Dear Clarence,

thank you very much for this diverse range of pertinent topics you raise. I'll try to address a few of these points:

I think some answers to your questions may be found in Sean Carrolls' "The Big Picture" as well as in Brian Greene's "Until the End of Time". In the latter, Greene argues along quantum mechanical lines - if I recall correctly - that, in fact, such "reverseabilities" (as you call them) are entirely possible, albeit statistically exceptionally unlikely. Answers about the "universal wave function"-problem and its collapse you will find in Carroll's book (among others).

Could you elaborate a bit further on what precisely you mean by those entropy-decreasing "bursts"? "Bursts" sound more like singular events to me. As far as the origin(s) of life are concerned, I'd say that we are dealing with continuous, gradual processes, rather than sudden "bursts". But I am not entirely sure what you mean by this term in this context.

You may also find these two recent discussions relevant to the questions you are concerned with:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_state-of-the-art_definition_of_life_used_in_astrobiology_today

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Has_time_existed_forever

All the best,

Julius

Thank you for your feedback on my discussion topic. I agree, such phenomena are possible, just statistically extremely rare.

Also I should point out that I was assuming strict determinism only for the sake mathematical simplicity.

The present format does not allow me to be more precise about the ideas presented above. Later on I plan to write a more concrete and rigorous presentation of these ideas in terms of cellular automata and dynamical systems.

“Physics, Entropy and the Origin of Life”

- about what is “Life”, its origin, and that physics and entropy fundamentally have only rather indirect relation to Life - and no any relation to the origin of Life on Earth and in any other place in Matter’s spacetime and outside, see at least first dozen of pages and section “Discussion and conclusion” in

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363645560_The_Information_as_Absolute_-_2022_ed

Cheers

Sergey Shevchenko I have written some thoughts about information here

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It strikes me as very interesting that in recent decades, the concept/category/notion of "information" has been increasingly employed not only in physics (see, e.g., the "information paradox" in relation to Black Holes), but also in biology (e.g. in relation to defining the phenomenon of "life" in astro-/exobiological contexts). I have for a long time been wondering, whether this actually reflects true progress in our understanding of the bio-physical world and/or whether this trend perhaps simply reflects humanity entering the "information/digital age" over the last 50 odd years or so?

Just some food for thought...

Thanks,

Julius

“…It strikes me as very interesting that in recent decades, the concept/category/notion of "information" has been increasingly employed not only in physics (see, e.g., the "information paradox" in relation to Black Holes), but also in biology (e.g. in relation to defining the phenomenon of "life" in astro-/exobiological contexts). I have for a long time been wondering, whether this actually reflects true progress in our understanding of the bio-physical world and/or whether this trend perhaps simply reflects humanity entering the "information/digital age" over the last 50 odd years or so?…”

- yeah, in 50 odd years or so ago, after the informational technologies/techniques became to be wider and wider implemented in industry and everyday humans’ practice, the word “information” has became more and more popular in sciences, including, of course, in this case mainstream philosophy;

- and seems as the first “fundamental” application of this word was when in physics the Shannon’s “information theory” was used in molecular-kinetic theory, and the “fundamental link between information and entropy” was “discovered”.

Since really in the mainstream philosophy and sciences the really absolutely fundamental phenomenon/notion “Information” – and all other fundamental phenomena/notions also, though, first of all “Matter”– and so everything in Matter, i.e. “particles”, “fields”, etc., “Consciousness”, “Space”, “Time”, “Energy”, were/are fundamentally completely transcendent/uncertain/irrational, so in every case, when mainstream addresses to some really fundamental problem, the result completely obligatorily logically is nothing else than some transcendent mental construction,

- in this case [entropy/information in MKT] this fundamental breakthrough is an example – nothing, besides rather numerous really having some minor physical sense publication, happened – after this discovery nothing happened with MKT, really it remains to be as it was in XIX century.

Really in this case the parameters of MKT systems “entropy” and [“discovered”] “information” are too common parameters, which practically principally don’t characterize any concrete system; say there can be innumerous quite different physically systems that have equal entropies and “information”, while the systems have just real concrete parameters – systems’ concrete elements, their velocities distributions, etc. that really are informative.

That about “the "information paradox" in relation to Black Holes” in the quote above is another example, when the application of “information theory” by rather numerous authors that write about “Black Holes” is simply senseless. Such paradox simply doesn’t exist, or, more correctly, really exists only as some transcendent/irrational “theory” in mainstream physics; and that isn’t something unique - again, because of the transcendence above in most cases, when in the mainstream some “fundamental breakthrough” happens, that is nothing else than some transcendent senseless mental construction,

- just therefore, despite of Phys. Rev., and not only, though, every month publishes a next few breakthroughs, really physics-2022 is the same as physics-1980, and really at least on 90% is the physics-1930, containing at that all fundamental transcendence in those times, say, in the relativity theories.

