A new Epistemology

10) TOE machine and TOE (Theory of Everything): To reduce life phenomena and moral phenomena to physical phenomena was never possible before because of two reasons.

• 1) The meaning of Totality and the process of creation (from nothing) was not understood before.
• 2) They cannot be reduced to each other directly, but they can be reduced to their common root, the convergent root, just the same as that a man cannot be reduced to a monkey, but both can be traced back to a common root.
  
  P physics universe
  M mathematics universe
  L Life universe
  Int Intelligence universe
  MO moral universe
  

• a) You can see its topological shape (D) by going to a donut shop.
• b) Every donut need 7 dimension (D1) to identify it. That is, with 7 and only 7 dimensions (colors) (D1), infinite number of donuts can be identified and be distinguished.

• a) Law of creation --- Anything (real in this universe) must have a TD (Topological representation of a donut).
• b) If A can be reduced to a TD1 and if B can be reduced to a TD2, then A and B have a convergence root, and A, B are said to be reduced to each other.

• A: Time superstring is as a garden hose (a donut).
  
• B: A garden hose has two spaces, and they cannot know each other. Every point on the garden hose needs two sets of coordinates. For observer standing outside the garden hose, he sees a point on the garden hose with a set of coordinates (Xe, Ye, Ze). The same point viewed from the inner space of the garden hose has (or must use) a new set of coordinates (Xi, Yi, Zi). Then, the empty space around the garden hose is not part of the garden hose world sheet, and it has no coordinate. All points of this empty space cannot be distinguished among one another, that is, they can be viewed as the same point. However, this empty space point must also be one dimension, E (nothingness). Thus, a garden hose (or a donut) has (or must have) 7 dimensions.
  
• C: When this garden hose winds itself into a donut (tries to squeeze out the Nothingness), the external coordinates further divides into two sets (Xei, Yei, Zei) and (Xee, Yee, Zee). This garden hose world sheet now has (or needs) 10 dimensions -- (Xi, Yi, Zi), (Xei, Yei, Zei), (Xee, Yee, Zee), and E (nothingness).
  
• D: The above garden hose world sheet is a static world sheet. On the contrary, the time string is a dynamic garden hose, and it has a clearly defined moving direction. This must also be a dimension, T the ordinary time.
  

• (Xei, Yei, Zei) are three generations (genecolors).
• (Xi, Yi, Zi) are three quark colors.
• E (nothingness) is pure vacuum, the Nothingness or Colorlessness.
  

• 1) Unification of physics and mathematics
  
• 2) The philosophical meanings of Fermat's Last theorem.
  

• 1) Law of life in Taoism
  

11) The rise of moral universe:
Traditional physics handcuffs itself to laboratories. Any reality (intelligence, moral truths or mathematics, etc.) which cannot be squeezed into a test apparatus of a laboratory is deemed to be beyond the scope of physics.

This "scope" strategy not only forgives the traditional physics's inability to address many simple common truths but hints that "only" physics facts are the genuine truths, and any other proclaimed truths (philosophy, metaphysics, theology, etc.) are non-science. This strategy worked very well in the 20th century.

But, no more! Now, FU physics not only is able to reproduce all known physics laws but can go beyond the "scope" of traditional physics.

FU physics must encompass all common truths. Yes, the FU physics handcuffs itself to a real, real universe which encompasses all known (or unknown) truths. That is, intelligence, moral truths or theological truths must be addressed in FU physics.

Can moral truths be encompassed in any kind of physics? See my book "The Divine Constitution," page 78;
"Up to now, most philosophers, scientists and theologians accept a notion that the matter of value is different from the matter of fact, that ought to be is different from that that is. So, the descriptive statement is different from the prescriptive statement."

From: rune berg, rune@physics.ucsd.edu
Date: Fri Mar 23, 2001 10:57am
Subject: Re: A new Epistemology 11
I think you're misinterpreting what physics is and what moral is. Moral is a survival instinct that some animals have including humans. Moral "truth" I guess is really the way the animal interprets it's own instinct. It's similar to e.g. I like apples doesn't mean that it's a physical truth that apples are good. It has nothing to do with physics.
Rune W. Berg

From: "Stephen O'Kane" stgok@mistral.co.uk
Date: Sat Mar 24, 2001 6:01am
Subject: Re: A new Epistemology 11
Dear Tienzen Gong,

I am not quite sure whether I was the one who said you have a moral universe if there is 'intelligence' which can make 'choices', but I agree with that general idea. No - I reckon intelligence itself cannot be defined in terms of physical laws. But perhaps the conditions which give rise to intelligence (which are the origins of intelligence, in other words) CAN be so defined?

