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In Search of Purpose by Alexi Parizeau
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Author Alexi Parizeau wrote on Mar. 14, 2017 @ 16:16 GMT
Essay AbstractWhy are we here? What’s our purpose? These are questions perhaps as old as humanity. And yet no lasting answer has emerged to satisfy our curiosity. Some have argued that before we can hope to answer such probing questions, we must first know exactly what we’re inquiring about. For instance, surely the question of “life’s meaning” demands we first know what “life” and “meaning” are. But what if this wasn’t so? What if the question of “life’s meaning” isn’t so much about life and meaning as it is about the systems that can understand the intention of this question? If so, then I ask, what are those systems and how do we study them? Before trying to answer this question, I suggest taking a step back, since hard problems can sometimes be solved by using new theoretical tools. In particular, there seems to be some utility in first examining two elementary concepts in mathematics: ‘nothingness’ and ‘being undefined’. By applying these concepts in the context of meta-mathematics, we can produce a meta-mathematical formulation of the empty set. This then helps to illuminate a simple procedure for detecting rules in recurrent systems. And with this procedure, we can define a function for measuring ‘critical explainability’ and then use it to show that a system is only a rational and reflexive semantic agent when it grows in critical explainability. I then posit that we are such agents and we have this characteristic. If true, this may be an answer to the question of life’s meaning.
Author BioAlexi Parizeau is currently a student at Goldsmiths, University of London. His current research interests include the foundations of knowledge, ethics, and the search for a rigorous characterization of sapience.
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Héctor Daniel Gianni wrote on Mar. 14, 2017 @ 19:22 GMT
Dear Alexi Parizeau
I invite you and every physicist to read my work “TIME ORIGIN,DEFINITION AND EMPIRICAL MEANING FOR PHYSICISTS, Héctor Daniel Gianni ,I’m not a physicist.
How people interested in “Time” could feel about related things to the subject.
1) Intellectuals interested in Time issues usually have a nice and creative wander for the unknown.
2) They...
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Dear Alexi Parizeau
I invite you and every physicist to read my work “TIME ORIGIN,DEFINITION AND EMPIRICAL MEANING FOR PHYSICISTS, Héctor Daniel Gianni ,I’m not a physicist.
How people interested in “Time” could feel about related things to the subject.
1) Intellectuals interested in Time issues usually have a nice and creative wander for the unknown.
2) They usually enjoy this wander of their searches around it.
3) For millenniums this wander has been shared by a lot of creative people around the world.
4) What if suddenly, something considered quasi impossible to be found or discovered such as “Time” definition and experimental meaning confronts them?
5) Their reaction would be like, something unbelievable,… a kind of disappointment, probably interpreted as a loss of wander…..
6) ….worst than that, if we say that what was found or discovered wasn’t a viable theory, but a proved fact.
7) Then it would become offensive to be part of the millenary problem solution, instead of being a reason for happiness and satisfaction.
8) The reader approach to the news would be paradoxically adverse.
9) Instead, I think it should be a nice welcome to discovery, to be received with opened arms and considered to be read with full attention.
11)Time “existence” is exclusive as a “measuring system”, its physical existence can’t be proved by science, as the “time system” is. Experimentally “time” is “movement”, we can prove that, showing that with clocks we measure “constant and uniform” movement and not “the so called Time”.
12)The original “time manuscript” has 23 pages, my manuscript in this contest has only 9 pages.
I share this brief with people interested in “time” and with physicists who have been in sore need of this issue for the last 50 or 60 years.
Héctor
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Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich wrote on Mar. 15, 2017 @ 16:38 GMT
Dear, Алекси Parizeau.
I inform all the participants that use the electronic translator, therefore, my essay is written badly. I participate in the contest to familiarize English-speaking scientists with New Cartesian Physic, the basis of which the principle of identity of space and matter. Combining space and matter into a single essence, the New Cartesian Physic is able to...
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Dear, Алекси Parizeau.
