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INFORMATION SCIENCE versus PSEUDOSCIENCE


Puzzled by the paradoxes of both Science and Religion, I began to entertain the thought, what if the quantum theory metaphors are literally true and real?


What if an electron is actually a definition instead of a mysterious wave/particle? What if energy is a carrier of instructions instead of "the mysterious ability to do work"? What if a force field is a web of geometric relationships instead of "a mysterious place in space where something happens"? These what-if scenarios don't make any sense to the physical /material senses. But they do make sense to the metaphysical /rational senses of mathematicians and philosophers. Consequently, I have begun to view the world from a different perspective than the Christian worldview I was raised in, and the Logical-Positive belief system that I later adopted. I’m now calling my new personal paradigm "Enformationism". It’s not yet an officially recognized scientific worldview. But as time goes by, I think the reality of Ideality will be gradually, grudgingly accepted by thinkers on the leading edge of human understanding. The man on the street may never get-it rationally, but they have always intuitively grasped the fact that there’s more to reality than meets the eye.

From the novel perspective of Enformationism, matter & energy are perceptible forms of information; En-form-action is the process of making things sensible to the mind; and Mind is where Information is created, transmitted, and interpreted. Mind is both In-former and Interpreter. Information is metaphysical stuff contained in physical substrates, but capable of being transformed from one container to another. An empty cup is full of space, which is full of virtual information. An ancient Chinese saying goes; "we value a cup for the space inside" ─ not for what it is, but for its potential. The form of a cup defines its function ─ its value. If space is information, then we live and move and exist in a matrix of meaning ─ potential matter. Unlike material objects though, I can give away information and still have it. Information has always been recognized as useful, even when its reality has been denied. However, due to the post-quantum adventures of science, the 19th century paradigm of Sensible Materialism, Causal Determinism, and Logical Positivism is being remodeled to accommodate the undeniable realities of 21st century Mental Informationism, Acausal Indeterminism, and Statistical Probabilitism. There’s still a lot we don’t know about the many forms of Information, but there’s no need to label the investigation of the unknown as Mysticism. It’s just science probing in the dark.

MATERIALISM ASSUMPTION In fact, the purely material universe is nothing more than a working assumption, a scientific model scientists have proposed to describe the data. —-Victor Stenger Quantum Gods

STRUCTURE


Apparently, information not only has structure; it is a prerequisite for the creation of structure–-and for its preservation. It doesn’t merely embody order, it advances order and maintains it. Information lies not just in form; information lies in formation.

—-- Robert Wright                   Three Scientists

Both DNA and the human brain exist because it takes information processing to defy the spirit of the second law [of thermodynamics]

—-Robert Wright

Re. E. O. Wilson :

In short, scientists should be both reductionists and holists. And they should be aware that complete, top-to-bottom reduction, though possible in principle, will never be practical.

—-Robert Wright

Three Scientists and Their Gods