VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 11 July 2010 - Saturday 17 July 2010]
[Notebook: DB 69 Creation]
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Sunday 11 July 2010
Layer n+1 must provide 'social security' for layer n if it is to retain its physical embodiment and so survive itself.
US National Episcopal Conference United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
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Control: Capitalism (pure self interest) must be controlled by free speech, fair trade, democracy and knowledge of God.
The Roman Catholic Church is an efficient and invisible oppressor. A few words from the Pope turn safe sex into a sin.
Helder Camara: '. . . When people put national security above all other values, as their ultimate concern, this is terrible, because if national security takes preference over all other principles and rights, then anything is possible, under the pretext of serving national security.' Nichols page 342. Nichols
This is exactly what the Church does when we read national security as the doctrinal and administrative structure of the Church. From the Church point of view millions may die of AIDS to preserve the integrity of its weird unnatural ideas about human love and procreation. They maintain their weirdness by demanding that all there executives avoid practical reproductive experience.
At the fundamental level of space-time interval mass, energy and momentum are undifferentiated, but differentiated from action by time.
'Theology: creation and control' still not ready to be put to bed because new ideas are coming too fast to write down, which usually leads to a radical change of emphasis with consequent reorganization.
Music and religion: Sung Mass in New Orleans: 'The swaying and the brightness of the eyes revealed a genuine intensity of religious feeling. After the mass many of the parishioners went to eat lunch and drink beer together. The tension was enhanced by the behaviour of the white priest. His methods were charismatic. He saw Mass as
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"a freeing of the spirit". The mistake had been made, he said, of expecting all churches to follow Roman liturgy. "What we do is a Catholic Mass. For us the Eucharist is a diamond in the midst of a beautiful background of singing. Nichols page 344
US Catholic Press Association Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada
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Nichols page 348: '[A bishop] complained that there is no mechanism by which women's demands could be handled in public. "Rome does not understand the intensity and emotional depth of this problem. There certainly is a lunatic fringe, but in the middle are good women who suffer, and the bishops feel threatened by it.".'
Melville: Billy Budd Melville
NOT = complex exponential [not, not, not . . . is periodic]
. . . Space and time - the photon. The photon is the particle corresponding to the sensation we call light, or more generally, electromagnetic radiation. A photon has x important characteristics. First it travels through empty space at the speed log light, c. c is very fast, about 300 000 km per second, or seven times around the earth in a second. Second, photons cannot come to rest. They have no rest mass. Third, photons are created by light emitters and annihilated by light absorbers, called collectively sources. In general all sources of electromagnetic radiation are
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electrically charged particles changing their state of motion. Fourth, the photon stare is defined by two variables, energy and polarization.
As a youth Einstein imagined trying to keep up with a photon. About a decade later (19050 he produced the theory of special relativity. Special here meaning that it dealt with uniform (as opposed to accelerated) relative motion of two systems.
Unaccelerated motion is called inertial, so . . . special relativity is concerned with inertial motion. The fundamental axiom of special relativity us that the data collected by an observer who is at rest in an inertial frame of reference, observing other objects at rest, is the same for every observer. From this we see that every observer will see the same velocity of light, no matter what the velocity of their relative motions.
A simple geometrical argument based on this observation leads to the Lorentz transformation. The well known consequences of this transformation [are] that if i observe you going past me at a significant fraction ofthe velocity of lioght, your clocks will appear slow relative to mine, your rulers will be foreshortened in the direction of motion and your mass will appear greater. All these things appear to happen because the velocity of light is finite.
The mathematical apparatus of special relativity was greatly simplified by Minkowski, who saw that relative velocity had the effect of 'mixing' space and time, so that as time slows, length contracts, a fact that is represented by the Minkowski metric which measures the interval between events
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and remains constant regardless of the relative motions of the observe and observed. Using this metric, we arrive at a further property of photons. From the point of view of any observer a clock on a photon appears to be stopped and the photon has zero length. Given these facts, we might imagine that the photon exists in an eternal world of zero size, a fixed point.
One needs to imagine things (consciously or unconsciously) to make them become real.
Cultural difference Science 328:1627 Dan Jones Jones
Scott Miracle Cures Science 328:1636 Sternberg, Scott
Policy Forum: science and religion
The motivation for this promotion is that people are ready for new religion.
The fundamental error of those who would prove the existence of God is that they underestimate the world. Aquinas, Lonergan. Lonergan
Abstraction, symmetry, Hamming distance, knowledge.
Knowledge reduces the problem of dealing with the world through the concept of sameness.
Whatever I have has in a sense been thrust on me, since I was exposed to a contradiction at the root of my civilization. I must deal with it before I can rest.
