Notes
[Sunday 29 June 2008 - Saturday 5 July 2008]
[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]
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Sunday 29 June 2008
[page 64]
Complex systems are moulded by no-go zones in which they cannot survive.
Every layer depends for its existence on sufficient control of its hardware, ie all the layers below it.
The root of religion is the same as the rood of the evolutionary tree and the root of history which we follow English speaking tradition and call God. Formally, God is the root of the transfinite tree.
Every sentence scanned in the reading direction is a history, a path through a tree of possible succeeding words constrained by meaning, which defines some paths as nonsense.
Life is 'tense' ie is associated with stress-energy like the physical Universe.
Monday 30 June 2008
Consensus requires abundant data. Klein page 273. Klein By making the Universe divine we expose theology to all the data of experience.
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Perhaps this winter I have reached the classical mystical dark night of the soul. I am at the emotional boundary between two views of the world. In my youth I trained to market Catholicism (Order of Preachers) but during my training i realized that the product was defective. Since then I have ascertained
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that it is dangerous, since we cannot hope to survive if we do not conform to the demands of our total environment. To do this, we have to know what our environment is. Catholic cosmology is way off the mark.
'The anti-Pope is the post-Pope. We can see something better,
The first task of natural religion is to eliminate war, that is the attempt by one element of a network to eliminate another and take over its resources. The ancient God of Israel and the more modern God of Catholicism are both colonizing powers. Since formally, networks can grow without bound, colonizing is not necessary formally. But it is physically. Each portion of the network requires action for its operation and its rate of action is measured by energy. In general a network requires a certain rate of action to maintain itself against random events in its environment (hardware).
ENVIRONMENT = HARDWARE
Given the outlines of a revised product the job is now to attract the necessary energy for research and development to bring the product ethically to market. Once again, this seems to boil down to finish the website and then produce condensed versions ranging from a slogan through to a book (and some learned articles) to put the thing into the public domain. Given the quality, this religion will (?) not need to be marketed, but simply thrown before the world to be picked up by practical peacemakers seeking stronger theoretical foundations for their work.
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FIRE - PASSION - EMOTION drives the world either at random (thermodynamics) or deterministically (mechanics).
Statistical mechanics divides into classic and quantum. Are these two domains unified by the Gödel / Turing / Shannon circle of theorems hat divide the computable error free world from the incomputable and apparently random world.
Wednesday 2 July 2008
Thursday 3 July 2008
Friday 4 July 2008
The key insight is normalization, as applied to the statistic of quantum mechanical events and the statistics of a communication theoretical source This observation is both formal and effectively tautological, being ultimately grounded in measure theory, cardinal numbers and the axioms of arithmetic as demonstrated by set theory.
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