Notes
[Notebook: DB 57 Language]
[Sunday 23 January 2005 - Saturday 29 January 2005]
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Sunday 23 January 2005
de Soto page 37: 'Leaders of the Third World and former communist nations need not wander the world's foreign ministries and international financial institutions seeking their fortune. In the midst of their own poorest neighbourhoods and shantytown , there are - if not acres of diamonds - trillions of dollars, all ready to be put to use if only the mystery of how assets are transformed into live capital can be unravelled. de Soto
page 40: 'Why assets can be made to produce abundant capital in the West but very little in the rest of the world is a mystery.'
page 41: '"capital"' . . . that part of a country's assets that initiates surplus production and increases productivity.'
page 43: Adam Smith: 'the . . . money which circulates in any country, may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.'
Successful trader is a catalyst which favours profitable trades from unprofitable ones by increasing the rate of profitable trades relative to the rate of unprofitable trades.
Rate = 'energy' is the determining factor in population. Faster breeders are, other things being equal, more prevalent in the population. One other thing that must be equal is the death rate, determined by the annihilation operator. The net
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rate of reproduction ie births - deaths. If it is zero, we have a constant population. Otherwise exponential growth and decay which may be under the control of other population dependent and population independent factors.
As a banal generality , we can say that everything is influenced by a number of factors. Science begins when we seek to enumerate and give a weight to each factor. Quantum mechanics does this by calculations in Hilbert space: people do it in their brains, which suggests an analogy between quantum mechanics and a neural network. Quantum mechanics concerns itself with what happens at the nodes. When we try to extrapolate it to the whole network of the world with all its 'interferences' = communications we generally resort to simplified models. The transfinite network, on the other hand, is an attempt to asses the maximum complexity of the system that lies behind the observed world, a system responsible for my whole systematic structure of operation resolved to the level of individual quanta.
After a certain amount of thought (modelling) we make a move, and then await the consequences, as planned, or not, or somewhat.
Monday 24 January 2005
Tuesday 25 January 2005
Wednesday 26 January 2005
Thursday 27 January 2005
Friday 28 January 2005
de Soto page 46: 'What creates capital in the West . . . is an implicit process buried in the intricacies of formal property systems.'
LAND RIGHTS = PROPERTY RIGHTS
binding logical (virtual, abstract) structures to physical structures,
page 47: 'Any asset whose economic and social aspects are not fixed in a formal property system is extremely hard to move in the market.'
Possession is nine-tenths of the law. What we need for capitalism is trustworthy documented and transferable possession.
Reading back through 1982 and wondering about my position then. Notes 1982 Publish the emotional stuff? yes, because that is what motivated the formalization you see here, a representation, an abstraction of 'writable' states of my mind here. We take mind here to mean everything of which we are conscious, not just a repository of ideas, but as a repository of all feelings {experiences].
The search is for integrity. We are downloaded with a certain set of algorithms as we grow up, and there is no guarantee that they are not, to some extent, inconsistent.
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DANGER => ABSTRACTION (Because time is [often] of the essence)
The archetypal (binary) abstraction there was a radical contradiction between my human nature and the institutional requirements of the Roman Catholic Church.
Now is the time to go back and review all the notes form the 80s when I finally began to see that I could make a religion (ie a mental operating system) of my own. This, as it developed, became the tool that enabled me to break out of the fundamentalist egg.
FUNDAMENTALISM ==DENIAL OF COSMIC CREATIVITY
The fundamentalist credo: as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper.
The beginning: 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; as it was . . .
It is not easy looking back at my crippled self quarter of a century ago. There is a tendency to edit our the off centre bits, but that might decrease the value
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of the archive. What I write here as consciousness with a 25 year return period. Other sectors of consciousness work in tenths of a second, but the principle (symmetry) is the same, parametrized by time and complexity.
25 years is about the longest wavelength that can be clearly recognized in a human life of 75-100 years.
My breakout weapon is the transfinite network, a technology [to be] described in more detail in A New Theology.
. . .
Agatha Christie 'The mysterious Mr Quin '"He won't be the first or the last fellow who's shot himself without being able
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to give a reason," said Alex Portal heavily.' Christie page 11
Agatha Christie page 14: 'The evidence of history is against you. The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation. It is a question of getting true perspective, of seeing things in proportion. If you like to call it so, it is, like everything else, a matter of relativity.
The backward light cone (feed in, fan in) increases in breadth as we go forward in time. (Communication cone) So it takes 30 years for people to write their memoirs, for governments to publish their files, etc, and that is just the first cycle.
'The personal equation will have dropped out, and you will remember facts as facts without seeking to put your own interpretation on them.
'Christine' epistemology.
FACTS ={ALPHABET} = STRING (of events),
Saturday 29 January 2005
Although my motivations important, the actual results obtained are more so. This seems to be the importance of separating the personal (natural theology) scientific (a new theology) and religious (the theology company) sites.
These notebooks are an example of 'going with the flow'. If I feel like it, I write. If I don't I don't. There
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is no distinction, in other words, of the old fashioned sort that says no pain no gain, keep your nose to the grindstone etc. I act, in other words, rather like Jamie Uys' idealization of the Bush people of the Kalahari in 'The Gods must be Crazy'. Uys This may be attributed to laziness, but also reflects the fact that I cannot force ideas to come to the surface of my mind, but must wait until they bubble up and create a desire to be recorded. Of course more mundane tasks like dishes and bricklaying do respond to discipline but these fall into the category of bonum utile tasks performed in order to secure the freedom to wait for the spirit to develop, (as in photography) to reveal itself.
Pure self indulgence, one might think; in the old religion an evil, at least here on earth. But the situation is the same as bricklaying - suffer a bit of stress now for heaven later; either a pay packet or a cool beer, or an eternity of bliss in heaven.
Agatha Christie Mr Quin page 61: 'The present is apt to be - parochial'. Einstein would have said 'local'. The further we look into the past, the wider our vision. This in a way is our peculiar advantage - being able to look back to the big bang we can see the whole of the past, and so gain the most precise resolution of the present.
function: we can write doSomething(0), where the (0) is a placemarker for the thing to which something is done, like hang(him). Formally, the 'agend' can be represented by an ordered set of symbols.
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We can see reproduction as a consequence of death insofar as if we (or any other living thing) did not die, reproduction must exponentially decay to prevent the destruction of the environment by overloading.
