Notes
[Sunday 16 November 2008 - Saturday 22 November 2008]
[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]
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Sunday 16 November 2008
The network model interprets the root of social justice to lie in the observation that we are peers in the human layer of the universal network
HUMAN LAYER = HUMAN SPACE
To hear is to obey, ie to hear is to reply. Maybe this is why we have complex numbers in quantum mechanics and the probability of an event is the absolute square of a complex amplitude since an act of communication is a two way (full duplex) event which requires success in both directions to become real.
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Conflict is a sign of error. Insofar as religions are in conflict they ar ein error. We base this statement of the scientific act of faith that the Universe is consistent, When science finds conflicts between the opinions of its practitioners it uses this act of faith to motivate the search for the error or misunderstanding that is behind the conflict.
Monday 17 November 2008
A proposal. We seek expressions of interest in the realization of the proposal outlined herein.
Tuesday 18 November 2008
Wednesday 19 November 2008
'Dark matter' = 'unquantized energy' (?) and so we should not expect to observe dark matter any more than we might observe gravitons.
One is looking for an algorithm for life. Something that can be derived from very simple assumptions and grow into the complexity we experience, The key to broad knowledge is abstraction and the communication abstraction gives us a recursive and scale invariant structure which not only models the basic pulse of the Universe, its local frequency (energy) but also models the space of all processes that this energy can motivate.
Macquarie: What is the proposition? That an adequate theory of money, faithfully implements, forms the abstract foundation for a peaceful society in the same way that conservation of energy gives us a peaceful Universe.
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peaceful = low energy. Conservation of energy therefpre decree that peaceful processes are more complex than violent ones on a given flow of energy.
More peaceful = lower energy per event = greater entropy of events.
Information is the currency of a network and currency is a form of information carrier. Its physical layer is arithmetic.
New Yorker 17 November/2008 p 39 'Obama Wins' Hertzberg
Energy is the basic resource of the Universe, processing power. Whence comes this processing power? From information theory. Complexity can only be maintained with precision computation, so the theory shows us how to computation rate improves with improved space-time definition of symbols.
I am hoping that there are a few analysts within your organization who can see the merit of my proposal, and that these people will direct an initial small investment toward expanding and documenting the proposal.
We lend ourselves to tyranny if we are stampeded by irrational fears. We are not advocates for anything. We want to see the word as it is and contend that properly managed the world gives us little reason to fear.
DEMOCRACY = HUMAN EQUIVALENCE (PEERDOM) (the domain of peers). Across all varieties of humanity.
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The divinity of money comes about because it is an implementation of arithmetic, Within the banking sector arithmetic rules. It is only in the relatively transfinite layer of government that uncertainty enters the system.
We expect out banking system to operate at constant entropy, and so all transactions are from a purely arithmetic point of view reversible. This reversibility is destroyed when we introduce the time value of money and interest. Whence does this value arise? From the advantages of capital, that is efficient algorithms efficiently executed.
Working very hard on the religion thing. perhaps because a breakthrough seems near, so that I am beginning to thing about investment. Here we keep it clean by making the investment financial rather than taking your whole body into captivity, as I did. The Author.
What are we offering? A model of the world to guide our transition to a stable sustainable lifestyle.
NAIVETE = REDUCED COMPLEXITY. We get more complex as we get older until we die of overcomplexity.
Thursday 20 November 2008
My ambition is to develop the intellectual property I call natural theology into a publicly listed religion.
Obama 3/Jan/2008 New Yorker 17/November/2008 page 76: 'Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire; what
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led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation; what led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause, Hope - hope is what led me here today.'
The civil rights struggle is deftly recast not in terms of national guilt but of national progress: the rise of the Joshua generation.' Remnick
[Not much difference between political and religious oratory]
Why public [religion]? non sectarian, like politician or business person.
Post sectarian religion.
Why for profit? religion is a service that deserves reward.
Export peace.
Remnick page 80 'Obama did not represent the prophetic tradition: he was not Frederick Douglass or Bishop Turner, Martin or Malcolm. He was a pragmatist, a politician.
Packer New Yorker 17 November/2008 page 87: 'The real problem with partisanship, Obama believes, is that it is no longer pragmatism. After decades of bruising fights in Washington, is has become incompatible with effective government. 'I believe any attempt by the Democrats to pursue a more sharply partisan and ideological strategy misapprehends the moment we are in, 'he writes in 'Hope'. 'I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate, or demonize, or oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate we lose. For its precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and sheer predictability of our current political debate that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face as a country.' Packer
Friday 21 November 2008
. . .
Mass couples adjacent states in a way that reduces their variation under the influence of force. A particle with zero mass makes an infinite response to a finite force. On the other hand, a body with an infinite mass makes a zero response to a finite force.
