VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 4 July 2010 - Saturday 10 July 2010]
[Notebook: DB 69 Creation]
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Sunday 4 July 2010
Rossano: Supernatural Selection. Rossano
page 2: 'Religion is about relationships. In other words religion is a way that humans relate to one another and to the world around them,. . . . Religion made us human.' [makes?]
page 11: 'At a certain point in our evolutionary [history] humans added a supernatural layer to their social world.'
From a human ('natural') point of view, social relationships are a supernatural layer, using humans as the alphabet to construct a superhuman structure, eg Australia, the Socceroos, etc. Football Federation Australia
Rossano page 29: Henry James: '"Religion in the broadest and most general terms possible [,] . . . consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."'
page 38: 'Imagine a group of our ancestors on the African savannah or in a jungle clearing in Java Island. No statuses or crucifixes, of course, but they aren't necessary. Everything is supernatural. The trees, the clouds, the wind, the rising and setting sun, the baby's breath on your naked skin -- to our ancestors they were all reminders of the supernatural. Once the hominin mind was capable of envisioning the supernatural, everything in nature was subsumed within it.
How do we know this> While we might see the divinity of the world as objectively true (when contrasted with the non-divinity of
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the world) could these people have had a conscious idea of the supernatural before the ancient Greeks created a gulf between the heavens and the earth which lasted 2000 years until Newton's time. Certainly, these people would have (through long practise) accepted the realities of their lives as they became conscious of the,m (and began top talk about the pain of childbirth, for example). The natural environment (which includes our conspecifics) is our judge, whether we survive to reproduce or die out.
Rossano page 46: 'A number of recent studies suggest that the usual theoretical suspects [kin selection, reciprocal altruism and indirect reciprocity] may not fully explain human cooperation [it is the product of many levels of 'locality']. What these studies demonstrate is that under some circumstances people's cooperative tendencies appear to arise from an internalised need to follow group norms.
Group norm <--> extremal action. Group selection <--> 'best' action (fitness wise).
Book proposal: Church Wars. War is founded in irreconcilable and unavoidable differences. An irretrievable breakdown of marriage is easily dealt with by a separation which allow the irreconcilable to avoid one another. If avoidance is impossible, conflict enters, and if the conflict becomes sufficiently intense it can only be resolved by one irreconcilable murdering another.
Notes01/notesM10D21.html 'It is time for the human Universe to enter an inflationary phase of spatial flattening.' notes > 21 October 2001.
Küng Justification page 9 '[Luther's] Reform theology is rooted in the very core of his personality -- in his personal experience of divine justification. . . . Without exaggeration we can say, then, that it is the theology of justification which lies at the root of
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the great and still continuing theological battle over the true form of Christianity at the root of the greatest catastrophe that has befallen the Catholic Church in her two-thousand-year history.' Hans Küng
We only need 'justification' because of the Fall, and since there was no Fall, all this talk tells us nothing about reality, only something about the minds of the talkers.
Justification; the article by which the Church stands or falls. [Article XI] Anglican Church League
Küng, page 10: 'What is important for Barth in justification is the passage of man from a state of reprobation to a state of election, from death to life.'
A metaphysical / theological version of natural selection which the likes of Dawkins attributes to faith (genetics) alone. Dawkins
Barth IV/1, 571 f: 'Faith lives by the certainty and actuality of the reconciliation of the world with God accomplished in Jesus Christ.' Barth The T & T Clark Blog:
No need of reconciliation, or Jesus, since the Fall is entirely an invention of the Church to bolster its own power by disempowering us. There is really nothing more to be said about justification except to note the huge kerfuffle and deadly wars that resulted from the Reformation a cautionary tale about the conflict that arises when a question is so poorly posed that the only way to answer it is violence and murder. Nevertheless nature theology has an explanation for this foolishness in the doctrine of variation and selection.
