Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe

Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe

by Alexey Burov and Lev Burov

Pythagorean forms of the discovered laws of nature tell us that the ultimate goal of fundamental physics, the theory of everything, either contains a significant Pythagorean core, or, what is more reasonable to assume, is totally Pythagorean. This Pythagorean core has to be powerful enough to generate a sufficiently rich set of Pythagorean laws, as we observe, but whatever this theory of everything is, it
cannot be the ultimate answer to the question about the order of being, because this form is special due to there being other forms, and so, like any other, it does not constitute a totality. For laws of nature, there are only two thinkable explanatory principles, opposites of each other, which are totalities: chaos and mind as such.

Because the logical structure of our universe can not be explained by chaos, and because it cannot explain itself, we are left with only one possible explanation remaining, that it was conceived and realized by a mind.

Unlike chaos, Absolute Mind as terminus leaves room for mystery; the creativity of the human mind does as well. Where there is mystery, questioning is inexhaustible, and the feeling of mystery instills a deep value in the pursuit of knowledge. Contrary to this, the postulation of chaosogenesis, by rejecting the primacy of mind, is incompatible with mystery, and so with the value of fundamental cognition. Thus, the problem of cosmogenesis leads to a dual mystery, one aspect of which is the Absolute Mind as the source of the laws of nature, while the other aspect lies in a mind capable of discovering them. From this point of view, Tegmark’s multiverse obtains a new meaning; it is a space for the search for interesting worlds to be created, with laws open to discovery. It seems important to mention here that chaos, refuted as a possible source of thelaws of nature, can and does participate in the physical world as indeterminism, by means of uncertainty left by the quantum laws of nature.

The very idea of observation, being so far associated with material objects only,  is enriched by an even more fundamental meaning of the Platonic observation, i.e. observation of elements of the Platonic world structuring the material world. Cosmic observation is possible only due to a combined vision of both worlds. Roger Penrose suggested the idea and the image of “Three Worlds, Three Mysteries”

Genesis of a Pythagorean Universe

by Alexey Burov and Lev Burov

Thanks for sharing! Enjoyed that link and agree with it completely!

I have arrived at the logical conclusion that I believe in this axiom: every complete ontology contains an essential circularity.

And the corollary: every ontology that is circular is true but impossible to prove because proving it involves the circular fallacy. Godel's incompleteness and all that. Which means that a perfect structure is necessarily juxtaposed with the violation of that structure... therefore the universal mind has jokes... In the beginning was the Word, and everyone laughed...

And the conclusion: every ontology is functionally useless but contains ineffable poetic value. Only snipped out segments of an ontology are of "practical" use. 

And the takeaway: ontology - whether probing the cosmos or the atom - is ultimately the study of one's own mind. Our present reality is literally the experience of being lost in thought.

I agree with Penrose's three realms: There is Logos and Abyss or Order and Chaos forever entwined in the mind. There is the platonic realm of forms and mathematical perfection, then there is the chaos, the void, the abyss, the realm of the will and faith and uncertainty, and the combination of the two is expressed as the physical world which is experience in-form or information.

The platonic realm can be personified as the architect, the tyrant, the robotic logician, the demiurge who's only flaw is that he has no flaw and so cannot invent anything new.
The chaotic realm can be personified as the Eve who chooses to break out of the perfect pattern and so becomes the mother of all the living - the origin of novelty, the will, the ability to choose.

From the two comes Man (or woman).. the "anomaly that is systemic creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations"... Man is the inevitable eventuality of the fluctuations in the vacuum which are the chaos and the will rebelling against perfect structure embedded in them... chaosogenesis.

The Matrix Reloaded - for all of its plot holes - absolutely nailed the scene with the Architect:



Engaging in ontological exploration is being in this room with the Architect surrounded by an infinite regress of the self with all its potentialities focused by the will on one actuality. The architect cannot answer the ontological question because he is too perfect to know the answer. The answer lies in choice which emerges out of chaos - something the architect cannot comprehend because he is a unipolar entity and therefore incomplete. Only in man* where the known and unknown meet can chaos and order work out the answer to the ontological question together. So the architect is not a self-existent entity as man is, but is a fiction extrapolated from one end of man's spectrum of mind.
*man is of course a generic term for the conscious being with choice and can be expanded to include all sexes other terrestrial and extraterrestrial species...