Energy and Matter
The underling paradigm of Quantum Transience allows for independence, freewill, and preference to be expressed at all levels of emergence, while addressing both their microstates and macrostates.[i] Conceptualizing the difference between microstates and macrostates is key to understanding the universe, and more specifically, emergence, energy, and entropy. Emergence is a compression of information between levels of complexity – from local Lower-Order Bodies to the global Higher-Order Conductor. Energy is the processing of information at the local LOB level, while, entropy, at the global HOC level. Microstates are transformed from one to another through energy, whereas macrostates, through entropy. Entropy is a statistical representation (data compression) of microstates as a macrostate.
Imagine microstates as all the possible ways piano keys might be pressed – each specific arrangement representing one unique configuration in a single moment of time. A macrostate, on the other hand, is what emerges from a combination of these configurations. Qualities like tempo, harmony, and melody arise from microstates as a macrostate – what we perceive as music. Similarly, in thermodynamics, macrostates describe observable properties like temperature or pressure that also arise from countless microscopic arrangements of particles. Just as any single microstate (a specific set of pressed keys or configuration of energized molecules) might seem random or disjointed on its own, through the passage of time, the coherent and measurable properties of macrostates emerge when we consider that collection of microstates together – whether it’s music from piano keys or entropy from molecular motion.
Node Point Communicators are both the points in space that affect the shape of the Hypersphere’s macrostates, and also, Hypergraph locations for Quantum Transient – interactions between Signature-Frequency Set as microstates. Energy and entropy are the dynamic relationships between the NPCs themselves, either as Hypergraph cognition – QT Gradient – or Hypersphere distortions – fields and waves (quantum), as well as, force vectors (non-quantum). A field changes the organization of NPCs along the Hypergraph, decreasing in strength with distance from its source, a bound relationship operating in the quantum world of energy and entropy. A wave changes NPC positions as a vector along the Hypergraph or within the Hypersphere. A force vector changes NPCs as a whole within the Hypersphere, a bound relationship operating in the Newtonian world of objects. Light is an example of an energy wave, electromagnetism, an energy field, and a newton (mass x acceleration2), a force vector. Entropy is neither wave, field, nor newton, but information processing itself, moving from low entropy to high, as one macrostate transforms to another through a series of expressed microstates. NUM conceptualizes entropy’s process as an initially high amount of available information (interest) being processed (consumed), thus ending in low information (boredom).
In the Novel Universe Model, quantum waves and fields are the collective shape of Hypersphere NPCs, and constitute the building blocks of matter and energy. Quantum particles (matter) are an emergent property of quantum mechanics, arising from the interactions of these waves and fields. NPCs, themselves, do not exist as physical particles, but are the data points of space where energy, matter, and entropy emerge through the NPC’s collective interactions. NUM suggests quantum particles are not necessarily “things,” so much as they are the precise coordinates in space where specific interactions between waves and fields take place. Like pebbles dropped into a pond, quantum particles are where a newly formed wave propagates, what NUM labels as the particle’s “epiwave” (the wave’s point of origin). For instance, when an electron field collapses from its superposition, that point in space is its epiwave, “observed” as the effect of another quantum wave, emerging as a different quantum particle – a photon. Whereas the electron epiwave affects its shell (field state), the photon epiwave propagates as a wave from the point until it interacts with another field, likely another electron field, thus transferring its energy to the atom by transitioning the electron to a higher state.
Matter is a Hypersphere assembly of emergent complexity by a Higher-Order Conductor, made from Lower-Order Bodies, each Lower-Order Body a Higher-Order Conductor for its nested LOB, all the way down to its coherent, bound collection of quantum particles. Whereas energy is a direct function of the relationship between Hypergraph, Hypersphere, and NPCs, matter is a relationship among NPCs within the Hypersphere alone. “Cognitive bodies” are collections of Node Point Communicators, occupied by Signature-Frequency Sets (oNPCs), operating along the Hypergraph. A “force body” is an unoccupied Node Point Communicator (uNPC), operating within the Hypersphere, like an open seat any of the body’s Signature-Frequency Sets might occupy, and thus, manipulate. An initial “energy body” is a collection of force bodies, as Lower-Order Bodies, bound by a cognitive body, as the body’s Higher-Order Conductor. NUM also refers to any higher-level body as an energy body, as all cognitive bodies remain directly connected to the Hypergraph, though its LOB consists of nested energy bodies, rather than force bodies.
