Notes
[Sunday 4 May 2008 - Saturday 2 February 2008]
[Notebook: DB 63 ATheology]
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Sunday 4 May 2008
The physical layer is continuous; all the others are digital!
SMH GW 3 May '. . . New York based employment consultant Catalyst showed gender imbalance could affect the company's profitability. The Bottom Line: Corporate Performance and Women's Representation on Boards reported that over a four-year period the Fortune 500 companies with the highest percentage of women on their boards did significantly better on three crucial financial measures, return on equity (net profit divided by shareholders' equity), return on sales (pre-tax profit divided by net sales) and return on investment (net profit divided by investment costs.' Saville, Catalyst
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Once I get the physical foundation in place, building a layered network with gods as users and God as the ultimate user seems to come naturally.
On rebasing the Catholic Church (restumping, refounding)
In terms of lifetime x set of influence, the two largest human corporate entities on earth [are the Roman Catholic Church and the China]. China has had many revolutions and conquests, as has the Church, but both have clocked up something in the vicinity of a trillion person-years of influence . . . .
The hierarchy of the church are responsible for how they manage God.
Although the Church likes to model itself as a monolithic eternal and infallible entity like the God which it markets, it has a very human social and political history and has made a number of changes in direction. Among the most recent has been to close down under the impact of the Reformation, the Enlightenment and Modernism and assert ever more stridently its absolute authority. Even after the second Vatican Council, the breath of fresh air was soon stale as the executive reclaimed local power, sidelines the Bishops and closed the windows again.
The executive body of the natural religion project has as its first task refounding the Roman Catholic Church, changing its name to catholic church and promoting the idea that we and our world are divine. The close held [monopoly on God must be broken and God returned to us all].
Refounding religion project first job: the Roman Catholic Church. If we pull that off, other business should be easy to get.
toward natural religion == refounding religion. A new founding fiction, from Trinity to (transfinite) community.
Like a boy, I have been bashing away at the Roman Catholic Church with various sized hammers since it let me go, but so far all of them either bounced off or stuck on (like the tar baby) and I have got nowhere. Now, however, I have got the initial singularity to stand on and can see that it is the physical layer of God [God's body], corresponding to the mystics' view, but fitted with a logical scheme of internal differentiation which gives us the world we inhabit while in no way reducing the unity of God, since the divine energy flows through every event in the Universe.
The evolution of the Universe is equivalent to breaking general covariance by establishing certain invariant mappings like the structure of the Hydrogen atom which has energy arranged in a particular structure which constrains general covariance.
The symmetric network is a fully covariant vacuum from which all else is built by the process of symmetry formation (the establishment of peer groups, ie closed networks of communication). Given a peer group symmetry, we can permute the elements of this symmetry to get a more complex symmetry = more equivalent states.
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GROUP = NETWORK (?)
How do we write the Lagrangian of the initial singularity? It describes the bifurcation from pure action to energy.time . . . This gives us an energy / period hyperbola for the Universe, of we represent pure act by scalar 1, to energy = frequency = 1/period, so energy.period = 1. period = t = lifetime.
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Now action = integral Lagrangian dt = integral (kinetic energy - potential energy ) dt = S
Potential energy = F.s, force by distance.
E = dS / dt ie the time gradient of action. This gradient gives an irreversible direction to time? We can see a gradient of action in space also, p = dS / dx, given that p = h / lambda, where lambda is spatial wavelength.
Lagrange showed how to apply the Lagrangian to Newton. Joseph-Louis Lagrange - Wikipedia Dirac and Feynman showed how to apply the Lagrangian to quantum mechanics. Dirac, Feynman How do we apply the Lagrangian to a network?
Spacetime is pixellated by pixels of action, but the pixels themselves go deeper that spacetime in a way
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analogous to the pixels on a display screen are the memory locations in the computer connected to each pixel.
Beale and Jackson Neural Computing. Beale & Jackson
page 3: 'The approach of neural computing is to capture the guiding principles that underlie the brain's solution to these [immensely parallel] problems and apply them to computer systems.'
page 4: '. . . we want the right architecture for the right job.['
page 7: 'Learning is thought to occur when modifications are made to the effective coupling of one cell to another.'
This is of general application. The wave functions in the quantum network describe the strength of coupling (amplitude) between two states: coupling = <state one | state two >.
page 10: MENACE (Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine) Chesnokov Yuriy
Going into debt and paying back later occurs at all scales and is a continual situation underlying this project. Somehow it is related to symmetry breaking (we go into debt to develop a new product in the hope that it will pay off). So the cost of borrowing is a second order constraint on what symmetries can be broken (cost of borrowing = failure rate, ie ventures that make a loss). Local loss making must be sustained by global profit, as in social security,
MENACE: 'When the game is over , the output is fed back into the machine . . . . Learning . . . occurs by adding a bead of the
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same colour to boxes representing a successful series of moves or by removing a bead of the colour that led to defeat.
