From Osher Doctorow
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Why The Universe Has Feedback
Copyright By Owner Osher Doctorow Ph.D.
First Published 2005
The Universe arguably has feedback because it is fallible, or in plain
English it makes mistakes. Although I stated in a recent thread that
the Universe is a Nonmaterialist computer, even Nonmaterialists make
mistakes. This undoubtedly will surprise even some of our top computer
experts who think that trial and error learning evolves into something
infallible. But in one way they're on the right track and so is their
"nemesis" Sir Roger Penrose who dislikes computers of the Materialist
type, namely the Universe tries to become more and more infallible and
correct its errors. Its "guiding principle" in this respect is
Knowledge/Semantic Information which includes both logic and experiment
and induction and theory and also includes one surprise - the Unknown,
which I have to tell you is part of what is rather ineffectively called
"The" Null Set.
The boundary of the Universe as it expands contacts the Unknown, just
as the boundary of a growing person contacts the Unknown. The Unknown
is built in to any physical system's conditions just as negation or
"not" is built in to propositions. I heartily recommend, incidentally
or not, that in training your children or grandchildren or other
people's, that you make sure to train them into inhibitions as much as
into "freedoms". Otherwise you might even lose your comfortable
"universe" :>)
TOEs cannot explain the Unknown by the above conditions, and arguably
that is why we will continue to find more and more particles, forces,
dimensions, facts, insights. One way to think of it is to argue that
if the Universe were Infallible, then it would not have to do anything
or expand or contract since it would "miss" nothing and know
everything.
The closest that anybody came to this in my knowledge was Kurt Godel,
who himself was quite fallible (he went insane from paranoia, though
fortunately at an advanced age and probably after some real
sociocultural basis for his paranoia). He told us that mathematics was
fallible, which still hasn't penetrated to physics lore even though
physics is largely based on mathematics. But Creative Geniuses are
invariably fallible. Steven Weinberg comes close to Godel in that he
has admitted this all his life and changed his theories accordingly,
even in effective gauge quantum field theory. Even Socrates/Plato (we
only know Socrates from Plato's writings) were fallible, though
Socrates was more open about it than the "non-Socratic" writings of
Plato.
Another way to look at this is that if the Universe grows, it makes
sense for it to grow at its periphery and not merely at its interior.
The "push" is not just a central one (we can't even find a center,
though somebody might eventually) but a peripheral one as well, as
becomes more evident in some ways in biology and psychology and the
social sciences.
The Universe itself is a hitchhiker, making mistakes as it goes along
and explores the Unknown, but striving for Knowledge. Make that your
homework.
Osher Doctorow
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