VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 18 July 2010 - Saturday 24 July 2010]
[Notebook: DB 69 Creation]
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Sunday 18 July 2010
Prothero: God is Not One Prothero
'Human goals are many, not all of them commensurable, and in perpetual rivalry with one another' Isaiah Berlin, quoted in Prothero. Isaiah Berlin
Some at least, but not many. We have enough in common to ground the notion of one God,
William Blake: All Religions are One (1795) William Blake
Prothero page 1: 'Capitalism and socialism are so obviously at odds that there differences hardly bear mentioning.'
Yes and no. Capitalism accumulates wealth, socialism distributes
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it; they are orthogonal subroutines in the overall process. So democracy is a peaceful means of choosing temporary monarchs.
Prothero page 4: 'The ideal of religious tolerance has morphed into a straitjacket of religious agreement.' As all sciences and technologies are bound in the 'straitjacket of reality'.
The fundamental fact of life is that resources are finite, life is infinite.
Solar energy: there is no energy shortage, just a crisis (judgement) based on false premisses (we must go on burning fossil fuel).
Huston Smith World's Religions 1958, Religions of Man Houston Smith
The processes of seeking and seeing avenues to make a living out of my writing helps to drive me forward to a heavenly time where money will not be a continual concern since there will be enough to go around.
The Judaeo-Christian tradition is the most rigid and militaristic of traditions, bolstered by the monarchical power of the papacy.
Prothero page 89: 'Our understanding of the [religious] battlefields is not advanced one inch by the dogma that "all religions are one",' except peace will accept this principle de facto.
We go from 'Greenies" to "Cyclists" ('Recyclists'). A journey (like the history of the Universe) comprises cycles at all scales.
Eternity = 'open cycle' ie non-recursive, no closed period.
We see the Universe not as a steam engine as our forefathers did, but as a network of persons communicating through computers [embodied in the physics] - quantum computation].
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Prothero page 9: '. . . the main thesis of the New Atheists is surely true: religion is opne of the greatest forces for evil in world history. Yet religion is also one of the greatest forces for good.' Easily explained by evolutionary theory and the relativity of goodness.
page 10: 'Religion was behind . . . the Reagan revolution of the 1980s.'
page 11:: 'What the world's religions share is not so much a starting point. And where they begin is with the simple observation, something is wrong with the world. . . . '
All due to misunderstanding the world. The modern version is 'heat death'.
We look to the Hebrews for God, but we are sitting in it.
All the evils seen by religious people fall under the heading of error. <>p> page 12: 'Today it is widely accepted that there is no one essence that all religions share.' ? They are all 'fitness inducing.'
page 13: Ninian Smart 7 dimensions of religion: ritual, narrative, experimental, institutional, ethical, doctrinal, material'. All these revolve around maintaining the physical layer of human life. Smart
One would be hard pressed to come up with a phenomenon without an evolutionary explanation, that is a phenomenon without a history. Look at the creation of Julia and the annihilation of Kevin. The mapping Rudd - Prime Minister has been annihilated.
Prothero page 18: Every US President Christian.
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Prothero page 19: Christopher Hitchens "Religion poisons everything". News and opinion require controversy, so one must take a controversial stance to make money in the media, exposing error. No news is good news and vice-versa.
Heaven = error free (the 'sweet spot') defined dynamically by a conservative transfer of energy and momentum (elastic, not plastic or deforming). Sweet spot - Wikipedia
page 21: Salvation = fitness
page 24: 'Every religion asks after the human condiiton. Here we are in these human bodies. What now? What next? What are we to become?'
page 26: Abraham progenitor of monotheism.
page 29: 'Nation of islam' <>p> 'On modelling the world'
Prothero page 31: Cal;vin 'absolute sovereignty of God and the total depravity of human beings.'
page 32: '"The idol of yourself," writes the Sufi mystic Rumi, "is the mother of (all) idols." Replace this idea with submission to Allah and what you have is the real goal of Islam: a "soul at peace" in this life (89:27) and in the next Paradise.'
