CHAPTER 1
Alternative Culture And Time Appropriateness…
The core scientific world of theoretical physics always talks in terms of what is Fundamental to Reality. The domain of the building blocks of Reality is about what is fundamental or what we may call as ‘elemental’ for Reality. Most scientists accept that Time is not fundamental. It is primarily temporal, ‘personal’ and subjectively intuitive for humans. Therefore, for objective Reality, Time, as average human perceives, is an Illusion, which suggests, it has to be ‘unlearnt’ and a new scientifically objective realism of Time needs to be ‘learnt’ and accepted by new humanity in the new millennium.
What about culture? We can say with definitive certainty that like Time, the culture is also an abstract and non-fundamental element of Reality. What we popularly construe of culture is a function of or product of the collective and cooperative cognition of Reality. Like the intuitive and populist perception and feel of Time, that of the culture is also temporally and subjectively perceived intuitive cognition of a collection of elements, physical as well as psychological. Both Time and Culture, in their populist-intuitive avatar are microcosmic representation of a macrocosmic reality. It is seemingly all about metaphors. We need to deliberate the issues in details to have a clear understanding.
Science of Reality has been a fantastic journey of humanity. Especially in the new millennium, the progression of unraveling the fundamental building blocks of Reality has been mesmerizing. No doubt, they are not the final words (may never be) and still evolving; still, how the new knowledge of structures and functions of Reality has opened the doors of probabilistic non-intuitive cognitions for larger humanity is colossal and hugely impacting to how we all should accept Reality. It has its definitive stamp on the probabilities of future excellence for humanity.
We can say with enough satisfaction of earned humility that gradually, collective human knowledge is moving confidently towards the singular building block of Reality. Somehow, everything probably needs emancipation from rigors of one’s own engendered discipline. Physics; probably also needs to break free of its insistence on self-sustained metaphors of physicality, which it seems to be moving towards. It seems, this new millennium Fundamental element of Reality is – Information.
The trouble here is the same – we probably cannot understand the Holism and Entirety of the idea of the fundamental nature of the element of Information with the usual and populist Intuitive consciousness and cognition. This has been the trouble of humanity and its cultures, throughout the ages and shall always remain so, until humanity evolves alternatively. Here, there is better likelihood that if we do not define Information in a few words and instead leave the idea to be expanded and persevered with all along the eBook, we shall have ease and facility in unraveling the novel and alternative idea of Information. This way, we probably can bypass the trap of intuitiveness. Do kindly allow me to opt the later choice for you…
The central and cardinal idea of contemporary science of reality is that for all realities, the fundamental element may be considered as Information. This must always be accepted as a hypothesis; a perspective or a probability through which we may humbly attempt to unravel and decipher the colossal cosmic holism of Reality. This information at macrocosmic levels is what the universe can be construed to be fundamentally made of. For theoretical purpose, it will probably be appropriate if we consider; like all other approaches to Reality, Information also as a metaphor or representation of a Reality. There is a new alternative approach to theoretical physics, which probably for the first time accepts that certain building blocks of reality may not be ‘possible’ for physics. Therefore, they have come up with alternative inquisition, different in dimensions from what modern physics have asked so far. The idea is to have better understanding of Reality, through knowledge of alternative aspects and shifting the ‘Context’ of cognition, which are possible and easily explainable for physics. Information perspective may be alternative ‘context’.
Therefore, we can say, even while fundamental building block of reality is accepted as Information, it may not always be possible to decipher all the causalities, the information engenders, which then construct the physics of Reality. However, what we all know and can accept is the hypothesis that Information and its Causalities innately seek ‘Media’ to express itself as perceivable reality. Why So? What we can accept as the basis of this hypothesis that information innately seeks Media? What is the basis and ontology of this ‘innateness’ and ‘inevitability’?
We cannot say with scientific definitiveness! Nothing about Reality is finality; as yet. Even the ‘parts’, which science says it knows, about the ‘holism’ of Reality, may be only metaphoric – a representation of the Media of Consciousness. However, we sure can lend support from scientific philosophization. We can say that may be, the Information itself is the innate and entrenched basis of Gravity; in its entirety and holism. The Matter and Energy, in that sense can be considered a ‘Media’ of Information. The Media in turn creates Reality, which is possible for physics to unravel. Is it too much and too preposterous a presumption to digest!
