Space Time Elements Teaser

[Alain Stalder]

In late 2017, Google’s DeepMind AlphaZero AI program beat the then
strongest chess program Stockfish easily, at a time when humans did not
have any chance any more anyways. But the way AlphaZero won was what was
really astonishing. Unlike chess programs before it, it had not learned
from previous games played by humans (or machines), it had learned
strictly only from the chess rules.

This book has quite a similar approach to reality and the world, only so
far not with AI, but with good old human reasoning. The starting point
here is a completely fresh look at the world, one that does not assume
anything about the world to be known, as if just having opened one’s
eyes (and all other senses) to the world for the first time ever and
trying to make sense of all that is going on in what seems to be an
‘outside‘ and an ‘inside’.

AlphaZero made moves nobody expected, sometimes even sacrificing the
strongest piece on the board, the queen, which humans almost never do.
Similarly, even though the findings here usually closely mirror previous
findings of humans about life and the world that have been aquired
across millenia, sometimes they differ, as follows…

Since the approach here is strictly scientific in the sense that it all
starts with observation and tries to be as logically consistent as ever
possible, it is never in contradiction with any verifiable facts that
science can regularily predict.

But the approach also naturally leads to concepts that are not directly
part of contemporary science. For example, one of the first concepts
that appears is that there would be something that comes in 4+1 ‘parts’
and has astonishing similarities with ancient ideas about 4+1 elements
(“fire, air, water, earth” and “ether”), or also the similar concept of
eight trigrams of the Chinese I Ching, only in both cases in a more
modern and well-defined way. And also emerging quickly is a more modern
view of something that was often called and perceived as gods and
godesses in the past, or similar concepts like a collective unconscious
or a world soul, only here explained more scientifically as unconscious
collective connections and effects.

It is important to note that the two things I just mentioned, concepts
that resemble ancient elements and deities, seem to follow quite
naturally and quite quickly from that fresh look at the world, about as
astonishingly as some of AlphaZero’s moves. Of course, so far (in the
first quarter of the 21st century), it has just been me doing this, so
my approach might be biased or overlook other possibilities, but it
clearly shows that there is more to be found with that approach. So, if
you are looking for something novel to do, this might be a really good
opportunity!

I am a physicist (*1966 in Zürich, Switzerland) and am doing this as a
hobby…

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Refs:
- https://www.artecat.ch/space-time-elements.html
- https://www.exactphilosophy.net

This is at least one of the "other trees" I mentioned in the other post
today. Relates also twofold to astrology, via elements and as also an
unconscious collective belief, working to first order without the "stars".