[Fis] WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?!

Wed Mar 1 07:29:11 CET 2017

Cari Pedro e tutti,
a mio modesto giudizio l'unico principio-concetto comune  del mondo
organico e inorganico è l'INFORMAZIONE nei suoi diversi tipi, La creatività
o discontinuità o mutazione è figlia della vitale o neg-entropica
asimmetria armonica o della neg-entropica o vitale  armonia asimmetrica.
L'equilibrio, più invenzione dell'uomo che della natura, è entropico o
mortale.
Un abbraccio.
Francesco

2017-02-28 19:01 GMT+01:00 Dave Kirkland <dkirkland at btinternet.com>:

> Dear Arturo Tozzi and FISers
> Thank you for your *very* interesting ideas. For me they raise more
> questions:
> Why did the number of cosmic symmetries ever *start* diminishing?
> Could the whole process be eternally cyclical?
> I like your respectful use of capital letters.
> My mind boggles.
> Best rgds
> David
>
> On 24 Feb 2017, at 15:24, tozziarturo at libero.it wrote:
>
> Dear FISers,
>
> hi!
>
> A possible novel discussion (if you like it, of course!):
>
>
> *A SYMMETRY-BASED ACCOUNT OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION*
>
> After the Big Bang, a gradual increase in thermodynamic entropy is
> occurring in our Universe (Ellwanger, 2012).  Because of the relationships
> between entropy and symmetries (Roldán et al., 2014), the number of
> cosmic symmetries, the highest possible at the very start, is declining as
> time passes.  Here the evolution of living beings comes into play.  Life is
> a space-limited increase of energy and complexity, and therefore of
> symmetries.  The evolution proceeds towards more complex systems (Chaisson,
> 2010), until more advanced forms of life able to artificially increase the
> symmetries of the world.  Indeed, the human brains’ cognitive abilities not
> just think objects and events more complex than the physical ones existing
> in Nature, but build highly symmetric crafts too.  For example, human
> beings can watch a rough stone, imagine an amygdala and build it from the
> same stone.  Humankind is able, through its ability to manipulate tools and
> technology, to produce objects (and ideas, i.e., equations) with complexity
> levels higher than the objects and systems encompassed in the pre-existing
> physical world.  Therefore, human beings are naturally built by evolution
> in order to increase the number of environmental symmetries.  This is in
> touch with recent claims, suggesting that the brain is equipped with a
> number of functional and anatomical dimensions higher than the 3D
> environment (Peters et al., 2017).  Intentionality, typical of the living
> beings and in particular of the human mind, may be seen as a mechanism able
> to increase symmetries.  As Dante Alighieri stated (*Hell,* *XXVI,
> 118-120*), “y*ou were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue
> and knowledge*”.
>
> In touch with Spencer’s (1860) and Tyler’s (1881) claims, it looks like
> evolutionary mechanisms tend to achieve increases in environmental
> complexity, and therefore symmetries (Tozzi and Peters, 2017).  Life is
> produced in our Universe in order to restore the initial lost symmetries.
> At the beginning of life, increases in symmetries are just local, e.g.,
> they are related to the environmental niches where the living beings are
> placed.  However, in long timescales, they might be extended to the whole
> Universe.  For example, Homo sapiens, in just 250.000 years, has been able
> to build the Large Hadron Collider, where artificial physical processes
> make an effort to approximate the initial symmetric state of the Universe.
> Therefore, life is a sort of gauge field (Sengupta et al., 2016), e.g., a
> combination of forces and fields that try to counterbalance and restore, in
> very long timescales, the original cosmic symmetries, lost after the Big
> Bang.  Due to physical issues, the “homeostatic” cosmic gauge field must be
> continuous, e.g., life must stand, proliferate and increase in complexity
> over very long timescales.  This is the reason why every living being has
> an innate tendency towards self-preservation and proliferation.  With the
> death, continuity is broken. This talks in favor of intelligent life
> scattered everywhere in the Universe: if a few species get extinct, others
> might continue to proliferate and evolve in remote planets, in order to
> pursue the goal of the final symmetric restoration.   In touch with long
> timescales’ requirements, it must be kept into account that life has been
> set up after a long gestation: a childbearing which encompasses the cosmic
> birth of fermions, then atoms, then stars able to produce the more
> sophisticated matter (metals) required for molecular life.
>
> A symmetry-based framework gives rise to two opposite feelings, by our
> standpoint of human beings.  On one side, we achieve the final answer to
> long-standing questions: “*why are we here?*”, “*Why does the evolution
> act in such a way?*”, an answer that reliefs our most important concerns
> and gives us a *sense*; on the other side, however, this framework does
> not give us any hope: we are just micro-systems programmed in order to
> contribute to restore a partially “broken” macro-system.  And, in case we
> succeed in restoring, through our mathematical abstract thoughts and
> craftsmanship, the initial symmetries, we are nevertheless doomed to die:
> indeed, the environment equipped with the starting symmetries does not
> allow the presence of life.
>
>
>
> *REFERENCES*
>
> 1)       Chaisson EJ. 2010.  Energy Rate Density as a Complexity Metric
> and Evolutionary Driver.  Complexity, v 16, p 27, 2011; DOI:
> 10.1002/cplx.20323.
>
> 2)       Ellwanger U.  2012.  From the Universe to the Elementary
> Particles.  A First Introduction to Cosmology and the Fundamental
> Interactions.  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.  ISBN 978-3-642-24374-5.
>
> 3)       Peters JF, Ramanna S, Tozzi A, Inan E.  2017.  Frontiers Hum
> Neurosci.  BOLD-independent computational entropy assesses functional
> donut-like structures in brain fMRI image.  doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00038.
>
> 4)       Sengupta B, Tozzi A, Coray GK, Douglas PK, Friston KJ. 2016.
> Towards a Neuronal Gauge Theory.  PLOS Biology 14 (3): e1002400.
> doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002400.
>
> 5)       Spencer H.  1860.  System of Synthetic Philosophy.
>
> 6)       Roldán E, Martínez IA, Parrondo JMR, Petrov D. 2014.  Universal
> features in the energetics of symmetry breaking. *Nat. Phys. 10*, 457–461.
>
> 7)       Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2017.  Towards Topological Mechanisms
> Underlying Experience Acquisition and Transmission in the Human Brain.
> J.F. Integr. psych. behav.  doi:10.1007/s12124-017-9380-z
>
> 8)       Tyler EB. 1881.  Anthropology: an Introduction to the Study of
> Man and Civilization.
>
>
>
>
> *Arturo Tozzi*
>
> AA Professor Physics, University North Texas
>
> Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy
>
> Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba
>
> http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/
>
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