PabloAngello
Jedi Master
So I will share something interesting I just found - modular arithmetic:
PabloAngello
Jedi Master
A question came to my mind.
- Is any energy needed to store/sustain an information?
From physics point of view, energy is needed to move/interact with any material things, while information is not matter.
My hypothesis is that if energy is not needed to store an information, then information can be self-sustained, for example in a way of famous information-"field". It doesn't need to be anywere, because dimensions are properties of matter, and information is not matter.
It just is.
ps. "field" is quoted because it is also an concept from our known matterial world, while the relations between informations don't need any distance between, we can imagine it in a way that relations between informations are 'infinitely' close to eachother. When we are drawing relations between two informations (a -> b) on the blackboard we normally drawing a line between them to represent them. But this line is only for our eyes and brains, as a concept of something, those lines can equally well be infinitely short.
@ark @Cleopatre VII and other, please respond.
- Is any energy needed to store/sustain an information?
From physics point of view, energy is needed to move/interact with any material things, while information is not matter.
My hypothesis is that if energy is not needed to store an information, then information can be self-sustained, for example in a way of famous information-"field". It doesn't need to be anywere, because dimensions are properties of matter, and information is not matter.
It just is.
ps. "field" is quoted because it is also an concept from our known matterial world, while the relations between informations don't need any distance between, we can imagine it in a way that relations between informations are 'infinitely' close to eachother. When we are drawing relations between two informations (a -> b) on the blackboard we normally drawing a line between them to represent them. But this line is only for our eyes and brains, as a concept of something, those lines can equally well be infinitely short.
@ark @Cleopatre VII and other, please respond.
Just some thoughts here but it may be that information, energy, and matter are basically the same thing (that is, information) at the highest level of reality but at the lower realms information bifucates into matter and energy. However matter and energy are just forms of information everything still being information.
Or perhaps pure information may be viewed as a kind of "substance" that is, as the essential substance of all relationships, or the substance of all relationships.
Perhaps at the lower levels of reality where the "one information" becomes three, then it's the energy which transmits the information (from the higher to the lower worlds) and it's the matter that recieves it like in a slide projector where the light transmits the image and projects the image onto a material screen, the light being pure information before it breaks up into three: the light, the image and the screen.
Or maybe if information "coagulates" we get energy and if we coagulate energy we get matter but it's all still information. Just some thoughts but I still don't know and I'm still not sure about anything I just said!
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PabloAngello
Jedi Master
@kenlee My thoughts above came out from the question "where our minds are stored if they are not part of our brains?". We as humans with our current knowledge, have the urge for seeking a place to be for everything - "this planet is there, this particle is part of this with such mass, energy etc." The same we intuitively do while seeking the roots for information/consciousness/minds. But maybe this is the wrong way. The dimension/field/whatever you call it that stores all informations and relations between them, doesn't necessarily require energy to be sustained if it is not in a form of everything we call matter and space.
We all accept that universe just exists, it just is, period, and we study it. Why can't we accept the idea that information just exists, just is, has no dimension, no time, no space, and talk about this idea trying to develop something.
We all accept that universe just exists, it just is, period, and we study it. Why can't we accept the idea that information just exists, just is, has no dimension, no time, no space, and talk about this idea trying to develop something.
C
Cleopatre VII
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On the other hand, the matter is not clearly defined. Perhaps it actually has some internal geometric structure about which we know almost nothing.
From a physical point of view, information is not matter, but it is in matter and is associated with it. It is not energy, but it is in energy and is associated with it. It is not space, but it is in space and is associated with it. Information organizes space and is the organization of matter.
At the same time, physics and axiomatic systems in mathematics are also somewhat for our eyes and brain. They describe certain aspects of reality, certain parts of it, but the whole is more than the sum of the parts, and in order to understand the whole, physics must probably do something like go beyond the schemes. For many years physics has operated in the same established patterns. In my opinion these patterns need to be broken, but this is only my opinion, and I am sometimes crazy.
Perhaps for this purpose it is worthwhile to return to the world of Platonic ideas and expand this world? This I do not know. This is one of many possibilities I’ve been expanding lately. I’m curious about your suggestions.
One of the Platonic ideas was expressed in the cave allegory. There are hidden dimensions, and these dimension do not have to be related to matter. They may be related to pure information, and only involving these extra dimensions we coul give meaning to information. Such hidden dimensions were the subject of the monograph that I co-authored and in the Burckhard Heim theory information is given a specific dimension (another dimension is given to "organization", which is a different thing than information).
