VII Notes
2010
Notes
[Sunday 12 December 2010 - Saturday 18 December 2010]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
[page 130]
Sunday 12 December 2010
[page 135]
Monday 13 December 2010
Gittins Sydney Morning Herald 13 December 2010: Paul Krugman: 'In the long run productivity is nearly everything. Ross Gittins
Tuesday 14 December 2010
Politics is the art of the possible, and a religious revolution becomes possible only if its political management is realistically, based that is reality rules. While politicians debate, the realities of the situations they are talking abour (climate change, energy technology, farming and the environment, etc) guide their hands, even though political forces working in ignorance of reality (in the realms of fantasy, magic and much traditional theology and religion) do manage to make huge blunders, the worst of which is going to war when war is not necessary to solve the problem in hand.
The upshot of this is that I must finish writing the Development volume of Natural Theologyto provide myself with a real foundation for 'preaching'.
An instance is a fully determined intersection of configuration parameters, eg the configuration space of Drupal. drupal.org
The aim is to reconfigure the roots of human society from authoritarianism to democracy.
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Further reading
Books
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| Joyce, James, and (Edited by Hans Walter Gabler with Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior and with a new preface by Richard Ellmann, Ulysses: The Corrected Text, The Bodley Head 1986 Preface: ',,, For the purposes of interpretation, the most significant of the many small changes in [this] text has to do with the question Stephen puts to his mother at the climax of the brothel scene, itself the climax of the novel. Stephen is appalled by his mother's ghost, but like Ulysses he seeks information from her. His mother says, 'You sang that song to me. Love's bitter mystery.' Stephen responds 'eagerly.' as the stage direction sasy, 'Tell me the word, mother, if you know now. The word known to all men.' She fails to provide it. This passage has been much interpreted. ... Professor Gabler has been able to settle this matter by recovering a passage left out of the scene in the National Library. ... the omission of several lines - the longest omissionin the book. These lines read in the manuscript "Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men. ... '' page xii back |
Lonergan, Bernard J F, Insight : A Study of Human Understanding (Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan : Volume 3), University of Toronto Press 1992 '... Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. Its aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, an understanding of understanding'
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Nielsen, Michael A, and Isaac L Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press 2000 Review: A rigorous, comprehensive text on quantum information is timely. The study of quantum information and computation represents a particularly direct route to understanding quantum mechanics. Unlike the traditional route to quantum mechanics via Schroedinger's equation and the hydrogen atom, the study of quantum information requires no calculus, merely a knowledge of complex numbers and matrix multiplication. In addition, quantum information processing gives direct access to the traditionally advanced topics of measurement of quantum systems and decoherence.' Seth Lloyd, Department of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Nature 6876: vol 416 page 19, 7 March 2002.
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Papers
| Gittins, Ross, "More to most of us than just the acquisition of stuff", Sydney Morning Herald, , , 13 December 2010, page . 'The chief speaker at the [economists'] conference was Gary Banks, chairman of the Productivity Commission and a high priest in the economists' Temple of Mammon. With Eslake as altar boy, he preached a fiery sermon about the need for more micro-reform to lift Australia's faltering productivity performance.
Factually, he's right, of course. If you're obsessed by economic growth then, as Paul Krugman has famously put it, ''in the long run, productivity is nearly everything''.'
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/more-to-most-of-us-than-just-the-acquisition-of-stuff-20101212-18tzb.html#ixzz2dDHCyOsS. back |
Links
| drupal.org Drupal - Open Source CMS 'Come for the software, stay for the community
Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.' back |
| Ross Gittins Faithful few attend the economic church 'If the nation's economists are right in assuming almost all of us share their belief that the pursuit of an eternally rising material standard of living must be a key goal of government, they're left with a puzzle: why then is there so little support for further micro-economic reform?' back |
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