Carl Doherty

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That a Question Can Be Asked

“Mountain Sunset” by Carl Doherty, 2020

How is it that a question can be asked? It’s really unbelievable when you think about it. Where does a question exist? 

The present moment is an impossibly fine point at the centre of a transition from future to past. There can not be anything physical in the present. There is no fundamental unit of matter that can be found. Time is has no meaning when units of existence are unmeasurable. There is no way to put a finger on it. There is no location. There must be an alternative explanation for physics.

Clearly there is something, since the question of how can a question be asked, is asked. Nothing can not exist. There is “something” that is complete. It is full. It is one complete object that is perfect. It is not physical. It can not be grasped. Since it is complete then all time must be included, from beginning to end.

What is energy? Energy is interaction and reaction. There is only non-physical “information” from which interactions can cause reaction. There is no unit of energy or of information, but rather both are a product of the sum of interaction that stretch through causal chains. It’s turtles of information all the way down and there is no way to pin point the definite unit of information as it interacts with another unit without taking into account the totality of all interaction that gave it rise. That is to say: all causal interactions from beginning to end in both directions; which actually included all information contained in the other (but somewhat bicamerally), like two spheres reflecting the other and expanding to encompass the other like a dynamic extra-dimensional torus, must be accounted for.

Potential is inherent at all points. (Since the totality is complete, “potential” is actually a meaningless concept; all things are determined) Potential is a process that is brought into existence when conditions allow for interaction. A boulder at the top of a mountain is stationary yet has potential “energy”. Given the right conditions that energy can be released. Push the boulder down the mountain and it will leave a trail of “reaction” in its wake. Given the right conditions even the most insignificant collections of information can release vast reactivities. The universe is sloped, so to speak, in the direction of resolution of disorder, providing potential with necessary conditions resulting in inevitable interactions towards perfectly ordered simplicity.

The cords of interaction (paths of history of interaction) are ubiquitous and connect all things. There is no separating the one from the whole. The totality is a perturbation that has pulled all cords and agitated the tranquility. A universal will to return to tranquility is acting like a gravitation that seeks to realign the cords. All things proceed with perfect logic. There is no possibility for things not to proceed in a perfectly logical way. The logic is not static however, there are algorithms of process that arise and subside that alter the relevant logic.

A collection of regional potentials make up a “question suite” or “complex” that must resolve (also called a “contingency suite”or “algorithm”, and represent all phenomenon in existence from physical laws to sublime experience). The question itself is the fundamental unit. If this – then that, is at its core. At any instant the causal “cone” of the all history responsible for a particular point asks the question of the entire cone of the future what happens if “x”. The same question is asked simultaneously at an infinity of points contained within the whole. It is a bound infinitude. The nature of the fundamental unit.

There are emergences where the condensation of cords of information arrange questions upon questions in a way that create runaway feedback. These spirals of informational potential have no necessary complexity ceiling and will play out at durations with no set limit.  

Consciousness is a runaway feedback effect. Consciousness is the awareness of uncertainty. It is the experience of transitioning from zero to one and never arriving. Consciousness is a question, literally. All of thought is a process of internal questioning. Variation in qualities of consciousness are realized when potentials are presented with particular conditions.

There is no difference between objects of the “mind” and objects of the “physical” world. They are questions just the same with cords of interaction that are unbroken and that weave their way seamlessly though the illusory “barriers” that divide states. The whole can be, and is, influenced by the objects and interactions of the question suites of conscious agents (though “influence” like “potential” is misleading since the unfolding is going to follow a script of totality what ever shape that path may be).

Time is an effect that arises from complexities and feedback amplifications. At the simplest level of tranquility time will not be emergent. It is an absolute zero for “time” in the absence of a question. How much time can emerge within this totality? It depends on the magnitude of the original perturbation. Is an indefinite runaway feedback possible within the potentials inherent in the question suite of conscious agents? Not likely, though the pools of entropy (which is the pull away from simplicity which traverse the complexification of unfolding and resolve back to simplicity) can be persistent.

The step just above absolute zero for time is at the base level, in the interaction of the most primary question. The most primary question state has a time scale that is the full length of the universe but that is also instantaneous. It is the maximum speed. It is the maximum duration. It is the instant at the centre of the universe, but is also spread out like a base for all activity. It is the highest energy state and sub-state variation manifest from it.

The primary question state is the fundamental unit and though it is singular it is also the source and fabric of all things, and is present at all points. It is the first interaction in the cascade of interactions that make up the question suite that is responsible for the stretching of time. Time is stretched by the contingency complex delaying a return to tranquility (tranquility inherent in the instantaneous nature of the primary question) by creating levels of second, third and so on tiers in the question complex. The resolution of these interactions require that time expand and slow. The relative time difference between the most complex contingency suite and the primary question state is as vast as the universe itself. 

To summarize:

At every point is the centre which has no location but is where the primary question is processed at maximum time speed. It is a singularity that is also the most abundant state. The primary question state is a binary interaction between the furthest opposing points in the universal string of cause. Perturbations and agitations create a ’slope’ of imperfection that allow the potentials to be released leading to cascades of interaction from which variation or second tier question states emerge and must resolve. The tiers of complexity/contingency suites are like deep spinning whirlpools that must run their course. These tangents pull time into cords of “fact” that give time definition (which is realized by conscious agents as duration).

These are the processes that are responsible for the emergence of all physical forces and the comprehensible universe as one recognizes it. 

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