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vol VII: Notes

2012

Notes

[Sunday 11 March 2012 - Saturday 17 March 2012]

[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]

Sunday 11 March 2012
Monday 12 March 2012

[page 128]

Tuesday 13 March 2012

IDENTITY == SYMMETRY

Boson identity = total identity
fermion identity = identical but one is not the other.

Wednesday 14 March 2012
Thursday 15 March 2012

An opinion is a fixed point with which people can agree or disagree in varying degrees until the community arrives asymptotically to an agreed point or, on the other hand, does not converge and goes chaotic.

Friday 16 March 2012
Saturday 17 March 2012

[page 129}

LOVE = POTENTIAL

We proceed on the assumption that the first structure to emerge fom the simplicity of pure action is energy, a duality of potential and kinesis. Once again we draw an analogy with the ancient model of the Trinity, kinesis corresponding to procession (genesis) and potential corresponding to relationship, paternitas etc.

Sick but happy. Constructing the house and the theology are very similar operations, involving some daring design, some daring construction and the gradual consolidation of the construct as the necessary bracing (triangulation is installed.

Triangulation works because of the constancy of the metric which in practical terms is determined by atomic size and bond length.

Chemistry: atoms and molecules.

Gravitation is a version of incompressible hydrodynamics in which the flow of the conserved quantity (energy [probability]) is determined by the floe of the conserved quantity. The coupling is very loose, however, as loose as the principle of general covariance that there are n! ways to map nobjects onto themselves. So where are the fixed points in the symmetric group? a --> b. b --> a, cardinal unchanged. Each new unit in the flow is created by a bifurcation of action into two which we will call (according to convention) potential and kinetic. by which we mean structural and motive, each motion creating its own termini, the fixed points in the very process of coming into existence, as an oscillator brings both the motion and the limits to motion into existence, so action = {transformation, [origin,] terminus}.

So both the motion of the electron and the fixed orbits are just different aspects of the same thing.

The arhetypa example of creation (sex sells) is the buildup from love through orgasm to conception and the consequential construction of a new human, a dynamic system operating through self imposed constraints.

Troubles in the respiratory tract, my biggest interface with the world. Snot.

Because the Universe is a recursive process there is no limit to the complexity it can generate.

The flow seems to have stopped at dev03physics, phys07energy, the big leap from monotheism to polytheism where poly is the shorthand for the natural numbers equal to or less than ℵ0.

I am not specifically opposed to any of the dominant cultures except insofar as they claim to be exclusive or right.

In wetware, serum is the software (?).

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Further reading

Books

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Brecht, Berthold, and John Willett (translator and editor) Ralph Manheim (editor), Life of Galielo, Methuen 1980 Jacket: 'Along with Mother Courage, the character of Galileo is one of Brecht's greatest creations, immensely live, human and complex. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo's heretical discoveries about the solar system bring him to the attention of the Inquisition. He is scared into publicly abjuring his theories but despite his self-contempt, goes on working in private, eventually helping to smuggle his rwitings out of the country,

As an examination of the problems that face not only the scientist but the whole spirit of free inquiry when brought into conflict with the requirements of government or official ideology, Life of Galileo has few equals.

Written in exile in 1937-1939 and first performed in Zurich in 1943, Galileo was first staged in English in 1947 by Joseph Losey in a version jointly prepared by Brecht and Charles Laughton, who played the title role. Printed here is a new complete translation by John Willett, joint editor of Brecht's Collected Plays in English, but the much shorter Laughton version is also included in full as an appendix, along with Brecht's own copious notes on the play.' 
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Chaitin, Gregory J, Information, Randomness & Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory, World Scientific 1987 Jacket: 'Algorithmic information theory is a branch of computational complexity theory concerned with the size of computer programs rather than with their running time. ... The theory combines features of probability theory, information theory, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and recursive function or computability theory. ... [A] major application of algorithmic information theory has been the dramatic new light it throws on Goedel's famous incompleteness theorem and on the limitations of the axiomatic method. ...' 
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Chaitin, Gregory J, Algorithmic Information Theory, Cambridge UP 1987 Foreword: 'The crucial fact here is that there exist symbolic objects (i.e., texts) which are "algorithmically inexplicable", i.e., cannot be specified by any text shorter than themselves. Since texts of this sort have the properties associated with random sequences of classical probability theory, the theory of describability developed . . . in the present work yields a very interesting new view of the notion of randomness.' J T Schwartz 
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Deighton, Len, City of Gold/MAMista, Random House 1998  
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Papers
Goldenfeld, Nigel, Carl Woese, "Biology's next revolution", Nature, 445, 7126, 25 January 2007, page 369. ' . . . the convergence of fresh theoretical ideas in evolution and the coming avalache of genomic data will profoundly alter our understanding of the biosphere =- and is likely to lead to a revision of concepts such as species, organism and evolution. Here we explain why we forsee such dramatic transformation and why we believe the molecular reductionism that dominated twentieth century biology will be superseded by an interdisciplinary approach the embraces collective phenomena'. back

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