Notes
[Notebook: DB 60 Spotlights]
[Sunday 25 February 2007 - Saturday 3 March 2007]
[page 106]
Sunday 25 February 2007
Survival = f(fear)
The game of life is so complex that official maturity is defined to occur around 18 years of age in my part of the world.
Children are educated at different rates in different subsets of society.
Science is a product of frustrated desire. We conceive of something and want it. Thomas was clear about this: first the image and then the desire. The advertising industry is built on this premiss. To advertise honestly we must have a product (that is a form represented in matter) which satisfies the desire. All the activities promoted in advertising come under the heading of trade. Trade in a given environment may be fair or unfair.
PEERAGE = FAIRNESS A fair price for honestly represented goods.
[page 107]
The spectrum runs from destructive slavery, forced labour until death, to peerage. Equilibrium slavery rewards the slave just enough to maintain its efficiency. Destructive slavery keeps up the work rate with violence.
We can give a network meaning or interpretation to all the features of modern society. In particular we can define states of maximum entropy and maximum stability.
The Gaia hypothesis applied to the current human condition. Lovelock
Physical particles (living n a world of limited cardinality) are born fully educated and do not have memory or learning. Instead the shape is demanded by the requirements of consistency in a field of limited variety.
Hobson et al
All knowledge requires a coordinate system: the coordinates for my knowledge are my (ever changing) formal structure eg it is the structure of my visual processing system which makes these atoms deposited on paper, all emitting and not-emitting photons appear to me as 'my writing'.
Hard work (reroofing a house in summer) and a sort of despair which I know will dissipate when in get back to work on something to be [finished soon].
Monday 26 February 2007
Tuesday 27 February 2007
Wednesday 27 February 2007
Thursday 1 March 2007
[page 108]
Friday 2 March 2007
Einstein's field equations constrain the relationships of point in a 4-D manifold in a way which exactly matches observed reality. What we seek is a set of 'field equations' that constrain the transfinite network in a way which exactly matches our world of experience.
In the end, promotion of my picture of the world depends on how credible I myself find the picture. This depends on internal processing, but also on communication from peers who can see the merit on my proposals.