Saturday 22 November 2008
Consciousness = self-communication, ie intra-personal communication. Each layer of interpersonal communication is intrapersonal communication for personalities existing in the layer above and vice versa.
We may count anything as living which is complex enough to be conscious, that is to have two distinct elements sufficiently durable (through time) to communication with one another without losing their identity. In this the living things are distinguished from fundamental particles which have no internal communication and which are created or annihilated by the process of communication.
biology01 life and fundamental particles.
From this point of view, we see an atom as a living thing, nucleons and electrons maintaining their identity while communicating with one another by the exchange of photons and mesons, which are 'point' particles subject to creation and annihilation. This picture is not altogether satisfactory, s electrons and nucleons are
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subject to creation and annihilation at sufficiently high energies, as are we ourselves, but it seems the idea is flexible enough to resolve this problem with a little development.
Physicists expect different phenomena at different energy scales and this motivates them to construct larger and larger accelerators. Energy scales are measured in terms of energy per particle, usually per lepton, hadron, nucleus etc. On this picture, if I consider myself a particle, my rest energy is vastly greater than anything likely to be created by a possible accelerator, but this approach is not used by physicists whose primary concern is with the alphabet of the Universe rather than the complex living systems that can be constructed with this alphabet.
Mass is effectively a count of how many fundamental states have to be changed to change the overall state of the system. A massless particle is one that us created or annihilated by one quantum of action. As things become more massive, more quanta are required to change their overall state. Objects of infinite mass cannot have their state (ie their momentum) changed by any finite number of quanta.
An example of the sort of generation of new degrees of freedom in the animal world[is provided by the] decoupling of sensuality and reproduction in human behaviour. Ancient societies, often on the brink of extinction, acted to maximize their reproduction rate. In more recent, more stable times, we have had to learn to control our reproduction. Fortunately, it seems to happen naturally (the demographic transition), where people no longer feel the need to have so many children. This is motivated both
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by the increased survival rate of the children and by the perception that there are better things to do than have babies. But this does not mean that we have to give up the sensuality associated with reproduction. Sensuality and sexuality have taken on a life of their own, limited only by human creativity and human desire. This bifurcation brings with it the need to establish fair trade in the new space so opened.
Sensuality for money is said to be the oldest trade, as completely decoupled from reproduction as the contraceptive technology of the day allowed.
The old religions try to control sensuality by repression. Natural religion controls it by developing fair protocols for sensual relationships.
OED 'sensual 'relating to the physical senses as a source of pleasure, especially sexual pleasure.'
'Such has been the development [of science of the totality of human sexual experience] in recent years that the mainstream psychiatric view expressed by Mayer-Gross, Slater and Roth in 1969 -- '. . . a sexual activity is usually regarded as perverse if it has no immediate connection with reproduction, and still more so if it tends to lead to a sexual activity that could replace reproduction' -- is no longer supportable. Sexual activity is now seen as a multiply functional part of human potential, in which intention to reproduce is one among a number of valid intentions, such as pleasure of the deepening of a bonding relationship which the sexual act may properly subserve. P T Brown in The Oxford Companion to the Mind, Gregory ed page 703 'Sexual development'. Gregory
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How did (does) evolution drive such bifurcations?
A politician in one who manoeuvres his limited personal powers to get big things done by encouraging other people to join his quest, contributing money and/or time and/or materials to the project. As I have gone along I have developed more clarity and certainty about my vision and feel that I am at most in a position to explain it to others and so have a chance of recruiting help from people who can see a benefit for themselves in helping me. Fair trade. So the product has to be both good for its stated purpose and fairly presented to potential buyers. The value to be placed on the trade is a more personal thing that can be judged by the size of donations and fees.
Ultimately I am betting that the fastest and safest way to spread natural religion is to support research and development in natural religion space, something defined by the totality of human networks and communications, the life of the human layer of the global network. Megalomania might be good if it leads to a good outcome. An entrepreneur is driven by the certainty that he can develop a product and sell it to the punters.
The cooperative approach to religion suggests that the punters develop their own products by harnessing their creativity in a network that provides suitable protocols and bandwidth to foster such development. In an abstract way, the development of such religion differs not at all from the general evolutionary process that we describe in a scale invariant way in cybernetics.
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The fundamental rule is that an investment in controlling our environment can yield more benefit than cost, and so tends to become self perpetuating, feeding off its own success. This is in effect a religious phase change brought about by a sort of catalysis. We just have to e if we can make it a change for the good, which, hopefully, it must be if its input is sufficiently well founded. We rely on science to guide us, not ancient fantasies.