Beale page 16: 'The fundamental objective for pattern recognition is classification.'
The fundamental requirement for error free communication is packets that can be unambiguously classified.'
page 53: Rosenblatt: '. . . given that it is possible to classify a series of inputs, then a perceptron network will find that classification. Perceptron - Wikipedia, Rosenblatt
God is a human scientific fiction (hypothesis) which has been appropriated by the ruling class to bolster their position. Nowhere has thus been taken further than in the papacy that claims such a strong bond with an infallible God (a model with corporate approval) that it claims infallibility for itself.
The purpose of natural theology is to liberate God from the greedy clutches of this ancient fundamentalist dictatorial regime and get it into our greedy clutches.
The state of NSW is paying big $ to party with a throwback to ancient Rome, a man both politically and intellectually from before the Dark Ages. He comes to impart his ancient imperialist and authoritarian ideas to our children. Why? One can't imagine our government wanting him unless they thought it was good for them. It hardly seems likely that the operation will show a profit, so Why?
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Monday 5 May 2008
A stationary point may often be a turning point, a point of inflection that suggests a collision or the action of a force, the receipt of a message.
Elastic vs plastic collision.
The variational method draws a curve that represents the action and then looks for stationary points on the curve. A stationary point is something that stays the same while something else changes. In the quantum world, where continuous curves are only an approximation, we can imagine that the stationary point is the boundary between actions. [like keystrokes]
Fourier's theorem: By superposing n waves with varying frequency, amplitude and phase, we can construct a [continuous] curve that passes through n given points.
With gravitation in place (at least till it breaks out) we have completed the meaningless message free physical layer of the Universe. Now we turn to biology and the evolution of life as we know it, in theological terms the creative power of the living God.
We see two business models, the creative and the predatory which are in fact closely linked. Human creativity ultimately grows from food, which we obtain ultimately by predation on plants, which redate, in turn on the sun.
Tuesday 6 May 2008
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The Universe has fixed points because it maps onto itself and so (?) fulfills the conditions for fixed point theorems to become effective.
ie A theorem becomes effective (or maybe just possible) when its conditions are fulfilled. Each layer of determinism fulfills the conditions for a new layer of theorems, that is a new set of Turing machines.
We begin with Parmenides principle. Only stationary points can be written.
On the transfinite oscillator page we try to sum up the rather wandering track through the first 12 pages of this chapter.
N letter: Modelling the Universe with a transfinite oscillator
ie the dynamics of the scientific method.
Deterministic = one-one correspondence (not necessarily reversible? quantum mechanics is? One to one [and onto] is by definition reversible . Then we have one - many and many - one, expansion and contraction.
The transfinite oscillator can go into action when the conditions are fulfilled for the Cantor, Gödel and Turing theorems. Cantor's theorem - Wikipedia, Gödel's incompleteness theorems - Wikipedia, Turing machine - Wikipedia
The symmetric Universe is a maximal address space which grows from 2 to practically infinity in a few steps, 2, 22 = 4, 24 = 16, 216 = 65 536, 265 656 = infinity.
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COMPUTABLE = COMPRESSIBLE. All other functions are incompressible. Here we have the E=Theorem. Khinchin
The quantum oscillator. An essay on E = hf starting with a pendulum and a weight on a spring. Atomic structure and spectra.
There are ants on the firewood. I am trying to get them to save themselves by providing a bridge and only putting one end [of the wood in the fire]. The bridge also contains ants and the net movement seems to be toward the fire. Perhaps they are deceived by the situation, or have no means of dealing with the situation. A few of them come onto the bridge. Others are looking toward the fire and turning back. They'll probably find a bit of food on the floor left by a recent baby visitor.
To construct a more complex system than gravitation we need more fixed points that the initial singularity. But we assume that the Universe, like the classical model of god, is able to map itself onto itself, and tradition has called this mapping the world of God.
An important survival strategy is to face hardship to get out of danger, like running through a surrounding fire.
We will go as far as we can go and generously accept any financial rewards that may be forthcoming for the good of our local world.
Heracleitus' principle: the world continually mapping onto
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onto itself guided by a Logos.
Quantum mechanics models the generation of the world as observation.
Superposition: many clocks going at different rates.
What does god do? Sustains our lives. What does the environment do? Sustains our lives. Therefore let god = environment.
