Notes
[Notebook TTC, DB 54]
[Sunday 26 August 2001 - Saturday 2 September 2001]
[page 116]
Sunday 26 August 2001
Luther Richard Friedenthal. Friedenthal.
p 30: Heavens! What I went through before I could summon up courage to defy the laws of the Church.
MIND is SCALE INVARIANT
ie
MIND = {MIND}
We conceive of god as pure subsistent mind.
Historically, to rule means a) supreme force, sustained by
b) tax.
[page 117]
The core:
A prerequisite for peace is adequate error free communication,. There are two paths to high error free bandwidth, energy and subtlety. One can get bandwidth by using high frequency and high signal to noise ratio, or one can use less frequency and s/n by more error resistant coding. Higher bandwidth, more headroom, etc. How do these things relate functionally? Shannon's theorems define one bound. On the other hand there is no upper limit to the energy that may be used to transmit a bit of information.
We do not promote poverty but economy, or good economy.
Christianity is the epitome of greed. Xians demanding eternal life at the expense of everything else.
[page 118]
Monday 27 August 2001
Tuesday 28 August 2001
Wednesday 29 August 2001
Thursday 30 August 2001
Lonergan's ignorance of quantum mechanics has created a giant lacuna in his work, in which is reflected the answer to the perennial question. What is it to be? What is god. A. This is it. Feel and you feel god, look and you see god, etc etc.
So the critical foundation is rejection of empirical residue as a self contradiction, since 'empirical' in fact requires the presence of intelligence. Intelligence is scale invariant but there is a smallest intelligence in the order of intelligences, ie that measured by the quantum of action.
Friday 1 August 2001
He was a stranger to me. How do we measure the distance between people, between particles, between elements of the transfinite network? [The whole shape of a space can be specified by a metric]
[page 119]
The Catholic Church decries random mating but we all know that somewhere in the process, the experience of three billion years of evolution is in play and enormously complex issues are being discussed and negotiated, resulting in a decision whether or not to mate and consequent decisions about whether and how often to reproduce.
SLOGANS: Look and think
better: look, think, act. lta.html
Slogan: The Universe is Divine
Love the world, love all people. Love god, love your neighbour.