Geometry of information may include the notion of a "distance", but that is not a distance that can be expressed in kilometers or hours.
PabloAngello
Jedi Master
@Cleopatre VII I'm trying to say something similar. That we (at least) should try, to think about different concepts than spatial dimensions. What if information is a no dimension construct that exists infinitely "close" to 'what we call matter'. Apart from dimensions, space and energy, it is lets say, made of pure mathematical information (like numbers or whatever, atoms/bits/quibits of information) and relations between them - aka for example - 'relation field'. Or something like markov-chain-field where smallest node is smallest piece of information possible.
I don't say it looks like that, but if it is like that and we will not study such concepts (being imprisoned in our 3d/spatial thinking) then we could never discover how it works.
I don't say it looks like that, but if it is like that and we will not study such concepts (being imprisoned in our 3d/spatial thinking) then we could never discover how it works.
PabloAngello
Jedi Master
C
Cleopatre VII
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@PabloAngello
From a mathematical perspective, the very concept of a "field" requires the use of "dimensions".
This is because a field is the spatial distribution of some physical quantity, especially mediated by interactions. In other words, a certain field is defined in space if each point in space is assigned a certain quantity.
Mathematically, the field is simply a function that assigns a given quantity to each point in space.
In doing so, an example of a space might be a Hilbert space, including an infinite dimensional Hilbert space (see e.g. Hilbert space - Wikipedia).
In mathematical description, the notion of dimension is not only connected with time or space. There are other abstract structures that use this concept.
We can also talk about dimensions in the context of smells, colors, emotions, as well as in the context of different densities, which I have been particularly interested in lately.
Additionally, in a very abstract description of information, so-called Jordan algebras can also be useful, which are defined using something like a product, but not the product we know from school mathematics. Rather, it is something like "composition", which is called Jordan's product (see, for example, Jordan algebra - Wikipedia).
In probability theory (which describes, among other things, Markov chains) we have, in turn, the space of random variables. Random variables can be discrete (e.g. the probability distribution for a dice roll) as well as continuous (e.g. normal distribution). However, the abstract space itself is often infinite dimensional.
Additionally, the concept of "distance" also exists in pure information theory: Information distance - Encyclopedia of Mathematics
And one more thing: Bioelectronics - Cosmic Code Arkadiusz Jadczyk
and there:
"Continuing the analogy : in the same way as a gravitational field curves space-time [f6], the information field may curve the state space. May change the geometry of the space of quantum states. May enable the flow of information and of energy through new channels. Now quantum matter gets a worthy partner, just as the gravitational field was a worthy partner to classical matter. The same way as gravitational field is local[f7] in space-time, the information field is local in Hilbert space where " near" means " similar". The geometry of the information field must be, as we have said, a nonlinear geometry. Only in this way can we explain the stability of structures, such as the structure of life.".
From a mathematical perspective, the very concept of a "field" requires the use of "dimensions".
This is because a field is the spatial distribution of some physical quantity, especially mediated by interactions. In other words, a certain field is defined in space if each point in space is assigned a certain quantity.
Mathematically, the field is simply a function that assigns a given quantity to each point in space.
In doing so, an example of a space might be a Hilbert space, including an infinite dimensional Hilbert space (see e.g. Hilbert space - Wikipedia).
In mathematical description, the notion of dimension is not only connected with time or space. There are other abstract structures that use this concept.
We can also talk about dimensions in the context of smells, colors, emotions, as well as in the context of different densities, which I have been particularly interested in lately.
Additionally, in a very abstract description of information, so-called Jordan algebras can also be useful, which are defined using something like a product, but not the product we know from school mathematics. Rather, it is something like "composition", which is called Jordan's product (see, for example, Jordan algebra - Wikipedia).
In probability theory (which describes, among other things, Markov chains) we have, in turn, the space of random variables. Random variables can be discrete (e.g. the probability distribution for a dice roll) as well as continuous (e.g. normal distribution). However, the abstract space itself is often infinite dimensional.
