Hi Hal Ruhl Information is a collection of facts or data. There must be a reason (a sufficient reason) for their being so. We do not know what that is, although scientists do construct theories to give us a sufficient reason or two. To do this, they use their intelligence, which is from the platonic realm. This does not provide certainty (since the theory may not be unique or be in error), but it is immensely useful.
Nature itself does not need to construct theories, it is thought by some such as Leibniz, that the facts we see were created a priori according to a pre-established harmony. By the hand of God. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 11/3/2012 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." -Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Hal Ruhl Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-11-02, 23:47:05 Subject: RE: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum Hi Stephen: I think this got lost so I sending it again. -----Original Message----- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Stephen P. King Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 6:37 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Life: origin, purpose, and qualia spectrum On 11/2/2012 4:27 PM, Hal Ruhl wrote: > Let me refer you to a very old paper of mine: > http://webpages.charter.net/stephenk1/Outlaw/life.html > > I took a quick look. I may need some help understanding it fully. I > occasionally play with the idea that Dark Energy is a spatially > uniform leak of information from "outside" combined with a maximum > information packing density in our universe. Hi Hal, Could it be that information is being created and "forcing" the physical universe to make room for its instantiation? After all, space is not a conserved quantity! I think that what you mention is at least part of the source of Dark Energy but I wonder if the members of the multiverse are completely isolated from each other. Hal -- Onward! Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
