Hi everyone: Below is a simplified version of the approach I have been working on for so long.
I would appreciate comments. Thank you. ----- Definitions: 1) Object: That which has/represents/expresses a set of properties. 2) List of all properties: The list of all possible properties objects can have. The list can not be empty since there is at least one object: A Nothing. A Nothing has at least one property - emptiness. The list is most likely at least countably infinite and is assumed herein to be so. Any list can be divided into two sub-lists - the process of defining two objects - a definitional pair. The set of all possible subsets of the list is a power set and therefore uncountably infinite. Therefore there are uncountably infinite objects. The list is itself a property of an object => Property: expresses all properties; Object: the list. Thus the list is a member of itself. It is a self booting, infinitely nested self reference. 3) Physical Reality: Logically objects should be allowed to interact because there is no logical reason to preclude this possibility. Interaction means that they change each others properties thus transforming into two different objects by such interaction. The simplest way for some objects to interact is to mutually alter just one property. Call this property Physical Reality. It would have many degrees [why not?]. 4) Existence: A non zero degree of Physical Reality. ---------------------------- Proposal: The existence of our universe and other universes and their dynamics are the result of unavoidable definition, incompleteness, and inconsistency. Justification: 1) Using definition 1 and 2 the presence of unavoidable definition can be established by noting that a Nothing and a Something are a definitional pair and at least one of this pair must have a high degree of existence - definition 4. 2) Since the list is infinitely nested there are infinitely many Nothing:Something pairs. 3) The simplest way for these two objects to interact is for each to have the property of some degree of Physical Reality - definition 3 - and to interact by mutually altering each other's degree of this property. 4) A Something is actually a collection of all objects except a Nothing. 5) The objects in a Something can be divided into self consistent and self inconsistent objects. Thus we have the inconsistency factor in the proposal. 6) A Nothing is self consistent since it can not settle any meaningfull question about itself. A Nothing must answer at least one meaningful question about itself - the question of its own duration - but it can not. Thus we have the incompleteness factor in the proposal. 7) A Nothing must eventually begin to resolve its incompleteness. It can only do this by randomly interacting with an object in its companion Something by a mutual alteration [exchange] of their degree of Physical Reality - the dynamic factor in the proposal. It is unlikely that this object will be complete so the interaction process between successive objects will continue until completeness is achieved. 8) Logically self inconsistent objects have no logical way to interact with self consistent objects. Therefore this cascade of objects that receive enhanced degrees of physical reality will all be self consistent. In order for the incompleteness to be progressively resolved the successive objects will contain progressively more information. 9) Since a Something contains inconsistent objects it is itself, in a sense, inconsistent. Any dynamic within it must inherit some component of this inconsistency. 10) A somewhat inconsistent [unpredictable] succession of self consistent objects with increasing information content having successively altered degrees of Physical Reality [existence] and an infinite number of such chains of succession taking place seems to provide a reasonable venue for our universe and the notion that it is a member of an infinite set of such universes. 11) As to the list I see it as just possibility. I see its power set as being the Everything. So this approach just postulates the Everything. If the Everything contains all information then this information must be packaged in packets of all sizes - divisions of the list => objects. I do not see that one can logically propose that the Everything is static. So it has a dynamic. The above proposes a mechanism for this dynamic. 12) As to what is consciousness it is not logical to propose that the succession of objects given a degree of Physical Reality in this dynamic works by giving non zero Physical Reality to just one object at each stage of the succession. Rather it is more logical to allow a spectrum of functioning such that adjacent objects can have various degrees of Physical Reality. The Physical Reality function would have various pulse widths and pulse shapes spanning a cluster of objects in the succession. This allows objects and sub-components of such objects to experience a "flow" of existence. Hal Ruhl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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