2. Philosophical experiment
We are created from substance same,
That our dreams. And dream surround
All our small life
William Shakespeare, The Storm, 4.1
In
ruthless time and destructive wars, the memory of a human civilization had
preserved ideas and beliefs of the ancient people. Let's look at the set of
citations of the philosophers, theologists and scientists of different times
and nations.
1. "By Faith we learn, that centuries are
arranged by a word of the God " (11:3). (Shabby precept, 8-2 centuries up
to AD)
2. " All things are the essence of number ".
Pythagoras from Samoa (1585-500 BC)
3. " The Reason rules the world ". Anaxagor
from Klazomen. (500-428 up to AD)
4. " The God always is geometer ". "
Things are the essence of a shadow of Ideas, reflected on the screen of
experience ". Plato. (427-348 Up
to AD)
5. " The place that the God occupies in the world, is the same that Spirit occupies in the ma;
what is the matter in the world - the same is the body in us" (Seneka
Lucinius Anneus, Letter, 65,24, 4 year about AD - 65 AD)
6. " We are created from the same substance, that
our dreams. And the dream surrounds all our small life ". William
Shakespeare (1564-1616).
7. " Under the word "God", - I mean the
substance infinite, eternal, constant, independent, powerful, created both
caused me, and all other existing things. All universe as a whole represents
the huge harmonious machine constructed on a mathematical basis. " Rene
Descartes (1596-1650).
8. "... We do not know neither reason, nor
matter, and both they are fiction. We perceive only sensations... " David
Yum (1711-1776)
9. "The reason cognising itself ". George
Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831).
10. " If the number is a product of our mind, the
space is a reality, laying outside of our reason, and we can not order our laws to it." Gauss Karl Fredric
(1777-1885)
11. " Actually, as well as the God is Everything,
he is Nothing ". Nicola Kusinsky.
12. " The Initial concepts of classical physics
(space, time, movement) are subjective by origin; the world is a complex of
sensations, task of science - their description ". Ernst Max (1838-1916).
13. " A Matter... philosophical category for a
designation of an objective reality, which... is reflected by our sensations,
existing irrespective from them ". Vladimir I. Ulyanov (Lenin).
(1870-1924).
The given citations are taken casually enough and
represent casual sample of various, including conflicting, philosophical
concepts from idealism up to nihilism and materialism, approximately from 2800
years of development of human Civilization.
Let's assume, that, before people have invented the
concept "information", various concepts, such as the God, the Word of
the God, Spirit, the Idea, Reason, numbers, Shadow of idea, World of Idea,
experience, sensation, mathematical basis, matter etc. were used for expression
of this substance. If this idea is correct, then the replacement of these
concepts by their common equivalent should give some not inconsistent, or, at
least, not conflicting, verbal formulations. Thus they should not lose the
semantic contents.
Let's make a philosophical experiment. Let's replace
the keywords and combinations in the above-stated citations by the concept "information". In
result we shall get the following.
1. (By Faith) we learn, that space and time
(centuries) are constructed by the information (Word of the God).
2. All things are the essence the information
(numbers).
3. The information manages (mind) (rules) the
information (the World).
4. (God) the information (is always) is shown as space
(geometer). Things are the essence of the information (shadow of Ideas),
reflected by another information (reflected on the screen of experience).
5.The place that external information (God) occupies
in the world, is the same that internal information (Reason) in a man, what in the world - matter, such in us
- body.
6. We are created from the same substance, that our
dreams (from the information). And the dream (information) surrounds all our
small life.
7. Under a word "the information" (God), - I
mean substance infinite, eternal, (constant, independent), powerful, created
both me and all other existing things. All universe as a whole represents the
huge harmonious machine constructed on an information (mathematical) basis.
8. … we do not know neither reason, nor matter, and
both they are information (fictions). We perceive the information only
(sensation).
9. The information (reason) cognising itself.
10. If the number is an information (product) of our
mind, the space is an information (reality) laying outside of our reason, and
we can't order our laws to it.
11. Actually, as well as the information (God) is
Everything, it is Nothing (formal information vacuum).
12. The initial concepts of classical physics (space,
time, movement) are subjective by origin; the world is an information complex
(of sensations).
13. Information (matter)... a philosophical category
for a designation of an objective reality, which... is reflected by our
sensations, existing irrespectively from them.
I hope my readers and philosophers will forgive me for
so free manipulations with the citations, but it was done for the sake of
experiment. But the result is original. Having replaced different concepts by
one key, we begin to understand, that between the irreconcilable opponents
there are no irreconcilable contradictions. Both God and Spirit, Reason and
Matter and lot of other categories by authors' definition are approximately
equivalent to concepts of the information or any of information formation.
The fact
is, that concept of the information therefore is not inconsistent equivalent of
the basic concepts of the most various philosophical concepts. That these
concepts are constructed from the information and are the essence of
information formations.
Proceeding
from various preconditions and using various methods, the researchers of different
times came similar conclusions. However, not obtaining such concept, as
information, they had to express their conclusions by similar and
understandable to them concepts. And these concepts reflected the essence of
the received results insufficiently. Further, received conclusions, not
adequately, were understood by other researchers operating other systems of
concepts and putting in verbal equivalents (concept) similar, but distinguished
sense. In due course it has caused the
set of philosophical concepts about
essence of the world, which successfully competed already and will compete with
each other for many years.
Moreover,
all new formed verbal formulas begin to transfer idea about an information
nature of the world, not taking into consideration, that the above mentioned
citations were stated by different people, living in different times in
different countries. Such unity speaks about intuitive understanding of the
basics of the world, existing from an antiquity. It is possible to consider this
thesis as expression of understanding of that fact, that the reflections of
material objects, subjectively and objectively perceived by us, - are the
information process. A matter is just "a shadow of Idea".
In 18-th
century David Yum has stated a similar
idea: "...We do not know neither reason, nor matter, and both they are
fictions. We perceive sensations. Simple ideas, such as images, memoirs and the
ideas, represent the response of sensations. Any difficult idea is a set of
simple ideas. Our reason is identical to a set of our sensations and ideas. No
use to believe in existence of any
substances, except those we perceive directly on experience. Any experience
derives sensations. ...Space and time is a way and order of comprehension of
ideas, and their reason is habitual interrelation of ideas. Neither space, nor time, or reason is not an objective reality. Force and
brightness of our sensations leads us to errors, forcing to trust a reality of
the environmental world. Actually, existence of the environmental world with
the given properties is no more than conclusion, in which validity we can't be
sure.
… Man is the detached set of emotions, i.e.
impressions and ideas. Any attempt to learn itself, will result only in some
perception, and there is no reliance that this perception is true. Hence,
there're no and there can't be scientific laws concerning to permanent,
objectively existing physical world. " (David Yum, 1711-1776).
Using a mathematical method of replacement of the
variable and replacing three concepts of the author - fictions, ideas,
sensations - by one common concept "information" we shall receive the
quite logical citation about an information nature of the world.
In result of the philosophical experiment, it is
possible to make a conclusion, that at replacement of various concepts in the
citations displaying the basic ideas, on one concept "information",
the logical structure of the citations does not break up, but on the contrary,
there appears an impression of uncontradictoriness and unity of the achieved
results. It testifies that the researchers describe the same object by the
citations, using various, but identical concepts.
Hence, it is possible to speak about unity of an
information nature of the world.