Notes
[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