While the number of force bodies varies with the “strength” of its force, the cognitive body is a fixed set of Lower-Order Bodies (oNPCs), whose collective interactions create the mind behind the energy body’s Higher-Order Conductor, like a neuron-filled brain singularly affects the shape (movement) of the entire human body. The Novel Universe Model proposes that the difference between energy and matter isn’t a difference of kind, but instead, a difference in the organization and action of the same kind: Node Point Communicators, operating within the Hypergraph and Hypersphere. Matter doesn’t transform into energy, as much as its organizational structure decomposes from one state of complexity (matter) to another (energy).
Using the nine QT Gradient states, cognitive bodies intentionally distort space by rearranging Hypersphere uNPCs, as the energy body’s expressed microstates. These nine states comprise the building blocks of complex Hypersphere field and wave distortions, the way a few lines and curves assemble into letters of the alphabet, which further assemble into words, sentences, phrases, ideas, and finally, stories. Like those few lines and curves, Hypergraph distortions are a set of finite tools that, like language itself, build throughout emerging levels of scale to create the near-infinite complexity of morphic resonance[ii] – the fundamental form and function of matter (nouns) and energy (verbs).
Just as light, entering the eyes, transforms into the brain’s metal models (stories of its environment), all irreducible microstates are compressed into reducible macrostates, bubbling up through a hierarchy of complexity, eventually influencing one’s embodied awareness of physics, sensation, motion, emotion, and other informational vectors. As this data flows through Hypersphere energy body hierarchies, it’s subject to the universe’s option space. The Ruliad[iii] is all possible computations by all possible things, and rulial space,[iv] a region of the Ruliad in which a specific thing operates within a specific rule-set– the object’s option space. The “fine-tuning” of the universe’s option space includes such phenomena as the four forces (strong, weak, EM, gravity), wave motion, field effects, quantum tunneling, electron spin, and structural encoding – particle memory. Agents are Signature-Frequency Sets native to the Hypergraph, paired with NPCs, who enforce the universe’s guardrails. By limiting a cognitive body’s awareness of those force bodies within its hierarchy of scale, Agents keep the cognitive body’s ability to shape the fabric of space inline with the universe’s rulial space.
Quantum particles are bound by the laws of quantum energy waves and fields within the Hypersphere – properties set by the universe and enforced by Agents, the way a piano is constructed through the binding of keys to set frequencies in specific steps. On the other hand, emergent structures with higher-order interactions co-create their own, emergent rule-sets that underpin common morphology and behavior, the way dialects form from a common language among neighboring populations, each engaged in similar, yet different, activities. The formation of those dialects reflects the differing needs of each population, as they solve problems unique to their activities. These dialects are akin to the way certain scales, chord types, and timing fashion the guardrails of recognizable musical styles or genres, all built from the same instrument.
Cognitive bodies function as informational channels fundamental to the process of morphic resonance, whereas morphic resonance is the modeler for these bodies’ control models of morphology and behavior – emergent, information processing schemas among bodies of complexity who operate in similar option spaces. Morphic resonance forms “common sense” rule-sets for dealing with repetitive situations in order to further the emergence of complexity – higher-order levels cannot be built until stability forms among lower levels. For instance, molecules formed only after atoms worked out a common sense strategy for functional cohesion, co-creating molecular properties such as covalent and ionic bonding schemes. Further examples of morphic resonance are found in situations where the same kinds of organisms tend to exhibit a common set of solutions to a common set of problems, despite those solutions not being otherwise encoded elsewhere, such as in DNA or environmental cues. How many pedals should roses have or number of fingers on a human hand? Neither the environment nor DNA might answer that. However, through morphic resonance, past attempts by participants in communication have settled on workable standards that persist through, not only generations, but evolution.
