Space/time sense

We subject this information to Evaluation and Decision-Making and we may act on it, produce some sort of motor output. This Motor Output subsystem produces action in the body that is sensed via Interoception, in a feedback process through the body. The Motor Output also produces effects on the external world that are again sensed by Exteroception, constituting feedback via the external world. Our perception and decision-making are also affected by our Space/Time Sense. Also shown in Figure 8-1 are some latent functions, which may be tapped in a d-ASC, but are not available in the b-SoC. 

It-from-bit embodies the central notion that every it - that is, every aspect of reality electrons, protons, photons, fields of force, or even the what we call space-time itself - is in the deepest sense a derivative of experimentally deduced answers to yes/no questions that is, to bits. If we allow ourselves for a moment to go back to the roots of what it is that we by convention call reality, we see that it is something that is literally defined by a particular sequence of yes/no responses elicited from either a mechanical or (our own biological) sensory apparatus in other words, reality s origin is fundamentally information-theoretic. 

Forget for a moment that you know that figure 12.11 shows the space-time pattern due to a well defined local deterministic rule, and that the underlying universe really consists of nothing but bits. Suppose you are told only that this figure represents some sort of alien physics, and that you may see as many different samples of this alien world s behavior as you wish. How are you to make any sense of what is really going on ... 

Contingency, in this particular context, can be defined as the simultaneous interplay of several concomitant effects to shape an event in a given space/time situation. In most of the epistemological literature this word has aptly replaced the terms chance or random event and in fact it has a different texture. In this sense, it should not be confused simply with a highly improbable event , as mentioned above in the Morowitz citation. Eor example, a tile falling on your head from a roof can be seen as a chance event, but in fact it is due to the concomitance of many independent factors such as the place where you were, the speed at which you were walking, the state of the roof, the presence of wind, etc. 

Pesic, P. D. (1993) Euclidean hyperspace and its physical significance. Nuovo Cimento B. 108B, ser. 2(10) 1145—53. (Contemporary approaches to quantum field theory and gravitation often use a 4-D space-time manifold of Euclidean signature called hyperspace as a continuation of the Lorentzian metric. To investigate what physical sense this might have, the authors review the history of Euclidean techniques in classical mechanics and quantum theory.)... 

The highest ttn published to our knowledge so far for chemzymes (in the sense of polymer-enlarged chemical catalysts) is found in the transfer hydrogenation process catalyzed by Gao-Noyori s catalyst bound to a siloxane polymer (Fig. 3.1.3, 4) [13, 14]. In this transfer hydrogenation acetophenone is reduced to (S)-phenyl-ethanol using isopropanol as hydrogen donor. The product is produced in a CMR with 91% ee at a space-time yield of 578 g L d the ttn for the catalyst is 2633. 

In a strict sense, the classical Newtonian mechanics and the Maxwell s theory of electromagnetism are not compatible. The M-M-type experiments refuted the geometric optics completed by classical mechanics. In classical mechanics the inertial system was a basic concept, and the equation of motion must be invariant to the Galilean transformation Eq. (1). After the M-M experiments, Eq. (1) and so any equations of motion became invalid. Einstein realized that only the Maxwell equations are invariant for the Lorentz transformation. Therefore he believed that they are the authentic equations of motion, and so he created new concepts for the space, time, inertia, and so on. Within... 

Figure 18-2 shows the scheme I propose for understanding human consciousness. Human consciousness is shown as the result of the interaction of six dimensions, each one just as real in some ultimate sense as any of the others. The dimensions are matter, energy, space, time, awareness, and an unknown factor that may be life itself. Science, guided by a physi cali sti c, reductionistic philosophy, investigates finer and finer levels of the matter and energy dimensions, within a certain space-time framework but these dimensions constitute only two of the six or more dimensions that must be examined for full... 

Extrapolation of the hem lines to Z/N = 1 defines another recognizable periodic classification of the elements, inverse to the observed arrangement at Z/N = t. The inversion is interpreted in the sense that the wave-mechanical ground-state electronic configuration of the atoms, with sublevels / < d < p < s, is the opposite of the familiar s < p < d < f. This type of inversion is known to be effected under conditions of extremely high pressure [52]. It is inferred that such pressures occur in regions of high space-time curvature, such as the interior of massive stellar objects, a plausible site for nuclear synthesis. 

Data characterizing the HDN of DHQ also suggested that diffusion plays a role since the PCH selectivity did not go to zero when extrapolated to low space times (Fig. 11) (59). In this case, the nitrogen atom in DHQ is part of a ring, and even double hydrogenolysis would have been necessary to explain the direct formation of PCH from DHQ. However, this makes no sense chemically. Again, diffusion can explain these results. The PCHA and PCHE intermediates, which are formed from DHQ at the catalytically active surface... 

Thus the mere presence of metaphorical language does not by itself tell us whether the space-time metaphor is a psychologically real conceptual mapping. For example, the temporal and spatial meanings could be represented as alternate meaning senses or even as separate homophonic lexical entries. The apparent systematicity would then be illusory, the result of post hoc regularization. 

A chemical molecule, by contrast consists of many particles. In the most general case N independent constituent electrons and nuclei generate a molecular Hamiltonian as the sum over N kinetic energy operators. The common wave function encodes all information pertaining to the system. In order to constitute a molecule in any but a formal sense it is necessary for the set of particles to stay confined to a common region of space-time. The effect is the same as on the single confined particle. Their behaviour becomes more structured and interactions between individual particles occur. Each interaction generates a Coulombic term in the molecular Hamiltonian. The effect of these terms are the same as of potential barriers and wells that modify the boundary conditions. The wave function stays the same, only some specific solutions become disallowed by the boundary conditions imposed by the environment. 

We can see that while relativity would operate in each monad, and in the universe as monad, the extensive continuum of potentiality would exist outside of space-time in a fifth Einsteinian dimension. Space-time, and the relativistic effects arising therefrom, would exist as properties of actual entities existing in the extensive continuum, but the continuum itself, underlying the configurations of three dimensions, would exhibit the quality of simultaneity, as, in some sense, the holographic matrix of potentiality would make all times simultaneous. 

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