On 25/07/2017 16:53, Edgar L. Owen wrote:
All,
My basic theory is really quite simple and straightforward. Here's a summary (leaving out time, relativity, quantum theory, and cosmology being discussed in other threads):
1. There is a single underlying medium or substrate that is the universe called existence.
2. All the things of the world are forms of existence that take their individual existences from the medium of existence.
3. All the forms of existence are information only but because they partake of existence they are all the real things of the world. This actively self-manifesting realness of things is their immanence.
4. The medium of existence is computational and the forms of existence are continually recomputed in interaction with each other.
5. Thus from an emergent perspective all things can be considered as the programs of what they are in continual computational interaction with the other programs that constitute their computational environments.
6. Thus humans are the programs of themselves. They are computational entities that continually recompute the complete data of themselves in interaction with the programs that constitute their environments. The human program includes the individual
computations of all its systems from the interactions of elementary particles, through cells, organs etc.
7. The top level of the human program's computational hierarchy is the brain's simulation of self within its environment. This is what enables the human program to attain some understanding of its world and act purposefully. The simulation is an
adaptive mechanism that enables humans to act purposefully to implement their instinctual imperatives (survival and positively versus negatively valuated actions).
8. Consciousness is simply the immanence of specialized information encoding that representations of things in the simulation are being experienced (that the focus of attention subroutine is scanning representational information in the simulation.)
9. The human simulation of reality completely misrepresents its actual computational information nature as a physical dimensional world to make it easier to understand and function within.
10. Therefore the problem of reality/ontology is to understand A. That the world we experience around us is a simulation that exists only in our brains. B. How our simulation misrepresents the actual computational information nature of reality by
painting it over with appearances, meanings, valuations, physicality etc.
11. Then by identifying and removing these 'veils of illusion' one by one we are able to discover the true nature of the reality that underlies our simulations of it. This understanding and direct experience of reality as it actually is can be defined
as 'realization'. The fundamental aspect of realization is directly experiencing the actively self-manifesting immanence of existence in all otherwise empty forms, and insofar as is possible in human form the underlying formless immanence of existence
within which everything exists.
Best regards,
Edgar L. Owen
But, as I understand it, Gödel's theorems are sufficient to prove that
not everything can be computational, because a self-sufficient logical
system cannot exist. Truth and meaning must in the end be derived from
outside, in the form of ad hoc Truths.
M. Winther
http://two-paths.com
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