From stars to cells, each category of energy body has its own morphic resonant dialect of energy’s common language we, as the Higher-Order Conductor, may or may not “speak,” fluently or at all, depending on our history as a human HOC, both in this lifetime, and previous lifetimes. Thus, our input (speech) into those various LOB systems that make up a human body varies according to our grasp and effective use of each dialect. For example, using bioelectric signaling, as the speech of these dialects, is currently showing promise in many progressive fields of biology,[v] including cancer research, limb regeneration, and novel cellular applications. Although initially, the novice’s use of its dialects potentially creates more havoc than harmony, without repeated attempts, viable interactions will forever lie beyond reach, while mastery, impossible to express. We propose that, for instance, a “non-viable” embryo is not a mere mistake of nature, but instead, the learning process of an HOC SFS playing out, as it struggles to effectively acquire those embodied dialects necessary for survival.
The goals of quantum-level Hypersphere Higher-Order Conductors is the shaping of quantum energy waves and fields based on the HOC’s expression of those different quantum morphic resonant dialects, say, among light, electrons, quarks, etc. Like letters that make intelligible words or chord progressions that make a meaningful song, these dialects are the microstate patterns of the quantum fields and waves useful for creating the preferred macrostate, say, the collapse of an electron’s superposition in a specific location in order to create a serviceable HOC interaction with a photon or other electron.
At the quantum level of complexity, the number of uNPCs for any energy body is equal to its probability amplification – quantum pressure. The more uNPCs a field has, the higher the amplitude, the higher the pressure, and the more likely the transition of quantum particles from one field to another. Metaphorically, with more empty chairs in a theater, more people can comfortably attend, thus becoming more likely an electron, for instance, will fill the empty spot. Conversely, with a packed theater, simultaneously adding another audience is impossible – the Pauli exclusion principle.vi
The Hypersphere’s fields and waves are distorted by Hypergraph cognitive-body interactions – that “social” QT conversation of yum, yuck, meh between participants. Any energy body’s Signature-Frequency Set might transition between any force body (uNPC) belonging to the energy body before swapping with another oNPC’s SFS, regardless of where that other SFS is located, as long as both share the same thread. This “dancing about” the energy field allows for the reshaping of the uNPCs’ distribution within the field through the expression of their quantum morphic-resonant dialect. Hence, the swapping Sets of a cognitive body work together to coalesce those force bodies’ distribution, leading to the collapse of the field at the specified location. This moment of collapse results from the electron’s energy bodies expressing those specific microstates in order to create the intended macrostate – the electron’s epiwave and waveform, or point of collapse and propagating wave’s frequency.
The Lower-Order Bodies’ resolution of their microstates precedes the transition from one Higher-Order Conductor macrostate to its next. In other words, the cognitive body’s individual Sets work out their relationships one-on-one (microstates), reshaping the uNPCs through Quantum Transience, and once resolved, the HOC updates the energy body’s global network of NPCs by untying and retying all the NPCs at once, from one set of Nodes, en masse, to another set of Nodes as a quantum field, traveling along a waveform’s vector of motion, or in the case of a physical body, along its force vector (direction of motion). The global untying and retying of Hypersphere bodies update as a punctuation of the Hypergraph’s local activity. It’s like a rock skipping across a pond. Each time the rock hits the water, a ripple propagates from that point as a macrostate update, while the distance in-between, metaphorically represents that maelstrom of microstates, leading to the macrostate. In order for the LOB to settle on a macrostate between skips, they first carry out a public conversation, where competing ideas rise and fall in popularity until a consent forms – a direct-democracy in action.
The Hypergraph’s baseline iterative timescale is functionally the speed of light, meaning that “everything” travels through time at this “speed.”[vii] In NUM, there’s no question that nothing might accelerate beyond the speed of light, as the Hypergraph (not Hypersphere) itself functions at this rate, like a clock’s spinning gears. In a real sense, it’s more accurate in NUM to call it the speed of cognition. This is not to say that human minds (or any HOC) operate at this rate, but that the cognitive bodies along the Hypergraph resolve their microstates at this rate.
