Notes
[Notebook: DB 60 Spotlights]
[Sunday 17 December 2006 - Saturday 23 December 2006]
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Sunday 17 December 2006
WORK = NECESSITY (for the realization of a given hypothesis
PLAY = NON-NECESSARY ACTIVITY
Monday 18 December 2006
Tuesday 19 December 2006
Wednesday 20 December 2006
Thursday 21 December 2006
POLITICAL HYDRAULICS
CONSERVED FLOW
CREATIVE/ANNIHILATIVE FLOW
Conserved flow holds for the lifetime of particles but is broken at creation and annihilation, although energy/momentum/action are conserved.
We make action a unit, ie the dimensionless quantity. It is also customary to make the velocity of light 1. Then rate of action breaks into spatial rate of action (momentum) and temporal rate of action (energy). Act is scale invariant and each act counts as 1 [in its peer group]. The smallest act has the physical dimension (meaning) of the quantum of action. This quantum is a logical (ordered) rather than arithmetical (cardinal) entity.
We may think of quantum mechanics as traffic analysis in a network. All the mathematical machinery of quantum mechanics works to two purposes. First it enables us to define a vast number of
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'stationary states' in the Universe, like the electronic states of a hydrogen atom. And second, we can use quantum mechanics to work out the probability that one state will change into another. The probability, for instance, that an alpha particle inside a uranium atom will be found outside the uranium atom. We imagine each atomic event at the quantum level to represent one quantum of action. The meaning associated with this quantum of action may be of transfinite complexity, it all depends on the system of which the event in question is an atomic part. [nor is there any reason why a given event may not be part of many systems].
ATOM = EVENT = bounded in space and time. An event has a beginning and an end, be it an atomic decay or a circus.
The new trinity: capitalism (LOGOS), democracy (SPIRIT), socialism (FATHER).
Authoritarian vs dynamic.
the creative flow is based on a conserved flow. How do capitalism, socialism and democracy fit together?
Capital is the incarnate word.
Socialism is unity in action, ie Father.
Democracy is the creative force, permutation = Holy Spirit.
Le Carre Russia 'We must cut down the grey men inside ourselves . . . ' Le Carre
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Trying to get somewhere but not convinced that trying will help my neural network to find its answers more quickly.
Friday 22 December 2006
Longest day. . . .
General relativity describes the overall structure of the network. Quantum mechanics describes the behaviour of sources in detail, giving us an explanation for the traffic observed by general relativity.
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Evolution
The key to survival is ingenuity; we take this statement as a definition of ingenuity: the ability to achieve an end despite the dense field of errors surrounding the straight, or straightish, road.
One approach to quantum field theory is through the path integral method due to Feynman. Feynman Although the formalism is tricky, and often not the simplest, . . . there
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is deep insight in this view, explained so beautifully in QED. Feynman 1 Things go best when everything is in phase. To be in phase is to make the action integral stationary and so minimize the action. Let us rephrase the path integral calculation in logical terms., taking 'closeness in phase' to mean 'closeness to consistency'. In binary logic we have in phase and out of phase = not-in phase. In the probabilistic logic of superpositions of states, phase may become 'continuous' as a probability amplitude described by a complex exponential. Complex phase is a two dimensional object, and so can be 'superdense coded' by taking advantage of these two degrees of freedom.
INGENUITY = ERROR PREVENTION = CAPITALIZATION = MAKING WORDS (scenarios for survival, ie the next meal, the next war) flesh = DOING IT.
In the last millennia we have become conscious of many features of ourselves and our role on the planet. This role has become significant since our unbridled ingenuity is leading us to divert more and more of the world's resources to ourselves, to the detriment of their previous users.
Our ingenuity has two principal directions: finding things; and having found the, capturing them for our own use. This general algorithm applies equally to coal and to thermodynamics, as to all other resources and formally expressed programs for action.
Schemes of recurrence: scheduled flights. Lonergan pp 141 sqq.
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NP Nondeterministic polynomial. The nondeterministic computer comes up with answers in its own way. The simplest way is to be massively parallel so that there is one processor to check every possible answer and a mechanism for signalling bingo when one of the possibilities (permutations) turn out to be a solution.
The first draft of the masterpiece is done. Physical Theology 2006 Will mean anything to anybody else? Perhaps we . . . some intriguing results in quantum field theory would do the job, as if I would ever get them. But I remain a legend in my own mind, and I have plenty of energy to go on, so why not. . . .
Saturday 23 December 2006