Monday 12 July 2010
Tuesday 13 July 2010
America America Magazine
Logo: 'The Watching Wallaby'
Moral theology: looking for algorithms to exclude evil (error, contradiction) in the human layer.
CONTRADICTION <--> ANNIHILATION <==> CONSISTENCY <-=-> CREATION
'Virtually unconditioned' (Lonergan) = created
I am travelling through noospace at sometimes frightening speed and trying to keep this log up to date, a sequence of points (paragraphs) on my trajectory joined by invisible thought processes.
Become a Natural; be a natural. Spread the good news to everybody.
Wednesday 14 July 2010
It takes a very long time to overcome infantile indoctrination, but I am slowly beginning to see the world through different eyes. Heinlein Stranger Heinlein
Heinlein: '"My dear, religion is a null area in the law. A church can do anything any organization can do -- and has no restrictions. It pays no taxes, need publish no records and is effectively immune to search, inspection or control -- and a church
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is anything that calls itself a church. ... "' page 222.
Heinlein page 228: 'Don't you know that it is a sin to doubt the word of a Bishop? M/dear . . . '
What is the time constant of the human layer of the noosphere? A century is a short time in religion. Kung notes that it has taken 400 years for Catholics and Reformers to come to a clear understanding of their differences. It took a similar time for Christianity to since in, giving new meaning to more ancient ideas cooked up in Palestine and Greece.
Jesus shifted the emphasis of religion from law to love, taking it back to the days of Deuteronomy. 6:5 'You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart. with all your soul, with all your strength.' Survival requires patriotism Yahweh = Israel.
The root of real faith is faith in oneself, and this appears to be what Jesus (and many other revolutionaries and evolutionaries) had, and to be what the Catholic Church set out to destroy by its doctrine of the Fall, inherited from the Hebrews.
Heinlein page 284: 'Among Martians there is only one religion -- and it is not a faith, it is a certainty. You grok it "Thou art God"'.
'"You can't help five billion people." "I wonder"'
Thursday 15 July 2010
'"I'll give an explicit definition. "Love" is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to yur own."' page 333.
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Oneida page 334. Oneida Community - Wikipedia
Heinlein page 335: '". . . most tragedies they see around them are rooted in the code rather than failure to abide by it." . . . "The code says 'Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's widfe.' The result? Reluctant chastity adultery, jealousy, bitterness, blows and sometimes murder, broken bones amnd tweisted children -- and furtive little passes degrading to man and woman."'
page 342: '"The literary life -- Dreck! It consists in scratching the cat until it purrs."'
page 346: '"I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth -- then shut up."'
This makes sense if we allow that the test of 'truth' is fitness.
A New Definition of Truth.
The Christian gift of absolute truth is internally inconsistent in an evolving world. As with most of its other outputs, Christianity uses the notion of Truth to disempower and exploit its marks. An educated person would say that the marks are naive to believe such tripe, but the first rule of dictatorship is to keep the sheep ignorant, either by denial of communication or by feeding them only information favourable to the regime.
La Belle Heaulmiere The Gates of Hell - Wikipedia
The Cathoioic claim to truth is purely Darwinian: we survive grow and reproduce so we must be right.
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'God is kight: The foundations of physical theology.' Another article implict in Theology: creation and control. ,p> God is considered to be the invisible active substrate of all that we experience., which can thus be construed as revelation of God. Is this revelation complete? It is certainly more complete than the miniscule Bible.
Many almost indistinguishable hammer blows drive the nail, which is why these notes are so recursive.
Heinlein page 353: 'I grok all places are alike -- just people'
In the human layer.
page 355: 'its not miraculous, just complex.'
We start right at the ground floor with representation. Thomas Aquinas perfected a model of god which sounds (to modern ears) very quantum mechanical. We cannot see inside a quantum mechanical system. We cannot see inside God. All we see is what goes in and what goes out, just as with ourselves. You are not privy to my mind an, but if you spend enough time with me gathering data you will eventually form a theory of my mind that gives you a better chance of predicting my reaction to certain events better than a random guess. And that is what quantum mechanics does, Some sets of events in the Universe are equiprobable. Others are not. Quantum mechanics shows us a way of constructing a path from the equiprobability to structured probability. We attempt to understand the personality of God to predict the outcomes of our actions in
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general vis a vis not just other people but the whole world.
Heinlein page 356 '"You could have been the man from Mars, or me. Mike is like the first man to discover fire. Fire was there all along -- after he showed them, how, anybody could use it . . . anybody with sense enough not to get burned. . . . "'
Rossano page 104: 'In the current context, imagination is defined as the ability to create situational models unconstrained by the realities of the immediate present.' ie relies on memory, symmetry and analogy.
