Psi and Information

by LeoDragon
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Psi and psychic phenomena can be defined as a function which allows for the interaction of
information between an organism and its environment to occur without any apparent physical medium.
Most studies into the how this transfer happens try to avoid sand box labels because they can imply an
underlying discovered mode of transference when that is far from the case. Information transference
can be broken down into three large categories; transference of information between the conceptual
state of one organism to that of another organism (mind to mind; telepathy), transference of
information from the environment to the organism , and/or transference of information between an
organism and its environment (psychokinesis).

An interesting property of the transference of information is that it seems spatiotemporally

transcendental. This means that the organism is able to obtain information about a physical system
regardless of the spatial or temporal distance placed between the organism and the actual thing. A
common example is precognition. The organism is able to obtain information about a temporally
removed point in the future which, by nature, would also bear a spatially removed point in that future
moment. There is a type of non local/a casual property relationship between the organism and the
object. The same thing can be applied to psychokinesis. Psychokinetic phenomena seem to have an a
casual and non local affect on physical systems. The question, however, is what is information?

It is a common misconception to mistake information for the thing that it is encoded into or the
thing that it is about. An example would be taking a word such as "table". The word table refers to the
object table, but the word table is not the actual table. The word table is an abstraction which refers to
the concept of table. Neither the word nor the concept is the actual table; rather, both are about physical
object, table. Or, let us take traffic lights. Traffic lights communicate information concerning when one
should stop, proceed, and slow down, but are the traffic lights the concept that is being communicated?
No. A more traditional example would be that of a map. A map represents the territory that it describes,
but the meaning of the map, itself, is an abstraction of the of the territory. This abstraction is not the
territory. In this sense, we can define information as an abstract noun. An abstraction can be thought of
as conceptual object which acts as a type of adjective versus a concrete object such as a table.

These abstractions can be ontologically divided and reified. In informational models, ontology
refers to the systematic categorization and utilization of these abstractions through the process of
reification. Reification is the treatment of the abstract objects as concrete things. Of course, one runs
into an ontological neutrality in which the abstraction has to have a physical representation hence the
need for the process of encoding and decoding. The physical representation acts as a type of holder of
meaning in which the these abstractions act as a type of discrete set of entities that hold the entirety of
the meaning. The meaning can branch out into proto epistemic/post epistemic conceptualizations
referring to semantic meaning or a more prima facie approach with limited links to semantic meaning
dealing more or so with the systematic mathematical quantization of structures in regards to their
correlations. These can be called qualitative and quantitative branches of information in which one is
about meaning and the other is more or so about relationships. Quantitative and qualitative information
can be further divided into propositional and inferential forms of information in which qualitative
information consists of data that can be reduced to semantic concepts of meaning and quantitative data
can be reduced to inferential data and mathematical structures which contain data about something via
correlations. Propositional information can be defined as structures which contain information by virtue
and only arise, generally, through the process of encoding. It is a gross misconception to say that
everything is information due to the fact the map is not the territory (unless appealing to a form of
metaphysical ontology). An object can be said to have information or a thing can be said to contain
information through the process of encoding. The process of encoding data stores the information into
semantic and epistemic characters represented by their representative associations.

Information, in the epistemic context, can be compared to the of possession knowledge. A thing
can have, contain, or acquire knowledge. A thing can only have knowledge in the noetic (appealing to
the definition of existing within the mind in semantic frameworks/structures and not noetic in the
gnostic or psychic sense of the word) sense if it is sentient, thus, an inanimate object cannot have or
acquire information in the epistemic sense; it can only contain information in the sense that the object
is in a form that is meaningful. A sentient being can acquire information through the process of
interpreting the data, contained within the information, in accordance with known syntax structures
which have meaning. The discrete pairs of data (symbols, sounds, physical states, etc.) contain
information, propositional, in such a way that information can be gained from the thing being
"informed". The information is contained, directly, in the thing, itself, due to the semantic meaning
contained within noetic frameworks. This does not encompass all of what information is; however, for
information can exists independently of the informed in environmental forms.

In physics, environmental information can be called classical or quantum forms of physical

information. Versus existing in a purely a noetic, semantic, and conceptual framework, the vocabulary,
mathematics, etc. describe and resemble physical processes and objects. A physical object has physical
information by the state of existing. As was stated before, there is a type of ontological neutrality in
which the data, contained within, is somewhat restricted to its material representation. In this way we
can say that the data an object possesses is restricted to its physical components in which the data
contained within a physics equation is dependent on its material representation. In other words,
mathematical mappings of physical systems are ways to encode information about the parts of the
object. Since the physical form of the data restricts the data, itself, one can order the physical
components of the system via the data (keeping in mind that information arises from patterns of data
which are tied to patterns of physical objects).

The physical parts of the data are important in communication in physical systems and
biological forms of information. The pattern of the data correspond to its material base creating a
systematic order/pattern of physical components in which there is a feedback (the response of the thing
that the information is communicated to). In telecommunications, the patterning of signals in specific
patterns via the data result in a specific reaction from the device that receives it. The data is decoded
by the physical response to the physical parts of the data. In biological systems, the arrangement of
acids in nucleotides act as physical carriers of information via its chemical reactions. The information
is composed of a pool of data which are dependent on the physical properties of that physical unit. The
patterns of data would create various streams of information in which the information arises from
patterns of the data which arise from patterns of the physical units. When the data are communicated,
these patterns elicit a response from the thing that the information is communicated to.

With the above defined, two arching groups can be set up in regards to information and how it
pertains to psi; a noetic type of framework which consists of epistemic, semantic, and conceptual forms
of information that exists within a framework of consciousness and information as it exists in the
physical environment, thus, we can define Extrasensory Perception as a process of anomalous
cognition that allows for information to be attained/communicated between two noetic/conceptual
frameworks or a noetic framework and the physical environment in which the feedback is knowledge
of a thought (telepathy) or a physical system (clairvoyance) or the physical system responding to
information (psychokinesis) without a physical mode for transference of this information.

In psychokinesis, one can say that information is communicated to the physical system from the
mind of the person. Information describing the physical state of the goal is communicated to the
physical system, a casually, in such a way as to cause a response. The injected/communicated data
causes a reaction making it so the elicit response in the physical system is its changing in accordance
with the intention and goal of the person. This can be especially seen in biological systems. This
feedback loop can be seen in ESP, as well. Information about the external thing results in knowledge
and awareness of that thing which causes a change in the pathological structure of the brain and
neurophysiology. In telepathy, information about the mental framework of the person, which would
include thoughts, is attained or communicated to the person (it is a common misconception to think that
the thought, itself, is communicated). In clairvoyant forms of ESP, information about a physical thing is
attained by the person in a spatiotemporal independent way. Information about the object can be at any
location in any time which is where one gets the divide between clairvoyance in the present,
precognition, and retrocognition. The same could be said for psychokinesis.

As was stated earlier, psi can be thought of as a function, or mechanism, which allows for what
ostensibly seems the transference of information via means unknown at this time.