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Küng page 13: 'Barth takes up the three great works of God which include in themselves all others and ultimately represent the different moments of the great work [process] of God -- creation reconciliation, redemption'. In the natural God these things are happening all the time at all scales.
page 14: ' Barth considers creation the external reason for the covenant and the covenant the inner reason for creation. The propose and, therefore, the meaning of creation is the making possible of a history in which God will join with man in a covenant -- and one which has its beginning, middle and end in Jesus Christ (III/1, 94-329)'
A very comforting and completely anthropomorphic fiction which totally misses the bigger picture revealed by science.
The core problem is a cult of personality. Christianity treats Jesus as special, but we are all divine humans just like him, although he has been dressed in ancient mythology to found a power structure which has profited immensely through its notion that we are sinful and need redemption. Sin after all is just error caused by inconsistency between the various elements of the world resulting from the finite nature of the resources of life, be they hydrogen atoms or reproductive opportunities.
The Church disempowers all of us in a similar manner to the traditional disempowerment of women that we see in a large proportion of men. The Church itself a male organization, is very explicit about the inferiority of women (Pope on women priests). John Paul II
Küng page 19: [Studying justification] 'We are dealing with the "rule of the living God who is free to love where He was wroth and to be wroth where He loved, to bring death to the living and life to the dead, to repent Himself and repent of his repenting" (Barth II/2, 187)'.
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How can we know this? Sounds just like the cantankerous Old Bastard of the Old Testament. Miles
Nevertheless, from a naive point of view, this is how a world driven by evolution looks to us. Whereas God's will is considered to be arbitrary because God is an invisible mystery, the natural god is open to us all and we can see, through a general theory of evolution, how things come to be the way they are, falsifying the Christian hypothesis that has consumed so much ink over the millennia.
Barth, Thomas the the rest of them struggle with the reconciliation of an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent god with human freedom. in fact, from a formal point of view (Cantor, Gödel, Turing, Shannon) such a God is contradictory and the actions of God are formally unpredictable at all scales. The best we (and god) can do is construct and act on probability distributions for various events, trying to force the probability of evil events to zero.
Looking for algorithms to exclude evil.
Küng page 19: 'This is how Barth regards the justification of men -- from the viewpoint of God's Eternity. The eternal original [?] commitment of God to men, the gracious election of Jesus Christ and in Him of all men,becomes operative in time. Through God's judgement and verdict on the cross and in the resurrection of Christ, in the rejection and election of the God-man, justification comes to the sinner. Around this central event the entire history of man revolves. All human history is the history of God's covenant with man.'
What crap; but it does suggest that the world is foolproof in that we
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go on living in a society moulded by this belief.
Küng page 26: 'The abysmal depth of our sacrilege and our wretchedness as well as the power of God's salvific will is revealed in this -- that for the sake of this fulfillment of the covenant through reconciling justification God himself became flesh.'
Wrong again. God has always been flesh: all information is represented physically. 'Man' and God have always been in harmony because humanity is part of divinity and they have evolved in communication with one another. The meaning of humanity derives from divinity not through some arbitrary covenant, but because humanity is part of divinity.
Küng page 37: 'The whole process of justification hinges on this, that the true God Himself appear on the scene so that in His fidelity to the covenant He may care for sinners.'
page 42: 'In Christ, sin is revealed in its fully developed pure and unambiguous form -- that is as hostility and opposition to God, as fratricide and self destruction.'
One detects error by comparing the erroneous message to the original, but there is no need for the emotive language. We all make mistakes without hostility to God. The Christian imputation of guilt and evil is in itself a serious evil = error.
Küng, page 43: 'Again in Jesus Christ sin is revealed as the truth of all human actions. Because Christ has entered into public association with sinners and has undertaken to plead their case before God, it is revealed that all men are sinners, and that no man can invoke a restrictive clause in connection with the reprehensibility of sin and permit himself to regard others as
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more or less sinful. The whole man, despite the indestructability of his nature is a sinner to the very core.'
Total rubbish. The divine Universe has judged me and all my ancestors as fit to live and reproduce and therefore effectively sinless, that is error free.
'Yet it is also true that there is no possibility for man to rise above his sin.' Wrong again. My whole life depends on the cybernetic cycle of detecting error and acting to correct it, so becoming effectively error free.
