Hi Hal, This topic interests me, but I find it difficult to go past the second sentence in your post. The phrase "Something is on a quest" carries a lot of baggage, in particular that "Something" has intention, purpose and motivation. Either we have to assume that this intention is produced by a fundamental "spirit" or "soul" that you have assigned to the Something, or that the intention is emergent from a complex consciousness simulation possibly involving Quantum Mechanics..... If you assume a spirit or soul you are making a quasi religious assumption. Is this what you want? How do we explain spirit or soul? If you are assuming a complex consciousness simulation, there is a whole layer that needs to be explained which no one has yet fully explained yet. Usually scientists use objective and impersonal criteria such as "energy minimization" to explain how a reaction is driven in one particular direction. In chemistry, for example, "Le Chatelier Principle" is used.
George Hal Ruhl wrote: >I have touched on this subject before but the following is my current >view of "Dark Energy" > >In my approach a Something is on a quest for completeness within the >Everything. > >Based on this, the following points can be made: > >1) The number of current incompleteness sites for a given Something >would be at least proportional to the surface area of its boundary >with the rest of the Everything if not proportional to its volume. > >2) Thus the larger [more information content] a Something is [has] >the more such sites it has and the larger any given step in the quest can be. > >3) This gives an increase in the average information influx as the >quest progresses. > >4) If the universe described by that Something has a maximum finite >information packing density in its "space" then an accelerating >increase in the size of that space should be "observed" since both >the volume and surface area of a Something inside the Everything >increases as the quest progresses. > > Hal Ruhl > > >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
