qnfo

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Draft pre-print of Infomatics Chapter 7, a graduate-level study of information-theoretic principles applicable to classical and quantum physics paradigms. Full working draft at https://qnfo.org/releases/2025/Infomatics/Infomatics

 

Drivel (noun): 1. Saliva flowing from the mouth. 2. Stupid or senseless talk. –American Heritage Dictionary

 

Reality is an Information System—And Physics Has Been Lying to You

[–] qnfo@futurology.today 0 points 3 months ago

Again, fair point. These "journalists" know very little about what they're reporting on.

[–] qnfo@futurology.today -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Argue with the authors of the study. That's what they found. Physics can't explain quite a lot of things in our physical universe.

 

"The next Einstein will not scribble E=mc² on a napkin but publish a blockchain thread showing 10,000 ways to demolish the idea first."

[–] qnfo@futurology.today 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You should be. Is there a particular reason why?

I'm not a neuroscientist so there's a lot about human biology and cognition I still don't understand (and apparently neither do some neuroscientists), but still have great confidence in my own related research without ever having dissected a human brain.

[–] qnfo@futurology.today -4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've come full circle on the "create consciousness" part. What we're talking about here is quantum mechanics entanglement to exchange information that would not propagate as efficiently through physics alone (keep in mind that "quantum" is a synonym for "information," not "particles")

[–] qnfo@futurology.today -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd make a friendly amendment here that "quantum" really isn't an "object" but intangible attributes/properties that manifest in our physical reality, such DNA as the code for biologic systems.

[–] qnfo@futurology.today -1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Very fair point and I have a biased interest in confirming this outcome given my research in quantum computing but it irks me endlessly that science has devolved to something like marketing and confirmation bias.

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Penrose for the win!

[–] qnfo@futurology.today -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your unqualified opinion. Physics hasn't managed to solve its problems and gets caught up in its own illogical contradictions (string theory, dark matter, quantum foam, really?!) so what's wrong with metaphysics?

Quantization is part of the problem: it's a limitation of our measurement construct not an underlying truth of the universe. I'd gladly share additional research but it seems you've already made up your mind, so I can't force you not to remain ignorant.

 

The next revolution in physics will not discover new particles but refine our informational constructs to capture finer scales. When we do, the Big Bang’s “mystery,” photons’ “duality,” and black holes’ “singularities” will be seen as artifacts of resolution, not reality.

 

Our daily experience presents time as a unidirectional flow, an apparent fundamental aspect of reality. However, within the principles of Information Dynamics, this perceived arrow of time is understood not as a fundamental law, but as an emergent statistical property.

Consider the sequence of an egg transitioning from an intact state to a broken one. This progression represents a change in information. We consistently observe this transformation but never its spontaneous reversal. The reason lies in the concept of entropy, a measure of disorder within a system. An intact egg represents a relatively ordered state, while a broken egg embodies a multitude of disordered configurations. Statistically, disordered states are significantly more probable. The number of ways an egg can be broken is vast, leading to a high-entropy state, whereas the number of ways it can be perfectly whole, a low-entropy state, is limited.

Our perception of time's forward direction aligns with this statistical bias. The natural evolution of information states tends toward higher entropy due to the greater probability of such states. Observing an egg break is witnessing a transition from a less probable, ordered state to a far more probable, disordered one. This progression defines the temporal order we perceive.

At a fundamental level within Information Dynamics, the transitions between information states are considered symmetric. The underlying dynamics, potentially arising from an ineffable universal information, do not inherently favor a transition from order to disorder at the most basic level. However, the sheer preponderance of high-entropy states creates an overwhelming statistical tendency in that direction. Furthermore, our macroscopic observation, which doesn't capture the reversible movements at a molecular level, reinforces this unidirectional perception of time.

Thus, from the perspective of Information Dynamics, the arrow of time, as clearly demonstrated by the example of a broken egg, emerges not as a foundational principle, but as a statistical consequence of the inherent probabilities governing the evolution of information states within the universe.

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