Notes
[Notebook: DB 58 Bringing god home]
[Sunday 5 March 2006 - Saturday 11 March 2006]
[page 66]
Sunday 5 March 2006
As the society becomes more inhuman, the prisons fill up.
. . . metanoia . . . metanoia . . . continuous religious change, [recursive] vs fixed religion. In fact we have a spectrum of fixed and variables, elements with different half lives.
We want to make it safe to move one's mind and make the world safe for metanoia, ie implement freedom of thought.
The classical (deterministic, totalitarian) model tells us that we can make anything happen if we use enough force. The probabilistic quantum mechanical view tells us that we can only manipulate probabilities of events, not the events themselves, but that we can make sure that some particular thing happens if we devote enough energy to error detection and correction, cf the theory of communication.
Packer page 89 'Yet back in 1955 [Graham Greene] had seen that
America's capacity for mistakes and crimes was proportionate to its
innocence and self-righteousness.' [narrow bandwidth] Packer
page 102 Marc ; Strange Defeat 'The ABC of our profession, Bloch
wrote, 'is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to
discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human
beings.'
Wave=particle duality. The fact of the matter is that we only
observe the particles and the wave picture is merely the explanation
of how the particles appear to be motivated.
SKEW = cos theta, the angle between two vectors.
We start rather loosely and informally to approach a clear formal
definition of what we are looking for,
[page 67]
Quote MTW: 'Here and elsewhere in
science, as stressed not least by Henri Poincare, that view is out of
date which used to say: "define your terms before you proceed". All
the laws and theories of physics, including the Lorentz force law,
have this deep and subtle character, that they both define the
concepts they use (here B and E) [alphabet] and make
statements about thee concepts. Contrariwise, the absence of some
body of theory, law and principle deprives one of the means properly
to define or even use concepts. Any forward step in human knowledge
is truly creative in this sense: that theory, concept, law, and
method of measurement, -- forever inseparable -- are born into the
world in union. Misner, Thorne and
Wheeler, page 71.
What we are looking for (in the database of reality) is a clear
understanding of the query language necessary to get helpful results.
CANTOR UNIVERSE = DATABASE Behind every detail is a deeper
infinity of detail.
This shows in quantum field theory, which will be our starting
point. This is the physical theory which has grown up to deal with
the interactions of tiny particles. But the implications of quantum
field theory are very much broader. To see this we assume a network
model of the Universe, and set out to visualize the information
contained in quantum field theory as a network in which particles
play the part of packets of information.
. . .
Packer page 106: '"Strauss's view certainly alerts one to the
possibility that political life may be closely linked to deception",
Shulsky wrote. "Indeed it suggests that deception is the norm in
political life, and the hope, to say nothing of the expectation, of
establishing a politics that can dispense with it is the exception."'
As long as the government governs against, rather than for, the
people deception is necessary. A government working for itself alone
must lie to stay in power.
CULTURE - RELIGION - POLITICS . . .
The observed world is a formal system, albeit a very fine grained
one, since every symbol of the 'basic script' is physically measured
by action h bar [ 1.054 x 10-34 Joule.second].
[page 68]
US hypocrisy : democrats who force regime change on others.
Things stay still until they have 'accumulated' a quantum of
action, and then they relax and communicate a message to their
environment, ie they interact with their environment.
After Cantor Symmetry, ie the first step in finding our way around
the world. Every event in the Universe is unique, but on the other
hand these events share symmetries. In the function model of the
Cantor Universe described above, we see that the functions in each
space share a common domain, which is nothing other than the set of
symbols to be permuted. From a purely formal point of view we do not
care what these symbols are, only that each can be distinguished from
all the others, and that they can be assigned a natural order: in
other words, given any two of the symbols, we can decide what 'comes
after' or 'contains' what. Set theory defines order by containment.
The ℵ0 are the alphabet for ℵ1 und so weiter. (?).
Empires may rise and fall but atoms go on forever (and many other
features of the Universe)
Every one of us (and every other entity, is message?) is at the
root of its own transfinite tree.
[page 69]
The Cantor Symmetry is the fundamental formal symmetry, the
organizing principle by which we find our way around the number
system. All mathematical problems are isomorphic to problems with
numbers, that is of sets of unique symbols with a unique order and an
exponentially powerful . . .
From FORM to PROCESS. A function is a process and all
deterministic functions on a countable domain can be realized by
Turing machines, Most of these machines implement look up tables, but
come of them can be abstract (compressed, symmetrical)
representations of reality.
Since the days of the Cold War into which I was born, one of my
tasks (to which I have devoted varying proportions of my processing
power) has been to prevent myself from being prematurely fried as a
rest of errors committed by people who don't know what they are
doing. 'Father forgive them for they know not what they do'. (Luke
23:34)
The search for the root of the tree: and it is the region of
reliable communication.
PROCESS - SEQUENCE OF CHANGES, 0, 1, 2, 3, . . .
. . .
Random routing of photons at a 50:50
beam splitter, Chaitin's argument shows that there is no way to
distinguish a random sequence of symbols from a maximally compressed
and meaningful set of symbols. Chaitin
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