Ετικέτα: science

• Assignment

  Is there order in nature? Is order an intrinsic property of nature or a property that we attribute to the natural world in order to feel connected to our creation? One of the oldest philosophical questions is approaching its maturity.

  The explanation isn’t obvious, but we can assign a modern direction to it.

  Anything we recognize in the natural world seems chaotic compared to the well-formed mathematical representations we have in mind. Even when the mathematics doesn’t fit, we turn it around until it makes sense. Sense, though, in relation to WHAT? Perhaps in relation to something we fantasize is identical to the probability of its own existence? For example, the ratio φ has been proven many times to be a non-creation chasing its own ghost. No matter how many words we say for φ we do not render it less real: it is embedded in the mathematical code of representations and, consequently, do not depend on the assignment of meaning (1).

  The order, that we know is not a property of nature, but rather the sufficient condition for the function of the brain (without the brain necessarily having to exist!). 

  The order {0,1}, the one we cannot know, is a necessary condition for the brain’s existence of itself, as something beyond a natural improbability. 

  The brain constructs a symbolic world solely for the purpose of housing, not itself, but the symbolic order of itself. A machine that produces order could not include its physical self within that order. 

  Conversely, it constructs a symbol of itself and structures both the contingent three-dimensional world and the symbolic, “naïve” brain that inhabits this world.

  Thus, part of the “caricature” of nature, a multiplied memory (2) that the brain constructs for its intention (3) to inhabit, is the representation relative to itself. And this part alone presents a dimensionless order {0,1} incomprehensible to the symbolic brain. This part, while presented as disorder, as chaos to consciousness, is nothing more than the probability of one brain within the disorder of another brain.

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  Notes

  (1) If the mathematical constants are embedded in the code of representations, as argued, then this code is not arbitrary. Conversely, it falls under the structure according to which the brain must operate. The ratio φ is the natural result of optimization in the development of organisms (e.g., spirals of snails, arrangement of leaves). This means that, while the brain recognizes the mathematical priority, at the symbolic level it imposes order arbitrarily.

  (2) “memory” is “assignment” in logical terms

  (3) “intention” is “image” in the “representation” logic

  2025-11-25

  philosophy, science

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