TFNR - A recipe for cooking Reality
As anticipated, in this section, I will endeavor to follow a top-down approach, imagining myself as the cook, the creator deity (very immodestly) grappling with the monumental task of generating the intricate tapestry of existence that unfolds before our eyes. I will attempt to identify the ingredients, the preparations, the primary methods, the steps to execute the recipe, and how to plate and serve the masterpiece. A top-down approach to understanding the essence of Reality.
If I were God, or perhaps to temper the idea - If I were a "Source of Reality", tasked with creating a Reality from Nothing, what could I do? What could I employ to construct and give birth to a Reality from scratch?
How would I initiate and orchestrate a Process of Formation of Reality?
From nothing... From Nothing... Form Nothingness.
"Oh God, how could I harness 'nothing'... the Nothing... to create Emptiness, and then craft Something... guiding it to evolve into Everything... to realize the Whole?"
Formation: Creation + Evolution.
Reality, to come into existence (in an almost eternal state devoid of Time), awaits its first expression from a Force - often imagined by humanity as God - a manifestation, an initial Action emanating from a Source, the Primary Source of Reality.
God as a mystical representation of an unknowable, unqualifiable, unconditionable, undescribable Source of Existence and Essence/Form, the Primary Source, the Source of Reality.
God, envisioned as a mystical embodiment of an unknowable, ineffable, unconditionable, indescribable Source of Existence and Essence/Form, the Primary Source - the ultimate Source of Reality.
Without a Source, we cannot cook! And we cannot eat!
Like any esteemed recipe, it demands ingredients (inputs) and methods (a sequence of actions) to craft the desired dishes (outputs). Beyond that, we require "Agency" and its product, "Action", we need an "Agent" (a Force) to execute the proper methods, the sequence of actions upon the inputs, an "Acted" (a Field), producing the outputs. A transformation - a trans-Form-Action - a shift in Form. Together, the Agent and the Acted, Force and Field, constitute a unified whole: a Source.
As with cooking, applying this analogy to Reality, to "Create an Evolving Universe", to produce the outputs, we require specific ingredients and precise methods.
Ingredients
- Nothing, or rather, Nothingness
- a Source (a Source of Existence and Essence / Form, a unified Entity capable of performing the fundamental and elementary Agency required to form Reality), composed of two aspects:
- a Force, the active aspect of the Source, the Agent, the subject that enacts Agency, a causal agent which, through infinitely diverse forms, can operate and shape Reality, acting as a set of Operators of Reality,
- a Field, the passive aspect of the Source, the Acted, upon which Agency is performed, a variational acted that, in infinitely diverse expressions, assumes the countless forms of Reality.
Oh... I've included the cook and the kitchen among the ingredients - strange, perhaps - but here we are contemplating the process of cooking the Universe, of crafting Reality from Nothing, so...
Methods
- We must follow a Process of Formation to transform Nothing into Everything, Nothingness into Wholeness, transitioning through Emptiness and Somethingness:
- to transmute Nothing into the Absolute Vacuum - i.e. to pass from the condition, to move from the state of Nothingness to that of Emptiness- we need a sub-process, the sub-process of Creation: the Source in the act of producing Events, Action,
- to transmute Absolute Vacuum into any single "thing" that exists - i.e. to pass from the condition, to move from the state of Emptiness to that of Somethingness, and ultimately to Wholeness, we require another sub-process, the sub-process of Evolution, the Source in the act of organizing Events, producing Relations, Information (In-Form-Action), Structures, Forms, Systems, the Universe as a whole.
That of the Source of Reality is, of course, an impersonal, unintentional, involuntary expression.
Creation and Evolution as the two complementary sub-processes of the Process of Formation of Reality.
