Notes
[Sunday 14 June 2009 - Saturday 20 June 2009]
[Notebook: DB 67 jciii]
Sunday 14 June 2009
Monday 15 June 2009
[page 5]
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Agatha epistemology: "'Do you know Clement,' [Melchett] said suddenly, 'I've a feeling that this is going to turn out a much more intricate and difficult business than any of us think. Dash it all, there's something behind it,' he snorted. 'Something we don't know about. We're only beginning, Clement. Mark my words, we're only beginning. All these things, the clock, the note, the pistol -- they don't make sense
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as they stand.'" Vicarage, page 87: Detective novels explore the intricacy and reasonableness of the world, seen from its own point of view. I write sentences that carry for me a lifetime of meaning which may be completely obscure to someone else. The space of a given life is the expanding complexity-time volume that starts as a point and expands like the Universe until it dies.
NORMATIVE vs INFORMATIVE text.
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Thursday 18 June 2009
Mathematics is the science of maps.
Although we are accustomed to our maps being much smaller than the landscape mapped, this is not necessary. The wonders of radio enabled the Goons to carry a full sized map of London around with them on their adventures.
Friday 19 June 2009
Taleb Swan Our predictions must be based on solid principles: the principle of conservation of energy (eg) rather than bankers' valuation of portfolios of property. Taleb So it is that religion seeks solid foundations for its navigation.
Taleb page 147: 'Simply, things that move, and therefore require knowledge do not usually have experts, while things that don't move seem to have some experts.'
< Mathematics is the study of maps and its central issue has always been how to make a map of
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the continuous natural line using numbers. While this might seem simple enough it inspired Georg Cantor to invent set theory and the transfinite numbers that arise by permutation (mapping sets onto themselves).
Predictability and durability are features of well designed networks, that that maximise entropy for a given physical expenditure.
At the level of Cantor symmetry (symmetry with respect to complexity) moving an atom, a human person, a nation or a mountain are isomorphic. The simplest movement swaps duals, like spin up and spin down, on and off, 0 and 1 and so on.>
A differential equation is a communication channel which may be 'fixed' with different constants of integration. The constant is unseen by the dynamics, a stationary point
The Bible (or any text) is a map. A novel is a map.
Boom and bust: the entropy (range) of the valuation system is a measure of its information carrying capacity.
Science: on the theory of everything.
Saturday 20 June 2009
Solstice party, the festival of the invincible sun, one of the most stable systems in our lives.
The world is quantized at all scales because the reason [for quantization, error free communication] operates at all scales.
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