For each level of complexity, those LOB microstates “collapse” into a macrostate before the HOC changes the energy body’s form. This is a nested effect, as every HOC macrostate is an LOB microstate for the next, emergent level. Therefore, collapse operates bottom-up, while observation (bending of option space), top-down. Instead of the universe as a deterministic clock, forcing each microstate to exactly match the macrostate before moving forward, like the interlocking teeth of that clock’s precision gears, turning the system in unison, it’s more like a jazz pianist, picking a unique combination of notes (chord) that sound good to the pianist for that particular beat, all while staying faithful to the song. Why does an electron collapse at point A instead of B? The pianist, not the “randomness” of universe, determines that it better fits A instead of B.
When willing pairs of Signature-Frequency Sets, each occupying a Node Point Communicator along a common thread, become “virtual” neighbors and switch bodies (oNPCs), they observe localized “time” – the Quantum-Transience Gradient, incorporate (yum), inhibit (yuck), or ignore (meh). The QT Gradient is the active coupling between Blockchain Blocks – an observer’s “arrow” of time, with the end-state of one Block constituting the initial conditions of the following Block. A Block’s possible inputs are predicated on the previous, contributing Blocks’ outputs – the result of those QT reactions. Thus, one iteration cannot determine iterations five, ten, twenty steps ahead, but may only set the stage for the following iteration, as the internal, cognitive dispositions of the involved Sets have the potential to express freewill, and are therefore not always mathematically deductible as inferences, only observable as outcomes.
Inference is an internal tool of the observer, inferring its own placement within the environment, observable behaviors among actors (including its own), and self-assessed effectiveness of outcome(s) based on its current and future abilities to express its available goals. In other words, we infer what has happened, what is happening, and what is possible with regard to what we want; then, we act accordingly. The difference between a molecule’s path and a speeding ambulance is not of kind, but complexity, scale, and environment. Drivers and molecular HOCs both have goals, and maintain a set of priorities, as they make moment-by-moment choices, regarding which actions might best meet their objective. The idea that cognition isn’t involved in the molecule but is in the driver then poses the inevitable question of demarcation. NUM has no such line – cognition is fundamental to all matter and energy, emerging directly from the Hypergraph’s QT Gradient.
Quantum Transient swapping not only has the potential to alter both involved Sets, but their reactions may change the bodies’ (NPCs) position in relationship to each other along their common thread, each expressing an independent “sticky” or “slippery” tendency as subtle motion, changing the form and function of those higher-ordered waves, fields, and force vectors. We theorize that expressed preference (QT) underlies all motion, including quantum phenomena, such as chaos, strangeness, and randomness[viii] – the “fuzzy”[ix] cause of tipping points.[x] Furthermore, embodied consciousness is a mixture between the HOC’s relationship to its LOB, as well as, its direct connection to the Hypergraph through its cognitive body.
All HOC Sets simultaneously occupy dynamic arrays of NPCs throughout their multiple LOB levels, imbuing some portion of their Set – those musical phrases from its larger song – within various cognitive bodies’ NPCs. This means our Set does not occupy every oNPC that constitutes our body, an idea we explore the ramifications of in The Shape of Soul and Source of Spirit. At most, we could only ever occupy half, as that other half must necessarily be those Sets we’re swapping with – populated with Sets from, both within our body’s hierarchy of complexity, but also, anywhere across the universe those NPCs share a common thread with. This means that within any energy body, a significant portion of the oNPCs are a mixture of the various, emergent HOCs within the body’s hierarchy. Focusing on this experience – wherever that data might originate – is an effective channel for information processing from our cognitive, universal network – the Hypergraph. NUM considers this experience as useful meditation, better aligning the HOC / LOB relationship. However, this process of alignment is so critical that sleep primarily serves this purpose, albeit more directly and consistently than the more rare practice of meditation. Recognized effects of the dreaming process – the improved alignment of a body’s HOC / LOB hierarchy – include memory and skill formation, as well as emotional regulation and learning.
