VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 5 December 2010 - Saturday 1 December 2010]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
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Sunday 5 December 2010
To build a house, to build a website, to build a religion , it is all the same building, ie conceiving a goal and following a deterministic path toward that goal. The most amazing feature of the creative divine Universe is that it is buildable, ie has memory and evolution - change of memory.
Stillness and secrecy; knowledge and motion.
The theology company was founded to exploit the power of reasonable religion. The Company website is relatively static while its interfaces with the world are dynamics.
CREATE = {COPY, DIFFERENTIATE}
CREATION = the establishment at a point in time of a time invariant structure. ANNIHILATION - disestablishment of same.
Motion and stillness.
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OPEN SOURCE = SCIENTIFIC RELIGION ie SUBJECT TO TESTING
"TESTED" the foundation of trust.
Tested/testable religion.
Christianity if not testable.
Religion: working on the most general level with the most power (?) It defines the whole that survives, an integrated effective network.
happiness-project.com
Monday 6 December 2010
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Thursday 9 December 2010
The Christian story sounds too good to be true and unfortunately that is the case: it is false.
Friday 10 December 2010
Saturday 11 December 2010
McGregor page 228: '. . . it is not enough for the Party to control government and business in China. To stay in power, the Party has long known it must control the story of China as well. McGregor
This is akin to the dogmatic interpretation of the History of salvation espoused by the Roman Catholic Church.
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My task has been to developan abstract view (a shell) for the whole Universe and to begin to interpret the roles of the Roman Catholic Church, the Communist Party of China and their ilk in the light of this paradigm change.
Paradigm change: it may be as difficult to discern an oncoming paradigm change in the scientific camp as to see a Global Financial Crisis approaching from over the horizon. Although all the data points to what was going to happen very few people saw it because very few people wanted to see it coming. It would not change their faith in the impending boom, which encourages reckless lending and consequent loss of funds. The bubble of fantasy bursts . typically leaving the poor poorer and the wealthy pretty much where they were.
The paradigm change I am announcing is the elimination of the ancient and artificial distinction between the material and the spiritual worlds.
A move is a set of actions. The basic movement is reading from and writing to a physical state, which is a physical thing. A state is a symbolic object.
Feynman was looking for the base states of the Universe, by which he meant a mathematical model of the world that gave a dynamical explanation of the stationary states in the world. Feynman
MOVE = CHANGE OF STATE [annihilation and creation]
As the moves become more energetic. their state space grows
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in proportion to the frequency of action.
Mcgregor page 235: '"The propaganda department only speaks two words, yes and no." . . . '
page 236: Lee Hao, head of the Communist Youth League ' "The key is to steer young people toward uniting the three essentials of socialism, patriotism and the Leadership of the Party." ' Pope.
McGregor page 242: Geremie Barme: ' "The whole project [of modern China] is based on a series of lies, not just about Mao, but the collective leadership he has come to represent. It has profound ramifications&emdash;it means that China can't grow up. It is a society that has forbidden itself from being able to grapple not only with the legacy of Mao, but with civil change." '
page 243: ' "Mao's basic aim was to become the strongest most powerful Emperor of China ever." ' Li Rui
A relationship is a duality of which in each instance of the relationship we experience only one end. I experience you directly, but only have indirect experience, relayed by you, of your experience of me.
When we are not fully occupied with the survival side of life we have leaisure to construct capital designed to make the survival side of life easier. Survival = income => expenditure. We have achieved such a state by harnessing large amonts of energy (in coal or slaves, eg) to work for us by powering 'labour saving' devices..
Since the data of theology is human experience, I have to
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describe my experience in arriving at the view of the world I present.
Quiggin page 106 note 1: 'The Second Welfare Theorem'. Quiggin: Zombie Economics
Help: Ask; wait until you are asked.
GENERAL RELATIVITY = economics of one good (energy) with one price [itself].
page 112: '. . . a taste for paradoxical reasoning is common among economists, to the point where it is a job requirement in some circles.'
page 115: 'The obvious criterion of success or failure for a macroeconomic theoretical framework is that it shall provide a basis for predicting, understanding and responding to macroeconomic crises. If this criterion is applied to the current crisis, the [Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium] approach to macroeconomics has been a near total failure.'
page 127: Keynes 'Animal Spirits' Akerlof and Shiller Akerlof & Shiller: Animal Spirits
page 128: 'dynamic consistency / inconsistency'
'The fundamental macroeconomic problem is precisely that an economy that seems to be enjoying an equilibrium path of steady growth can suddenly crash or veer into an unsustainable boom.' Inadequate knowledge/control.
After the GFC we are no longer likely to stay away from the thought that the establishment intelligentsia can be completely wrong.
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Quiggin page 163: Michael Marmot: Status Syndrome Marmot
page 169: Malefactors of great wealth.
