A Kabballah view of information in life Part 1 (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Sunday, July 10, 2016, 00:33 (2819 days ago)

This is an extremely long essay By a computer expert who also quotes from the Kabbalah. I can reproduce only a little, but He convers the way I think about the Creation and the place of information and consciousness in the scheme of things:-https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/information-connecting-two-sides-reality-gutman-levitan?trk=prof-post-Humanity has not been provided with complete design documentation of the universe and with a clear reason: whatever scientists discover, engineers use for development of a deadlier weapon. For the sake of survival, the state of our knowledge needs to be in balance with the state of our morality. So we've got Scripture long before the nuclear bomb. Facing the nature as the end product of creation, physicists, chemists and biologists are working hard in order to figure out decisions made on higher levels of the world design. In a sense, they are looking for source code of the universe though many of them still believe that the universe was not created but just happened accidentally.-***-Bio-information that has been found in nature in 20th century doesn't fit well in the doctrine of materialism. Nevertheless in 21st century the information is studied by scientists including those who are materialists, as money is widely accepted without questioning its source.-***-Meanwhile information written on a material carrier, such as organic molecules, is just a tip of data iceberg existing beyond the man-made realm. Most of universe information is loaded on a spaceless spiritual carrier that is invisible via physical instruments. Reverse engineering of spiritual world advances understanding of design, communication and control in the universe. This, in turn, allows to catch a glimpse on mysteries of life and information-related issues of world creation.-Whereas this article is about information rather than critique of materialism, it shows that a world view that rejects existence of spiritual side of reality is hindering understanding of modern physics, biology and computer science.-***-Information exists in both conscious and unconscious modes. In a conscious source, information exists as a thought expressed in a language and in a conscious destination, as the thought induced by the language expression. In unconscious source and unconscious destination information exists as a language expression loaded on a carrier. The existential mode depends on the carrier. Any physical or chemical carrier, such as radio waves, computer memory or organic molecules, is not conscious by definition. On the other hand, a spiritual carrier, such as human mind, can be either conscious or unconscious.-Consciousness is consciousness, neither matter nor energy nor information. It is a spiritual phenomenon observed as the ability to feel, specifically, to feel meaning of information. A thought is a kind of feeling that can be expressed in a language. -***-Transforming the mode of information from the spiritual to the physical and vice versa the energy drives a meaningful growth, functioning and reproduction of everything that is live according to information written on the energy. When, for example, a plant dies it doesn't grow anymore and doesn't produce oxygen from carbon dioxide.- In the sense of making difference between what is live and what is not the proto-physical energy has been known as “vital” energy from time immemorial. However in the 20th century the concept was abandoned as inappropriate for materialism.-The relationship between the world creation plan and creation itself is similar to relationship between design and production. Whereas design is a top-down process that starts with a statement of purpose and ends with description of all product components, production is a bottom-up process that starts with manufacturing of parts and ends with assembling of entire product. Respectively, creation of material world starts with emergence of elementary particles. On the other hand, scientists are studying first matter as the most obvious natural phenomena, then energy as less obvious and so they proceed in a direction opposite to the advance of creation. In this sense science is reverse engineering of creation.-***-Probably the emergence of electromagnetism, which includes visible light, is the point where spirituality has disappeared but matter has not come into existence yet. This is why the important event is included in the Genesis account: And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. (Genesis 1:3).-***-Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon of space independence discovered in physics of elementary particles. It should be noted that particles themselves are not space-independent but some of their properties are or, more precisely, can be under certain conditions. Apparently this is a residue of spirituality in early forms of physical energy that precede emergence of matter.-Comment: I've skipped a great deal to give a smattering of his approach