Imagination is handy for dealing with deception.
Rossano page 145: 'Religion also involved a doctrinal mode -- stories and teachings that define a tribe and its place in the Universe.'
page 148: 'By appealing to the supernatural [via ancestors], resource-holding elites cloaked their status in divine legitimacy . . . Ancestor cults enabled the construction of a conceptual framework for the supernatural, or, to put it another way, a coherent theological narrative [logical continuum] connecting the ancestors, the supernatural and the earthly realm. . . . The full flowering of the narrative element in religion provides the cultural myth that sustains the tribe against social disintegration and buffers individuals against the inevitable travails of life.'
MEANING is measured by INFORMATION; CONTEXT is measured by ENTROPY. They are equal and duals of the metric we call action so that meaning = context = card(action).
Every bit in the network has a logical and a physical address. The physical address is the space-time location of
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the physical particle being used to represent the bit (eg all the spins in a crystal pointing up) and the logical address, actual or implied, is the role of that bit in the representation of the overall logical process (sending an email, bit n is the xth bit in the yth word of the zth sentence of the message).
One little flash of love can drive me a long way.
I want to be a VLCC encapsulating a lot of energy [crude but effective?]
In position significant notation the base is represented by two symbols, 10. So in base 4 we count 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, . . .
A layered network is like position significant notation in the transfinite domain, each layer having n! states if the layer beneath has n! states.
The same string has different meaning in different contexts [but if it is long enough, it is likely to fit just one]
We can pull a Turing machine to pieces when it is not running, but we cannot see it running because it does not have the resources to run its program and talk to us at the same time. If we force it to talk to us it must halt its process while it talks, even if it just does one cycle of program and once of talk, which might be very inefficient [and even stop all progress if the window given to a process is not sufficient even to hat the last process and start the next]
Much human intellectual history is explained by the narcissism of a newly conscious being seeing itself as the centre of life. Physical cosmological principles have taught us that in terms of space and time we are pretty small beer in a pretty big Universe, but we are still inclined to believe that we are the smartest thing around, rather overlooking the intelligence of the Universe that made us.
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Reading the Book of Genesis 3000 years after it was written, a question occurs. Did God create the Universe inside or outside himself? The traditional answer is outside. The Universe on this view is not God. It may be as far from [God] as it is possible to be, as Aquinas' question on the simplicity of God seems to suggest. Aquinas 14
The whole Universe, including ourselves, is permeated by creative intelligence, but we might find this a bit hard to see because we have a wrong idea about creative intelligence. Some argue that the Universe was intelligently designed by the creator. We can agree with them on that. Where we disagree is while we see intelligent design st work in the processes of natural and technological evolution, many intelligent designers feel that God worked the whole thing out in his infinite mind and then created it just as we see it in a very short time. Intelligent design, as I see it, works by variation and selections. We started with the horseless carriage looking very much like a carriage and in the course of a century or so have evolved through hundreds of thousands of variations to the cars of today that have been selected by consumers [and government regulation] and so manufactured by the manufacturers.
At the bottom of it all is a God, however you look at it, an unexplained explanation. [variation and selection work because they work]
Friday 16 July 2010
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Peers speak the same language.
Lonergan's 'proportionate being'. We understand being to mean communicating and proportionate beings peers, that is ones that can communicate with one another. Lonergan understands that people can understand other beings (people) that speak the same language. The language at any level includes the languages below it as messages pass from point to point through the physical layer (from leaf to leaf through the root). So although we may speak different verbal languages, we all share the body languages of sensation, sensuality, sexuality and violence.
Currie [page 91]:Parliamentary: 'An affair with a colleague, if indeed she were planning an affair at all, might be better, safer and mnore exciting than an affair with almost anybody else. If she could be cool and self-controlled about it the question demanded her consideration.' Currie
The space of affairs has a protocol, as does the space of marriage and all the other subroutines of human existence.
Texts are likke genes. Their survival in a deteriorating medium requires that they motiocate people to copy them and so disseminate them through space and time. The Bible and the Koran are both very successful texts promulgates by selection for reproduction (an expensive task in pre-printing days).
The Reformers took Christianity back to the Bible. the Naturals want to take religion back to the whole world.
Yahweh your God; the Universe your God.
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The Church is in practise Manichean in its attitude to matters material, including capitalism, sex and
In the end (which needs to be soon) all this has got to become a marketable product which editors will pick up and publishers give shelf space to. It must therefore become relevant to current problems and offer superior solutions. The core task is getting the story right, creating a logical continuum (a network) which is a satisfactory fit to human experience, feeling and expectation. The cenobitic tradition of al contemplation and no publication is not 'fair trade' in the sense that the cenobite's benefactors may not be getting full value for their money. I am being supported by taxpayers and want to pay them back but cannot yet see how to make money from what I have to offer except by journalism and more extensive writing. As a foundation for this I seek non-remunerative publication in the learned press.