We do not wish to go into details of hardcore scientific description of this hypothesis about information and media. Our purpose is restricted to hypothesis building for a probable metaphor of Reality, which could lead us to understand how probabilistic the world of Reality could be and how it necessitates non-intuitive cognition for acceptance of Reality in its holism. However, for the sake of understanding and clarity of this hypothesis, we may accept a probable scientific philosophy, so that we may proceed with poised acceptance. What we may consider, as a scientific philosophy, is that pre-Big Bang, everything was neither deterministic nor possibilistic as there probably was no information. We can also say that it was a state of Information being exclusively probabilistic with zero specificity as nothingness-somethingness-everythigness were all just one-entity at the unimaginable yet metaphoric ‘pointedness’ of Reality. This situation; at least metaphorically, be likened to our birth; seconds after we come out of womb and just begin to breathe. The ‘Zero-Infinity’ probabilism-determinism is like the ‘pointedness’ of reality, as metaphorically accepted at the time of Big Bang. Some however believe, information may survive in Black Holes and permeate its boundaries. Still, we can accept that Information happened after the Big Bang as some elements of probabilism began to take shape.
This probably installed the ‘primeval dualism’ – the emergent elements of specificity of somethingness of Information beginning to play around the larger sphere of hugely randomized probabilism. It probably also created the seeds of Entropy as primary elements of emergent-transient specificity began to interact with encompassing but itself evolving sphere of hugely high energy probabilism. This dualism probably was the soil, which kept the crop of Information growing in mass and magnitude. The microwave background provided the soil for the seed of specificity to grow the first crop of ‘specificity’ of Information. This, we can say, engendered the first plan of determinism. Deterministic elements and commensurate dimension probably take shape only when the Information attains specificity.
For the sake of clarity, we can say that it is like we are always muffled up by a sphere of air all around us. When the air has no Information, it is not expressed and we do not feel air around us. However, when there is high heat at some part of the vast landscape and heated light air lifts up, the cooler air mass from surrounding areas gush in to fill in the vacant space. It is the heat energy, which creates a dimension of gradient, which is the Information, the air mass follows. This information is physical but emergent, specific information. As this happens, wind starts and this Information is then expressed and communicated by so many elements in nature – the tree leaves, the dust, the clouds, smoke, etc. The specificity of Information is the deterministic element of the ‘gradient’ the ambient energy creates and installs. As this Information happens, different media come to live it and Reality emerges, even though they were already there. The energy is element of Information; as it communicates to the media of mass. Hypothetically, it may be said that in the cosmic microwave background, the ‘specificities’ began to happen and the Information began to take deterministic ‘Forms’. The Gravity in this context may metaphorically be accepted as criticality of specificity, which in turn induces different Media to live out the emergent Information as Reality.
We can assume; when this mass of information evolved to a critical level of specificity, with deterministic elements beginning to dominate the space, Gravity happened. Gravity itself may be construed as the warping of the fabric of Space-Time because of the mass of emergent Information, which predominant specificity of elements generate. Therefore, Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Gravity et all may well be philosophically considered as ‘contexts’ or ‘specificity’ of Information, which engendered the Causality or ‘Causation’ to formalize the cognition of Reality. As matter and energy began to take deterministic forms and gravity happened; stars, galaxies et al were formed and so on. So, Information itself engendered ‘Causalities’ for different ‘Media’ and they in turn donned the mantle of causalities, for emergence of infinite ‘forms’ of Media we see in the contemporary world.
So, can we say; the Information itself creates; or may be, we could look for some better word like, ‘cognitizes’ the Observer as well as Observable? How can we say? The very cognition of Information is precarious! If we hypothesize that Information ‘cognitizes’ the infinity of cosmos, how colossal and complex Information could be, which we are hypothesizing as building block of Reality? That is why we must humbly accept that we are just dealing with a convenient Metaphor of Information and that too for the convenience of understanding a Slice of Reality.
This metaphoric probability is largely for understanding of a Reality, which we are part of. It is being proposed as hypothesis to understand how Reality is such an idea, which probably cannot be Known through intuitiveness but probably is Knowable, through non-intuitive tools of metaphors and representation. It is the possibility within the restricted cognitive threshold of human consciousness.