Allah = God = Nature = constraints of one's environment, realizing that individual and collective fitness are closely bound.
page 25: Islam: the way of submission. The world is as least a proxy for God. Islam - Wikipedia, S-L-M - Wikipedia
Skipped back to page 182:
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I want to convert theology from a study of religion to a study of the world, including ourselves. [ie a study of God, not just human responses to God]
Prothero page 39: Wilfred Cantrell Smith. 'For Christians, the gift God sent to the world is jesus, who came in the form of a human body. For Muslims, that gift is the Quran, which came in the form of the Arabic language. . . . Reciting the Quran, therefore, is like partaking in the Christian Eucharist. It is how you incorporate the divine into your body.'
All experience is appropriate of the divine. Quran, Jesus, models of God.
Prothero page 40: formationm of the Muslim community 622 AD
Join a religion that has no prerequisite but being; be a Natural. I am a Natural: my model of the world is is revealed by science, tested by experience.
Einstein on thermodynamics Albert Einstein
Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, cybernetics (transfinite computer network is the phase space of cybernetics).
Prothero page 42: '. . . Islam is a way of life as well as a religion.'
Are not all religions ways of life? And to follow a way one must navigate, and to navigate one must have a model and a means of measurement to answer the question "where are we?"
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Prothero page 42: 'More than any other great religion Islam emphasizes life after death. . . . [page 43] hell and Paradise are described in the Quran in far greater detail than hell and heaven i the Christian Bible.' [reflecting 600 years of further development of the product]
page 43: 'All of us are born Muslims . . . As we grow older, however, we 'wax proud' (16:23) and forget our true natures.'
What we might call the narcissism of emergent consciousness.
The big question for any model is creation and annihilation, life and death.
page 46: 'In short, the Quran reads like a fire and brimstone sermon from start to finsih.'
Prothero page 49: Shariah = "right path" = law
page 51: Sunni (85%) Shiue (15%)
Shia = Shiat Ali (partisans of Ali) religious authority in the Imam
Sunni (sunna = tradition), Abu Bakr - religious authority in the community.
'Among the Shia the Imam (who must be descended directly from Muhammad) leads not just a congregation but the entire Shia community and, according to the Shia, is both sinless and infallible.'
page 53: 'If Islam is a religion, Islamism is a political project, revolutionary in aim, utopian in spirit, and radical in all senses of the term.'
Prothero page 54: Omid Safi Progressive Muslims Safi
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Prothero page 547: 'There is no compulsion in religion' (2:256)
page 58: 'One of the distinguishing marks of Islam is its unequivocal rejection of the Christian traditions of celibacy, asceticism and monasticism.'
Perhaps because Christianity was established in a time of peace when survival was not so closely tied to breeding.
page 60: Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks Barks
page 62: 'What [the Sufis] crave is not Islam but Allah, not Paradise in the by-and-by but the presence of the divine here and now, not the secondhand report but the first hand experience.' So they are naturals!
Prothero page 67 www.jesusfilm.org The JESUS Film Project
page 75: Roman / Orthodox split 1054 East-West Schism - Wikipedia
Reformation Luther 1517. Martin Luther - Wikipedia, Protestant Reformation - Wikipedia
Prothero page 77: Regis Debray" without the alphabet . . . there would be no God."
God, an Itinerary Debray
page 88: Pentacostalism, 1906 Asuza Street, Los Angeles Asuza Street Revival - Wikipedia
page 89 Filadelphia Church, Sweded Word of life Church.
page 90: Brazin Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: "prosperity gospel" Prosperity theology - Wikipedia
page 91: 'Experience is Pentacostalism's bread and butter - the experience of being
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being inhabited by the awesome power of God.'
Prothero page 93: Kiongsway international Christian Centre, Megachurches Lakewood, Potters House, Saddleback, Yoido Full Gospel Church, Yoido Full Gospel Church - Wikipedia
Janet McKenzie Jesus of the People Harvey Cox Future of Faith Cox
Prothero page 102: Confucianism - FCive Classics: Book of Changes; Book of Documents: Book of Odes: Book of Rules; Spring and Autumn Annals.
page 103: Three Teachings: Confucianism, Daoism, Buddjism. '"Chinese are Confucians at work, Daoists at leasure nd Buddhists at death."'
page 107: Confucianism: 'to regard the everyday human world as profoundly spiritual.'
page 110: '. . . only through interacting with other humans do we become fully human' and fully human is an evolving state. 'Confucians have always had faith, bordering on fanaticism, in the ability of human beings to improve and ever perfect themselves. . . . Confucians have always stressed self-cultivation through education.'
