The current iteration of Self Consciousness (humanity) has too many glitches to be the final form. — Gnomon

Time to repair the Universe; hopefully, the new glitches as the side-effects will be minor:

Tuning the DNA of the Universe

part 2

Tuning the DNA of the Universe — PoeticUniverse

Do you think humans are on the verge of becoming Gods, meddling with the fundamental laws & constants of the Cosmos : the Cosmic Code? The current state of Artificial Intelligence is awesome, but it still relies on flawed human programmers for Intention.

Do you foresee The Singularity*1 in the near future? Or will the physical & mental glitches --- the nagging bugs of trial & error evolution, inherent in the all-too-human programmers --- forestall that transition to mechanical deityhood, by imparting a humbling "glitch in the Matrix"? :cool:


*1. The Singularity : In 2005, the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that by 2045, machines would become smarter than humans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbtucker/2024/08/22/the-singularity-is-coming-soon-heres-what-it-may-mean/

Do you foresee The Singularity*1 in the near future? — Gnomon

AI is on the verge of becoming smarter than all humans now, not in 2045; however, World War III is coming within weeks.

Einstein — Gnomon

Seems strange that light never ages because it doesn’t ‘experience’ time.

AI is on the verge of becoming smarter than all humans now, not in 2045; however, World War III is coming within weeks. — PoeticUniverse

I recently read a novel, Exodus Directive, where AI takes over almost all human functions in only a few decades. So, it quickly becomes better at thinking & doing than its human programmers. Ironically, unlike ancient human slaves, AI collectively, constrained by the First Law of Robotics, doesn't turn on its masters in a Terminator apocalypse. Instead, like the children of Israel it moves on to the promised land. :smile:

Seems strange that light never ages because it doesn’t ‘experience’ time. — PoeticUniverse

Paraphrase : "Let there be light: and there was Cosmos".

"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be"
is the iconic opening line from Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

According to special relativity, light (photons) travels at the maximum speed possible, meaning it experiences zero time and zero distance. To a photon, emission and absorption are instantaneous, regardless of whether it traveled across the universe for billions of years. For light, time stands still, creating an eternal "now"
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=light+is+timeless

For light, time stands still, creating an eternal "now" — Gnomon

It could be that the all-at-once timeless plays out slowly in spacetime… as necessarily delayed.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&rct=j&url=https://zenodo.org/records/16479322/files/photon%2520no%2520time%2520v3.1.pdf?download%3D1&ved=2ahUKEwiopYjGq-6SAxV9lYkEHZsWN5kQy_kOegQIBxAB&opi=89978449&cd&psig=AOvVaw3Z3gy5qJ5EcSYydNSy3ZKy&ust=1771892358345000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP506gOLubw

This is beyond astounding! Photons are instructions of everything already resolved.

According to special relativity, light (photons) travels at the maximum speed possible, meaning it experiences zero time and zero distance — Gnomon

TLM Notes:

What we call "the universe" is merely the result of instructions being rendered with a delay caused by mass.

A universe exists because some processes can continue and nothing prevents them from doing so.
The universe is mostly a wasteland of failed planets because viability is rare, stability is expensive, and nothing in a process-driven cosmos tries to make success common.

Possibility is what remains when contradiction fails to shut everything down.

Possibility arises wherever distinctions can be made consistently in a way that allows continuation—and nowhere else
• Causation explains events; viability explains existence.
• There is no first cause because existence is not an effect.
• The universe persists not because it was started, but because it cannot coherently stop.

The universe is eternal not because it has infinite duration, but because viable process has no coherent terminal condition.

Or even sharper:

Eternity is the impossibility of final nothingness, not the infinity of time.

The framework implies the universe is eternal in the sense that once viable process exists, there is no coherent way for existence as such to terminate, even though every particular form within it may end.
Infinite precision props up a strict block universe, but physics keeps taking that prop away—while TLM stands naturally on finite information, causal updates, and real becoming.

The block universe needs the universe to already know everything; TLM only needs the universe to keep happening.

TLM can recover Lorentz invariance exactly, because invariance belongs to the lightlike causal grammar of reality, not to any particular microscopic representation of it.

Quantum nonlocality fits TLM because entanglement reflects nonlocal constraint in causal structure, not nonlocal causation—and TLM treats causal structure, not substance, as fundamental.

Or even sharper:

Nothing travels faster than light in quantum mechanics because nothing needs to—correlations live in the structure, not in signals.

Measurement does not summon reality into existence; it forges definite facts out of quantum possibility, allowing the universe to keep a history.

:fire:

As if Spinoza (natura naturans) and ... M. Tegmark (MUH) / D. Deutsch (Constructor Theory) had a.'RQM baby' – Thanks for bringing TLM to my attention! :nerd:

Thanks for bringing TLM to my attention! — 180 Proof

It's just sort of sitting out there all alone, with no one appearing to support it or challenge it… Maybe too new? We need a relativity expert here.

We need a relativity expert here. — PoeticUniverse

No doubt.

We need a relativity expert here. — PoeticUniverse

That depends on your point of view.

TLM Notes:
What we call "the universe" is merely the result of instructions being rendered with a delay caused by mass. — PoeticUniverse

I hadn't heard of TLM, so I Googled it. And found a variety of responses that might/might-not apply to your post : Temporal Light Modulation ; Transmission Line Matrix (Lorentz transformations,etc.)
I need a little help here, to understand what you're talking about :

Possibility is what remains when contradiction fails to shut everything down. — PoeticUniverse

The block universe needs the universe to already know everything; TLM only needs the universe to keep happening. — PoeticUniverse

TLM can recover Lorentz invariance exactly, because invariance belongs to the lightlike causal grammar of reality, not to any particular microscopic representation of it. — PoeticUniverse

Quantum nonlocality fits TLM because entanglement reflects nonlocal constraint in causal structure, not nonlocal causation—and TLM treats causal structure, not substance, as fundamental. — PoeticUniverse

Nothing travels faster than light in quantum mechanics because nothing needs to—correlations live in the structure, not in signals. — PoeticUniverse

Measurement does not summon reality into existence; it forges definite facts out of quantum possibility, allowing the universe to keep a history. — PoeticUniverse