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Is the universe random?

In this episode, we discuss how the rise

of complexity in our universe supports a completely different

view.

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Standard science and physics specifically has been very

strong in believing that we live in a random universe,

that everything happens just because things are bumping

into each other by chance.

Somehow by this incredible fluke,

our world came about with all the biology on it,

and all the things we see, including us.

Is that possible?

Is it even feasible that the universe

would be the result of some random structure

that all of a sudden made up biology?

Our calculation shows absolutely not.

The rise of complexity, that is the rise of the organized bio

structure that we see on our planet, for instance,

cannot occur out of just random function.

The fact that everything in the universe has to be tuned just

right for this to happen, cannot be the result of just random

fluctuations.

There's got to be order.

The problem is that when you start

to talk about there's got to be order,

it scares the scientific community terribly.

The reason is historic.

Science was developed as a way to get away

from religion, a way to get away from the concept

that there's some creator sitting in a big throne that's

organizing creation.

Science needed to depart from that view.

And one way to do it was to assume that actually there

is no such thing, that everything is just random,

everything happens by chance, and we got here

just because the chances were good,

and we ended up showing up.

This is contrary to simple statistical analysis

of our universe.

One of the calculations one can do

is the probability of the nucleotides.

There is about 100 natural occurring nucleotides

that make up the RNA molecules.

And those are required for life to emerge.

Nucleotides form the basic structural components

or building blocks of DNA and RNA.

They are the repository of the genetic information

responsible for the transmission of inherited characteristics

from parents to children, and from one cell to another.

Ultimately, the morphological and functional uniqueness

of each living being are determined by the information

contained in them.

So even for a mono-cellular life, like one cell,

there's that need that molecule has to assemble in such a way

that about a hundred-trillion atoms would make a cell.

Well, when you calculate the probability of that happening

just by random chance, the nucleotide

trying to fit together, and just bumping into each other,

and getting the right configuration,

and all of a sudden making a cellular structure;

the probability are 1 multiplied by 10 to the 8,896.

That number is so huge that the probabilities can pretty well

be thought to be zero.

Let's use another example the universe is really, really big.

You could measure the radius of the universe in centimeters.

A centimeter is very, very small compared to the universe.

Think of the solar system is already big, right?

There's billions and billions of stars to almost 200

billion stars in our galaxy.

Galaxies are big.

Galaxies are very, very teeny compared to our universe.

When you look at the galaxy from our universal size,

it looks like a star.

You can't even see that it's composed of stars.

So you'd say, if I'm going to measure

the radius of the universe in centimeters,

I'm going to need a lot of centimeters.

Well, the radius of the universe in centimeters

is approximately 10 to the 28 centimeters.

10 to the 28 is a very, very large number then.

So imagine the probability that nucleotides

would just all of a sudden bump into each other

just right, to come out with life

are in the probabilities of 10 to the 8,896.

Basically, you could say those probabilities are zero.

Right?

It's just not going to happen that way.

One approach has been to invoke infinite universes.

And say, well, in an infinite amount of universes,

there would be more probabilities

that all of a sudden one of those universes

would get the nucleotides right, and would get all the pieces

right, and life would emerge.

This is really a cop-out.

It scares the scientists to say, oh,

there might be an organizing mechanism.

Because they start thinking, oh, that's sounding like religion.

Well, there's a whole lot more simpler explanation

than some god organizing creation,

or the universe is completely random,

and somehow in an infinite amount of universes,

we just happen to luck out and be in the universe that

has exactly the right configuration for everything

to just come right, and end up with us.

The alternative is that there is feedback in the information

of the universe.

As soon as you have feedback, you have organization.

And this is what we see in the natural world.

We see species that modifies their structure, that modifies

their behavior, based on the feedback they

get from the environment.

You change the environment, the species change.

They start adapting.

The self-organizing structure and the rise

of complexity in our world may be the result of the feedback

structure, of the information network that's

occurring at all the scales, which

is what our equations describe.

Remember from what we learned so far throughout these episodes,

there is a field of information, the Planck fluctuation

at the basis of everything.

The way the information organizes

produces little scales and bigger scales

across all of the universe.

And the information in each one of those scales

can be radiated from the center out, and absorb in again,

one being the electromagnetic field

and one being the gravitational field.

The information feedback would produce higher and higher level

of organization, very, very rapidly.

A good example is a Rubik's cube.

Think of a blind person trying to order a Rubik's cube.

While if you calculate the probabilities

of that blind person ordering the Rubik's cube by chance,

because they don't know if they're getting closer

or further from the solution, and let's

assume that they're making a move every second.

So every second they make a move.

You can calculate the probability

of them ordering it by chance about 158 or 160 billion years.

Our universe we know is approximately 13.7-13.8 billion

years.

So it exceeds the time of the universe by a long shot.

But if you give feedback to that person, that

is every time they move the Rubik's cube, every time they

make a move, you say yes or no; yes, you're getting closer;

no, you're getting further.

