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[Sunday 17 July 2011 - Saturday 24 July 2011]

[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]

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Sunday 17 July 2011

Since the earliest times we know of theology has been the root of science. Theology is the traditional theory of everything, Theology is the science corresponding to the art or technology we call religion. Religion is the set of protocols that enables a random group of people to coalesce into a functioning whole and so increase their fitness, that is [the] probability of survival of the group, which requires that it deals with all the problems raised by its environment. Our environment is to a significant degree organized and predictable. By getting to know the organization, we learn to predict its behaviour and think about how to maximize our productivity, that is the yield of fitness per unit of effort.

Nucleation. Nucleation - Wikipedia, Domb

It is hard to imagine that Adolph Hitler thought he was doing a bad thing when he decided

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to kill all the Jews, he thought it was the right thing to do and never seems to have felt any remorse over his action. He had plenty of collaborators. The root of this attempted genocide was the set of mental states of the Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, and it is this and its analogues that have to be understood and dealt with. A similar situation arises with the people who engineered the recent global financial crisis and still seem hell bent on provoking more such crises, since they seem to have the property of making the rich richer, their heart's desire.

A magnificent obsession: develop the successor to the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Spring.

The idea is similar to initiating a phase change in a system trapped far from equilibrium, like a supersaturated liquid. Our notion of invariance with respect to complexity means that we can extend the ideas of physical phase change and nucleation from the simple physical scale of complexity to the human scale.

The arbitrariness of traditional religion is illustrated by suicide bombing where we can assume that the martyrs have been led to believe that God wants railway stations and plane loads of people to be murdered for reasons which are hard to fathom.

Who are the Chosen People? : The Moses Scam

Monday 18 July 2011
Tuesday 19 July 2011

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Wednesday 20 July 2011

We think of the stationary points as desire free, pointsd of zero force or potential gradient.

Stationary point = attractor. Attractor - Wikipedia

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a Kempis, Thomas, and Aloysius Croft (Translator), Harold Bolton (Translator), The Imitation of Christ, Dover Publications 2003 Amazon Product Description 'This classic, second only to the Bible for religious instruction and inspiration, has brought understanding and comfort to millions for centuries. Written in a candid and conversational style, the topics include liberation from worldly inclinations, preparation and consolations of prayer, and the place of eucharistic communion in a devout life.'back
Domb, Cyril, The Critical Point: An historical introduction to the modern theory of Critical Phenomena, CRC Press 1996 Jacket: 'The relationship between liquids and gases engaged the attention of a number of distinguished scientists in the nineteenth century. In a paper published in 1869, Thomas Andrews described experiments that he had performed on carbon dioxide. From this he concluded that a critical temperature exists below which liquids are gases are distinct phases of matter. but above which they merge into a single phase. Other natural phenomena were subsequently discovered to which the same critical point description can be applied. These included ferromagnetism, solutions and various types of lambda point transition.
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Tolkien, J R R, The Lord of the Rings, Houghton Mifflin 2005 Amazon Book Description: 'In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Sauron's fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings to him, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth, deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider. This new edition includes the fiftieth-anniversary fully corrected text setting and, for the first time, an extensive new index.' 
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Attractor - Wikipedia Attractor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'An attractor is a set towards which a dynamical system evolves over time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed. Geometrically, an attractor can be a point, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange attractor. Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory.' back
Nucleation - Wikipedia Nucleation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 'Nucleation is the extremely localized budding of a distinct thermodynamic phase. Some examples of phases that may form via nucleation in liquids are gaseous bubbles, crystals or glassy regions. Creation of liquid droplets in saturated vapor is also characterized by nucleation (see Cloud condensation nuclei).' back

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