Küng, page 50: 'Man is totally a sinner from head to toe.'
Barth: 'We certainly cannot speak of any relic or core of goodness which persists in man in spite of his sin' (IV/1, 493)
I regularly thank god that I was a sufficiently disobedient, evil, energetic and arrogant child to escape from the Catholic field of lies.
Küng, page 51: 'So the whole history of the woprld -- while not removed from God's universal dominion -- is afflicted with disobedient' For which we should be thankful, lest our self appointed rulers should totally destroy us.
page 53: 'Man is, according to Barth, totally and radically unjust'
page 62: The justification of man is the judgement of God.' Natural selection (mollified by social security).
page 70; '. . . faith is the humility of obedience>'
We are stupid to be obedient to fools.
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Küng page 71: 'Faith as obedient humility denies the power and worth of any human actions done for the purposes of attaining justification.'
As long as the Church can convince us that we are helpless it is safe. The persistent and endemic injustices it has wrought on billions of people demonstrates the power of this approach but it is nevertheless and anti-human error designed to entrench imperial power. ['designed' by evolutionary forces]
Monday 5 July 2010
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Küng page 70: 'We learn through faith, and only through faith, that the justified man is not just a beautiful idea, an illusion or myth -- but a reality.'
At least this is the myth, that the myth is reality, a myth designed to secure the obedience (an enable the enslavement) of believers.
The only sins are those that do violence to self and others, and on this criterion the Church is among the greatest sinners. One wonders how long it will be before the deaths from AIDS in Africa resulting from the non-usase of safe sexual practices [mandated by the Church] will exceed the work of Hitler, Stalin and Mao.
The whole 'sola fide' [by faith alone] edifice is built on a few words (Like Mary's Virginity) which have been given an official interpretation by the Church that has little foundation in the text and none in realty. Luther's translation of Romans 3.28 'by faith alone is wrong.
Küng page 82: 'Faith really involves the creation of a new man, a new creation, and being born again. The just man, despite the simul peccator [simultaneously a sinner] is ontologically different from the sinner. This clear teaching of
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Barth should not be overlooked.'
The power of the faith comes not from its truth (which is very doubtful) but because it binds a community into a functioning economic, political and military unit that has the power to expand at the expense of its neighbours. Rossano is right on track here.
Küng page 83: 'The act of faith itself -- as a human act, does not produce a new being and thus is not of creator-like character.'
Of course it does. Every act is a new creation, and a person who agrees with the theory of relativity is different from one who doesn't. The differences proposed for Christianity are largely unobservable presuppositions.
page 86: Barth: 'The great importance of man's justification for God lies in the fact that in the justification of man God also and above all justified Himself.'
In reality God has no more need of justification than we do.
Küng page 89: 'We must not persist in our ancient and vicious tendency to always think first and foremost of ourselves.' Which is just the tendency of Christianity, which deludes itself with the belief that God did all this just for us.
page 90: [In the Catholic theory of justification] Barth sees the sovereign majesty of God's grace threatened.' Is his God so weak that a human opinion could bother it? The universality of divinity encompasses all ideas, all structures, provided only that they maintain consistency. [Human laws 'falsify' certain behaviour.]
page 91: 'Is faith not also trust' And has not the Church
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abused the trust of millions of people, teaching them falsehoods, inducing them to work for nothing, hiding sexual predators, forcing people to have unwanted children, denying them the use of simple sexual health items like condoms, and so on?
Of course we must distinguish Christianity from the Church, a distinction that the Reformers made clear. The aim of Küng's book is to show that at least on the question of Justification the Catholic Church is truly Christian, although we are bound to wonder how many of these ideas went through Jesus' mind in his lifetime.
Küng page 91: 'Do not all these [apparent deficiencies in Catholic theology] taken together still amount to the manipulating of God, the managing of race, the relativising of the majesty and sovereignty of God? Do we not find too in the Catholic theology of justification, an exclusive stress on an analogia entis which is not subordinate to the analogia fidei? And a simple juxtaposition of God and man, set beside each other on the same level, rather than an absolute subordinating of man as something beneath God and His grace? Is this not the crucial reason why the Reformers wanted to have nothing more to do with the Catholic Church? Is this not the reason why even today one cannot become Catholic?'
