Evolution is this very slow, ratchet-like motion where Nature selects
and locks-in any advantageously occurring changes. These are property
based selections where the favored properties are usually the ones
which will lead to increased thermal efficiency... as information
fights entropy.
Self-reference is the fundamental property of Nature that made
possible biological evolution. This is the same property that has made
it possible for matter to naturally evolve into the present human
brain as the ultimate self-observing example of self-organized matter.
The universe exists because of active information contained in all
kinds of interacting waves, and if it weren't for wave superposition,
there would be no universe. Inherent to wave mechanics are the
mechanisms of wave superposition and parallel, non-linear, information
processing. This mechanisms, which are also affected and regulated by
the laws of Thermodynamics, are in great part responsible for
information growth and the evolution of biological matter.
Ever heard about morphogenetic fields? It is a hypothesis in which all
matter, including living matter, is described as being shaped by a
very peculiar type of fields called 'morphic fields'. This hypothesis
stands on quite solid ground, scientifically speaking, as it is fully
compatible with the de Broglie/Bohm pilot-wave concept. According to
this new hypothesis, matter is organized by fields in a similar way a
VCR would record a TV program into a magnetic tape. As the tape rolls
inside the machine, information contained in EM waves re-arrange and
organize the tape's magnetic particles which can later be used to
reproduce well ordered images on a TV screen. Morphogenetic fields,
supposedly, re-arrange and order what are otherwise space particles in
a chaotic and disordered state into organized matter.
Objects in spacetime are continuously interacting with space and the
environment through EMR or matter-waves, following classical and
quantum field rules. Through EMR and matter waves (morphic fields),
information about the environment and other objects is transferred to
the object. Inertial state is transferred through the aether, or, as
many prefer to say, through momentum space. Wholeness in time and
space, unity of process, is only possible because the aether is one.
Perception/sentience/communication are fundamental functions of all
matter, dead or alive. Sentience is not unique to living matter,
living matter is the result of sentience. Sentience is synonymous to
communication, and communication is any information exchange between
any two or more parties. The observer could be a molecule, a rock, an
ant or a human being. Take neutrons for example, how can a neutron
maintain its geometrical configuration during millions of years
without flying apart?
Human sentience is the actual evolutive result of all the sensing
matter has been doing through time. Matter is 'aware' of its
surroundings, but that doesn't mean it can think, unless it had
previously being formed into a brain.
The reason I bring up visible light when talking about state wave
collapse is because researchers specifically linked it to humans with
eyes in the experiments, but as experienced by many scientists, it is
now known that, even when there were no human observers involved,
there were still some form of communication (non-local) between the
instruments being used and the observed event. Before there were eyes
there were other forms of communication through matter waves and other
EMR between atoms, molecules, bacteria, etc.
Using a Leaf Wing butterfly to explain God's intervention in the
creation of its camouflage was a mistake I used to make. Now I
understand that creating a camouflaged appearance to survive is just
another function integrated into their state wave function, an
algorithm, a program in charge of acquiring information about the
environment in order to copy the shape of surrounding leaves and
ensure the species' survival. This information is gathered by the
insect's matter waves, as well as it is supplied by all the matter
waves (morphogenetic fields) and other EMR coming from the
environment. As fields are superimposed in hyperspace meaningful
information is integrated into the insect's own state wave function.
But how does syntropy come about? Why does information, especially the
more it grows, evidently seeks to preserve itself? Look at DNA.
Information creating information, is this an intrinsic property, or is
there a teleological force guiding it? Complexity and information
growth obviously go together. Information begets complexity. Is it an
algorithm inherent to biological, to self-animated matter? Is this
property a product of evolution? The problem is that self-organization
starts with the first atom, it is present from the start.
Is this proof, however, that Nature is guided by some syntropic
quality, a force, an energy analogous to information, ruled by logic,
which will try at any opportunity to beat entropy by constantly
creating order out of chaos?
--
Laurent
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