A Different Kind of Theory of Everything

Sci, You find the best stuff!!!!!!  Had to look-up the meaning of the Rashomon effect.

I suspect I have a very generous daimon, at least in this regard.

I read about the excitement of a few decades ago, regarding information encoded on 2 dimensional surfaces as as encoding 3D holograms.  A physics constant based on the volume of an 3 D abstract object.....you got to love it.

Holography and the Holographic Principle: or why physics might entail some new reasons to take mind-body dualism seriously

Marcus Arvan

There’s a simpler way to put this: (A) the Holographic Principle (a hypothesis from physics) plus, (B) our ordinary-everyday conscious experience of the world as 3-dimensional (a simple, experiential fact) appear to jointly entail, (C) a kind of mind-body dualism. One simply cannot get a 3D hologram from physical information alone. You need a second, distinct medium outside of the physical information to read that information off, producing an image. But if this is right, then we might have some new reasons -- based on physics and ordinary-experience alone -- to think that mind-body dualism may be true.

Finally, I would like to suggest -- following some remarks I initially made in “A New Theory of Free Will” -- that perhaps something like this has to be true of any experienced 3D world.

To repeat an analogy that I used in that paper, suppose you wanted to know what materials and structures it takes to make a bridge. How would you figure it out? The obvious answer is: you’d try to build models of a bridge (and then a bridge itself), and see if the models work (good models reproduce the phenomena they are intended to model).

Now consider the following analogy. Suppose you wanted to figure out what it takes to make a reality— that is, a 3-dimensional world of objects to experience, navigate, use, etc. How should you do it? Here’s an obvious answer: try to make your own model of one! But now how? Well, we already know how. We’ve already created virtual worlds -- online, interactive environments with 3D virtual objects, people, etc., all of which we can interact with in real time. And what does it take to make such an environment? We've found that it takes two things: (1) software (i.e. information encoding “rocks”, “trees”, etc.), and (2) hardware (external processors to measure that information in real-time).

So, perhaps, if our reality is holographic, could this be because any 3D reality has to be holographic? Could it be that any three-dimensional world has to be constructed out of two things -- 2D information being read by an outside medium?