Small print at the top: This site is a bit of a mess and I would like to have the resources to improve it. So please click on the ds, Some of them are quite interesting.
The basic network resource is bandwidth available and the actual traffic. will depend on the attraction of the site. Search engines are attractive because they provide a path to other attractors / attractions.
An attractive site: revenue = f(traffic), traffic = f(value), [revenue = f(value)] We measure attraction in connections per time [= coupling constant]
Plato's forms - the world of god
Aristotle-s matter - the route to communicating with god, via
material senses.
Wednesday 7 May 2008
The 'concrete' world of experience is all messages.
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Thursday 8 May 2008
So far the network model yields no interesting numerical results and we may be wrong to expect any. Given the continuous nature of energy and gravitation, it is hard to find any way to fix constants like h or c. With the advent of structure and the need for error free communication quantization and the quantum of action appear, and we can say that quanta are countable (like sheep) without attributing a particular 'size' to them. The advent of space-time gives meaning to the idea of velocity, and so we suspect that the velocity of light is a primitive unity, like the quantum of action, establishing a relationship between space and time. Like the quantum of action, c is a relativistic invariant and so can be imagined to predate most of the currently observed spatial structure of the Universe, since both are local.
Hornblower Aristotle page 167: '15. Throughout his work Aristotle is intensely concerned with experience, including the record of experience contained in what people say. ... Although we may find fault with his treatment of one or another previous thinker, he was the first Greek thinker to make engagement with the books of others a central part of his method.' Hornblower
Among the tragedies of the commons is the privatization of God by the Roman Catholic Church.
Hornblower page 168 : 'In Metaphysics 12, Aristotle articulates his idea of god as an eternally active and unaffected substance, whose activity is thinking and who inspires movement in the
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heavenly spheres by being the object of their love.'
Modern physicists' theory of everything describes in Aristotle's sense the 'material' explanation of the Universe without saying anything about the formal, efficient and final causes.
page 168: 23 eudaimonia = 'human flourishing'.
Pascal the punter. What odds would the bookies place on the Pope's heaven coming in a winner.
While we are defining privacy,. we are also defining publicity. Roads are public, railways are public, all communication networks.
The Pope is not just a harmless old potentate, a legend in his own mind. He is a legend in a lot of minds. People believe what he says, which is scary. Can you really believe that if you do what the Pope and his mob tell you, you will enjoy an eternal life of blissfully contemplating the glory of God. If you do, so be it. I did once too ... .
The Marist Brothers wanted results, because that's how schools were judged in those days. Marist Brothers - Wikipedia They beat our science into us (and I did well in maths and science) and they beat our religion into us, but they did not tell us much about how they fitted together, except the principle that if they seemed to be in conflict, the dogma rules. To learn the dogma, read the creed, or (if you want more depth) Denzinger's compilation of [Creeds, Definitions and Declarations on matters of Faith and Morals] Denzinger But we also learned about Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor - Wikipedia
I think I must have been a revolting child, but I went along
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with my education, reading a book under my desk and keeping an ear on the teacher in case of sudden calls to attention. I became convinced that I had a vocation to the religious life blah blah.
So in the end the Pope dispensed my vows and I was free to leave and I did [with a new suit]. That was forty years ago. Much water has flown under various bridges since then, but now I think I can see what is going on. It is the tragedy of the commons over again. The Roman Catholic Church has enclosed God, a public person, for their own use.
Now let us take the Razor to the Church, and its business plan. Everything revolves around a monopoly on God, claimed by an institution ie a (reputed) corporations with a defined corporate structure and a Constitution, Canon Law. Holy See
The transformation from resource based to service based economy allows us to live more profitably by trade than by war, rape, plunder, occupation, taxation and so on .
The physiology of the 'humanosphere', homosphere?
Homossphere. human sphere.
As God is a captive of the Churches, so too theology. God can only reenter the commons when theology becomes a real science, not interpreting old books but looking the real world in the eye. It is amazing enough, because it is divine. And if the world is divine, theology, by observing the world, can
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become an evidence based science.
After gravitation, electromagnetism, also massless. How many degrees of freedom does it take to define spacetime, or all possible transformations of spacetime. gmn = 10 independent transformations.
The Fourth Element N: 453:42 Tour & He
Cannibalism, burnt offerings and the Eucharist
Vatican Roulette at Randwick Racecourse.
The only leaders that will lead us to eudaimonia is ourselves.