This hypothesis must also be subject to personal skepticism and continued evolving knowledge of contemporary science. This hypothesis is more of a philosophical ‘metaphor’ for the facility of understanding the core and critical element of Information and how it may be accepted as central to Reality for ease of acceptance. In Physics, most things are still not beyond the stage of ‘Hypothesis’. The Theory of Everythingness is still elusive and may always be for the simple reason that even if there is a definitive building block of Reality; they remain so probabilistic that there may always be multiple Realities, as many believe there are multiple universes. Even in a block universe, where everything remains simultaneously existing; some Causalities or Causations may well be available for physical possibility; within the intuitiveness of Time and Space. However, large part of the Information may always elude humanly physical possibility as they probably remain majorly ephemeral and transient; therefore not amenable to ‘specificity’ of critical mass, which could engender causality or causation, for physical possibility. Hypothesis is the safest territory to live in…!
We can also hypothesize that some part of cosmic Information may not yet have embarked upon a ‘Media’ and therefore still remain in ‘dimensions’, not decipherable for contemporary physics. As we shall talk later; much of the Information ‘resides’ in dimensions and every dimension may not be decipherable to all Media. May be, millions of years from now, the Information may change dimensions and new emergent media could engender completely novel and alternative Reality for humanity. Information as well as Media keep evolving and novel emergent realities keep confronting cognitions. In that sense, major part of Information, which we may accept as constituting the holism or everythingness of Reality, may always remain impossible as they are outside the perceivably possible contemporary causation of Time, Space, Gravity, Matter, Energy et al…
In that continuity, we can say that Life, from simple unicellular organism to humanity is a Media and therefore, the innate, entrenched and transcendental role and purpose of Life is to process Information and decipher its possible Causalities with the help of brain, which probably is itself the most ‘Powerful Media’ of the cosmos; a culmination of the evolution of Reality itself. The life happened as Media; the brain happened as Media and the media evolved and kept transforming. The Media also becomes part of the evolving causality of Reality and the new Emergent information energizes the never ending journey of evolution. We all know – Medium Is The Message…
The entities of Time and Culture therefore are also Media and they are the vehicles of expression of information and its causalities, but at very grassroots and microcosmic levels. At this grassroots level, in the microcosmic cosmos of human world and human systems, Intuitiveness is the Gravity; it is the common, collective, agreeable specificity of Information, which mothers all other Media like, Time and Culture. The macrocosm of Information, which is fundamental building blocks of Reality, transforms its intuitive feel, cognitive acceptance and functional dimensions when expressed through the microcosmic space of the Media of Time and Culture. It is only natural that intuitive feel and perception of singular element of Information shall be different from that of non-intuitiveness. Therefore, when scientists say that we all are nothing but stardust, it is impossible for intuitive mind to understand and accept it. When science says, 98 percent of genes of Chimps and 26 percent of wheat are common with us; intuitively, it is a very revolting feel to accept. However, what is being said is from the non-intuitive perspective of the ‘commonality’ of Information, of which everything, every Reality is an expression or Media. So, we can say, if we are 100 percent of a specific Information, chimps are 98 percent and wheat 26 percent of the same information. As we have talked about earlier; we need to accept that Intuitiveness is not bad or wrong. It has evolved out of specific roles and needs of our body-mind media and continues to help good deal in survival. What we are hypothesizing is that it is only very basic and for larger purposes and roles of life-living, we need to rise above the restrictive Gravity of intuitiveness.
Why we are discussing this all? We are doing in to bring home this simple hypothesis that reality may be accepted as dualistic – one at Fundamental level, which is probably impossible to unravel with intuitive cognition and secondly at Media level, available for intuitive perception and understanding. So, the DNA is a Media of information and it has a language of expression. Proteins in bodies of living beings are information and they have a language of expression. How a protein flips, decides what role and function it shall perform in the life-living system of an organism. Why? It is because a ‘flip’ is Information. However, this Information is Media Level. It is a language for expression of information. Everything is information and it is expressed through languages, which happen at ‘Media’ levels. So, when you flip your head in a particular way, it is an Information, which means No. A slightly different ‘flip’ of the same head however means Yes. The flip is a language and it carriers Information…
Philosophically at least and for facilitative hypothesis, we can say, probably, Universe or Multiverse has no language but pure information. Language happens as Media happens. Media probably cannot understand something, which is beyond language. That is why many information may not be ‘possible’ to be deciphered as we humans as Media need the media of language to decipher a Reality. The scientists could unravel so many informations as they used the non-intuitive cognition; beyond the intuitiveness of languages. However, human brain is a miracle as it has this brilliant ability to master the craft of non-intuitive cognition. Therefore, humans are probably the only media, which can decipher something out of the pure information, outside the purview of language. However, cosmic Information plexus is probably infinite and the complexities of diversities of probable languages in the universe are also infinite. A simple molecule itself has this massiveness and complexities, which an average person may never understand. The cosmos, compared to a molecule is beyond intuitiveness of cognition…
A large part of the Media level information is also not possible for intuitive understanding. Scientists have deciphered it through processes of non-intuitive thinking and cognition. However, when these Media level information creates causalities, expressed in physical manifestations, we can intuitively know it. The media level information, transformed into the platform of languages, is also not easy for most. We shall later discuss in detail as why and how languages are ‘media’ of expression of the Consciousness, which is itself a media of body-mind-milieu information plexus. We shall discuss as how contemporary humanity and its cultures have failed big time in understanding this crucial need of evolved consciousness for languages to be effective tool of non-intuitive cognition.
