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

Wed Mar 1 11:38:58 CET 2017

Dear David:
No symmetry ever started diminishing.
Take care,Otto

      From: Dave Kirkland <dkirkland at btinternet.com>
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Dear Arturo Tozzi and FISersThank 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 rgdsDavid
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 inthermodynamic entropy is occurring in our Universe (Ellwanger, 2012).  Because of the relationships between entropyand symmetries (Roldán et al., 2014), thenumber of cosmic symmetries, the highest possible at the very start, is decliningas time passes.  Here the evolution ofliving beings comes into play.  Life is aspace-limited increase of energy and complexity, and therefore ofsymmetries.  The evolution proceedstowards more complex systems (Chaisson, 2010), until more advanced forms oflife able to artificially increase the symmetries of the world.  Indeed, the human brains’ cognitive abilitiesnot just think objects and events more complex than the physical ones existingin Nature, but build highly symmetric crafts too.  For example, human beings can watch a roughstone, imagine an amygdala and build it from the same stone.  Humankind is able, through its ability to manipulatetools and technology, to produce objects (and ideas, i.e., equations) with complexitylevels higher than the objects and systems encompassed in the pre-existingphysical world.  Therefore, human beingsare naturally built by evolution in order to increase the number of environmentalsymmetries.  This is in touch with recentclaims, suggesting that the brain is equipped with a number of functional and anatomicaldimensions higher than the 3D environment (Peters et al., 2017).  Intentionality, typical of the living beingsand in particular of the human mind, may be seen as a mechanism able toincrease symmetries.  As Dante Alighieristated (Hell, XXVI, 118-120), “you were notmade 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 environmentalcomplexity, and therefore symmetries (Tozzi and Peters, 2017).  Life is produced in our Universe in order torestore the initial lost symmetries.  Atthe beginning of life, increases in symmetries are just local, e.g., they arerelated to the environmental niches where the living beings are placed.  However, in long timescales, they might beextended to the whole Universe.  Forexample, Homo sapiens, in just 250.000 years, has been able to build the Large HadronCollider, where artificial physical processes make an effort to approximate theinitial 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, invery long timescales, the original cosmic symmetries, lost after the Big Bang.  Due to physical issues, the “homeostatic” cosmicgauge field must be continuous, e.g., life must stand, proliferate and increasein complexity over very long timescales. This is the reason why every living being has an innate tendency towardsself-preservation and proliferation. With the death, continuity is broken. This talks in favor of intelligentlife scattered everywhere in the Universe: if a few species get extinct, othersmight continue to proliferate and evolve in remote planets, in order to pursuethe 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, thenstars able to produce the more sophisticated matter (metals) required formolecular life.   A symmetry-based framework gives rise to two oppositefeelings, 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 reliefsour most important concerns and gives us a sense;on the other side, however, this framework does not give us any hope: we arejust micro-systems programmed in order to contribute to restore a partially“broken” macro-system.  And, in case wesucceed in restoring, through our mathematical abstract thoughts andcraftsmanship, the initial symmetries, we are nevertheless doomed to die:indeed, the environment equipped with the starting symmetries does not allowthe presence of life. REFERENCES1)      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 theElementary Particles.  A FirstIntroduction 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-likestructures 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 GaugeTheory.  PLOS Biology 14 (3): e1002400.doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002400.5)       Spencer H. 1860.  System of SyntheticPhilosophy.  6)      Roldán E, Martínez IA, Parrondo JMR, PetrovD. 2014.  Universalfeatures in the energetics of symmetry breaking. Nat. Phys. 10, 457–461.7)      Tozzi A, Peters JF.  2017. Towards Topological Mechanisms Underlying Experience Acquisition andTransmission in the Human Brain.  J.F.Integr. psych. behav. doi:10.1007/s12124-017-9380-z8)       Tyler EB. 1881. Anthropology: an Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilization. 

Arturo TozziAA Professor Physics, University North TexasPediatrician ASL Na2Nord, ItalyComput Intell Lab, University Manitobahttp://arturotozzi.webnode.it/ 

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