operator is not
intersubjective in nature.
This (causal) degeneracy is necessary not to dampen, filter or channel
the neurophysical causal chains, but to supervene over them.
and = v/c.
Two space travelers begin accelerating toward each other at the same
time and at the same rate. Each receives a TV transmission of the other
spacecrafts ships chronometer. How do the readings of both clocks
1)(R1)
= Hc1(R1)GM/R1c22
never formal in nature apart from abstract thinking making it appear so.
The chain of psychological associations by which middle age more or
less successfully tracks the cultural significance of social and
technological change is itself also not formal but closer in nature to a
classical conditioned response. @$The logic of Humes criticism of the
doctrine of causality is better applied to a critique of the human
perception of meaning, wholeness and absolute significance to the
metastable manifestations of human cultural evolution, that is, to a
critique of revelation, inspiration, insight and intuition as the transsubjective basis of human cultural and social institutions and artifacts.
Some scientists, perhaps the most creative and brilliant ones, as opposed
to hacks or plodders working exclusively within previously well defined
problems, are more keen to accept the veracity of a hypothesis the more
mysteriously the hypothesis seems to appear amid stream of their
subjective creative process. The mechanics that comes afterwards of
working out the derivation and implications of the hypothesis, once its
kernel idea is well in hand as an insight, is more or less a matter of
dictation. Are the sources of scientific, philosophical and religious
revelation really so different?
Institutions are created to solve social problems and provide for social
necessities.
They are hierarchically structured because history has
demonstrated that this mode of organization best befits the nature of the
collective human consciousness with the passing of the generations the
features of an institution that became firmly associated with the
institution collectively come to symbolize it. Similarly, the procedures
and methodologies of an institution begin to be seen in a broader than
merely practical light and traditions, more and more cherished with time,
begin to spring up seemingly spontaneously, c.f., Eric Hoffer, success of
Marxs system as kind of kick-ladder scaffolding or template for
imposition of social control structures and the legitimization of these
structures.
The unwitting hypocrisy of atheist intellectuals will be revealed with a
carrying through to its conclusion of the project of postmodernity, which
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orthogonal to the four phase space planes. What physical quantity
corresponds to the vector sum of components orthogonal to all mutually
orthogonal phase space volumes?
Can angular momentum and linear momentum be unified in some way?
Is the inertia of matter, in other words, somehow constituted by the
timelike component of a bodys four dimensional moment of inertia? In
this way we would expect the length contraction and time dilation to be
both a change in the moment arm and angular velocity of energy
(conserved mass).
Circular angular momentum becomes elliptical, eccentric, i.e., circular
angular momentum + precessional component of the angular
momentum. What about in 3d and 4d?
3-angular momentum is conserved by increasing v and mass staying
constant (non-relativistic case).
But this simple compensatory
mechanism for conserving the total angular momentum doesnt work in
four dimensions.
What changes then have to be unified into a
conserved total 4-angular momentum?
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length contraction
time dilation
precession
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along the photons trajectory. The photons trajectory also defines the
ratio of the photons energy and 3-momentum uncertainties, as well as
the local interface of spacetime with the elsewhere region, i.e., the local
hypersurface across which matter and vacuum (real and virtual
particles/fields) exchange momentum and energy.
Within so-called free space the momentum and energy exchanged across
the local spacetime boundary are exclusively virtual. Under acceleration/
within gravitational fields, this momentum and energy possesses a
mixed real/virtual character. This exchanged momentum-energy is really
in the form of fluctuations in momentum and energy, i.e.,, vacuum
fluctuations. These vacuum fluctuations may be understood in terms of
discrete, quantum transitions in momentum and energy much after the
fashion of a cubical symmetric crystal lattice. These quantum transitions
obey quantum mechanical selection rules that specify allowable
transitions of energy, angular momentum, spin, etc. This is all to say that
propagation of a photon is at a deeper physical level an exchange of
spin-1 momentum-energy for spin-0 energy-momentum (general case
for arbitrary spacetime).
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In the particular case of photon propagation through so-called flat
spacetime (free space), there exist an exchange of spin-1 3-momentum
for spin 4-momentum (or, if you like, 1-momentum or i-momentum,
keeping in mind the designation 3 + 1 for the usual Minkowski
spacetime.) What governs the propagation of a photon, whether within
free space or in the presence of fields, is quantum vacuum statistics. So
our chain of reasoning may be summarized synoptically as follows:
vacuum statistical laws photon propagation metric tensor
the Einstein field equations machinery everything to the right hand side
of the Einstein field equations. But what then about everything to the left
hand side of the field equations, i.e., 8piGTuv, <8piGTuv>? That is to say,
it is how the spontaneous fluctuations in quantum vacuum momentumenergy affect the Heisenberg uncertainties in the quantum vacuum which
determines the phenomenology of the theory, that is, the induced
vacuum uncertainties determine what we can and do in fact measure the
momentum-energy tensor to be? @$To suppose that the vacuum itself
gravitates is to engage in a kind of illegal double counting of the vacuum
energy.
Or perhaps rather when the vacuum fluctuations can no longer fit safely
inside the Heisenberg uncertainties corresponding to these fluctuating
physical quantities then the vacuum goes out of equilibrium by some
tiny amount which we interpret as inertial mass and which matter itself
interprets as gravitation. @$This is the philosophical-phenomenological
basis for supposing that the property of inertia may be derived from the
mechanism of gravitation.
In other words, inertia is an illusion
experienced by free will beings (whose consciousness experiences time
(temporality), inert and stupid matter experiencing only gravitation
(free fall) and a foreordained trajectory.
The operation in the brain of truly nonlocal quantum processes
throughout the brains full spatial dimensions would permit very strange
responses to stimuli, for example, a person subject to a sensory input
might interpret the input prior to its having spread to even the tiniest
portion of the gray matter closest to where the sensory impulse shall a
brief moment later enter and be relayed throughout a vast subnetwork of
the brains nervous circuits. @$This would be almost as though the
interpretation of the stimulus greets the stimulus at the front door as it
were or perhaps even so far as greeting it where the driveway meets the
public sidewalk, c.f., reaction time experiments of Benjamin Libet.
A medium possessing both rationality and emergent (as opposed to
permutational and combinational) creativity. The rationality of DNA is
pointed up by the property of the robust integrability of two (and
being present and with the deceased watching over in guardian angel
fashion his or here loved ones. Another characteristic of the Semitic
mind is that of the switching off of the rational mind of true vs. false and
its being temporarily replaced with a mind ruled by the opposition good
vs. evil.
A medium possessing both rationality and emergent (as opposed to
permutational and combinational, i.e., group theoretic/symmetrical
structure of conserved substance/entities within a closed system)
creativity seems paradoxical.
The rationality of DNA is pointed up by the property of robust
integrality of two (and possibly more) gene sequences, i.e., sexual
reproduction. What we are speaking of here is a rational though nonunified (open) system. How can a fundamentally irreversible process
such as creative evolution be understood as ultimately rational process?
The notion of the development and unfolding of an open system from
preexistent (though not fully determinate) potentialities is difficult to
grasp.
Complementarity of conjugate observables as pure state and
superposition simultaneously seems an ideal fulfillment of the ancient
Greek question how can the many be one and the one many?
Space is reversible motion; time is irreversible motion.
The operation in the brain of truly nonlocal quantum processes
throughout the brains full spatial dimensions to stimuli, for example, a
person subject to a sensory input might interpret the input prior to its
having spread to even the tiniest portion of the gray matter closest to
where the sensory impulse shall a brief momentum later enter and be
relayed throughout a vast subnetwork of its nervous circuits. This
would be almost as though the interpretation of the stimulus greets the
stimulus at the front door as it were, or perhaps even so far as where
driveway meets the curb.
\E0(/\t//\t0) = /\E,
momentum).
relations.
/\x/\px h
/\t(/\Ex + /\Ey + /\Ez) h (or perhaps /\tx/\Ex h, etc.,
where by /\tx is meant the time uncertainty of processes involving /\x
uncertain events, and so on.
If all real physical change within the vacuum crystal must be associated
with discrete energy transitions associated with discrete energy
transitions of the crystal, then each exchange of 3-momentum within the
crystal must be accompanied by a discrete change in the crystal energy
of pc, where p is the exchanged momentum (photon). Changes in the
state of the crystal not involving changes in energy are not coupled with
exchanges of force-mediating particles (due to the unbroken symmetry
of the energy degenerate state).
Concerning the Schrdinger Cat Paradox, c.f., hep-ph/0206103 v2 31 Jul
2002, it may be avoided by positing the following principle:
ab {} if either a or b {}.
{[a {}] v {[b {}]} ab {}.
In other words, although the cyanide dispensing apparatus may exist in a
superposition state, (a + b), there can be no superposition, (ab0 + ab1)
because the cat, being a classically coherent, organically complex
system cannot decohere ( in a quantum mechanical sense) and cannot
itself be described consistently as a pure state, i.e., the cat has no
wavefunction description.
The implication here is that entities
possessing a consistent description in terms of a quantum mechanical Psi
and which therefore exhibit superposition states (under certain
measurement conditions) are merely abstract in nature. Real entities on
the other hand possess no such convenient quantum description. Such
entities exist irreversibly. In this way reversible interactions can only
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parallel in the case of, e.g., e- and antiparallel in the case of e+. It is
clear that the impressed B field increase the anticorrelation of fermions
with antifermions, causing the virtual e-e+ pair to behave more as a
composite spin 0 particle (boson), thus reducing the interference of the
Pauli principle (via the Pauli-blocking effect) with the tendency of the
quantum vacuum to partially condense.
By virtue of the vector
relationship of /\p and /\E, it appears there is now in our grasp a handy
physical, condensed matter explanation of the masslessness of the
photon. The cycle of increasing B field, decreasing E-field for cycle,
followed by a cycle of increasing E-field, decreasing B-field in which
the effect of each cycle (lasting only as long as /\t, the Heisenberg
time uncertainty) is exactly compensated against by the following
cycle, just as though inertial mass of the photon increases with
increasing E-field, decreased with decreasing E-field (and increasing Bfield).
Only essences may be compared as to their relative aesthetic value and
then only by a transcendental being. Pretense at an unassuming nature s
at he core of disingenuousness.
Spin-0 means zero magnetic moment; magnetization requires a magnetic
moment.
u, permeability is a component of susceptibility (to
magnetization)
, permittivity figures in the case of polarization of a material.
As B-field grows, e+e- pairs begin to align antiparallel, decreasing the
vacuums susceptibility to further magnetization, hence decreasing
magnetization, hence decreasing u0, in turn leading to an increase in
clocal, provided that no exactly compensating change in occurs. Also,
the density of spin 0 composite bosons increases (more accurately the
virtual e+ and e-s become more highly quantum anticorrelated) leading
to an increase in /\E, i.e., mutual Pauli blocking of virtual Cooper pairs
decreases.
Suggesting a kind of Scharnhorst effect produced by static fields. (Bfield as a vacuum boundary condition).
Does the increase, decrease or remain constant due to magnetic field
induced vanishing of the magnetic permeability. Adding in the effect of
an electric field causing vacuum polarization, tending to reduce quantum
anticorrelation and effectively reducing the density of composite spin 0.
The mechanism of refraction is via electromagnetic interactions, i.e., in
terms of altered u and must be consistent with the underlying
mechanism of gravitational refraction, i.e., deflection of light by gravity
predicted by general relativity theory.
This mechanism is that of
relative changes in the density of /\E and /\p in vacuum, more
specifically, in the density of composite spin 0 ad spin 1 bosons,
respectively. There is not expected to be any appreciable contribution
to gravitational refraction due to the equally altered vacuum statistics of
the strong and weak nuclear particles and forces. (There may indeed be
such contributions, however not noticeable because our experimental
and observational explorations of gravity have so far been limit to the
macroscopic domain while the strong and weak nuclear are very short
range forces. Perhaps investigations of gravitational phenomena on the
scale of which the nuclear forces become significant shall reveal
possibly large deviations of the behavior of gravity from that
theoretically predicted by general relativity). Mention here about the
large relative differences in the strength of the four fundamental forces
of nature. The electromagnetic analogue theory of gravity seems as
good a phenomenological theory of gravity to the more general quantum
statistical one because the electromagnetic (van der Waals) and
gravitational interactions are both of almost equal strength component to
the relatively much stronger interactions of the weak and strong nuclear
forces.
Infinity is avoided when a system approaches one of the poles of the
phenomenological formula describing the system by virtue of the
variable concerned being replaced by a complex variable, the real part of
/\xu/\pu h
uv [/\xu/\pu
Is this where the Mobius twist of spin particles is to be found?
One reason why the field seems so wide open for speculations about
alternative gravity theories is simply that the gravitational constant big
G has only been determined with any confidence to a mere three
decimal places. Many proposed alternate mechanisms of gravitation
may not replace general relativity theory, but serve as small mock
gravitational or induced gravitational corrections to general relativity
outside the so-called low-energy corner.
Or perhaps serve as
pedagogical, physically intuitive analogues for gravity exclusively within
/\xj/\Pk h; /\xj/\Pk h ?
Here we have interpreted the coordinates (xj, xk, xm) as abstract particles
that can be exchanged with the particle with momentum Pk (within a
given hypersurface of simultaneity, t = x0).
Recall that [xj, Pj] 0 (generally) but that also, [xu, Pv] = 0, if u = v and
here the corresponding operators, xuPv applied in succession to some
wavefunction, (x) are symmetric in their action on , that is, xu(Pv,
) and Pu(Pv, ) (operator symmetry) with xu(Pv, ) and xv(Pu), or
are these two expression telling us the same thing about ?
Once quantum computing technology matures enough for computing
devices to reliably and in stable fashion interface with the quantum
vacuum and so effectively utilize the fluctuating energy of the vacuum
for processing of huge and still more virtually infinite quantities of
information, similar amounts of information shall be able to be stored
encoded in the form of quantum correlations impressed upon the
fluctuating quantum fields at the vacuum side of the quantum computing
devices interface. The question naturally arises as to whether myriad
other highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations have long been
utilizing the vacuum and its quantum fields in this matter and so,
whether this alien information must eventually become accessible to a
sufficiently advanced generation of terrestrial quantum computers. The
quantum vacuum is for the most part a dissipationless medium. But if
nonlocal information encoded in vacuum field correlations propagates at
infinite speed as is beginning to now seem likely then there does not
appear to be any particular point in spacetime where a physical
connection might be made for downloading any nonlocally residing
information.
