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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"
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The Universe as
the Messenger One pervasive
property of the universe and everything that exists is communication. Things
communicate all the time. The Austrian
physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, held in great consideration by
Einstein, had a vision
of the universe that proved influential on all 20th century Physics. Newtondefined inertial systems as systems which are not subject to any
force. They move at constant or null speed. Systems that are accelerated are
not inertial and, by magic, strange forces ("inertial forces") appear
in them. Machrealized that all systems are subject to
interactions with the rest of the universe and redefined inertial systems as
systems which are not accelerated in the frame of fixed stars (basically, in
the frame of the rest of the universe). The inertia of a body is due to its
interaction with the rest of the matter in the universe. Mach's principle implies that all
things communicate with all other things all the time. This universe appears to
be built on messages. The dynamics of
the universe is determined to a large extent by the messages that are exchanged
between its parts (whether you look at the level of RNA, synapses or
gravitation). Things
communicate. It is just their nature to communicate. More: their interactions
determine what happens next. Things communicate in order to happen. Life
happens because of communication. We think because of communications. If all is due to
messages, a theory of the universe should de-couple the message from the
messenger. Messages can be
studied by defining their "languages". Maybe, just maybe, instead of
sciences like Physics and Biology we should focus on the "language"
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