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Markus,
I think you are over complexifying everything. I can only repeat my post on the topic of “The Present State of Physics, Mathematics, and Science” (https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3698):
Physics and mathematics are full of bad ideas. Like the idea that a mathematical system could exist that grows and develops and eventually turns into people, and other living things.
Funny about that, because the only known mathematical systems only exist in the minds of people: people conjure them up in their minds; people represent them with special symbols; people differentiate the special symbols; people manipulate the symbols.
Mathematics only exists because people create symbols, and differentiate (discern difference in) the symbols, and move the symbols. People are the main component of mathematics.
Undeterred, physics and mathematics have come up with the bad idea that a mathematical system could exist that grows and develops, a mathematical system without the element provided by people. I.e. WITHOUT the element that differentiates the system and WITHOUT the element that moves the system.
This is the current state of physics and mathematics: physicists and mathematicians have never noticed that it is PEOPLE doing physics and mathematics. Physicists and mathematicians need to extricate themselves from their symbolic systems. And the way to extricate themselves is to add an element that differentiates their systems, and an element that moves their systems. This element can only be symbolically represented by Boolean and algorithmic symbols.
There are necessary elements of a system that can only be symbolically represented by Boolean and algorithmic symbols.
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I think you are over complexifying everything. I can only repeat my post on the topic of “The Present State of Physics, Mathematics, and Science” (https://fqxi.org/community/forum/topic/3698):
Physics and mathematics are full of bad ideas. Like the idea that a mathematical system could exist that grows and develops and eventually turns into people, and other living things.
Funny about that, because the only known mathematical systems only exist in the minds of people: people conjure them up in their minds; people represent them with special symbols; people differentiate the special symbols; people manipulate the symbols.
Mathematics only exists because people create symbols, and differentiate (discern difference in) the symbols, and move the symbols. People are the main component of mathematics.
Undeterred, physics and mathematics have come up with the bad idea that a mathematical system could exist that grows and develops, a mathematical system without the element provided by people. I.e. WITHOUT the element that differentiates the system and WITHOUT the element that moves the system.
This is the current state of physics and mathematics: physicists and mathematicians have never noticed that it is PEOPLE doing physics and mathematics. Physicists and mathematicians need to extricate themselves from their symbolic systems. And the way to extricate themselves is to add an element that differentiates their systems, and an element that moves their systems. This element can only be symbolically represented by Boolean and algorithmic symbols.
There are necessary elements of a system that can only be symbolically represented by Boolean and algorithmic symbols.
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Hi Lorraine,
I have a new physics model for biology and it provides a deep dive into creating a unified field theory based on inverted symmetry. Basically, I am proposing that in our approach to understand the universe around us all we have achieved is to create a paradox of asymmetric state in the standard model of physics which is bounded by our own biological sensory systems and in...
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I have a new physics model for biology and it provides a deep dive into creating a unified field theory based on inverted symmetry. Basically, I am proposing that in our approach to understand the universe around us all we have achieved is to create a paradox of asymmetric state in the standard model of physics which is bounded by our own biological sensory systems and in...
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Markus and the other participants,
Isn’t there something very wrong with the idea that a brainless mathematical system at the foundations of the universe can do all the things that only a human mathematician can do?
The fact is that people/ mathematicians are the MAIN COMPONENT of mathematics: people use special symbols; people differentiate (discern difference in) the special symbols; people manipulate the special symbols.
Clearly, if you want to have a STANDALONE system at the foundations of the universe, that can be represented by the symbols of mathematics and physics, then from the start, you also need symbols representing the system differentiating itself (discerning difference in its own equations, variables and numbers), and you also need symbols representing the system moving itself (assigning new numbers to the variables). The additional symbols are necessary if you want to extricate human beings from the system.
But it’s not just the symbols, it’s the recognition that there are additional, separate, but necessary, aspects of ANY system: 1) the aspect that differentiates (discerns difference); and 2) the aspect that moves the system.
I know it’s not just you guys. But where are those additional symbols (which can only be Boolean and algorithmic symbols)?