X1/\p1 + /\x1p1 . . .
.
.
.
u/\pv
time must always be taken to condition the potential barrier along its
entire length before photons can be allowed to tunnel across (time must
be taken in advance to set up the quantum resonant boundary
conditions facilitating the superluminal tunneling). The fact that the
barrier must be continually reconditioned to permit the continued flow
of information (if not actual energy) across the barrier suggests that
quantum decoherence of the resonant structure (in terms of correlations
of virtual photons/e+e- pairs enforcing /\E//\p c) shall probably pose
just enough of a problem for experimenters so that <x> for the
information-laden microwaves is <v> <cv>; cv = c for local vacuum.
Other
See Analog gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates, arXiv: grgc/0011026v1 7 Nov 2000, Barcelo, Liberati, and Visser.
Increased quantum correlation of fermionic states must be associated
with increased probability density of composite spin 0 bosons. But the
enhanced correlation of spin-1/2 fermions is mediated in stages
(determined by characteristic interaction distance) by in turn, the
electromagnetic, weak nuclear and strong nuclear exchanges forces.
But limiting our attention for the moment to electrons and the
electromagnetic interaction, we claim that the correlation of e+e- virtual
pairs is enhanced directly by increased electromagnetic interaction of the
pairs on the one hand and enhanced indirectly by the increased
(enhanced) anticorrelation or real with virtual fermions/antifermions.
Due to the great predominance (in this universe, at any rate) of matter
over antimatter, the anticorrelation of real fermions to virtual
antifermions seems somehow more indirect than that of real to virtual
spin particles.
There is an additional momentum uncertainty
introduced into the Pauli exclusion acting between virtual fermions and
antifermions constituting a single virtual Cooper pair, over and above
the spin (angular momentum) uncertainty component of the Pauliblocking statistical interaction of real and virtual fermions (of the same
species, that is).
Increased correlation of bosons should be associated with decreased
momentum uncertainty for these bosons as well as for the fermions
between which the correlated bosons are exchanged and by which nongravitational binding forces between these fermions are mediated.
Increased anticorrelation of fermions should be associated with
decreased energy uncertainty of the fermions, but with increased
momentum uncertainty of the interacting (anticorrelated) fermions,
which must become more strongly quantum anti-correlated as they are
brought closer together. E.g., if the separation of two fermions is <1> ~
0.001, the strength of electromagnetic interaction of the fermions, and
hence their degree of quantum anticorrelation, must be 100 times as
great as when the average (spatial) separation of these fermions is < 2> ~
0.1. This is quite simply because the momentum uncertainties in both
cases are, respectively,
/\p1 ~ 5000h
The quantum vacuum field from which spacetime is fashioned are not
required (by far) than the density of virtual fermions in order for vacuum
to condense. Black hole mass merely represents critical mass for this
process of bose condensation to become irreversible. Infinite density is
not reached by collapse of matter beyond the event horizon.
The
critical mass, Ms, is also the residual mass with the Schwarzchild
volume, Vs fermionic states fully occupied and mass equivalency of
binding energy of bose-condensed vacuum within Vs.
/\x/\p h and /\t/\E h implies that rotation of /\p and /\E must be
accompanied by spacetime rotation rotation of /\x and /\t. PRL, Vol.
86, No. 19, pp. 4203-4206, Ketterle and Inouye, because hkf hq,
Pauli blocking due to scattering into already occupied states is absent,
however, this amplification does not pile up atoms in a single state, but
rather in states which are in the same momentum state along z, but differ
in other quantum no.s
The average velocity of photons in a photon gas is c/3, however the
velocity of virtual photons in the vacuum electromagnetic field is c
because the state equation of this vacuum is p = -. This equation of
state seems to be required by the Lorentz invariance of the vacuum
electromagnetic field as well as of the quantum vacuum itself. In the
momentum fluctuations of the quantum vacuum photons are created
ceteris paribus with a randomly distributed 4-momentum (if not also a
randomly distributed velocity more on this possibility later). This
distribution of virtual photon momentum is independent of the inertial
reference frame, implying that the average velocity of photons created
spontaneously from the vacuum, i.e., virtual photons, <vavg> = c.
/\x/\p ~ h
\t in order to accurately determine
the position of a particle to within /\x, the more uncertain will be the
measured momentum, /\p, but also the more accurately will be the
\E. This suggests that
in addition to the (x, p) and (t, E) operator incompatibility there also
exists an incompatibility of p and E.
The form of the
Quantum Interference in
Amplification
H. Deng and Y. Yamamoto
Bosonic and
Fermionic Matter-wave
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The Feynman path integral formalism (seems to) imply that when a
light ray is deflected by a gravitational field this is on account of a
deflection by the field of all the virtual paths of the photons summed
together by the path integral. March 2011 @$In the same way that the light
ray is an oscillation of orthogonal electric and magnetic fields, it is also
an oscillation of orthogonal spin 1 (photon) and spin 0 (virtual
electron-positron
or Cooper pair) modes.
Moreover, the
foreshortening/distortion of the light ray as it travels through a
spatiotemporally varying gravitational field is attributable to the
increasing entanglement of the photon in its spin 1 mode and decreasing
entanglement in its spin 0 mode. The fact that the entanglement of
information in spin-0 form can only be transduced to spin-1 form
irreversibly supports the generalization of event horizon + Hawking
radiation to a Rindler horizon + Davies-Unruh radiation. The light ray
when falling into a gravitational source is experiencing, alternately,
length contraction and time dilation, however, it experiences this is two
distinct parts. The length contraction is experienced by the photon while
it is in the spin 1 or photon mode and the time dilation, while in the
Cooper pair mode. This may account for the fact that a spectral line
photon reflected from a mirror away from a gravitational source
suffers no observable spectral line redshift, while radiation from atoms
in the mirror material undergoing atomic energy transitions produce
photons with observed redshifts consistent with the difference in the
gravitational potential between point of emission and point of
spectroscopic observation. Polarization and magnetization are both
entanglement witnesses and the electric field permittivity and
magnetic field permeability are directly related to the intrinsic
polarization and magnetization of the quantum vacuum.
This interpretation of gravitational light deflection requires the
gravitational field to act equally upon both real and virtual paths in turn
implying a gravitational mass equivalency (in terms of E/c2) for each
virtual photon corresponding to each virtual path (virtual path of a real
photon is what is really mean here rather than a real path of a virtual
photon).
The appropriate deflection may be brought about simply
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indistinguishable
(in
objective/intersubjective sense).
But in a subjective manner, by a
nonlocal mechanism these objectively indistinguishable alternatives
are not only distinguishable, but also manipulable. Topological breaks
are introduced within Heisenberg uncertainties among normalization
degenerate fluctuations.
The normalization of the wavefunction is where the Psi of a quantum
system is fitted to external boundary conditions.
Individual
consciousness defies the ceteris paribus principle.
Does the brain utilize a Gdel-numbering procedure in encoding
experience into a unified conscious state?
The more psychologically self-sufficient one is, barring consideration of
psychopathology the more resourceful and inventive one is in finding/
creating neural feedback paths their brains pleasure center.
Find a relation between the alternation of electromagnetic energy
between its spin-1 (bosonic) and spin-0 (fermionic) forms, c.f., Bose
enhancement/ Pauli-blocking electric/magnetic field effects on
Bose/Fermi particle production.
The spinor matrices have imaginary components for spin particles
(fermions) because an extra rotation axis is required to perform a 2nd
180o about (in addition) to the spatial 360o. So a 360o spatial rotation of
a fermion introduces a 180o rotation about some imaginary axis,
introducing a (-) sign requiring another rotation to return the fermion to
its original state.
Discuss E=mc2, p = mv, paradox of non-gravitating vacuum, small
vacuum mass/cosmological constant, local vs. nonlocal vacuum,
comoving 3-d vacuum vs. 4-d relatively movement of vacuum. E = mc2
as representing internal motion of bound matter components.
C.f., telephone conversation with Greg Marcotte on 28 June 2003 at Ft. Pollk, Louisiana.
Energy, E
possesses both spacelike and timelike components, i.e., kinetic (external)
and potential (internal) components of motion. If through 4-momentum
conservation the sum total of internal and external motion constitutes a
conserved total quantity of motion, then the effects of matter upon
spacetime and of spacetime upon matter may be more intuitively
conceptualized through the equation, E = mc2 in which m represents
the quantity of bound, recursive and internal motion, while c 2
represents the quantity of unbound, linear and external motion, with
E representing a locally conserved total quantity of energy. The
slowed velocity of light in a gravitational potential represents the
exchange through the vacuum of spacetime of the internal motion of
potential energy for the external motion of kinetic energy so that, as
it were, the density of potential energy in the vacuum is increased only
at the expense of the loss of density of kinetic energy in this same
vacuum in a word, the contraction of space and the dilation of time
associated with the dilation of internal 4-momentum (3-momentum
fluctuations) and contraction of external 4-momentum (pure 4momentum fluctuations). C.f., telephone conversation with Greg Marcotte on 28 June 2003 at
Ft. Pollk, Louisiana.
Prior to the development of the hardware of your brain and its being
programmed through learning and experience, there was no possible
organic (or other type of) system that could have been constructed so as
to bring into being just your particular consciousness. This argument
from the particular case of your consciousness automatically generalize
itself as the proposition to the effect that no instantaneous (local)
configuration of matter and energy is sufficient in and of itself to
produce a conscious state of awareness.
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the falling off of current densities or with respect to the center of mass
coordinate of the particle system.
If the expanding 3-hypersurface (representing advancing simultaneity
for a chosen arbitrary inertial frame) merely expands into a four
dimensional volume of constant vacuum energy density, then the density
of 3-momentum fluctuations is steadily decreasing within spacetime that
therefore the velocity of light in vacuo must also be steadily increasing.
We perceive the passage of time because each human consciousness is
in a concrete way outside of the continuum of material reality. This
observation has relevance with regard to the quantum measurement
problem.
Non-spatializable time is historical time, that is, time as punctuated by
the interventions into spacetime (space and spatialized time) of beings
from beyond or transcending spacetime, e.g., agents possessing so-called
free will. Nonspatial time is irreversible temporality in which some
things are learned and some forgotten. It has been said by Bergson and
others that time cannot be genuinely temporal without the existence
(and possibility) of novelty. But forgetting, i.e., the destruction of
information, is also key to really irreversible time (bona fide
temporality). In other words real time, that is, irreversible time, must
advance in kick-ladder fashion. In this way the productions of
temporality become irreproducible, that is, they cannot be produced by
way of a path that is some abridgement of the path by which the original
thing had been produced. So the advance of real time must cover its
tracks in so doing, as opposed to a spatializable temporal process. Real
time advances in such a manner that the future is not contained within
the present, i.e., without unfolding.
@$
of the unity of the human mind, that is, of the reality of human
consciousness and hence, of consciousness as such.
Denzel Washington said, its all about the boy, its all about Antoine.
Then we see a scene of the young boy Antoine standing in a cornfield,
looking up in bright sunlight as though looking up into heaven. Antoine
Fisher
It is typical of youth to suppose that the issues which preoccupied family
members of several general generations ago have little if any relevance
for their Herculean efforts to make sense of the postmodern world which
they inhabit. But this is to reinvent the wheel isnt it? This is the
unarguable virtue of conservatism informed by perception and common
sense. The principle of nonlocality seems to apply here: the concerns of
people 1000 years ago are just as relevant as those of our parents
generation.
Determinism, reductionism, logic, the human mind must process and
manage such tremendous quantities of data that it must have access to
functionality not tied to any special topological structure. function
collapse may well represent such topologically discontinuous
functionality.
Each is limited by their sense of possibility.
To exercise the true power of the human mind we cannot in the final
analysis avoid making assumptions unwarranted by the facts. This
applies within the moral sphere just as much as the intellectual.
Breakthroughs or significant progress cannot be achieved without this
foolhardy trusting of mother wit and intuition.
Look for examples of generalizing the principle of Gdel numbering,
e.g., in web search engine software.
<search(1)> = <search(2) +
search(1)> + <search3 + search(1)> + <search(4) + search(1)> + . . .
<search(n) + search(1)>
by classical physics.
Nonlocal theory: a theory in which the states of a system as well as the
manner in which the systems states evolve cannot be consistently
expressed in terms of functions of individual spacetime coordinates.
Past anticipations of the future.
How the shortest possible derivation of Einsteins inertia of energy
relation, i.e., E = mc2, contains in kernel form, the foundation of a
vacuum statistical (quantum thermodynamic) theory of gravitation and
inertia.
Gradients in 4-momentum rotation are equivalent to spin
potential gradients.
Since physicists appear to prefer applying quantum mechanical
probability exclusively to collections of particles (events) rather than to
individual particles (events). The 1st interpretation puts the individual
physical entity in the role of a Kantian thing in itself. And yet these two
seemingly radically different interpretations of quantum probability
effectively amount to the very same quantum ontology.
Squeezed vacuum experiments have revealed that reductions in vacuum
fluctuations amplitude and phase (amplitude and phase noise) are
exactly compensated for by increases in amplitude and changes in the
phase of vacuum fluctuations orthogonal to those of the squeezed
vacuum.
No deterministic dynamic of neural state changes that can realize a most
stable, least energy (action) configuration of neural states/functioning.
Cuts must be performed on the spacetime topology of the vacuum in
which the brains microtubules are embedded. This is the importance of
higher states of consciousness to the implementing of free will
choices/decisions that bring about greatest harmony of neural function.
However well a manipulative person knows the specific details of an
creative-receptive
components
poles
of
There is such a thing as evolving too rapidly? That is, the evolving
individual experiences a blurring of important developmental advances,
as well as failing to experience fully, or even adequately, all that each
particular stage or level has to offer (in the form of character, wisdom
and even soul-building material).