I inform all the participants that use the electronic translator, therefore, my essay is written badly. I participate in the contest to familiarize English-speaking scientists with New Cartesian Physic, the basis of which the principle of identity of space and matter. Combining space and matter into a single essence, the New Cartesian Physic is able to integrate modern physics into a single theory. Let FQXi will be the starting point of this Association.
Don't let the New Cartesian Physic disappear! Do not ask for himself, but for Descartes.
New Cartesian Physic has great potential in understanding the world. To show potential in this essay I risked give "The way of The materialist explanation of the paranormal and the supernatural" - Is the name of my essay.
Visit my essay and you will find something in it about New Cartesian Physic. After you leave a post in my topic, I shall do the same I
Sincerely,
Dizhechko Boris
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Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta wrote on Mar. 17, 2017 @ 23:29 GMT
Nice essay Parizeau,
Good method … “III. A GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR DETECTING RULES IN RECURRENT SYSTEMS
To see how metamathematical empty sets might be useful to the study of intelligent systems, I
suggest applying it in a procedure for probing unknown, interactive or only partially observable
axiomatic systems, which we can refer to as ‘black...
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Nice essay Parizeau,
Good method … “III. A GENERAL PROCEDURE FOR DETECTING RULES IN RECURRENT SYSTEMS
To see how metamathematical empty sets might be useful to the study of intelligent systems, I
suggest applying it in a procedure for probing unknown, interactive or only partially observable
axiomatic systems, which we can refer to as ‘black boxes’.”
And a Wonderful opening sentence!….. “TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS THAT STUDY INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS”
I hope you are not planning to make Artificial Intelligence of Robots is much better than human intelligence!… ………………… By the way, I want you to ask you to please have a look at my essay ALSO, where ……………reproduction of Galaxies in the Universe is described. Dynamic Universe Model is another mathematical model for Universe. Its mathematics show that the movement of masses will be having a purpose or goal, Different Galaxies will be born and die (quench) etc…just have a look at the essay… “Distances, Locations, Ages and Reproduction of Galaxies in our Dynamic Universe” where UGF (Universal Gravitational force) acting on each and every mass, will create a direction and purpose of movement…..
I think intension is inherited from Universe itself to all Biological systems For your information Dynamic Universe model is totally based on experimental results. Here in Dynamic Universe Model Space is Space and time is time in cosmology level or in any level. In the classical general relativity, space and time are convertible in to each other.
Many papers and books on Dynamic Universe Model were published by the author on unsolved problems of present day Physics, for example ‘Absolute Rest frame of reference is not necessary’ (1994) , ‘Multiple bending of light ray can create many images for one Galaxy: in our dynamic universe’, About “SITA” simulations, ‘Missing mass in Galaxy is NOT required’, “New mathematics tensors without Differential and Integral equations”, “Information, Reality and Relics of Cosmic Microwave Background”, “Dynamic Universe Model explains the Discrepancies of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Observations.”, in 2015 ‘Explaining Formation of Astronomical Jets Using Dynamic Universe Model, ‘Explaining Pioneer anomaly’, ‘Explaining Near luminal velocities in Astronomical jets’, ‘Observation of super luminal neutrinos’, ‘Process of quenching in Galaxies due to formation of hole at the center of Galaxy, as its central densemass dries up’, “Dynamic Universe Model Predicts the Trajectory of New Horizons Satellite Going to Pluto” etc., are some more papers from the Dynamic Universe model. Four Books also were published. Book1 shows Dynamic Universe Model is singularity free and body to collision free, Book 2, and Book 3 are explanation of equations of Dynamic Universe model. Book 4 deals about prediction and finding of Blue shifted Galaxies in the universe.
With axioms like… No Isotropy; No Homogeneity; No Space-time continuum; Non-uniform density of matter(Universe is lumpy); No singularities; No collisions between bodies; No Blackholes; No warm holes; No Bigbang; No repulsion between distant Galaxies; Non-empty Universe; No imaginary or negative time axis; No imaginary X, Y, Z axes; No differential and Integral Equations mathematically; No General Relativity and Model does not reduce to General Relativity on any condition; No Creation of matter like Bigbang or steady-state models; No many mini Bigbangs; No Missing Mass; No Dark matter; No Dark energy; No Bigbang generated CMB detected; No Multi-verses etc.