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Isn’t there something very wrong with the idea that a brainless mathematical system at the foundations of the universe can do all the things that only a human mathematician can do?
The fact is that people/ mathematicians are the MAIN COMPONENT of mathematics: people use special symbols; people differentiate (discern difference in) the special symbols; people manipulate the special symbols.
Clearly, if you want to have a STANDALONE system at the foundations of the universe, that can be represented by the symbols of mathematics and physics, then from the start, you also need symbols representing the system differentiating itself (discerning difference in its own equations, variables and numbers), and you also need symbols representing the system moving itself (assigning new numbers to the variables). The additional symbols are necessary if you want to extricate human beings from the system.
But it’s not just the symbols, it’s the recognition that there are additional, separate, but necessary, aspects of ANY system: 1) the aspect that differentiates (discerns difference); and 2) the aspect that moves the system.
I know it’s not just you guys. But where are those additional symbols (which can only be Boolean and algorithmic symbols)?
Hi Markus, thank you for sharing your ideas.
Re. the Guinea pigs copies, one continuing on Earth and one coming to be on Mars: "what will I see next?" doesn't seem adequate. As it does not take in to account that there is no longer a singular I. There is Earth's I and Mars' I. The question needs to apply to both. So what I see branches into E.I and M.I. Which are both (from their perspective) continuations of I, but mutually exclusive of each other.
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Re. the Guinea pigs copies, one continuing on Earth and one coming to be on Mars: "what will I see next?" doesn't seem adequate. As it does not take in to account that there is no longer a singular I. There is Earth's I and Mars' I. The question needs to apply to both. So what I see branches into E.I and M.I. Which are both (from their perspective) continuations of I, but mutually exclusive of each other.
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Hi Markus,
In regard to "what is seen next?" David Eagleman has a video on YouTube, called The brain and The Now, taking about the timing of perception, including how the brain can wait for input before the generated Observation product becomes awareness. Allowing synchronization of different kinds of sensory input. This is evidence that the worlds experienced by A, B and C are different self generated realities. The question (In your talk), "What at some given moment is the actual configuration of the World?" is shown. I'd say it is the configuration of existing beables, that precede all sensory perception, and measurement outcomes disturbing the configuration. That prevents our access to the underlying source reality. Our senses are allowing generation of an approximate, Impoverished model after the fact.
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In regard to "what is seen next?" David Eagleman has a video on YouTube, called The brain and The Now, taking about the timing of perception, including how the brain can wait for input before the generated Observation product becomes awareness. Allowing synchronization of different kinds of sensory input. This is evidence that the worlds experienced by A, B and C are different self generated realities. The question (In your talk), "What at some given moment is the actual configuration of the World?" is shown. I'd say it is the configuration of existing beables, that precede all sensory perception, and measurement outcomes disturbing the configuration. That prevents our access to the underlying source reality. Our senses are allowing generation of an approximate, Impoverished model after the fact.
Hi Markus, the Guinea pigs 'paradox' raises the question; What is I? Is the subjective feeling/conscious experience of I-ness enough to be genuinely I? Where does that place the deluded and or those that might have false memories? Would that make just thinking you are I into genuine I, when that isn't intended by the 'subjective' definition. So does I-ness have to be associated with an individual material body as well? That makes the E.I g.pig genuine I, and M.I g.pig pseudo I. Even if identical to E.I it is not the same individual material body. In the same way that identical twins when born are not the same I, but think and are aware individually. In this way a copy is only ever pseudo I even though from its perspective it feels/has the conscious experience of being genuinely I. In the normal operation of the machine genuine I is destroyed and pseudo I is formed. "What does I see next?" under these circumstances? The I that was sees nothing. The new M.I is a novel being, whos response is invalid.
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Invalid because what M.I sees first, as a novel being, does not qualify as next. M.I only thinks it has seen things previously because of inbuilt memories.
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Invalid because what M.I sees first, as a novel being, does not qualify as next. M.I only thinks it has seen things previously because of inbuilt memories.
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I've copied the comment to the thread where it belongs. This orphan can be deleted.
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