The swarm of gnats in the canyon analogy of the mechanism of inertia
points up the central importance of binding energy to inertial mass. The
correlation of material components making up bulk matter also
contributes to its inertial mass and binding energy may only contribute
to inertia by setting up and maintaining the quantum correlation of these
components. The correlation of bosons and anticorrelation of fermions
in bulk matter or rather the internal binding forces sustaining these
quantum correlations are responsible for the above inertia mechanism.
One must manage ones thoughts and feelings torwards ones fellow
humans as though ones thought could be translated into material
consequences for these persons.
The decrease in the quantum correlation of virtual photons should
perhaps be accompanied by an increase in the anticorrelation of virtual
fermions within virtual fermion-antifermion composite, spin-0 bosons.
Well, its clear that there must be a decrease in the correlation of these
spin zero composite virtual bosons. This should imply an increase in
the anticorrelation of the virtual fermions that are the internal
components of these virtual bosons.
A concomitant change in the quantum vacuum entropy is to be expected
with increasing radial coordinate (from center of gravitational mass). In
analogy to black hole entropy we propose a similar variation in the
vacuum entropy with increasing area of the virtual event horizon
associated with decreasing scalar curvature (with increasing radial
coordinate).
while at the same time leaving out the relativity of momentum, i.e.,
inertial and gravitational mass. Spin based vacuum polarization on the
other hand, possesses relativistic implications for length, time, energy
and momentum.
General linear transformations of the 2nd rank momentum-energy tensor
of general relativity do necessarily conserve 4-momentum, rather GR
requires that the stress-momentum-energy tensor as a whole be
conserved.
What is the physical significance of a 4x4 matrix that diagonalizes Tuv
into a 4-momentum vector (3 pressure terms and 1 energy density term),
i.e., transforms away all stress terms?
Quantum statistics breaks down and Lorentz invariance along with it
long before a photon ensemble of any given electromagnetic frequency
achieves Planck DeBroglie wavelength.
Although the binding energy of a diatomic molecule is small in
comparison to the mass energy of the molecule, the DeBroglie
wavelength of the molecule is h/(m1 + m2)v and not h/m1v + h/m2v. So
it is not energy but information which determines the molecules
DeBroglie wavelength, namely, that the two constituent atoms of the
molecule are to be treated as correlated particles making up an
ensemble.
With decreasing potential the number (probability) density of correlated
virtual photons decreases the DeBroglie wavelength spectrum for these
virtual photons redshifts.
The Planck limits may be shown to determine the black hole density for
any spherical volume of space.
This can be shown through the
fluctuation mass relation as well as through incorporating the DeBroglie
coherence limit to the spectral energy density limits for both fermionic
and bosonic fluctuations as determined by the integration of the
consciousness.
Metaphor is an instinctive product of human thought. The tendency to
step outside of the immediacy of ones inherited stock of figurative
notions is the beginning of deconstructive thought as well as the starting
point for transcendence.
DeBr = h
elec =
cvac = c
cloc = c*
c*/r = {[h/r]/ - [h/2] x [/r]} x c
2c*/r = {[h/r] - h x [/r]} x c
c* = (h/)c
Assume:
(DeBr/cloc) = (elec/cloc)
and
kDeBroglie = DeBroglie
clocal/r = clocal(DeBroglie, DeBroglie)/r
DeBroglie and DeBroglie are functions of the magnitudes of real (virtual)
photon and e+e- number (probability) densities, respectively.
cvacuo is a constant
DeBroglie/r is an independent variable determined by changes in the
relative
magnitudes of real and virtual photon probability densities. clocal/r is
determined by the concerted spatial variation of DeBroglie and fDeBroglie.
Hypothesis:
c* = [DeBroglie/elec] x c
black
holes event horizon and the black hole mass. After all, the fluctuations
occurring at the black holes event horizon represent the only contact
which
this hole maintains with the rest of the universe.
If a complete
supergravity
theory is ever developed it is likely to be a Machian theory. Such a
Machian
supergravity theory will no doubt lead to a mathematical formula
relating the
black hole surface area and the density of quantum fluctuations on the
hole event
horizon energy to the black hole mass. It stands to reason that if the
only
connection the black hole maintains with outside spacetime is a
thermalized
spectrum of particle emission that a Machian theory of gravity would
dictate
that the entropy of the holes event horizon (and hence, the information
irretrievably lost within the hole) should be importantly related to the
magnitude of the holes inertial mass.
Further evidence that the roles of space and time are reversed at a black
holes event horizon is the fact of the thermal emissions from the hole,
i.e.,
Hawking radiation, is in the form of fermions with a thermal distribution
of
kinetic energy. The values of both the fermion masses and fermion
velocities make up the kinetic energy of the holes thermally distributed
emissions. What does this imply about the separate mathematical
expressions representing the fermion velocity and mass distributions?
fDeBroglie is determined analogously to the manner by which kDeBroglie is
determined, i.e., by changes in the relative magnitudes of real and virtual
e+e-
densities.
Notice here that equivalence of real particle number densities to virtual
particle probability densities implies that quantum statistics applies
equally to
real and virtual particles and fields.
c*/r = (c/)h/r (ch/2)r (exact relation)
Assume h/r = /r
Since the term c/ refers to the value of c*/h at infinity, i.e., within free
space, we should perhaps think of c/ as being an initial or boundary
condition or, more appropriately, perhaps, as a final condition.
Local physical laws cannot predict initial condition of the universe since
these
conditions had to be determined nonlocally. The same is true of the
final
condition of the universe represented by conscious observation. (One
is
reminded here of Kants description of conscious selves as being ends
in
themselves.)
This is because, analogously to the case for initial
conditions,
the real eigenvalue that results is a merely local determination of the
quantum
state ( the conjugate variables are in a quantum superposition state now),
but
one which has come about through the concerted nonlocal action of that
component of the quantum vacuum represented by the observers
c = hkelectromagnetic/hkDeBroglie x cvacuo
Eelectromagnetic = pelectromagnetic x cvacuo
pDeBroglie = hkDeBroglie
So c = Eelectromagnetic/pDeBroglie
Notice from the figure, c.f., black art sketchpad, that spacetime has been
warped but not in a way detectable to inhabitants of the hypersurface
the universe must appear flat to observers confined to the
cosmological event horizon/hypersurface.
The gravitational redshift must similarly shift the Planck cutoff length,
time and mass due to the dependence of these quantities on the value of
c which varies spatially with the ratio of densities of 3-momentum and
energy uncertainty.
Notice that the cosmological momentum-energy
density can vary with the history of cosmological expansion without the
speed of light necessarily varying.
Fully half of the act of willing an action is simply seemingly unbidden
conceiving of his idea of so acting. So in truth the human will can only
be half free.
Is the key to the gravitational redshift paradox the distinctness of the
photon wavelength from its DeBroglie wavelength. This might help
explain the relationship between gravitational redshift of both and
DeBroglie and the spatial variation in local velocity of light.
The nature of the gravitational redshift is not fully understood because
the redshifted photon wavelength is not identified with the photons
DeBroglie wavelength, but is identified with the photons
electromagnetic wavelength.
eqn. (2)
eqn. (3)
virtual fermion-antifermion.
We are led to hypothesize the following relation:
(preal fermion-antifermion/real fermion-antifermion)c2 =
(virtual fermion-antifermion/pvirtual fermion-antifermion)c2
[1 - m/vacuum]
---
In this way genetic material that has been a part of one cell may carry
some trace of this fact even after it has become incorporated into another
cell. This may indeed account for some of the so far inexplicable
difficulties animal cloning researchers have been experiencing, e.g.,
offspring being outsized or undergoing accelerated aging, mysterious
neurological disturbances, etc.
Nonzero spacetime curvature is measured with respect to hypothetical or
abstract flat spacetime.
In similar manner, nonzero momentumenergy density must be determined relative to zero momentum-energy
density. However, note carefully that there are two distinct ways to
define a spacetime manifold of 0 curvature, one of which is structureless
and trivial, Tuv = 0, the other highly structured (and symmetrical), i.e.,
uvTuv = 0 (rather than from Tuv = 0) that cause a deviation of the
spacetime manifold from flat spacetime.
Tuv
That is, a spacetime manifold on which the pressure and energy density
are equal and opposite and on which the stresses are precisely counterbalanced. It does not matter if the vacuum energy density, for example,
is enormous, just so long as the vacuum pressure is equally enormous, as
well as the stresses within this vacuum precisely counterbalancing.
Hypothesis, if cosmological expansion rolls over into a contraction
[ - c/c] = 0
or
[c - c] = 0
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composite system (now closed) are wholly internal and not in part due to
interference from outside the system.
The mixing entropy which results from the combining of, for example,
two distinct gases within a single container from either side of a
formerly impermeable membrane may be equal (or significantly related
to) the sum of the formerly separate quantum energy uncertainties minus
the composite system energy uncertainty that results from mixing
divided by the appropriately corresponding system temperatures. The
degree of quantum entanglement (correlation) of the two systems is
significantly a function of the reduction in the magnitude of energy of
the reduction in the magnitude of energy uncertainty from that of the
simple sum of the individual system energy uncertainties.
There should be only negligible final state interaction (FSI) between the
virtual particles of a spontaneously created and annihilated fermionantifermion pair. This is because the lifetime of the pair is defined by
the time uncertainty in the fluctuation of vacuum energy represented by
the pair.
The correlation of two quantum systems, 1, 2, may be defined as
12
pair with the other, c.f., EPR experiments with decaying spin 0 particles
on whose decay particles magnetic fields are used for testing Bell
nonlocality through use of these fields to perform spin +-1/2
measurements upon the particles, i.e., the greater is the binding energy
of the virtual pair for this virtual pair an antagonistic or reciprocal
relationship obtains between local /\E and /\p of the pair. Also as the
Pauli blocking effect (for relatively uncorrelated pairs).
/\E//\p = /\x//\t = c
We must not confuse /\Ef+f- with the more general /\Eregion , i.e., the local
vacuum energy density.
of mind.
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spacetime into a 3 + 1 space and time, i.e., the local spacetime curvature,
[cuv] must contain all of the same information as [g ik], the metric tensor
of Einsteins field equations.
The presence of mass induces local changes to the statistics of
momentum and energy fluctuations in the quantum (nongravitational)
fields of the vacuum which, in order to be coextensive with a
gravitational field, must vary with the inverse square of distance. The
spatial gradients in the /\pu or in /\pj and /\E must be comprised by the
variation in the quantities inversely to the distance. This brings to the
fore the question of how the momentum-energy uncertainty in one
localized region of spacetime affects the value of this uncertainty in
neighboring regions.
Because quantum statistics do not distinguish real from virtual particles
it follows that changes in the /\pu from their free space values must be
associated with the taking on of mass by the modified vacuum.
Heisenberg uncertainties in p^ and E^ are caused by quantum field
fluctuations in these quantities. This reversal of the causal relationships
of pu and /\pu is also posited by stochastic electrodynamic theory.
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gravitational field.
The transmitter-receiver along with an individual to interpret it must first
be transported to the location of the distant measuring instrument before
the EPR supraliminal communication can be verified.
-waves
(amplitudes), possessing no absolute physical significance, are free to
propagate at supraliminal velocities. Since data without context do not
carry any information, there should be no limit to their speed of
propagation, ceteris paribus. But there is also a relationship limit of c
for the speed of propagation of energy. Might energy and information
(entropy) be given a unified description within general relativity theory.
One cannot have a probability density without the interference of two or
more wavefunctions, even if this is merely constituted by interference of
with its conjugate, *. The imaginary parts of cancel or mutually
annihilate for to become real as ||.
Do and * originally belong to two distinct reference frames, prior to
their mutual interference to produce ||?
Light cone diagram here
cone tangent vectors from which two orthogonal or antiparallel may be
chosen (with appropriate coefficients). The time and space axes above
are orthogonal, but so are all of the null vectors of the light cone pairwise orthogonal in 4-d spacetime.
Matter and antimatter particles are represented by ++ and --,
respectively. But what about the possibilities, +- and -+ ? What
two matrices have the property,
[A] [B] = 0; [A] 0, [B] 0 ?
Light cone diagram here
fig. 1
Retinal blind spot/ brain pain insensitivity metaphor for the mental
integration represented by (an unobservable/ transcendental)
consciousness.
Think of a personal computer that continually resaves the contents of its
disk drive to some network drive. What is happening currently in the
present instant to the individual/ registering (or another network
concept) in his or her consciousness may be thought to be presently
loaded into some kind of temporary dynamic storage or buffer within the
overall random access memory (RAM). The contents of this RAM are
continually bring sent ot the disk drive for longer term storage, and the
contents of the disk drive are periodically dumped to the network drive.
A new set of sensory stimuli causes a reprogramming of the brain at
multiple inputs that are spacelike connected (independent development
rather than dissemination).
Is the brain hyperlinked within itself to quantum near copies of itself
each embedded in a different vacuum energy spectrum?
A natural selection-like process sits at the boundary between the
conscious and unconscious minds, which rejects broad categories of
proposed solutions without permitting them into consciousness. But
along what lines can the unconscious @$generalize types of invalid
reasoning without preventing the operation of intuition, itself as Gdel
demonstrated, transcending the operation of merely formal procedures of
abstract symbol manipulation.
Varying the relative magnitude of njnk* = <nj|nk> changes the direction
of the probability densitys worldline in Minkowski spacetime.
Combining nj of opposite sense but not antiparallel results in particles
that tunnel into he elsewhere region never to return (unless spacetime is
sufficient by curved). Conversely there should always be a constant
stream into our spacetime of particles from other light cones, i.e.,
particles tunneling into our spacetime from the elsewhere region.
Maybe it was more correct to speak of tunneling of wavefunctions into
and out of the light cone.
[Show a closed loop annihilation of a virtual particle with a virtual
antiparticle.]
Elections in Florida should be moved to Halloween to make it easier for
the physiologically challenged to make it to the poles.
The natural world possesses compartmentalized levels of complexity,
each functioning in part according to its own dynamics and each
according to its own dynamics and each interval between levels
constituted by stability for those processes safely distant from the level
boundaries.
