Structure of the Universe

The universe appears to multiple domains.  One domain seems to be the physical universe, where a class of entities that we call physical entities interact with each other.  Another seems to be the informational domain, where a different class of entities interact with each other.  Portions of these domains reflect each other and influence each other.  Portions do not.  Systems may include components of both.

Each of these domains has a state and a sequence of states. Each state is at least different from the state that it follows and the state that it precedes.  This, I suppose, is some fundamental characteristic of being a state.

Systems constrain the adjacency of states.  A system is a collection of components from either domain that interact with each other according to the constraints in their nature. A component is a holder or carrier of state. An interaction is a modifier of state.  For components to interact with each other they must be adjacent in some way.  Adjacency basically means that two or more components can interact with each other.  There are at least two uses of the word adjacency, adjacency of states in the domain of universal sequences and adjacency of components of the domain of a particular system.

Within this description of the universe, there is no direction or purpose.  There is no beginning or end.  There is a structure that enables a jostling between states but it is effectively random.  If you assume that this description is sufficient and don't try to apply an externally sourced purpose on it, then purpose must emerge from this random jostling.  In other words, purpose is a state that the universe has passed through.

Purpose can be defined as a particular state of the universe that influences the interactions of systems in order to achieve that state.  Somehow that state defined by a purpose is a component of the system that leads to that state.

Interesting questions…

• Can a physical system exist without an informational component?  If so, can we even know about it since that would be an informational component of that system?
• Is the assumption of randomness necessary and sufficient or is it just a lazy way to terminate the recursion?  What impact does this have on the two domain nature of the universe?  Does it demand more domains? If so, how does it interact with the informational dimension, which is our primary medium for knowing?

Subsequent things to ponder…

• A deeper dive into the structure of a purpose.
• Life as a particular class of purposes.