Spirits & Waveforms

In this episode, visual designer Oyani Onimiya and quantum physicist Shannon Ray use their information theoretic based language to give physical meaning to the concept of spirit.  To do this, they define something's spirit as the way it programs the universe and the way it is programmed by the universe.  For anything to program or be programmed, there must be an interaction.  Thus, this definition connects spirit to how the universe evolves during an interaction.  From here, spirit is further connected to the scientific method since to know a spirit is a question of the  likely outcome of an interaction which can be verified through observation.

They also discuss the social implications of this definition since something's spirit is defined in terms of its interactions with all other things in the universe.  As such, they point out that one's spirit does not belong to them alone since it requires multiple parties to interact with.
This implies that the meaning of any archetypal spirit, like comedian, chef, doctor, scientist etc. exists on the network of all minds who are interacting.  Everyone gets a vote on what these spirits are since someone's model of a spirit affects how they interact with it which affects the spirit. 

This episode  also tackles the question of self by pointing out that one's physical matter is replaced over time, and yet there remains something that is the self that can't be made of physical matter alone.  This conundrum is explored by arguing that what remains that is not made of matter is the waveform which dictates how information flows during interactions.  This further complicates the question of self since waveforms are independent of the physical matter on which they've been placed. Therefore, it is possible to identify with a waveform that can be found in others.

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