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Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond
Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond
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| author          = [[Biography:Sergei V. Chekanov|Sergei V. Chekanov]], Ph.D.
| author          = [[Biography:Sergei V. Chekanov|Sergei V. Chekanov]], Ph.D.
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| subject          = Science, Philosophy, Religion
| genre            = Spirituality
| language        = English, Russian
| publisher        = IngramSpark
| publisher        = IngramSpark
| pages            = 473
| pub_date        = May 20, 2024
| pub_date        = May 20, 2024
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| isbn            = 9798990642836 (also 9798990642829)
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'''''The Wiki Way: Quick Collaboration on the Web''''' is a 2001 book about [[Wiki|wiki]]s by Bo Leuf and [[Biography:Ward Cunningham|Ward Cunningham]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leuf |first1=Bo |last2=Cunningham |first2=Ward |title=The Wiki Way}}</ref><ref name="Mute">{{Cite web |last=Worthington |first=Simon |date=2001-10-12 |title=The Wiki Way (Quick Collaboration on the Web, Bo Leuf, Ward Cunningham) |url=https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/wiki-way-quick-collaboration-web-bo-leuf-ward-cunningham |access-date=2024-06-26 |magazine=Mute |issn= 1356-7748 |language=en|quote=The review notes: The Wiki Way book is a manifesto and a software manual in one, with the essentials for Wiki installation attached on CD. The authors have written this book with an almost mystical sense of wonderment at the achievements and ideals embodied in the Wiki concept, a web site where anyone can edit anything. ... The attached CD allows you to install a Wiki on most Os’s, even Windows, and then you too will be able to keep the flame burning for those early ideals of the WWW: empowerment, learning and collaboration.}}</ref>


It was the first major book published about using wikis. Cunningham invented wikis when he wrote [[Social:WikiWikiWeb|WikiWikiWeb]], the first wiki website software.{{Citation needed|date=July 2021}
The book "'''The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond'''" discusses the meaning of synchronicity, or remarkable coincidences in people's lives. This work not only explains the mystery of synchronicity, originally introduced by Carl Jung, but it also shows how to make a simple calculation to estimate the chances that coincidences you may encounter in your life are not due to mere randomness. By showing that the role of chance in such phenomena is unlikely, it uniquely connects it with the questions of the Universe's origin, biological evolution, quantum mechanics, elementary particles and with the incredible beauty of the laws of nature.  
The book is about how to manage wiki systems, followed by a perspective on the nature of wiki-style online communication.


==Reception==
The book explains all observed phenomena related to coincidences using the concept of retrospectivity, i.e. modification of the past to satisfy the expectations of future in special moments of conscience activity.
Eugene Eric Kim wrote in ''Web Techniques'' that "Leuf and Cunningham do a good job of explaining what a Wiki is" and said "''The Wiki Way'' is about the way we work, and that makes it a worthwhile read."<ref>{{cite news |last=Kim |first=Eugene Eric |date=September 2001 |title=The Wiki Way: Quick collaboration on the Web |magazine=Web Techniques |volume=6 |issue=9 |page=62 |id={{ProQuest|275002380}} }}</ref> David Mattison of ''Searcher'' tried the book's QuickiWiki script.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Mattison |first=David |date=April 2003 |title=Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki, and the Plone Wars: Wiki as PJM and collaborative content tool |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A99618622/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=d3679043 |magazine=Searcher |via=[[Company:Gale (publisher)|Gale]] |volume=11 |number=4 |pages=32+ |accessdate=2024-06-26 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240626085558/https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CA99618622&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-AONE&asid=d3679043 |archivedate=2024-06-26 }}</ref> Simon Worthington stated, "''The Wiki Way'' book is a manifesto and a software manual in one, with the essentials for Wiki installation attached on CD."<ref name="Mute"/>
 
The examples and calculations discussed in this book demonstrate that our world cannot be viewed as purely materialistic, defined by randomness and cause-and-effect chains. Where science does not provide definitive answers, this book offers explanations that place our consciousness and its connection to the informational reality that defines events and processes of our world. It argues that everything we know about the Universe is fully compatible with the existence of God.
 
