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 Award Winning Author, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., Explores the Evolutionary Purpose of the Universe, Our Planet, and Ourselves 

 Exploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of meaningful in-formation that vitally, exists to evolve. 

Sharing leading-edge scientific breakthroughs, and showing how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being—Gaia, the author details the 13.8 billion-year story of our Universe and Gaia, where everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose. Showing how the Universe was born, not in an implicitly chaotic big bang, but as the first moment of a fine-tuned and ongoing “big breath,” she shares the latest evidence for the innate sentience that has guided our universal journey from simplicity to ever-greater complexity, diversity, and self-awareness—from protons to planets, plants, and people. She explains how evolution is not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by profoundly resonant and harmonic interplays of forces and influences, each intelligently informed and guided. 

Currivan shows how, in Gaia, the Universe’s evolutionary impulse is embodied in collaborative relationships and dynamic co-evolutionary partnerships on a planetary scale and as a wholistic gaiasphere. She reveals how the conscious evolution of humanity is an integral part of Gaia’s own evolutionary progress and purpose. And, as she explains in vivid and moving detail, by perceiving and experiencing our planet as a sentient being and ourselves as Gaians, we open ourselves to a deeply ecological, evolutionary, and, above all, hopeful worldview. 

Author Bio: Jude Currivan, Ph.D., is a cosmologist, futurist, planetary healer, member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, and previously one of the most senior business women in the UK. She has a master’s degree in physics from Oxford University and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Reading. She has travelled extensively, worked with wisdom keepers from many traditions and is a life-long researcher into the nature of reality. She is the author of 6 books, including The Cosmic Hologram, and is co-founder of WholeWorld-View. http://www.judecurrivan.com/

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The next level of Information Processing - TESLA DOJO AI - Supercomputer

Tesla presented their newest technological addition: the DOJO AI - Supercomputer. This is incredibly advanced technology, achieved only via scalability of more or less existing technologies. 

Read this article for full description of the DOJO novel characteristics (https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/08/23/inside-teslas-innovative-and-homegrown-dojo-ai-supercomputer/)

or watch the video for more details:

 

The Application of the Second Law of Information Dynamics to Software and Bioinformatics

Here is a link to a post:

The Application of the Second Law of Information Dynamics to Software and Bioinformatics

That covers Dr. Melvin Vopson's new second law of infodynamics as it relates to software and bioinformatics. It also contains a great deal of background information on the history of the thermodynamic view of entropy and information and Claude Shannon's Information Theory view of entropy and Information and how the new second law of infodynamics reconciles the two.

To see all posts on softwarephysics in reverse order go to:
https://softwarephysics.blogspot.com/

Regards,
Steve Johnston

How Much Does Your Software Weigh? - the Equivalence of Mass, Energy and Information

Here is a link to a post:

How Much Does Your Software Weigh? - the Equivalence of Mass, Energy and Information

That covers the derivation of Dr. Melvin Vopson's mass-energy-information equivalence principle and is used to calculate the mass of software. It also covers his hypothesis that dark matter might simply be the mass of the Information stored by the Universe.

To see all posts on softwarephysics in reverse order go to:
https://softwarephysics.blogspot.com/

Regards,
Steve Johnston

Mariusz Stanowski - Binary Model of Universe

I would like to present the "Binary Model of Universe", which is described in the book: "Theory and Practice of Contrast: Integrating Science, Art and Philosophy" (Chapter 20). It is an alternative model to physical models of the universe such as the Big Bang Theory, String Theory or Multiverse Theory. Closer to it are concepts related to information processing, such as the universe as a computer or computer simulation.

What distinguishes the Binary Model is that it combines mental issues (their deep analysis) and physical issues and considers them to a similar degree, while existing models are based unilaterally on the physical realm of reality, external to the mind. The second distinguishing feature is its simplicity. Not only is it a simpler model than existing ones, but it is also the simplest theoretically possible one, which contains all the information necessary for understanding it, including consideration of every level of complexity of the universe.