Outputs
- Emptiness (the Absolute Vacuum, absolutely stochastically independent Events)
- Somethingness (the things that exists, organized correlated Events)
- Wholeness (everything, the Universe)
And that is:
- Action (Events)
- Information (Relations)
- Structures of Information (the organization of Event and Relations in medium-complexity Processes)
- Forms (the organization of Event and Relations in highly complex Processes)
- Universe (the complete set of low, medium, and high-complexity organizations of Events and Relations in Processes)
A few more notes on the available ingredients and the anticipated outputs...
Operators of Reality
Reality Operators are Agents derived from the primary Agent - the Fundamental Force, the active aspect of the Source, responsible for the action of the different parts of the formative sub-processes:
- Force Existence (ES): the Operator that enacts Agency in the Creation of Existence, producing Events through the internal interaction between the two aspects of the Source - the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field,
- Perturbation (Variation), Translation (Propagation), and Rotation (Conservation): the three Operators governing the Dynamics of Action, within the sub-process of Creation,
- Force Relation (REL): the Operator that enacts Agency in the Evolution of Essence / Form, propelling the establishment of Relations between Events and steering the Evolution of Reality's Essence / Form through interactions and connections among the Events,
- Organization, Transformation, and Selection - : the three operators governing the Dynamics of Information, within the sub-process of Evolution,
- Wave, Vortex, Interaction: the three operators acting at the level of the Structures of Information (e.g., Ordinary Matter Particles and Waves, Dark Matter Halos and Waves),
- Form: the operator that shapes and defines the objects comprising the entire Universe.
States
A few more words about the macro-states, or better the "macro dynamical conditions" of the Elementary Field that I mentioned above:
- Nothingness: absence of Existence. Non-Existence or Inexistence (absence of the cook and the kitchen, of the ingredients, of the preparation methods, etc.)
- Emptiness: Absolute Void (or Absolute Vacuum): presence of Existence, but absence of Essence / Form. The "without form" (presence of the cook and the kitchen, the will to cook and the basic actions, absence of everything else)
- Somethingness: from the Relative Void to the Forms, any single object that make up the Universe, passing through waves/radiation, vortices/particles/matter and their interactions (presence of the cook and the kitchen, the will to cook and the basic actions, preparation of the ingredients, application of the methods, progressively more compressed actions, presence of intermediate preparations, etc.)
- Wholeness: the Everything. The Universe in Evolution, in its completeness (the complete lunch, fully cooked and served)
Let's start cooking Reality...
Preparation
- in the quality of the Source of Reality, in the aspect of the Primary Agent, the Fundamental Force, perform the sub-process of Creation: shake the Nothing (producing the incessant and continuous spatial variations in resonance around the Planck scale that we call Elementary Events), forever, without any pause. Be careful, if you stop shaking the Nothing even for an infinitesimally small instant, the Void, which you have built with so much difficulty and toil, will disappear instantly and you may have to start over from the beginning (just like when mayonnaise splits and you have to start over from scratch)
- now that you have prepared the Void, the Absolute Void, perfect and complete uniformity of the temporal distributions of the spatial fluctuations (make sure you don't stop stirring the mixture), try to change a little the rhythm with which you stir the mixture. Introduce a little "uncertainty" in the speed, in the trajectories, in the positions, in the energy you put into stirring it. Oh... by the way... know that you have just created the dimensions. Let's call them: Space and Time!
- light the fire and let it cook forever, with the gas on at the right temperature (intensity of the Force) and everything in the pot duly covered with the right density (the resistance of the Field, constraints)
- always turning slowly, with an uncertain hand, you will see that in the preparation will form small vortices, ripples, let's call them waves, "Structures" in the turbulence that will tend to aggregate in strange Forms sometimes changing, sometimes more stable
- an immediate rapture will seize you and you will find yourself in the pot, enjoying an infinite, eternal, wonderful Universe in Evolution :-)
- plate, garnish with some decorations of life forms and cognitive activity. Serve at the table and enjoy the result. A wonderful Universe, steaming and very fragrant!
But... the kitchen still needs to be cleaned! Where has the cook gone?
Links to the tables of contents of TFNR Paper
