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[Sunday 27 December 2009 - Saturday 2 January 2010]

[Notebook: DB 68: Salalah

Sunday 27 December 2009

The Gospel according to Gaia Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia

One is driven by the potentials in one's mind, that is by the logical constraints (algorithms), that is, by forms.

FORM == ALGORITHM

The Gospel according to Jeffrey: all religions, insofar as they are true, are one religion. [Distinguish 'religion' from 'church', an instance of a religion]

Nin, I:238 'As D H Lawrence said, "Every human being is treacherous to every other human being, since he must be true to his own soul".' Nin

Assuming that our souls are necessarily opposed.

Cantor used the power of order to create new numbers. Cantor

[page 136]

Mathematics is a form of creative writing through which vaguely perceived ideas are gradually brought into focus (resolved) and captures in ordered strings of symbols which gradually build up layer by layer from undefined primitives,like set and element, to a comprehensive mathematical theory whose logical backbone is a set of proofs, eg Feller, Kolmogorov, Khinchin. Feller, Kolmogorov, Khinchin

The Gospel according to ? We need an all embracing name. The Gospel according to God?, NN, Jeffrey.

Monday 28 December 2009

Keneally Australians page 241: 'The Irish all thought, under the doctrine of Tom Paine and other radicals, that they were slaves. Their masters thought they were miscreants. There could be no meeting of minds.' Keneally

Do I live in too much luxury to be inspired, so lacking a hunger for results?

Tuesday 29 December 2009
Wednesday 30 December 2009

Peace on earth requires consistency, that is the absence of conflict, which requires in turn consistency from root to branch. The conquest of Aboriginal Australia was rendered inevitable from the moment the British decided to take possession of it for their own purposes. The only way it could have been avoided was for them not to come at all. As soon as the decision was made

[page 137]

both the indigenes and the colonizers were place in a situation where they had to kill or starve, and most naturally chose the former. This situation is endemic in human existence, since our ability to reproduce carries with it the need to obtain resources for our offspring from the limited resources available. The only ways to avoid the problem are to limit reproduction (and so render oneself open to conquest by other groups) or increase the resources available from the available territory, as we have done, for instance, via agriculture. The only way to introduce these ideas on a global scale is by a global religion growing from consistent theological roots.

The Gospel according to Logic / God / the World / the Data

The Gospel of the World. The Gospel of the Data

An hypothesis: Gospel of the World, the Flesh and the Devil. J D Bernal

Thursday 31 December 2009

Authenticity - consistency - fantasy - magic

The metaphysical body of humanity

Putting the transfinite network into the human context, generation and power.

Friday 1 January 2010

Music provides the potential to which we dance once we couple to it.

[page 138]

Saturday 2 January 2010

The World, the Flesh and the Devil: A comprehensive constructive critique of the Catholic Church.

Preface: although I have lived a charmed existence within the boundaries of Australia, I have seen that religion is the root cause of war. While there is relative peace within each religious fold, the very nature of differing religions fuels conflict along their interfaces. The only answer to this conflict is global religion based on global theology.

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Cantor, Georg, Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite Numbers (Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Philip E B Jourdain), Dover 1955 Jacket: 'One of the greatest mathematical classics of all time, this work established a new field of mathematics which was to be of incalculable importance in topology, number theory, analysis, theory of functions, etc, as well as the entire field of modern logic.' 
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Feller, William, An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, John Wiley 1968 From preface to first edition: 'It is the purpose of this book to treat probability theory as a self-contained mathematical subject rigorously, avoiding non-mathematical concepts. At the same time, the book tries to describe the empirical background and to develop a feeling for the great variety of applications. This purpose is served by many special problems, numerical estimates and examples . . . ' 
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Keneally, Thomas, Australians: Origins to Eureka: Volume 1, Allen & Unwin 2009 'The way this book works: In this book I have tried to tell the stories of a number of Australians from the Pleistocene Age to 1860. The people whose tales are told here exemplify the major aspects and dynamisms of the Australian story. For each one I chose to write about, I could have chosen a dozen, a hundred, or in some cases, thousands more. This history therefore sets out to characterise Austraiia, and above all, individual Australians, in a manner that gives insight into the most significant aspects of the periods I deal with without exhaustively and thus cursorily engaging with every major actor. . . . 'back
Khinchin, A I, Mathematical Foundations of Information Theory (translated by P A Silvermann and M D Friedman), Dover 1957 Jacket: 'The first comprehensive introduction to information theory, this book places the work begun by Shannon and continued by McMillan, Feinstein and Khinchin on a rigorous mathematical basis. For the first time, mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, cyberneticists and communications engineers are offered a lucid, comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing field.' 
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Kolmogorov, A N , and Nathan Morrison (Translator) (With an added bibliography by A T Bharucha-Reid), Foundations of the Theory of Probability, Chelsea 1956 Preface: 'The purpose of this monograph is to give an axiomatic foundation for the theory of probability. ... This task would have been a rather hopeless one before the introduction of Lebesgue's theories of measure and integration. However, after Lebesgue's publication of his investigations, the analogies between measure of a set and mathematical expectation of a random variable became apparent. These analogies allowed of further extensions; thus, for example, various properties of independent random variables were seen to be incomplete analogy with the corresponding properties of orthogonal functions ... ' 
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Nin, Anais, and Gunther Stuhlmann (Editor and Introduction), The Diary of Anais Nin: Volume I 1931-1934, Harvest Books 1969 Amazon customer review: '... It was only after submerging myself in the history of this volume that I came to realize this: the linear history of this diary does not really matter; the accusations that Anais Nin lied about her life are immaterial. Anais Nin had a beautiful way with words and she was a master of crafting an image, of creating a persona. She was not truly the person she portrays in this volume, which she edited with Gunther Stuhlmann. But this is a beautiful and unique piece of literature that paved the way for many future artists, particularly female writers (Alice Walker has praised her work as profoundly liberating, and I can't help but think Maya Angelou took a cue from Anais Nin's concept of the continuous autobiographical novel). I have come to believe that it is not the possibility that she lied about her life that has upset so many people (some of whom refer to this as a "liary"), but that a woman should have such control over her own portrayal all the while defying so many of society's conventions. Anais Nin may not have truly been the woman she portrays in this or future volumes, but it is the woman she wanted to believe she was - wanted the world to believe she was. I find that quite revealing, as revealing as any diary should be.' Andrew Parodi 
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Links
Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological hypothesis proposing that the biosphere and the physical components of the Earth (atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere) are closely integrated to form a complex interacting system that maintains the climatic and biogeochemical conditions on Earth in a preferred homeostasis. Originally proposed by James Lovelock as the earth feedback hypothesis, it was named the Gaia Hypothesis after the Greek supreme goddess of Earth. The hypothesis is frequently described as viewing the Earth as a single organism.' back
J D Bernal The World, The Flesh & the Devil An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul back

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