Information in religion and science

Exploring information theory linking religion with science

Murukessan Perumal

5/8/20246 min read

A stylized representation of a computer chip is integrated into a black and teal geometric background. The chip features a minimalist, futuristic face design along with the text 'CHAT GPT' in bold, glowing teal. The background consists of repeating black shapes outlined in teal, creating a high-tech, digital atmosphere.
A stylized representation of a computer chip is integrated into a black and teal geometric background. The chip features a minimalist, futuristic face design along with the text 'CHAT GPT' in bold, glowing teal. The background consists of repeating black shapes outlined in teal, creating a high-tech, digital atmosphere.
Today's topic is Information Theory

The information theory was proposed by Shannon with his famous coining term entropy to quantify information as suggested by Von Neumann. But lets take a dive into what could be its use as an overall information theory for the human race. With such a core thought in mind, let me elucidate the information theory. Lets visit a different science actually physics by Boltzman when he had to coin the entropy for physical systems such as a group of atoms juggling in a container. The question was to find the initial set of possible states of the atoms and their relative positions perhaps other properties may be like motion therefore heat and so on. So if you have two states for every atom as position and velocity. Then for different possible combinations of the initial states of the atoms in different positions and velocities, it could end up in exponential possible states in the flow of time. The exponentiality increases over time and again. Lets consider an example, assume there are 10 different spacial points where atoms can possibly stay and 8 different directions in which they can have their velocities. Let there be some 7 different possible velocities. This may seem absurd like the space, direction, speed in reality may seem to be in real number space. But in atomic quantum states it may be different. It could be quantized.

So if you have an atom, it can have possible initial 10*8*7 states. Lets say there are two atoms then there are 10*8*7 possible initial states for each of them that start to interact with each other over time. So when there are more than one atom, you need to formulate some interacting principles between them and define the possibility of the states that may end up over time. The truth being if you have more atoms, with more freedom of space, direction and speed, whatever the interacting principles being the same for all atoms may end up in exponentially more and more possible states over time. With the caveat, the states may even repeat over time given the number of possible states of systems reaching a limit in the system with rules and the atoms. If you have to find out the number of intial states or at least the repeating states of any n-body atomic system, given the possibilities of the states they are in over time, You need to do logarithm of all the possible states they end up over time. Let me elucidate with a simple digital number system. Lets say in binary number system there are two possibilities for every digit 0 or 1. But if you have more than 1 digit, there is an exponentially increasing possible representative numbers or possible states. Like 1 digit has 2 states (0|1), 2 digits has 4 states (00|01|10|11), 3 digits has 8 states (000|001|010|011|100|101|110|111) and 4 digits has 16 states. So it is exponentially increasing over the increase of no of digits 2ⁿ. Then think of the single bit having 10*8*7 possible states, then it could well possibly be (10∗8∗7)ⁿ states to end up in n amount of time. So to find the amount of information in so many possibilities one has to do logarithm, like if you have 8 numbers in a binary system then log(2⁸) = 3 there are 3 digital bits of information. If you have (10∗8∗7)⁵ atomic states then log₁₀*₈*₇(10∗8∗7)⁵ = 5 resulting in 5 atoms being present in the inital state.

The mathematical beauty of Shannon's theory lies in quantifying information over the probability of the loss of information. Lets say the inital state of atoms are not deterministic but probabilistic like there is a probability of 0.3 for say 1000 states, then 0.4 for say 2000 states and 0.3 for say 3000 states. Then the information in those possible states is 0.3∗(1000/6000)+0.4∗(2000/6000)+0.3∗(3000/6000) = 2000/6000 = 0.333.... But how can you get that information by seeing the system evolve over time over loss of information like in transmitting information over any communication systems with a lot of probability of interference or error resulting in loss of information? So Shannon invented the formula

Entropy=−∑ᵢpᵢ∗log(pᵢ)


It is just the weighted sum of logarithm of the possible informative states or expectation of information in probability. But it is negative because entropy tells us about disorder in the information and not the order. Therefore the less the entropy more the information. Let me show a picture of probability of a single event with two possiblities 0 being the event did not happen and 1 being the event happened. Like it rains or not, the girl loves or not, will I pass or not, etc. mapped with the entropy formula. Here I have done a logarithm of base 10, whereas normally base 2 is used as a unit for entropy. You can see the entropy is high in the unsure probabilty in the image at the end of the page. If a clear yes/no then there is more information than entropy.

Now lets see how this information theory could well be utilized to find out which religion is right and which one is wrong, which one was the initial condition? Like did it all start with Adam and Eve. Out of hunger did they start to reproduce naturally disobeying command of God or by the information from Satan. Did all humans who were from the same family of Adam and Eve reproduced among each other? Did God reproduced asexually to give birth to Satan? Is God a male, female, LQBTQ? Or everything is from nothing and there is nothing beyong that nothing? Did beauty and attention give rise to Satan or finding God in beauty made him send Satan. For Christ's sake how many chicken egg problems are there in the world I get confused a lot. At least still I saw Aishwarya Rai, Hritik Roshan, Steve Reeves, John Abhraham, Marlyn Manroe, Arnold, Stallone, Rashmika Mandanna, so on, I defined beauty in my own way. Having not seen much of any mirror myself. At least there were no filters except makeups and possibly steroids in those days. But have the humans having seen the celebrities' pictures in their primates' era, would have commited self racial suicide trying to outrun the imaginary beauty on their own. Have the humans started face shaming each other only to find may be in a pond their own self and started considering everyone ugly. Or after seeing the pond self image they started face shaming. Again sham-beauty or beauty-gets-shammed chicken egg problem. I am confused therefore I turned non-veg and eat both chicken and egg.

Lets simplify to love and hate. Most of the people find God in love and Satan in hate. Equally people find God in hate and Satan in love. Just they define and redefine on their enemies. If we have four bits of information for love/hate like [Self|Family|Others|Enemy]. There are possibily 16 different states, like you love yourself and manipulate everyone else becoming narcissistic. You love yourself and family but not others and therefore all turn enemies. You love yourself, family, others but not enemy. You love all even enemy and they make sure you get crucified. You love yourself, but not your family, but you love others and even enemy. All possible states of love/hate over self,family,others,enemy exist in over the world in people and it may change course over time as well. If you want to find the religious secrets like God and Satan, love and hate by being inside the system of such love and hate, God and Satan, giving rise to the multiversal interpretation of the Quantum physics, then you need to fight the entire world to get it. Because you or your n-body team will always be in a state collapse giving rise to enemies in every possible timeline.

If you want to simplify, lets say you have to face others for survival and you may never know exactly what your work is for love or hate, if it can be used for love or hate over time. If you see God in love but don't want to get cruicified then you need to do random lovable things of free will to your own self and the family you love. It can be a great or a small thing, like financial support or cooking, anything which you can do on your own, out of love. This may keep the balance of love in the enemy n-body and keep enemies from hurting each other. If you find God in hate, make sure you hate yourself also and ready to do the things you do to others, enemy or even family to your own self. If you have to keep a balance you have to give your equal rights to the opposite gender especially wife. Equal rights in everything especially in sex too. If you can have multiple partners then your wife can too. If not don't talk about balance. Hate is not bad unless you are ready to put a bullet through having lost Berlin. Or having done all nonsensical hatred to all in hidden ways for food, survival, and sex, you get to know the same things gets done to you in your death bed. You say a good bye to again obey the command of God by not eating the apple. Also remember the more you make peace with others, and do not manipulate others to get to your enemy, the less entropy you generate yourself, thereby may be peace of mind.

Oh Christ, save me from all chickens and eggs.