Rather than supposing that ones consciousness may be carried with one
as a kind of passenger of the brain which admittedly may move more or
less freely within a relatively narrowly defined spacetime region, @$let
us suppose that ones consciousness is everywhere undisturbed except
precisely where ones brain is at a given moment.
How is this
interpretation different from that in which a single, impersonal
consciousness lies everywhere undisturbed except where a brain is at a
given moment?
With increasing complexity of an evolving dynamic system comes an
increasing number of increasingly broken symmetries, in turn
characterized by increased quantum uncertainty with respect to
unconserved physical quantities. Can information be understood as
carried by components of energy not originating within the system?
The unknown is cognized as a series of open though perhaps deeply
interrelated questions pointing the way to either the final cementing in of
this imply for the relationship of the sums and products of these two
systems quantum uncertainties, particularly those of momentum and
energy?
Exchanges of momentum between particles of a given QM system
introduce correlations of particle energies in the specific sense of
producing correlations of the stationary state phases. This correlating of
energy eigenfunctions reduces the overall energy uncertainty of the QM
system. Momentum exchanges are the cause of the spectrum of system
momentum fluctuations comprising the QM system momentum
uncertainty.
Is nature making it up as she goes along? That is, is the distinction
between scientific discovery and invention, empirical and rational,
objective and subjective, etc. a function of the depth to which science
strikes at the common root of apparent categorical differences?
It
seems with the advancement of scientific discovery nature becomes ever
more independent from the cognitive structures of the psyche. Ever the
same appearances must be sustained by ever more complicated
mechanisms, or so it seems with each new advance in fundamental
theoretical structures.
Data cannot be consistently represented as
reductions in uncertainty as is possible to do for information. The
processing of data only yields information through a reduction in
epistemological uncertainty.
The processing of information yields a
reduction in the ontological uncertainty.
Are any states or state transitions available to a quantum system which
cannot be brought about externally, that is, through momentum or
energy inputs to certain various components of the system in other
words, do quantum systems possess internal states and state transitions?
April 2011
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The scene was like that out of a movie in which American actors are
used in a foreign film production, which is later adapted for American
TV programming, c.f., Tenebrae. Incidents occur within Italian film,
which though noteworthy dont contribute to the moving forward of the
plot. Metaphorical responses may be given as satisfactory answers to
questions requiring a response containing only a literal reference, and
this is passed over without note. Important connections between pieces
of information that to an American audience should be obvious transpire
without comment from the major characters of the film. An example
here might be where the murder of a young girl is reported in which one
of the causal factors contributing to her death is an unintentional action
or omission on the part of one of the major characters, but where none of
the characters appear aware of this.
As data is transferred from one mind to another, always-new information
is represented. Data moves through spacetime and information moves
into spacetime. April 2011 This observation is importantly related to the
measurement/decoherence problem.
Increased correlation of individual fluctuations of energy within the
energy uncertainty, /\E of a certain quantum mechanical system is
associated with the time rate of decrease of /\E. Increased correlation of
fluctuations would also seem to be associated with a decreased /\t. This
may mean that the system is losing its /\E by transmitting some of this
energy uncertainty and distributing it among other systems to which the
original system is not causally connected.
The possibility of information (as opposed to data) depends on the
absence of bridge laws between spacetime scales as well as on the
nontrivial nature of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, i.e., the fact of
irreversibility in thermodynamic systems being not mere appearance and
not due to mere ignorance possibly related to the ontological as rather
than epistemological nature of Heisenberg energy uncertainty, i.e., /\E is
not due to our mere ignorance to the complete details of a closed system,
but due to all systems being to some degree or other open.
The
connection between quantum uncertainty and thermodynamic
irreversibility is that of both systems being subject to more than a single
source of outside interference.
Heisenberg uncertainty and
thermodynamic irreversibility, each in its our way points up the disunity
of the ultimate, embedding substrate of physical systems. The fact of
temporality requires the necessity of the other that is itself other to some
other other (this is the reduction of irreversibility to simple topology).
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mathematical existence.
This is paradoxical provided that
constructibility is identified with provability and mathematical
existence identified with truth. Do irrational entities like the above
not really exist at all, nor subsist in some mathematical Platonic realm/
idealm, but are merely implied by infinite mathematical procedures?
Back-formation of forms and incompleteness of abstract structures is
related to the notion of the dialectical nature of evolution.
The
prediction of new fundamental particles by subatomic physical theories
is an example of this back-formation or backfilling of empirically empty
theoretical categories. This points up the effective relatedness of truth
by correspondence with truth by coherence and the interactive nature of
scientific inquiry.
positively correlated
negatively correlated
In Der Sterbenden Sonne, after the Stardust II makes a 1600 light year
hyperspace transition, the narrator of the story comments that it would
be 1600 years before the crew would see the flaring up of the pre-nova
Vega. This is consistent with an earlier statement of the narrator that the
Stardusts Hyperspring was effected without any passage of time. Of
course, a powerful enough telescope stationed within the Vega system
would see the Stardust appear 1600 light-years away only a moment
after making its hyperspace transmission. So how does the Stardust
return? Does is make another hyperspring in zero time? If it does so,
then it ends up in the Vega system 3200 years before it originally left it.
This is clearly contrary to causal consistency and could easily lead to a
causal paradox. So to return not only to its own spatial position but also
to its own time, the Stardust must . . .
Of course, talking about an unglimpsed universe just one millimeter
away from ours iff in some spacetime orthogonal direction is within
quantum mechanics just the same as saying that theres another such
universe just out of phase (off resonance) from our universe, except here
we speak of energy instead of the spacetime orthogonal dimension.
This might be considered to be like supposing that theres another
universe moving slightly slower than ours up the time axis (of a different
resonance peak (potential trough) than our universe). Perhaps a Lorentz
boost could bring a space traveler into resonance (couple him) to
another vacuum or another energy level of the universal (or multiversal)
false vacuum state, c.f., seminal works on quantized cosmological
redshift.
Um sie damit die Erde noch doch entdekt. Um sie die Erde damit noch
doch entdekt.
We dont have to give up any of the fascinating counterintuitive effects
It is from within the context of culture and tradition that the instinctive
components operating within culture and sublimated as culture are
recognized and the manifestations of the effects of these instinctive
components are critiqued.
Is deceleration endothermic or exothermic? Whatever vacuum process
is responsible for relativistic mass increase may perhaps be manipulated
to convert energy into mass at subrelativistic velocities, c.f., Perry
Rhodan #12, part 3 (45-55 sec), Andruckabsorbers Though not a 3momentum conserving operation, it does conserve 4-momentum.
What happens to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, i.e., the universal law
of entropy increase; all blackbody radiation retains an imprint of
quantum correlations (due to the fact of continual interaction of all
quantum systems with the matrix of fluctuations (of quantum vacuum)
in which they are embedded)? The ineradicable and constant presence
of these quantum fluctuations results in the general inapplicability of the
2nd Law to quantum systems. It is in the nature of quantum systems to
exhibit subatomic features and relationships on macroscopic scales. It
is of the intended design of the science of thermal physics to deal with
(1) closed systems and (2) systems in which the influence of individual
fluctuations can be ignored at the macroscopic level because of the
presumed absence of nonlocal correlations existing among microscopic
fluctuations.
Creativity is the impression of terms upon the indeterminism of the
immanent from outside what is already determinate within it. Similar
remarks seem to apply to the emergence of moral and ethical
conceptions. Both phenomena transcend a group theoretic accounting.
The degeneracy that enables the stability of evolved structures is a
graciously heretofore-extant infrastructure.
A structure is
precarious/unstable to the same degree as mere contingency rather than
The relativistic effects on length, mass and time are presumed by many
classical relativists to be explicable in terms of kinematics or even via
an axiomatic formulation of relativity. But clearly the origin of these
effects is dynamical in nature, /\p is the spatial translator and /\E is the
temporal translator. The properties of position and time are much more
complex and specific to particular classes of particles and fields.
Because consciousness
translucent and passive
individual consciousness
may most easily be
consciousness.
medium)
E2 = p2c2 + m2c4
M = E2/c4 p2/c2] = 1/c E2/c2 p2
Time dilation fraction is GM/Rc2
Mass is proportional to the time dilation gamma factor ( factor) and 1/
to the value of c.
Because the velocity of light is foundational to the definition of space
time, it perhaps follows that gravitys effect upon space time might be
wholly explicable in terms of a mechanism, explaining how real matter
and energy cause the velocity of light to vary.
If the velocity of light is viewed as a mere expectation value, then over
the tiniest scales of distance and time, this velocity must actually be
determined by the relative magnitudes of the fluctuations within the
vacuum of physical quantities of a still more fundamental nature,
The expectation values of momentum and energy; <P> and <E>, are
determined in the following way:
<P> = <P2> - 2p]
<E> = <E2> - 2E]
If we interpret the fluctuations of P and E in the vacuum as linked
together (just as space and time are linked to produce spacetime) and
that fluctuations in their conjugate parameters, displacement and time,
then perhaps we can interpret P as the uncertainty in P due to
fluctuations in E and E as the uncertainty of E due to fluctuations
in P.
Constant = (SE)2 + (SP)2c2 = K
E2 = (Sp)2c2
p2 = (SE)2
C2
This all makes more sense if we think of matter as unstable pattern of
energy, momentum and of their linkage, i.e. momentum-energy tensor
fluctuations.
So that any observable changes in matters state may be more properly
understood as changes in the state of these fluctuations and in the mutual
interaction of these fluctuations.
Vs = B/e ]
= pc2/E ]
E = cPx
B = bulk modulus
E = density
p = E for free space
E = (pc)
^ photon
E2= p2c2+m2c4
A ball whirling on a string when released moves of with a momentum
directed at a tangent to its former orbit and perpendicular to the
rotational axis of this orbit. So using this simple model for the
conversion of angles into linear momentum, we might suppose that an
angular momentum that could be translated into linear momentum
directed along any axis within 3-dimensional space (of a certain inertial
frame) must itself be directed along an axis [orthogonal to x, y, z within
this certain inertial frame].
The x-y-plane to which
is orthogonal must in reality be the x-y-ict
(1)
hyper-surface with
merely composed of the x-y component of(2) .
Similar arguments would apply to
and
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/\E/\t m (timelike)
Each black hole mass corresponds to its own energy density. Hence, the
density of thermal quantum fluctuations at the event horizon of a black
hole of a certain mass is uniquely determined. Each black hole mass has
a unique entropy and temperature. The integral of all modes of thermal
fluctuation, say from wavelength ~Rs to k must add up to the black hole
mass.
Various Fourier sums over subsets of the weighted harmonics running
from Rs to k yield the information for explicit structure crushed out of
spirit.
If spacetime is an artifact of the quantum vacuum stress-momentumenergy then different possible spacetimes must subsist within their own
respective vacua. This is similar to the idea of gravity being diluted
within higher dimensions. So the density of any given vacuum is
determined by the black hole density. The number of distinct vacua is
related to the 10120 difference between the magnitudes of the
cosmological constant and Planck energy density.
Frequency domain and phase shift explanation of perihelion precession
of planetary orbits. Discussion.
Lorenz invariance of the vacuum momentum-energy, its dynamical
aspect vs. the merely kinematical nature of spacetime, suggests that
there actually is a vacuum mechanism for general relativistic effects.
Vacuum energy density vs. mass energy density cosmological
coincidence can be explained by the way matter induces mass in the
quantum vacuum.
Viewing a black hole as an endpoint on a spectrum allows one to think
about less extreme effects of ordinary gravitational fields in new ways.
For example, ordinary masses should also exhibit Hawking
radiographers, cause the quantum vacuum to possess both a temperature
and hence an entropy and moreover spatiotemporal variations in
gravitational potential should be associated with spatiotemporal
gradients in vacuum energy density, pressure, temperature and entropy.
The bi-vacuum may be divided into its two components, energy
available to do work and purely entropic energy.
Onion model of a black holes structure is defined as the density of a
black hole increasing internally from the event horizon to the so-called
singularity in a manner similar to how the density of black holes varies
Inside the black holes event horizon, there should be a mirroring of the
gravitational gradient, which exists outside the hole. Otherwise, under
the total collapse model, the black hole must possess a kernel of Planck
density.
Lp = [Gh/c3]1/2 mp = Lpc2/2G
h = 3c2/8GLp2 = 3c5/G2h
n3 Planck masses may be packed within a Planckian black hole of nPlanck length radius.
[Rh/Lp] x mp = Mkernel = M
For example, given a star with a mass comparable to that of our Sun:
1/3
p]
x Lp = Rkernel
Rkernel represents the black hole kernel possessing Planck density, i.e.,
the density at which all available quantum vacuum states are occupied,
as opposed to the case of the black hole itself, where merely the vacuum
energy uncertainty reaches 0.
In the case of the sun, Rs ~ 2 x 103
Rk = [2x1030/5x10-8] x ~10-35 ~ 10-22
The kernel for the Universe is ~ 10-15.
The fact that there is not causal necessity to underpin the being of logical
necessity says something important for the necessity says something
important for the philosophy of mind.
Light Velocity Casimir (LVC) experiment, c.f., lanl.gov search 19982002, proposed anticipates an increase in the velocity of light
perpendicular to the Casimir plates.
Momentum fluctuations (virtual photon exchanges) are reduced in the
direction of the photons motion, meaning that the energy fluctuations
are correspondingly increased however, this increase is directional in
just the manner that the decrease in photon creation/annihilation density
is directed.
This implies that the energy fluctuations of the vacuum may be
partitioned in correspondence with x, y, z and ict-momentum
fluctuations.
3-momentum fluctuations that are suppressed in the
Casimir light velocity experiments result in enhanced energy of the ictmomentum fluctuations. And so we expect the reverse of this to be true
if fluctuation momentum-energy is conserved. Conservation of angular
momentum of spin applied here in addition to that of momentum-energy
suggests that the composite spin 0 fermi Cooper pairs @$are actually of
spin 1 rotated 90 degrees into coincidence with the local time axis.
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= hauhbvnab
<p>(p, /\
(bn,bn+) 3-momentum
momentum-energy tensor
<E>(E, /\
(fn,fn+) imaginary
dynamical momentum-energy tensor
component
4-momentum
of
dynamical
component
of
imaginary part
Lorenz transformations of a general field Psi can be rewritten as a
translation plus a strictly spin Lorenz transformation.