The valence (yum, yuck, meh) of Quantum Transience reshapes the energy bodies within all emergent, Hypersphere structures through the cognitive bodies, but the actual swapping of NPC Sets only occurs along the Hypergraph between Hypersphere HOC updates. However, the swapping of Sets is not limited to those other Sets within the emergent body itself, but may additionally swap with any number of Sets who share a common thread, including those Sets within the physical bodies of those they’re communicating with. What we are saying is that this external swapping of Sets is a mechanism of morphic resonance, its retrieval, coordination, and processing of information among communicating HOCs who inhabit similar option space. NUM theorizes that this underlies the phenomenon of matching firing patterns forming across brains in communication.[xi] What we are not saying is that whole, human minds (HOCs themselves) in communication literally swap human bodies when communicating, as described in various literary works over the decades, such as Vice Versa by F. Anstey (1882), Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse (1936), or Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers (1972). Although there’s no evidence that has ever happened, it is similar, but not the same, to what’s happening beyond life in the Concert Hall, and a potential explanation for our fascination with it as a theme. The Concert Hall’s experience is a fixed observation of another’s perspective – another’s experience – not a change in whom the actor of the body is, as it is in the stories or with the Hypergraph’s NPCs.
We experience our direct connection to the Hypergraph as one side of embodied sensation. When we feel the churning of our gut, we’re both receiving our LOB’s compressed information through our nervous system as physical sensation (data rising through our LOB / HOC hierarchy), but also to some degree, our direct participation in our gut’s energy structures through the QT Gradient as cognitive meaning. Is it warm comfort, unsettling pain, or a meaningless rumbling? The concurrent experience at both ends of the scale creates a bidirectional informational circuit, with either end capable of affecting the other – a foundational concept of NUM, part of every energy body, from particles to the galactic web. From bottom-up, when something’s wrong, we then “don’t feel right,” while from top-down, we “don’t feel right,” and then something’s wrong – known as the other side of the placebo effect, the nocebo effect.[ixii]
A portion of our Signature-Frequency Set’s influence as an HOC on our hierarchy of Hypergraph cognitive bodies is direct. However, as we spread out among an increasing number of cognitive bodies, our experienced fidelity follows Role Play’s example, becoming more diffuse as we penetrate those nested levels. Still, for all the QT swaps occurring in all of our energy bodies at any moment, some portion of some of them include our SFS, depending on the focus we’re placing on those body parts – our awareness. Ranging from pain to pleasure, our Lower-Order Bodies invite our attention to these embodied systems through emotion, in hopes that we might participate in their improved function by providing the higher-order directives of the brain’s executive functioning – the rest and resources to heal (pain) or the memory and opportunity to re-engage (pleasure).
The Novel Universe Model does not argue for a wholly different kind of physics, but instead, a new element (Hypergraph) that allows for an informational channel among matter and energy not otherwise realized, serving as an explanation as to how matter becomes energy or energy becomes matter. More importantly, this element fulfills fundamental spiritual tenets of NUM, while also providing a mechanism for, both “random” tipping points through QT’s subtle sticky-slippery effect, but also, morphic resonance – a concept fundamental to NUM.
Physical crystals form when atoms align with geometric repetition – a lattice structure.[xiii] A time crystal[xiv] is a repetition occurring, not through space, but through time. When Signature-Frequency Sets perform Quantum Transience swaps in coordinated, repeated patterns, they are “bound” together as a time crystal by a Higher-Ordered Conductor’s operation of the group’s option space, resulting in the collapse of branchial space.[xv] Brachial space represents all possible options a body might express in any given iteration – its rule-set or morphic resonant dialect. An HOC “observes” its preferred branch, narrowing the LOB’s behavior by lowering the “free energy” in the direction of the preferred option, while raising the free-energy in all other directions, making those other options more difficult to express. This is the QT Gradient in action, and occurs at every level of complexity, from quark to quasar, and beyond.
In the Novel Universe Model, energy’s scale arises from an increase in information processing. The primary factors are the number of Node Point Communicators involved, as well as, the intensity and consistency of the cognitive body’s computational structure – the body’s communal “dance.” Particles (mass) are HOC-bound groups of dancing NPCs, who require vast amounts of information processing to coordinate their dance. Increasing a dance’s complexity increases the amount of data processed, hence, more energy is expressed. At the other end of the energy scale, unbound swaps are a sequence of one or more unique QT swaps in isolation, and represent the energy floor of the Hypergraph – zero-point energy.[xvi] These one-off swaps are considered unbound because they do not repeat with any structure, nor do they necessarily occur as part of an emergent energy body.
