TFNR - Immaterial forms
Material and immaterial are two particular terms, which are exposed to infinite misunderstandings, debates, opinions. With the term material we mean what has a relationship with matter. By contrast, immaterial is that which has no relation to matter.
The definition of matter is therefore crucial. As we saw in the previous chapter, in this knowledge system all that exists, which we can directly or indirectly experience (observe, measure, interact with) is Information, In-Form-Action, Action with a Form, the Form of Action...
In its less complex aspects, especially in the physical domain of Reality, we give Information the name of Energy.
We know that matter and energy are equivalent, or rather that matter has an equivalent amount of energy, which we must use to produce matter, and which matter releases when it is destroyed. Matter as "frozen" Energy.
In particle physics, material particles (fermions: electrons, neutrinos, quarks) and energetic (force-carrying) particles (bosons: gluons, W, Z, photons, higgs?) are identified.
So what is "materiality", where does it come from? From the "exclusion principle" that fermions manifest in occupying quantum states (and perhaps the same portion of space-time?)? Materiality is therefore intangibility?
In the chapter dedicated to Information Structures we have essentially identified two basic types of structures: waves and vortices. Waves as the essence of radiation (i.e. e.m. radiation) and of the energetic particles that compose it. Vortexes as the essence of matter and of the material particles that compose it. And again the Interactions that originate the composite particles, gradually more complex and exotic that we observe in the matter that composes us and surrounds us, in cosmic rays, in colliders, etc.
We have seen how the structures and their interactions that make up physical reality can be traced back to two large classes of derived entities, processes, phenomena: Energy and Matter. Both divisible into two subclasses, two faces of the same Reality, characterized by very different properties, even if both share a common nature (organization of the Elementary Events and their correlation in the organization of the Elementary Field under the incessant Action of the Fundamental Force): dark structures and visible structures.
Drawing from a famous film saga, we could speak of a dark side (dark radiation: gravitational waves (GW) and dark matter halos, low density large extension non-particle matter (NPM)) and of a light side (electromagnetic waves (EMW) and ordinary/hadronic matter (PM), emitting and absorbing light / electromagnetic waves).
Is it mass that confers intangibility? Or rather the vortex shape? Seems plausible.
So shouldn't we consider light, made up of electromagnetic waves or photons / bosons, as material? The light does not appear to be intangible. Due to the principle of complementarity, material particles (e.g. the electron) can be represented as waves, and waves as particles. What a mess...
A clear stance is needed, conceptual, which helps us understand what to define as material and what as immaterial.
We define as material everything that is formed by Physical Information Structures, waves, vortices and their interactions, and therefore dark radiation (GW) and dark matter (NPM), light and all electromagnetic radiation and particle matter, and all the interactions that take place between these forms of energy and matter. And again, we consider as material, related to matter, Energy, both dark (Dark Energy) and directly observable (potential and expressed, kinetic, electric, magnetic, weak and strong nuclear energy).
What can we therefore consider immaterial in the physical domain of Reality?
Certainly all the Information that we cannot define Energy and Matter, as defined above. Physical information of greater complexity, which cannot be considered Cognitive Information (the Information produced and exchanged by the cognitive systems of living beings and by automatons).
We refer, in particular, to the signals that are transmitted by the radiation (temperature, chemical composition, physical dynamics of the physical entities that produced it. The same thing for the particles of cosmic radiation.
Information relating to the shape of astrophysical and cosmological objects, etc. All the physical Information that is created, exchanged, transformed, destroyed in/by the physical phenomena that make up Nature, regardless of whether a cognitive system (an observer) observes it.
All physical information that cannot be considered cognitive, which does not have a meaning (whatever it is, from the most elementary, eg a thermal gradient, to the most complex, eg an economic relationship in a planetary human social system).
