vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 1 July 2012 - Saturday 7 July 2012]
[Notebook: DB 72 Energaia ]
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Sunday 1 July 2012
Haidt page 25: David Hume: ' "reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." ' (?) Hume
So my passion is the the Universe is divine. My reason spends 24/7 looking for ways to harmonize this belief with the scientific evidence we have.
Monks = copyists. Scriptorium - Wikipedia
My righteous mind rejects the concept that the rich and powerful should farm the poor and weak in order to preserve and extend their wealth and power. The modern,
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symbol of this monarchic order is the Pope and his role, the Papacy.
Haidt page 28: Plato, Timaeus and the political edge of philosophy. Plato: Timaeus
'Just in case there is any doubt about Plato's contempt for the passions, Timaeus add that a man who masters his emotions will live a life of reason and justice, and will be reborn into a celestial heaven of eternal happiness. A man who is mastered by his passions, however, will be reborn as a woman.'
'rationalist delusion'. The opposite of Dawkins' 'god delusion'. Dawkinspage 31: Wilson, Sociobiology Wilson
page 33; Damasio, Descartes Error Damasio
In the layered model, the later ('intellectual') layers of the mind are built on the earlier ('passionate') layers.
page 35: Evolutionary psychology Cummins: The Evolution of Mind
page 40: 'The results supported Hume, not Jefferson or Plato. People made moral judgements quickly and emotionally. Moral reasoning was mostly just a post hoc search for reasons to justify the judgements people had already made.'
page 43: Pattern matching.
'seeing that' vs 'reasoning why', Margolis
page 44: 'We do moral reasoning not to reconstruct the actual reasons
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why we ourselves came to a judgement, we reason to find the best possible reasons why somebody else ought to join us in our judgement.'
Haidt page 45: 'Contrasting emotion with cognition is therefore as pointless as contrasting rain with weather, or cards with vehicles.' Or stasis with motion.
Darwin's tangled [bank] is to be understood as a communication network. Darwin
We [ie physicists and mathematicians] accept that a continuous formalism can be deterministic.
It is natural for theologies and religions to teach us to accept mysteries and miracles because there is an enormous amount we do not know, but this does not mean we cannot know.
Infinity is another name for symmetry with respect to complexity [or size], assuring us, for instance, that arithmetic still works no matter how large the numbers (or how small).
Haidt page 46: Why distinguish intuition from passion, they come together as when one perceives a clear and present danger.
page 49: Henry Ford ' "If there is one secret to success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from their angle as well your own." ' Relativity, transformation.
'Empathy is an antidote to righteousness although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide.'
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Haidt page 49: Haidt settles with Hume.
page 54: Buddha: 'It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but conceals ones own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.' Dhammapada verse 252. Buddha
page 58: IAT projectimplicit.org
page 63: 'the trick is to see what surprises babies.'
page 64: ' "the capacity to evaluate individuals o'n the basis of their social interactions is universal and unlearned." Hamlin, Wynn & Bloom
page 66 Greene, 2001, Science 293: 2105-8 Greene
page 73: 'Plato (who had been a student of Socrates) had a coherent set of beliefs about human nature, and at the core of these beliefs was his faith in the perfectibility of reason.'
page 74: 'Glaucon [Republic] . . . the most important principle for designing an ethical society is to make sure that everyone's reputation in on the line all the time so that bad behaviour will always bring bad consequences.' Plato
The Catholic Police State rules by an all seeing God.
A principle: nothing exists if it is not physically represented.
page 75: 'Human beings are the world champions of cooperation beyond
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kinship, and we do it in large part by creating systems of formal and informal accountability.
Haidt page 75: 'we act like intuitive politicians striving to maintain appealing moral identities in front of our multiple constituencies.' At least some people do.
In the social world 'Appearances are more more important than reality.' Or perhaps appearance is effectively reality.
Haidt's story is largely about mental energy and momentum, the changer and the resistance to change, isomorphic to time and space..
page 86: 'Our politics is groupish, not selfish.'
Suddenly everyone has gone and I have become an empty nester alone in the woods. I seem to have come a full circle back to a quasi-monkish existence with all the family at a distance. My neighbour is moving because of this. Will I move? I don't thing so, because I am deeply embedded in the community and fully occupied in developing and testing my theological hypotheses (delusion).
Haidt might be using rational arguments to justify his intuitionism. Are we saying that people's moral choices are not ultimately decided by their model of the world.
page 99: ' "culture and psyche made eachother up".' Shweder Cultural Psychology -- dual spaces.
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It is very handy that we can represent a network by a matrix (graph).
Haidt page 103: 'high = good = pure = God . . . low = bad = dirty = animal.'page 115: 'Hume's work on morality was the quintesssential Enlightenment project: an exploration of an area previously owned by religion using the methods and attitudes of the new natural sciences.'
Hume: ' "Moral Perceptions, therefore, ought not to be classed with Operations of the Understanding, but with Tastes or Sentiments." '
Locality involves both space and time, ie momentum and energy.
page 117: Bentham: Utility (fitness?) Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia
God = the way things are (to which one must conform to survive.)
page 119: 'Kant, like Plato, wanted to discover the timeless, changeless form of the Good.'
Which is? Consistency, wholeness, what works, etc. Picked out by Hamilton's principle which is a continuous mathematical version of variation and selection explained by Feynman's path integral approach equating phase and action. Feynman & Hibbs
page 201: 'Humans construct moral communities out of shared norms, institutions and gods that, even in the twenty-first century, they fight and kill and die to defend.'
