Notes
[Notebook: Transfinite field theory DB 56]
[Sunday 18 April 2004 - Saturday 24 April 2004]
Sunday 18 April 2004
Monday 19 April 2004
[page 68]
Tuesday 20 April 2004
Making a space for domesticity, ie the micromanagement of the most
complex issues in human historical experience, ie security, growth
and reproduction.
Enclosed women, nuclear family, extended family, band, tribe etc
etc.
When there are lots of them you can fire at random and get one with
a viable probability (given the prevailing cost structure). As they
thin out, a targeted approach gradually gains ascendancy over the
random. Random assembly of standardized parts (eg atoms) will give us
a useful product every now and then. The law of large numbers tells
us that any event p > 0 will eventually happen.
[page 69]
We model the spectrum of being using the natural numbers which are
the archetypal ordered set of symbols. They may be used to model any
ordered set of events.
We gain further insight into events by
the construction of arithmetic on the natural numbers. A vast range
of phenomena from money to sheep and stars obey the laws of
arithmetic. Here we begin to see the 'unreasonably efficacy.' Wigner.
Wednesday 21 April 2004
C P Snow, The
Masters, Snow.
Page 64: 'It is lamentable' said Chrystal, that the college can't
settle its business without getting into a state.'
The state arises from inconsistency which in some way generates
the energy to come to a revolution even at some cost (ie war and
genocide in human affairs, not to mention domestic violence).
Thursday 22 April 2004
Friday 23 April 2004
What am I doing here? One text, which can be uttered by any person
in an environment at any time. The answer is an account of the
person's interaction with their environment.
Roosevelt: The only thing an Emperor has
to fear is the loss of fear itself. Robert Haupt, p 205. Haupt.
Saturday 24 April 2004
1. The distance between two nodes of a network is inversely
proportional to the proportion of time they are connected.
2. The distance between two nodes is inversely proportional to the
rate of data (entropy) flow between them? (in a reversible network
entropy is preserved)
Peer class = reversible network.
3. The distance between nodes is inversely proportional to the
amount of 'meaning' transmitted between them? This is a function of
the complexity of nodes.
Jamming is limited in scale free
systems. Toroczkai and
Bassler.
scale free = follow a power law degree distribution.
Pressure of time coarsens spectrum of modulation of human action,
so some go from celibacy to rape in one step. Everywhere we wish to
establish a spectrum and a moral principle of maximum time minimum
violence.
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Brown, Dan, Angels and Demons, Corgi Books 2003 From Publishers Weekly
'Pitting scientific terrorists against the cardinals of Vatican City, this well-plotted if over-the-top thriller is crammed with Vatican intrigue and high-tech drama. Robert Langdon, a Harvard specialist on religious symbolism, is called in by a Swiss research lab when Dr. Vetra, the scientist who discovered antimatter, is found murdered with the cryptic word "Illuminati" branded on his chest. These Iluminati were a group of Renaissance scientists, including Galileo, who met secretly in Rome to discuss new ideas in safety from papal threat; what the long-defunct association has to do with Dr. Vetra's death is far from clear. Vetra's daughter, Vittoria, makes a frightening discovery: a lethal amount of antimatter, sealed in a vacuum flask that will explode in six hours unless its batteries are recharged, is missing. Almost immediately, the Swiss Guard discover that the flask is hidden beneath Vatican City, where the conclave to elect a new pope has just begun. Vittoria and Langdon rush to recover the canister, but they aren't allowed into the Vatican until it is discovered that the four principal papal candidates are missing. The terrorists who are holding the cardinals call in regarding their pending murders, offering clues tied to ancient Illuminati meeting sites and runes. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that a sinister Vatican entity with messianic delusions is in league with the terrorists. Packing the novel with sinister figures worthy of a Medici, Brown (Digital Fortress) sets an explosive pace as Langdon and Vittoria race through a Michelin-perfect Rome to try to save the cardinals and find the antimatter before it explodes. Though its premises strain credulity, Brown's tale is laced with twists and shocks that keep the reader wired right up to the last revelation.'
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Escher, Maurits Cornelius, and John E. Brigham (translator), The Graphic Work: Introduced and explained by the artist, Taco 1989 Introduction: '... then there came a moment when it seemed as though scales fell from my eyes. I discovered that technical mastery was no longer my sole aim, for I became gripped by another desire ... Ideas came into my mind quite unrelated to graphic art, notions which so fascinated me that I longed to communicate them to other people. ... The ideas that are basic to [my prints] often bear witness to my amazement and wonder at the laws of nature which operate in the world around us. ... and here is yet another reason for my astonishment - no matter how objective or how impersonal the majority of my subjects appear to me, so far as I have been able to discover, few, if any, of my fellow-men seem to react in the same way to all that they see around them.' pp 5-6
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| Haupt, Robert, Last Boat to Astrakhan: A Russian Memoir 1990-1996, back |
Hofstadter, Douglas R, Gödel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Basic/Harvester 1979 An illustrated essay on the philosophy of mathematics. Formal systems, recursion, self reference and meaning explored with a dazzling array of examples in music, dialogue, text and graphics.
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Hughes, Patrick, and Gordon Brecht, Vicious Circles and Infinity: A Panoply of Paradoxes, Doubleday 1975
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Nin, Anais, Incest: From a Journal of Love: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin 1932-1934, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1992 Amazon editorial review: From Library Journal
"This second volume of the unexpurgated version of Nin's diary spans the period from October 1932 to November 1934. It draws upon previously unpublished material from the period covered by the first volume of the diary as published in 1966. Incest follows Henry & June ( LJ 10/1/86), focusing not only on Nin's continued relationship with author Henry Miller but also on her physical and emotional attachments to four other men. Nin offers intimate details of disturbing events such as her intense incestuous affair with her father and her abortion during her sixth month of pregnancy. Her diary offers direct insight into a narcissistic, passionate, analytical, and complex mind, but the brief introduction does disappointingly little to explain the editorial process that created this version of Nin's diary, which differs dramatically in style and content from its expurgated counterpart. Nevertheless, this is an important supplement to the 1966 diary and is recommended for most literature collections.'
- Ellen Finnie Duranceau, MIT Lib.
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Snow, C P, The Masters, Pan Macmillan
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Wiener, Norbert, Cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine, Hermann et cie / MIT Press 1948 The classic founding text of cybernetics.
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Papers
| Toroczkai, Z, K F Bassler, "Jamming is limited in scale free systems", Nature, 428, 6984, 15 April 2004, page 716. 'A large number of complex networks is scale free - that is they follow a power law degree distribution. Here we propose that the emergence of scale-free networks is tied to the efficiency of transport and flow processing across these structures, In particular we show that for large networks on which flows are influenced or generated by gradients of a scalar distributed on the nodes, scale free structures will ensure efficient processing, whereas structures that are not scale free, such as random graphs, will become congested.'. back |
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| Eugene Wigner The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences 'The first point is that the enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and that there is no rational explanation for it. Second, it is just this uncanny usefulness of mathematical concepts that raises the question of the uniqueness of our physical theories.' back |
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