Notes
[Notebook MT 647, DB 52][Sunday 20 August 2000 - Saturday 26 August 2000]
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Sunday 20 August 2000
The design and marketing of natural religion. The religion is a vehicle to
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implant the attitudes and discoveries [of scientific theology] into the minds of children in order to give them an adaptive foundation to enjoy life.
Religion and Educational theory.
JOY/ENJOY
We have to encapsulate both TRUTH and PATH to TRUTH in a readily marketable and assimilable form to teach, in the long run, the balance between the simplicity and complexity/predictability and unpredictability of life.
The old religions are like blind persons and elephant, mostly tainted with the political structure that made their enormous expansion (and accompanying extinction of other religions) possible. Natural religion is compatible with and contains all the good and bad features of all other religions which are, in fact, natural religions whatever they may think of themselves. It is an illusion to think that we can step outside nature, that is
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the visible manifestation of divinity.
Religion site makes broad assertions (unfounded except artistically and emotionally) whose roots will be found on the Theology Site.
The theology site exposes the scientific basis (models and data) [such as it is] upon which the religion site bases its assertions. Human knowledge evolves by a process exactly analogous to genetic evolution, by variation and selection. The size of variations and the pressure of selection range over enormous ranges from something comparable to the work of Einstein to the smallest skeric of knowledge picked up by a dreaming schoolchild. From a scale invariant point of view, all these are the same.
PhD Ctee: I had hoped by now to have a postgraduate award of some sort, but instead I am on the Newstart Allowance and to remain on the allowance must go onto self employment development which is pushing me to go commercial in the religion industry before the necessary
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period a product development. Nothing is really lost here, as technology tends to lead science, so that we have long been able to practice horticulture with no knowledge of genetics, selection of biochemistry, ecology etc etc, sciences which all contribute to improving agricultural productivity and reducing the environmental impact of food production per individual.
Like all religions, we are offering some form of heaven, in this case not heaven in a next life. And like most religions, heaven is a state of mind reached partly by manipulating ourselves and partly by manipulating our environment ,which includes other people and ultimately the whole Universe.
Religion is concerned with the intelligent management of very complex systems, ourselves and our environment. Here we apply de Maupertuis and symmetry with respect to complexity.
Monday 21 August 2000
So we need a creed:
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I believe in symmetry - father stability
complexity - son meaning
process - spirit evolution/action
"Is the Universe divine: a dissertation on the nature of spirit"
Christian (Lonergan) blunder "the world is meaningless without the assumption of an alien god".
ie TREE is rooted in GOD rather than NETWORK is rooted in ITSELF = GOD.
A tree is not > but ><, ie a node [illustration] with incoming and outgoing channels.
Theories of statistics and probability are recursive. The trinity as explained by Thomas has no natural termination. It was terminated at three (for T) by the nature
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of the mind/intellect/will model.
PhD: Conflate my essays with my thesis outline and other material to produce the MA Thesis which will be submitted as a starter for PhD.
Is the Universe divine? A position on the nature of spirit. - [Angels are] All different species.
Start now: First tailshaft bearing, fuel tank and steering gear.
MA Thesis: Intimidation: tripods over the altars of my mind. Let it flow free and the complexity will arise from consistency.
CONSISTENCY (ie elimination of error) leads to COMPLEXITY (since an error free system has higher resolution than a system prone to error). Resolution = error/measure (eg plus or minus 1 degree etc).
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register NATURAL.SPIRIT.COM (it will be a miracle if it is not taken.)
SPIRIT == ORDERED SET OF ACTIONS
CREATION = creation of new meaning
NEW MEANING = NEW BOND (this goes with that, x goes with y)
Thesis: We wish to give new meaning to the distinction between geistes- and naturwisschenshaften by showing the symmetry. ie the bonding that unites them.
natural-spirit.com. Like it!
This is equivalent to equating Occam's Razor with the principle of least action.
Domestic mappings: from supermarket shelves to kitchen shelves.
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MATTER = INTEGERS; SPIRIT = REALS
Material: goes from one place to another
Spiritual: coexists in many places
natural spirit front page
about theology religion christianity spirit good evil money contents
Base structure of page on Lindsay and Tanner (Reynolds and Tanner 1983)
person to person contact: the most abstract
Beginning from the hypothesis that a spirit may be modelled by an ordered set, we plunge into a design for heaven on earth.
Tuesday 22 August 2000
Business name: natural spirit dot com
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The christian fiction.
Ultimate objective: To catalyze a paradigm shift in the religions of the world toward a scientific and realistic assessment of the human condition with the prospect of ameliorating all human lives to a state properly described as heavenly.
This state has public and private components.
Prayer: WORD to REALITY.
