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References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstate_(statistical_mechanics)
In statistical mechanics, a microstate is a specific configuration of a system that describes the precise positions and momenta of all the individual particles or components that make up the system. Each microstate has a certain probability of occurring during the course of the system's thermal fluctuations.
In contrast, the macrostate of a system refers to its macroscopic properties, such as its temperature, pressure, volume and density.[1] Treatments on statistical mechanics[2][3] define a macrostate as follows: a particular set of values of energy, the number of particles, and the volume of an isolated thermodynamic system is said to specify a particular macrostate of it. In this description, microstates appear as different possible ways the system can achieve a particular macrostate.
A macrostate is characterized by a probability distribution of possible states across a certain statistical ensemble of all microstates. This distribution describes the probability of finding the system in a certain microstate. In the thermodynamic limit, the microstates visited by a macroscopic system during its fluctuations all have the same macroscopic properties.
In a quantum system, the microstate is simply the value of the wave function.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
Sheldrake's morphic resonance posits that "memory is inherent in nature"[2][15 and that "natural systems... inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind."[15] […] Sheldrake's A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Morphic Resonance (1981) proposes that through morphic resonance, various perceived phenomena, particularly biological ones, become more probable the more often they occur, and that biological growth and behaviour thus become guided into patterns laid down by previous similar events. As a result, he suggests, newly acquired behaviours can be passed down to future generations—a biological proposition akin to the Lamarckian inheritance theory.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-the-ruliad/
Living in Rulial Space
[...] we can think of rulial space as being somewhat separate, and laid out so that different places in it correspond to the results of applying different rules—with nearby places effectively being associated with “nearby” rules.
https://drmichaellevin.org/research/
By building models of morphogenesis as navigation of an anatomical option space, we uncover the policies that cellular collectives use to navigate this space and begin to develop interventions (stimuli, not hardware rewiring) to guide them to desired regions of the space without micromanagement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3lsYlod5OU
[35:52] “Each level bends the option space...”
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/11/the-concept-of-the-ruliad/
Living in Rulial Space
[...] we can think of rulial space as being somewhat separate, and laid out so that different places in it correspond to the results of applying different rules—with nearby places effectively being associated with “nearby” rules.
Dr. Michael Levin says in this video (in part):
"If these bioelectrical signals are important for cancer, then four things should be true:
First of all, there should be some implication by molecular data of ion channels, pumps and proteins in cancer. Bioelectric signatures should be a viable diagnostic tool for detecting tumors early. We should be able to induce cancer-like phenotypes by disrupting proper membrane voltage (Vmem) gradients. And best of all, a cancer-like phenotype should be suppressible by the modulation of the membrane potential gradient."
and:
"So the summary of everything I've said so far is that like in the brain, the mechanism that binds cells towards large-scale common purpose, meaning to upkeep, to create and upkeep against aging, against cancer, complex organs, are specifically bioelectrical networks. Modifying the information processed by these electrical networks offers some really high-level control, meaning creating new organs, fixing complex organ shapes and so on, growth and patterning without genomic editing."
Dr. Michael Levin says in this video (in part):
"We're interested in how tissues and organs compute using electrical signals – storing pattern memories and regulating large-scale anatomical patterning. You can think about these groups of cells doing all the same things as a neural network, but everything goes at a much slower pace and is aimed at controlling cell behavior and anatomy, not muscles and body movement."
and:
"We wanted to understand how can the informational content of these electrical networks be used to understand how developmental systems solve problems...we can link that to approaches in dynamical systems theory and connectionist kinds of things where you can ask how pattern completion works when when the network has forgotten half of the pattern how can it be recovered."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_exclusion_principle
In quantum mechanics, the Pauli exclusion principle (German: Pauli-Ausschlussprinzip) states that two or more identical particles with half-integer spins (i.e. fermions) cannot simultaneously occupy the same quantum state within a system that obeys the laws of quantum mechanics. This principle was formulated by Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli in 1925 for electrons, and later extended to all fermions with his spin–statistics theorem of 1940.
