Notes
[Notebook TTC, DB 54]
[Sunday 30 September 2001 - Saturday 6 October 2001]
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Sunday 30 September 2001
It seems natural to begin to develop a new model of god from the place I started myself.
This section, Development, is the core of the site.
DISCOVERY = it is always there. God/black hole. INVENTION = something new
FARADAY Williams.
Did the Universe have a beginning or has it always existed? The answer to this question requires an ordered time series that potentially stretches beyond the beginning of the Universe, but there is nothing outside the Universe.
Oppenheimer transcript http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/marc/oppen.htm
It is becoming obvious that there are theological problems critical to world peace in need of solution.
Evolution is natural. The world is a story. A never ending story.
I seem to be at the natural age for monkish (scribal) tricks. One must put down one's lifetime of experience if it is to be of value (or perhaps a cost, eg Mein Kampf) in the future.
All knowledge has a subjective element. What does this mean to me? to us? to the whole human race? to god? Each case a bigger group demands more symmetry (less subjectivity) in meaning.
The logical world. Can we show that normalized complex multiplication is equivalent to a nand gate? [a continuous, rather than a binary gate, working by addition of phase]
Monday 1 October 2001
Processes are connected if one calls the other. She calls me for help to complete a process that she cannot (or will not) complete herself.
Do differential and integral operators form groups in function space?
ENCODING: Flattening a structure for serial communication over a physical channel.
DECODING: Rebuilding a complex multi-dimensional structure form a serial bit stream.
Encoder and decoder must have direct and inverse copies of the coding algorithm.
Simplest level of coding (where the only ordering is one dimensional string) is symbol stream to symbol stream. This requires a minimum effort, and is envisaged by Shannon's theorems and various sorts of security coding PGP.
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FAQs Theology: Reading, writing and arithmetic.
Q: Why is the pen mightier than the sword?
A:
We make a metaphysical space by identifying some abstract mathematical space as a space of communication. Communication always goes from past to future, and creates an updating problem for distributed data sets.
ORDERED SETS are the IO of OPERATORS, PROCESSES THAT MAP FROM ONE ORDER (PERMUTATION) TO ANOTHER.
set = {SET} = {0}
Every point on the timeline can be expanded into a local (bounded by
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horizon) Universe.
It takes willpower (courage?) to stick to an ordered process or procedure.
PARALLEL PROCESSING - deterministic
NETWORK(NEURAL) PROCESSING - non-deterministic
Theology is the protocol for intelligent communication.
{ENVIRONMENTAL + GENETIC = MENTAL DATA} = PERSONALITY
Like No 5, babies (when they are not sleeping) demand input. Short Circuit.
page 128: Peace and quiet are the desires of the flesh. So are energy and excitement, but there is a time division multiplexed balance that maximizes fitness and minimizes action. The times of peace and quiet are important because they allow the processing which leads to efficient action when the time comes to act. And of course, the action feeds
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the system so that it can go on in the divine competition for space in life.
A PIECE OF THE ACTION. Some things take a long time to pay off, but they will never pay off at all if you are not 'in' them, ie bound by some contract to provide input in return for output. One hopes that the project is profitable, ie output > input.
A doctrine is COMPLETE when it becomes recursive. Yet both Cantor and Lonergan (and heaps of others, all the absolutist determinist fundamentalists) go too far and posit a final ultimate ultimate which is no longer subject to their fundamental theorems and so a real contradiction. In other words, the best we can do scientifically is to capture the recursive algorithm. For a deterministic (non-complexifying, ie symmetric) recursion, nothing changes [a 'pure tone']. But a transfinite recursion (as illustrated by the 'collapse' of the wave function in quantum mechanics) gives unpredictable results which nevertheless exhibit the correlations [symmetries]
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built into the wave function.
ENGINEER: Fits structures into the physical world
ARCHITECT: Fits structures into the human world
THEOLOGIAN: Abstract student of fitness, ie action ["got is
pure act"]
Tuesday 2 October 2001
Wednesday 3 October 2001
Thursday 4 October 2001
Friday 5 October 2001
Saturday 6 October 2001
Insight as knowledge. Knowledge is the opposite of uncertainty. Uncertainty, measured by entropy = bits. Knowledge unit is the same, n bits of knowledge [in the ideal case] removing n bits of uncertainty.
eg expenditure and income both measured in dollars and accounting algorithms tell us when to add, subtract etc.
We cannot have a thing in general
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because everything is a concrete unity, but we can have meaning in general in that things can point to one another in different ways. [any thing can mean anything, and any meaning can be coded in a suitable alphabet of things]
Mathematical view of the world. The computation and communication systems that are revolutionizing our lives are driven [constrained] by a substrate of deep and powerful mathematical theorems that hold in any symbolic system where their hypotheses are realized.
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CLOSENESS - DISTANCE
What is the metric? The square root of (carrying capacity)
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The risks that one will run should be proportionate to the danger one faces. This is the via negativa statement of the principle of least action.
The fact that there are many ways to do something suggests that there us both a best way of doing things (one high probability set) and an indifferent way of doing things (the rest).
