I will repost the CTMU PDF link:
http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Langan_CTMU_092902.pdf
And, I will mention that one of my
wide awake learning timeframes last evening included the John Wheeler segment of the CTMU referencing the animation Brook suggested that serves as promotional logo for this thread:
"The Future of Reality Theory According to John Wheeler In 1979, the celebrated physicist John Wheeler, having coined the phrase “black hole”, put it to good philosophical use in the title of an exploratory paper, Beyond the Black Hole,8 in which he describes the universe as a self-excited circuit. The paper includes an illustration in which one side of an uppercase U, ostensibly standing for Universe, is endowed with a large and rather intelligent-looking eye intently regarding the other side, which it ostensibly acquires through observation as sensory information. By dint of placement, the eye stands for the sensory or cognitive aspect of reality, perhaps even a human spectator within the universe, while the eye’s perceptual target represents the informational aspect of reality
. By virtue of these complementary aspects, it seems that the universe can in some sense, but not necessarily that of common usage, be described as “conscious” and “introspective”…perhaps even “infocognitive".
Continues on Page 7 of the PDF...Click to expand...
