Born to do Math 114 - Double Duty in a Minecraft World (1)
Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner
April 1, 2019
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Let's touch base on the flexibility of information, the flexibility of an information processor view.
Rick Rosner: What we have been talking about since we have been talking about 4 years ago - ? - is the idea that the universe is made of information, you cannot really have a universe of information without it being an information processor with a lot of shared characteristics with the information processors that are our minds.
You can make a decent argument that the universe is a vast mind-like information processor. But, of course, we don't experience it that way since we experience the information as spacetime and matter. That means the universe is doing double duty.
It is something looking like contained information in an information processor. That's one hand. Another that it is spacetime and matter from which we have originated. It has galaxies, stars, and the apparent history of 15 billion years.
But we think it is a lot longer than that. Anyway, the universe is doing double duty. Which the naive assumption that we made is that every event that happens in the universe, e.g., an atom emitting a photon or another atom absorbing a photon, or hydrogen fusing into helium in the interior of a star.
All of that stuff - planets forming. All of that stuff has a specific meaning in the information world as if the events happening to matter are registering on a magic 8 ball. Every event that happens is the answer to a question in the information universe.
That seems like a huge task informationally. That everything that happens, all of the quintillions of micro-events in the universe correspond to information events - I would assume somewhat often macro-information-events in the information universe.
Lately, I have been thinking that, maybe, that doesn't have to be so. This is my first stab at an analogy. So, it is not very good. In a Minecraft universe, everything has to fit together very specifically. If you're going to make a sculpture of a horse in a Minecraft universe, you have to fit blocks together very specifically.
Unless, you get sloppy. But you're not allowed to get sloppy. The rules of Minecraft, as Lego sculpture has become more complex, people have learned workarounds to achieve more effects with legos, sticking things together in ways that aren't really according to the Lego rules of interlocking blocks - ways to cheat at legos.
I do not know if you can do that with Minecraft. I do not play Minecraft. Anyway, you get the point. Things have to stick together in very systematized ways.
Rick Rosner: What we have been talking about since we have been talking about 4 years ago - ? - is the idea that the universe is made of information, you cannot really have a universe of information without it being an information processor with a lot of shared characteristics with the information processors that are our minds.
You can make a decent argument that the universe is a vast mind-like information processor. But, of course, we don't experience it that way since we experience the information as spacetime and matter. That means the universe is doing double duty.
It is something looking like contained information in an information processor. That's one hand. Another that it is spacetime and matter from which we have originated. It has galaxies, stars, and the apparent history of 15 billion years.
But we think it is a lot longer than that. Anyway, the universe is doing double duty. Which the naive assumption that we made is that every event that happens in the universe, e.g., an atom emitting a photon or another atom absorbing a photon, or hydrogen fusing into helium in the interior of a star.
All of that stuff - planets forming. All of that stuff has a specific meaning in the information world as if the events happening to matter are registering on a magic 8 ball. Every event that happens is the answer to a question in the information universe.
That seems like a huge task informationally. That everything that happens, all of the quintillions of micro-events in the universe correspond to information events - I would assume somewhat often macro-information-events in the information universe.
Lately, I have been thinking that, maybe, that doesn't have to be so. This is my first stab at an analogy. So, it is not very good. In a Minecraft universe, everything has to fit together very specifically. If you're going to make a sculpture of a horse in a Minecraft universe, you have to fit blocks together very specifically.
Unless, you get sloppy. But you're not allowed to get sloppy. The rules of Minecraft, as Lego sculpture has become more complex, people have learned workarounds to achieve more effects with legos, sticking things together in ways that aren't really according to the Lego rules of interlocking blocks - ways to cheat at legos.
I do not know if you can do that with Minecraft. I do not play Minecraft. Anyway, you get the point. Things have to stick together in very systematized ways.
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Authors[1]
Rick Rosner
American Television Writer
RickRosner@Hotmail.Com
Rick Rosner
(Updated March 7, 2019)
According to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writers Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry.
He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmys, The Grammys, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He worked as a bouncer, a nude art model, a roller-skating waiter, and a stripper. In a television commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the "World’s Smartest Man." The commercial was taken off the air after Subway sandwiches issued a cease-and-desist. He was named "Best Bouncer" in the Denver Area, Colorado, by Westwood Magazine.
Rosner spent much of the late Disco Era as an undercover high school student. In addition, he spent 25 years as a bar bouncer and American fake ID-catcher, and 25+ years as a stripper, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He came in second or lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a flawed question and lost the lawsuit. He won one game and lost one game on Are You Smarter Than a Drunk Person? (He was drunk). Finally, he spent 37+ years working on a time invariant variation of the Big Bang Theory.
Currently, Rosner sits tweeting in a bathrobe (winter) or a towel (summer). He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, dog, and goldfish. He and his wife have a daughter. You can send him money or questions at LanceversusRick@Gmail.Com, or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn, or see him on YouTube.
Scott Douglas Jacobsen
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In-Sight Publishing
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen founded In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal and In-Sight Publishing. He authored/co-authored some e-books, free or low-cost. If you want to contact Scott: Scott.D.Jacobsen@Gmail.com, Scott.Jacobsen@TrustedClothes.Com, Scott@ConatusNews.Com, scott.jacobsen@probc.ca, Scott@Karmik.Ca, or SJacobsen@AlmasJiwaniFoundation.Org.
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