The Pope insists, however, that we are broken and need leadership. Not only that but we must follow his lead with blind faith
Poetry (Divine Poetry) 'The Sculpting of Jupiter's gossamer rings by its shadow. N 453:72. Hamilton & Kruger
'Magnetic fields do no work' page 73
All measurements are ratios, and the fundamental units in the Universe appear to be h and c. Both are local, so everyone measures the same in his.her rest frame (everything, its)
In my experience the Roman Catholic Church is a terrorist organization, promising (and delivering) untold pain to those who do not conform to its views.
Friday 9 May 2008
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All real relationships involve communication, which in turn [differentiates the communicants].
Augustine de Trinitate: page 123: 'This . . . is my faith, inasmuch as it is the Catholic Faith'. Augustine
He considers it as given and not open to question. Science considers it an hypothesis or assumption, whose credibility will be measured by its relationship to all our other experiences. It is a basic human right to be autonomous, that is to criticize the milieu. This is suppressed in the Church: do what you are told, do not answer back, like children. If sister punished us for playing with the girls behind the shed it was no use denying it, even if we knew perfectly well that we had been smashing windows in the old house next to the school at the time of the alleged offense.
The Church is not the only offender here. It asserts its authority straightforwardly and expects to be obeyed. Many governments to the same, even democracies, through secrecy, denying their stakeholders any knowledge of what is being done and so suppressing criticism. The current crop of imperialist democracies are clearly proficient at this, citing various paper tigers that allegedly threaten national security.
Theological studies: On the expansion of the Trinity. a) 1 God; b) 3 Gods; c) natural theology; d) One god = whole Universe.
The Roman Catholic Church has since the beginning been at pains to place God as far from us as possible in order to emphasize
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the importance and uniqueness of its role in communicating with God.
Vatican Roulette at the Racecourse. My principle (sic) gripe is that the Roman Catholic Church holds theology in an iron grip that must be broken if the world is to make any theological progress at all. This grip, formalized at Vatican I, is the doctrine of infallibility.
A bit like General Motors decreeing that Newtonian dynamics to not hold for its products.
As a structure I am a set of stationary points of the dynamics of my life. The hierarchy of stationary points that outline my dynamics is explained by the hierarchic network model.
Clauset et al N 473:47, 98 Clauset, Moore & Newman
The network model enables is to extrapolate our dramatic understanding of our relationships with one another to all relationships in the Universe.
We have two approaches to a network: to see the nodes as fixed and the messages as variable, or to see the messages as fixed and the nodes as variable. Since we can see the messages much more easily than the nodes (whose dynamics must be interpreted from their messages) we take the messages as fixed and seek the dynamics of the nodes. As this text is fixed and you will use it as a means of getting to the dynamics of the writer.
The development of our ideas of our place in the world over the last few thousand years has in some way followed the same course as our individual psychological world, starting solipsist,
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seeing everything in relation to myself to social, seeing that everyone has a point of view and that a peaceful society must be open to all peaceful points of view. The Roman Catholic Church is at the toddler stage, seeing everything in terms of itself, denying any rights to the wider world.
Augustine, Hill page 26: '[Augustine] had to go on looking for God in the confident knowledge [?] that God was looking for him, and that he would find himself in the quest, and find God in finding himself.'
The Incarnation is a first mythologized step which must be brought down to earth by acknowledgement that we are all gods, independent sources of action.
The Papacy has frozen theology.
In Christian history, God is coming closer, and the next logical step is to dismiss the intermediary and recognize that god is here, local, and that we are parts of it.
Infallibility implies that the Pope is effectively God. All based on 'You are Peter . . . ' (Mt 16:18-19) Matthew
By making theology the tool of an absolutist institution they have trashed it.
Hill (Augustine) page 31: 'The name 'God" which for us is nearly always a proper name, and which we do not therefore use very much as a predicate by which to describe and classify a subject, was originally a common or generic noun like 'man' or 'cat'. In
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the Hebrew Bible it is mostly used in its plural form Elohim, as a proper name. But this use implies that the revelation of monotheism us already complete, and that there is only one being to whom this common name properly belongs; and there is evidence that this revelation was not fully acquired or clearly grasped until fairly late in Israel's history.'
The Bible is revelation, and so is every other message from Gd. Given His goodness and total control, we must accept that every event in the Universe (of which the Bible is an infinitesimal part) is revelation of God. Christians can not deny this unless they attribute some sort of trickery to God. In other words, theology can get a lot more data about God from the whole world of experience that it can get from a very small shelf of literature, the Bible (lit. collection of books).
In a world that is finely balanced between absolutism and democracy, the absolutist weight of the Roman Catholic Church is significant.
