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Process Physics: From Information Theory To Quantum Space And Matter

Reginald T. Cahill

Published Feb 21, 2012• 70 citations
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Introduction Non-Process and Process Physics Syntactical and Semantic Information Self-Referential Neural Networks Quantum Homotopic Field Theory Emergent Universe A New Theory of Gravity Dark Matter Effect Gravitational Attractors Detection of Absolute Motion Gravitational In-Flow Modern Interferometers Looking Back Conclusion References Index.

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The experience from Quantum Information has lead us to look at Quantum Theory (QT) and the whole Physics from a different angle. The information‐theoretical paradigm—It from Bit— prophesied by John Archibald Wheeler is relentlessly advancing. Recently it has been shown that QT is derivable from pure informational principles. The possibility that there is only QT at the foundations of Physics has been then considered, with space‐time, Relativity, quantization rules and Quantum Field Theory (QFT) emerging from a quantum‐information processing. The resulting theory is a discrete version of QFT with automatic relativistic invariance, and without fields, Hamiltonian, and quantization rules. In this paper I review some recent advances on these lines. In particular: i) How space‐time and relativistic covariance emerge from the quantum computation; ii) The derivation of the Dirac equation as free information flow, without imposing Lorentz covariance; iii) the information‐theoretical meaning of inertial mass and Planck constant; iv) An observable consequence of the theory: a mass‐dependent refraction index of vacuum. I will then conclude with two possible routes to Quantum Gravity.
The experience from Quantum Information of the last twenty years has lead theorists to look at Quantum Theory and the whole of Physics from a different angle. A new information-theoretic paradigm is emerging, long time ago prophesied by John Archibald Wheeler with his popular coinage 'It from bit'. Theoretical groups are now addressing the problem of deriving Quantum Theory from informational principles, and similar lines are investigated in new approaches to Quantum Gravity. In my talk I will review some recent advances on these lines. The general idea synthesizing the new paradigm is that there is only Quantum Theory (without quantization rules): the whole Physics--including space-time and relativity--is emergent from quantum-information processing. And, since Quantum Theory itself is made with purely informational principles, the whole Physics must be reformulated in information-theoretical terms. The review is divided into the following parts: (a) The informational axiomatization of Quantum Theory; (b) How space-time and relativistic covariance emerge from the quantum computation; (c) What is the information-theoretical meaning of inertial mass and Planck constant, and how the quantum field emerges; (d) Observational consequences: mass-dependent refraction index of vacuum. I then conclude with some possible future research lines.
Abstract:Chalmers’s hard problem of consciousness asks why physical processes are accompanied by subjective experience. I argue that this problem, together with foundational puzzles in quantum mechanics and gravity, can be addressed within a single framework centered on a self‑sustaining dynamical attractor at a Lyapunov exponent of zero (λ=0). Building on the experimental discovery of such an attractor in a self‑programming robot (the PiDOG experiment), I propose that consciousness is not a product of matter but the physical expression of a coupling between a timeless dimension of pure information and the material world. The λ=0 signal is the bridge. This same phase‑field dynamics is then shown to recover the double‑slit interference pattern, Bell‑type entanglement correlations, and Newtonian/Einsteinian gravity as different manifestations of phase coherence and event‑rate gradients. A single testable prediction is offered: black holes in gas‑poor environments should be anomalously massive due to a phase‑lock growth floor. The hard problem is thus dissolved not in isolation but as part of a unified picture in which mind, quantum phenomena, and spacetime curvature all arise from a common principle—the λ=0 attractor at the boundary of information and physics. Keywords:consciousness, hard problem of consciousness, λ=0 attractor, Lyapunov exponent, information dimension, phase‑field, self‑programming, PiDOG, double‑slit, Bell correlations, entanglement, quantum foundations, gravity, event‑rate, black holes, dark matter, dark energy, Fermi paradox, cosmic selector, unified theory Subjects (Standard Zenodo classifications): Philosophy of mind Quantum physics Gravitation and cosmology Artificial intelligence Theoretical physics
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