<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi Giovani,</div><div>I wish I could understand you, because it sounds like you are saying there are no such thing as color qualities.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 1:45 PM Giovanni Santostasi via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><b>a single simple stand alone elemental quality of conscious experience like redness<br></b>But that is what we are trying to tell you Brent, there is no such a thing. <br><br>There is not, there is not, not cold not hot. <br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:38 PM Giovanni Santostasi <<a href="mailto:gsantostasi@gmail.com" target="_blank">gsantostasi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In Physics gravity is considered a negative form of energy (potential) and kinetic energy is positive. These 2 seem to cancel perfectly out. <div><br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe#:~:text=The%20zero%2Denergy%20universe%20hypothesis,in%20the%20form%20of%20gravity" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy_universe#:~:text=The%20zero%2Denergy%20universe%20hypothesis,in%20the%20form%20of%20gravity</a>.<br><br>Energy and information are strongly related, so yes, one can consider the idea of negative information. Jason gave some hints about this but also the idea of anti-particle can be considered a type of anti-information. There is a way to think about anti-particle where they are holes in a field, so something absent in a continuum instead of something present with opposite properties to matter. <br><br>But there are a lot of clues that the universe comes from nothing. To me this is a solution to all the theological problems. There is no god, because god was not necessary to create the universe. God is complex, the universe was simple at the beginning so simple to be literally nothing. <br><br>Besides the total energy of the universe is zero there are other clues that the Universe came from nothing. Consider Noether's theorem. It basically states that the symmetry we find in nature, like the fact the world doesn't change if we go left to right, or if we reverse time like a in a movie (the laws stay the same) give rise to all the conservation laws of physics like conservation of momentum, angular momentum, energy and so on. <br>All physics can be rewritten as conservation laws. <br>There is incredible symmetry in the universe. It is not just in the macroscopic world but at the QM level. Other esoteric laws like conservation of charge, conservation of Lepton charge and so on are also explained as symmetries. In fact symmetry is used as a tool to unify the different forces of nature and show there is basically one force. We have succeeded to unify basically 3 of them (EM, weak and strong) and we are still struggling to unify gravity. <br>Why so much symmetry? <br>Think about it, what is the most symmetric entity possible? <br>Nothing. <br><br>And this is why there is zero energy in the universe, the universe is flat overall, we have perfect conservation laws, and mind-blowing symmetries all the way down. <br>A good book to contemplate on these ideas is:<br><br></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing-There-Something-Rather/dp/1451624468" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Universe-Nothing-There-Something-Rather/dp/1451624468</a><br><br>It is a well-known fact among physicists and notwithstanding attempts like the above to popularize the idea so few non physicists grasp it. Here we are discussing referents when the entire universe came from nothing. If you can do it with the entire freaking universe you can do it with anything else. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 5:52 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 5:29 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
On 13/04/2023 04:49, Giovanni Santostasi wrote:<br>
> I want to make a correction to Ben's statement that is Turtles all the <br>
> way down. The Turtles go deep but not all the way down. It stops in a <br>
> place similar to the way we derive set theory from the null set.<br>
<br>
Hm, that's interesting. I was thinking about information (in the brain <br>
specifically, and other similar machines), and that the informational <br>
turtles go round in big complex loops, where every piece of information <br>
is relative to other pieces of information, so in that sense there'd be <br>
no end.<br>
<br>
In the wider world, though, I'm sure you're right. I tried to read about <br>
information theory, conservation of information, etc., but it just <br>
bamboozles me. The idea of the total energy (and presumably, <br>
information) in the universe being zero does make sense, though (erm, <br>
provided there can be such a thing as 'anti-information'?).<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps that's entropy (uncertainty)? A coin flip, for example, has entropy of 1 bit.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Heisenberg uncertainty principle shows us the more information we learn about some properties of a system, the more we must unlearn (make uncertain) other aspects of that system.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Information is sometimes described by physicists as negative entropy. QM shows that learning information (acquiring negative entropy) requires an equal creation of more uncertainty (entropy). So in a way the conversation of information might be the deeper principle behind the second law of thermodynamics and the conservation of energy. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>
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