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Beon Theory, the cosmogony behind this particular forum section.

Paul Richard Martin wrote:Greylorn,

After pondering our discussions and making some changes, I think we agree that,

1. Conscious experience occurs outside the brain: we identify and name the experiencer of consciousness as beon.

2. There is a physical brain/beon communication link of some sort. This link might resemble something familiar like the RF link between your cellphone and the person talking on the other end, or it may be completely different in kind, depending on some completely unknown physics involving higher-dimensional space. Whatever the case, the link is physical.

3. The origin of the universe (i.e. all of reality) was ultimately simple: no almighty God, no information-packed Big Bang, and no consciousness.

4. In the beginning there were just two simple things: Undifferentiated dark energy at absolute zero, and an as-yet-unspecified second component we call aeon.

5. Some sort of initial interaction between aeon and Dark Energy began all the dynamism of reality.  After immense stretches of time, this dynamism eventually resulted in the appearance of consciousness in early beons. The eventual results of the A/DE interaction allowed beons to discover consciousness for and by themselves.  

6. Currently, there is a huge number of beons and they exist in some sort of hierarchical relationship, organized maybe historically or by some power or capability scale. Whatever hierarchy might exist, beons are dreadfully confused. The "capability" scale may need to be scaled down from its earlier state.  

7. Beons were the intelligent designers (and engineers and fabricators) of the laws of physics which operate in the parts of the physical world to which our scientists and their apparatuses have access. That physical world includes the galaxies, carbon based life on earth, and anything else that humans can observe. It does not include, however, any inaccessible part of the physical world or the three principles of thermodynamics. The inaccessible parts might operate under completely different laws of physics designed by other beons. But the three principles of thermodynamics are absolutely fundamental.  Beon cannot change them, but can freely violate the second principle, wherein lies beon's power.  

Note: I have been persuaded to abandon my previously skeptical view of the importance of the "laws" of thermodynamics by both your arguments and a statement attributed to A. Einstein.

You said, "These three principles are time-independent.  Other physics laws are, in a sense, both time-dependent and arbitrary.  Except that their arbitrariness is brilliantly interconnected and integrated."

That seems profound and correct to me. As I see it, we have a lot of work to do to understand the enigma of time before we can make any more sense of cosmogony. (Leo's ideas about time seem to offer some important insight in this respect.) Your observation will help with that understanding.

Albert Einstein said, ”[Thermodynamics] is the only theory of universal content that, within the framework of applicability of its basic concepts, I am convinced, will never be overthrown." – quoted by Prof. Jeffrey C. Grossman, The Teaching Co. course: "Four Laws that Move the Universe".

Who am I to argue or quibble with those arguments?

Now, if you agree with this list of agreements, we can move on to our disagreements. At this point, I see our points of disagreement as the following:

1. Whether beons are connected to non-human animal brains.

I think so. I suspect that there is a range of capability/power among beons: some are capable only of steering the actions of a flatworm, and some are capable of giving some humans the illusion of gaining a modicum of insight into what is going on.

2. Whether all beons are conscious or instead are in the same relationship with their superiors in the hierarchy as human minds are to beons.

I suspect the latter. I think that there is a range of beon capability ranging from the extremely dull and stupid all the way to the brilliance required to engineer a galaxy. Of course these are all spread over vast expanses of time and for all I know, all the brilliant beons may be dead by now.

3. The geometry of Dark Energy and Aeon prior to the initial interaction.

I suspect that only one or two dimensions existed at that time and that extra dimensions were constructed later. Neither of us has a clear enough idea about this question to disagree but I don't think we see eye-to-eye on it. I think we need to expand the scope of our thinking to include such topics as dimensions, manifolds, and topology. I am eagerly looking forward to convincing you of the importance of those issues. I'll begin making my case when we get this far in resolving our agreements/disagreements. I'm looking forward to more discussions.

Paul