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Michael Helland
Hello everyone,
I've got an abstract idea for ya.
It sort of follows some of the ideas that Leibniz had:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz#Information_technology
Imagine using an object in a program to depict some fundamental
substance.
The fundamental substance isn't an atom, or a particle or boson or
quark, like electrons and photons.
But it has properties and methods that allow it to act and interact
with other objects.
Keeping in mind that it doesn't represent a physical object, what if
many of these interacting objects could demonstrate complexity that
resembles everyday objects?
A thermometer for instance. Simple mechanical things.
Or life. Could composite objects resembling plants, animals, and human
beings exist in the complexity of the interactions in the fundamental
objects?
Assuming so, we can start getting into the difficult parts.
Information science examines the processing of information in a
physical resource.
In this case all the properties of the objects compose the information
in the computer's physical resource, such as the RAM or on disk.
But we have artificial life, and artificial intelligence in that
information.
And if we have artificial human life, we have a human brain.
That virtual brain-like thing exists within the context of the
information in the computer's physical resource.
That virtual brain creates a new virtual resource for information, a
new type of information in its unique resource that exists in a unique
context.
Within the neural pathways in the artificial intelligence arises a new
space, time, and even matter that's relative to the artificial
observer.
The electrons and photons we study in science exist as information in
the virtual resource.
Presumably, the information that arises from the virtual resource
exhibits quantum mechanics and general relativity.
This seems to agree with a general trend in physics today. Here is an
article that has gained some popularity:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/archives/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html
<quote>
A New Theory of the Universe
Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the
equation
By Robert Lanza
</quote>
This is a multidisciplinary study that includes quantum mechanics,
general relativity, neurobiology, information science, and computing.
The last discipline means that us computer programmers have the unique
position of being able to intuit what many consider counter intuitive,
ideas that the physicists themselves are going to have a very
difficult time coming to grips with.
The main idea here is that the complexity of objects in a program can
lead to the set of information in the physical resource creating a
whole new virtual resource and a new whole new set of information in a
uniquely different resource than the first.
As computer scientists, we have the ability to imagine that.
Physicists working with equations don't.
Here's a larger description of the main idea with a code example:
http://www.cloudmusiccompany.com/paper.htm
I've got an abstract idea for ya.
It sort of follows some of the ideas that Leibniz had:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz#Information_technology
Imagine using an object in a program to depict some fundamental
substance.
The fundamental substance isn't an atom, or a particle or boson or
quark, like electrons and photons.
But it has properties and methods that allow it to act and interact
with other objects.
Keeping in mind that it doesn't represent a physical object, what if
many of these interacting objects could demonstrate complexity that
resembles everyday objects?
A thermometer for instance. Simple mechanical things.
Or life. Could composite objects resembling plants, animals, and human
beings exist in the complexity of the interactions in the fundamental
objects?
Assuming so, we can start getting into the difficult parts.
Information science examines the processing of information in a
physical resource.
In this case all the properties of the objects compose the information
in the computer's physical resource, such as the RAM or on disk.
But we have artificial life, and artificial intelligence in that
information.
And if we have artificial human life, we have a human brain.
That virtual brain-like thing exists within the context of the
information in the computer's physical resource.
That virtual brain creates a new virtual resource for information, a
new type of information in its unique resource that exists in a unique
context.
Within the neural pathways in the artificial intelligence arises a new
space, time, and even matter that's relative to the artificial
observer.
The electrons and photons we study in science exist as information in
the virtual resource.
Presumably, the information that arises from the virtual resource
exhibits quantum mechanics and general relativity.
This seems to agree with a general trend in physics today. Here is an
article that has gained some popularity:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/archives/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html
<quote>
A New Theory of the Universe
Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the
equation
By Robert Lanza
</quote>
This is a multidisciplinary study that includes quantum mechanics,
general relativity, neurobiology, information science, and computing.
The last discipline means that us computer programmers have the unique
position of being able to intuit what many consider counter intuitive,
ideas that the physicists themselves are going to have a very
difficult time coming to grips with.
The main idea here is that the complexity of objects in a program can
lead to the set of information in the physical resource creating a
whole new virtual resource and a new whole new set of information in a
uniquely different resource than the first.
As computer scientists, we have the ability to imagine that.
Physicists working with equations don't.
Here's a larger description of the main idea with a code example:
http://www.cloudmusiccompany.com/paper.htm
