Notes
[Sunday 16 October 2011 - Saturday 22 October 2011]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
Sunday 16 October 2011
Monday 17 October 2011
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Wednesday 19 October 2011
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Thursday 20 October 2011
Richard Gott : Murder is murder whether the killing is legitimized by some God or government (See Yahweh and Moses) [or not]. The layered model requires the higher layers to preserve the lower layers if [they] are to preserve themselves. Richard Gott
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Culture: 'The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves' Ledwidge page 189. Ledwidge
The transfinite network gives us a framework to model the transition from mating to love. From an evolutionary point of view, we might say that love began with organisms that personally nurted their young.
Gaddafi: another senseless killing like the millions of others we have perpetrated lately. He needed to be debriefed, to be investigated in depth so that we should know in detail what made him tick. One could have learnt a lot from him in ten years or so of conversation, and it is extreme people like Gaddafi who seem to be the biggest threat to the peaceful life. The playing field must eventually be structured so that wealth cannot buy violence and terrorism. Ian Black
A lot of Middle Eastern problems are related to our dependence on oil
Friday 21 October 2011
It is going to be a tricky business introducing a new religion without upsetting the old ones. Although I think confrontationally, reality requires winning hearts and minds : a phrase often used by invaders. But natural religion is not an invasion, it is the creative power itself, which has brought our little part of the Universe to this point and continues to lead us on its kaleidoscopic way. But how do we put this message across, calling it religion, without upsetting other religions. My
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guess is that the best way is to introduce the transfinite network in physics and gradually expand the application of the model to higher and higher level of complexity / abstraction finishing at theology and then passing through the sea of love to the practical work of survival. Not surprisingly, given the social nature of our species, a large part of our survival armoury is skills at dealing with one another,
No power without responsibility. Without power, one is free, ie orthogonal to the rest of the world, in a dimension (or set of dimensions) of one's own.
The network also enables us to define ideal (error free, Platonic) systems as asmptotes which may be approached by real systems.
Religion = applied theology, as physics is applied mathematics.
I have always been fascinated by Boltzmanns calculation of the entropy of a gas. Can it really be like this? Can every permutation of an almost infinite number of molecules in a volume of gas be a distinct state in the state space of the gas?
I am beginning to see how much work remains to be done to develop and apply the model to real situations. This is the structure of Development, Physics, Biology, . . . Theology being applications of the model to each field.
Modern governments are losing their legitimacy at an ever increasing rate. Who trusts politicians or police
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any more? We are all entering a Stasiland while in a state of deep denial. The problem is theological and religious. We are working on a false and outdated concept of humanity and human organization. We are making a transition from monarchy to democracy, but there are forces (like the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist Party of China) pushing in the opposite direction, claiming to have independent knowledge of truth and therefore the right to boss people around, spy on them, imprison and torture them. Funder
Twice a day, morning and night through the winter, I spend abut half an hour preparing, starting and maintaining a chain rection, aka the fire, an essential component of wellbeing at least in the primitive conditions under which I live. It is part of our footprint, to be reduced as far as possible by localization and insulation.
After a long period trying to image the complexity of the world, the transfinite numbers came as a godsend to me in the eighties. Now I am beginning to feel at home in the transfinite computer network and love it since it is, following Cantor, the formal source of itself, working by symmetry and consistency to explore the space of possibility and finding the recursive (consistent) paths that have zero action: L = T - V = 0 and by reproducing themselves potentially last forever.
We map the dynamics by determining the stationary points, the rings, the bars, the bearings, the accepted patterns of perfection in dance and gymnastics, and so on.
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Love impels me to such a degree that even if my work turns out to be hopelessly inept, I continue with it nevertheless because it seems the only way for me to go and my life up to the present is the foundation (past) of my current adventure.
A deal is done when a buyer and a seller agree on a price, that is reach an equipotential surface, or in another image, are 'in phase' [non-contradictory] ie on the path of least action predicted by Feynman's path integral. All these hundreds of little snippets have to be shaped into a coherent whole in the Development volume.
