Re: Phases Underlie Probability-Statistics: PI, FFE, VFE.

From: Osher Doctorow (mdoctorow_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:43:23 +0000 (UTC)

On 23 Dec 04 10:07:02 -0500 (EST), Osher Doctorow wrote:
>Here I made an error. The situation is more nearly the opposite,
>but it is very complicated for reasons that are difficult to
>unravel. One of the rather rare overviews of the dispute is
>Rudiger Vaas' "The duel; strings versus loops," in Bild Wiss.
>[German journal] 4, 2004, 44-49, which can be accessed on the
>internet under the title or under keywords "strings versus loops"
>or similar ones. The loop quantum gravity people, including
>Ashtekar, turn out to call themselves alternatively "quantum
>geometry" people, while superstring theory has gone through two

Before I go into some more detail about the encoding of information
or Knowledge or entropy into the geometry of space(-time) near
black holes, I should mention that this is only one small part of
the basis for arguing that phases underlie probability-statistics
and physics and other sciences including psychology. I have chosen
black holes here because they are so interesting to me.

The current indications are that Knowledge and Information are
encoded in the geometry of spacetime in such a way that (using
"Information" language although I am more interested in Knowledge
as "Semantics" rather than syntactics) they are not lost when
objects enter black holes. They are encoded in the near-black-hole
geometry outside black holes.

How is this possible? Probable Influence (PI) suggests that we
look for an answer in the "frontier" between the microscopic and
macroscopic worlds. Recall that the reversibility of PI P(A1-->A2
-->...-->An) does not depend on microscopic vs macroscopic. This
also fits in with black holes as both macroscopic and microscopic
phenomena/objects. But it also reminds us of a more immediate
concern for human beings: psychology. One of the biggest open
questions in psychology and psychiatry is the nature of Knowledge
and Memory of the type that we usually associate with human cognition
or thinking. The "memory trace" is awfully close to such things
geometrically and conceptually, as are global brain functioning
and other aspects. I'll try to continue this shortly.

Osher Doctorow

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