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5. In terms of your ideas related to cosmology and physics, at 10, you began thinking about the universe.\u00a0 The reason for existence.\u00a0 At 21, you came to a realization.\u00a0 You note, \u201cAll the big theories are built around big equivalences.\u201d\u00a0 Namely, your realization of an equivalence between the operation of information in an individual consciousness and the operation of space & matter in the universe.\u00a0 Both have self-consistency.\u00a0 In addition to this, and later in response to a similar topic in Noesis <\/em>58, you state, \u201cI believe in matter and space as information held in some vast awareness\u2026\u201d\u00a0What do you mean by these?\u00a0 In particular, the idea of a great equivalence.\u00a0 How have you developed the idea from the original equivalence to the present day?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve continued to think about this stuff and think I have a pretty good theoretical framework, though it needs more math.<\/p>\n

I believe that it\u2019s almost impossible to have a large, self-consistent system of information without that system having some degree of consciousness \u2013 probably a high degree. Consciousness can be characterized as every part of a system knowing what\u2019s going on, more or less, with every other part of the system, within a framework that assigns (emotional) values to events perceived by the system. (Of course there are processes which are peripheral to consciousness \u2013 most of the time, we\u2019re not aware of the finer points of breathing or walking or why we like looking at cat videos and butts.)<\/p>\n

Plenty of people think that the universe is a massive processor of information. Quantum mechanics\u00a0mathematicizes the limitations of the universe\u2019s information-processing ability. Being finite, the universe cannot observe itself with infinite precision.<\/p>\n

6. Provided the nature of these particular equivalences, especially related to the universe, do you have a mathematical model to represent this equivalence?\u00a0 Furthermore, do you have a layman analogy for this equivalence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think the most efficient model of the information contained in a complex, self-contained and self-consistent system of information looks like the universe \u2013 locally three-dimensional\u00a0(spatially) with linear time\u00a0and particles\u00a0and forces\u00a0that transact business more or less the way they do in the universe itself.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t believe in the big bang\u00a0\u2013 instead, I believe that what looks like a big bang is kind of a trick of perspective, based on the universe being made of information. Parts of the universe which have less information in common with us are more distant and red-shifted. The apparent age\u00a0of the universe is a measure of the amount of information it contains (or has in play). Somewhat similarly, train tracks don\u2019t really touch at the horizon.<\/p>\n

Kind of picture the universe as being at a slow boil. Some parts are energy-rich and expanding, while other parts are burned out and pushed to the outskirts by the expanding regions, waiting for their chance to expand again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5. In terms of your ideas related to cosmology and physics, at 10, you began thinking about the universe.\u00a0 The reason for existence.\u00a0 At 21, you came to a realization.\u00a0 You note, \u201cAll the big theories are built around big equivalences.\u201d\u00a0 Namely, your realization of an equivalence between the operation of information in an individual … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecastsite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}