On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:07:07 PM UTC, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > All, > > In a computational reality everything consists of information in the > computational space of reality/existence, whose presence within it gives it > its reality. By taking place within reality these computations produce real > universe results. > > All this information is ultimately quantized into a basic unit I call an > R-bit. Thus all of reality is constructed of different arrangements of > R-bits. > > Now the basic insight is that R-bits are actually just numbers, let's call > them R-numbers to distinguish from the H-numbers of human mathematics which > are quite different. > > This means that the actual numbers of reality are actually the real > elemental constituents OF reality. Numbers make up reality, and everything > in reality is constructed only of these R-numbers. R-numbers = R-bits. > > This neatly addresses the problem of how there can be abstract concepts > such as number that describe but aren't an actual part of reality. In this > view there can't be, since the actual numbers of reality are the actual > constituents of everything in reality. > > As Pythagoros claimed, "all is number", in the realest sense possible. > > > Now what do these R-numbers look like? > > 1. Every R-number is exactly the same as every other R-number. They are > fungible or interchangeable. They do not exist in any sequences such as 1, > 2, 3 ... They don't have ordinal or cardinal 'tags' attached to distinguish > them. There are not different numbers, or different kinds of number. All > numbers are exactly the same. > > What human H-math calls ordinal or cardinal characteristics of number are > not intrinsic to R-numbers themselves, but are relationships between > R-number groups and sets. These concepts are part of R-math, not > characteristics of R-numbers. > > 2. R-numbers are finite. The universe contains only some finite number of > basic R-bits, and since R-bits are themselves numbers, the number of > numbers in the computational universe is finite. There are no R-number > infinities. > > 3. The only R-numbers that exist correspond to what human H-math would try > to think of as the non-zero positive integers up to the finite limit of > R-bits in existence. There is no R-number 0, no negative R-numbers, no > fractional or irrational R-numbers. These are examples of how human H-math > generalizes and tries to extend the basic relational concepts of R-math to > H-numbers. It is by making these kind of extensions and generalizations > that H-math diverges from R-math and thus has real problems in accurately > describing reality. > > > What does R-math look like? > > 1. R-math is the actual computations that compute actual reality that > compute the real empirical objective state of the information universe. > H-math, while originally modeled on R-math has greatly expanded beyond that > to enormous complexities which though they sometimes can accurately > describe aspects of reality, do NOT actually COMPUTE it. R-math is what > actually actively COMPUTES reality, and only what is necessary to do that. > > 2. R-math is probably a rather small set of logico-mathematical rules, > just what is necessary to actually compute reality at the elemental level. > It will include active routines such as those that compute the conservation > of the small set of particle properties that make up all elemental > particles, and the rules that govern the binding of particle properties in > atomic and molecular matter. > > 3. Thus R-math consists of the logical operators of the active routines > that actively compute reality, rather than the static equations and > principles of H-math. > > > So the take away is that : > > 1. The universe, and everything in it, consists of information only. And > that information consists only of different arrangements of elemental > R-bits. And these elemental R-bits are the actual numbers on the basis of > which R-math continually computes the current state of the universe. > > 2. Thus everything in the universe is made up of numbers and only numbers. > > 3. All the things in the universe are just various arrangements and > relationships between these numbers. > > 4. These are continually being recomputed by all the interactive programs > (all just aspects of a single universal program) that make up all the > processes in the universe. > > 5. These processes follow fundamental logico-mathematical rules which are > part of what I call the extended fine tuning (the set of every > non-reducible aspect of reality including the rules of logic it follows). > These are analogous to the basic machine operations of silicon computers. > > 6. The programs of reality are complex sequences of these elemental > operations acting on R-numbers which are just R-bits. In general these > sequences incorporate standard routines such as the particle property > conservation routine. > > > The aggregate result is the universe we exist within which consists > entirely of different types of information, a fact which can be verified > by direct objective observation. > > Our minds each internally simulate this information universe as the > physical, dimensional universe in which mind tells us we live. These > simulations are a convenient evolutionary illusion that enables us, as > programs within a universe of programs, to more effectively compute our > lives and function more successfully. They enable our survival as > individuals and as a species. That is why they have evolved, even as they > conceal the true underlying information nature of reality. > > > Edgar > The Matrix has a lot to answer for (tee hee)
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