A Kabballah view of information in life Part 2

by David Turell @, Sunday, July 10, 2016, 00:44 (2819 days ago) @ David Turell

To continue: - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/information-connecting-two-sides-reality-gutman-levitan?... - Space independence revealed by quantum entanglement is limited in usage and probably in range. Apparently the limited space irrelevance is inherited from the previous stage of creation that starts with emergence of gravity and ends with emergence of electromagnetism. At that stage, an energy emerges that is neither spiritual nor physical but have properties of both so connecting two sides of reality. The energy is known as “vital force” from time immemorial but has never been detected in a scientifically arranged experiment. This is because science has not reached the early stage of creation yet, though has approached it very closely. - Without FTL information delivery the universe would be uncontrollable and, as a result, chaotic. The universe is in order, at least partly, because data of observations are timely delivered to the controlling source and data of decisions are timely delivered to the controlled destination in spite of universe distances measured in thousands and millions of light years. - *** - The Internet comprises many regional systems connected by Internet backbones. A backbone is a high-speed networks typically made of fiber trunk lines and fast core routers that are the largest and most capable routers of the current generation. - In the universe, the function of backbone is performed by a spiritual carrier. As soon as information is loaded on the spaceless carrier, it becomes instantly “everywhere” in the universe. But being everywhere the information is actually accessible only by the intended destination i.e., an entity or process that is provided with a proper identifier. - The “pure” spiritual energy however does not interact with a physical entity or process directly. For control of a physical destination, the mode of information has to be changed from spiritual to physical. The vital energy, being both spiritual and physical, serves as a bridge between the spiritual and physical layers of nature. Transforming the mode of information, it performs the function of regional carrier. - *** - The human mind can pay attention to (be conscious of) one or few things at a time. As a result, time pressure negatively influences driver's decision-making ability. Automatic systems, such as auto transmission and antilock brakes, help by performing a part of the work. - *** - A reasonable combination of conscious and automatic control, which is practiced in the man-made realm, should be expected in the nature as well. The solar planetary system is considered as a perfect, “maintenance-free” one. Nevertheless Newton, who saw evidence of design in the universe, insisted that from time to time divine intervention is necessary in order to adjust planet orbits. Today we know that the universe features free-floating planets and other not so perfect stuff. - Information that controls growth, formation and protection of live organism exists in different modes. Some organic molecules are physical carriers of information. For example, genetic data are transferred through generations in DNA molecules. Endocrine cells produce hormone molecules traveling through the blood in order to carry instructions from endocrine glands to cells all over the body. The conscious control of body is performed by a command that is originated in the spiritual mind and delivered to its destination in the physical mode. - Due to the attention limit imposed on the mind, most of life-supporting processes, such as blood pressure control, are necessarily unconscious. After the death the processes become irrelevant and it is unclear what happens to information that directs them. It is possible that the free soul is completely or mostly conscious. But at the time of embodiment, the conscious soul is put in the unconscious state for at least nine months. A newborn human is slowly awakening from the “anesthesia” during a few years after his or her birth. As a result, no soul can choose the time and the place of its birth as well as the parents. - *** - Normally we have no conscious memory about our past lives. This is apparently because the information is relatively irrelevant to the present life and the reincarnated soul is given a chance to start from scratch. The burden of good, bad and terrible memories of past lives remains somewhere in unconscious, not awakened part of soul. (my comment: Kabballah teachings) - *** - Only a dead body is truly material. - A live cell is the smallest live entity. A live body is growing from a single cell through cells division. A cell divides because it receives a command to do so. The command specifies whether the new sell has to be of the same or a different type. Dead cells do not divide, they decompose.

A Kabballah view of information in life Part 3

by David Turell @, Sunday, July 10, 2016, 00:54 (2819 days ago) @ David Turell

And still more: - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/information-connecting-two-sides-reality-gutman-levitan?... - The nervous system is carrying information i.e., instructions and data inside of live body. But before the system is established in the process of organism development from a single cell the information is carried by spiritual energy to all live cells that already make up the body. The source of the information is a spiritual model of the body provided by a soul assigned to every live creature at the time of conception. Therefore every live creature is a spiritual soul integrated with organic matter on the levels of cells, organs and the entire body. - However a system driven by information existing in the unconscious spiritual mode doesn't show any conscious behavior, such as an unexpected response to a command. In the sense of behavior, it is indistinguishable from an automatic system, which is driven by information existing in the physical mode. This is the reason why materialists see the live body as a machine, though “biological”. - Meanwhile a broken machine can be repaired today or tomorrow or a year later. But as soon as the spiritual soul departs, the body becomes truly physical. A dead body is not a machine but an unstable structure that decomposes fast. Even being preserved by freezing or in some other way the physical body will never be live again. - As discussed above, before the embodiment the conscious soul is put in the unconscious state for at least nine months. A newborn baby is awakening from the “anesthesia” and starts to show signs of conscious behavior. But most of life supporting processes remain unconscious to the end of life because of the limits imposed on attention: your mind cannot be conscious simultaneously about many things that are going on in your body. - The mind of a live human is not strictly spiritual. - *** - As to the live body and mind, they are neither simply physical nor spiritual but spanning the both sides of reality. - *** - The organism development is directed (controlled) by information, including information stored in cell nucleus. - *** - In the case of human, the spiritual data model is provided (carried) by human soul, in the case of lizard, a different data model is provided by the soul of lizard and so for all species with different body plans. In all cases the soul -- a spiritual entity directs conversion of stem cells into cells of muscle, blood, brain and so on, as well as the development of proper organs from the cells and the entire body from the organs. - If you start implementation of a project without a finished design, your project has little chance to succeed. Therefore the complete spiritual model of a new organism should be ready at the start of organism development - *** - The development of human being from a single cell to the organism comprising 100 trillion cells is directed by collection of data whose volume greatly exceeds 100 trillion data units because each stem cell has to be instructed how to specialize and each specialized cell has to be placed at a unique location, properly connected to the adjacent cells and so on. The amount of information cannot be contained in human genome comprising 3.2 billion letters of A, T, G and C alphabet. Therefore the information is not located in the initial single cell but provided by the soul assigned to the cell. In the very beginning when the “body” consists of just one cell, the tremendous amount of information exists in the spiritual mode i.e., being loaded on a carrier that exists independently from space and for this reason is invisible via physical instruments. - *** - The growing body is gradually filled with “soulware” in the process of organism formation. Embodiment of soul is opposite to death: at the time of embodiment the free soul is provided with vital energy and so is held by gravity inside of the body. Gravitation is the only of four fundamental forces acting on everything that has mass and/or energy. Thus gravitation holds the otherwise space-independent soul inside of the unipresent body as long as the soul has vital energy. At the time of death, the bound soul is losing its vital energy and separates from the body.