Of course, we must remember that the Catholic Church is a very successful business (or was) built on the exploitation of the intellectual property we call Christianity. To be successful it had to appeal to the masses with simple stories and promises of great benefits for those who bought the stories and contributed to the survival of the Church. The reformers were revolting more against this business plan and the distortions it introduced into doctrine than
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the core doctrine itself which is easily defined as the content of the Christian Bible, a simple and gripping tome with the wide appeal of a soap opera.
I really believed it, and my evidence for thius is the long period of shock or mourning [the followed when I found it was wrong].
Portrait: There is never much time, or more to the point, time is of the essence. I have a lot to say before I go.
There is money to be made out of war. Some say that this is the cause of war, but it goes deeper than that. Nevertheless, there is money to be made out of war, and four generations of my family have done it,. The show is almost over, however, so I can reveal a few trade secrets without fear of losing business. . . .
The fundamental insight in the arms trade is that war and religion are identical twins, almost the same but different.
The old prophets used to come out and say that they thought, but we have only a few historical clues to the thoughts that led to these words. (Of course, the Church cliams that their words were inspired by God, which we can readily accept given our understanding of God and the Noosphere.) Noosphere - WikipediaThe credibility of science, however, does not depend on its words, but how tit arrived at those words, its method. These notes record the method by which I arrived at ideas expressed more formally elsewhere.
The Universe is locally Turing. This is the formal definition of local.
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That yes when the food is cooked or the bal goes into the goal.
Küng page 95: 'It took over four hundred year for the two sides [Reformers and Catholics] to spell out clearly their differences. But today serious theologians in both camps so that the task of unity will not be made easier by antitheses of that sort.'
From a cosmological and natural theological viewpoint, a gigantic storm in a teacup. [nothing compared to the upset of natural religion, which abandons Christianity altogether, except as an example of what can happen]
Küng page 97; 'The Church maintains that the preaching of the Apostles contains in itself the entire Christian revelation and that for the Church there were no new revelations afterwards (Denzinger 2021). Denzinger
Vatican I allowed for 'development of dogma in the sense of explication . . . is possible and really takes pl;ace.'
Humani Generis 'Besides each source of divinely revealed doctrine contains so many rich treasures of truth that they can really never be exhausted. Hence it is that theology through study of its sacred sources remains ever fresh; on the other had speculation which neglects deeper search into the deposit of faith proves sterile, as we know from experience.' Pius XII: § 21 Nevertheless "the deposit of faith" is of measure 0 in the space of information available from the divine Universe!.
NOOSPHERE = TRANSFINITE COMPUTER NETWORK.
Our one article of faith is quantum mechanics, which, fully explicated, is the world of experience.
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Küng page 98: 'Dogmatic definitions express the truth infallibly and precisely . . . and thus irrevocably.' Therefore there are no infallible definitions (except perhaps quantum mechanical). All else changes so an infallible statement (such as I am writing this) is only temporarily true.
page 98: Aquinas quoting Isidore: 'An article (of faith) is a perception of divine truth which tends towards that truth (ST II II 1 6)' like the theory of evolution or quantum mechanics or relativity. Aquinas 1209
page 98: 'The embodiment of revealed truth in a new form of thought and utterance fashioned by the Church does not come about primarily through human theoloigcal brainwoek, but rather -- in consequence of the Incarnation -- through the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ working in the Church.'
How do you know this? Makes sense of we are all divine, ie symmetrical with Jesus.
Like most absolute monarchies, the Vatican hides a life of crime beneath a veneer of respectability. Power corrupts because it suppresses error correction and detection processes, killing the messenger [rather than listening and acting].
Wednesday 7 July 2010
Küng page 98: 'In the development of dogma we see an embattled confrontation of the Church of Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit with the spirit of the world.'