Then about 2 to 2 and 1/2 minutes, the Rubik's cube

will be ordered, just with a simple binary feedback, yes,

no.

Think about the feedback that's going

on in all of the structures of the universe,

with the Planck field being each bit of information

feeding back into this loop, into these toroidal dynamics

of spacetime.

The system is learning about itself.

The system is absorbing information,

injecting information, and exchanging information

through this incredible structure network of spacetime.

The network is learning about itself.

We see this in biology.

Think of microbes learning about the environment

and modifying themselves so that they

can be more and more efficient in the environment.

Think of viruses modifying themselves,

like the cold virus every year is a little different,

because it adapts itself to learn about the environment

and be more efficient.

So this alternative to understanding the rise

of the complex nature of biology in the universe

and the organization of the universe,

tells us something very profound about ourselves,

but as well something very profound about consciousness,

and awareness in our universe.

That is that awareness and consciousness is not

something that's only localized to the brain of a human being.

But that the brain of a human being

may be actually part of a feedback of information

at the Planck scale, at the quantum scale.

It's feeding information into the quantum scale.

The quantum scale is feeding back experiences,

in a continuous feedback feed-forward loop.

Think of yourself throughout the day.

You emanate thermodynamically.

As you radiate information, as you radiate thermodynamically,

you're making very coordinated actions.

You're doing things.

You're absorbing information from the stuff around you,

through your eyes, through your nose, through your senses.

You're getting information.

You're feeding that back through the Planck field

that makes you into all of the Planck memory

network of spacetime.

I call it space memory network, because without memory, there

is no time.

If you can't remember anything before this moment,

you don't know that there's a linear movement of time,

that there's a linear function of time.

No memory, no time.

So it's more accurate to describe space memory then

space time.

What I mean by that is that when you're

flowing through space, when you are interacting with the Planck

field, when you're interacting with the information

of the field, you are leaving an imprint,

frame dragging across space.

Remember, the planet is going at very high velocity

through space, as it's going around the sun,

and the sun's going in this galaxy, and so on.

You're leaving information on the structure of space

in coordinates in space and time is just information

on the coordinates of space.

So your memory and the memory that

makes it so that biology or atomic structure

can organize eventually into biology, the memory of space

and time is what you're actually thinking of as your memory.

When you remember something, you're

accessing information in the coordinates of space time

where that action took place.

You are entangled with this information set.

That is a completely different view of who you are.

All of a sudden, your brain is not

manufacturing consciousness or an epi-phenomena

of consciousness.

But your brain is more like an antenna,

connecting to information sets, and these information

set producing reactions in your body that you act upon.

This is the feedback structure of the space memory network,

as we describe it.

And we wrote papers on this.

It changes completely our understanding of ourself

and our interaction with the universe.

So you might ask then, is everything conscious?

Because if the information flow is across all the scales,

you can imagine a star that's spinning through space

is affecting the memory network in its region, the Planck

field, and making smaller vortices which

spins out that we call stars.

And then these stars can make smaller vortices

at the event horizon that spins out

into particles we call protons.

And electrons, and table of elements, and all this

stuff coming out of stars.

And then these organize into smaller vortices

created by the star in the Planck field

that we call planets.

And then on the surface of those planets, these atoms that were

made by the stars organize.

And then they start feeding information

into the feedback loop of spacetime,

and start organizing into systems that are

getting more and more complex.

So it's like the whole universe is conspiring.

And you can't say consciousness starts here,

and anything before that is not consciousness.

Because it's all of the information

flow throughout that whole chain of events

that eventually gets to the complexity large enough

that the system becomes self-aware.

Because I mean when you say we're conscious,

we're a bag of fluids, mostly water with minerals in it,

that have organized themselves in a certain way.

Well, if this bag of water and minerals

is an antenna for information, then this information

flow or what we call consciousness is everywhere.

Everything is conscious.

But consciousness is the mechanics of the information

through the whole thing.

So that the rock over there is really

just part of this mechanics that eventually produced

the complexity necessary for a system to become self-aware

which is a remarkable thing.

It's a universe learning about itself

to the point that it becomes aware of itself.

And it grows into a more and more complex system.

Hopefully our civilization will learn about itself fast enough,

so that it will survive some of the larger challenge

that it has created for itself by a misunderstanding

of its relationship with the universe.

It's like spacetime is the hard drive that's

getting imprinted all of the information of the structure

as it moves through it, and all of the complexity.

So a planet moving through the Planck field

is leaving a very specific trail that's more simple,

that's less complex.

As the planet spiraled through space,

and this is important as well, the mechanics

are not where systems come back on themself.

But they actually evolve as they move through space.

So our Sun is moving through the galaxy.

Our planets are spiraling around it.

And we're leaving a trail of information.

And this is how we imprint the structure of spacetime

with the information that we think of as our memory.