Certainly physical laws constrain the choices we can make, but they also set the patterns of technologies we use when making choices. One of the points about evolution (and history) many people find hard to grasp is that things can develop so they become quite distinct from their origins. Intelligence can, I suggest, develop through physical processes but emerge as something - an ability - which is constrained by physical laws but not defined by them. The same point applies to any ability we, or any organism, might have such as the ability to run, swim, etc. But it is clearer with intelligence that the ability goes beyond the physical starting point.

Would you agree about that?

Yours
Stephen O'Kane (stgok@m...)

Yes, superficially, the matter of value is different from the matter of fact; that ought to be is different from that that is.

Yes, if there is "intelligence" which can make "choices," there is a moral universe.

Can the above facts be reduced to a TD (Topological representation of a Donut)?

It is laws of behavior giving rise to choices and to a moral universe. The world of behavior has the following players.

• 1) self --- an individual life
• 2) Gself --- a species (that is, a gene of a species)
• 3) Elf --- the entire ecosystem
• 4) Cosmos --- the entire physical universe
• 5) Axiom --- the goal of every Entity (above) is to maintain itself.

• a) Law of self (taking) -- for every self, it wants to take from others to maintain its survival. It can be written with an equation:
  B(taking) >= M(t) * C(s)
  C(s) = P(t) * D(s)
  B(taking), the benefit by taking
  C(s), the cost for taking
  D(s), a "life constant", or a death function (lost the self), or a survive function, one breath.
  P(t), the probability function for D(s), chance of survival. When P(t)=0, the life will die.
  M(t), a multiple constant, a return on investment ratio. It is a number set arbitrarily by a self in a given circumstance.
  If B(taking) is larger than M(t) * C(s), it will take from others.
  
• b) Law of cooperation (giving) --
  If B(giving) is larger than M(g) * I(s), the self will give.
  B(giving) >= M(g) * I(s)
  I(s) = P(g) * D(s), the investment
  
  Example one: if the benefit to a kin is M(g) times the amount of the cost (sacrifice) from a self, the self (an individual) will make that sacrifice to insure the survival of the Gself (the gene).
  
  Note: when a millionaire gives $100 to a poor kid in the 3rd world, the cost is one drop in the bucket, and the benefit for the kid is one year of schooling, and the giver senses the feeling of loving and of accomplishment. That is, B(giving) = B(receiver) + B(giver) + B(any other possible effects)
  Example two: human takes care of cows for his own survival.
  
  
• c) Law of 2nd or higher order actions --
  B(action) = Max { [B(g1), B(g2),...] - [B(t1), B(t2) B(t3),...]}
  This is a compromise between many "gives and takes."
  

1. D(self), the constant of Death or Alive, the hinge of moral universe is similar to h(bar), the hinge of the quantum world.
   
2. B(action), the benefit of an action is similar to x (the position) of physics.
   
3. A(action), the motivation for action is similar to p (the momentum) of physics.
   

• 1) Physics universe has a TD.
• 2) Mathematics universe has a TD.
• 3) Life universe has a TD.
• 4) Moral universe has a TD.

• Part one
  1. The happy coincidence
  2. The Occam's happy coincidence
  3. The ultimate Occam's happy coincidence epistemology
• Part two
  4. Reproduce the known physics (I)
  5. The fictitious universe / reproduce the known physics (II)
  6. The beauty contests / wrestling matches
• Part three
  7. The criteria for constructing a Fictitious Universe
  8. The law of creation
• Part four
  9. Playing with numbers???
• Part five
  10. TOE machine and TOE (Theory of Everything)
  11. The rise of moral universe
• Part six
  12. A new Paradigm (I)
  13. The truth index for FU physics
• Part seven --- A new Paradigm (II) --- How to think the unprovable and the unthinkable
• Part eight -- Can God be understood?