VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 24 October 2010 - Saturday 30 October 2010]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
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Sunday 24 October 2010
Pétrement page 395: '[Weil] thought that Catharism had been "the last living expression in Europe of pre-Roman antiquity". Before the Roman conquest, there existed one and the same thought, expressed in different forms "in the mysteries and initiatory sects of Egypt, Thrace, Greece and Persia"; a thought of which Plato had left i the most perfect expression. "It is from this thought that Christianity issued; but only the Gnostics, Manichaeans, and Cathars seem to have kept faith with it.' Pétrement
Management: a) creating systems; b) identifying and correcting errors.
All [Catharism etc] infected with 'immaterialism', mystification and perhaps power tripping by the leadership a là Roman Catholic Church?
[Weil] "In my eyes nothing surpasses Plato. . . ."
Pétrement page 407: Weil: '"The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost disappearance of the idea of value. . . . Dadaism and surrealism are extreme cases; they represented the intoxication of total license . . . ."'
page 411: Mme Weil '"Monsieur, if you ever have a daughter, pray to God she isn't a saint."'
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Pétrement page 424: '"I [Thebon] will merely say that this first contract [with Simone] aroused feelings in me which, though certainly quite different from antipathy, were nonetheless painful. I had the impression of being face to face with an individual who was radically foreign to al my ways of feeling and thinking and to all that, for me, represents the meaning and savour of life. . . ."'
page 425: '"She, who when the pleasure of her needs were involved would not have allowed anyone to make the slightest sacrifice on her behalf did not seem to realize the complications and even sufferings she caused in the livs of others as soon as it was a matter of realizing her vocation for self-effacement."'
A holy fool!
page 448: 'Reflections on the Quantum Theory' Cahiers du Sud 251 (12/1942) pages 102-119, reprinted in 'On Science, Necessity and the Love of God'.
page 450: Simone: '"The Greek philosophers whom one calls Stoics say that one must love fate; that one must lover everything that fate brings, even when it brings misfortune. Since my childhood it has always seemed to me that this is truly the most beautiful virtue. . . . '
page 453 Teitaro Suzuki D. T. Suzuki - Wikipedia
page 461: 'Taylorization' of work Frederick Winslow Taylor - Wikipedia
Classical phase space has 6n dimensions each parametrized by a real quantum mechanics has a Hilbert space whose dimension count is the number of basis states in the system each parametrized by a complex number. The general drift
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of this is that quantum space has much greater variety than classical spaces. Seems a bit banal, but there may be something here.
Pétrement page 493: Simone: '"There is a reality outside the world, that is to say outside space and time, outside man's mental Universe, outside the entire domain that human faculties can reach. Corresponding to this reality [dual], at the entre of the human heart, is a longing for an absolute good, a longing that is always there and is never satisfied by any object in this world."'
This is not my experience. I am perfectly satisfied, and then that particular satisfaction wears off, a new potential (desire, appetite) appears, and is in itself in due time fulfilled. This to me is the experiential relationship between stasis (consistency) and desire (inconsistency) the cause of motion to a new resting place like Turing machine in motion and then halted until the next problem comes along.
page 494: '[Simone] is anxious to eave intact the pure determinism that is the postulate of science and of all objective knowledge.'
She is a wrong as Einstein here and obviously has not heard of Goedel or Turing - this is 1942-3!
page 495: 'Simone preserves the idea of divine omnipotence, but she believes that the God who possesses this omnipotence does not exercise it. . . . Of the two limitations that God has imposed on himself, the world's necessity and the autonomy of thinking beings, the former seems to have been given to us to free us from the latter.' Weird.
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Pétrement page 497: 'Original sin is not something apart from the Creation and which came afterward; it is inseparable from it. It is the very existence of the distinct thinking human being that is guilty.'
Close but not right. Original sin is the possibility of error that can only arise when there are distinct beings with different interests in the struggle for existence so that often one organism's perfect execution of its life involves damage (error) to another being. The pure peace that idealists seek can only arise when Darwinian competition is replaced by cooperation which includes sharing resources and birth control so as not to exceed the quota of resources available and spark destructive competition. So in sport, we compete in a very cooperative way with 'caps' to prevent destructive competition.
page 498: 'The self is and is not; freedom is and is not; the spirit is and is not.' Tine division multiplexing. The basic error of Platonic idealism is to replace a living and (dying) dynamic world with an impossible (because self contradictory) eternity. Goedel again.
page 500: Simone: '"Human intelligence -- even in the case of the most intelligent -- falls miserably short of the great problems of public life."' Requisite variety is lacking.
page 504: 'This War is a War of Religions.'
page 521: 'Her letters are one long lie . . . '
page 536: [Simone died] 22 August 1943 of self-starvation?
The path integral method shows how a random superposition f all possible paths leads by the superposition principe to the classical
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path.
Monday 25 October 2010
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Wednesday 27 October 2010
In Feynman's path integral method every path is considered equiprobable. We can imagine this in computational terms as an n step computational path comprising n distinct logical operations arranged in n! different ways which when summed lead to the path integral, ie the probability distribution of what actually happens.
Thursday 28 October 2010
Ripple of Hope ABC TV
Friday 29 October 2010
As users of networks (telephones, email, etc) are aware, a network is delocalized. All we experience for people at greater distances is a time delay which in quantum mechanics appears as a change of phase as the phasor rotates in time.
The mathematical literature represents fixed points in the dynamic network of mathematicians (Tymoczco) Tymoczko
Saturday 30 October 2010
From isolation to communication: The Trinity. Trinity - Wikipedia