It was created about 40 years ago, as a by-product of aesthetic inquiry, while trying to solve the mystery of beauty. When I found a solution and considered it satisfactory, I looked for a concise and general form to demonstrate it. I decided to test the binary model, that is, the simplest one possible. Although it seemed unlikely, it turned out that binary structures can be evaluated aesthetically, just like sound or visual structures, and it involves counting their features (information). These features-information in a binary structure are all distinguishable regularities (distinguishable arrangements of zeros and ones). When comparing different structures with the same number of zeros and ones, those of them that contain more regularities/information are also more aesthetically appealing (for details, see Binary Model of Visual Interactions, page 16). From this model directly follows the general (abstract) definition of complexity, which defines the complexity of a binary structure as the number of information "N" squared, divided by the number of zeros and ones "n", i.e. N²/n (for details, see Abstract Complexity Definition, page 22). This is a new general definition of complexity, which is the only one among the existing ones that meets the intuitive criterion saying that "the complexity of an object is greater the more elements it has and the more connections there are between them."

At that time I did not yet know that binary structures can simulate any objects and processes of reality, this information I acquired later, after studying Bertalanffy's "General System Theory." and the so-called Digital Physics. However, I supposed that since the visual world (its interactions) can be modeled binary then perhaps all other structures of reality can be modeled as well, given that binary structures belong to both the physical realm (they can be visually evaluated) and the mental (abstract) world.
>> The binary structures used for simulation are binary waves (digital signals) with the appropriate energy and complexity. Since they simulate material objects and have energy, the question arises whether similar waves (but with much higher energy) could not be identified with material objects? Here de Broglie's theory comes with help, which says that all objects of reality are also waves.

Thus, we have strong scientific arguments for the fact that reality is formed by binary structures of varying complexity: 1. the binary model of visual interactions and the possibility of binary simulation of all objects and processes of reality, 2. the Abstract Definition of Complexity and 3. de Broglie's theory. . On the basis of these we can also look for experimental confirmation (the experiment is described on p.185). Such confirmation would have far-reaching implications, including the possibility of designing and creating material objects using appropriate algorithms and structures of electromagnetic pulses.

Further considerations concern the genesis and mode of existence of binary structures (p.183). They show that the universe is an infinite and ever-increasing binary number formed by the fundamental (smallest) quanta of energy and the gaps between them (zeros). In this infinite number-binary structure are present all possible combinations of zeros and ones (and therefore all possible complexities) representing all objects of reality, including us. As the number grows, it reorganizes itself cyclically and its complexity (in different fragments) increases or disappears. This hypothesis is based on the observation that any binary number with a certain number of zeros and ones (e.g., n = 8), at the beginning (the smallest number) has a one and zeros alone (10000000), then growing exhausts all combinations of zeros and ones (10000011....10010110...) until it reaches the largest number consisting of only ones (11111111). The next numbers will already have one digit more (n = 9). Thus, we can see that during growth, the binary number is constantly reorganizing and such reorganization (growth and disappearance of complexity) is also observed in reality.

As for the genesis of the existence of zero and one, that is, the existence of something and nothing, the answer is astonishingly simple: there must be both because we would not be able to distinguish either of them separately. In general, our reality is so constructed that we cannot isolate anything without juxtaposing it with something else. This is the basic principle (of contrast) on which our reality is based, which is also our (objective) limitation beyond which neither now nor in the future will we be able to mentally go. The realization of this limitation closes further possibilities of explanation and should be regarded as the solution to the riddle of being. It is also the answer to Leibniz's well-known question: "is there something rather than nothing?" (which has not been answered to this day). The necessity of the existence of both zero and one is also the possibility of the existence of the universe as their structure.

