Ask A Genius 667: IC Since 21
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2022/01/09
[Recording Start]
Rick Rosner: For the past eight years, we’ve been discussing the concept of Informational Cosmology (IC), and personally, I’ve been contemplating it since I was 21. That’s when I first had more than just a hint of its significance. So, essentially, I’ve devoted 40 years to pondering these ideas. However, my latest thoughts revolve around whether an armature is necessary to sustain the material – the information manifested as space-time and the material world. My current line of reasoning suggests that the space-time and material world are consistent from a quantum mechanical standpoint. Essentially, everything exists moment to moment in a world governed by quantum mechanics, without contradiction. These contradictions are kept at bay, which is necessary for the world’s existence. Since the world does exist, we can assume it does so without contradictions. But is this lack of contradiction adequate? Under the framework of IC, we believe our mind is mathematically describable and resembles the universe. We acknowledge that our minds wouldn’t exist without our brains, which serve as the hardware supporting our mental processes. But is this arrangement obligatory? Can an information world exist without needing something external, separate from that universe, to act as the hardware supporting these information states? This is still unclear to me. I believe people will eventually ponder and debate this, which leads to a second question that could significantly challenge the validity of IC. If there isn’t an external, physical armature or hardware world to support the information as the material world, does the information need to be about anything other than the relationships defining the universe itself? We understand that our universe, and presumably any conceivable universe, contains information that defines everything within it to the extent it can be defined, considering it’s a finite universe governed by quantum mechanics. Reasonably, in a finite world, things won’t be infinitely defined. They will be somewhat indistinct due to the finite amount of information available about everything in the universe. So, these are the two questions I’m presenting tonight. Essentially, does the universe need to be about anything other than itself? And is an external support universe necessary – a hardware to store the information that allows the existence of the universe as a construct of matter, space, and time?
[Recording End]
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