| Abstract - Christopher Langan - Saturday October 12th - 6pm |
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Saturday October 12th - 6pm The
Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe: A New Kind of Reality Theory Inasmuch
as science is observational or perceptual in nature, the goal of providing
a scientific model and mechanism for the evolution of complex systems
ultimately requires a supporting theory of reality of which perception
itself is the model (or theory-to-universe mapping). Where information
is the abstract currency of perception, such a theory must incorporate
the theory of information while extending the information concept to
incorporate reflexive self-processing in order to achieve an intrinsic
(self-contained) description of reality. This extension is associated
with a limiting formulation of model theory identifying mental and physical
reality, resulting in a reflexively self-generating, self-modeling theory
of reality identical to its universe on the syntactic level. By the
nature of its derivation, this theory, the Cognitive Theoretic Model
of the Universe or CTMU, can be regarded as a supertautological reality-theoretic
extension of logic. Uniting the theory of reality with an advanced form
of computational language theory, the CTMU describes reality as a Self-Configuring
Self- Processing Language or SCSPL, a reflexive intrinsic language characterized
not only by self-reference and recursive self-definition, but full self-configuration
and self-execution (reflexive read-write functionality). SCSPL reality
embodies a dual-aspect monism consisting of infocognition, self-transducing
information residing in self-recognizing SCSPL elements called syntactic
operators. The CTMU identifies itself with the structure of these operators
and thus with the distributive syntax of its self-modeling SCSPL universe,
including the reflexive grammar by which the universe refines itself
from unbound telesis or UBT, a primordial realm of infocognitive potential
free of informational constraint. Under the guidance of a limiting (intrinsic)
form of anthropic principle called the Telic Principle, SCSPL evolves
by telic recursion, jointly configuring syntax and state while maximizing
a generalized self-selection parameter and adjusting on the fly to freely-changing
internal conditions. SCSPL relates space, time and object by means of
conspansive duality and conspansion, an SCSPL-grammatical process featuring
an alternation between dual phases of existence associated with design
and actualization and related to the familiar wave-particle duality
of quantum mechanics. By distributing the design phase of reality over
the actualization phase, conspansive spacetime also provides a distributed
mechanism for Intelligent Design, adjoining to the restrictive principle
of natural selection a basic means of generating information and complexity.
Addressing physical evolution on not only the biological but cosmic
level, the CTMU addresses the most evident deficiencies and paradoxes
associated with conventional discrete and continuum models of reality,
including temporal directionality and accelerating cosmic expansion,
while preserving virtually all of the major benefits of current scientific
and mathematical paradigms. Register
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