Recursion

To start with there is the Universe. Before that time didn’t exist so “before that” lacks any meaning. The cosmos consisted of simple rules, and energy which obeyed them (indeed the foundations and the energy are the same thing in essence, each can only exist together with the other and each is barely defined concerning another).
This can be physics, the rules on which our universe is reliant. Before physics, there was metaphysics, which would explain why these particular rules came into existence in lieu of different rules, possibly the rules of physics are the organised structures that took place from some lower-level recursion. (Ok, reading this article bit back, it sounds like BS extending its love to myself;-) )
These rules were (and are also) extremely easy, and so in the beginning, the vitality was arranged simply. Eventually, these rules caused the force to become more complex….similar to how the simple rule inside the Recursion example (this can be described as an example in a single of the Science of Discworld books, and to the “Game of Life” simulation that we had been discussing) develops into extremely complex yet seemingly orderly patterns when the results are viewed coming from a massively macroscopic viewpoint.
Since the complexity increased, larger scale patterns emerged. Viewed from sufficient distance, these patterns were almost everything that identify as superstrings. These continued to interact with another implementing the same original rules, causing further increases in complexity, perhaps giving us the sub-atomic particles, after which these interacted together, adding another stage complexity, an converting into perhaps atomic particles.
As more chance passed, these interacted further, still following the same simple rules but now on an massively more complex scale ��” the interactions of interactions of interactions (et cetera). The easy rules at this stage (this stage of recursion) are, at our current best guess, visible since the “forces” in modern physics ��” gravity, magnetism, “weak force” and “strong force”.
These forces are merely expressions of many underlying simpler rules with the atomic level. Atoms are merely expressions of the original energy after it has obeyed the first rules recursively to achieve a very stage complexity in which the pattern we call atoms emerged.
Once atoms (all hydrogen at this stage) emerged, they interacted, again from only the original simple rules but followed recursively, clumping together to form stars, whereupon the gravity (itself just a manifestation of your original rule zoomed out recursively to the atomic scale of things) caused these to fuse.
Fusion gave rise to further complexity as well as other elements were formed. All of this has happened simply as a consequence of energy pursuing the original simple rules, but on successively more and more complex levels (more levels of recursion).
Each degree recursion adds more complexity, and each increase in complexity allows more challenging interactions. In this sense, it will “self-driving” process. Complexity spawns further complexity. Following just the same rules, over and over, results in ever-increasing complexity, with apparently orderly patterns at higher and higher levels. The very first rules cause complexity to spring from simple beginnings, understanding that complexity increases recursively.
Here, we now have lots of different patterns on a scale we call atomic. We now have every one of the different elements. These complex things can now undertake interactions of any correspondingly further degree of complexity. Physics itself, the simple rules, has taken us from simplicity all over to Chemistry.
Further applying physics uses us from Chemistry to Biology, and Biology takes everybody the way in which to Consciousness, where thoughts themselves can be recursive.
Chemicals interact together, and at last, as time passes, chemical structures can form that merely so happen to connect to other chemical structures so with regard to copy themselves.
This triggers one more degree complexity, another stage recursion, as these replicators interact together and there was their surroundings. We have got so far just out of your same techniques of physics applied many times and again, recursively. Interactions of interactions of interactions of interactions.
For the scale of a typical replicators, natural selection occurs ��” replicators that replicate well become more numerous, not thinking of buying a external reason but simply basically because they replicate well. Natural selection, itself just a manifestation of the original rules, then drives further increases in complexity and we receive the development of cells, and then the interactions of cells with others and the surroundings a change in multi-cellular things coming into existence, which again interact and interactions between these increasingly complex entities can produce much longer complex entities.
Natural selection takes these complex entities through more stages complexity, and has caused some entities to develop mindset model of the planet that includes itself, recursion again. This really is consciousness, we are able to think not only thoughts, but thoughts about thoughts, and thoughts about thoughts about thoughts.
This consciousness is just a result of the unique simple rules applied repeatedly and again as time passes, at each degree recursion the foundations think you are targeted against a successively more advanced universe.
There can be no definite point where we go from “not alive” to “alive”, people argue various definitions, however it seems that basically there will be no cut-off point, it’s a continuous scale rather than a discrete one.
Therefore the issues we generally call “life” is only a are the effect of the first simple rules.
There will be no specific point when “life” becomes life, and no new force, no unique force in any meaningful sense.
There can be no “life energy”, there is only the original energy manifest in quite a few more and even more complex forms on successively higher scales of recursion.
Perhaps, to set some arbitrary labels on your scale of complexity, we could think the following when the results of the recursion of many fundamental, simple rules of physics:
Energy ��” superstrings ��” subatomic particles (on this scale the foundations are manifest because the four forces known to physics though they are focusing on attempting to find out what are the rules are with a more fundamental level) ��” atomic particles ��” chemicals ��” replicators ��” cells ��” multi-celled life ��” consciousness.
(this is often also partly why I don’t think its meangful to separate the fabric “physical” universe and also the immaterial “energy” universe, as this distinction seems somewhat artificial when you think about things at the single continuous scale above)
More technical things can interact in quite a few more complex ways, leading to the possibility of even more complex things, causing much more complex interactions. This is the closest comparison I can come up with into the “driving force” you mentioned, then again for the greater level of complexity in your everyday living, when natural selection is usually a better thanks to describe the “driving force”. (This “driving force” has been a term he designed to describe what moved god’s creatures, the mysterious “something” possessed by a living creature but not contained in a defunct one)
Energy and life (not to mention consciousness) are far apart on the scale. To write of “life energy” is meaningless, life is only a particular manifestation with hardly any energy after recursive following of the basic rules. There isn’t any difference between the energy within a human to your energy in a rock, it’s the same energy.
Along at the degree a spider, put simply it makes no sense to express that some “energy” disappears out of your spider when it dies, as energy is far far the scale. What i mean between a living spider as well as a dead a person is for the stage of complexity far above “energy”.
The difference would be that the massively complex structure of chemical interactions is disrupted and might no longer capabilities in that self-sustaining, reproducing way we call “life”. There can be no “category change” though, no mysterious “life energy” has departed from the spider, the vitality is all still there, and lost part of its organised complexity. Because of this, it slides the scale again and the spider is no longer a spider its just chemicals (without using the complex chemical interactions between components it reduces physically reduces). What has been lost is complexity and organisation, not energy.
The ultimate goal of physics is to see the original simple rules that started this whole process. On condition that they ever find those, physics is finished. In that acse will be opt for metaphysics to research where those rules came from, and why they had been simply because they happened to be as an alternative to something different
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