Year: 2007
Type: preprint
Abstract: In a nice assay published in Nature in 1993 physicist Richard God III started from a human observer and made a number of witty conclusions about our future prospects giving estimates for existence of Berlin Wall, human race and all of universe. In same spirit, we derive implications for the of life, universe and all rest from few principles. Adams´ absurd answer 42 tells lesson in / garbage out - or suggests that question is non calculable. We show that experience of meaning and to decide fundamental questions which can not be decided by formal systems imply central properties of life: Ever higher levels of internal representation of world and an escalating tendency to become more complex. An observer, collecting observations and three measures for complexity are examined. A theory on living systems is derived focussing on their internal representation of information. Living systems are more complex than Kolmogorov complexity (life is NOT simple) and overcome decision limits (Godel theorem) for formal systems as illustrated for cell cycle. Only a world with very fine tuned environments allows life. Such a world is itself rather complex and hence excessive large in its space of different states – a living observer has thus a high probability to reside in a complex and fine tuned universe.
Author: Thomas Dandekar
Language: English
Topic: Complex Systems and Dynamics
Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3159313752