VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 28 march 2010 - Saturday 3 April 2010]
[Notebook: DB 68: Salalah]
Sunday 28 march 2010
Monday 29 March 2010
[page 294]
Tuesday 30 March 2010
I am part of the universal process, whatever
[page 295]
that is, and we can learn a bit about the process as it becomes conscious in ourselves.
Human rights and human symmetries: a mathematical model of peerhood.
Cantor [made] a very bold claim when he presented his transfinite cardinal and ordinal numbers to the world. He wrote: 'The concept of "ordinal type" developed here, when it is transferred in like manner to "multiply ordered aggregates", embraces, in conjunction with the concept of "cardinal number" or "power" introduced in §1, everything capable of being numbered (Anzahlmassige that is thinkable and in this sense cannot be further generalized. It contains nothing arbitrary, but is the natural extension of the concept of number.' [page 117] Cantor
What does this mean?
What do we mean by numbering? : establishing a one to one correspondence between certain formal symbols and certain distinct elements of the world, like counting sheep. To be numbered is to be distinct and addressable. Every model inj mathematical physics is built in a space sometimes call the phase space of the model. Both relativity and quantum mechanics are worked out in vector and tensor spaces: Banach spaces. Banach space - Wikipedia
The power of computation lies in the ability to address and change the state of elements of memory. . . .
[page 296]
The philosophy paper. Philosophy is communication between philosophers and we begin this work by assuming that we lose no generality by requiring that this be conducted in writing, that is made available in publicly accessible memory, published.
We wish to explain explicitly how Cantor's model fits the world by introducing computation to make it dynamic.
How do we differentiate a binary digit, a two point graph whose range and domain are 0 and 1, {0, 1}?
What is the role of formal structure in the world? We see this when we make the world dynamic and find, nevertheless, certain invsriants (algorithms) in the dynamics. Algorithms are the fixed points of the Universe and vice versa, the fixed points of the Universe are algorithms, beginning with addition.
Logical space ⊃ Banach space.
Every point in logical space is a leaf on the transfinite tree defined by the path from root to leaf.
Who are the philosophers? Those who seek a consistent and useful formal model of the world we live in.
All conflicts are ended by 'going meta', ie creating something new. The mathematics of treaty design. We want formal structure in our relationship which is better than no formal structure.
[page 297]
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Philosophy might be considered the highest of the ivory tower sciences, remaining aloof from practical matters, To the contrary, we have the practical impact of nazism, communism and capitalism to see that philosophy is a critical input into human health at the individual, social and all other levels.
Every new beginning is speculative simply because the practical experience is not there to judge the new structure.
Thursday 1 April 2010
Heisenberg on Bohr: 'He spoke softly and with some hesitation, but behind every carefully chosen word onecould discern a long chain of thought which evntually faded somewhere in the background into a philosophical viewpoint which fascinated me. [van der Waerden page 21. van der Waerden
Friday 2 April 2010
Robustness in biochemical networks Shinar and Feinberg S327:1389 Shinar & Feinberg
Real = fully computed down to the quantum of action - this does not caputre it - no gaps in the history - GROUNDED - not a castle in the air
Saturday 3 April 2010
Suicide again. Birth and death are the termini of all life except perhaps the Universe as a whole.
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If one observes Aquinas model of God independently of the academic milieu in which it was developed one can see that it is isomorphic to the empty set that Einstein's model of the Universe predicts to exist at the beginning of the current phase of cosmic expansion.
This is the first observation in this series. The first term. Series divide into convergent, divergent and neutral.
How do we understand the relationship between formalism, and reality? Fixed points, which are part of the dynamics even though they are stationary.
Initial singularity / duality / transfinity
SYMMETRY = NO CAUSE = NO FORCE [= EQUIPROBABLE]
It seems to me that NN's death, like NN1's, can be attributed to the dogma of the Catholic Church which imprisons the faithful in a space of contradiction whose only exit is death. My greatest achievement, and one which I want to propagagate, was to reconstruct my personal integrity from the fragments left of newborn blasted with Catholic errors.
The philosophy paper is to be a full exposition of the divine Universe hypothesis as it exists to date.
Anna Karenin: a network of people in action. Tolstoy
Although we might like to separate philosophy and theology, the following script, written with Aristotle in mind,
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might suggest otherwise, He was in a way the last philosopher in the western tradition to see the world as a unit; Platonic ideas then came to develop in the Christian tradition, dividing God from the world, form from matter, spirit from body and establishing a divide that remained ascendant until Descartes began to question the coupling of mind and matter.
Being something of a bottom feeder, I have not noticed the layers of power above me very much but now with the help of Stiglitz and much other data on recent wars and crises and threats, I am beginning to see that the world could be better managed if the powers that be managed the world for the benefit of all rather than their own benefit. Stiglitz People become selfish naturally if they see that cooperation does not pay, due to some feature of the prevailing social structure that rewards self-sufficiency more than cooperation. This feature may lead to a downward spiral of ever decreasing cooperation which might [eventually] have us all acting as lone individuals. Unfortunately the productivity of such a system is so low that we would be forced back to hunter-gatherer levels of population, Cooperative activity brings economics of scale [and diversity] and increases in productivity that enable some of us to live as we do with adequate food, shelter, health care and companionship. Where cooperation breaks down, we find civil war, starvation, homelessness and loneliness.
'We shall understand all that in the next world' Tolstoy chapter 25 page 106.
Why do people kill themselves. Apoptosis. I can no longer fir in so I want to get out. Tautology -- the dead are dead
[page 299] not-being like the unborn. Some people who do not fit are executed by society; some execute themselves; most just muddle through.
One must go into production before the product is perfect to raise the funds to perfect the product.
