VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 17 January 2010 - Saturday 23 January 2010]
[Notebook: DB 68 Salalah
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Sunday 17 January 2010
The interface is of a lower dimension that the nodes, but nodes and interfaces are superposed, one observation's node being another observation's interface.
My current phase space, memory space, process space is the transfinite network. Although we are inclined to think of transfinite as a very large number, this is not essential to the definition of the relationship between two transfinite numbers, which is that either they are identities or one is greater than the other. So 1 is transfinite with respect to 0, and so
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on, the method by which we build up the cardinal (and consequent ordinal) numbers by using the block known as the empty set, a very handy formal construct with well defined properties. So the whole transfinite process may go on locally with a very minimal cast of actors, starting from 0, NOP, the identity operator which copies a state at clock cycle n into the same state at n + 1. We can implement a clock with a NOT gate.
So we apply the transfinite computer network to the holographic Universe, giving a model that includes us.
We create complex structures by assembling small ones. Ultimately an aeroplane is a carefully arranged set of atoms that performs a valuable transport function.
A meditation on the holographic Universe.
The last century or so has seen the emergence of scientific understanding of entropic forces and the consequent dynamics of entropy and information. The transfinite computer network is a phase space for information dynamics, a countable set of distinct Turing machines able to communicate with one another, copying new information into themselves (taking advantage of available internal entropy, fixing some entropy) and thus increasing the overall complexity of the Universe.
A water molecules is not just three atoms, it also embraces the full suite of interatomic communication.
We must ultimately arrive at a formalism where all
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forces are represented by entropic forces, that is by democratic (equipartition) counts. The equipartition theorem applied to humans suggests that we engineer a cash flow from the rich to the poor (completing the circuit of flow of value from the (relatively) poor to the rich).
Natural selection : memory management. One needs a lot of memory to be complex.
The transfinite computer network shows how a theory somewhat worked out with gravitation and quantum field theory can be understood and applied at all levels of complexity even beyond solid state physics.
No-control evolves into control because controlled systems are persistent and occupy more space-time than uncontrolled one which are ephemeral. If the world started with complexity there must be such a system which can maintain itself in existence by having the energy to copy itself through time.
PERSISTENCE = REPRODUCTION = CLOSURE --> CONTROL.
Although the appearance of a human being de novo out of a body of clay is highly improbable, the theory of evolution breaks it down into a huge number of possible steps, the high probability ones of which are those selected for their reproductive power.
4-space is large enough to handle all embodied hardware processes, the actual physical interactions which are mapped to a logical process in the mind of the programmer.
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The integrity of society requires a certain minimum of veracity in our communications with one another. We spend our lives exchanging information within ourselves, between ourselves, and with our environment.
Some of our communication is gossip, interesting details which are nevertheless too unreliable to be made a foundation for action. Other parts of it are meant to incite immediate action, like run, the wall is going to fall on you. The difference in these two situations is contained not so much in the language as in the social system in which the language is being used, which enables one to attach various truth values to the language we hear and understand. At the head of this pyramid of social epistemology we are historically accustomed to find theology and religion.
We argue that since the world is one, the existence of contradictory theological views show that there are errors in current theology, without identifying exactly where the errors are. It is an existence proof based on the textual and verbal output of various theologians. Such situations are common in human affairs and it often required careful study to identify where the errors lie, a task fraught with political and sectarian overtones.
We reject the distinction between material and spiritual beings and say instead that all we require to call something a being is that it communicates with us in some way, and the so called spiritual beings are, on the whole, very quiet.
EXISTENCE = COMMUNICATION
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Monday 18 January 2010
You have to pay for your sins, that is errors, something tht happens to me every few days - I cut something too short and have to make another one, thus losing time and material.
Communication always involves measurement: is this voltage a 1 or a 0?
Tuesday 19 January 2010
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Making God invisible is a form of censorship
Does God laugh: an essay on paradox.
Wednesday 20 January 2010
DUALITY omnino simplex vs omnino complex, point vs space, dynamics vs kinematicsThursday 21 January 2010
Mathematics often finds its proofs in the infinite and then extrapolates back to the finite, as with the transfinite numbers and calculus. The fact that something works in the infinite guarantees, in effect, that it will work in the finite.
Greene A Sort of Life page 202 'A writer's knowledge of
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himself, realistic and unromantic, is like a store of energy on which he must draw for a lifetime: one volt, properly directed, will bring a character alive.' Greene
New Matilda: God, The Churches and Censorship New Matilda
Democracy and massive parallelism
Your gorgeousness to me is a fundamental support of my theological ansatz: the Universe is divine
'Such an anomaly is not found in the lower mantle profile of seismically observed bulk modulus, possibly because it is within the uncertainty of global seismic data.' Science 327:152 Hirose
ie no detectable signal.
Valuing Common Species Gaston
Bonding and appreciation: if one is not sufficiently appreciated, one is motivated to break the bond.
Error control: 'Although outpopulated and preyed upon by by abundant and ubiquitous viruses, microbes routinely survive, persist and occasionally thrive in hostile and competitive environments ' Horvath
[page 165] Making and breaking bonds: creation and annihilation, in and out of love.
Money is a public network - to US Senate Inquiry An essay on the divinity of money
The fundamental rhythm of survival: falling in and out of love, interacting and separating. It is the experience from which we can extrapolate to all the processes in the Universe.