This is necezsary because the dogma is arbitrary ('Virgin Birth') with no foundation in reality, only in the business plan of the Church as
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a corporation ('mystical body'). Mariology of the popes - Wikipedia Pius XII
I believe in God, the parent almighty, source of heaven and earth . . .
We might see the Catholic creeds as true (and the subsequent definitions of Councils) in the same sense as a novel is true, capturing elements of the human condition embodies in a set of characters and personalities chosen by the author to make a point. Golding, Lord of the Flies Golding
The heart of my thesis is the mapping of space-=time manifolds and Hilbert spaces to the transfinite computer network.
We see the structure of an atom as layered, like an onion, each layer containing more calculations per period, where the number of computations is measured by the angular momentum of the state, beginning with the ground state where nothing is happening (angular momentum 0).
We convert angular momentum to linear momentum by 'flattening' space, taking the curvature out of the orbit. [has this got something to do with Mach's principle? Mach's principle - Wikipedia]
Thursday 8 July 2010
Küng page 106: 'Only in [Sacred Scripture] do we possess the outright and unedited testimony of God Himself, and in its original idiom and its primal source.'
Truly the word of God (as these words are) but a mere million words in a Universe whose bandwidth is of the order of 10100 Hz!
The work of theologians is to interpret the Scripture, in other words
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to construct a reference frame to give it meaning. The Catholic frame of reference, with its alien God etc, is wrong. Instead of being the unique and special word of God, the scripture is one word among many.
Einstein on the interpretation of Scripture. [general covariance General covariance - Wikipedia]
Inside the Universe vs outside the Universe :: inside God vs outside God.
. . .
On the definition of human space, which is isomorphic to divinity.
divinity = {theology, reality}
Küng page 108: Gregory IX Bull to Sorbonne University of Paris - Wikipedia
page 108: 'Sacred scripture can be read rightly only within the Church, Sacred scripture and the Church belong together.'
Certainly, and the whole system can be read within the Universe, where we see it as just another organism struggling to survive. Whether is is 'true' or 'false' is irrelevant in the sense that the real problem is survival and survival by deception is just as valid as survival by honesty (I am food, eat me). Deceit and secrecy are part of the deal, and a predator wishing to consume the Church must use similar practices based on a careful evaluation of the Church's weaknesses. Since much depends on reputation, however, the predator must not be seen to be evil if it is to succeed.
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Küng page 111: '4. Official ecclesiastical documents in particular offer an extremely valuable aid (since they are not subject to discussion) to the Catholic theological who is examining the tradition of the Church,'
How can the Church evolve if its structure is not subject to discussion. In real evolution we see structures being continually modified to perform new and useful task (swim bladder to lungs etc)?
Infallibility only makes sense in eternity, since we can only represent a changing world by a changing text (a movie rather than a book). This goes back to Parmenides obsession with stasis, which applies to all who wish to write a static text once for all time. Parmenides - Wikipedia
And so on [Küng] Back to Rossano
Rossano page 84: ritual = sequence of actions: effective, eg digging a hole; communicative, ie miming hole digging.
RITUAL = COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL
A cosmic view of pornography: Tantra. LLL Media Group, Inc
I only do what I am pleased to do and then look back to see of any essential protocols remain unexecuted by this hedonistic approach to life. It seems to work quite well. There are even moments when the dishes seem to be the desirable thing to do. Moral force does not come into it.
The Church is an instrument of moral force designed to maintain certain social structures intact.
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Rossano page 116 '. . . these [quoted] studies and others suggest that Piaget was probably right to assert that children are inherently biassed toward thinking of the natural world as purposely designed in the same way that human made artefacts are.' ie by trial and error, variation and selection. 'In fact so pervasive is this tendency that Kelemen claims that children are "intuitive theists"'.
