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Asunto: The Fluctuon Model; Colophon
Fecha: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:44:48 +0100
De: Joseph Brenner <joe.bren...@bluewin.ch>
Responder a: Joseph Brenner <joe.bren...@bluewin.ch>
Para: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>, fis
<fis@listas.unizar.es>
Dear All,
Pedro has asked me to renew with an earlier FIS Group practice and write
a colophon for our discussion of the fluctuon model of Michael Conrad.
Actually, not much has happened with regard to evidence for or against.
There is a lot of information in the latest Stan<>Loet exchange,
however, that has made the exercise worthwhile. There has also been
a discussion of fluctuations, but essentially of fluctuations in /our/
thermodynamic world. Most interesting, but of no direct help with the
original task.
I therefore now exercise my editorial authority by offering, by way of
colophon, and with his agreement, the notes of a discussion I had with
Pedro in Beijing. They were not and are not proposed as science,
information science or other; but I like to think they are more than
just opinion. For people, and I assume that is some of us, who have ever
pondered such "deep" issues, these notes may suggest some ideas and
comments. For others, for whom talk of Being and Nothingness or
Non-Being, /pace/ Sartre, is pure nonsense, pure non-information, I have
some sympathy. The only point I would take issue with is the "pure" . . .
1. We are aware of our atoms and molecules and those of others through
our adjacencies to them. They have Being for us; they are "Being". The
corresponding changes in their states constitute information at several
levels.
2. Our atoms and molecules are composed of "strings" of which we are
/not/ aware. They have no Being for us, they are "Non-Being". Whether
any fluctuations or changes in strings can constitute information is not
clear.
3. Non-Being has been described both scientifically and traditionally,
/e.g./ the "Mind of God", the quantum vacuum, "holomovement".
4. Spontaneity and indeterminism (randomness) are possible, but only in
Non-Being. These are reflected in Being only in radioactive decay and
in catastrophic cosmological phenomena (black holes). The shifts of
perspective in this note are non-random.
5. We in Being are aware of the existence of Non-Being, therefore, as
something internal and external to us at the same time. The LIR
Principle of Dynamic Opposition (PDO) describes this epistemological and
ontological state-of-affairs as real and logical.
6. Non-Being is not and does not have to be aware of itself nor of us
here in Being. We take care of that little function for it.
7. The influence of Non-Being and its changes, /e.g./, in local
information content. which are not perceived by nor interact with us in
the usual manner, may be due to our awareness of Non-Being, which is a
/kind/ of information about it, causally effective. Conrad claims that
interactions with Non-Being (the unmanifest world) also exist and can
influence biological states. These two perspectives may or may not converge.
8. In either case, the information content of vacuum fluctuations and
the informational content of our awareness/understanding of it and
them are, by the PDO, and at the current state of knowledge, the same
and not the same.
9. The existence of a direct energetic (thermodynamic) relationship or
information transfer between Being and Non-Being, as in the fluctuon
model, below the quantum level, remains an open question, but such a
relationship may not be necessary as a basis for information theory.
10. An alternate basis is available in the self-duality and dualities of
energy, at and above the quantum level, in Being alone. The
"information" in point 7. can be just a projection.
Best wishes,
Joseph
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Telf: 34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) Fax: 34 976 71 5554
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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