The Novel Universe Model interprets the behavior of everything, at every scale, through the Greek concept of panpsychism, or even older animism – all interactions result from the actions and reactions of conscious actors. No matter the complexity of the actors or their behaviors, all reactions fall into one of three categories: incorporate, inhibit, or ignore, what’s colloquially referred to as like, dislike, or neutral. On the human level, this could be expressed walking past someone, and either stopping to talk (like), hurrying by (dislike), or hardly noticing them at all (neutral). Such reactions, cornerstones of what the Novel Universe Model labels “Quantum Transience,” are happening every moment in every possible interaction, from the quantum level to the galactic. When it comes to the concept of “quantum,” how, exactly, is the NU Model using it?
Controlling the volume of a sound system might be done in one of two ways: either a dial with, or without, selectable numbers. An analog dial (without selectable numbers) sets the volume with smooth precision, but has no reliable way to revert to a specific setting – the “click” of those numbers being selected. Mathematically speaking, analog numbers have decimal points, while digital numbers do not. The term “quantum” comes from quanta – quantity. Quantum numbers are digital – whole integers. Like the digital state of a numbered dial, the quantum world similarly happens in discrete steps. Just as a digital dial cannot be set between numbers, an electron is either in this shell or that, never in-between. NUM uses the term quantum in this way because QT occurs in stages (levels) across the LOB-HOC hierarchies of scale. From quantum to cellular to the universe itself, QT is bound by these quantifiable levels. QT happens within a level, horizontally, as communication between individuals (LOB), and between levels, vertically, as emergence (HOC) – the social environment’s effect on the individual.
Transience means temporary, and refers to both the idea that QT reactions represent the narrowest slices of time, and also, that these states are a non-local, ever-evolving conversation between independent actors. Everything changes to some degree with every interaction, and every reaction is the result of an internal computation of valance (like, dislike, neutral). However, no pattern is set in stone, but instead, subject to the novelty and expense of freewill – the very thing that makes the quantum world so random and “weird,” at least from a scientific, deterministic point of view.
Quantum Transience is an information-sharing process based on a cellular automata matrix – NUM’s underlining mechanism for space. Cellular automata are metaphoric rows of numbered seating at a sports stadium where attendees place a portable stadium seat, each spot representing a cellular automata cell. The luxurious seats, provided by the venue, have an array of identical controls, adjusting firmness, temperature, size – even a massage feature. Some of the benches’ spots are occupied by a seat and sports fan, while others have only a flat surface, painted with its unique number. Each portable seat is metaphorically what NUM labels a Node Point Communicator (NPC); the attendee, a Signature-Frequency Set (SFS); and the precise pattern of complicated settings, a measurable expression of the fan’s “personality” – a combination of qualia that might be shared with another.
Seat swapping among fans allows for the direct transmission of their seat’s unique settings – Quantum Transience. The QT Gradient is a fan’s reaction (like, dislike, neutral) to the other’s settings. The reaction results in a movement of the seat along the bench in relationship to its paired participant – “like” moves into a closer spot; “dislike,” farther; “neutral,” no movement. Quantum Transience is also how the swapping of fans between seats sparks learning – the effect one’s particular pattern of settings has on another. Once a fan sits in their partner’s seat, they have the option to adjust those settings. If they like, say, the massage feature’s settings, they leave them alone, incorporating their partner’s pattern. If they dislike massages altogether, they turn it off, inhibiting the feature. If they like the feature, but not their partner’s settings, they simply ignore them by returning their own settings. The potential value of QT is the novelty of learning, embodied by the fan who dislikes massages, yet sits in a seat with just the right settings to suddenly find they not only like the feature, but now have a whole new world to explore – further tweaking settings they were sure they’d never use.
How do Signature-Frequency Sets transfer between Node Point Communicators along the Hypergraph? It’s not so much a movement of Sets – fans lugging their stuff from one spot to another – but more of a manifestation – one unique pattern appearing at one Node Point Communicator, then, another. In the NU Model, everything, beyond the Instrument, is data, and the change of a Set’s data from one NPC to the other would be akin to two notes (SFS) “switching” between two guitars (NPC). Because these notes are attributes of the stringed instrument – data – they do not physically move from one to the other, but rather, the guitars “swap” the notes they’re playing. This coordinated change in pitch between instruments is the instantaneous “transmission” of information across space.
Quantum Transient’s trivalent reaction is present at every level of complexity – what human emotion or quantum effect cannot be roughly described as either like, dislike, or neutral? This conscious expression of valence means the universe is more than a probability map, it’s a convoluted conversation of agency, happening horizontally, between peers, and vertically, between levels of complexity. Scientific calculations are affected by the independence of these actors – black-box Signature-Frequency Sets. Sets more often manifest predictable behavior – preferences – but occasionally alter behavior through freewill. Although variables appear random in isolation, they’re reliable in the aggregate – mostly, most actors do what’s expected, as it’s costly to do otherwise. For instance, the exact position of an electron cannot be predicted, only measured after its field collapses. With many measurements, a pattern appears – the electron shell. The key feature of the shell is the clustering of potential electron positions, illustrating the cost of freewill. It’s as if we’re placing them in a mountain valley where we’re more likely to find them bunched together at the lowest, “easiest” point – the relatively flat valley floor – rather than the more “difficult” point – the valley’s steep sides.
Although the Hypergraph’s Quantum Transience works within the Hypersphere’s global guardrails of force, locally, it allows for both agency and influence, based on the independent expression of preference. Option space is bent, not through force, but through valance – desired options are made to be more “yum,” while those to be avoided, more “yuck.” QT models quantum effects, not as randomness, but the expressed intention of cognitive actors, based on their internal preferences and potential expression of freewill – foundational tenets of the religion.
A standard graph’s vertices connect to a set number of other vertices, whereas a hypergraph’s connect to a variable number. For this reason, we label the NU Model’s cellular automata matrix the Hypergraph. The Hypergraph is embedded (hidden) inside the Hypersphere – the physical space of the universe made of “atoms of space” called Nodes, or the spatial “pixels” of the universe. Hypergraph cells, the foundational element of Nodes, are either occupied by NPCs or not, like our metaphor’s fancy seats along the numbered benches. The relationship between the two matrices is like bones (Hypergraph) inside a body (Hypersphere). As the Hypergraph underlies the Hypersphere, its effects are cryptic, accumulating within the microscopic, internal world of Lower-Order Bodies and their unobservable black boxes, not directly within the macroscopic, external world of Higher-Order Conductors and their observable behavior. The Hypergraph functions as the mind that influences, rather than the Hypersphere body that animates.
Crowds of Node Point Communicators shape Quantum fields and waves through Quantum Transience – communicating Signature-Frequency Sets work through individual acts of information sharing to reshape the collective’s form, as that stadium (electron field) of fans (Sets) might rearrange their portable seats (NPCs) into their team’s logo (collapsed electron). NPCs, themselves, are not physical particles, but instead, spatial points where SFS information is exchanged, say the multi-pixel space of an electron field interacting with a photon wave. The interaction of these waves and fields assemble into quantum particles, that assemble into atomic particles, that assemble into molecular particles, that assemble into a universe of energy and matter.
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