Looking at any frequency on a screen, I am lost wondering just how that can literally be information. I still cannot philosophically transcend the gap between shape/object and mental information, and for that matter anything I would consider to literally be information i.e. an object cannot be directly transformed into information, except in a representative fashion [hence our subjective nature].
However, a computer can form macroscopic objects on our screens, and it does that with its language ~ binary code. The switching between 0’s and 1’ create patterns which collectively build into the information required to compose an image.
Here I am considering the idea that the universe is doing the very same thing but in tertiary fashion i.e. 3 integers instead of 2. everything in the universe moves between the three polar positions [positive/neutral/negative], and so equally creates patterns and alignments which literally draw what the consciousness and the world is.
Except that the degrees of positive to negative vary by infinitesimals, yielding a computer that works, not by tertiary coding, but “infinitary” coding.
Or we could translate what’s going on another way e.g. infinity = unlimitedness, whereas variations move between [+/-] limits. The relative amount of variation in the universe I would think, would have to be unlimited and therefore infinite. I think we have similar things in mind ~ in our languages there.
So universe = infinite organic computer?
The strange thing is, that I think I understand what you are getting at here; a computer deals directly with its coding and 0/1 switches in its processors yet he universe does not ~ due to variance/improbability.
Sounds a bit subjective [the division between positions 0/1 or tertiary -1/0/+1, and the interpreter i.e. a computer, or the universe], and its probably no coincidence that our consciousness emulates that.
it is still a tertiary based equation because that’s what the universe is made of. I assume the aspect of the universe making computations works intimately with the three tertiary positions, just as much as software uses the hardware.
The universe doesn’t see a “positive and negative”. That is merely Man’s construction of thought. To the universe what we call “negative” is merely “less positive”. A negative particle is a spot of disseminating positiveness and thus extremely low in positiveness. And a positive particle is a spot of accumulating positiveness thus a spot of extremely high concentration of positiveness. The ambient, not being a concentration of either disseminating nor accumulating but rather randomness average of both, is used by our minds as a reference from with we can distinguish the particle types. To the universe there is never a “zero” or actual neutral. What we call “empty space” is actually filled with random subtle noise consisting of some above the average and some below. And mass particles are the universes memory.
But there is no definite distinction between where a particle begins. It is not actually a discreet entity. The center point of the accumulation is what we call it’s location and from there, the “particle” extends infinitely, but the amount of concentration drops of extremely quickly so as to give the impression that the particle is only a tiny spot of accumulation, when in reality, it contributes to filling all of space with its disturbance, forming that ambient of randomness.
The universe knows only almost zero existence through almost infinite existence spread throughout an infinite realm in varied degrees of concentration and imbalance. To the universe, there is no such thing as “positive vs negative”, just as to a holy priest, there is no such thing as good and evil.
So, yes, the universe is a perfect computer, self-perpetuating and infinitely accurate. But there are no discreet quantities of anything, not even 2, everything has an infinitesimal distinction from everything else, always. That is why it is so perfect.
Dr. Silberman: Great stuff. I could make a career out of this guy. See how clever it is? It doesn’t require a shred of proof. Most paranoid delusions are intricate, but this is brilliant.
I haven’t heard your theory before, I did do a bit of engineering at collage, and things do have polarity, they are not lesser and greater of the same thing, but can be equal amounts of positive and negative. the polar forces involve opposite behaviours from macroscopic level right down the the sub-atomic level, energy types are just energy acting in different behaviours.
Either way its splitting hairs a bit – if I may, the point is that the universe is intimate with all of its positions/polarities ~ because they are it. Particles form patterns [atoms, chemicals etc] according to their properties, which are an arrangement of the three polar positions aligned in different ways, [e.g. 6 parts to quaks [up/down quark etc]]. We could think of them as like logic paths in computer chips, and that the stars, planets and life, are the computer at low level [atomic/informational] and its software at high or the macroscopic level.
So we still have a universe that’s a computer how ever we describe it!
On a tangent…
I am tempted to think that when human consciousness was arrived at on earth, it may have done so all over the universe ~ as if the universe is growing and maturing and evolution is the result of that. Unless we can state that the earth is a distinct system, and yet all systems are only apparently independent, information and change to a thing is as simple as observing it.