So, what we intuitively feel and accept is only a molecular part of the macrocosmic information, which has suitably transformed itself for expression at Media-Level microcosmic space. Therefore, intuitive cognition is always susceptible to being an ‘Illusion’ of the holistic Reality at its entirety. This we always need to take into account. That is why average human being is in the ‘Illusion’ of Time, Culture and many other realities; especially the ‘Self’ or ‘I’. Very naturally, the human systems – politics, administration, justice-judicial system, policing, economy, education, etc also remain in illusion.
There is another related aspect of the illusion we all live. Our mind consciousness is just a media. It has been designed to process only a miniscule portion and aspect of cosmic information. A Media has its limitation. Media is designed for specific roles, vis-à-vis the information, which could optimize certain goals. For example, there are multiple systems, simultaneously working within our body and mind and every second, they orchestrate thousands of processes. They are all information. We have neural system, metabolic system, circulatory system, respiratory system, endocrine system, etc. All these systems are information processing systems as they constantly interact with external milieus as well as internal milieu. The brain handles them all. However, most of these processes are unconscious and subconscious ones. Our aware conscious layer feels and knows nothing about them. The food we eat is felt only to mouth and beyond that it is processed for hours but we feel nothing. It is our design. If all thousands of these processes and its information every second are put to aware and conscious domain, we shall get mad. Or, we cannot make any sense out of it; probably like the dreams. That is probably why the conscious layer of brain has been spared of the trouble. The conscious layer is assigned only those Information, which primarily pertain to external milieus and its mapping for better maneuverability and management. Naturally, our Media of consciousness is intuitively capable of understanding only a small part of the Reality, because it has access only to a very miniscule portion of Information. It is because it has been designed for limited specific roles. This is ideal situation for ‘Illusion’ to dominate the average cognition. Metaphorically at least; we may say, we humans have been designed to live out Illusions…!
So, we can scientifically philosophize about this hypothesis that probably, when information and causalities or causation innately creates a Media, it probably does so with a restricted role of a very specific nature, suiting to the overall structural equilibrium of an ever entropic universe or portion of the multiverse. This itself creates the divide or dualism of what is possible and what is impossible for physical approachability for a specific Media.
Just for philosophical fun, we can hypothesize a mesmerizing possibility in near future for larger humanity. We all know, how dreams have always baffled and equally mesmerized humanity since ages. Still, we do not know much about dreams but hypothesize that they are the processional outcome of subconscious brain state playing up with information overload that it receives every passing second. We understand that whatever is in the subconscious or unconscious domain, there is no neuro-chemical pathway to connect them with conscious layers. Probably, dreams are the only state of this Media of consciousness, where the subconscious information probably leaks or permeates outside subconscious. As these subconscious information passages are said to come in proximity to visual neural plexus, which is the most abundant and vibrant plexus in advanced brain, we see these ‘leaked’ information as Illusional images in our dreams, when we are in semi-death condition.
Therefore, we may philosophize for fun and ‘happy illusion’ that may be, some day, the brilliant scientists shall find or create a ‘switch’, which shall connect the subconscious domain with conscious one and this pathway would be so brilliant that we shall have definitive ‘access’ to all information, currently hidden and a non-possibility. If that switch is successfully created, may be, this would lead the scientists to create a ‘Causal Switch’, which would bridge up the current gap between pure information and media level language. This way, we shall have access to all information and everything shall fall in the domain of possibility for Physics. That shall pave way for the elusive yet ultimate singular Theory of Everythingness…!
