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[Notebook: DB 70 Mathematical Theology]
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The quantum of action is a measure of the distance between two stationary points. So a life or a Buddhist meditation has a beginning and an end and a quantum of action in between. Maybe a birth (like the emission of a photon) is the completion (halting) of a process. Death is the next halt, dispersing the materials to be used again.
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Space / memory / stationarity. Each spatial pixel is an oscillator identical to the initial singularity, communicating with other oscillators and generating 3D structure.
Initial singularity --> photon (boson) --> fermion (electron).
Current attempts to unify gravitation and quantum mechanics via string theory introduce a very high degree of complexity which seems to contradict the initial singularity of the Universe. We proceed in an object oriented way, seeing each layer of complexity as a child of the layer before it, the whole system rooted in a layer of zero complexity, the initial singularity. Object-oriented programming - Wikipedia
Stationary point = message (photon).
The fundamental problems with theocracies lie both in the (ancient) literary fictions from which they originate [and in] the theological schools of interpreters who base their work and power on particular interpretations of this literature.
David Grossman, Writing in the Dark: 'The Desire to be Gisella' page 53: Sartre: 'What is literature?' 'Nobody can suppose for a moment that it is possible to write a good novel in praise of anti-Semitism. For the moment I feel that my freedom is indissolubly linked with that of all other men, it cannot be demanded of me that I use it to approve the enslavement of a part of these men. Thus whether he is an essayist, a pamphlet-
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eer, a satirist or a novelist, whether he speaks only of individual passions or whether he attacks the social order, the writer, a free man addressing free men, has only one subject -- freedom.' Grossman
Grossman page 55: '. . . sometimes a nation remains in a prolonged state of struggle because it is trapped, for generations sometimes, within a particular "official story" ?'
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Frazer, James, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Penguin Books 1996 Preface: "The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession of the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. ...'
'Such was the rule of the sanctuary. A candidate for the priesthood could only succeed to office by slaying the priest, and having slain him, he retained office till he himself was slain by a stronger or a craftier.' [p 1]
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Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet, Knopf
1995 Amazon: ' In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.' --Brian Bruya
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Grossman, David, Writing in the Dark: Essays on Literature and Politics, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008 From Publishers Weekly
'Peace activist and vocal advocate for relinquishing the Territories and ending the Occupation, Israeli novelist Grossman is unafraid of controversy; these six essays, however, address these concerns more obliquely, through the lens of literature. Books That Have Read Me merges the young reader's discovery that books are the place in the world where both the thing and the loss of it can be contained with the older writer's urge to describe contemporary political reality in a language that is not the public, general, nationalized idiom. Grossman's passions are two—an Israel at peace with its neighbors and a citizenry restored to dignity through the individual language of literature, which can bring us together with the fate of those who are distant and foreign. Grossman lays claim to an acquired naïveté in his hopefulness; how welcome and enlightening it is.'
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Papers
| Nature Editorial, , "Uncomfortable truths", Nature, 434, 7034, 7 April 2005, page 681. 'In 1999, Hubert Markl, then Max Planck Society president, launched a six year Euro 5-million ($US 5-million) programme, conducted by independent science historians, to systematically analyse the role of the society -- then known as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society -- and its scientists in supporting the Nazi regimes's policies. The programme ended last month, and the results of its many projects confirm the superficiality of the accepted view ...
The programme's final conference, held last month in Berlin, made clear the productivity of the endeavour. A thick dossier of publications is freely available on the website of the back |
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, Quintin, "Pope praised for partial conciliation of science and religion", Nature, 434, 7034, 7 April 2005, page 694. 'Catholic researchers and bioethicists have responded to the death of Pope John Paul II with tributes to his efforts to achieve reconciliation between faith and science. And some are optimistic that his successor will keep on the same path.' . back |
| Shannon, Claude E, "The mathematical theory of communication", Bell System Technical Journal, 27, , July and October, 1948, page 379-423, 623-656. 'A Note on the Edition
Claude Shannon's ``A mathematical theory of communication'' was first published in two parts in the July and October 1948 editions of the Bell System Technical Journal [1]. The paper has appeared in a number of republications since:
• The original 1948 version was reproduced in the collection Key Papers in the Development of Information Theory [2]. The paper also appears in Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers [3]. The text of the latter is a reproduction from the Bell Telephone System Technical Publications, a series of monographs by engineers and scientists of the Bell System published in the BSTJ and elsewhere. This version has correct section numbering (the BSTJ version has two sections numbered 21), and as far as we can tell, this is the only difference from the BSTJ version.
• Prefaced by Warren Weaver's introduction, ``Recent contributions to the mathematical theory of communication,'' the paper was included in The Mathematical Theory of Communication, published by the University of Illinois Press in 1949 [4]. The text in this book differs from the original mainly in the following points:
• the title is changed to ``The mathematical theory of communication'' and some sections have new headings,
• Appendix 4 is rewritten,
• the references to unpublished material have been updated to refer to the published material.
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Links
| Aquinas 13 Summa: I 2 3: Whether God exists? I answer that, The existence of God can be proved in five ways. The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. ... The second way is from the nature of the efficient cause. ... The third way is taken from possibility and necessity ... The fourth way is taken from the gradation to be found in things. ...The fifth way is taken from the governance of the world. back |
| Claude E Shannon A Mathematical Theory of Communication 'The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point. Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with certain physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem. The significant aspect is that the actual message is one selected from a set of possible messages.' back |
| Object-oriented programming - Wikipedia Object-oriented programming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm using "objects" – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction, encapsulation, messaging, modularity, polymorphism, and inheritance. Many modern programming languages now support OOP, at least as an option.' back |
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