Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 29 February 2004 - Saturday 6 March 2004]
Sunday 29 February 2004
[page 53]
Monday 1 March 2004
The idea that quantum mechanics, taken at the breadth of the wave function of the Universe, might be isomorphic to Lonergan's metaphysics, is taking root. Perhaps the first step in a (much belated) publishing program could be 'Is Lonergan's metaphysics isomorphic to quantum mechanics?' Given this isomorphism, a subsequent article must ask 'Does the quantum no-cloning theorem rule out Lonergan's empirical residue?' Lonergan pp 50 sqq.
Tuesday 2 March 2004
Money as a measure of power probably explains a large proportion of the variance in the outcomes of human lives.
[page 54]
Modern Jihad Loretta Napoleoni. Napoleoni.
Napoleoni page 46: 'Terror [is] no longer the exclusive domain of the superpowers and their close allies; it has become an autonomous business.
Armed groups finance themselves by working for various interests in the foundation society. Their existence points to rifts and stress in the social environment, in which they thrive. We wipe them out by adjusting the environment.
page 65: State characteristics:
1. monopoly on violence
2. territory
3. taxation
4. bureaucracy
5. sovereignty
6. constitutionality
7. law
8. impersonality
9. legitimacy of authority and citizenship.
Wednesday 3 March 2004
The key to the union of Hilbert spaces is that their size should grow exponentially with union, ie card(S1 X S2) card ( S1 + S2) !. If this is true then we are in total clover. We should be able to prove it by the permutation methods of constructing the Cantor Universe.
Napoleoni writes as though this terror financing is new, but it seems to me to be the age old habit of warlords to extort the funds for their warmaking from the victims of their activities. Our basic global problem is warlordism at all scales from the US government to school and domestic bullies.
Thursday 4 March 200
[page 55]
Friday 5 March 2004
To survive in a dynamic environment requires a mixture of prudent management and daring innovation.
We are going for the maximum entropy/minimum energy (most stable) configuration of human society. Democracy (and the empowerment of all in general to work in parallel) is a move toward increasing entropy.
So we think about the Gibbs free energy of a transfinite network. Frank L. Lambert.
Network theory gives us a fixed point in a dynamic Universe, a fixed point whose existence is predicted by Brouwer's fixed point theorem. Casti, chapter 2. I write this but feel strangely other. Much of the tension (and pleasure) in the world results from the interactions between human individuals and the system they are in. A fundamental requirement for a system is that all its subsystems work harmoniously in parallel. This is how the physical Universe seems to work.
Theory - computation - mind. The key to our survival is our ability to manipulate (compute) abstract models of the world in order to achieves guides to action more efficient that pure trial and error.
