Sunday, November 23, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
unification
As things move forward through time, they lose energy. This entropy is an increase in complexity. Thought processes suffer from an increase in complexity as well; take as a simple example the counting of the whole numbers starting from 1. Every prime encountered along the way is a major increase in complexity.
Life is the process of architecting a solution to the multidimensional prediction problem of how to continue life.
Life uses information flow to optimize its fight against entropy.
Information flow may be accomplished using resonance of spinning fields with one another. Resonance may be the way to solve the uncertainty problem; a system may be measured but not interfered with if we have another system achieve resonance with it and then measure the second system.
Imagine a unification of Einstein, Godel, Heisenberg, and ... Tesla.
Arkowitz
Life is the process of architecting a solution to the multidimensional prediction problem of how to continue life.
Life uses information flow to optimize its fight against entropy.
Information flow may be accomplished using resonance of spinning fields with one another. Resonance may be the way to solve the uncertainty problem; a system may be measured but not interfered with if we have another system achieve resonance with it and then measure the second system.
Imagine a unification of Einstein, Godel, Heisenberg, and ... Tesla.
Arkowitz
Friday, November 14, 2008
Heisenberg and Language
I've been reading Werner Heisenberg's book Physics and Philosophy: the Revolution in Modern Science. He talks about how language is necessary for science. Until now science has used two languages: natural language and mathematics.
Now we have a new tool: programming languages. A programming language combines the precision of mathematics with the expressiveness of natural language and can be used to create a perceivable manifestation of a model; this allows the communication of concepts and models without need for language at all. This is a virtual world.
One may say that whatever we do with computers will suffer from "finiteness" and predictability not reflective of the real world, and that a computer program may be defined mathematically. I respond that the network introduces chance into the picture. Is it possible to always predict accurately what a ping time will be? I don't think so.
I think we have the ingredients for something significant.
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I've been thinking about a definition of Architecture which applies to computer science and IT as well as to physical projects such as buildings and bridges. Here's what I've come up with:
Architecture is the creation of a set of rules which, when followed by a group of actors, results in the construction of something persistent.
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Ever notice that the only metaphors we have for the workings of our minds are the machines we have constructed? Switches and gears...
Arkowitz
Now we have a new tool: programming languages. A programming language combines the precision of mathematics with the expressiveness of natural language and can be used to create a perceivable manifestation of a model; this allows the communication of concepts and models without need for language at all. This is a virtual world.
One may say that whatever we do with computers will suffer from "finiteness" and predictability not reflective of the real world, and that a computer program may be defined mathematically. I respond that the network introduces chance into the picture. Is it possible to always predict accurately what a ping time will be? I don't think so.
I think we have the ingredients for something significant.
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I've been thinking about a definition of Architecture which applies to computer science and IT as well as to physical projects such as buildings and bridges. Here's what I've come up with:
Architecture is the creation of a set of rules which, when followed by a group of actors, results in the construction of something persistent.
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Ever notice that the only metaphors we have for the workings of our minds are the machines we have constructed? Switches and gears...
Arkowitz
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