I have a few problems with Pearson’s email.
“The filaments of annihilation, together with blob-like shapes, form a complex structure of finer grain than even an electron that, being supplied constantly with a huge flux of energy, satisfy the chaos mathematicians criteria for self-organisation.”
We (Pearson and I) are so far afield from one another. This is no different than milk coagulating on the sides of a coffee cup. It’s just cause/reaction, not self organization. The whole concept of “self organization”, I believe, is deceptively flawed. First, it implies a “SELF”. I don’t believe it appropriate to anthropomorphize chaos. That opens up extreme philosophical and logical paradox. As well, any information scientist will tell you that information is not reducible to the traditional concept of “self organization”, which only seems organized because a human observer identified and authored information about it in description.
Dawkins coined the term “Apparent Design”. Under identical standards, I coin the term “Apparent Information”. Not really there friend, though to some it may seem to be.
“So it self-organises to form a huge memory bank extending throughout all space and can provide information.”
His next line, I have no issues with, because any physical medium may be utilized as an information storage device, at least for those who believe that information is stored, like water in a bucket. I do not believe information should be looked at like water in a bucket. Information is not stored. It is represented by a physical medium. But it is never reducible to the physical medium.
“It is this information that it uses to create a set of parallel universes.”
More anthropomorphism.