Any really fundamental phenomena/notion can be, and many, including the above ones, are, scientifically defined only in framework of the 2007 Shevchenko-Tokarevsky’s “The Information as Absolute” conception, recent version of the basic paper see

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363645560_The_Information_as_Absolute_-_2022_ed

, and, more concretely at application to Matter, in the he Shevchenko-Tokarevsky’s informational physical model, the main papers are https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354418793_The_Informational_Conception_and_the_Base_of_Physics

; and

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355361749_The_informational_physical_model_and_fundamental_problems_in_physics

- where, again, [see first dozen of pages in the first link] the thread’s question is really scientifically answered, including that entropy fundamentally has no any relation, besides some inessential noise in living systems, to Life.

Cheers

I believe that the origin of the problems with physics is the same as the problems in cosmology, biology etc. The problems start from the fact that scientists have arbitrarily and wrongly decided that nature is the result of random, fortuitous evolutionary processes. The discovery of and research on the Menorah Matrix shows that everything in the universe is based on the same mathematical infrastructure and that nothing just evolved out of nothing. The mathematical infrastructure is the base-10's inner-dimension where the repeating patterns on which nature is based on have been "hiding." This knowledge has been lost for thousands of years and embedded in some form or another in ancient symbols such as the the Swastika, the Sri Yantra and of course the Biblical 7-lamps Menorah, from which the name derives being of thhe same numeric infrastructure, and monuments, such as the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The inner-dimension and the Fibonacci sequence together produce the Menorah Matrix that predicts the basic infrastructure of the atomic structure down to the quarks and predicting three subquarks for each quark as well. The toroidal-dual-toroidal dynamic pathways of the MM also predict the electric current and magnetic basic structures, their indivisible nature, the Birkeland currents double helix formations, the z-pinches and much more. The MM's archetype explains why we have a 64-matrix of triplets for the genetic code and why the double helix shape for the DNA molecule, why the two-base pair system, why precisely 20 amino amino acids, etc. The MM is also the basis for the dimension and ratio of the Earth/Moon system and beyond, providing even the tropical (365.242) and sidereal (365.256) cycles of the Earth to the third decimal digit and more.

In no way possible all the predictions can be attributed to mere coincidences with the only conclusions is that the Fibonacci sequence does way more than setting the number-patterns and spirals of seed and petals in flowers and plants... and exlains the golden ration in nature being an emergent numerical property of the same Fibonacci sequence.

An 80 pages (condensed out of the 500 pages complete) version of the study has been recently uploaded on this site.

Presentation Menorah Matrix - The Archetype of the Structures and Phenome...

Robert A. Phillips

Is it possible to incorporate the concept of information directly into physics, not necessarily in the way entropy and allied notions are used in thermodynamics. Just as mass and energy and the exchange of mass and energy between systems is constrained by fixed laws, so too could not the flow of information be constrained by similar laws ? Maybe the smaller the mass, the smaller the rest (shell) energy, also the smaller the amount of information we can exchange with the system ?

“…Is it possible to incorporate the concept of information directly into physics, not necessarily in the way entropy and allied notions are used in thermodynamics. ….”

- the concept of information fundamentally can be directly incorporated into physics, since, as that rigorously scientifically proven in the 2007 Shevchenko-Tokarevsky’s really philosophical “The Information as Absolute” conception, recent version of the basic paper see

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363645560_The_Information_as_Absolute_-_2022_ed

- there exist nothing else than some informational patterns/systems of the patterns that are elements of the absolutely fundamental and absolutely infinite “Information” Set

So just since both – Matter, which is studied by humans’ consciousnesses, and the consciousnesses that study, are fundamentally only some informational systems, i.e. are made from one stuff “Information”, the fundamentally non-material consciousnesses fundamentally are able to obtain really some information about what exists and happens in Matter.

At that Matter is rather simple information system that is based on a simple binary reversible logics.

So the concept of information is already directly incorporated into physics in the SS&VT Planck scale informational physical model, 3 main papers are

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354418793_The_Informational_Conception_and_the_Base_of_Physics ,

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355361749_The_informational_physical_model_and_fundamental_problems_in_physics and

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369357747_The_informational_model_-Nuclear_Force

- while thermodynamics has in this case only some really negligible role, as an example of [in mainstream physics] rather strange application of the absolutely fundamental phenomenon “Information” in physics, after incorporation of “information-theoretical approach” really nothing happened in thermodynamics nothing new appeared, it really now is the same as was in XIX Century.

Cheers