Notes
[Notebook TTC, DB 54]
[Sunday 13 May 2001 - Saturday 19 May 2001]
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Sunday 13 May 2001
Monk page 265: Wittgenstein abstracts people from nations (and war) 'Patisson [friendship came to an end] when W suspected P of a jingoistic attitude to the war'. Monk
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I have for a long time living with the tension between my slightly twisted soul and a mathematical picture of the world that will help me to bend my soul back to specification (that is, to openness to unlimited spiritual growth). The situation is abstractly identical to the problem faced by a panel beater who has undertaken to restore a twisted car wreck to a roadworthy condition. One must arrange forces of suitable magnitude and direction to restore fiducial points on the chassis to their specified relative position. In the case of panel beating long experience and specialized machines make the job easy. In my case it has been a matter of devising new actuators and appropriate applications of the mathematical theory to get straight. The available religions did not seem able to help me (but were to some extent responsible for the damage in the first place) so I had to devise my own, which I now begin to promote as an alternative to the old religions.
We begin with a scientific base in theology, expand it to the individual sphere in
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religion, apply it to the public sphere in spirit, and finally begin to examine its consequences for political economy in nakedIcame. All these activities come under the wing of Theology Limited. Emphasis on theology with others providing applications. Begin already with a public company. That way we learn to work it straight off.
Since the place is full of Lonergan experts who all (we may assume) ,take an appropriately critical attitude to L's work, I conclude that criticism of L per say does not fall 'outside our present theological enterprise'. Since I also 'write well' the trouble must lie in the degree of my criticism going beyond the bounds of "?" whether or not in some way officially binding the university.
Make the Uni small c catholic, and then since university means catholic, drop the catholic and become Australian University.
DELUSION - PROMOTION (TESTING)
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274 Requisite variety says notation cannot control meaning because the set of possible meanings is much bigger than the set of notations. Aleph(n) is big enough to be the address of aleph(n+1).
While p is one definite thing, not-p may be a transfinity of things.
PHYSICS01QUANTUMMECHANICS - We plunge in an map Hilbert space onto TN, via quantum computation.
274: TN is a machine for the 'ultimate analysis of the phenomena in question' which is now built and we are beginning to play with it and see if it will perform as specified and not be a) inadequate for the task or b) unstable.
OS is a stable system, or should be, always able to recover from an error at any level.
Let us observe that there is always a hardware connection between two communicating entities. This is a physical bond (it might only be a stream of photons or
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electrons. We can visualize this as ME -- YOU or as trees connected at the root.
[diagram - trees connected at the root]
How do we make this into Hilbert space? Infinite dimension = infinite vector = ordered set, cardinal? (we must begin with ℵ0). The wave function of the Universe must be as big as the TN.
If set theory describes the Universe, then we must be able to put it all in pictures.
[diagram POWER - CONTROL]
Three dimensions is enough to write a story (or draw a picture) - beginning - middle - end.
[diagram - Binary Tree]
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The transfinite tree.
Exponential growth leads to 'transfinitation'
[diagram]
What we have here is an address structure that is layered in time, as addresses evolve.
CURVATURE OF SPACETIME/ADDRESS SPACE
What is the difference between the transfinite tree and the binary tree - the degree of abstraction.
Binary tree has too much detail? We replace the trees with countable layers by Turing Machines, that is address generators (since a Turing machine delivers a countable tape which may be regarded as the address of one point in an uncountable set.
PEER LAYERS
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In the TN, not(p and not-p) is a local truth. [local = in communication].
the TN gives us enough pigeonholes to store any imaginable number of things, and enough processes to carry out any imaginable number of actions.
a principle: for practical purposes the address is an abstract version of the thing.
[diagram: pure process - pure form]
By giving everything a name (= place, eg Thomas of Aquinas) we can avoid confusion.
Probability density is the clay from which quantum mechanics is forged. Rather QM gives us pictures that show the expected probability densities of various events as functions of space-time (or the dual, momentum-energy) Momentum and energy are the graduations (units) in spacetime. High momentum = fine grained; energetic = fast.
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Hilbert space is a space of vectors (addresses) each of which represents the process of getting from a to be. Read Veltman again and use it to map quantum field theory to the transfinite network.
QUANTUM NETWORK COMPUTATIONS
Every act (measured by nh) is the execution of a truing machine, ie a state vector (lit: state carrier)
Greenhouse forcing 2 Wm2. Area of earth 5E8 km2 = 5E14 m2, so forcing = E15 W.
Human energy consumption = 10 Gte CE = 10E13 W. Ie greenhouse forcing 100x actual consumption.
6 E 9 people = 1.6 kW/head/
Monday 14 May 2001
Tuesday 15 May 2001
The church claims to be the universal church fit for all people. But it takes the
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view that people must fit it and not vice versa, and this is a serious error. It implies that the way god (or whatever) actually made people is considered to be a less weighty source of information about god's( or w's) plan (if any) for humanity than their own interpretations of a small body of texts contained in the Bible. Forget about this sort of thing. Anybody who wants to know it knows it and those who don't won't.
[diagram: at every point in spacetime there is a 'proper time'.]
grace = intelligent cooperative control (make space big enough for everyone except criminals)
Is the binary tree simultaneously a representation of a computer and a heat engine. Or do we need the transfinite tree for heat engines?
Wednesday 16 May 2001
RELIGION
It is amazing how quickly moments of despair and elation flit by. There is no thought without feeling. The state of my mind is a substrate of the state of me. 'No thought without feeling' is the noetic equivalent of Landauer's insight that all information is physical.
THOUGHT - FEELING - ACTION
Western Christian tradition deprecates feeling by naming it passion (suffering) and postulating that it, being a consequence of original sin, will be removed in paradise. Feelings test thoughts and of they pass feeling flows into action. How do we characterize feeling: something too complex to think about. The hormonal system, for instance, using the bloodstream as its carrier, sends a message to (potentially) every cell in the body, a much wider distribution that is available through the nervous system.
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Absent mindedness: as long as the environment is cool, one can devote one's full resources to data processing. Without doubt, all this writing is survival oriented. It serves to save my sanity in a floating world, and it gives hope for the future peaceful organization of the human race, based on welfare state with local responsibility.
Social security: the recycle rate is a socially adjustable parameter.
Files are like the leaves on trees. QM models a file with a vector in Hilbert space.
On a general definition a sentence is a differential equation and getting the meaning out of a sentence