In the Poincare group the translation and the Lorenz parameters are
completely independent.
in the coupling prescription of GR the tetrad h au and the spin
connection
Aabu
are
not
independent
fields.
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and the angular-momentum conservation is related to the invariance of
the action under a Lorentz transformation.
If Lorentz symmetry is the spacetime symmetry of flat or Minkowski
space, there angular momentum nonconservation, c.f., Mercury
perihelion precession, constitutes the breaking of spacetime symmetry.
the fundamental field of gravitation is the spin connection and not the
tetrad.
Gauss surface-volume integral theorem relates density of charge and
divergence of flux related to quantization of 2 + 1 hyperspace
areas/angular momentum in relativistically covariant form of Keplers
2nd Law.
The nonlocal connection is mediated by the timelike fluctuations in
momentum-energy. Translational invariance vs. Lorentz invariance.
Galilean invariance requires conservation of 3-momentum and Lorentz
invariance requires conservation of 4-momentum.
J-density
corresponds to 4d divergence (flux across a 3-hypersurface).
Spacetime curvature at the quantum scale consists of increased
axis' if you like), also leaves a spatial axis invariant, and is simply a
rotation in R^3. (A general rotation in M4 is a Lorentz transformation:
any rotation in M4 which leaves a single (necessarily spatial) axis
invariant. . .
Would require a spatial rotation + a boost in a direction perpendicular to
the
rotation
axis.),
c.f.,
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For a four dimensional charge current to interact with the spacetime
cylindrical magnetic field so as to produce an instantaneous inverse
square force upon the charge of the electrical 4-current, which is
directed toward the center of this magnetic field, this cylindrical field
must lie within its own Zeitebene. The electrical charges must pass
through this Zeitebene at the local velocity of light in order for a Lorenz
force to act between these two charges.
[J1`]
= [J2`]
[J3`]
[J4`]
And we know that a 2nd rank tensor such as [T] above is formally
I can with effort imagine what full encapsulation within the human
defined world is like and the Gemuetlichkeit of such a subjectively
perceived world is undoubtedly appealing. But the disruptive effects to
which this world is subject seem to be substantially moderated when one
maintains a somewhat what might be called posthuman perspective.
Such a perspective necessarily partakes of certain though not great
degree of psychological dissociation.
Although measurable change is taking place within the local vacuum
during the emission and absorption of a given photon at frequencies
higher than that of the photon
Identical quantum particles are indistinguishable externally though
perhaps not internally.
There is a paradox having to do with the interpretation of the
gravitational redshift of light reflected from a gravitating mirror.
Can the spin and spin 1 particles be unified? Locally flat spacetime
exists within a broken global spacetime symmetry.
If a massive particle is at rest, its four momentum is invariant under
rotations. We should interpret rotations above as 3-rotations.
Thus the prn=little group for a massive particle at rest is the threedimensional rotation group. The particle in general has its spin. The
spin orientation is going to be affected by the rotation. This is because
a 3-rotation affects the total particle 4-angular momentum. (Note: this
is only true in curved spacetime!) April 2011 Take a look at spin-rotation
coupling experiments. Though it is still a question of controversy as to
whether spin and rotations do in fact couple. However, the literature is
in agreement that spin-rotation coupling should only occur within
accelerated reference frames.
Due to a black hole being totally cut off from vacuum energy
fluctuations in the form of creation/annihilation of virtual fermionantifermion pairs. It should be remembered here that not only must all
of the fluctuation energy be transformed into fluctuation 3-momentum,
but also the real fermions must bosonize so that the black hole becomes
a pure Bose condensate. Since the temporality of the fermions trapped
within the hole is now mediated exclusively by 3-momentum
fluctuations, we now have a system that experiences change though
without being in interaction with an outside by which novelty can be
introduced. So we now have a paradoxical situation of change in the
absence of temporality.
Consciousness of a human being is not yet developed enough to
constitute continuos function collapse and so the continuous temporal
evolution of consciousness is mostly an illusion woven around brief and
intermittent episodes of true conscious awareness.
The perturbations of linguistic modifiers is not within but between
systems of meaning.
It takes information to go up an entropy gradient. The irreversible
seems to require convergence in the absence of a potential, i.e., genuine
novelty. A gravitational potential doesnt fit this because gravity is an
effective field, not quantized, no spacetime symmetry, no conservation
of energy (how does the entropy law look in an energy non-conserving
system)
Irreversible causality demands the very spacetime symmetry broken by
gravity. We wouldnt expect the action of a quantized force field to
break spacetime symmetry.
The block universe is only possible with genuinely flat spacetime.
Antigravity would be characterized by an inversion of quantum statistics
in which Fermi-Dirac statistics applies to bosons and Bose-Einstein
statistic applies to fermions.
/\E/\t
Sign of vac
Boson
Fermion
Positive
Negative
Vacuum
gravity
Repulsive
Attractive
?
Cosm.
Constant
>0
>0
(above table and vacuum equations taken from Sarfattis paper, Zero
Point Energy Gravity Physics.
If G is a true constant, then if G is composed of Universe
dimensions, then the mass density of the Universe must be
proportional to H2 so that the cosmos may be described as a classified
GR blackhole.
fluid Wigner phase space density is negative from giant superfluid
macro-quantum interference in the virtual fermion-antifermion bound
state local order parameter of spontaneous broken symmetry from
false 100% normal fluid high entropy micro-quantum random
vacuum to two macro-quantum lower entropy true vacuum.
2012
supersymmetric state.
Hamiltonian is the commutator of the supercharges.
Scalar-field potential (superpotential) is complex to match the degrees
of freedom of the fermionic fields.
Supersymmetric states degenerate in the mass spectrum for fermions
and bosons.
Global transformations of supersymmetric states become local,
position-dependent
transformations
in
curved
spacetime
(supergravity).
Two superpotenials now with a metric associated with the emergent
superpotential. This metric is derived from the 2nd partial derivative
of the Kaehler potential with respect to the broken supersymmetric
state and its complex conjugate (now spacetime position-dependent).
(p. 23)
Das and Pernice (1997) show a mechanism for symmetry breaking
which naturally avoids an infinite vacuum energy.
In general there are many, not necessarily compatible, ways of
defining gravitational energy. Vacuum Energy (Roberts)
Logical equivalence is an abstraction psychological-associative
similarity of notions why shifting in ones mind between logically
equivalent conceptualizations is nonetheless associative thinking (in
part).
We can either deduce each others deductions or we must wait for
transmission of dissemination. Logic versus dissemination in light of
in
Relativity
(2000-1)
4.1 Supersymmetry
SUSY is a spacetime symmetry relating fermions and bosons to each
other. globally supersymmetric theories, which are defined in
flat spacetime
In flat spacetime = 0 due to perfect supersymmetry of virtual
fermions and bosons. Mass breaks this supersymmetry inducing
both a nonzero and a gravitational field. Does this suggest that
0 is just the collective, global gravitational field formed from
cumulative local fields?
In the case of vacuum fluctuations, contributions from bosons are
exactly canceled by equal and opposite contributions from fermions
when supersymmetry is unbroken.
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and
mutually interacting
(m2ic2 m1ic1)2 = 0
theoretical concepts.
<molecular virologist made a polio virus>
Molecular biologists
synthesized a polio virus from the published genetic code of the virus
rather than from fragments of the live virus.
Darwins notion of the nonrandom nature of selection as being due to
the correlation of growth. Changes in the correlation within one set
of attributes are correlated with changes in the correlation of elements
within some other sets of attributes. Russell Clark In Darwin's day, the
cell was just an undifferentiated blob (microscopy was kind of poor in
the 1830's-1850's when Darwin was "evolving" his theory). None of the
following long list of sciences existed in Darwin's day: genetics, genetic
engineering, epigenetics, proteomics, molecular biology, embryology,
biochemistry, nanotechnology, informatics, cybernetics, quantum
chemistry, chaos theory, linguistics, fractal geometry - the list goes on.
In the 21st Century we are expected to believe that the very same
simplistic, principle of increasing biological order ("natural" selection
operating upon "random* mutations) that Darwin guessed at 150+ years
ago is sufficient to explain the wondrous order of tfahe biological world.
The tree of life metaphor of evolution is really only properly a
depiction of the present relatedness of life forms. Otherwise, one
must reckon with the differences latent in the central core of the ever
branching trunk of this tree the perhaps not so obvious implication of
the tree metaphor taken too literally is some form of what is
essentially special creation.
May 2011
Are each of us members of two distinct worlds, one real, the other
dreamscape? Is it just that our geographical distribution on the
dreamscape is a random shuffle relative to our spatial distribution on
the physical globe?
It appears as though evolutionary innovations could have been
prematurely anticipated through permutational and combinational
shuffling of genes, but this would be too short circuit the process of
the preparation of the ground for this change.
Whatever can be permuted amongst alternate universes constitutes a
proper separable component of the Universal wavefunction. People,
places and things, etc. normally understood, dont constitute quantum
separable abstract objects.
A C-60 molecule can exist in a superposition state on account of
nonlocal quantum correlations between the various vacuum
fluctuations of which it is composed. It, the C-60 molecule itself
exists in no particular quantum universe, but is an abstract object
subsisting outside all such possible quantum universes. Do such
supraliminal quantum correlations only obtain between. . . (finish this
sentence from context)
People seem to be permutable between MWI QM worlds, at the folk
psychology level at any rate. Although we know this cant really be
the case.
We get confused because we implicitly try to interpret our own
feelings in terms of a model of our being as unified, wholly integrated
self, that is.
Question: in terms of what might the human being be truly unified?
In terms of the soul as abstract (Platonic) self?
Probability feedback mechanism as model for nonrepresentational,
infinitely high peak (just think here of the relation ship of potential
energy to height above a gravitating body)?
In 3 dimensions on cannot move along a line any straighter than that
adopted by a ray of light (photon) moving between the two points in
question.
The speed of light speed limit should be recast more
generally that one cannot travel faster within a 3 dimensional
spacetime than could a ray of light (whatever the photons velocity
might be determined to be in terms of local process to any possible
velocity)
Changes in the initial and boundary conditions must in some cases
transcend the dynamics constrained by these boundary conditions.
The splitting of the degeneracy of multiple quantum universes each
associated with the same wavefunction through the initiation of
interactions between these quantum world so as to form from them a
single quantum universe, points up the fact of the wavefunction
constituting a complete description of the quantum mechanical
system in an observer-independent system.
Reason has a characteristic way of denaturing the relationships of
things. The seamless web of causal relationships characterizing the
functioning of any organism or ecological system undergoes change
largely along an axis of temporal evolution independent of that by
which its most general ground came into being.
The boundary conditions to the nonlocal field must not be merely
those specifiable in terms of spacetime variables.
The transcendental nature of consciousness and of the other, i.e.,
alterity of other persons, points up another but of transcendence: the
transcendental manner in which ones consciousness is more or less
similar in numerous respects to that of other persons and would-be or
potential persons.
Rather than assuming that there can only be one realization per
potential person we should say rather that there may be one such
realization of personhood per embedding ground (of temporal being).
We see both bases for personal identity at work here, those of
resonance and correspondence.
The correspondence is that of
transcendental self-identity, the resonance is that of the temporal with
the transcendental ground. Coherence may be understood in terms of
how, on the one hand, each temporal ground (largely) excludes the
influence of other grounds of temporality and, on the other, how the
temporal ground itself comes to limit interference from its
transcendental ground.
Correlation of fluctuation spectra of the individual components of a
system may achieve nonlocality through properly adjusted resonant
states of each of the components. The idea of adjusting carries the
notion of insertion by hand of system inputs. It is the ground state
vacuum of the system in question that possesses nonlocal
connectivity. The discrete elements exhibiting nonlocal connectivity
do so through its peculiar mode of resonant coupling to its own
quantum mechanical ground state.
Ones being change not so much through replication errors per se as
through the creative interpretation of replication errors. It is this
further fact of the persistent reinterpretation of discrete, random
changes (to discrete carriers of meaning or, a data-information) which
results in these changes producing an effect that seems and, in fact, is
indeed intelligent.
One begins to come to an intuitive understanding of such biological
entities as hormones, neurotransmitters, genes, etc. and in so doing
entering into the subtler manifestations of these entities.
But the body is in a constant state of copying itself through being
continuously reconstituted out of the quantum vacuum.
The more rapidly progresses this change, the less definite becomes
the identity of that which is the subject of this change and so in turn
the less definite become the changes to this indefinite subject. In this
way there seems to obtain some natural limit to the observable
(conscious) rate of times passage. Here it seems we may now be in
a better position to understand the paradox of times passage, e.g.,
relative to what does time pass at the rate that it does (appears to do)?
A friend is never so interested in the psychological implications of
what one says as he is its content.
Building up coherent structures from smaller, stock coherent
structures through a dialectic of consciousness-mediated interplay of
coherence and resonance.
In this way an internal domain of structure is built up.
There is a related dialectical process of data becoming information
and of information transforming into data. These two implications
are not related by a symmetry operation or, at least not by an external
symmetry.
The subconscious/unconscious dimension of thought and motivation
is needed to support open-ended possibilities for future revisionistic
interpretations of human motives and intentions. The nonlocality
rather than the instantaneous locality interpretation of physical reality
is needed in order to make room for the possibility of the transmission
and reprocessing of information. As time passes, the vague and
indefinite becomes more crystalline just as the definite and crystalline
becomes ever more ambiguous and uncertain. So temporality seems
to be composed of two distinct components, that of coherence and
decoherence (data vs. information).
The recursiveness of thought consists in the abstraction from
where the gik is the metric tensor of the spherical space (off diagonal
components of the gik and the metric tensor components, g11, g22, g33,
g44 correspond to the gravitational potentials of the Universes
pressure and energy density. With the off-diagonal components = 0,
we are assuming that the stresses due to expansion are 0 (uniform
expansion of a hyperspherical spacetime). So c2/R may be thought
of as GMU/R2, the gravitational field of the Universe, which is also
equal to Hc as well as equal to c2/R.
Due to the Universes global curvature, our time dimension of distant
bodies participating in the cosmological expansion becomes
progressively more spacelike with increasing cosmological distance.
