What I want

To develop the following as an account of ‘general cosmology’.

My name is not necessarily to be ‘Anil Mitra’

Would you mind if I cited you as ‘A Microsoft AI Agent’”

Cosmology

Preliminary

Details of the following are on my site https://www.horizons-2000.org

Metaphysics

Though it may be doubted, given the void as absence of being, existence and nonexistence of the void are equivalent, therefore we take the void to exist.

The void contains no beings

Laws have being.

Therefore there are no laws of / in the void.

Therefore all that is logically possible emerges from the void. Therefore the universe is the realization of all logical possibility (goes beyond Max Tegmark’s ‘mathematical universe’). This is the fundamental principle of metaphysics (fp)

Realization of all logical possibility is at least difficult to realize in conception (i) we probably do not (yet) know all the possible logics (ii) it is computationally difficult even if possible.

Consequences

Pure necessity is seen as the ‘cause’ of the manifest universe.

The universe has identity and is limitless in extension, duration, variety, cycling through peaks and dissolutions.

There are limitlessly many cosmoses; every cosmos is an atom, every atom a cosmos.

We do not know what is at the edge of our cosmos or whether it has an edge. It may merge into another like a twisted balloon. There may be a substrate with which interactions are too weak to be of present significance.

All beings merge as one in the greatest peak(s).

This gives a robust conception of ‘God’ as a process in which we all take part even in the present as we proceed toward the peak or ‘God’ state.

Though the cosmos seems very bare and discrete and has pragmatic limit of light speed, spacetimebeing collapses to a point (or less) in the void state, across which communication is instant. Even if there is an infinity between death and birth it is effectively an instant.

Cosmological levels

The cosmological levels are as below.

We call the general the highest level as it is most inclusive—the lower levels are manifestations of it and inherit its properties on top of which are the forms of the lower.

The lower levels have dynamics, cause, and structure, which are paradigms for occurrences at the higher – the paradigmatic behavior, e.g., variation and selection, occurs with greater likelihood

Though cosmoses with high level experience may be rare they are the ones that have effective existence (anthropic principle); these are the ‘robust’ cosmoses.

General cosmology

Mere transients

Random transients to states that are relatively stable in virtue of near symmetry

Though less frequent than mere transients, these are the ones that count toward cosmological structure and dynamics

This is the source of laws and dynamics and causation

Saltations

One (or few) steps to fully formed cosmoses—occurs but extremely rare

Experiential cosmology

The fact of emergence requires change, therefore duration (proto time)

For primitive states relation is precursor to higher experience and such relations may be labeled experiential even though the ‘experience is primitive’

Thus the universe may be called experiential—an experiential field

This is inherited by all levels of cosmology that follow

Identity is sense of sameness over duration

Space is marked by difference across identities

‘Relativity’

Results from incomplete differentiation between change over duration vs space

Space-time-being are ‘one’: precursor to general relativity

Quantum

When formation occurs, quantum phenomena are the residue in the forms of the transient process of formation

Experiential hierarchy

Experiential beings are arranged in a hierarchy with as-if inert beings at the bottom, human / animal beings somewhere in the ‘middle’, and peaks at the top.

Cosmology of form and formation

Via saltation, which is rare.

Most commonly by the continuation of the build up of form via transients from relatively stable states beginning as described above.

This is the source of form (structure) and dynamics and connection.

Evolution of cosmoses (e.g., as described by Smolin) and, later, life, occur via variation and selection (different mechanisms of course)

Relativity and quantum like behavior emerge as described above.

Our cosmos

Physical

How does our physics emerge?

The paradigms of our cosmos are analogy for higher levels. But from (FP), the analogy is realized. Reason now suggests that it is an efficient mechanism.

Biological

Functional

Evolutionary

Psychological

Social

I omit details of psychology and the social levels that are in other documents.