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A collection of random stuff about reality...

Contents 1 Level 0: Metaphysics 2 Level 1: Reality is Information 3 Level 2: Life and All That 3.1 Getting started 3.2 The Analytical vs. the Algorithmic Understanding of Reality and Especially Complexity 3.3 The Mind 3.4 The Mind Over Matter 3.5 Religion 3.6 Human Behavior 4 Pillars

Information has become ubiquitous. Information overload nearly inevitable. How to navigate this see of endless and often contradictory information? Some puzzle bits of the big picture I happen to have gotten stuck with while journeying through the matrix of reality.

Level 0: Metaphysics

• What can we know?

Inspired by

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Some ideas about infinity.

Level 1: Reality is Information

• Lloyd, Programming the Universe
• Tegmark, The Mathematical Universe: "our physical world is an abstract mathematical structure" (to download PDF, see top right corner...)
• Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality
• Zeilinger, Einsteins Schleier. Die neue Welt der Quantenphysik

Level 2: Life and All That

Getting started

• Overview:
  • Part i: fundamental
  • Part ii: complex
• Science in a nutshell:
• Universal behavior: scaling laws, Benford's law
• Getting into the Complex Systems Literature

Dreams of unification:

• Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

The Analytical vs. the Algorithmic Understanding of Reality and Especially Complexity

• Stephen Wolfram on his 'A New Kind of Science'
• National Geographic's 'Swarm Theory'

The Mind

• Jill Bolte Taylor TED talk on wikipedia.org
• Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind
• Animal minds

The Mind Over Matter

Exceptional human capabilities:

• Psi

Religion

• Walsch: "Conversations with God"
• Dawkings, The God Delusion
• Weltethos

Human Behavior

• The consumer identity: Annie Leonard's 'Story of Stuff'
• Swiss Re, The economic justification for imposing restraints on carbon emissions
• Roselin:
  • Watch talks: Debunking Myths About the "Third World", The Seemingly Impossible is Possible
  • Applications, e.g., Gapminder
• Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before

Pillars

• physics: fundamental, analytical, mathematical models, computation, quantum weirdness, cosmology, strings, loops and multiverses
• complexity: economics, networks, swarms, collective intelligence
• human-oriented: biases, free-will, cognition, perception, life, consciousness, life/death, happiness
• philosophy
  • of science
  • theology, ontology, epistemology
  • mind/mater
  • ethics
  • meaning of life
• psi: thoughts entangled with reality, consciousness' role in the establishment of physical reality
• spirituality: atheism, n.d. wlasch, buddhism, bach remedies, moral, meaning, death
• subculture