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They both believe information is fundamental. This takes some appreciation! Wheeler said "it from bit", whilst Tononi sees everything as "integrated i...

:up: Yes I agree. Most of the time I am just trying to keep my theory afloat by elucidating it with simple unassailable concepts. It is a work in prog...

Energy and it's information creates a wavicle. Two wavicles integrating. A field and its excitation. A blank sheet of paper and its scribble, 1+1. The...

“Why are processes so hard to classify? In earlier times, we could usually judge machines and processes by how they transformed raw materials into fin...

I wish you would do a thread on dimensionality so that slow pokes like myself could understand it?

I have outlined the processes leading to thought, but it's source is elusive. When we give this source some definition, it does not change the source,...

Yes, I'm familiar with your posts. You subscribe to the prevailing popular dogma, where most people gather and concur. It is not a bad strategy. Good ...

We all posses a theory of everything. Everybody takes an epistemic stance. It is just that for some people that stance is that there can be no underst...

Nice intro and good question. :up: That a brain and senses are a crucial element of this is without question, but they are not the source of "thinking...

:up: Between any two humans, the amount of genetic variation—biochemical individuality—is about . 1 percent. This means that about one base pair out o...

Did you observe this, or was it something you thought up? :smile: What I meant is that fundamental reality is a conception. It used to be that God mad...

I don't understand what you mean by woo? Whatever I have stated, I have backed up with references, and argument. You are free to make a counter argume...

This short 10min video is a great primer in systems thinking, and it answers why entropy is not enough.

I'm sorry to hear that. Pets are family in our house. They are as entitled as any member, so I can relate to your loss. That our feelings are related ...

Its great to find another that understands :up:

One of the things I like about the format here is that popular opinion has to engage with you before it can knock you down. But sadly not many people ...

These forms are forming for some reason. Forces acting on them? Surely they would feel forces acting on them?

Yeah. Fundamental reality, is something we have to conceive, given we have no access to it's cornerstone. I would agree with you that informational st...

I agree with what you mean. It is something that must arise in tiny increments. But how we conceive it is limited to the relation of one thing to anot...

I think it is. I think neuroscience would say without the physical neural change, no externalities could register. But what I was referring to, in tha...

At least we are getting closer. :smile: At the most fundamental level. Your most fundamental thought, is a mirror image of fundamental reality. Nothin...

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So your non-physicals are either energy or information, or both? All held together in matter?

You are abstracting information from it's physical ground. If energy = matter = information, and we have had no serious rebuttal of this. You are free...

:up: I see now. Yes, Information is the catalyst of evolution. But if we are to arrive at a definition of information, we need to capture all informat...

I was agreeing that thigs are relational, and I was trying to point out how this is related to the limits of thinking. Logic at its most fundamental i...

:up: I have no idea of your methods, but it sounds interesting. I wonder if you can convert it to MB? Human DNA has about 875mb of data, or 100 odd vo...

I think so.

:up: :rofl: :rofl: I was referring to emotions / feelings. I would understand evolution as the evolution of self organization.

:up: In the distinction of one thing and another arises two distinct forms. Hence energy and information. Logic is the only way to understand somethin...

The hand of God. The Anthropic principle. The basis of self organization. Natural Law. The forces we feel at our center all seem to be linked? Differe...

I can tell you that I am constantly Googling, checking, and rechecking, and referring to a wide range of opinion from reputable sources. We are all cy...

I used wave theory for illustrative simplicity. The interesting thing to me is that there is an underlying structure that is consistent to all these c...

Yeah, me too. So it is great to have @"Kenosha Kid", and @"Prishon" to fill in the blanks. The mass - energy - information equivalence principle, sugg...

Or, at heart, you and me are the same, just different in formation :smile:

At fundamental energy, two wavicles modulate their information ( frequency, amplitude, etc ) to a resultant wavicle that "integrates that information"...

I guess we would have to say your imagination is a physical interaction neurally?

Thanks, your input is invaluable as I don't have a physics background, so could not verify the definition in reference to that knowledge. It is true y...

I think it is a paradigm thing. ** Realists / materialists assume a mind independent world.

But don't quiz me much further. I'm still trying to understand it myself. :smile:

That observation is an interaction. Yes.

Not until you interact with them.

Hey guys, something cool. In trying to validate this definition of information. I thought about the double slit experiment and wave function collapse,...

Information is interaction. Ideally it is evolutionary interaction. But within that interaction, something external has to be translated to an interna...

Evolution is a brilliant mind, imo. It takes everything into account, and then has all the time in the universe to see what survives and what doesn't....

I am strictly amateur when it comes to physics. I need to go now, but If you get a chance to acquaint yourself with the link above I would love to hea...

There is a quite a lot of interest in the idea that information is equal to energy and matter. We covered this somewhat earlier in the thread. Seems t...

mass = energy = information.

Would you equalize them necessarily? What do you think of the mass - energy - information equivalence principle?

Hey, thanks so much for your comment. it just made something click! :smile: I've been searching for a definition of information, expecting to see some...