Consequently, the spacetime variation of the vacuum energy density
which is purely temporal locally becomes more and more spatial at
greater and greater cosmological distances from us. So we see that
the spatial component of variation in the vacuum energy density with
arc distance along the Universes expanding 3-hypersurface is
directly related to the overall radius of curvature of this 3hypersurface.
And an energy density gradient is dimensionally
associated with a force field generated by this gradient. So maybe the
cosmological acceleration is gravitational the hypersurface is
expanding (in free space).
But where matter is present, the
hypersurface expands more slowly temporally due to the interaction
of gravitational time dilation with the local rate of expansion/time rate
of decrease of vacuum energy density. In such local regions of
decreased time rate of decrease of vacuum energy there should be an
increase in the strength of the local component of the spatial gradient
of cosmological vacuum energy density. In this way we see how the
speed of light, gravitation, the vacuum energy, and cosmological
expansion may all be intimately related.
<snip> I see what you mean about how Hc can explain the
appearance of an accelerating cosmological expansion, since Hc was
smaller in the past and therefore the cosmological acceleration greater
at greater cosmological distance scales. What do you think? -
Russell,
Sounds good. Brevity is the soul of wit.
becomes how do we influence the fermion exchange and the boson exchange in the vacuum? You once
Does matter reduce fermion exchange, if by merely screening the production of virtual fermions that
would have been produced with a trajectory that would have passed through the real fermion?
(I think
does the entire fermion field look like, not distinguishing virtual and real, and then what does the field
look like when one puts on glasses to see only the real part and then only the virtual part?
The same
-Later,
Brian
Ziad,
<snip>
Complex and perhaps paradoxical perceptions like this of those
around us must be actually quite common, I imagine. An important
Some one who has grown up in a culture never having seen a chair,
possesses no explicit concept of what we might call chairness.
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- - ++
+-++
++-+
++ -+ - --
- - - +
- - - -
+
p(a ,a)
= dp(x,t);
fdE(a+,a) = dE(x,t)
= m02c2 + p2c2
where m0 = E2/c2 p2
So that when m m0, we say then that the particle of mass, m, is off
mass shell. If the mass shell equation applies to the expectation
values of E and p, i.e., <E> and <p>, then an alteration in the
relationship of the fluctuations in E and p to their respective
Heisenberg uncertainties, /\E and /\p, must connect the distinction of
through the appearance of fermion/boson probability density crossterms, disruption of information-bearing phase relations between branches, appearance of entropy, thermal vacuum, Davies-Unruh,
Hawking radiation, etc.
The instinct for heroic self-significance is maintained against the
enveloping, maddening crowd seems to require the presence of an
audience attributing value to ones actions. Can the Self fulfill this
role when it is precisely this self which acts? Isnt it a natural
requirement that the audience be other than the Self?
A metaphor, like Ayers sense datum, is self-validating as an
assertion of relatedness. Much of the freedom of the human mind
consists in the malleable nature of metaphors.
The energy uncertainty of a system described by a density matrix
rather than a wavefunction must be composed of at least two, if not
three distinct components: quantum (Heisenberg) uncertainty,
statistical (classical thermodynamic) uncertainty, and perhaps also the
Heisenberg
but
non-statistical
uncertainty
of
the
observer/experimenters brain.
Through two quantum fluctuations may be random, they may
nonetheless be correlated according to (representation) order
parameters. This is not the case for statistical thermal (classical)
fluctuations. The correlation of two distinctly separated quantum
fluctuations via a nonlocal connection does not involve supraliminal
transmission of information.
What is termed same is an abstraction, an extrapolation of
similarity to infinite degree. The essential characteristics of a stable,
robust system cannot be importantly based upon such a minute degree
of precision, though perhaps subtlety within precise bounds provides
a better basis for seeming necessary infinitesimal precision.
= s + ia
s = 1/2( + *);
a = 1/2( -
) and where by
so that,
s = 1/2 x 2; a = 1/2i
= s + a;
so that,
x = (s + a)(*s + *a) =
s2 + as + *as + a2 =
= s2 + a2 = 2
and
/t = a/t;
so
Quantum phase is not physically meaningful per se, but all of the
information content of a coherent quantum state is contained in the
phase relationships.
C.f., Statistics and prn=Quantum Group Symmetries.
Information corresponds to fluctuations.
Order corresponds to
expectation values and boundary conditions.
Order corresponds to
syntax. The requirement of any document that it be both transcendental
in its reference and literally true is a contradictory set of requirements.
Stated in words, the above says that the sum of the time rate of change
Due to the vast advantage afforded by quantum computing over against
classical digital, the fact of the impossibility of duplication of quantum
states introduces an interesting dilemma: how then are informationefficient quantum mechanical processes supposed to support high
fidelity copying and tran-scription of quantum information? Perhaps
the quantum imposed limits on state copying is supplemented by the
context for the states provided by quantum fields, specifically the
quantum vacuum?
Tvu?
prn=Covariantly expressed, the integrated relativistic source of gravity is
the 4-momentum pu of the source system, c.f., cit=Lagrangian
Interaction (au=Doughty).
The metaphorical unity of the manifestation of a thing tends to be
interpreted by human beings as pointing up some deep underlying
meaning connected with the object and which transcends the
appearances.
Although these distinct manifestations are perhaps
disconnected abstract features of the object in differing contexts that are
connected only through becoming so within the human observers
consciousness by his will to create a meaningful connection. This is
very much after the fashion of the connecting of dots into a trajectory.
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Should
another to knit these insights together, another to find the cracks in the
edifice which results, another to repair it, another to destroy, another to
adapt, mimic, distort, restore, reform, collect, admire, facilitate or inhibit
the action of all of these, etc.
A social collective composed of and functioning optimally with a highly
varied collection of individuals whose activities must interlock in
dynamic and complementary fashion in order best to facilitate the
collectives survival and prosperity will necessarily be composed of
individuals removed from most of the constraints of natural selection.
This permits existing individual types to evolve into more intensely
specialized forms as well as for the evolution of altogether new types of
individuals. Any change in the social conditions to which societies are
subject that reduces rather than enhances the influence of natural
selective pressures upon its member individuals grants greater scope for
the forces of self-organization, whether these be chemical, biological,
psychological, social, etc.
A coherence (as opposed to a resonance) theory of truth implies that
truth is a multiplicity, that being is too complex to be unified within the
realm of manifestation/individuation, this unity only being achievable
through transcendence of spacetime, matter and form.
A further
implication here is that coherence theoretic truth is always metaphorical
in nature. And truth by correspondence with the actual, with the that
which is, of the greatest possible closeness and intimacy is the only
such truth possible.
In a closed system, the quantity of energy and hence information
remains constant.
Sometimes to observe the scenery too closely
disrupts it unless one becomes a part of the scenery itself.
The structure of such intersubjectivity formed out of a solipsistic
collective would transcend any conceivable mechanical, abstract or
literal description.
It is more true to say that all words become metaphors rather than that
all words are metaphors.
What accounts for the distinction of real vs. virtual in the sense of
dynamism vs. boundary condition?
The more accurately the experimenter wishes to pin down the behavior
of the entity or system under study, the more he endangers the
parallelism between phenomena and description presupposed by a
correspondence paradigm of scientific truth.
Truth expands in scope to becoming equivalent to logical selfconsistency (i.e., validity) or logic, at some level of detailed structure of
the real, becomes no different from what exists, i.e., the rational is the
real, c.f., Hegels Phenomenology of Mind.
The temporal evolution of a systems logic must be noncomputable (by
that system).
Does temporally evolve independently of the quantum energy
uncertainty (fluctuations) of the corresponding systems vacuum? This
question is related to the notion of eigenfunctions being an abstract
idealization of the quantum theoretic formalism.
The mind is not quantum mechanical. Information is only conserved
within an informationally closed system. Mind breaks the symmetry
upon which information conservation depends.
Because vacuum fluctuations render the laws of thermodynamics only
approximately true, their spectrum must not conservation of fluctuations
would imply that the vacuum fluctuation spectrum is indeed thermal.
Any being less complex/sophisticated than reality itself could not
possess this reality as a proper object of its knowledge. This is another
way of saying that Man is forever barred from possessing as an object of
November 2011
The truth has roots in all worlds. The truth maintains itself through
expansion of its domain of reference.
This means that truth is
transcendent but only experienced by humans as metaphorical truth.
The truth is unpredictable in its tenacious resilience.
Internality derives from ground, externality from its precipitates. The
uncertainty principle is telling us that, in addition to the contribution of
interactions to the dynamics of a given system, there is also another
important one of given system, there is also another important one of the
process of the continual crystallization of relations and elements into the
system not from outside itself but from within it sown sustaining
ground. Analogous to this is the distinction of the processing of data vs.
processing of information.
An attempt to rationally explain consciousness, that is, in terms of some
rational system of structurings of such consciousness, if successful,
would lead to the paradoxical-seeming situation in which each of his
own particular consciousness alone. Clearly any rational explication of
consciousness must include the distinction of personal, or individual,
consciousness from consciousness as such while at the same time
allowing the demonstration of ones own consciousness as a particular
variety of consciousness as such.
Information can be defined as a reduction in uncertainty. Therefore,
quantum and classical physics afford us two importantly different
concepts of information and perhaps also entropy, c.f., Planck on
thermodynamics.
State space description cannot accommodate
decoherence phenomena.
Psi is a code containing its own interpretation.
Reduction of classical physical (statistical) uncertainty represents data.
A reduction of quantum mechanical (Heisemberg) uncertainty represents
information.
novel collection of internal and/or sensory data inputs, but the brain
must be prepared by the inputs and respond. There are in other words,
no instantaneous neural correlates of consciousness - or even such a set
comprising a narrow temporal window of mere milliseconds c.f.,
Benjamin Libet, and time scale reductionism (low frequency processes
always must be composed of high frequency processes - in short, onedimensional temporality) is an invalid hypothesis of neurological
temporal evolution. This may be taken as one (of several) grounds for
the implausibility of the Boltzmann brain hypothesis, whether there are
indeed any really existing physical brains or no.
November 2012
questions. Why do I exist and why do other people exist (or appear to
exist)? The first thing he should realize is that these two questions are
essentially one. This is on account of the necessity of the self being a
social construct. And this social construct is mediated at its most basic
level through physical, that is tactile interactions with other entities who
are later modeled as other persons akin to the self which is itself
modeled as being merely one self among numerous others.
The
development of the conception of the self goes hand in hand, and
necessarily so, with the development of the conception of the existence
and reality of other selves.
The more advanced becomes the
individuals conception of his self, so should his conception of the
reality of other persons evolve in sophistication.
In fact, the two
conceptions of self must track together if the individual is to become
psychologically well adjusted. A sophisticated model of the self and
other persons is necessarily mediated linguistically.
An important
realization here is that language does not actually involve the
transmission of anything to the developing socially constructed self.
Linguistic communication however fosters the overwhelming illusion
that ideas and experiences are indeed transmitted between persons
engaged in communication. The illusory nature of transmission in this
sense is what underlies the ineffectual quality of metaphysical
speculation. This is because language does not actually permit the
individual to glimpse anything outside of his own unique state of being.
One must either not exist as a self aware being or one must exist as a self
aware being in the presence of and with the memory of having been in
the presence of other persons analogous to ones own self.
Selfconsciousness presupposes extensive memories of previous meaningful
interactions and communications with other persons similar to the self.
An introduction of mathematically structured empirical data seems to
consist of three distinct parts: incidence, coincidence, and order. Next,
there is the Waking life is the dream under the control of the object,
according to Santayana. What Santayana perhaps means by this remark
is that the conscious mind is structured associatively just like the
unconscious and subconscious minds, only that the object, i.e., the
a particular observer.
In a similar fashion, we might theorize the
existence of a kind of set of synchronistic basis functions with each
eigenfunction of each particular basis corresponding to a particular
simple thematic element or relation. There is a natural recursiveness
built into the relatedness of the eigenfunctions of different bases. The
only requirement for such a quantum mechanical basis function is that it
be a wavefunction with respect to a quantum observable. An analogous
statement may be made with respect to the synchronistic basis functions
that are substantively related to the notion of intersubjectivity. A given
collection of observables as well as their dynamics may possess an
unlimited number of alternative expressions in terms of distinct basis
functions, all of which are equally valid expressions. In this way we
may suppose that consciousness is formally reality-degenerate, since
each consciousness may be structured equally well and complexly as
any other consciousness.
Consequently, the differences between
consciousness cannot be attributed to formally describable elements and
relationships.
Quantum state reduction introduces novelty into the causal chain only
because causality possesses an intrinsic indefiniteness that admits
coupling to a fundamentally indeterministic process.
Data must be continually updated just as does any material structure that
is a more or less stable coherent pattern of quantum vacuum fluctuation
energy. The processing of this data necessarily entails a backtracking of
the evolution of the context in which these data found themselves in an
attempt to uncover the datas original context. The original context
should provide interpreters of the data with valuable information for the
proper divining of the intent behind the data concerning its message
content. Another part of processing the data might be the application of
appropriate error correction and data decompression subroutines.
Image enhancement and pattern recognition software might also have to
be applied to the task of extracting the datas informational content.
What unifies all these various means of processing that data is a
modeling of . . . 1) the data as a string of code and 2) the instantaneous
of the network.
What is nothing more than the territory that must be crossed in returning
to ones home is itself a home for others.
History exhibits the synchronistic consistency of a dream.
Atrophy of morphological and physiological structures under the relent
of specific selective pressures is the mechanism by which these
structures become more easily retrofitted into other structures currently
being selected for. Occasionally, natural selection fails to improvise a
new use for an atrophied structure as in the case of the human appendix.
There must be some means for the environment to suggest to the
genome certain lines of experimentation that take into account higher
orders of environmental change, analogous to the relationship of nth
order derivatives (rates of change). This might be easier to understand
in terms of the gene frequencies of population genetics. The higher the
gene frequency, the greater the number of instances of that particular
gene that are exposed to environmental factors contributing to mutation
frequency. But higher gene frequency is also an index of fitness, which
worked in the direction of preserving and increasing the frequency of the
particular gene.