Many predictions of Dynamic Universe Model came true, like Blue shifted Galaxies and no dark matter. Dynamic Universe Model gave many results otherwise difficult to explain
Have a look at my essay on Dynamic Universe Model and its blog also where all my books and papers are available for free downloading…
http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/
Be
st wishes to your essay.
For your blessings please…………….
=snp. gupta
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Joe Fisher wrote on Mar. 18, 2017 @ 15:42 GMT
Dear Alexi Parizeau,
Please excuse me for I have no intention of disparaging in any way any part of your essay.
I merely wish to point out that “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Physicist & Nobel Laureate.
Only nature could produce a reality so simple, a single cell amoeba could deal with it.
The real Universe must consist only of one unified visible infinite physical surface occurring in one infinite dimension, that am always illuminated by infinite non-surface light.
A more detailed explanation of natural reality can be found in my essay, SCORE ONE FOR SIMPLICITY. I do hope that you will read my essay and perhaps comment on its merit.
Joe Fisher, Realist
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David Pinyana wrote on Mar. 21, 2017 @ 22:54 GMT
Why are we here? What’s our purpose?
We are here simply because the "SYSTEM UNIVERSE" allows it, and there is no any purpose on it.
I do not think we are so important as to give another answer.
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Bayarsaikhan Bayarsaikhan Choisuren wrote on Mar. 26, 2017 @ 00:55 GMT
Dear Alexi Parizeau,
“IN SEARCH OF PURPOSE TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS THAT STUDY INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS ALEXI PARIZEAU*, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON”
I have read some essays including your essay in the Contest.
I like this phrase in your essay-
We’ve now completed the task of defining our tools. Let’s now use them to express a necessary characteristic of intelligent systems that study themselves. We’ll then return to the perennial question of “Why are we here?” and see if this characteristic might provide us with a novel answer. To start, let’s have
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Yehuda Atai wrote on Mar. 28, 2017 @ 16:31 GMT
Hi Alexi
Your essay and the way you think out of the box amaze me. You call for a challenge. Your meditation into the space, you're zooming into the nano is great. Your idea infect leads to the development of a new mathematical formulation that are the base of a new discovered substrata of natural language.
A great approach you take in your essay and I tend to agree with you. In my essay I show that We have a sub strata of natural language of maintaining the unique self organization, the phenomenon, from the sub particle (waive) to life forms and other forms like energy=mater, from quarks (1 in the power of -24 Has been proved) to stars and galaxies and vis versa within the nano level of 1 in the power of -34 (hasn't been proved). All this in a universe of finitude phenomenon to endless phenomena.
In my essay I show first, the way we ratifying continuously our concreteness as self organization also we change all the time while keeping our perception as unique self. As Socrates, as Alexi etc. And second, I show that it is all in the qualities of the movement attributes. It is all ontological and subjective and that is it's/our eminent beauty.
I wonder about your feedback on my essay : "we are together, therefore I am", and maybe you will find a way to define in a mathematical way, a model the language of the Attributes of the Movement-phenomenon.
with great expectation
Yehuda Atai
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Dizhechko Boris Semyonovich wrote on Apr. 7, 2017 @ 02:54 GMT
Dear Sirs!
Physics of Descartes, which existed prior to the physics of Newton returned as the New Cartesian Physic and promises to be a theory of everything. To tell you this good news I use spam.
New Cartesian Physic based on the identity of space and matter. It showed that the formula of mass-energy equivalence comes from the pressure of the Universe, the flow of force which on the corpuscle is equal to the product of Planck's constant to the speed of light.
New Cartesian Physic has great potential for understanding the world. To show it, I ventured to give "materialistic explanations of the paranormal and supernatural" is the title of my essay.
Visit my essay, you will find there the New Cartesian Physic and make a short entry: "I believe that space is a matter" I will answer you in return. Can put me 1.
Sincerely,
Dizhechko Boris
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