Cognition, Self, Perspective, and Science :
Coherency, Correspondence and the Obsolescence of Mathematical
Simultaneity
Marvin E. Kirsh
Kirsh2152000@yahoo.com
Abstract
If one asks “Where in the relativistic world am I?” (Cody, 2006), a response of “I do not know” or “ I do not have a way to know” does not imply that there is such a place to know. If not, then the answer is “it is unknowable”, might be accepted as complete in response to the question- i.e. “if there is no such place then it is unknowable.” However, if stated in response only that “it is unknowable”, it is not implied that such a place does not exist. With respect to the question “ where in the relativistic world am I ?”, within the bounds of the notion of relativity, of a relativistic world, a place is implied to exist where one does exist, whether it is knowable or not. If other than a relativistic world is conjectured to exist, then “I” obviously occupy no existing place in a relativistic world, and the question is incoherent. Few would argue against the world being relativistic, thus the question “where am I in the relativistic world” appears coherent and valid to ask, less for one other possibility, that “I already do not know where I am (in the relativistic world)” as a prima facia fact of the general concept of relativity itself. In this case, humankind is endeavoring to milk facts from nature that are unattainable utilizing self subscribing (existing of it-self) theorizations that survive empirical test and endure by virtue of the fact that nature itself also exists of it-self (notions and empirical test are indistinguishable from it) i.e. theories that intuitively mirror nature but ultimately are without valid correspondences to the common sense perception have no public meaning. It is thus conjectured that all entities with a location have no attainable awareness related to a meaningful and/or coherent knowledge of “(“relativistically”) where they are” if a meaningful knowledge is meant to imply a context with respect to cause and effect, the elements of active processes, change. Ultimately, such abstractly conceived, stretched notions, as described, have no survival assets for either individuals or populations and are self denigrating .
The Carbon Atom
When one thinks of the study of living things, the chemistry of life, on first introduction he becomes aware of the term “carbon based” life that was introduced comparatively to invite imagination into the possibilities for the composition of living matter. Silicon, closely resembling carbon chemically with respect to its’ bonding potential is sometime suggested as an possible alternate for carbon and much experimentation has been endeavored upon the chemistry of silicon, the kinds of molecules it is able to form etc. Many of the medical and biological products available are constructed from silicon.
Each atom of carbon or silicon is capable of forming 4 bonds each to other atoms and are each very symmetrical. An atom of carbon as a theoretical entity would appear indistinguishable from one side or angle of perspective with respect to any other side, especially with respect to what a specific given bond might perceive from its’ internal position. In combination with other atoms, it may be, if one were to attempt to number the bonds (e.g. #’s 1,2,3,4), un-numberable- (e.g. 1,1,1,1 or 0,0,0,0) ; un-numberable not only from a scientific perspective, but in not having a self identity with respect to its’ bonds, bonding partners, and orientation. One might wish that this ‘featureless’ facet of carbon is proximity dependant-i.e. that at greater distances from its’ immediate environment of other atoms, some sort of identity emerges with the universe that gives names to multiple faces, less the world be perceived without a symmetry or order to it. Such a perception does not seem to make intuitive sense. One can visualize the multiple faces of crystals, the varied colors of the ocean and sky, the vast array of structures in the world from ordinary experience, the names and categories, ontological and epistemological divisions of the intellectual labors of mankind.
Carbon can form crystals that can be used in microphones to transmit sound. It is unique in that it is the only element capable of performing this function, less for silicon. It is proposed that this phenomenon exists on the basis of the above stated interpretation that carbon atoms, molecules of carbon atoms, have no internal (self) identity with respect to position and orientation—it does not know where it is. In analogy, a “location measurement” device (whatever its’ criterion of measurement) placed anywhere within the carbon atom or molecule, would register the same location no matter ‘where’ (excuse the pun) one placed it.
If one places a carbon transceiver at his mouth to speak, sound is transmitted. It is detected as an input by the carbon transceiver and converted back to sound at the output. Intervening between input and output are carbon atoms that have potentially no cognizant realization of an identity in this series of events. Though my reasoning does not assume the same order in the construction of the ensuing notion, (Initially I consider time (Kirsh 2007) as a unique monism, with the subsequent consideration of position and facts of communication content (Kirsh 2007)). For the purposes of presenting a more readily perceived orientation, conjecture is first presented in reference to the carbon atom and an identity-less description of events of carbon mediated signal propagation. These properties of carbon are then related to internal brain function and sensual perception , interrelations with respect to the internal and external with the conclusion that in any stage of any type of communication/transmission/propagation, location dependant parameters,i.e.- unique extensive properties of any specific existing locations, existing but unknowable, have no potential coherency if conceptually projected to be a part of the information content of a communication. An electrical wire, to perception, is a wire at one communicating part and the same at other. Its’ identity as an electrical wire cannot be a part of its’ communication content-it is the wire that conducts, its’ input and output are the only externally relevant factors that may be associated with it. The length of the wire is important, as is its cross sectional area, in terms of the amount of energy it can conduct. Factors of size, length, shape, time, are the only are coherently employable descriptive relations of the communication or its content; factors of content and factors of the medium of propagation are immiscible. In relation to the carbon atom, lack of identity is a property of the medium and not of the communication. Dimensional (verses positional) , and temporal factors have coherent meaning, and are coherently employable. Reaching deeper into the theories of nature, i.e. relativity, logical coherency depends on the existence of a (theoretical) vacuum. If one asserts that a vacuum cannot exist, he can also assert that an empty space is not a space, does not have the dimensions of space (i.e. shape, size, and volume) and cannot be substituted for space in theories. Dimensional factors, which must exist for all spaces, cannot be conceived of in the absence of temporal factors, and visa versa, temporal factors cannot be conceived of in the absence of dimensional factors, without arriving at the concept of a vacuum. If one wishes to employ a neurological language he would not define the brain with a temporal lobe and a separate dimensional lobe. He might, as in the example of the carbon atom, conceive that biological connections in the brain do not have self identities with respect to the whole organism or the universe, and that input and output are similarly the only coherent facets of neurology - the space/dimensions the brain occupies entail, in the same analogy with carbon, input and output-input and output entail space/dimension-location is not a component of the properties; all these facets can be found to be entailed by time alone if the idea of a vacuum is not construed as a volume of empty space.
