Hi Hal,
This topic interests me, but I find it difficult to go past the second
sentence in your post. The phrase "Something is on a quest" carries a
lot of baggage, in particular that "Something" has intention, purpose
and motivation. Either we have to assume that this intention is produced
by a fundamental "spirit" or "soul" that you have assigned to the
Something, or that the intention is emergent from a complex
consciousness simulation possibly involving Quantum Mechanics..... If
you assume a spirit or soul you are making a quasi religious assumption.
Is this what you want? How do we explain spirit or soul? If you are
assuming a complex consciousness simulation, there is a whole layer that
needs to be explained which no one has yet fully explained yet.
Usually scientists use objective and impersonal criteria such as "energy
minimization" to explain how a reaction is driven in one particular
direction. In chemistry, for example, "Le Chatelier Principle" is used.
George
Hal Ruhl wrote:
>I have touched on this subject before but the following is my current
>view of "Dark Energy"
>
>In my approach a Something is on a quest for completeness within the
>Everything.
>
>Based on this, the following points can be made:
>
>1) The number of current incompleteness sites for a given Something
>would be at least proportional to the surface area of its boundary
>with the rest of the Everything if not proportional to its volume.
>
>2) Thus the larger [more information content] a Something is [has]
>the more such sites it has and the larger any given step in the quest can be.
>
>3) This gives an increase in the average information influx as the
>quest progresses.
>
>4) If the universe described by that Something has a maximum finite
>information packing density in its "space" then an accelerating
>increase in the size of that space should be "observed" since both
>the volume and surface area of a Something inside the Everything
>increases as the quest progresses.
>
> Hal Ruhl
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