There is a physical basis of reality, in philosophical terms, ontology. Ontology must provide an explanation of why the universe behaves as it does at its deepest level, from the physical basis of gravity at the cosmological scale to the physical basis of the known quantum fields at the smallest scale.
I plan to pull together some material posted to the internet from 1993 to 2005, together with unpublished material and material from the published essays on this website, to provide a physical foundation to my key theory of Conceptual Homeorhesis (an abbreviated table is presented below from Consciousness II).
To address the ontological boundary conditions between each epistemological sphere (subjective-objective-consensual) in Part III below, I need to provide explanations to most of Lee Smolin’s “Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics” in Part II:
I plan to pull together some material posted to the internet from 1993 to 2005, together with unpublished material and material from the published essays on this website, to provide a physical foundation to my key theory of Conceptual Homeorhesis (an abbreviated table is presented below from Consciousness II).
To address the ontological boundary conditions between each epistemological sphere (subjective-objective-consensual) in Part III below, I need to provide explanations to most of Lee Smolin’s “Five Great Problems in Theoretical Physics” in Part II:
- The problem of quantum gravity: Reconcile general relativity and quantum theory.
- The foundational problems of quantum mechanics: Make sense of the theory.
- The unification of particles and forces.
- The tuning problem: Explain how the values of the free constants come to be.
- The problem of cosmological mysteries: Explain dark matter and dark energy if they exist, or else explain how gravity behaves on large scales.
Part I - SOMETHING IS THERE
- The One and the Many and where to start; Parmenides & Democritus
- I might touch on Karl Jaspers’ & Etienne Gilson’s notes on starting points
- Why not to start with motion (such as the speed of light) or information or mind or mathematics as ontological primitives; my stance is as a qualified realist in the sense of how it’s used in Consciousness Part I
- What mathematics is and is not, and its utilitarian nature due to the limitations of inductive logic, why thinking mathematically is done humbly because of this; a link between physical ontology of Planck-scale droplets (gravitons in their force-carrying aspect) and mathematics from a conjecture by Nima Arkani-Hamed “Everything — irrational numbers, along with particle interactions and the correlations between stars — ultimately arises from possible combinatorial arrangements of whole numbers: 1, 2, 3 and so on”
- Zeno’s paradox, illegitimate assumption to set numbers in motion ‘in the limit’ or jumping through renormalization hoops
- Affinity with Leibniz’s Monadology, the Edmund Husserl-Bertrand Russell-Richard Feynman sum-of-all-histories perspectivism, Henri Bergson’s Creative Evolution, perhaps a little G.W.F. Hegel and Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead’s Process Philosophy, David Bohm’s Undivided Universe, Halton Arp, John Cramer’s Transactional Analysis and Hannes Alfven’s Plasma Cosmology.
Part II - Liquid Cosmology
- “The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” - Genesis 1:2
- “He showed me a pure river of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.” - Revelation 22:1
- What the Planck length and the Planck moment refer to in common, why there could be a universe with no big bang, no beginning and no end, why gravity alone could account for the arrow of time; if you must have a big bang, here’s a way to produce Planck-scale droplets (gravitons in their force-carrying aspect ) through an early phase change
- Thales was right; the centrality of the liquid properties of the smallest bits of substance; water in a quantum state; the beginning of the universe as liquid; the liquidity of gravity; Gravitons; the superfluid vacuum theory or slippery fluid; why there is a limit to how small and how big things can get; how the liquid nature could be interpreted as cracks in the cosmos; how black holes resemble liquid eddies and have a fluid event horizon; liquid droplets behaving as DeBroglie’s pilot wave
- What gravity and the cosmological constant are, why they work the way they do and why they have a scalar limit, why the knowable universe is neither expanding or contracting and may be both infinite in mass and size; why gravity waves are difficult to detect even with cosmic string theory on loops and lengths and why when they are detected an alternate interpretation is possible, the limited affinity between string theory and liquid cosmology
- What energy and space are, what matter and time are, and why they are separate and not integrated concepts, and why things move, why the quark-gluon plasma behaves as a perfect liquid; why time is real in the blink of the singular now, the physical basis for the speed of light being constant and why it is incorrect to refer to virtual particles popping in and out of existence; the discretization of time in loop quantum gravity and quantum chaos theory, and even in the Big Bang theory
- I might touch on solutions to Le Sage’s theory of gravitation, why it’s difficult to find gravitational waves, the meaning of various Planck measurements, the ratio of dark matter to dark energy, the idea that “the vacuum of our whole universe is a string-net liquid” or “dark fluid” putting a kink in general relativity, and the idea that black holes contain separate “universes,” Planck scale gravity characteristics, the surprises near the limits to the observable universe such as if the local universe leaks, filamentary non-homogeneous characteristics in deep space structures and energy patterns, how attractors are connected to the size of deep space voids (drained basins of attraction), why molecular ensembles look less complex the farther away they are through transactional diffusion and the behavior of liquid at small scales, the Horizon Problem and the Flatness Problem
Part III - PRinciples of intentionAl speciation
- It is intended that this will be foundational to the transhumanist philosophy of technology, particularly in how technology both increases the scope and complexity of molecular ensembles subject to common volitional intentions (such as us) and alters volitional intention itself.
- Gravity as the ground state of consciousness, scaled coherency or fractal dimensions of the “chain of being”
- Instinct, culture and technology as drivers of the expansion of memory-intentionality aspects of consciousness
- The physical location of the source of the coherency and intelligibility of our universe, and the unalienable rights articulated in the Declaration of Independence, the origin of the right to exist at all cannot come from within existence
- What our place is within the universe, an unprivileged center
- The Synergetic Exclusionary Principle - some molecular ensembles, moving together under a common volitional intention (whether a person, a consensual polity or an ecosystem), are permitted and some are not; the equivalence of our intentionality expressed as matter vs. energy
- The correspondence of the triune realms of ontology & epistemology with the transcendent via Eric Voegelin’s metaxy
- I might touch on Eric Voegelin’s, Michael Polanyi’s and William Poteat’s observations on gnostic errors and the mindbody conjunction
- The life expectancy of material artifacts vs. energy artifacts
- Our own personal energy-matter boundary within the larger localized universe and how energy-matter artifacts (technological and other) combine with us and separate from us
Conceptual Homeorhesis
Concepts in the Chaotic (Gaseous) Realm
Always Precede Concepts in the Ordered (Solid) Realm.
The Extropic Transformation is the Complex (Liquid) Realm
CONCEPTS OF CHAOTIC REALM |
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CONCEPTS OF ORDERED REALM |
CONCEPTS OF LIQUID REALM |
Reality
Infinitely Divisible-and-Indivisible |
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Energy-and-Matter |
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Past-and-Present |
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Purpose-and-Truth |
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Function-and-Form |
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Competition-and-Cooperation |
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Search-and-Consolidate |
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Novelty-and-Ordinary |
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Subject-and-Object |
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Knower-and-Known |
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Freedom-and-Necessity |
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Interpretation-and-Map |
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Fear-and-Greed |
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Individual-and-Species |
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Evolvability-and-Sustained Fitness |
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Imagination-and-Abstraction |
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Exploration-and-Discovery |
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Coherence-and-Correspondence |
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Cause-and-Effect |
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Self-and-Nonself |
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Consciousness-and-Being |
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Holism-and-Reductionism |
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Value-and-Fact |
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Evaluation-and-Breadth of Description |
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Universal-and-Particular |
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