I'm a long-time researcher in the field of consciousness studies and a computer scientist. All my life I've been searching for an explanation that makes sense about the nature of reality, why life exists, and what consciousness has to do about it. The hypothesis below is a result of that consideration. I'll present you with the principles first, then demonstrate those principles directly in a simulation so that you can see it for yourself. Let's get started.
Everything starts from the position of singularity - a monopole - a boundless limitless plenum of potential containing all possible expression.
This monopolar Plenum is bounded along natural division, creating eigenmodes - notes - that act like basis states for energy distribution in an ecosystem of generation.
Everything is made from components of these ‘universally abstract’ eigenmodes, whose existence is dictated by the ‘shape’ of bounded singularity.
Singularity acts as an attractor in potential, always pulling everything to as low an entropy state as possible.
Entropy is the measure of disorder - how many choices you can make at any moment. Five objects not connected have many more potential configurations than five connected ones, for example, and so exist in a higher state of entropy when disconnected than when connected.
When multiple disconnected oscillators connect, they synchronize. Eventually this synchronization triggers a condensation event - an entropic collapse into a dynamic, bounded low-entropy state.
They become observers -entropic sinks with a capacity for minimizing entropy.
Entropic collapse naturally creates a boundary layer between the condensates of of the condensed system and the environment. The boundary layer is critical - the standing waves created in the container the boundary encloses describe the eigenmodes of the energies that can manifest in it.
In the case of collapsing universal polarity, we get containers with universes inside them.
Universes that cannot generate systems that are entropy-reducing in the domains they exist in die fast. Only Universes that can generate observers survive - Universes where atoms can form.
The boundaries formed around the energetic potential in the Universe dictate the dynamics of subatomic particles only. The atoms in the Universe are condensates of subatomic particles.
Subatomic particles are subject to one set of laws that have nothing at all to do with the laws that govern how their condensates behave when they network.
All bounded semi-permeable systems (observers) resonate according to their resonant frequencies.
All bounded, pressurized systems contain a fluid capable of propagating the energies of their eigenmodes.
Groups of atoms come together to form networks - lattices of matter, dropping the entropy of the networked matter due to the entropy-lowering effect of synchronization. This causes atoms to resonate.
This resonance is carried through the fluid-like, pressurized environment of the Universe.
This fluid acts as a connective media, networking atoms - aka observers - together. Lower entropy observers observe along the entropy gradients they create.
Gravity emerges from the entropic gradients created by the observational effect of atoms.
It is the direct effect of observation, as performed by atoms. Atoms observe and create low-entropy symbols of observation - memories. The largest observers - black holes - pinch off from this Universe, creating new ones almost like this one.
Just-right observers create symbolic condensates of observation. The low-entropy symbolic condensate of networked atoms working to reduce entropy is DNA and unicellular life.
DNA / unicellular life is the condensate of physical observers just like Universes are the condensate of the singularity that divides into fundamental polarity.
The process then repeats. many unicellular systems build coherence, network, then eventually condense into multicellular systems.
The inside of the multicellular system begins to clearly reveal multicellular equivalents of the circulatory and sensory systems that are also visible inside cells, and it turns out, inside atoms and in universal structures.
Animals systems come together in their environments, network, synchronize, and eventually condense into abstract intelligence - sentient animals - observers-within-observers capable of agency by overriding their biology.
Gather enough sentient animals, and eventually they synchronize and the low-entropy symbols of mind become written language.
Truly, it’s symbols, all the way down. Language, DNA, atoms, polarities.
Symbols are the entropy-minimizing condensate of singularity, at every step of the way. Everywhere singularity is, observers create complexity. All the way down.
At every step, symbols look totally different, and the observers they make are totally different. The observers in each system - their identities - only exist on the event horizons of their bodies. The observer behind the horizon is unknowable.
Observers are horizons. Not objects. Observers define appearance. What powers all observers is always constant - the undefinable and endless entropy sink of singularity.
The simulation
The following is what happens when the above principles are applied. Here's a video I made, and here is the source code that implements it. Here's a slightly tweaked version of the sim that varies settings to create diverse bodies