Many physical quantities change with time but maybe not so with space, so we see periodicity in time and complex exponentials closely connected. The exponential growth with time occupies more space (like a tree) until the growth for some reason stops (lack of resources, error, death).
Saturday 17 July 2010
What to do? Do I have a real treasure or a castle in the air. Only more work and propagation will [tell].
Examine the hypothesis that the Universe might be divine. All the objections to this position are in ST qq 1 - . Each needs to be overcome in the context of a new model which embraces both God and the Universe.
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The Church deceives us by turning our eyes toward heaven when reality lies on Earth. The Minkowski space for light if of zero size, just like the Minkowski space for objects travelling at some other velocity v. Lorentz transformations are indifferent to the actual value of c. So we can find a 'velocity of light' = velocity of communication in every layer that determines the causal structure of that layer. In every case events communicate when the interval between them is zero, so that are in the same Hilbert space (?).
CYBERNETICS = LOAD FOLLOWING
Strictly speaking there are no 'absolute' errors in the Universe: they are all relative to some process. it is logical for my heart to stop beating given certain circumstances, but an error from my point of view. <>p> Currie page 403: 'So plannet, so ambitious a life has taken an unexpected turn in which instinct and emotion loomed large and dangerous.'
The danger points to an error in the system of which Elaine is part; the system reflects ancient constraints which are no longer necessary.
EQUILIBRIUM = NO POWER (?)
Equilibrium distributions of energy (physical analogue of human power) are weighted to some mean, eg gaussian, black body. The black body spectrum is a modulation arising from boson behaviour, tendency to flock together [ability of energy to exist in large aggregations, since we cannot count the photons in a Bose-Einstein condensate ?]
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Creation and annihilation mean the making and breaking of bonds.
The valency of women and Christian men is 1. Of some other groups, >1.
'I'm extremely reluctant to examine my fears too closely, for fear of what I might find.' [Currie page 404]
Christianity and similar religions tell us that feelings are not to be trusted and 'reason' must prevail. It is preached by men who have vowed to suppress almost all feeling. From the natural point of view, feelings are part of the empirical data we use to guide our actions, and they must be tested and ultimately trusted like all other data and then used as a foundation for seeking models to explain our experience. Our evolutionary and cultural history between them shape our feelings and our respect for this past means that we must deal honestly with them because they are an honest good 'bonum honestum James J Fox
Most faery stories are pretty grim in their original incarnation, teaching lessons about behaviour to avoid. Now Walt Disney and friends have endowed many of them with new happy endings, just as Christianity has done with the old reality of death, the annihilation that comes with creation.
In the transfinite network, the countable power of computation explains the resource constraint that binds annihilation to creation, erasure to writing. Quid est hoc quod est scribere. ['what is it to write']
What I want to drive me out ino the world is the sheer quality of my product which is slowly coming, method and product, factory and
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product.
Religion is an industrial undertaking. We need design, factory, distribution and sales. The book (?) is part of the design phase. Our first Bible.
Our greatest source of data is within us, developed with the help of sensory input and external networks at all scales.
Currie page 417: '"Do you know what Macmillan said, when asked what as Prime Minister he feared most? 'Events, dear boy, events'."'
We are all subject to events and must deal with them to maintain our equilibrium.
[A corporation is] An anonymous front with perpetual existence as long as it pays its fees.
Human theological software.
The principal defect in the current crop of religions is their parochialism. The Theology Company hopes to overcome this division through scientific theology.
TTCPL: an autobiography.
The Hilbert Mind: described by the Hilbert Oscillator.
It all depends on how we look at things. Physics is no longer based on billiards but on gossip.
Physics Today: The Physics of Gossip (and vice versa).
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Although part of me would like to develop an irresistible case in a region of scholarly abstraction, I must also derive an income upon which to live, and the best marketable property I have is some ideas about theology and religion.
Every new product is developed in contrast to the old. We have evolved from boom boxes to ipods, from caves to condominiums with built in water, power and communication. For TTC, brand X is the Roman Catholic Church.
TYo avoid the cult of personality that bedevils many of the old religions, Religion belongs to no one in particular but to us all.
Pride - the sin of Lucifer - the biggest sin in the Catholic spectrum of evil Pride - Wikipedia [what about the 'sin against the Holy Spirit', the rejection of the faith? Eternal sin]
