Reply #129: A teleological theory

[aneerkoinos]

Extremely alternative physics by Matti Pitkänen does just that:

"The identification of p-adic space-time sheets as representations for intentions and the identification of p-adic-to-real phase transitions as transformations of intentions to real actions gives additional concreteness to this vision. The identification of the psychological time as the value of the geometric time characterizing the phase transition front at which p-adic-to-real phase transitions mostly occur, allows to understand psychological time as the time value around which volition is strongly concentrated. The ethics is simple: evolution is the good thing. Therefore the increase of p is good and reduction of p is bad. There are two options for identifying
moral choice: either the p:s characterizing initial and final sectors Dp are compared or the p:s characterizing various possible nal state Dp:s are compared. The latter option does not look so plausible since it predicts that our moral choices are between innite number of possible alternatives. In accordance with Hume's law values (in fact all qualities) belong to the realm of subjective existence (quantum jumps) rather than being properties of the objective world (quantum histories).
Moral rules are related to the relationship between indvidual and society and presumably develop via self-organization process and are by no means unique. Moral rules however tend to optimize evolution. There is entire hierarchy of selves and every self has the selsh desire to survive and moral rules develop as a kind of compromise and evolve all the time. The newest progress in this evolution is brought by the cosmology of consciousness, which forces to extend the concept of society to four-dimensional society! The decisions of "me now" aect both my past and future and time like quantum entanglement
makes possible conscious communication in time direction by sharing conscious experiences. One can therefore speak of genuinely fourdimensional society. Besides my next-door neighbors I had better to take into account also my nearest neighbors in past and future (the nearest ones being perhaps copies of me!). If I make wrong decisions those copies of me in future and past will suffer the most. Perhaps my personal hell and paradise are here and are created mostly by me."
http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/cbookI.html#timesc


So the "good" is what helps evolution (including "spiritual" evolution) towards a "better" universe with less suffering, "bad" is what hinders evolution. Each of us is a "designer".

QED