Notes
[Sunday 6 March 2011 - Saturday 12 March 2011]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
[page 146]
Sunday 6 March 2011
Where absolute cleanliness is required, every speck of dust is an error. In terms of probabilities, the cleanest environments on earth may be the insides of computers, the set of physically embodied symbols that make a computer go.
What is required: an effort of communication: a demand to be heard. Here the demand does not take the form of suicide bombing.
Much of the religious strife in the world arises from the exceedingly narrow perspective of the traditional religions. Most of the major religions have some sort of literary basis, Bible, Tripitaka, etc. Even though some of the texts comprise a few million words, they are as nothing compared to the flow of information between each of us and our human and natural environment. Bible, Tripitaka - Wikipedia
This narrowness is characteristic of the two-year-old state of mind that spawned these religions born of monarchy and the monarchical fiction that the monarch ruled by divine right. In the divine world, this is still true, although the divine right was principally founded in superior military power.
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Everyone can write. The hard part is to write the truth, which is difficult because the dynamic truth is bigger than the static writing, In effect we can only know the stationary points (states) of a dynamic system so far as the entropy of the system is the entropy of the points.
Education defines the alphabet of free action in a given society. We seek to unversalize education by distilling out the essential elements of any society, human, molecular or otherwise.
Hope arises because the Universe is a network of universal computers, which can execute the algorithms necessary to prevent error, thus guaranteeing their own survival. If we want to explore the Universe we must explore this network and learn its properties. We are greatly helped in our study of this transfinite network by understanding the finite computer networks we use to communicate over the internet.
Brideshead last rites page 383. Waugh
Creation and annihilation.
Sport / War: how willing are you to sacrifice your personal capital (= health) for the good of the side (team, group, nation etc).
Theology was once considered a science but now is no longer. For a long time after the invention of writing people seem t have considered that the written word and the sort of logical arguments that can be carried on in writing were a surer source of knowledge of the world that actual experience of the world. Sensory experience was derated as unreliable. Motion and stillness.
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Monday 7 March 2011
Tuesday 8 March 2011
Given that the Universe is divine, what then? The most important consequence would sem to be that we can release ourselves from the intellectual and moral dictatorships that have set us against ourselves, one another and the Earth and be free to enjoy reality as it is. This is not all roses, but neither is the whim of an arbitrary ruler, but a world with a very distinct personality that can be discerned by systematic theological investigation and turned to our benefit by evidence based religion. We are entering the era of secular religion that began with Galileo's manifesto, that we should read the book of nature in preference to ancient tomes written by people who knew a lot less than us.
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Preacher training course for evangelists working for a divine world. Every idea has to fight for its place in the sun by developing a successful phenotype.
The product: a sentence, 'The World is divine'.
The consequences: endless. The benefits: huge, etc.
If the idea is appealing enough, it will spread itself, like a virus. It must be as simple and magical as the wheel. Every string can be viewed as a time sequence in a dynamic read or write.
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The world (and a computer) comprises memory and processors, that is memory reders and writers. So we produce the IT version of fixed point theorems.
God is not untouchable.
Cutting edge theology.
The theory is starting to become explainable, so that one can pass it on to another in a string of words.
Big actions are defined by small actions, and a construct a big action by programming, ie specifying each small action and the order in which they occur.
Wednesday 9 March 2011
What right have we to dive around in motor cars (automobiles = living things)?As quantum mechanics sugests, the Universe is as fuzzy as the human mind.
Thursday 10 March 2011
Friday 11 March 2011
South by Southwest South by Southwest - Wikipedia
Saturday 12 March 2011
'Act of God = uninsurable risk.
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Our intelligence is the product of a network so we can guess how much more intelligent the whole universal network is.
Landauer: Energy is necessary for forgetting. The world's main problem is that it has not learnt to forget since it clings to the memory of ancient words that could easily be replaced by contemporary observation. Landauer
One might expect that it would take quite a long time for the theoretical notion that the Universe is divine to filter down to one's emotions and displace the depressing expectations of Christianity (for this life at least) with the rather more exciting feeling that one was part of God. We fear God as city dwellers fear wilderness. Although our minds are very plastic and quite capable of learning something new every day, the indoctrination we receive from our human environment since birth is very deep seated and difficult to change. We can see this problem on a larger scale in the diffusion of theoretical knowledge through the community, a process that seems to have a half life of about fifty years. It is 60 years since Rachael Carson published Silent Spring Concern for the human impact on our environment had much earlier origins, but her wok caught the public imagination. Now a good proportion of the population believe that we must reduce our footprint on Earth. The notion that the Earth, like ourselves must accelerate this change of opinion, which is greatly hampered by the Christian notion that this world is damaged goods and is to undergo a complete makeover at the end of time, [is now commonplace]. Rachael Carson
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The phrase time is money hides the true nature of time and money, which is ? They are both abstract counts of action. Today I drove in 1000 nails in six hours and earned $100. I swapped six hours of my time and energy for $100 by driving in these nails. My employer might caculate that each nail cost 10c to drive, and work out ways to make me work faster so that the cost per nail would come down. Of course he might try to reduce my wages, but we ignore that here. (It is orthogonal to our concerns).
It will only be when I am emotionally convinced of my position that I will become evangelical about it, a transformation that seems to be hapening now. From my point of view the most important change seems to be that I understand the position well enough to explain it in a fairly clear way, particularly
From one point of view, this knowledge changes nothing: my new knowledge of the world does not change the way the world behaves. From my point of view, however, it has the potential to change how I feel about the world and myself and see some prospect of income derived from propagating the idea.
Everything is built to work for its own salvation, which might explain why I find it hard to leave this job for I see possibilities of the world going down and taking me and my children with it. The search for security that can overachieve to greed and the reduction of the security of others, as King Leopold did so well. Hochschild
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Energy measures rate of change in whatever dimension.
FREEDOM == ORTHOGONALITY (a new dimension of meaning) A degree of freedom. As energy goes down new degrees of freedom are revealed. The energy is distributed over more states. [A gas is maximally free and enjoys Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics Gibbs Paradox - Wikipedia, Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics - Wikipedia
The Christian God is a mongrel (in my local vernacular), that is a person who should be tried for some combination of rape, murder and war crimes.
The real God, on the other hand, is not an image of an ancient and violent dictator, but a reasonable person with quite a fixed and predictable personality that we can rely on in our planning.
Earthquakes and tsunamis are very much in the news, An important feature of these events is that they come at all scales but with varying frequencies. The little ones are common, the big ones are rare, the huge ones rarer still. This is an example of a distribution, and all our knowledge of the world appears to come in distributions.
As an aside: I do like to sleep with cuddly people. It is all a matter of bandwidth and the skin is a very broad channel with lots of lines (hot-spots) in it.