You could even think of it as the gene set that makes

who you are who you are.

Think of all the information of all the ancestry

of your mother, and your father, and their grandmother,

and all of the genetic information

that eventually makes you, how can that

be contained in the simple molecules of biology?

Well, it's not.

These molecules are imprinted with the information which

is in the structure of space.

These molecules are accessing the information

of almost an infinite amount of genealogy

of all of your ancestors throughout the structure

of space, which makes so that your nose is

a little bit like this, and your eyes

is a little bit like that, and your ears.

But it's still not your grandfather

or your grandmother, it's something different.

It's something that has evolved.

Because you're spiraling.

Because the universe is learning.

Each generation is learning at a different rate,

at a different level, at a different level of complexity.

Think of the complexity of the life of our generation.

And then I have children.

And when I look at my children, they

learn so much faster than I learned when I was younger,

because their environment is different

as well, because we've evolved.

So now they have a smartphone in their hands at the age of 9,

where we were still bicycling around, throwing balls

in the backyard at that age.

They are getting information from the internet

about anything they want to know.

So the whole thing is learning about itself.

And we're leaving the information

in the structure of spacetime as we move through space

for the generation to come.

But as well, we're projecting information in our future.

That is we have the capacity to take

the information of the past, arrange it in certain ways,

to intend certain things in the future.

Well, since the whole memory network structure of spacetime

is wormhole connected, think of the Plancks behind me

are influencing the Plancks in front of me.

So there's a certain path that is being laid in front of me.

This is what we think of as destiny.

The natural flow of creation, the natural flow

of the universe, we think we have free will.

Yeah, we may have free will locally.

But we're part of a larger flow, all the other human beings

on the planet, all of the animals,

the movement of the planet through space, the sun,

the galaxy, all this.

We can all overcome this.

We can start to influence the flow more.

The way we interpret the information of the past

is going to influence the way the information organize

in our future.

So with our intent, we can interpret the past in a way

that we get more of the future we want, and less of the future

we don't want.

When we change as well our interaction with the past,

we're not just changing it for us.

This is how we change in the present.

We think of the past in a different way.

This is the concept of, for instance, psychology.

Right?

You think about past events that influenced you,

and maybe the psychiatrist or the psychologist

can give you a new perspective on it.

And then you'd think about it differently.

And it changes you in the present.

And this is why I believe the phenomenon of epigenetics

is starting to be discovered.

Epigenetics involve genetic control by factors other than

an individual's DNA sequence.

It works through chemical tags added

to chromosomes that in effect switch genes on or off.

This affects how cells read the genes.

Epigenetic change is a regular and natural occurrence,

but can also be influenced by several factors,

including age, the environment, lifestyle,

and plays a critical role in disease.

The genes that you have at birth are not stuck in cement.

They evolve.

They change.

They change, because you change.

And you're changing the past.

Einstein's field equation predicts

that you can modify the past, and that you can time travel.

This new view of spacetime starts

to give you a little bit more of the mechanics

and the understanding of not just how that's possible,

but how the existence of the human beings

is actually doing that all the time.

Time is information in coordinates

in space, in which each coordinate is a Planck time.

It's very, very short time.

So it's like frames.

And the frames are rolling, just like a movie frame,

rolling at the speed of light.

So it appears smooth.

But even the movement of your hand in space

is not smooth, meaning that it's not clear

how to measure the movement of your hand

in space, because you can measure it in standard physics.

You would say, OK, it left point A at this time.

It arrived at point B at this time.

It traveled this distance.

I can calculate the velocity of the hand through space.

It was going at 3 miles an hour.

What is forgotten when you do this measurement is that you've

isolated the system.

You've made it an isolated system.

You've isolated your hand from all the other movements

in the universe.

If you're honest about what's going on with your hand,

while you're moving from point A to point B,

you have to add the speed of the Earth, because as you move,

the Earth was spinning.

And then you have to add the rotation of the Earth

around the Sun, as you move your hand, and the Sun

in the galaxy, and so on.

And so now your hand is going at very, very

close to the speed of light very quickly.

So what is movement becomes complex, right?

Well you could think of movement in a completely different way.

You could think of movement as you recorded your hand

in the Planck field at this coordinates in space,

and then the next Planck second, so your hand

became the whole Planck field.

And then it became your hand again

at the next Planck second, but in a coordinate

that's a little bit beside it.

And so your hand then is undoing and redoing,

and undoing and redoing, and undoing.

And everything in the universe is fluctuating like that

as it's creating and as it's moving to space.

The thing to remember from this is

that you are not separate from the dynamics that

produces supernovas, and stars, and galaxies, and universes,

and the structure of spacetime at the Planck scale.

You're part of this flow of information.

And what you call your body and the complexity

of the biology all around you, the fractal nature

of the trees, and the plants, and everything;

is all an emergence of this information flow,

including what you think of as your consciousness.

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