Notes
[Notebook Turkey, DB 55]
[Sunday 21 April 2002 - Saturday 27 April 2002]
[page 69]
Sunday 21 April 2002
Any text on religion must of necessity be biographical, since to a strong degree, my religion is my biography. Religion is a very private matter.
As physical beings, we live in the iron grip of reality. If we starve we die. If we make proper provision, we eat.
[page 70]
Proper provision requires practical knowledge of all features of our environment, including our own nature. This book is an extended examination of the concept of proper provision, as in sentences like make proper provision for x, where x may be any feature of our environment like birth, death, disease, breakfast, buying a car or rolling over in bed.
rational; vs emotional: emotions are just as rational as reason but very much more complex (arising from the gigayears before homo sapiens appeared).
Gödel says we can guide history because the future is not fixed.
What do we do? One possibility is to immobilize them and take control. Eg yell very loudly to stop it, can't they see that they are going to rip up our last photo of great grandma. This might work and the picture put in safe keeping while the children are sent to bed or counselled ad nauseam, or maybe they will simply find something else to fight about, or set about playing happily.
Why religion? This is an in depth critique of religion. Why Christianity? Because I have personal experience and because I see some Christian attitudes as dangerous in the world. It may be the first step toward modern religion that religions like Christianity begin to freely criticize themselves.
Chapter 1: Source.
Assemble all my little diatribes and pick out the best bits about why I am driven to criticize Christianity, followed by a list of its faults.
closed shop: by definition stuck to the Bible. By tradition stuck to much else besides.
[page 71]
There is no way that [Biblical] writers who write about the Trinity really modelled it in their minds as Thomas did, but nonetheless he used their words as evidence for his theory.
CRITICIZE = point out contradictions in the model. We begin by assuming that the physical data set is reliable, and then explore the consequences.
This book is aimed right into the belly of the rcc.
Insofar as each being keeps to itself, the world can have the maximum entropy specified by the Cantor Universe. But the existence of the CU is made possible by communication, and communication (by definition) imposes correlations.
Closed shop: University experience, bolstered by Ford. Ford.
Christianity is a religion but not the religion. In order to criticize Christianity we have to work from the space of all possible religions.
REPRESSION & ERUPTION
ECONOMICS = BUREAUCRACY ie the management of the home - government bureaucracy, individual, corporate, etc: all persons.
Declaration of financial interest: globalism.
The operative states of our central nervous system are countable? But is the functioning of a neuron countable?
Universal religion is a protocol for communicating with all entities.
[page 72]
The fundamental Christian failing is greed. Greed for the kingdom of heaven.
'La Auteur de la science'
Renan (EB 671) (Discourse on Method) 'The main theme of this work, not published until 1890, is the importance of the history of religious origins, which he regarded as a human science having equal value to the sciences of nature'.
673: 'With his leanings toward liberalism and authoritarianism in politics and faith and skepticism in religion, Renan embodied the contradictions of the middle class of his time. Politically, his influence after his death was far reaching, on nationalists such as Maurice Barres and Charles Mourras, on republicans such as Anatole France and Georges Clemenceau. He succeeded in assuaging one of the great anxieties of his time, the antagonism between science and religion, but he very much felt this anxiety'.
Monday 22 April 2002
Tuesday 23 April 2002
sub specie aeternitatis = sub specie dei.
The political trinity judicial (judge) / legislature(think) / executive(act).
Wednesday 24 April 2002
Thursday 25 April 2002
If we could act sub specie Dei, people would not have to die in war, but it might take some discipline. Knowledge would be a start.
QM is non commutative (boil, break) egg <> (break, boil) egg
[break, boil] = boiled egg - poached egg
[page 73]
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Quantum field theory is the way it is because (with certain exceptions) this is the only way to reconcile quantum mechanics with special relativity.
So how do symmetries like Lorentz invariance appear in a quantum setting? How doe this scale up to the human level. Complexity invariance tells us that there may be certain complexity invariant properties that apply right across the simplicity-complexity spectrum, ie it is invariant with respect to the complexity of the implementation of god.
Compassion: The purpose of this book is to give compassion a mathematical backbone.
Proof and time: better proof and spacetime, since a proof requires resources of both space and time (space = memory; time = cycles)
Metanoia: We begin with the idea that the most important feature of mind is the ability to evolve quickly in response to changing circumstances. Mind is part of staying alive, and our faith in the economic value of education (in the right schools) is witness to this. We decompose the Universe into a spectrum of frequencies running from ℵ0 to 1.
[page 74]
Mind is the dual of body. Where my body makes me heavy, my mind makes me light.
Light: low mass, low energy, power.
We define the power of a process as the cardinal of the layer of the process in question. The power is the logarithm of the number of states required to represent the process, that is, in effect, spacetime, memory X cycles. A Turing machine has ℵ0 of each: ℵ0 X ℵ0 = ℵ0
Friday 26 April 2002
Saturday 27 April 2002