A metaphor or metaphorical description of a thing points of some
abstract features of a thing in terms of these same features that are
possessed by some other thing that the audience is already quite familiar
with.
From the vantage point of consciousness, the world is a novelty
conserving system.
Novelty is not conserved in a system of
representation of any complexity hat cannot adapt to the evolution of
that which it represents.
You dont need to understand quantum theory to grasp the idea of
parallel universes any poor schmuck who chose the woman he loved
over the woman who loved him understands the necessity of there being
alternate universes.
Mutual interference of the frequency spectra of multiple time
uncertainties give us discrete events in time similar to wave packets.
Data has no mass but information does have mass.
Time advances in two fundamentally distinct but intimately related
ways. One after the normal fashion, in terms of the advancing of
functions of a ticking clock, the other through a kind of crystallization
process in which the time and energy uncertainties shift in such a way
that past events become ever more determinate. The process of human
recollecting of such past events of which we were once a part accelerates
this quantum crystallization of Heisenberg uncertainty of past events.
This is the Heisenberg uncertainty analogue to the collapse of the
wavefunction triggered by the consciousness of human observers, which
engenders a determinate eigenstate with respect to some quantum
mechanical observer.
Might physical time be integrally structured such that the temporal
integration exhibited by subjectively experienced time is not entirely
emergent, but partly derivative of the underlying physical temporal
structure? @$Might the integral nature of subjective time be a property
of transcendental consciousness rather than merely of the play of forms
within the individuals conscious states?
Might there be an
infrastructure of fundamental process (of transcendental consciousness)
that is shared between eternally preexistent and separate individual
consciousnesss?
The genetic toolkit concept is part and parcel with the vanishing
likelihood of there emerging any new phyla over the course of future
evolution on Earth.
The evolution of latent genetic information
embodied in heretofore-untried gene sequences is conducted on a
and brain processes, or perhaps just the physical processes upon which
brain processes depend, would have to possess the same underlying
ground for their respective dynamics.
At some stage, the analogous similarity of one consciousness to another
must give way to their non-formalizable differences.
If one
consciousness as such differs from another in only a non-formalizable
manner, then each consciousness is formally identical to any other.
This is only to be expected since what is called suchness is also
formlessness.
It is only through the use of metaphor that the denotative may be
properly grasped. The reduction of the subjective is always from
smaller to larger, from lower to higher, that is, reduction is effected
always in terms of consideration of ever larger or deeper contexts.
The human form as superattractor of myriad selected for strange
attractors, i.e., nth iterative attractors (attractors of attractors of
attractors, etc.)
Coherence is mediated by bosonic (exchange) particles that are
manifestations of 3-momentum vacuum fluctuations, i.e., /\pj. So the
greater the coherence of a structure, the greater is /\Pj, the smaller is /\E
and, hence, the larger will be /\t, the characteristic lifetime of the
structure. Coherence is a manifestation of self-organization, resonance,
on the other hand, is a manifestation of the happenstance of propinquity.
The Anthropic cosmological principle implies that it takes forever for a
hypercomplex structure to come into being and even when it does come
into being, by chance, cannot maintain itself in existence for any
appreciable length of time.
Without the operation of at least some randomness within a system, no
more than one individual (or individual state) is open to the system.
Chance becomes regulated in a system in which novelty is no longer
possible.
Indeterminacy in the system means that the system still possesses choice
of local symmetry.
The quantized redshifts, i.e., expansion velocities of distant galaxies may
be explained in terms of harmonic quantum tunneling of matter particles
through a hyperspherical potential barrier.
Abstraction as a mental activity has two distinct varieties, depending
upon the causal structure of the field subject to its operation. In a
bottom-up organized causal structure, mind is external to its field subject
to its abstract thought. In a top-down causal structure, mind is internal
to its field of abstract thinking. IN the former, out of an external field
of relationships, internal structures are produced, in the latter, the
converse of this is true.
In the first case, external order is transduced into internal, in the later,
the converse is the case.
The phenomena within an individual
observables and so are not located
nonlocal.
Similarly, the processes
individual consciousness are not
consciousness.
practitioners insist not only that this is possible, but that this is the very
object of the practice of transcendental meditation.
One sure way to escape causal determinism is if no unique state (of the
underlying embedding substrate) can be engendered/determined through
a cobbling together of already defined elements. The coming into being
of a unique system requires that altogether new possibilities of
abstraction into elements also come into being.
Some resonant states cannot be engendered without the fact of certain
other resonances having already occurred within the system.
This
points up the truth that the actual is never simply the transporting of
structure across a perfectly transparent interface.
A question here is whether this interface is importantly similar to that
which lies between the conscious and unconscious mind. But resonance
and coherence require some parallel though inequivalent underlying
functioning of ground/context to effect/sustain these.
Collapse of Psi and vacuums inability to anticipate (vacuum
compensation for free will acts must be outside causal continuum, i.e.,
spacetime) alteration in Psis boundary conditions intimately related to
the automaticity vs. consciousness distinction.
Only the formless can appreciate form, as does mankind.
Some dismiss the question, why does the Universe exist? by
supposing that no explanation is needed because the Universe has
always existed. This type of answer is as good as any other where
conserved quantities are concerned, but is no good for dismissing the
question of the origin of unconserved quantities.
Quite simply,
unconserved physical quantities necessarily involve a temporal
uncertainty and so demand an origin in time and hence some process
responsible for this origin.
Its funny how this inversion of the literal and the metaphorical that
typically occurs at the interface of consciousness ad the unconscious can
itself become inverted once more rather than simply reversed or undone,
then the sudden loss of this ability upon exposure to the language of
their parents perhaps points up such a parallel. Jesus as fruit of tree
(cross) of eternal life. You must become as little children.
A perfect example of the arbitrariness of concept maps is pointed up by
the evolution of human relationships toward the continued fulfillment of
timeless psychological drives and emotional needs despite the
continually evolving social and cultural backdrop against which the
these needs are to be fulfilled by members of succeeding generations.
The breaking of the spacetime symmetry of the quantum vacuum by
mass is not the fundamental or absolute symmetry breaking that requires
the engendering of a gauge boson. This situation is quite unlike that
where a broken global symmetry causes the creation of a gauge boson,
which, by being exchanged between splintered symmetry domains,
results in the restoring locally of the symmetry that was broken globally,
e.g., the creation of the Higgs boson in the theory of electroweak
symmetry breaking. Another reason that the breaking of the vacuum
spacetime symmetry by mass is not fundamental is that mass is not an
irreducible, conserved physical quantity, but is a phenomenon produced
by the peculiar manner in which the components of the total (massenergy + vacuum-energy) fluctuation stress-momentum-energy tensors
mutually interact.
Prior to the breaking of the spacetime symmetry of the vacuum by mass,
the spectrum of momentum fluctuations within the vacuum is just that
defined in terms of the spectrum of virtual transitions allowed between
the discrete energy levels of this global vacuum state. This is exactly
the situation we should expect if the quantum vacuum can correctly be
modeled as a four dimension array of coupled harmonic oscillators, i.e.,
as a four dimensional crystalline latticework.
The additional 3momentum fluctuations, over and above those permitted in the
symmetric state of this vacuum, correspond to those transition energies
of the modified vacuum lattice which are now forbidden by the state of
broken symmetry.
The question arises that if the fluctuations in the momentum and energy
in the particles of which the mass is composed are independent of these
fluctuations of the local vacuum state, then interpreting either set of
fluctuations as the Heisenberg uncertainties in momentum and energy
and the remaining set of fluctuations as the fluctuation terms of these
two quantities, then given that these two sets of fluctuations, matter and
vacuum, are appropriately correlated, nonzero expectation values result
for the momentum and energy for this matter.
More specifically,
negatively correlated sets of fluctuations will produce nonzero
expectation values of the momentum or energy and positively correlated
sets of fluctuations will produce zero expectation values of the
momentum or energy. An important question here is: how are vacuum
momentum fluctuations related to vacuum energy fluctuations (within
the same spacetime neighborhood)?
are supposed to have a real reference, must have some effect upon the
transformation of its referent whenever its form, whether graphic,
glyphic, etc, undergoes transformation. Otherwise, language would
possess no efficacy in the processing or reprocessing of information, that
is, language could not possess its dual aspect as means in both the
conception and transmission of ideas.
The medium reached at which the data can no longer be compressed
without loss of information constitutes the medium that thinks the
information or the medium in which the information possesses its
content.
(in correlations of quantum fluctuations comprising
Heisenberg uncertainty)
The path of maturation takes us from a state of the other as self to that of
the self as other.
The greatest barrier to truth is the presumption that we already possess
it Chuck Missler
Below 10-33 cm position loses its individuality while events taking place
over time intervals smaller than 10-43 seconds do not figure anywhere
within the domain of physical or historical time.
Either the personal has stemmed from the impersonal or the impersonal
has it origin in the personal.
We must make a threefold distinction between chance, order (what is
bound to happen), and that by which order is brought into being that
itself possesses no order. This last is itself commonly thought to be
chance or its operation. But if chance can be defined and hen analyzed
and shown to possess order itself, then the order of both chance and
ordered (bound) structures are what are in need of explanation. Again,
the source of this explanation of order, in its greatest generality, as well
as the source of this order, i.e., no complete description. This source
would best be alluded to as the absolute unlimited.
Given the information density of the human body/brain why is then the
inertial mass of my brain only 1.6 kg? The speed of propagation of the
vacuum information field must be effectively infinite/ instantaneous so
that an information dense system does not have to drag an
information-laden vacuum field behind it upon its being accelerated.
@$
Of course, if the propagation speed of the vacuum information field is
finite though much larger then c it should be experimentally possible
to measure a small departure from the relativistic mass-velocity
relationship for the system under large accelerations.
The computing capacity of conventional and quantum computers
possessing as Turing machines N distinct circuit elements and hence 2 N
distinct accessible states and identical central processor unit speeds
differ in computing power by a ratio of N:2N. The equivalence principle
would seem to dictate that the reconfiguration of vacuum field stressmomentum-energy be mediated in two distinct modes, one local, the
other, nonlocal. The relative activity of each distinct mode of vacuum
reconfiguration is matched to the mode of change in state, e.g., of real
particles and fields such as in the case of arbitrary accelerations of
masses, to which this vacuum must adjust.
Impossibility of movement relative to the vacuum momentum-energy
fluctuation field is always orthogonal to the 3-momentum of an inertial
frame, i.e., to the 3-momentum of any uniformly moving body.
via means that preserve the appearance, at our day to day scale, that we,
and our universe, are completely mechanical, c.f., The Quantum Brain,
Satinover, Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This is just the type of arrangement by which we might expect the
embodiment of conscious beings to be effected within coherent systems
of matter and energy.
At some stage in the progression from the subatomic to the cellular scale
(or, perhaps, a little beyond this) a shift occurs from quantum computerlike operations classical digital computer-like operations (though these
may be thought to be simulated on the brains neural network). This
change in spatial scale temporal, also, when characteristic lifetimes and
frequencies of the different scales are compared, amounts to our having
an important redefinition of entropy forced upon us. These two, distinct
definitions of entropy, the one, quantum, on the other, classical, must be
(able to be demonstrated to be) exactly equivalent to one another. For
otherwise we are faced with a stark paradox, i.e., what happens to the
truly colossal quantity of quantum computational information that must
be encoded in the myriad superposed quantum states within the brain at
its atomic and molecular level of description? Perhaps another way to
have asked this question is, where does the quantum computational
information content go when the brains quantum coherent states
decohere?
Human suggestibility and the tendency of human imagination to be
captured by novel and contrived symbols/icons. Prior to a certain
watershed point in history, God did not deal with humankind on an
individual basis unless one was a prophet, that is, an instrument through
which God was to speak to His People. Individuality was an adaptation
that acted as a break against lemming-like behavior of the clan/tribe as a
whole that was potentially catastrophic, and the suggestibility of social
groups is the evolutionary compliment to this important adaptation.
Receptor theory of drug action suggests that the peculiar psychoactive
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Data are stored in something, information has to be stored on something.
If the language that a program is written in is powerful enough, then the
program can be run on any machine. But this would imply that the
software languages most basic operations were taking place at a level
beneath that of the most basic hardware design elements.
Then the code can no longer be thought of as being completely
structured in its implementation/execution by the conditions imposed by
the hardware running the software.
Since quantum correlations can be nonlocally connected, these
correlations that become locally connected do so by some mechanism
other than that of cause and effect. In short, quantum correlations by
not being bound to spacetime may be found to underpin spacetime.
This is why it makes sense to look for the mechanism of unified inertia
and gravitation through an examination of the dynamics of quantum
fluctuations and their correlations.
Belief systems possess a principle of coherence upon which their
evolvability relies that is independent of the arbitrary nature of the
metaphysical elements formal within these systems of belief.
A singularity is more generally speaking, a situation of the most extreme
boundary condition having been placed upon the dynamical substrate
subject to it the most restrictive boundary condition that can be placed
upon this substrate that can be sustained by its very own activity.
Information destruction paradox of black hole thermodynamics is such a
crisis in some quarters of the physics community. Has anyone ever
heard anyone concerned about loss, i.e., nonconservation, of information
in the case of brain death of persons who have passed away.
The unique individuality of the personal consciousness is itself rather
singularity like.
Information cannot be transmitted at greater than the speed of light (in
the local vacuum, that is). But is this also true for data? Actually, no is
the answer.
The explanation of this manner in which data and
information differ is no doubt importantly related to Penroses graviton
limit for Psi collapse, Wigners sense of the importance of consciousness
in the Psi collapse mechanism, code versus its interpretation, etc.
Does the death of the individual constitute a genuine, objective
singularity?
We expect the laws of nature to break down at the
boundary of such an objective (or physical) singularity. But this can
only be true if the underlying dynamic substrate bound by singularity is
the same as this substrate conditioned or, more aptly, informed, by
various particle field, i.e., massive (information-bearing) structures.
Psyche, goddess of purity.
Jungs notion of complementary
personality types and their mutual attraction. A complementarity of left
and right hemispheres.
Wisdom of the mother confident in her
knowledge of the relevance of earth things and irrelevance of sky things.
