Notes
[Sunday 13 March 2011 - Saturday 19 March 2011]
[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
Sunday 13 March 2011
Monday 14 March 2011
Tuesday 15 March 2011
[page 152]
Wednesday 16 March 2011
[page 153]
All human hope is founded on the reliability of our God, be it our parents or some larger and more nebulous entity.
The stock market is an essential component of capitalism. If it is working properly money is attracted to the highest returns, but of course there are many avenues of corruption that can be exploited in markets that are not properly defined by legislation and policed to ensure compliance.
The ancient religions are operative in the management of the world, they have great political weight and must be countered if we are to get onto a realistic path to survival.
This God is the spitting image of the petty kings, tyrants and warlords who appear to have controlled a large proportion of the human race over a long period of time.
Thursday 17 March 2011
Clausewitz On War Clausewitz
Public vs private (sex, war, anything). Public is many / any, so must be abstract (reduced variety) whereas private is one to one and so bandwidth reaches the concrete (real) level. Actual (sex, killing, . . . ) not an image. One of the most amazing features of the world is exemplified by this writing -- the ability to transmit abstract representations of concrete events This is made possible by meaning / layering.
Clausewitz Paret: page 23: '. . . to be valued at all, theory
[page 154]
must be universally valid, ie network open to all messages.'
We can code anything in symbols, as the transfinite numbers show.
in the Platonic world, capital has no cost. We have moved in that direction with even cheaper memory. To write a 4 gig chip on paper at this density would require about 500 000 pages.
An event is the transmission of a message, 1 quantum of action = n h bar.
Causewitz page 23: Paret: 'History stood for reality and depicted reality."
page 24: Paret: 'On War is full of historical references, They have often been criticized -- and sometimes deleted -- as unnecessary and dated detail; in fact they are depictions of reality that alone justify the theoretical superstructure.'
page 29: Howard: '. . . the central paradox of all war, the dialectic between the forces of violence and the forces of reason.'
page 35: 'the annihilation of the enemy.'
Why do we like gambling so much? Because all real knowledge comes as a probability distribution, a state vector, and this is all we can know: the distributions are fixed by the eigenvalue equation. What actual events occur to fulfill this distribution are unknown.
[pag 155]
The weak spot on the Catholic story: it makes no sense to define God as the simultaneous realization of all possibility.
Pue money, coupled directly to itself, leads to collapse, a black hole. For the Universe to expand it must replace such direct couplings with more complex ones that can be modelled with Turing machines,
The basic aim of education is to build on our natural desires to develop a space of desires that lead to peace, survival and pleasure,
When I go out to work I spend my day telling things what to do Now that I am getting older, I must begin to make a living by telling people what to do, to be an 'elder' or adviser.
