[ExI] heaves a long broken psi

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> questions burst forth.  The pure energy form of mind, unburdened by
> the messy massy-ness of its substrate, is so photon-like, that we
> might (must?) presume that it penetrates instantaneously to fill the
> entire universe.  But wait, on further reflection it seems that it is
> already there.  What's more, photon-mounted or not, the mind was and
> is always photon-like, and so must ever and always saturate all of
> spacetime.   Also, annoyingly, it seems the photon-riding mind cannot
> function, because mind is dynamic and needs the passage of time to
> proceed from state to state.  So what would be the character of the
> photon-riding mind, existing as surely as does the photon, yet
> "frozen" out of time?
>
>  Now we see the warring duality of the two frames of reference.  From
> the photon-rider's point of view, space is collapsed, time is stopped,
> existence is possible, but thinking is not.   While in the 4D view,
> everything is schmushed out into our tasty raisin-cake universe, and
> the photon and mind are humping right along, with the mind on pause,
> its relativistic "clock" slowed to zero at v=c. Yet the mind exists in
> both, simultaneously, immune to the contradictions.  So the
> contradictions must be illusory, awaiting reconciliation.

I imagine the 10 (11?) or 26 dimensions of string theory having a few
extra dimensions (ultimately, universes) to manage this frozen-state
problem.  Take any frame of a movie with which you are familiar - what
is "happening" at that moment.  The frame has zero happening, but your
understanding of the context of the movie can identify it's location
in the plot and 'happening' you could validly discuss is a vector
through that plot at which this frozen state is only a particular
derivative.

I'm certainly no physicist, but I imagine an oft-overlooked point on
the 'rolled up' dimensions of string theory is that these extra
non-spacetime dimensions may have measure less than 1 planck unit, but
that doesn't mean they don't contain multivariant data. (ex:
noninclusive range from -1 to 1 are less than abs(1) but contain an
infinite number of real values)

back to the movie analogy, consider that when spacetime is 'reduced'
out of consideration (as you mentioned with your photon ride leading
to omnipresent unity) those other dimensions retain the details of
'context' for your mental movie.

I also imagine that these other dimensions are the DNA for the
universe we perceive.  Perhaps 'fitness' for evolution is the
intelligence of life produced in the entire range of spacetime for
that universe.  I wonder if it is possible to move between them
analogously to getting off that photon-ride at the wrong station...