More likely 'intuitive cyberneticians' knowing that stability (like riding a bike) requires control, that is knowledge and action. Cybernetics - Wikipedia
A History
Some of the oldest questions in philosophy concern the nature of motion. As far as we know, Parmenides started the ball rolling when a Goddess told him that true reality was full and eternal, the moving world less than fully real. John Palmer - Parmenides Plato searched for fixed points in a world of political turmoil. He decided that the fixed points lay outside the turmoil in a world of forms. Richard Kraut - Plato Aristotle brought some of the forms down to earth by embedding them in matter which has no form of its own. Change became change of form in the same matter as the smith converted a sword into a ploughshare (which has been worse for the world?) More abstractly, Aristotle saw motion as the actualization of a possibility. Using the axiom that not potential can bring itself to actuality, Aristotle was led to the Unmoved Mover that evolved into the current Western model of God who stands above out Head of State guaranteeing order in a world of change. Christopher Shields
Science branched off from the mainstream of thought in the time of Galileo [1564 - 1642]. Peter MacHamer
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Until this time, philosophers had been inclined to take ancient writings as Gospel truth and ignore the world around the, Galileo said, why not read the book of nature? The study of motion became empirical and it was not long before Newton was able to express a whole new picture of the world in a few simple laws of motion. George Smith This triumph has coloured our view of motion ever since: everywhere we see massive points impelled by external forces, nothing that Aristotle and Euclid could not understand. Euclid - Wikipedia Philosophical difficulties reentered the picture with the advent of quantum mechanics Particles no longer followed paths in space and time determined by external forces, like the planets. Instead particle appear and disappear at different points in spacetime, creating the illusion of movement. Jenann Ismael These appearances and disappearances cannot be predicted, as the motion of a planet can be, but they do obey certain laws and correlations which are explained by quantum field theory. Meinard Kuhlmann Quantum field theory has had some astounding successes, but its theoretical foundations are quite messy and complicated, rather unlike the physicists' dream of a simple theory of everything which patently fits the data. [Freezing, but sun is up 8.20]
As I see it, the root of the problem lies in the ancient observation that motion appears to be continuous., which has led to the development of a vast body of continuous mathematics inspired by the demands of physics. This development reached its apogee in the classical domain with Einstein's general theory of relativity. General relativity - Wikipedia Quantum field theory is a network of continuous functions devised to model the nature and probability of observed events. Unfortunately the logic of this system often leads to division by zero and the consequent prediction of infinite probabilities which seem to be meaningless. Ways have nee found around these and other problems, but the difficulties of the continuous approach suggest that we look to discrete mathematics for answers. Continuous function - Wikipedia , Discrete mathematics - Wikipedia
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Discretness as a mater of fact . . . Field and action at a distance . . . Logical continuity ...
Communication, creation and control. Theology: creation and control.
My imaginary wife. Not a sex-wife but a life-wife.
My best work seems to be done under the influence of morning sun, coffee and marihuana.
Meanwhile theology, the traditional theory of everything, has languished, left out of the scientific revolution. First because science is about the observed world and we have assumed that the World is not God. Second because a giant internal fight broke out within Christianity that still blinds it to the scientific developments in the world around it. Ecumenism: Catholics and Reformers have as little chance of perfect union as quantum mechanics and relativity on the present model of the world.
In the face of limited resources as extreme effort is sometime required, that is the devotion of all available resources to a sine qua non
The scientific revolution failed to take theology with it and what was once the pinnacle of science and the reason for universities became a very poor relation whose only reliable source of data remains ancient texts.
Brouwer allows us to turn Parmenides around, seeing the dynamics as primary and the forms, that is the fixed points, as fixed points in the motions. We measure the entropy of
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a dynamic system by the entropy of the corresponding space of fixed points.
General covariance in the transfinite computer network.
Le Carre Russia: Why do the secret services act as they do? Because they can? Are they necessary? Yes, if they correct errors; no if the propagate them. But does error correction require secrecy? Le Carre
ERROR = FAILED COMMUNICATION (formally, as the ancioents realized, a non-being, although embedded in being): a gap.
GAP <==> ORTHOGONAL (relatively secret - West knows nothing of South).
Le Carre page 283: 'Yet it was this very mystery of good hearts turned inside out that gave our week its underlying terror.'