The above model because it is theoretically the simplest possible, also sets the limits of our understanding of the universe. Further search for reasons (even simpler and more basic) for the existence of the universe makes no sense, because nothing simpler (in our reality) exists.

The link to the site of the book is here:
https://www.routledge.com/Theory-and-Practice-of-Contrast-Integrating-Science-Art-and-Philosophy/Stanowski/p/book/9780367770020

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Is Information the foundation of the Universe?

Regarding the discussion of the essence of consciousness, the model of the human information system or the model of sensori motor activity presented in the work [DOI: 10.12731/2218-7405-2013-8-20] may be of interest. This model shows the relationship of different levels of consciousness with each other
and with the physical body. However, consciousness as an information system or information process seems to be just a special case of information in general.
The main problem that the Information Physics Institute is aimed at solving is the study of the relationship between matter and information that exists without any carrier. In systems theory, this ratio is considered as the ratio of material and conceptual systems. In [DOI:10.3103/S0005105520020077 and https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46346742], using the system-object approach, it is substantiated that the real world (the Universum, the Universe) is an object-oriented system whose classes are systems-classes (external or conceptual systems) defining properties of
objects, and objects are systems-phenomena (internal or material systems) carrying out real interactions.

 Posted on behalf of Matorin Sergey.

Biological laws

Hello, I'm Jose Carlos Perales Quiroga. I'd like to share a project I've been working on. Its about laws of biology or biological laws. They are regularities that are very common among different fields of study and are unique to biology as a discipline, different of those of physics and chemestry, but dependent of them. 

  

Here is the link to a presentation with more details.

Physicist Claims To Have Solved the Mystery of Consciousness

According a new theory, the brain doesn’t create our conscious experience, at least not through computations. The reason that we have conscious experience is because of the process of physical measurement. In a nutshell, different physical measurements in different frames of reference manifest different physical properties in these frames of reference, although these frames measure the same phenomenon. 

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Read more here:

https://scitechdaily.com/physicist-claims-to-have-solved-the-mystery-of-consciousness/

 

Article Reference: “A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness” by Nir Lahav and Zachariah A. Neemeh, 12 May 2022, Frontiers in Psychology.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.704270

Fundamental Cosmology and Physics Beyond the Standard Model

This is an outrageous hypothetical exploration of what is possible when you expand on some of the principles of physics, for the purpose of explaining some of the biggest questions left in physics. The paper expands on the work of Plato, Newton, Einstein and many others to establish a two-part Universe, with one part quantum computational. Thermodynamics is revised accordingly. Information takes it rightful place, where many theoretical models leave it out, as the most critical foundation for cosmology. In the modeling process, a simple pathway to a different and deeper understanding of the problems we have in physics is revealed.

The singularity is defined as a transition and a pivot. Dark matter and energy are hypothesized as antimatter held in a separate frame of reference and as a superfluid of negative mass. The real observations are discussed and explained as the hypothesis is applied, including accelerated expansion due to transition. Uncertainty and entanglement are illuminated with the properties of information.

Read full document here. 

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Could a mathematical application of information theory identify and predict SARS-CoV-2 mutations?

An interesting new study by researchers at the University of Portsmouth, UK, describes the use of a mathematical method to sequence genomes based on information theory. The method offers an alternative to clinical techniques, allowing mutations to be detected and possibly even predicted. In this way, it opens new research opportunities in bioinformatics and genetics.

The new paper uses information theory to devise a novel method whereby mutations can be both traced and predicted in genomic sequences. This is far from being the first attempt to do this, for DNA sequences have been analyzed through methods built on information theory from the ‘70s onwards.

The approach used in this study centers around information entropy (IE) spectra (see the enclosed figure), which are created from genomic sequences, and the examination of their mutation dynamics. Importantly, this approach is relevant for any sequence of any genome of any size.

The researchers used a program called GENIES (GENetic Entropy Information Spectrum), custom-built for this project and now available for free to other scientists.

Read full story here.

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