RE: A Conscious Universe
February 8, 2015 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2015 at 8:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You keep saying that, I don't know that it's actually true, or at least that it means what you think it does....but. You could conceptualize a photons size by the distance at which you'd start to feel it "pushing" back..a little less than half a fermi - as has already been mentioned. I would be entirely unsurprised to find that you don't feel this to be a satisfactory answer...thats a hell of alot smaller than our experience, and you're thinking in terms of the shapes of tables and chairs - which take s a bit more than a photon to express itself intuitively to us
- do you not also envision some sort of computational process to be involved in a universe with information as the fundamental stuff?
Does it actually matter, in the context of our conversation? Are you a photon? Is a neuron a photon? Do the behaviors observed with regards to photons translate directly into behaviors observed at the level of flesh and blood human beings - even if they do behave the way you seem to think? I'm simply proposing a method by which, if it's computation of any form - this could be accomplished with just what we see, just what we possess. No wondering about the inner workings of the universe at any level deeper than I have to. I'm content to say that - if it's computation- we have equipment on board that plainly can meet the requirements, and it's all decidedly made of physical stuff, even if that physical stuff is made of information stuff, so far as we can tell. Can we agree to that?
- do you not also envision some sort of computational process to be involved in a universe with information as the fundamental stuff?
Does it actually matter, in the context of our conversation? Are you a photon? Is a neuron a photon? Do the behaviors observed with regards to photons translate directly into behaviors observed at the level of flesh and blood human beings - even if they do behave the way you seem to think? I'm simply proposing a method by which, if it's computation of any form - this could be accomplished with just what we see, just what we possess. No wondering about the inner workings of the universe at any level deeper than I have to. I'm content to say that - if it's computation- we have equipment on board that plainly can meet the requirements, and it's all decidedly made of physical stuff, even if that physical stuff is made of information stuff, so far as we can tell. Can we agree to that?
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