Quantum Transience Scalability (QTS) refers to the scaling of a Higher-Order Conductor’s global (whole-body) energy, based on each time-crystal repetition’s number of involved participants, the variation and precision of each movement, and group coordination of communal space. For example, imagine 100 people dancing as a group. At the low end of the QTS metaphor, they could all dance their own, sloppy versions of the running man, cha cha cha, macarena, or waltz. At the higher end, they could chain dance styles together in perfect step, simultaneously doing the cha cha cha, followed by the macarena, the waltz, and running man, then repeating the sequence a number of times. Either end might be done in a chaotic, unstructured way, each dancer in a “personal bubble,” or they might once more scale the intensity by organizing their communal space, the way a marching band switches the group’s shape, say, between circle and square. It’s intuitive that 100 people, morphing back-and-forth between tight circles and sharp squares, locked in the precise, coordinated, simultaneous movements of their chosen sequence of dancing styles, is far more intense than 10 people chaotically bouncing about the dance floor like little, semi-independent bubbles, each flailing about with no discernible style. The dancers are metaphorically the swapping Sets (LOB), and the dance styles are the HOC’s selected Ruliad options (cha cha cha, macarena, waltz, running man) of the energy body’s morphic resonant dialect, its total option space (all dance styles the group collectively knows).
Quantum Transience Variability (QTV) refers to the intensity of localized energy among Lower-Order Bodies, based on the number of Sets involved, and their pattern of repetition, both its simplicity and consistency. QTV’s operation is functionally the opposite of QTS. Decreasing the Quantum Transience Variability of swapping Signature-Frequency Sets within a body increases focused energy between its parts (LOB). HRV (heart-rate variability)xvii is an example of this seesaw relationship. When the heart’s beating with little to no variation, like a marching drum, the energy output is high. Low energy means the heart’s all over the place, lacking any predictable rhythm, like wind chimes in a pleasant breeze. Instead of increasing the informational load (energy) by making more complex patterns, information increases in this instance by maintain interest despite a lack of variation. Instead of internal information – the dancers’ individual effort to maintain that program of collective dances – we add external information to maintain the dance, despite its monotony. We’ll change the song, style, even genre, all while maintaining those general characteristics, aka, rhythm, timing, and tempo – after all, the dancers must keep to their pattern of dance. This also implies that the QTV state would exponentially increase the informational needs with the passage of time, as the system itself adds no variation, instead acting like an expanding informational sinkhole. The changes of external information (song to style to genre) requires an exponential increase of data processing – energy. This makes QTS more geometric, while QTV, more exponential.
Another way to understand how QTV might maintain itself would be the duration and intensity of a conversation based upon the initial conditions of the participant’s relationship to each other. Should the individuals involved know each other well but not feel strongly for each other, there will be little new information exchanged, and QTV would quickly move from low to high. However, if they don’t know each other, and soon find they intensely like each other, this will create a cascade of information exchange, sustaining low QTV for some time. As a parallel to this, consider the process of a gas in an opened box filling a room. In this case, the gas would represent the conversation, while the room, the possible topics the conversation might take. With more conversation, more topics are covered, and the gas fills the room. The larger the room, smaller the container, and higher concentration of gas, the more time it takes to diffuse. In this way, more information will be processed by the participants before they get bored with each other, and the conversation ends – the two now sufficiently knowing each other to the point where it becomes exponentially difficult to find new topics to discuss.
