Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

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events, or entities from a larger set of their potentialities or possibilities.

The formalism is very simple. Let us designate the number of all possi-

bilities (or possibles of Peirce) out of which this Universe originated

as p, and the number of actual existents (which may be called “actuals”)

as a. Then the primordial information associated with (or imparted on)

this Universe, to be designated as IC, where C meaning “cosmological”,

may be expressed as the binary logarithm of the ratio between these two

numbers (assuming for simplicity that all possibles have equal probabili-

ties of being actualized):

IC = log 2 (p/a) bits. (10.33)

Although it is impossible to measure or determine p and a (and

hence IC), the mere fact alone that we can write down a mathematical

expression relating these two quantities to the information content of the

Universe may be significant.

Equation (10.33) describes only the quantitative (excluding the quali-

tative) informational aspect of the origin of the Universe. The energy

aspect of the origin of the Universe appears adequately described by the

Big Bang theory in physics. That is, the energy requirement for the selec-

tion process implicated in Eq. (10.33) is met by the dissipation of free

energy (or entropy production in this case, since the Universe is isolated)

attending the expansion of the Universe.

(^) pa→Entropy Production , (10.34)
where the arrow indicates that a (actuals) have been selected out of p
(possibles) with p > a.
In [7], it was concluded that p might be identified with (all possible)
superstrings, and hence, a may now be identified with a subset of p rei-
fied into elementary particles constituting all the material and energetic
entities extant in this Universe [7]. (The total number of particles in this
Universe has been estimated to be approximately 10^80 , which is known
as the Eddington number [412, p. 225]). These a (actuals) are thought to
possess sufficient information and energy (i.e., gnergy; Section 2.9) to
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