“Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what’s on the other side?”— Kermit the Frog singing the “Rainbow Connection” in The Muppet Movie (1979)
The following is a summary of God’s Rainbow Connection: Fractal Code and Resurrection, which you will eventually be able to pre-order on Kickstarter. Several sample diagrams from various parts of the book are also included throughout the text as well as links to more information in an “80/20 version” of the book.
Nature, the Bible, and God contain rainbows of information that weave together in self-similar, repeating patterns known as fractals. These fractal streams of information tell a story of creation, separation, and restoration across multiple scales as they collectively arc through different layers of matter, language, and consciousness.
One new fractal pattern discovered by the author in the Bible illustrates how the universe is becoming increasingly more complex, alive, and personal. This means it can be separated into smaller and smaller time periods, locations, and groups of people until it culminates with an individual life demonstrating the greatest love in human history. This fractal pattern reveals that not only does creation occur physically over long periods of time, but it is also organized in repeating yearly cycles and happens spiritually through seven literal days in the life of Yeshua (Jesus). Just like the columns of elements in the periodic table of chemistry, this information follows recurring trends—as seen in the table below. You can also click here to view a complex version of the table which contains more information.
Information itself appears to be a universal substance with physical, “organizational”, and mental aspects that mirrors the Christian concept of a divine Trinity consisting of Son, Father, and Holy Spirit. This is described in a new solution to the mind–body problem in philosophy that is self-similar at different scales, which the author has named “Fractal Information Trimonism” (FIT). It includes the idea of code (which is a kind of information about information that allows something to symbolically represent something else) as a third aspect of existence. For example, science has shown genetic and epigenetic codes are located between matter and consciousness in living beings, similar to the relationship between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in the triadic model of semiotics in linguistics. This means one way to understand FIT is to think about language and words.
Note: A Bible can be used to demonstrate the three aspects of information because not only does it start physically at the front cover, but it also starts linguistically with the words “In the beginning” as well as mentally in the mind of God.
At the purely physical level, all languages consist of objective patterns in various materials such as pixels of light on a computer screen, strokes of ink on paper, sound waves vibrating in the air, and even electrochemical brain pulses. Certain patterns represent words or parts of an organizational code that people who speak a particular language collectively agree have a specific “symbolic meaning”. For instance, according to the dictionary (which is a codebook of words made out of other words), the word “God” in English means the Creator and Supreme Being in the universe. However, individuals can mentally have very different subjective or relative emotions about the agreed upon meaning symbolically encoded in a word. This explains how most people say they love God while others can have negative feelings or do not think God exists. There is more information about FIT in the diagram below.
In addition, information seems to originate through three holistic processes that locally reduce disorder or uncertainty—but actually cause more disorder in the rest of the universe. The first is based on quantum experiments which suggest each atomic “bit” of matter is really digital (like in the movie The Matrix) and is encoded in a probability wave that results in a fractal pattern when it interferes with itself. The wave appears to only collapse and behave as a particle when it entangles with other information an observer is already aware of or apparently will become aware of in the future. The second process is the increasing evidence in systems biology of a kind of cellular cognition known as Natural Genetic Engineering (NGE), where cells are able to create, encode, rearrange, repair, and even transfer information in DNA. The third and most familiar example of the generation of information is the use of spoken and written languages or codes (which exhibit patterns of irregular regularity similar to certain fractals) by human beings with minds to communicate their thoughts and feelings, such as this summary of the book that you are reading right now.
The interdependent relationships between the three aspects of information are also reflected in a new metalinguistic (meaning “beyond language”) theory of the origin of the universe, life, and awareness that the author calls “Conscious Emergence”. In this hybrid theory, “collective” codes and subjective consciousness in cells—which appears to be holographic and the source of biological information—are just as fundamental as objectively observed matter. It is a synthesis which bridges the gap between Intelligent Design via repeated divine interventions by an external agent and the materialistic version of evolution with only random accidents promoted by some scientists. It turns out that unintentional genetic changes are almost always undesirable and recent Nobel Prize-winning research has shown cells use multiple DNA repair systems in order to fix damage and prevent unwanted mutations.
“No currently existing formal language can tolerate random changes in the symbol sequences which express its sentences. Meaning is almost invariably destroyed.”— Murray Eden, MIT Professor of Electrical Engineering
This discovery is analogous to the feedback mechanisms found in watches (and it inspired the author to make a significant improvement to the watchmaker analogy) or the error-correcting codes employed by engineers in telecommunications. Without a correctly working low-level “logical loop” of feedback that constantly protects the symbolic meaning encoded in their genome, cells become dormant or deliberately die, and have problems replicating or develop into cancer. These consequences and the inherent instability of DNA and RNA molecules show that the first living organism required some kind of repair system for its genetic information from the very beginning. Therefore, the model of evolution based only on the laws of physics is essentially impossible and instead involves what the author calls a “principle of error minimization”.
Other systems in the body also use code to minimize errors. For example, neurons in the brain reduce mistakes by using what is known as predictive coding. In fact, the multiple layers of parts, code, and logic in the error-correcting loops that are necessary for life make up the first rungs of a fractal cybernetic system which the author has named a “Biological Jacob’s Ladder” that also involves a “principle of choice maximization”. Interestingly, error-correcting codes may have even been discovered in several areas of physics, especially if the currently purely theoretical equations of supersymmetric string theory can be confirmed by experiments.
“To err is human, to forgive divine.”— Alexander Pope in his poem An Essay on Criticism (1711)
However, the ultimate error-correcting code is the Word of God, which functions on a moral or spiritual level and includes the idea that repenting of your sin and believing in Jesus saves people from the deadliest effects of harmful actions towards others. Choosing to integrate this crucial life-giving information and the rest of the Bible’s instructions (which have been proven to work by Jesus’ resurrection) into your life allows anyone to permanently become a member of the body of Christ, uniting in love with one another and God’s Spirit as a fractal part of the Creator.
You can visit other pages on the website for the book’s table of contents, to see extra slides, or learn about the author. There are also a couple of projects associated with the book where you can help God take a selfie or see a screenshot of a puzzle video game based on information theory and error-correcting codes.