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[Sunday 29 May 2011 - Saturday 4 June 2011]

[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]

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Sunday 29 May 2011

On learning to see God sent to Eureka Street

There is not much more to say really.

Synopsis:
1: Source.
2: Creation and annihilation.
3: Motion and Invariance.
4: Unity and personality.
5: The universal network.
6: Messages and invariants.
7: Practical networks -- finite.
8: Computation -- Feynman's Hamiltonian
9: The transfinite computer network.
10: The classical God and the initial singularity
11: Trinity and the big bang

(When I set out to write this list I had no idea it would end up as it is.)

12: Constraint and evolution : countable invariants
13: Communication and quantization
14: Physics
15: Biology

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16: The Human Layer of layers (organized in time and space)
17: Creation and computable functions. 18: Trust

In general a mingling of the Natural Theology synopsis with the A Divine World synopsis.

The boundary of the Universe is consistency which includes all the observed stationary points in the universal dynamics.

Is there enough in natural theology already to establish a line of thought, a trajectory which others can discern and follow, modify or ignore?

19: Protocol: High depends upon low for its existence
20: Politics
21: Divine Law
22: Actus purus

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Old Synopsis natural theology:

I. Motivations and possibilities
1. Source. 2. Compassion. 3. Naming. 4. Language. 5. Body. 6. Evolution. 7. Mind. 8. Revelation.

II. A brief history of dynamics
9. Dynamics. 10. Aristotle. 11. Thomas. 12. Luther. 13. Galileo. 14. Newton. 15. Analysis. 16. Cantor.

III. Modern Physics
17. Einstein. 18. Quantum Mechanics. 19. John von Neumann. 20. Wave function. 21. Quantum field theory. 22 Probability. 23. Life. 24 Cosmology

IV. Divine Dynamics
25. God. 26. Gödel. 27. Turing. 28.Shannon. 29. Quantum information theory. 30. Transfinite network. 31. Physics. 32. Metaphysics. 33. Relationship.

V. Applied Divinity
34. Peace. 35. Religion. 36. Politics. 37 Economics. 38. Design. 39. Work. 40. Grace. 41 Metanoia.

A Divine World Synopsis
1. Motivation. 2. God. 3. Divine Law. 4. Trinity. 5. Personality. 6. Communication. 7. Control. 8. Entropy. 9. Creation. 10. Divinity. 11. Heaven. 12. Motion. 13. Capital. 14. Pain. 15. Humour. 16. Security. 17. Faith. 18. Hubris. 19. Morality. 20. Productivity. 21. Security. 22. Democracy. 23 Secular Religion. 24. Monopoly. 25. Fundamentalism. 26 Perfection. 27. ?. 28. Sexuality. 29. Greed.

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30.Time. 31. Rehumanization. 32. Love. 33. Law, 34. Writing. 35. Wilderness. 36. Work. 37. Banking. 38 Violence. 39. Right. 40. Fair Trade. 41. The Market. 42. Christianity. 43. Dictatorship. 44. Development. 45. Space. 46. Rhythm. 47. Martyrdom. 48. Love [duplicate 32?]. 49. Evangelization. 50. Education.

The 'null-prophet' prophesies that there is no prophesy. Everything is before our eyes and anything allegedly hidden is in plain sight, even if we cannot see it yet. An insight is an insight into the process that gives certain results (like the sunrise, explained by the rotating earth).

'At a point in their lives each received in irresistible divine call [It happens to us all. I need to pee, etc, or I want to be a rock star.] Jerusalem Bible page 1116. Jones

We are all prophets all the time manifesting elements of the divine process.

My role is to be the New Moses, leading the people of the world out of the ancient darkness of invisible gods to the light, in which everywhere we see we see god. Jerusalem Bible page 1118.

The Bible dramatizes prophecy which is really quite normal, the daily bread of every researcher and teacher.

Moses spoke to God face to face. We all speak to god face to face in our everyday experiences which fall on the spectrum from agony to ecstasy.

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Jerusalem Bible page 1120: 'the three dominant features of he Old Testament theology: monotheism, morality, messianism.

JB page 1122: natural religion is "the kingdom of God', ie the recognition that reality rules.

Israel's big mistake is to think that the Bible is true and that they are the chosen people, something special above the usual rules.

The New Testament is a very successful sequel to the Old testament. We hope that natural religion will be an even more successful sequel to the New Testament, since the New Testament still has a strong element of dramatic fantasy that obscures the truth of our divine existence.

Monday 30 May 2011

God is what is, from moment to moment.

We can't see action, so our computers hide it showing us only the stationary formal states at each step in the computation.

On representing a computer in Hilbert space.

Wiki: Judaism values works over faith which unless true is worthless or positively dangerous. Judaism - Wikipedia

Great military victories by deception. Greenspan

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Maimonides: 'There is a Being perfect in every possible way, who is the ultimate cause of all existence. All existence depends on God and is derived from God. ' Wikipedia Jewish principles of faith. Jewish principles of faith - Wikipedia

Holocaust theology:

The core concepts are personality (source), transformation, dynamics and stationary points (of a transformation). We are all talking to one another.

The democratic god is perfectly normal, not some exalted unapproachable personage like a king, pope or president.

The classical God, like the initial singularity, lies at the root of the cosmic tree. Having got to the root, we can now make an orderly path to any of the leaves by specifying a sequence of branchings.

FORM = ORDERED SET (+ REFERENCE FRAME ?).

No reference frame needed in a gaussian representation.

Havong finished the planing we must now enter the action, raising funds and promoting the idea enough to get it started.

Natural theology is wysiwig theology: what you see is what you get.

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Every constraint is (generates) a stationary point.

The fundamental law of science: all disputes will be resolved by collecting and weighing evidence. This is to recognise the supreme role of the divine reality.

In order to found theology we must establish the existence of its source, god. This is a peculiarity of theology.Biology studies life, and no one disputes the existence of life.

Does the Higgs boson exist? Higgs boson - Wikipedia

The purpose of human religion is to engineer ideal conditions for human existence, both objective (public) and subjective (private).

objective -- public - abstract (applies to many cases)
subjective -- private -- concrete (unique named individual)

It seems reasonable to develop natural theology as a business bringing in an income. This requires a) peer recognition; b) popularity.

'We list the constructive features of the world -- stability and connectivity, everything encompassed by a network.

Tuesday 31 May 2011

A bounded motion has stationary points.

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Two motions, mutually binding one another, may share a stationary point.

Naming (numbering) dimensions creates a natural order among them.

The basic creative process escapes from deterministic control by [symmetry and] permutation. A set of permutations cannot exist unless the objects that are permuted exist. While a set of objects does not have any excess variety to control itself, the variety of the set of permutations of a set of objects is sufficient to control the objects which are the subjects of the permutation. Each of these objects is an action defined by two stationary points The stationary point between two actions is the message transmitted between them which is the contribution of the past to the future since the ordering of actions is done in time, So we might say that the past cannot control the future but the future can control the past, where future = high entropy = permutation made possible by symmetry.

Abstract -- invariant
Concrete = variant = pure act.

Wednesday 1 June 2011

Nothing is impossible means that every point in the phase space is accessible, How does this relate to Caratheodory? Callen, Constantin Caratheodory - Wikipedia

NOETIC SPACE = home of transfinite computer network

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