vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 1 January 2012 - Saturday 7 January 2012]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
Sunday 1 January 2012
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Monday 2 January 2012
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Small c Catholicism. Website promoted small c catholicism.
Much of this website remains a twinkle in its author's eye. One day I will have written out what I want to say and then I'll be ready for questions and a bit of evangelization. <.p>
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Tuesday 3 January 2012
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How do we compute the burden which monarchies place on their people? In terms of entropy. A fully fit person has maximum entropy, call it 1 (= aleph(n). A slave, fully captive has no entropy, entropy zero. The burden of the king is an entropic force or an entropic reaction to the force of people trying to be themselves.Communication is communication, whether it is galaxies or gnats.
What I need to do most is become convinced of my own story and people will listen to me. If I am not really convinced, I could learn to act convinced and so be a con person and take people in just the same. Does the Pope really believe all that stuff? Quite likely he has been vetted by the institution all his life and so it is unlikely that he is a democratic sleeper who is just waiting for the time to act. He is a believer, at a fixed point in the space of human mental states.
Insofar as theology is a sciene it makes no difference how things are, since all science is history, assaying stationary points in the Universe that carry information from the past. Photons come from the past,
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connecting their points of creation and annihilation in a null geodesic, ds2 = 0.
Catholicism is too good to be true, or at least its promises are. Can we trust the promises of natural religion? Natural religion wants to maximize human brainpower for our common good. What it is trying to create is a theological silicon valley, set on a firm trajectory to a rich seam of invention opened up by computer networks.
Every computer is a computer network.
This work has imprisoned me for a long time because while the outcome is uncertain the only strategy is to press on as quickly as possible hoping to get somewhere. Npw, as so often before, I think I am getting somewhere so I can relax a little while nevertheless working harder now that some outcome is in sight and I can see myself with a viable web presence.
A string is a sequence of events. Even though it exists as a fixed point both writer and reader nake their way along it symbol by symbol, a sequence of acts parametrized by time.
These ideas are reminiscent of Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere Teilhard de Chardin
A system is an enclosure, or is in an enclosure, the surface of the enclosure being the interface between the system and the world.
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Tiny Thomas asked his nursemaid 'quid est hoc quod est esse'. The answer, after long contemplation, is to send and receive messages.
Wednesday 4 January 2012
Thursday 5 January 2012
Friday 6 January 2012
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The key to recycling in the living worldß is that we are all made of food. In the physical world it is that we are all made of energy (which includes matter).
Saturday 7 January 2012
Headroom = factor of safety.
I have often written that a century is a short time in religion, and looked to no vindication in my lifetime, but now he internet is making me more optimistic, and we might expect a perfectly documented religious phase change (like the special relativity) could take control in a generation, measured by the effective cretive life of an academic, say 40 years, the time I have been engaged seriousluy with theology.
Grateful Dead: "Knockin' on Heaven's Door". Grateful Dead
I always wanted to be a wR riter and now I am beginning to feel like on. My prejudice in favour of manual labour (something reliable) has been
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broken and I am beginning to see the value of theology again.
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