Ljubljana Dialogues         "Self- Emersive Universe"        by

It is an honor for me to be with you today, in this very Non-Local way.  I hope to be available on line during and after the webpages presentation so the dialogue process can reinforce our perceptions and ideas of the essence of "sentience": intimate communication and unshakable access - in potential and in fact.    The program coordinator in the room with you can pace screen changes as we go along.   . . . .
                                                   

Our Universe is a seemless whole, an entity fully responsive to its own being.   Human sentience is but a small window, a representative of the transcendent processes that complete and fill infinitely nested and accessible dimensions.  And we are fortunate explorers of that accessability and of the techniques and experiences of 'connection'.  The window may be narrow, but the vistas are literally hyperinfinite and awe inspiring.  In fact, we are entering an era when the troublesome "unwanted infinities" which masked the systemic behavioral patterns we once searched out, must be embraced again.  They are not irrelevant noise but an information vastness which we must rise in competency to deal with .     Simplicity may be "clarity", but embellishment is the texture, fullness and satisfaction of Being and Life.

The conference Proceedings contain one version of my paper "The Emersive Universe, a Self-Sentient Topology".  In it I place stress on descriptively redefining  Entropy.  I believe that that  gradient is innate within the topological architecture of dimensionality, being more primal than the "fundamental forces".  It is inseparable from the continuums of spacetime, even though humanity first recognized it simply as - changing distributions of matter and energy within that spacetime.  With a broad brush interpretation, entropy is seen as being the active inducer of negentropy, because actions are not isolated within existence.  Entropy is a relational tendency of systemic components. not just a gradient of energy.  Differentials, changes -- whether part of the matrix of spacetime itself, or, relative to entities that roam and interaffect such spacetime -- will affect the behavior-spaces  of each other's matrices and entities and even the topology of spacetime, in ways that cannot be avoided. 

All is dynamically bound with all.   "Interactions" are entropic re-distributions of information and energy.   They are behavior streams which causally induce assembly of other behavior streams, and negentropically conjoin behaviors.  The plurality of systems which "survive" are those which have the lattitude to encounter and even thrive on the outcomes of specific encounters.  Enacting the potential "to be".

In the broadest condition then, what is the best criteria for sentience, for the qualia of self-ness within companion environment?   It must be this:

Can a system be constantly open to information input and adjust its own behaviors and activities to conform with changing conditions ... internal and external to itself?

There is no restriction to living or non-living in this question.  The only limitations are:  adequacies of integration and accessability.   A universe which is wholely functionally accessible -- immediately or eventually, locally or non-locally, mechanistically or transcendently -- satisfies that criteria both in piece and in whole and without prejudice for forms employed. 

Whether driven by quantum fluctuations or decompressing symmetries, real felt forces - real qualia  - emerse from codified transduced "potential".    Every change in dimensional organization produces newer and more exotic forms of experiential qualia .. which may be unpredictive from their sources, but which must play by the same rules set forth for all.   Ie, the mechanisms may be techniques and venues apart, but they function by the same few relationships.   Which relationships are in fact the "objective" aspects of existence, because they exist inseparably as part of every subjective example of action, being, form and function.

Of all the topics and information which science deals with -- and which the Undivided Bohm~Hiley Universe focuses on -- none is more significant than the integrating notion of communication~involvement. Everything else, without exception, is technique. Whether classical, quantum, explicate, implicate or super-implicate, the essence which pervades everything is: interaffectiveness among extants. We may attend to direct transformations, coded transformations, transductions, translations, transferences, transmutations, transitions, locality/nonlocality, emergence, holographics, and so on, yet, when we come down to it, the one dynamic quality we are concerned with is: 'being' impacting 'being' ... entanglement ... behaviors of shared influence among existential companions.

Whether divined as ‘metaphors’, models, paradigms or world-views, the things we explore are the architectures and dynamics and experiences of communication. And our concern is with more than just instantaneous or immediate events and transactions, it is with the streaming flows of being, the access fields and all available potentials - proximity in time as well as space, in possibility as well as fulfilled action, locally and non-locally.

This connectivity runs so deeply that Bohm believed that the universe is not just causal but hypercausal, not just deterministic but super-deterministic, because in architecture and dynamics access is the supreme relationship embedded in existence. Before metaphor, before correlation, before structure, dynamics or mechanisms, existence is the enactment of ‘relationships’. This is the First Emergent, the primal Quality.   It underscores explicate and implicate ... and everything else possible in the domain of Being.   The linguist Benjamin Whorf educed this from Einsteinian Relativity.  Not only is information malleable - relative in the sense of 'variable/mutable', but it is also relative in the sense of 'intimately related together'. He hinted at this in 1936 by stating that observations, ideas, languages "can in someway be calibrated."

The closing words of that statement rely on there being an essential structure to our universe which enables translation and correspondence, no matter how distant the notions or what seeming barriers there might be.

It is essential that we comprehend the absoluteness of this notion. This is because it ultimately guides us to a total model of existence, so complete in its specification, that it impacts topology, Godel, Bohm, and every aspect of existence - from primal structure out through all elaborations and expressions - including life, mind, and the valuable potential of what may be ‘non’-existent at any moment yet 'possible' under amendable open conditions and variables. Our actions, thoughts, projections and most intimate and social communications are exploratory expressions within which we "discover", simply because the universe is built to commune - in profound innate self-sentient dialogue, and in performance of the connectiveness of extensive possibilities. In the simplest sense, to be "accessible to 'calibration'", is to be living party to Lorentzian transformations of the most complex design and actualization. The challenge of this concept requires that we totally re-appraise what we have assumed by convention. It prompts us to ask new questions, like, "What general aspects do all information systems share - fundamentally?", and, "Can we discover a model so complete that it might even include a rationale for our motivation to search for such knowledge at all?"

Parenthetically, I apologize,  as I hadn't planned on quite so drawn out an opening.  The following webpages will try to give you in static diagrams and crisp sentences a juggler's environment of geometric relationships which indicate some interesting connections and re-appraisals of what we know and what we can know.  The thought thread is "access" and "connection".

I will start with Apollonius, who was a contemporary of Pythagorus.  There are relational considerations within one of his general theorems, which in my estimation places him as the great ancestor of String Theory and Super-Symmetry.  If he didn't understand the implications of his work, it is not past us to recognize that he stands shoulder to shoulder with Pythagorus.  He affords us a special insight which will have far reaching impacts on human evolution and achievements - pragmatically and possibly even spiritually. 

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