We might suspect that no layer is stable of it maltreats its alphabet, uses chisels and screwdrivers and people as cannon fodder. David H Petraeus & James F Amos
Le Carre page 283: 'Years ago I talked to a man who had been flogged, an English mercenary who was doing us a few favours in Africa amnd mneeded paying off. What he remembered most was not the lash but the orange juice they gave him afterwards. He remembers being helped to his hut, he remembers being laid face down on the straw. But what he really remembers is the glass of fresh orange juice that a warder set at his head, then crouched beside him, waiting patiently, till he was strong enough to drink some. Yet it was this same warder who had flogged him.'
Christian charity meets divinely ordained judicial punishment. As
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Jesus did. But punishment, while necessary to contain cheaters, need not involve physical punishment. Confiscation of ill gotten gains might do, coupled with restitution (ie error correction [where possible]).
Le Carre page 284: "But that, I suppose, is the tragedy of great nations. So much talent bursting to be used, so much goodness longing to come out. Yet all so miserably spoken for, that sometimes we could scarcely believe it was America speaking to us at all.'
How do motion and stillness coexist? Brouwer. The purpose of this essay is to make this statement a little more concrete.
Motivation: seeing the pleasure to come. heaven is the biggest possible motivation of all. Thomas I II. Aquinas prima secundae of the Summa Theologiae
Le Carre, page 300: 'How do you peddle the arms race when the only asshole you have to race against is yourself? Bluebird is life threatening intelligence. A lot of highly-paid favourite sons are in serious danger of having their ricebowls broken, all on account of Bluebird. If you want truth, that's it.'
page 303: 'God bless the corporation and bugger the individual.'
Cohen: Continuous and discrete are orthogonal so Cantor can say nothing about the continuum. Cohen
The continuum is an abstraction (a symmetry) which applies when there is no signal present,, the whte paper background upon which we write by introducing discontinuities.
A novel is like a Feynman diagram, a set of local events
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driven by outside events and ultimately sending its conclusions back to the outside.
This story is woven from four threads, each beginning as an isolated point. In order of historical appearance, they are the god described by Aquinas (1270), the inertial frame of special relativity (1905), the initial singularity predicted by general relativity (1916), the isolated system of quantum mechanics (1927). A few words about each.
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Nichols Pope's Divisions Nichols
Nichols page 18: 'Catholicism produces more apologists than do other great religions.' Because it is so far from the truth?
Just as the ratios of energies determines the populations in statistical mechanics, ratio of 'desirability' determine populations in various modes of human behaviour, the desire to eat when hungry is related to the population of eaters. Statistical mechanics - Wikipedia
5 starting points [isolated systems] add Turing machine [God, inertial frame, initial singularity, isolated quantum system, Turing machine] These are all representations of the vacuum, the unstructured forerunner of the structured Universe.
Catholicism needs to be transfigured, ie to cease being an empty shell manipulated by an alien God and take on a life of its own, shining by the energy of the people who build it.
Royal Society: 'Accept nothing on authority. [Nullius in verba] ' Science 328:1611 Rees, Royal Society - Wikipedia
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The Secretary, International Synod of bishops. 'Primus inter pares' makes no sense. Holy See Press Office
Dear Secretary,
The time has come to do something about the evils which are being revealed as taking place within the Catholic Church. It has been argues that these failings are a matter of individual sinfulness, but I believe this position to be false. The Catholic Church, in my view, is corrupt to the very roots of its theological dogma. . . .
The error lies in a misunderstanding of the nature of God. Refute Lonergan. Catholicism has abandoned reality.
General relativity: one cannot see curvature without communication, ie the connections in covariant differentiation.
Layers n, n+1 are related as statics to dynamics, the elements of n being stationary points (an alphabet) in layer n+1. [as you can see in this test]
Gravitation is a form of voting that is blind to the status of the voters.
Nichols page 130: 'The Vatican has no business seeking the best of both worlds, arousing mass enthusiasm, yet remaining secretive.'
Friday 9 July 2010
Saturday 10 July 2010