Additionally, the concept of "distance" also exists in pure information theory: Information distance - Encyclopedia of Mathematics
And one more thing: Bioelectronics - Cosmic Code Arkadiusz Jadczyk
and there:
"Continuing the analogy : in the same way as a gravitational field curves space-time [f6], the information field may curve the state space. May change the geometry of the space of quantum states. May enable the flow of information and of energy through new channels. Now quantum matter gets a worthy partner, just as the gravitational field was a worthy partner to classical matter. The same way as gravitational field is local[f7] in space-time, the information field is local in Hilbert space where " near" means " similar". The geometry of the information field must be, as we have said, a nonlinear geometry. Only in this way can we explain the stability of structures, such as the structure of life.".
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If there are such things as "nodes"..
PabloAngello
Jedi Master
@ark Sure of course, Im am trying to start something here. Nomenclature is very deceptive. Without some description is very fuzzy think.
Anyway, I suppose we all here (on this forum) agree/(or want) on that consciousness is something that exists without our bodies. Hence it needs to be construct that no current science never described in any way. I know I go far away from information theory concept with talking about consciousness, but from my perspective I feel it is strongly connected.
(btw. I am also a programmer, and my point of view is mostly from alghorithmic perspective rather than physics view. And please do not treat algorithmic point of view as a hard science in sense of "its only bits and they order", algorithms can be used with random input as well, which can change everything.)
Anyway, I suppose we all here (on this forum) agree/(or want) on that consciousness is something that exists without our bodies. Hence it needs to be construct that no current science never described in any way. I know I go far away from information theory concept with talking about consciousness, but from my perspective I feel it is strongly connected.
(btw. I am also a programmer, and my point of view is mostly from alghorithmic perspective rather than physics view. And please do not treat algorithmic point of view as a hard science in sense of "its only bits and they order", algorithms can be used with random input as well, which can change everything.)
I know. Look at my quantum fractals:
These are all simple algorithms with random choices at each step. And yet infinite depth and structure emerges from it.
PabloAngello
Jedi Master
This one:
It has a lot programming:
This is my first animation of one of my quantum fractals. 100 mln of points produced using "Chaos game" for 24 Mobius transformations Number crunching with Gfortran. Then mesh created with Meshlab. Mesh imported into Blender. Added some extra structure. Just learning. Didn't know about Blender a week ago. It is a wonderful piece of software.
Or this one
This Quantum Fractal is based on Tetrakaidecahedron aka Tetradecahedron aka Kelvin Cell aka Truncated octahedron. It has 24 vertices and 14 faces. Eigh faces are hexagonal and six are squares. Described in 1888 by Lord Kelvin aka Sir Willian Thomson who was looking for space filling shapes with a minimal cell area -- like foams. In this animation 24 vertices of the Kelvin Cell are acting as attrating points during a simultaneous measurements of 24 noncommuting spin directions (God forbid in the textbook exposition of quantum measurements!). Chaos game is applied to so obtained iterated function system of conformal maps on the (Bloch) sphere. There are 1200 images in this animation, each image is made of 50,000,000 points. Place dependent probabilitise are used with quantum theoretical algorithms for probabilities of quantum jumps. Each image in the animation corresponds to unsharp spin direction measurements with the sharpness coefficient varying from 0.58 at the beginning of the animation and 0.99 at the end. The HSB color value of each pixel depends on the distance between consecutively called pairs of vertices resulting in hitting the pixel. For instance color red means that the pixel is mostly hit by repeated attractions from the same vertex, while color blue indicates that two vertices far away from each other have been called. The brightness of a pixel depends on the number of hits of the pixel area. Pixels that (almost) never been hit are black.
dennis
Dagobah Resident
SOTT has an interesting article:
How can one natural consciousness appear to be many? Prof. Bernard Carr proposes that multiple dimensions of time, which can also be associated with the notion of a 'specious present,' can resolve the problem both rigorously and in an intuitively satisfying manner. This is a long-form essay that will demand attention and patience from the reader, and perhaps more than one read. But it is also one of the most important essays we've ever published, and one that handsomely rewards the effort it requires. It illustrates how fast we can advance to solutions to our basic questions regarding the nature of self and the universe when world-class cosmologists, such as Prof. Carr, approach the problem without metaphysical prejudices.
How hyper-dimensional spacetime may explain individual identity -- Sott.net
How can one natural consciousness appear to be many? Prof. Bernard Carr proposes that multiple dimensions of time, which can also be associated with the notion of a 'specious present,' can resolve the problem both rigorously and in an intuitively...www.sott.net