 
== Table of Contents ==
 
* 1 Foreword
* 2 This world is such because we are in it
* 3 Information, meaning, and consciousness
* 3.1 Entropy; 3.2 The product of information is easily recognizable; 3.3 About probabilities; 3.4 About probabilities and information; 3.5 Life and information; 3.6 Theory of evolution; 3.7 Brain and information; 3.8 Will science explain everything?; 3.9 Idealism and information; 3.10 Remarkable number;
* 4 Do coincidences exist?
** 4.1 Synchronicity; 4.2 Probabilities of synchronicity; 4.3 The birthday problem; 4.4 Our close-knit world;
* 5 How to crack the code
** 5.1 Probabilities and possibilities; 5.2 Significant events; 5.3 The number of possibilities for synchronicity; 5.4 Control sample effect;
* 6 Examples of significant coincidences
** 6.1 Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy; 6.2 Stephen Hawking; 6.3 Richard Bach: The Story with the Biplane; 6.4 Gravediggers of the USSR; 6.5 Hitler and Napoleon; 6.6 The Kaiser and the war; 6.7 Again about wars; 6.8 From my experience; 6.9 Nothing is accidental; 6.10 Riding the wave of coincidences
* 7 Time, space, and their absence;
** 7.1 Time; 7.2 The Lawgiver; 7.3 Again about the origin of life;
* 8 Waves of quantum mechanics probabilities;
* 8.1 Collapse of the wave function; 8.2 Nonlocality; 8.3 Non-material forms of information; 8.4 Problems of interpretations; 8.5 The reality of imaginary numbers; 8.6 Again about information;
* 9 Coincidences in numbers
** 9.1 The number π; 9.2 The number e; 9.3 Could this be accidental?; 9.4 Infinity, sphere and randomness; 9.5 Everything comes together; 9.6 Strangeness on unimaginable scales; 9.7 The fine structure of the world; 9.8 The infinite beauty of fractals; 9.9 The Great Pyramid and numbers;
* 10 Premonitions of the future
** 10.1 Nostradamus; 10.2 The Urantia Book; 10.3 Predictions and checks; 10.4 Premonitions of tragedies;
* 11 Dreams and coincidences
** 11.1 Dreaming as information; 11.2 Dreams and new information; 11.3 Mark Twain's dream; 11.4 From personal experience;
* 12 Mycelium of meanings (story)  
* 13 The origin
** 13.1 Universe from nothing; 13.2 Universe as creation; 13.3 Explanations and fantasies; 13.4 Myths and religions;
* 14 Light
** 14.1 Little bit of science; 14.2 Little bit of religion; 14.3 Little bit of fantasy;
* 15 Knowledge through eclipses
** 15.1 Solar eclipses; 15.2 Higgs boson; 15.3 Consciousness outside the body;
* 16 Beyond this reality
** 16.1 God of meaning and truth; 16.2 Knowledge; 16.3 How to understand synchronicity; 16.4 Symbols and forms of ideas; 16.5 Past, present and future;
* 17 Free will
** 17.1 Suffering; 17.2 Moral law in your conscience; 17.3 Time allotted to us;
* 18 Hypothesis of God
** 18.1 There is no God; 18.2 There is a God; 18.3 Scientists at a crossroads;
* 19 Epilogue
* 20 Additional material
* 21 Bibliography and Index of terms (available for preview)
 
== Availability ==
 
Available from all major stores, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel etc.


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://jwork.org/designed-world/ Book homepage]
*[https://jwork.org/designed-world/ Book homepage]


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The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond
Designed World.png
AuthorSergei V. Chekanov, Ph.D.
LanguageEnglish, Russian
SubjectScience, Philosophy, Religion
GenreSpirituality
PublisherIngramSpark
Publication date
May 20, 2024
Pages473
ISBNISBN:9798990642836 (also 9798990642829)
Websitehttps://jwork.org/designed-world/

The book "The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond The Designed World of Information: Unveiling the Incredible Realm Beyond" discusses the meaning of synchronicity, or remarkable coincidences in people's lives. This work not only explains the mystery of synchronicity, originally introduced by Carl Jung, but it also shows how to make a simple calculation to estimate the chances that coincidences you may encounter in your life are not due to mere randomness. By showing that the role of chance in such phenomena is unlikely, it uniquely connects it with the questions of the Universe's origin, biological evolution, quantum mechanics, elementary particles and with the incredible beauty of the laws of nature.

