Physics and information

[Ostronomos]

Energy, matter and information equivalence

Shannon's efforts to find a way to quantify the information contained in, for example, an e-mail message led him unexpectedly to a formula with the same form as Boltzmann's. Bekenstein summarizes that "Thermodynamic entropy and Shannon entropy are conceptually equivalent: the number of arrangements that are counted by Boltzmann entropy reflects the amount of Shannon information one would need to implement any particular arrangement..." of matter and energy. The only salient difference between the thermodynamic entropy of physics and the Shannon's entropy of information is in the units of measure; the former is expressed in units of energy divided by temperature, the latter in essentially dimensionless "bits" of information, and so the difference is merely a matter of convention.

So essentially matter and energy are reduced even further to be defined as information or 0's and 1's, while the self-perceptual universe evolves to create evolutionary laws that behave as a teleological means to create and recreate itself. The universe has its own means of read/write operation in its inherent mathematical language. This could possibly mean that the universe is ultimately a logical mind evolving and sometimes devolving internally (since there is nothing outside of it, nothing is infinite freedom from information onstraint). In order for life to evolve it must have a logical purpose in the universe. Reality is not absolute and thus the laws of nature can change and adjust in a process called telic recursion.

 

[Ostronomos]

Everything takes place in consciousness, but consciousness is not experienced. The consciousness can be conscious of itself. That is when consciousness experiences itself. Usually, this purity of consciousness is brought about by being as happy as one can. Not necessarily thinking happy thoughts but also by not living with bad thoughts. Pure consciousness is not separate from the physical body, it is the entire nervous system functioning with the brain to make an interpretation of the sense information that is interaction in the environment. It is not of some magical source that is single. It is experienced universally but the interpretation of objects, including the self, is entirely by the psyche, which carries a set of beliefs based on memories, which directly influence the perception of self and it's arbitrary relations to time and space.

 

[Ostronomos]

I'm not sure exactly how it works but instantaneous communication would certainly not take place across normal Euclidean space but below it. Where information and matter (like physical brains) are interacting without regular physical means. A higher dimension like the 4th perhaps is where the mind recognizes "innate" or unsourced communication. This seems to be the highest level of communication possible in the known universe and what it is needed for is yet to be known.

 

[Isabella Lecour]

What's the top quote's source?

 

[Ostronomos]

What's the top quote's source?

The logical foundation of the CTMU combined with Wikipedia's entry on the holographic principle.

I also wish to add that unlike Polymath's error, the universe or reality perceives itself through each individual consciousness.