When Joey Lawsin was conceptualizing his Theory on Codexation, he proposed a thought experiment with this hypothetical premise: - suppose a prehistoric son of a caveman was placed immediately right after birth inside a "room", a box with six walls as his only surroundings, forbidden to interact ever with the outside world, and never allowed to see anyone or hear anything, would his paleolithic mind acquire information, materialize such information and become self-conscious, or would it just be empty throughout the rest of his life?
The Cavemen in the Box Trilogy is a scientific model that examines the origin, creation, and evolution of information, or in short, the Genesis of Information. It was designed to study how the very first humans on Earth learned to acquire information. A parallel observable experiment was also put into place that used two dogs, a double-coat Alaskan malamute, and a smooth-coat Mexican chihuahua.
In the thought experiment, three subjects were isolated:
The first subject was a newborn son of a caveman who was placed inside a box just after he was born - a well-designed state-of-the-art, fully automated experimental room where food, water, and everything that the boy needed for his survival, growth, and development were all technologically provided just like the sustenance naturally received by a baby inside the womb or by all living things inside earth's biosphere. The boy was never allowed ever to see anyone or hear anything. He was completely isolated from the world from birth to adulthood.
The second subject, the first human on earth, was also placed in isolation from birth to adulthood. However, his father's box was the natural world, a place surrounded by plants, animals, and non-living things.
The third subject was a four-legged creature. He was also isolated from birth to adulthood with the same natural world as his adult master. The only difference between him and the caveman was that he was a dog.
From these three scenarios of isolation, Lawsin raised the following questions:
- Which of these three will acquire enough information?
- Who will never acquire any information at all?
- Will they become aware of themselves?
- Will they become aware of their own surrounding?
- Will they figure out that they are alive?
- Will they comprehend the things surrounding them? How?
- How many words will they learn?
- If words are not explained, how will they know and understand these words?
- Will their minds remain empty for their entire lives?
- Will they become conscious of their environments?
- If instinct is true, will instinct kick in?
- What are these instincts that they had before?
- How did these instincts develop in the first place?
- Will they consume their poo and drink their pee?
- Will they still behave and act like babies throughout their adulthood?
In the Second and Third Boxes, both the dog and his master will acquire information from all the living and non-living things that surround them. Animals, plants, and every object in the sea, air, and land are all pieces of information. Their actions, properties, colors, textures, shapes, characteristics, sounds, and behaviors are pieces of information as well. All these things are the inherent objects that came first before human brains evolved. They are the pieces of information that humans borrowed and copied from nature. These entire pieces of information were created by Mother Nature for all her creations to interact.
Nature is the Mother of Information. She is the provider of information. She is the keeper of the database that catalogs all we see, hear, touch, smell, and taste. She is the holder of the universal list that contains the "names" of all living and non-living things. These names are the physical labels that flow from the outside world into the inside world of the mind, two different environments. The labels become abstracts and processed inside the mind. This transensational of physical to abstracts flows only in one direction - from the inherent world to the interim mind, from outside to inside, from objects to ideas. This informational transconversion or codexation is known as the Scriptional Jump.
Moreover, according to Lawsin, Information can only be acquired in two and only two ways: by choice and by chance. Information by Choice means the acquisition of information obtained from teachers, from parents, books, lessons from animals, or from the environment; while Information by Chance means the acquisition of information through discovering new things, fortunate accidents, unexpected experiences, unknown events, or natural interventions. Every natural object such as humans, animals, plants, rocks, and the universe including their behaviors, actions, and properties are all pieces of information. These objects are collectively called inherent information. Individually, each entity is a particle of information known as an iParticle.
Without Mother Nature, the human mind will be totally empty of information. It will be alive on the inside but dead on the outside. It is alive because internally it functions mechanically just like the gears and springs of a clock. The sustenance needed by the internal body and the mind is all already preset inside. (reflect: are they also controlled by the outside environment like temp, gravity, and pressure?). Externally, it is dead because there is no "sustenance" to see, hear, touch, smell, feel, and even discover. There are no inherent objects that will feed the internal mind and body. (reflect: the relationship between internal mind/body and external body/?). Because of Mother Nature, both humans and animals become aware, conscious, and self-conscious beings.
In his parallel physical experiment, the Bowlingual Investigation, Lawsin also discovered that:
1. Mother Nature is the source and keeper of information.
2. Information is acquired by choice or by chance.
3. The environment makes who and what we are.
4. Objects are information but not all information is objects.
5. Information only flows in one direction from the inherent world to the interim mind.
6. The mind is an empty "hard drive" at birth. Information is not pre-existent. It needs to be acquired first.
7. Creation is a process that needs both materials and by-materials (meaning "from materials", a word coined by Lawsin to represent parameters that are products of materials that are invisible but can be detected by touch, smell, or hearing like temperature, odor, and noise respectively). Both materials and by-materials are called Physicals. While non-physicals are called Abstracts.
8. Consciousness can be Cognitive(mental) and Non-cognitive (non-mental/behavioral).
9. Consciousness doesn't need to originate from the brain.
10. Sequential Instructions produce "mental" rational experiences.
11. Humans and animals become alive, aware, conscious, and self-conscious due to Mother Nature.
12. It is inhuman to humanize a dog, you might end up raising a kid in a cage!
"We learn things first from the outside world,
and learn things last from the inside world."
and learn things last from the inside world."
~ Joey Lawsin
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