The book explains all observed phenomena related to coincidences using the concept of retrospectivity, i.e. modification of the past to satisfy the expectations of future in special moments of conscience activity.

The examples and calculations discussed in this book demonstrate that our world cannot be viewed as purely materialistic, defined by randomness and cause-and-effect chains. Where science does not provide definitive answers, this book offers explanations that place our consciousness and its connection to the informational reality that defines events and processes of our world. It argues that everything we know about the Universe is fully compatible with the existence of God.


Table of Contents

  • 1 Foreword
  • 2 This world is such because we are in it
  • 3 Information, meaning, and consciousness
  • 3.1 Entropy; 3.2 The product of information is easily recognizable; 3.3 About probabilities; 3.4 About probabilities and information; 3.5 Life and information; 3.6 Theory of evolution; 3.7 Brain and information; 3.8 Will science explain everything?; 3.9 Idealism and information; 3.10 Remarkable number;
  • 4 Do coincidences exist?
    • 4.1 Synchronicity; 4.2 Probabilities of synchronicity; 4.3 The birthday problem; 4.4 Our close-knit world;
  • 5 How to crack the code
    • 5.1 Probabilities and possibilities; 5.2 Significant events; 5.3 The number of possibilities for synchronicity; 5.4 Control sample effect;
  • 6 Examples of significant coincidences
    • 6.1 Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy; 6.2 Stephen Hawking; 6.3 Richard Bach: The Story with the Biplane; 6.4 Gravediggers of the USSR; 6.5 Hitler and Napoleon; 6.6 The Kaiser and the war; 6.7 Again about wars; 6.8 From my experience; 6.9 Nothing is accidental; 6.10 Riding the wave of coincidences
  • 7 Time, space, and their absence;
    • 7.1 Time; 7.2 The Lawgiver; 7.3 Again about the origin of life;
  • 8 Waves of quantum mechanics probabilities;
  • 8.1 Collapse of the wave function; 8.2 Nonlocality; 8.3 Non-material forms of information; 8.4 Problems of interpretations; 8.5 The reality of imaginary numbers; 8.6 Again about information;
  • 9 Coincidences in numbers
    • 9.1 The number π; 9.2 The number e; 9.3 Could this be accidental?; 9.4 Infinity, sphere and randomness; 9.5 Everything comes together; 9.6 Strangeness on unimaginable scales; 9.7 The fine structure of the world; 9.8 The infinite beauty of fractals; 9.9 The Great Pyramid and numbers;
  • 10 Premonitions of the future
    • 10.1 Nostradamus; 10.2 The Urantia Book; 10.3 Predictions and checks; 10.4 Premonitions of tragedies;
  • 11 Dreams and coincidences
    • 11.1 Dreaming as information; 11.2 Dreams and new information; 11.3 Mark Twain's dream; 11.4 From personal experience;
  • 12 Mycelium of meanings (story)
  • 13 The origin
    • 13.1 Universe from nothing; 13.2 Universe as creation; 13.3 Explanations and fantasies; 13.4 Myths and religions;
  • 14 Light
    • 14.1 Little bit of science; 14.2 Little bit of religion; 14.3 Little bit of fantasy;
  • 15 Knowledge through eclipses
    • 15.1 Solar eclipses; 15.2 Higgs boson; 15.3 Consciousness outside the body;
  • 16 Beyond this reality
    • 16.1 God of meaning and truth; 16.2 Knowledge; 16.3 How to understand synchronicity; 16.4 Symbols and forms of ideas; 16.5 Past, present and future;
  • 17 Free will
    • 17.1 Suffering; 17.2 Moral law in your conscience; 17.3 Time allotted to us;
  • 18 Hypothesis of God
    • 18.1 There is no God; 18.2 There is a God; 18.3 Scientists at a crossroads;
  • 19 Epilogue
  • 20 Additional material
  • 21 Bibliography and Index of terms (available for preview)

Availability

Available from all major stores, Amazon, Barnes & Nobel etc.

References

External links





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