… Jokes apart; what we are talking in this eBook is almost the same. We are also talking about this possible ‘Switch’ that would enable average person to bridge the current gap between intuitive possibility and non-intuitive impossibility. We are talking about this new alternative perspective; a definitive ‘switch over’ from how we approach Reality, especially the knowledge of reality intuitively and what large pool of knowledge is available and possible, if we ‘switch’ to non-intuitiveness. The scientists may take their time to find their magical switch but we average humans simply cannot wait. We need this switch over right now as we are already too far and too deep into the reverse road of darkness. We need to ‘unlearn’ the old, archaic and obsolete knowledge and swiftly switch over to the alternative and contemporaneous knowledge of Reality through the available tool of non-intuitiveness.
Here it is important to reiterate that what we have discussed above is for the sake of understanding the complex idea of Reality. It is not that we can say we know the grains of Reality. Nobody does with definitive certainty. What we have detailed above is also probabilistic and scientific philosophization. As I have always insisted; you must never accept what I say, without assigning it to the evolved skepticism. What we discussed can be accepted as a hypothesis; a metaphor (good or bad) of a probable reality; never a theory. The purpose of we discussing it here is to understand certain aspects of Reality, as scientifically as possible. Science is a complex domain and contemporary science is far more complicated than clear as it is still grappling with many core aspects of Reality. There are still loads of things, which science has to be definitive about. Contemporary Science of Reality probably is too metaphoric and as collective human knowledge of Reality evolves and matures; many of the current metaphors too shall become redundant and shall require replacement and restructuring. As the language grows and matures, metaphors too have to as communication always seeks clarity and specificity of expressions. Knowledge is never static; everything is evolving; thankfully…!
I invite you to delve deep into these aspects and acquire knowledge through self-exploration and with the cherished energy of skepticism, before internalizing them.
Before, we move onto the next chapter, we must have a short glimpse on how humanity and its culture progressed and where we probably went wrong and why. This probably shall help us in having a better insight on what alternative thinking we require now for creating an alternative culture in future for true and lasting wellness and excellence of life-living. Here we go…
There is a hypothesis, which we may take into account, before we proceed to understand the trouble with cultures and their contemporary malaises. A System may be accepted as the natural agency of a shade or dimension of Slavery for all those, who are part of it. To euphemize the expression, we can say that a system is an innate situation for all elements constituting it and part of it, to fall in line with a singular and binding mechanism and processes, which keeps the system alive and kicking. We can say, probably, this is a fundamental requirement for systems to survive and thrive because, it is only through this ‘Slavery’, binding behavior or hardwired discipline the Information can replicate and be shared successfully; with manageable entropy.
Scientists now know that human body-mind has many systems, assigned to different roles but all these systems need to be in perfect Homeostatic Equilibrium for the system to work optimally. A system itself has tools to rectify any aberration or disequilibrium within the system, called Allostatic process. A good system must always have mechanisms to deal with entropic eventualities. Body-mind systems need to keep System-Sanity of highest order as massive information is processed every second and loads of replication and sharing of information goes on continuously. A human infant coming into this world is nothing short of a miracle as it takes billions of fast paced processes for a fetus to evolve into a full bodied baby in the womb. Even a single aberration, misinformation or inappropriate replication can either abort the whole process or cause immense discrepancy in the formation of the child in womb. However, majority of human babies are born almost perfectly right. It means, the systems that were involved in child birth and their billions of processes went nearly perfectly right. How can this happen and that too since millions of years?
This piece of reality is still not available with perfect details but we can scientifically philosophize that this happens because the systems maintain highest degree of hardwired discipline within them so that all their processes are zero error.
Then we can ask next, ‘How do the systems maintain such perfect discipline?’ The answer is still in the domain of scientific philosophization that probably, it happens because these system performances and their access are perfectly isolated from ‘external’ information plexus and millions of participating cells have no subjective ‘consciousness’ and ‘Free Will’ of their own . As we talked before, 98 percent of human body-mind processes are handled by unconscious and subconscious brain states and they are perfectly isolated from the conscious layers, which have active links with external milieus. The unconscious-subconscious processes remain disciplined and uniformly un-deviated because they are probably hardwired and not exposed to direct influence of external elements of the milieus. No doubt, the information from external milieus affect the system by presenting as challenges to adapt to them but this system adjustment processes is entirely internal and the system ‘Free Will’ is largely unaffected by e