vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 6 May 2012 - Saturday 12 May 2012]
[Notebook: DB 71 Israel]
Sunday 6 May 2012
Monday 7 May 2012
Tuesday 8 May 2012
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Wednesday 9 May 2012
System, error, guilt, punishment
Case law provides the basis for social system building as the judiciary and the parliament together seek to build a system better suited to serve the needs and wants of the coalition in power.
Burg: 'Its time to remove the Zionist scaffolding and live normal life, like normal people. I was a Zionist. Now that the mission is accomplished I simply and naturally became a post-Zionist.' Avrum Burg
Thursday 10 May 2012
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there is an answer to every objection. Aquinas proceeds per sic et non, is x y or not? Does God exist? And so on. Can I do this? I can but try, with occasional efforts to publish something that might attract others.
Everything revolves around the belief that motion and stillness are different entities. Fixed point theorems, on the other hand, tell us that the fixed points are simply parts of the motion, and because they are fixed they can be represented in sentences like this, something which it is hard to deny and may be true for all time, a symmetry of the Universe.
Aquinas: De Ente et Essentia genus, species etc name sets of symmetrical entities. Thomas Aquinas: De Ente et Essentia
Aquinas distinguishes the simple from the composite. This is a mistake, since the composite is really just the fixed points in the Universal dynamics.
We can equate prime matter and energy, form and momentum, since momentum is spatial, that is fixed in some way.
The Scholastic (static) layering of genus and species is reflected in the parent / child relationship in software engineering and the layering of network software.
Theology cannot rely entirely on Jesus experience: it must be based on all the real time experience of billions of people. Experience = communication, interaction with one's environment.
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De Ente et Esentia = On Symmetry
All symmetries are ultimately broken because each life experience of a particle is unique, projected onto space and time. I occupy about 100 litres for 100 years.
'Et idea dicit Commentator in XI Metaphysicae quod material prima dicitur una per remotionem omnium formarum, sed genus dicitur unum per communitatem formae significatae.'
The Scholastics structures the Word after their logic and philosophy.
Now it all comes back to one sentence: the Universe is divine. The Universe is everything, but what does divine mean? Accounting for its own existence, not the slave or the output of another.
Yet in the end it is all politics. Those who for reasons of their own separate God and the Universe will oppose the idea and it must assert itself as a better alternative, hopefully by its beautiful transparent clarity [reflecting the same attribute in God].
At the moment the political dialogue is (as ever) between greater integration of people into a whole and less, big and small government, high and low tax, high and low entropy.
What are the religious consequences of this
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theological theory: a strong argument for complexity and peace.
People moving: what theology and religion do is specify the spiritual milieu (le milieu divin) of a community. To get a global people we need a global milieu. This is specified biologically by our DNA and the molecular mechanism of the fertilized egg from which we grew. Our spiritual unity, on the other hand, comes from the society into which we are born, and each of these is different for both ecological and random [reasons]. The problem is to express the spiritual unity of humans in as language which all understand and which will not be lost in translation. This points us toward mathematical theology. More than fifty years ago Wigner noted the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the physical sciences. Mathematics permeates the other sciences, and in fact our whole lives from our banking, trading, design and production systems. Teilhard de Chardin: The Divine Milieu, Eugene Wigner
Theology is the traditional theory of everything. A good theory of everything gives us a consistent picture of the whole of reality from the initial singularity to the end state of the Universe. We find such a story in the Bible but the Biblical story is in serious need of updating in the light of more recent knowledge of our world. The Bible purports to document the history of everything from Genesis to Apocalypse. it is a human work of fiction based on the experiences of a relatively small group of people living a long time ago. The Bible is not the Universe, it is a story about
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the Universe, providing an accessible picture of the workings of our environment attributed to a divine personality who is a close ally of the authors of the Bible. On the other hand we have the Universe itself, which is self documenting, it tells us its own story once we have learnt the language in which it speaks. Plato and Galileo both felt that mathematics is an important part of the natural languages and their hunches have been massively reinforced by the experience of scientists since then.
How do we construct a mathematical theology? We shall proceed by analogy with quantum mechanics. Our hypothesis is that the Universe can be modelled by a transfinite computer network.
The existence of finite computer networks is underpinned by the mathematical theories of communication and computation. These theories depend to some extent on mathematical fixed point theorems which tell us how we comes to be able to document the dynamic Universe is fixed writing. As Parmenides realized this is only possible if the Universe itself has fixed points. Parmenides' error was to distinguish the fixed points from the motion, whereas the fixed points of a motion are part of that motion. So mathematics, as it is written, represents fixed points in the minds of the mathematicians who wrote it.
The current US election campaign could still turn out to be interesting as homosexuality, marriage, mormonism, the far right etc etc all jump into the fray. The elephant in the room is the Roman Catholic Church, and it needs to be attacked.
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Christianity as understood by the Roman Catholic Church is a reactionary product of celibate non-creative minds who make believe that they are heirs to millennia of tradition. In fact they enjoy the political power of a monopoly on communication with God and have become wealthy on it, well aware of the power that money can buy and the money that power can buy. Get rich, buy an army, rule the world. Also buy access to all communications between individuals.
Philosophy is the philosophy of communication. The Scholastics worked in the static world of fixed forms and essences. Newton introduced the kinematic approach as a bridge between statics and dynamics.
Summa: a highly technical interpretation of the Bible based on the notion that it is inspired by God. This is true, but the Bible is an infinitesimal speck of information in the overall dynamics of the Universe.
So it is time to launch a strong critiqueß of Christianity which is not atheism but new paradigm theism.
Grooving the Moo. All the intractable political conflicts that we are experiencing have their roots in religious dysfunction which is a direct consequence of theological error. The error is essentially the negation of the proposition God and the Universe are the same entity. The error was crystallized by medieval Scholastic theologians whose doyen is Saint Thomas Aquinas. . . .