The Church is some sort of cross between a corporation, a nation, a benevolent society and a club, in other words a distinct entity with a distinct constitution, intellectual property and modus operandi, which is basically to bullshit people into thinking that they need it, like the old time vendors of patent remedies. Shermer
One becomes a member by being baptized into the Church, as I have been and membership is for life. Baptism cures original sin.
As far as we can see, the world of our distant ancestors was full of gods, public and private, whose role was to guide some set of events ranging from romance to childbirth and beyond into the economy, war and society.
The privatization of the commons. The Catholic sequestration of God is paralleled by our governments selling off our forests to loggers for a few dollars royalty per hectare. The forests are treated as worthless. God is treated as a weapon to beat people over the head with to male them conform. Too strong? Sustainable. The Roman Catholic Church is an obstacle to human unity precisely because it is authoritarian and solipsist, mistaking itself for God.
What I am thinking now is that it is easy to make a quantum mechanical model of God by considering her as an isolated system whose interior is a transfinite dimensional Hilbert space undergoing reversible unitary evolution. This should satisfy those who want a mysterious (unobservable) or subjectively meaningless) Gd. An important feature of quantum mechanics is that it is indifferent to the complexity of the states which it describes. Cantor's transfinite numbers give us a formal coordinate system onto which we can map states of unlimited complexity [onto which we can map the stationary points of states of unlimited complexity].
Now we put ourselves inside the structure and study what it looks like to a small part of itself. Once again we draw on the quantum mechanical theory of observation, putting individual observations into a network that comprises every event in the world in their causal (temporal) sequence.
We are accustomed to looking at God from the outside.
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I have always been puzzled by the relationship between the propositions God is everything and the created Universe is something other than God. I prefer the simpler position, the Universe is God. Since we are definitely in the Universe, we are definitely in God, and it is high time the theologians began to investigate this situation.
Saturday 10 May 2008
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On the (non) quantization of gravitation page 161, Wednesday 30 April.
The Roman Catholic Church business is built on the fairytale that once life for people on earth was easy and painless. And then the Woman fell for the Serpent and blotted the human copybook to such as extent that God changed the human environment so that work and pain became commonplace. We have since learnt that survival is hard work for every living thing. It is not a punishment. It is the way things are.
STABILITY - ERROR CORRECTION - COPYING
leads to
STRUCTURE - FIXED POINT THEOREMS - RECURSIVE (PERIODIC) FUNCTION THEORY (Fourier analysis).
Can we say Any Turing machine can be represented by a superposition of recursive functions.
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We are saying that creation occurs because the error correcting power of a morsel of structure is sufficient, is used wisely, to keep that structure intact (able to resist error) for a lifetime. So my life, and the life of an atom. There is no reason why adequately robust structures should not last forever, particularly those like pure act that so fills the realm of possibility that it can not go wrong. We can first grasp this idea by looking at the simple end of the complexity spectrum.
The idle rich (if there are any), may make a lot of ars gratia artis and knowledge for its own sake, but practical science is driven by pathology.
The Roman Catholic Church has enslaved theology and God as any absolutist ruler tries to do, calling the heavens to witness his legitimacy,
MEMORY = something that stays where you put it, ie a non-terminating process, a self renewing cycle.
Augustine / Hill page 54 '[Augustine] does not conceive of the image of God in us as a static datum to be discovered and analyzed, but as a thing we are responsible for constructing. . . . '
Our being in God's image is not just something given, like having two ears, it is more a kind of program which we have to execute.
page 55: interior intime meo, de Trinitate book XIV.
PROCESSION = CREATION
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Energy is the universal language spoken by action.
Robinson Honest to God Robinson
Faith is promulgated by authorities who wish to maintain their authority by, on the one hand, rendering some valuable service, and on the other, concealing the disparities between their assertions and reality: we're an empire now, we make our own reality. Reality-based community - Wikipedia
God is an entirely human scientific construct. Linguistics and theology are the first science.
I am sorry I made man Genesis 6:7 Genesis
Seek his face always (Psalms 105:4) Psalms
Dissipated.
Translations between natural languages are not linear because meaning endows some symbols with more weight than others. At the physical level all symbols are meaningless and carry the same weight. The weight of a symbol is the entropy of the space that it inhabits. The minimum entropy is 1, a space of two states.
'Unless you believe you will not understand (Isaiah 7:9) Isaiah No, unless you imagine (hypothesize) . . .
Jerusalem Bible: 'If you do not stand by me, [do not believe in me] You will not stand at all.
All the trouble comes from being forced to take sides. Nazareth. Nazareth - Wikipedia
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God may be hard to understand but it is no way hidden. God is open for us all to see, and what we see is up to us, depending on how we look.
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