Anticipation and meaning
Peter J. Marcer · AIP conference proceedings · 2001
“Can we truly compute, until we understand what information really is?” Gordon Scarrott. A new, mathematically described understanding of physically meaningful information, quantum holography, concerning actual knowledge of the 3 dimensional physical world in natural systems, is proposed. It is based on demonstrably proven anticipatory quantum mechanical laws and the new awareness in quantum theory. This understanding concerns a form of information, which holography shows, almost certainly existed before the origination of living systems and even from the beginning of the cosmos. It produces physically realisable mathematical definitions of the concepts of information, knowledge, learning, intelligence, perception, cognition, etc. Some of its other many advantages are cited. In particular, being quite distinct from bits, which are simply physically realisable mental models for the carriage/transmission of symbolic data (dependent for its meaning on human interpretation) it is not, its mathematical theory indicates, subject to the processing limitations of the combinatorial explosion governing algorithmic complexity, or to the known processing limitations of formal systems, such as the Halting Problem, as they are thought to apply to classical digital computing systems.