Simultaneity
Simultaneity theory refers to time, coincidence, and physical processes. Current theory and notions of simultaneity, relativity employ observation that, in one to one correspondence, lend identity parameters to features that have no proximal identity to other entities, and hence no real self identity. Albert Einstein is quoted as saying that perhaps “phenomenon …observed and then reconsidered” in reference to observations that had major influences in the production of the theory of relativity. It appears that a confusion has emanated since, rendering ideas of space-time with included theoretical notions of vacuums, constant velocities, and stretched to the point of discussion upon such topics as singularities and pluralities of space-time and the universe, added dimensions beyond the common two dimensional space living things experience and in the extreme include mathematical referrals to a topic of “pointless space” that also bring to light Einsteins’ reflections on elemental properties of the universe …” "The idea of the measuring rod and the idea of the clock contained with it in the theory of relativity do not find their exact correspondence in the real world. It is also clear that the solid body and the clock do not in the conceptual edifice of physics play the part of irreducible elements, but that of composite structures, which may not play any independent part in theoretical physics."”. It thus appears entities/notions, other than those knowable and definable from perceptual experience are introduced into theory in order to account for observation. Time-space theory itself places a divide in the fact of assigning of multiple mathematical “manifolds” to describe space and dimension, ordinary living things and the objects of perception occupy one place, and a distinct place is assigned that excludes a potential to contain life-self subscribing and untestable it entails a pluralistic world extending beyond mankind(and two dimensional space). A naïve person might not argue easily about it, others entertain it with a mystique and employ it for explanation. However, it is easily considered, in relation to the above discussion, that an ultimate factor (ratio) of input and output is substituted in the theory of relativity, and time space theory with constants, and vacuums,….i.e. parameters are attributed that potentially describe concrete aspects of whatever phenomenon related to place(s) or location(s) whose properties evolved after a reconsideration of observational data.
If one reorganizes his thoughts to focus on input and output exclusively and considers the measurement of the velocity of light, not as input and output between phenomenon related to the earth and a source, but assigns a deeper meaning to the light itself, in that his witness and perception of it, reflects a fact of himself as a random, identity-less component of a whole-i.e- light as an elemental input to his evolution, and himself a transducer of his own maintenance energy derived from it, his surface and volume as a function of a displacement of space involving light and ordinary perceived motion in an exacting correspondence to the facets of carbon. With this orientation it might not only be possible to extract a relative evolutionary age of mankind with respect to the age of the light he measured (as a balance remaining after his creating displacements) , develop an insight into his behavioral tendencies to statisticize/quantize (especially if the totals measured in this orientation are integer factor of his own energy/energy of displacement), and to understand how and why he seeks to attach a seed of life in the conceptual form of mechanical/quantum mechanical associations (entanglement, simultaneity etc.) to statistics in his efforts to consolidate an explanatory theory of the life and physical sciences. If one considers that systems with measureable inputs and outputs (e.g.- biological surfaces/interactions and the measured velocity of light/distances and changes, respectively) are very amenable for the extraction of information, the point of a fixed or given tangible meaning to the values of measurement, or the theory of relativity as a single value related to a tangible concept (it describes an event of some kind that can be theorized to be, in a reductio absurdum manner, to have some high priority relationship to the earth and human life in view of the nature of the vast influences it has had upon human reflection and physical interpretation of the world), or the point that complex intellectual efforts can be dwarfed by that which is much simpler in order-has a “right in front of the nose” quality, one might also consider a new meaning. In corresponding analogy, substitution of the words “carbon based life”, with the words “carbon based world” one might not have to expend so much energy, effort and frustration asking “where in the world we are?”; especially so, if one considers that current values are as self denigrating in meaning as to avoid the inclusion of a personal/species space and energies in its’ formulations.
Figure 1a-1d Perception and the Theoretical
In cognition and theory construction, the conceptual surface of theories are overcomplicated and incoherent as a result of a failure to include biological displacement volumes-surface area’s, displacement energies (i.e. parameters of the self). Note that though all the figures refer to a synergistic total 1b and 1c are meant to be different, looking similar, but unequal to each other, to the total shape in 1a. The actual synergistic areas (center of 1a and 4a are meant to be the same.)
1a) A boundary delineated by an outlying dark region (hatched areas) of non existing, but defined coherency with non random components, comprises a non randomly perceived, but conceptually random coherent total (open area in center of figure). Hatched areas are cases of incoherency. It should be noted that the diagrams of1a, 1b and 1c, thought appearing similar in overall shape, are not intended to be equal with one another, but exactly distinct from one another, as independent representations.
1b) CONTAINER of non random coherent components alone, perceived in the first sense as
a non-random, coherent universe
1c) A container perceived as, but a falsely construed assembly(hatched area) as a coherent non random total alone
1d) A RANDOM , coherent, of itself, self contained, conceptual product synergy of 1b) and 1c) ,
though, in which non randomness is what is perceived at any perspective
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