Energy is the foundational property of emergent complexity, with QTS operating at the emergent level of a Higher-Order Conductor (Power’s Tower), and QTV, on the level of Lower-Order Bodies (Power’s Square). High QTS increases a body’s global field energy; while low QTV increases the LOB’s local wave energy. Both Quantum Transient Scalability and Variability involves the ongoing relationship between any particular level of complexity’s Higher-Order Conductor and Lower-Order Bodies. QTS results from the top-down observations by the HOC of the LOB’s option space, while QTV occurs between the Lower-Order Bodies themselves, as they carry out their competent cognition, based upon the HOC’s observation of their communal option space. High QTS is the expression of higher complexity, whereas low QTV is the increased force behind the functionality of specific options – like the mitochondria’s process of oxidative phosphorylation. When QTV approaches zero, Sets are locked into a simple, highly-repetitive pattern of swaps, forming the powerful, fourth state of matter – plasma, like mitochondrial “lightning skin”[xviii] (electrically charged membrane). QTS is a magnitude without a vector (field), whereas QTV is a magnitude along a vector (wave). For example, QTS is the thunderstorm, while QTV, the electrical gradient forming both the lightning and its pathway. At the level of a human body, a QTS energy paradigm drives the functionality of the parasympathetic nervous system, while QTV, the sympathetic. Additionally, we see this in the opposing synaptic states, ionotropic (QTV) and metabotropic (QTS).[xix]
The transition between matter and energy happens when QTS transforms into QTV, and the structure of matter becomes the motion of energy, while conserving the informational load of the system. The energy “expelled” by the transition of mass into energy travels along the Hypergraph until it transfers its information, its “dance,” to other bodies within the Hypersphere. It’s as if the bounded dancing of those 100 people are suddenly disrupted by the intrusion of those 10 unbounded dancers, transforming the group’s coherent dance into a decoherent mosh pit. The disruptive effects of this high-energy state happen through the HOC’s collective unraveling of its affected energy bodies, changing the bounded LOB “we” mindset (QTS) to an unbounded LOB “I” mindset (QTV), and the interwoven, complex parts of a chorus suddenly break out into a number of individual arguments – signal becomes noise as matter becomes energy.
The Novel Universe Model’s understanding of panpsychism extends beyond matter and energy to the power behind the very concept of organization itself. It is not only that “I think, and therefore I am,” but that “I act, and therefore I exist.” Consciousness is more than the sensation of one’s POV, but how inputs create outputs – behaviors that are integral parts of a larger environment that, in turn, reciprocate to those involved actors, setting the stage for further behavior. This organizing “force” arises from the act of observation, or the applied attention of one conceptual level of complexity upon another – organizer (HOC) and contributors (LOB). The primary component of energy – its most flexible and granular – is the relationship between a Higher-Order Conductor and its Lower-Order Bodies. A group of swapping Signature-Frequency Sets (LOB) assembles as a “body,” bound together by the expressed preferences of that body’s “mind” (HOC). All emergent levels of complexity in the Novel Universe assemble in this way – a body (active parts) and mind (organizing algorithm).
In NUM, choice is key to everything. If there were no agency, no freewill, no ability to have, express, or alter a preference, every LOB would “shut up and get with the program.” In such a case, the determinists would be right, and math would strictly rule, meaning that this would be a block universe, not a Novel Universe. Instead of forcing LOB Sets into specific actions, the HOC evaluates the LOB’s array of possible interactions – the LOB’s option space or expressible branchial space – and “observes” only those interactions that most closely fit the HOC’s preferences. By narrowing branchial space, the HOC usefully directs the body’s communal dance performance, not by mechanistically micromanaging the LOB’s actions, but instead, by “bending” its option space. This bending is like a gravity well that makes movement in one general direction easier – increasing stickiness – while in any other, more difficult – increasing slipperiness. By narrowing the LOB’s options, the HOC creates an environment where the LOB’s remaining goals nudge the microstates of the group’s overall behavior towards the HOC’s preferred outcome – its macrostate.
Although an HOC Signature-Frequency Set may not get exactly what it wants in every iteration, through constant observation of the LOB’s option space, it will, from the outcomes available to it, manifest into being, over time, those interactions more inline with its preferences. Instead of the universe being a row of falling dominoes, each following a precise set of concrete laws, it’s a noisy conversation between independent actors, expressing their freewill and evolving their preferences, together. This is not only how energy works, but a reflection of how all Higher-Order Conductors operate their Lower-Order Bodies at all assembled levels of complexity. As light and energy iterate along Hypergraph threads, Signature-Frequency Sets share themselves through dancing emergent energy bodies, and energy scales from basic matter to elegant cognition, all designed to evolve the Novel Universe’s assembled forms through communication’s informational processing.