Do we really travel through time with the speed of light?
I really like this question because it’s one of those things that blow your mind when you learn about them first, but by the time you have your PhD you’ve all but forgotten about them. So, the brief answer is: It’s right, we do travel through time at the speed of light. [...]
Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder at 8:09 AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory
Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. These were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities.[1] Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals and self-organization.[2] The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions).[3] A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas.[4][5][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy_logic
Fuzzy logic is a form of many-valued logic in which the truth value of variables may be any real number between 0 and 1. It is employed to handle the concept of partial truth, where the truth value may range between completely true and completely false.[1] By contrast, in Boolean logic, the truth values of variables may only be the integer values 0 or 1.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tipping%20point
Tipping point:
the point at which an issue, idea, product, etc., crosses a certain threshhold and gains significant momentum, triggered by some minor factor or change.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1008662107
Communication is a shared activity resulting in a transfer of information across brains. The findings shown here indicate that during successful communication, speakers’ and listeners’ brains exhibit joint, temporally coupled, response patterns (Figs. 2 and 3). Such neural coupling substantially diminishes in the absence of communication, such as when listening to an unintelligible foreign language. Moreover, more extensive speaker–listener neural couplings result in more successful communication (Fig. 4). We further show that on average the listener's brain activity mirrors the speaker's brain activity with temporal delays (Fig. 3 A and B). Such delays are in agreement with the flow of information across communicators and imply a causal relationship by which the speaker's production-based processes induce and shape the neural responses in the listener's brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo
A nocebo effect is said to occur when a patient's expectations for a treatment cause the treatment to have a worse effect than it otherwise would have.[1][2] For example, when a patient anticipates a side effect of a medication, they can experience that effect even if the "medication" is actually an inert substance.[1] The complementary concept, the placebo effect, is said to occur when expectations improve an outcome.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lattice
2. a regular geometrical arrangement of points or objects over an area or in space
specifically : the arrangement of atoms in a crystal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_crystal
In condensed matter physics, a time crystal is a quantum system of particles whose lowest-energy state is one in which the particles are in repetitive motion.
https://mathworld.wolfram.com/BranchialSpace.html
Tracing through the connections of a branchial graph gives rise to the notion of a kind of space in which states on different branches of history are laid out. In particular, branchial space is defined by the pattern of entanglements between different branches of history in possible branchial graphs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy
Zero-point energy (ZPE) is the lowest possible energy that a quantum mechanical system may have. Unlike in classical mechanics, quantum systems constantly fluctuate in their lowest energy state as described by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.[1] Therefore, even at absolute zero, atoms and molecules retain some vibrational motion. Apart from atoms and molecules, the empty space of the vacuum also has these properties. According to quantum field theory, the universe can be thought of not as isolated particles but continuous fluctuating fields: matter fields, whose quanta are fermions (i.e., leptons and quarks), and force fields, whose quanta are bosons (e.g., photons and gluons). All these fields have zero-point energy. 2] These fluctuating zero-point fields lead to a kind of reintroduction of an aether in physics 1] 3] since some systems can detect the existence of this energy. However, this aether cannot be thought of as a physical medium if it is to be Lorentz invariant such that there is no contradiction with Einstein's theory of special relativity.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rate_variability
Heart rate variability (HRV) is the physiological phenomenon of variation in the time interval between heartbeats. It is measured by the variation in the beat-to-beat interval.
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=105801&ver=6
Mitochondria must respond quickly to changes in membrane potential and the penalty for any failure to do so is serious. The electron and proton transfers of chemiosmotic energy coupling generate a transmembrane potential of 150–200?mV [BNID 101102] over the membrane (~5?nm across), giving a field strength of about 30 million volt per metre, equal to that discharged by a bolt of lightning.
Although both ionotropic and metabotropic receptors are activated by neurotransmitters, ionotropic receptors are channel-linked while metabotropic receptors initiate a cascade of molecules via G-proteins.