Notes
[Notebook: DB 61 Warm]
[Sunday 8 July 2007 - Saturday 23 July 2007]
Sunday 8 July 2007
[page 97]
Monday 9 July 2007
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[page 98]
An industrial process is also a (branched) logical continuum running from inputs to outputs.
The sort of logical/random view of the world that is slowly emerging from these notes leads one to marvel at the huge complexity of human life and the fact that we have done so well at it.
Now we know that we have to head for zero footprint.
POLICY/Zero footprint/
A river of Turing machine.
Evolution has tuned love to its present depth and complexity.
LOGICALLY CONTINUOUS = LOGICALLY CONFINED
Tuesday 10 July 2007
'Deus est omnino simplex' Aquinas 20 From our point of view, in Thomas' view, outside god. Here we are looking from the inside and we experience a transfinite extension of the Trinity.
Wednesday 11 July 2007
. . . Evolution: Replication; variation; selection. Dennet. Dennett Begin from the Trinity, relationship and communication. Aquinas 160
Where does imagination stop and fantasy begin?
The
[page 99]
notion of a divine Universe is firm and relatively unassailable. The fantasy is that this can be used to found an ethic that will lead us to peace and happiness in the face of inevitable death. In Christianity's puppet Universe the omnipotent creator has banished death, but this is sheer fantasy. We come to terms with death by recognizing its place in the functioning of a creative divinity. Subsets of the Universe are subsets in space and time, ie my timeline has two ends, just as my length, depth and breadth are also limited.
Thursday 12 July 2007
GRAVITATION - CORRELATION - COMMUNICATION
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All religions seem to propose a certain amount of hardship often arbitrary, like voluntary poverty, chastity and obedience. Often people denying themselves form various sets and sometimes claim that their behaviour sets them above the rest of us.
Natural religion would replace arbitrary denial with PRODUCTIVE DENIAL [ie preservation of capital] in effect reducing our footprint on the world. So thou shalt not kill and steal, thou shalt produce something useful to the community if possible, and so on.
PRODUCTIVE DENIAL --> ZERO FOOTPRINT (as an asymptote).
[page 100]
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INITIAL SINGULARITY = EMPTY SET
The empty set exists, ie it is not self contradictory. We say a set is defined by its elements, in this case none. As well as modelling the initial singularity [we may use the empty set to model the classical picture of god].
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What about the dynamics of the initial singularity which, on the model proposed here, can be described by a Turing machine or a string or network of Turing machines. Genericize 'Turing Machine' to computer. A computer is anything that does Boolean algebra.
Turing's real brilliance is not so much in devising the determinate programmable machine as in seeing that programming such machines could be done by building more and more complex routines on a foundation of simple routines (subroutines). The essence of software design is to break a complex task down to a set of logically complete and easily maintained subroutine. From a dynamic point of view subroutines are subsets of the overall task.
[page 101]
So we start with a Turing machine with one square, one internal state, one motion and one tape symbol. From this we build the [observable] Universe. How? By creation.
By 'improving its definition' ie moving toward determinism (= error free communication) this empty Turing machine might begin to fill itself up.
What is the frequency of this machine? We cannot tell because thee are no [observable] changes of state to mark the passage of time.
Friday 13 July 2007
Aquinas solved the problem of an 'omnino simplex' deity with three personalities in two stages. First, in his article on the life of god he distinguished between motion within the divine system from act to act, and the motion in the (fictitious) created system which is potential to act (and conversely what was once actual becomes once more potential.) Aquinas 113 The second step was the doctrine of procession and relationship by which he explained the consistency of the Trinity.
Confronted with an initial singularity formally identical to the classical god, we follow the same course.
The Word of God is God's image of himself in self knowledge, taken to be physically identical to God but logically different, not God the Father but God the Son.
Saturday 14 July 2007
Nothing! Empty mind. But things bubble up, to give the proposition (first stated in the 80s) 'Cantor's theorem suggests that the Universe (= god) would be formally inconsistent if it did not complexify'. (Theory of peace: 3 Symbol)
In logic, the symbols interact by convention but in a computer or a cell they interact physically.