Wednesday 23 August 2000
In Lonergan we see the blunder brought on by the Christian arrogance that god is somehow their special mate and that they have got knowledge about how the world works that is not granted to others.
Tooth pain makes me conscious of time - will it never end until I get to the dentist, 2.30 on the 30th, 160 hours time!
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De Maupertuis: minimum action = integral h nu dt [illustration]
Competition minimizes action in that the beast that can get from a to be with the least effort is fittest. Why does one depress one's fitness by drugs? Error? Or is the breadth of vision worth more in fitness gained than the physical fitness lost. Drugs tend to imitate an exhausted/wounded/dysfunctional state, driving the homeostatic mechanisms to more energetic corrective action.
Like all businesses I am offering god news with a view to reward. If the market decides that I truly have a better mousetrap my chances of reaping come revenue increase. In the case of mousetraps, I simply sell them at a profitable price and the more I sell the more I make. As goods become more spiritual the revenue question becomes more difficult.
The religious upheaval we call the Reformation began as a corrective reaction to the increasing awareness of unacceptable business practices on the part of the Catholic Church then (in the 'west') the only form of Christianity.
All the cosmic love of god, crucifixion etc etc is meant to communicate in some way how we should love one another, but it works on a rather restricted definition of love arising from the rather restricted ('immaterial') personality of god. We go for broadband (transfinite) love, always embracing the infinite to create new infinities, ie new things bigger (more complex) than what already exists. Every moment of time adds a new layer to the onion of meaning, or more precisely, a new dimension to cosmic space.
The wave function of the Universe. QM logically talk about this.
NATURE: MA THESIS:Is the Universe divine. Begin with "Many Worlds" (de Witt, 1973)
Here we make a serious start on getting into the PhD trade, under the auspices of SED.
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The founding paper.
What can we say about the wave function of the Universe? 1: what is a wave function
first: gravitation
1: The wave function of the Universe big psi (u) [illustration]. Symmetry of qm and the standard interpretation. From local to global. How do wave functions cohere? To see this we look at some features of Hilbert Space . . . and so
2: Map wave function to Cantor Universe. Use this abstract formulation to describe action.
3. Comment on the size of this system and how it tends toward god.
4 Physical application: gravitation and the transfinite network. The wave function of gravitation lies in the structure of space limited only by consistency.
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Non-location, gravitation and Cantor Space.
CANTOR Universe <-> EINSTEIN Universe: Transfinite network <-> 4D manifold
The gravitational particle is built into the structure of space - DUALITY
4 Physical application, ie mapping model to reality.
a) elements of sets are 'actions'. action = {action}
b) there is a smallest action, measured by h bar [illustration]
c) the rate of action in the Universe is measured by the cardinal of the naturals, ℵ0 and this imposes the fundamental conservation law/symmetry conservation of energy. Parallel processing.
d) structure of action determined by wave function, which establishes probabilities for sequences of actions, and so for all processes in the Universe (since each process is a sequence of actions, macroscopic or microscopic)
e) local structure -> global structure
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5. Details: quantum field theories: gravitation, electrodynamics, weak, strong.
6. given fit and size of model we conclude Universe is big enough to be called divine.
Religions tend to be developed by mystics and lunatics and so have extreme elements which express mystical and lunatic vision. Here we avoid this by having a completely normal unremarkable bloke trying to express a completely normal and unmemorable religion which fits reality like a glove and consistently deliver the best advice for dealing with the situations of life.
BEST ADVICE = MOST PEACEFUL OUTCOME
Ultimately, religious stories tend to be attempts to control society by the most neurotic, whereas the opposite should be the case - control should be distributed. local, robust and consistent across the community.
PROTESTANTISM - NATIONALISM. Natural
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religion allows no boundaries between individuals and so is down on nationalism, except for administrative efficiency.
Thursday 24 August 2000
knowing Theology: structure of the whole [SCIENCE]
dreaming Religion: artistic response to the known structure of the
whole [TECHNOLOGY]
doing Spirit: doing it [LOVE] [INDUSTRY]
[these things operate at all scales]
Friday 25 August 2000
That tooth! clove oil, paracetamol, sleep (last is best)
What makes the world go
Act of LOVE: increase complexity, detail and softness
Act of WAR: decrease . . .
LOVE: increase SPIRIT; WAR decreases SPIRIT.
His days are done; process complete.
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Action and attitude.
Saturday 26 August 2000
The time has come to speak of transfinite HEADROOM and GAIN-RANGING as prerequisites for gaining the necessary dynamic range to keep the vehicle under control.
MA THESIS: Intro: Quote MTW and put the question in 'cartoon' historical perspective. This history is not meant to represent so much what actually happened (which is beyond our ken) but to draw some sort of curve through the points defined by the literary remnants of that past which fall into the general category theological/religious/political.