A Kabballah view of information in life Part 4

by David Turell @, Sunday, July 10, 2016, 01:01 (2819 days ago) @ David Turell

Creation: - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/information-connecting-two-sides-reality-gutman-levitan?... - A mystery of modern cosmology is an astrophysical observation that dark energy is not diluted in the expanding space [5]. The relatively recent observation being considered together with the ancient revelation of Kabbalah, according to which the world was created by contraction of divine light [4] leads to the conclusion that space is something made of matter, energy, dark matter and dark energy rather than nothing filled with all of the above. - In a universe expanding due to additional empty space, energy that already exists is diluted. In a universe where the additional space is made of the low-density dark energy that emerges first when the spiritual energy is compressed, the new dark energy may have the same density as one previously existed. If so, space made of energy and matter emerged together with energy and matter and not before. - Genesis account of six day creation does not mention the day zero but New Testament reveals: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1). The meaning of the verse has been a subject of argument in Cristian theology but “In the beginning” could very well refer to the start of creation. ...
Today we would say: on the day zero there was information (the Word) about the world to be created, the plan of Creator (and the Word was with God). There was information in the spiritual mode and no physical vehicle for carrying the information through space, yet to come into existence. - *** - Still the most intriguing part of the verse is “and the Word was God” because taken literally it points to the name of Creator. In Kabbalah, the four-letter true name of God, YHVH in Latin notation, is associated with the world creation. According to Kabbalah, the first Hebrew letter Yud symbolizes the initial contraction of divine light, the second letter Hei - the initial expansion, the third letter Vav - a sudden extension and the repetition of letter Hei at the end - an expansion again, rather gradual than explosive. Interestingly the symbolism was not lost in Latin: letters Y, H and V also look like symbols of compression, expansion and explosion respectively. Therefore in Kabbalistic terms the four letters of God's name represent four stages of creation. Returning to John 1:1 we can say that being understood literally the verse says that at the beginning there was a plan of creation presented on the upper level of design by the four letters of the true name of God. - *** - Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) is celebration of creation and in 2014 it was 5775th anniversary. Does the Jewish tradition contradicts the scientific findings? - But there is no reason to celebrate Big Bang in the first place. The event marks neither the beginning nor completion of creation. Apparently the completion should be marked with the creation of man rather than bang. - *** - And why are chimpanzees still alive and well but all those pre-humans are not? Meanwhile the explanation is simple: none of the pre-humans was ever intended to be an end product of creation. All of them were prototypes for testing the “bipedal locomotion” and other cool features of the final human being. Just imaging the legal mess in a democratic society if this were otherwise i.e., if a clear line between living humans and living apes cannot be drawn or races would be physically, intellectually or spiritually not equal. - Rosh Hashanah celebration points to creation of mankind as the end product and final goal of creation. No matter how strange this may sound, the “species” with fully developed language and spirituality came into existence about 6000 years ago according to scientific findings. This is the time when writing (3200 B.C.) and literature (2600 B.C.) emerged. Earlier traces of information-related activities, such as clay tokens and proto-writing, are no match to true writing and arts and apparently could be attributed to testing of the pre-human spiritual and language abilities according to the plan and schedule of creation. - Comment: It should be apparent to all that I have adopted much of the Kabballah thinking, but have only read one book on the subject.

A Kabballah view of information in life Part 4

by BBella @, Monday, July 11, 2016, 22:54 (2817 days ago) @ David Turell


> Comment: It should be apparent to all that I have adopted much of the Kabballah thinking, but have only read one book on the subject.-Which book did you read, David, if you don't mind me asking?

A Kabballah view of information in life Part 4

by David Turell @, Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 00:41 (2817 days ago) @ BBella


> > Comment: It should be apparent to all that I have adopted much of the Kabballah thinking, but have only read one book on the subject.
> 
> Which book did you read, David, if you don't mind me asking?-Endless Light, The Ancient Path of the Kabbalah, by David Aaron, 1998 paperback. He is a rabbi in Israel. the long essay makes much of the use of light, and as the first step in creation, 'let there be light'. Note that Turok in his bouncing universe uses light.

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