Know the World, Know God.
page 112: 'Axial Age'. Axial Age - Wikipedia
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Prothero page 113: 'In the Analects Confucius identifies chaos as the human problem and order as the solution.'
James Legge: Chinese Classics Legge
page 115: "ren" - "human heartedness" 'Its Chinese character combines the image of "human being" with the image of "two", so ren refers to right relations among people.'
God and the Word of God. Five relationships, no 1 is parent-child.
page 116:li - action
page 119: 'Are human beings basically good?'
Prothero page 149: Shankara (788 - 820) 'considered by many to be the greatest Hindu philosopher.' Adi Shankara - Wikipedia
page 165: Ram Mohan Roy (1772 - 1833) Ramakrishna (1836 - 86)
paghe 180: Buddhism is a missionary religion.
page 229: orishanet.org [Santeria]
page 319: 'The Brights' Net The Brights' Network
Monday 19 July 2010
Back to Australian Journal of Philosophy article now called 'On modelling the World' an attempt to encompass my whole life into 8000 words.
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As a housekeeper the first task in dealing with chaos is to identify the physical elements and then devise a suitable scheme of order, socks in the sock drawer, etc etc.
An outside observer cannot see 'light space' as we understand it and an observer inside the space (who must be a photon) sees that its spacetime is null. How do we extend this to general relativity, where to observers like ourselves, there are many distances that are not null. We do it by the introduction of mass = memory, that is closed systems which maintain a certain state until forces to change, ie they have momentum [and are physically embodied messages]. In other words we populate the Universe with closed massive particles isomorphic to the original.
In light space the only particles are photons and gravitons (?) so that any possible observer must be a photon and photons can see nothing, not even each other. The velocity of light seems to be the result of dividing 0 by 0, c = s/t = o/o. Perhaps it is an arbitrary initial value that has been propagated through the Universe by the parent --> child process.
The photon world is described by quantum mechanics, where the photons are differentiated by energy and polarization alone, as bosons should be.
Topology is defined by periodicity in coordinates which results from identifying certain sets of points. Hobson and co, page 49. Hobson, Efstathiou & Lazenby
The light world can have an infinite number of dimensions corresponding to its Hilbert space, one dimension for each frequency in the energy representation.
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A quantum system (with no memory) can be realized by a Turing machine that h memory that is all annihilated at the end of the calculation. So we can say the particle is the calculation, embodied energy, a frequency of action. What does an act do? It moves us in time (energy) or space (momentum) or both (usually), insofar as it is propagated on spacetime.
In a computer we separate memory and processor in our minds bit in reality they are the same physical embodiment of action.
Hobson page 114: 'As we shall see. the notion of an orthonormal set of basis vectors at any point in the spacetime is of fundamental importance for our description of observers.'
Quantum mechanics is one dimension, not one dimension of space or time, but simply an undifferentiated one dimension which is a count of action.
Spacelike vector: cannot go there because ds2 < 0, so ds is complex. How does this relate to quantum process in $D Hilbert space?
Little glimpses of how layering process might build spacetime out of light spaces in the same way as we build the Universe from inertial frames by connection coefficients.
We might say that the energy os photons in the light world is zero, since their frequency is zero and we have a pseudo-Euclidean space.
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Wednesday 21 July 2010
The role of a prophet in the Quran is to warn, to point out the existence of errors in the system. [Jesus hit on the hypocrites]
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What is the difference between is and = ?
GOD IS LOVE GOD IS ACTION LOVE IS ACTION
Every sequence of actions is a love story.
The intervals in relativity are the intervals between events which are in effect messages or particles.
Thursday 22 July 2010
Constitution = algorithm: what to do in case of x? Loss of government majority? abdication of head of state? Traffic light turns red?