There is a possible breakthrough here in relating gravity, consciousness,
quantum vacuum, open systems vs. closed systems in the context of
thermodynamic theory, social construction of reality (reality as
fundamentally intersubjective). . .
That which is medium dependent is supposed to be encoded into or
represented by that which is medium independent, i.e., the coherent
represented by the discrete.
Denotation is the fusing together of metaphors, as in inductively
inferring the meaning of a word through hearing it used in myriad
different contexts.
A floppy disk with data loaded onto it weighs the same as one without
Now when you tell someone that death should be just like one had never
existed, this doesnt really console him or her, even if they can embrace
the idea. Thats because somehow the person believes that theyre
having existed makes a difference to the Universe even after they are
dead.
Just as the propagation of sound does not involved the actual
transmission of matter, i.e., material particles, the transmission of
information does not require the translocation of any substance.
Because of the recursive nature of the transmission medium just the
replication of information in place requires the processing of
information. How information moves through space is dependent upon
the mechanism by which information is sustained through time.
Physics and chemistry serve as
implementation, and transmission.
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thoughts of those he never met or who might have been long dead by the
time of his study of the texts.
Neils Bohr said that anyone who has not been shocked by quantum
theory has not understood it.
Feynman said something similarly
appreciative concerning this theory when he remarked that, no one
understands quantum mechanics. If you take both of these statements
by these two great physicists as being equally valid, then the conclusion
follows that no one is properly shocked, amazed, or appreciated the
implications and significance of the quantum theory. This brings to the
fore the notion of a person, society, or humanity itself as a whole failing
to properly appreciate the significance of something.
Photons acquire mass in a gravitational field due to increased density of
momentum fluctuations supported by a decreased density of energy
fluctuations. This is (another way) how a decreased value of c in a
gravitational field can be understood.
Two physical objects that are embedded in the same vacuum that
interact do so in a fundamentally different way than they do when each
is embedded in its own, unique vacuum.
In quantum physics, one thing does not cause another so much as do
the underlying nonlocal fields constituting these things, e.g., particles
interact.
The disconnect of the base pair sequences from direct influence of the
laws of chemistry in analogy with the disconnect of quantum
phenomena from the classical world of substance/thinghood through
quantization/digitization of mass, length, time, etc.
Representation is a function of participation
collapse principle. The uncertainties in quantum observables are not a
function of the interaction with an observer, but the certainties are
(eigenstates).
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resistance, if the door had been locked, or without resistance, if the door
had been unlocked. There are all these opportunities for quantum
superposition, e.g., going to lock/going to unlock a door, correct
key/incorrect key, door having been locked/door having been unlocked,
etc.
Normally we would expect that an single process would be characterized
by determinism and a collection of similar processes, by statistical
relationships.
The local is a manifestation of the mutual interference of nonlocal
systems, e.g., the observers brain and the physical system under
observation.
Of course, the Other of all others would not be a person in the usual
sense.
If my thoughts are determined, then they cannot possibly refer to that
which is merely hypothetical and not literally present anywhere in
realitys continuum. To wit, my thought cannot in this case be about
anything. Deterministic thoughts cannot be supported by an openended context. March 2011 Another way to look at the question is the
following. If all of the causal conditions for what is taking place within
a closed, stand-alone computing system (brain) are proximate causes,
i.e., taking place within the closed system, then events in the system
only have reference to what is inside the system and can make no
reference to anything outside the system.
Information degeneracy is what permits the Gdelization procedure to
carry through successfully upon which rests the validity of the Gdels
Incompleteness Theorem.
Numberline continuum possesses natural elements that are members of
the Real (numbers).
death of the collective being a greater evil than the death of the
individual or self. The new age crowd wants the warm and fuzzy
feeling that comes from having the all powerful universal parental figure
always in the background, but they dont like the idea of owing any
account to this parental figure and imagine that us kids can just make up
the ethics governing our behavior.
Consciousness and will are
complementary even in a deity.
Voltaire was famous for saying that if God did not exist, Man would
have found it necessary to invent him. One of the for us profounder
aspects of Gods being is that Man has indeed called God into existence.
In fact He is called into existence every time an individual human being
accepts and receives the promptings of His Holy Spirit.
Fluctuation as a function of our manner of approximation/abstraction.
The steady state cosmology theory will make a comeback every 50 years
or so, and so this theory is a kind of touchstone of cosmology. All
systems of cosmology must always justify themselves in part as valid
departures from this touchstone theory (steady-state theory).
Thoughts are representations of a direct contact. The purpose of words
is to make ones direct intuitions available to another. When thinking
privately, without any notion of passing what arises during thought to
some other person, one may altogether dispense with the necessity of
words. Words are only valuable if they direct the listener/reader to the
intuition corresponding to ones own intuition one has sought to convey.
Now an explanation or description of consciousness as a representation
of consciousness is only valuable if it brings the other to a direct
intuition of consciousness.
Well, the individual already has direct
intuition of his own peculiar state of consciousness. While the best
method of bringing another to an intuition of consciousness as such, in
contradistinction to his mere individual consciousness, is simply that of
properly instructed in the techniques of transcendental meditation. The
individuals success or failure in his attempt at transcendental meditation
is ultimately dependent upon his own inner resources. Providing him
Christ took upon Himself the likeness of Man. Adam was made in the
Image of God. So image and likeness or physical form are distinct
concepts within the Bible. Ephesians 1:4.
The possibility of metaphoricity opens the way to unlimited possibilities
of distinct orderings of reality.
General considerations prior to
development of unified theory.
The relationships of the various
branches of physics, etc.
<stochastic quantum gravity>
The Jew requires a sign. They have Moses and the Prophets. Faith
cannot be sparked by or rely upon signs since without sufficient faith
such signs as are provided go unrecognized, c.f., hardened hearts,
blinded minds, etc.
Two kinds of miracles scientific and moral. This reminds us of
Kants remark that there were two things which inspired awe in him: the
starry heavens above and the moral law within.
The sense of wonder is to science what the conscience is to morality.
Lord of Hosts What are hosts?
bodies embedding eternal souls?
Human
The uncertainty of the vacuums momentum and energy are equal to the
instantaneous magnitude of the quantum vacuums momentum and
energy.
The time rate of change in momentum is equal and opposite to the space
rate of change (gradient) in the system Hamiltonian.
Assuring someone that one is sincere is at a strictly literal level,
paradoxical.
Out of respect for the sane person we hope still dwells inside the
mentally ill person, we resist the impulse to humor this person.
Wisdom that is to be deployed by and within consciousness could not
possibly have been built-in to the soul, for this would be mere talent and
intellect/intelligence. Wisdom built-into a being would manifest itself
to this being as a past history from within which this wisdom was
distilled through its unique career of mindfulness. There must be an
infrastructure for the implementation of the higher processing of human
experience that is theoretically possible. And such an infrastructure
necessarily transcends the cognition and perception of any individual
human. This infrastructure is the divine logos. This infrastructure is
better known as Providence.
Psychic energy conservation theory of depression/ lucid dreaming, c.f.,
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Alan Watts in cit=Not What Should Be But What Is, terming
psychoanalysis psychohydraulics.
What sort of boundary conditions must be placed upon consciousness as
such to produce a given individual consciousness? Each individual
cannot be thought to possess his own unique dynamism, if his
consciousness simply results from certain particular boundary conditions
having been placed upon the Universal Cosmic Consciousness
(consciousness at large or as such).
The trees cannot grow to the heavens, says Confucius.
There is not reason to believe that human evolution cannot advance any
further than the stage it presently occupies.
There presently exists a facility for Mans further evolution.
Could a computer design a more complex computer than itself?
Not
force. All simple bosons, i.e., bosons that are not composite, possessing
internal binding energies, should be massless particles, unless able to
manifest their momentum as energy through back and forth exchange
between fermions.
Fermions are massive when they back react upon the Fermi-Dirac
statistics of the quantum vacuum. In the same way, bosons should be
massive when they in turn back react upon the Bose-Einstein statistics of
the quantum vacuum. Any particle that directly back reacts upon the
Fermi-Dirac vacuum statistics will also back react indirectly upon the
Bose-Einstein statistics of this vacuum. This occurs through the
coupling of Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics of the free space
quantum vacuum. But this coupling is only in practice realized when
the symmetry of quantum vacuum statistics is first perturbed on one side
or the other of the vacuum's spacetime symmetry plane. It is easy to
realize that deviation from flat spacetime symmetry induces a coupling
between 3-momentum and energy fluctuations in the vacuum. The
converse of this is also true: perturbing of the momentum-energy
symmetry of flat spacetime induces a curvature of this spacetime that in
turn induces further distortion in momentum-energy symmetry away
from flat or diagonalized vacuum fluctuation momentum-energy. This
feedback between interacting shifts in spacetime and momentum-energy
symmetry is critically damped when r approaches Rshcwarzchild.
A mass collapsing under its own weight ceases its this collapse towards
its center once the the mass becomes disconnected from spacetime
through having become disconnected from the time of its original
spacetime.
This occurs at the precise point that all of the mass'
fluctuation energy has converted to bosonic, i.e., the point at which the
mass begins to sustain itself entirely out of the internal vector boson
exchanges mediating its own binding forces, which is to say, at just that
point at which the mass is converted completely into the energy of its
internal binding forces. Any increase in the density of the mass' internal
binding forces would have to be supplied from "outside" from the very
spacetime from which it has just become "disconnected." Any increase
in the mass' binding energy beyond this natural dividing line would
necessitate a decrease in the density of fermionic fluctuation energy
within the mass that cannot be communicated to the region of spacetime
outside the mass' newly formed event horizon. Such a situation would
result in a violation of conservation of energy by the black hole.
Spacetime is characterized by the collective wavenumbers, k, and
frequencies, f, of virtual bosons and fermions, respectively composing
the momentum and energy fluctuations of the quantum mechanical
vacuum state.
Does the energy uncertainty of a quantum mechanical system encode its
complete structure of temporal potentialities? If this is so, then the only
properties possessed by a black hole, which is disconnected from the
energy uncertainty of the quantum vacuum, would be those that are truly
conserved quantities.
Are expectation values derivable from stable intereference between the
energy uncertainty of the quantum system and the energy uncertainty of
the quantum brain of the person observing it?
The sum of the respective probability densities of fermions of identical
quantum state integrated over a finite 3-hypersurface of spacetime
equals unity. A warping of this hypersurface increases its hypersurface
area, resulting in a correspondingly reduced density of virtual fermions
(vacuum energy fluctuations) within a hypersurface area equal to the
projection of this hypersurface onto its tangent reference hypersurface,
i.e., the flat hypersuface containing the matrix of virtual fermions prior
to its taking on a curvature (degenerate with respect to (+) or (-)
curvature). In other words, the warping of the starting flat hypersurface
results in a corresponding decreased 3-hypersurface density of virtual
fermions (quantum vacuum energy fluctuations). The increasing elastic
strain within the warped hypersurface corresponds to an increased
something extraneous.
Chicken is an eggs way of makin ganother egg. What philosophical
implication for an evolutionary interpretation of this adage.
As evinced by the peculiar counter or nontintuitive logic of thougth
typical during dreaming consciousness is projected through waking
memory into the physical memory traces laid down during dreaming.
Communications are easily understood despite free float permitted to
negation indicators.
There is an important sense in which explanation takes us stil further
from a grasp and knowledge of the truth, or at least it does this before
bringing us closer to its comprehension.
Rather than change being an illusion and time being unreal it is
permanence and continuity (within a continuum, e.g., spacetime) that is
the illusion.
All is flux does not allow coherence. All is cyclical does not permit
any novelty, which requires aperiodicity.
As in a crystalline structure, underlying coherence explains the spectrum
of oscillations and their correlations (which contain information about
how the crystal will respond to perturbations).
If being and existence are synonymous, then there is no distinction
between not existing and never having existed.
If there is future evolution, genuine possibilities for novel higher
syntheses in future times, then the experience. . .
The spin statistics theorem is a consequence of special relativity theory.
We should expect spin statistics to remain valid within GR theory
Synchronicity, parallel
cosmological principle.
universes
and
the
quantum
solipsistic
spacetime itself.
The question is whether the most general concept or abstraction is
individual consciousness or consciousness as such. If it is the latter,
then if there is correspondence between this concept of greatest
generality and a thing or essence, then this thing would needs be Deity.
Although we are together now within space and time our transcendent
selves are separate, embedded in incommensurable realities, each of our
own making.
If there are spatial variations in the curvature of spacetime, then by the
relativity principle, there should also be temporal variations in the
curvature of spacetime, which seems to imply the existence of a kind of
a relativistic hypertime. But to avoid the hypertime paradox here,
spacetime curvature must be definable within infinitesimal spacetime
volumes, however, the equivalence principle of Einstein requires that
these infinitesimal volumes of spacetime be flat, that is, Lorenz
invariant.
If we were only monkeys, what adjective would or should we use to
describe the level of intelligence routinely exhibited by them? I think
such words as unbelievable, fantastic, and miraculous at once suggest
themselves. The plurality of gene regulatory cybernetic network as
classical versus quantum computer suggest itself when we consider that
but a mere fraction of a percent difference exists between base pair
sequences of chimps or bonobo apes DNA and that of human beings.
Clearly then these differences must be key in the sense of differences in
the higher level regulation of the functioning and interaction f the
structural genes.
If Sheldrake is right in postulating his theory of morphic resonance, then
we may find one day, upon human cloning becoming a general practice,
that clones shall early in their development exhibit characteristics and
preferences similar to those developed by the original human only
It is true that man was made in the image of God, but no man knows
or has ever glimpsed his own image. Eph. 1:4
TV is the principle instrument of thought control. Narratives that depict
sequences of events which convey underlying messages promoting
control of society, i.e., the encouragement of surplus consumption,
respect for the power of the police, indoctrination against the states
perceived enemies, etc.
By the equivalence principle of Einstein we should expect the relativistic
effects upon /\x and /\t, which are the phenomenological effects of
complimentary relativistic effects upon /\p and /\E, and that are, caused
by a shift in the connection coupling of the accelerated observer to the
underlying quantum vacuum, are also manifest to an observer at rest