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'self-domestication' Self-domestication - Wikipedia
Monday 2 July 2012
Haidt page 248: Durkheim: ' "A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden — beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them." '
So no problem in the long run, of getting everyone into the one Church moved by the steady force of understanding our condition.
Science founding hypothesis: the world is consistent and intelligible. Christianity founding hypothesis: God is omnipotent, loves us and can be trusted, and works for the best no matter how bad things look.
page 249: Harris, Dawkins, Dennet and Hitchens, God is not great, how religion poisons everything. Harris, Dennett, Hitchens
page 250: 'The New Atheist model of religious psychology: Believing --> Doing.' Hard to fault.
Dawkins, 'God Hypothesis "there exists a superhuman, supernatural intelligence who deliberately created the Universe and everything in it, including us".' page 31.
'Believing, doing and belonging are three complimentary yet distinct aspects of religiosity . . .'
page 251: Intuition = transparent processing.
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Haidt page 254: 'To Dennett and Dawkins, religions are sets of memes that have undergone Darwinian selection. Like biological traits, religions are heritable, they mutate, and there is selection among the mutations. The selection occurs not on the basis of the benefits religions confer upon individuals or groups but on the basis of their ability to survive and reproduce themselves.
Which implies the survival and reproduction of the communities in which these religions are embodied.
Reference frame, reference body, embodiment. We understand through dual frames and a metric which says if one goes one way the other must go the other way in order to maintain the overall symmetry. So the invariance of ds is a consequence of action and reaction are equal and opposite.
Maybe the new theology starts with Einstein and covariance. We strip things of meaning by giving them any meaning [whatever].
Religion as Adaptation: Atran and Henrich Evolution of Religion biological theory Atran & Henrich
Insofar as gravitation is a force that sees only energy and is completely indifferent to structure, how can it be the source of the subtle structure of spacetime without outside help which we will assume to be logical confinement?
Quantum mechanics allows for many different quantized energy levels induced by a potential.
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The New Atheism is attacking a paper tiger, the best sort to fight from a safety point of view.
Can I do it? On morning like this I think I can. I am emulating my forebears, writing with a shivering hand. The sun will come up in fifteen minutes and I will be comfortable again. With the religious right and the new atheism the theological debate is becoming topical and a historically founded new theological paradigm should open out the debate.
It might be a little arrogant for the current scientific community to think that they are that much smarter than the 'Fathers of the Church'. We all stand on the shoulders of these people. Science did not burst full blown upon the scene but grew in the Middle Ages from the assimilation of ancient Greek thought passed on through Arabic channels.
Many pioneering scientists deeply religious, eg Newton, Einstein.
Between them the Religious Right and the New Atheists have brought theology into the limelight. A naive history of science would suggest that science and theology are opposed.
Haidt page 256: 'There is now [and always was!] a great deal of evidence that religions do in fact help groups to cohere, solve the free rider problem and win the competition for group level survival.'
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Haidt page 257: '. . . the very ritual practices that the New Atheists dismiss as costly, inefficient and irrational turn out to be a solution to one of the hardest problems humans face: cooperation without kinship.'
Another such process is trade: you help me, I help you, and the metric could be money.
page 266: Putnam and Campbell, American Grace Putnam & Campbell
page 267: P&C: ' "By many different measures religiously observant Americans are better neighbours and better citizens than secular Americans — they are more generous with their time and money, especially in helping the needy, and they are more active in community life." ' page 461.
P&C: ' "It is religious belongingness that matters for neighbourliness, not religious believing" ' page 473.
Haidt: 'Religions are moral exoskeletons.' ie bad religions that contain people. Good religions are endoskeletons, we can grow without moulting.
page 270: 'Moral systems are interlocking sets of values, virtues, norms, practices, identities, institutions, technologies, and evolved psychological mechanisms that work together to suppress or regulate self-interest and make cooperative societies possible.
The exoskeleton view. The endoskeleton says cooperation is the best form of self interest, and hence its universal prevalence from nucleons to nations.
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Haidt page 272: Opts for utilitarianism, which is a global view.
Better opt for a declaration of rights, which defines the local space (inertial frame) from which the human Universe is built. Utilitarians would make some suffer for a greater good, a la God and Jesus.
page 274: '[America] now seems polarized and embattled to the point of dysfunction.'
page 278: Innate = heuristic
There is a duality between address and contents of the memory at that address (?). They are not cardinally equivalent, since each bit among billions is 0 or 1.
page 286: '. . . binding foundation —Loyalty, Authority, Sanctity — . . .
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We can apply Loyalty, Authority, Sanctity (above) to the ubergroup, the divine Universe.page 289: Muller, Conservatism: ' "What makes social and political arguments conservative as opposed to orthodox is that the critique of the liberal or progressive arguments takes place on the enlightened grounds of the search for human happiness based on the use of reason." ' page 4 Russel Kirk Muller
page 294: Bertrand Russell: 'It is clear that each party to this dispute — as to all that persist through long periods of time — is partly right and partly wrong. Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely
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rational arguments. Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition, on the one hand; on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of individualism and personal independence that makes cooperation impossible. History of Western Philosophy page 9. Russell
Haidt page 305: 'A more positive way to describe the conservatives is to say that their broader moral matrix enables them to detect threats to moral capital that liberals cannot perceive.'
page 307: Edmund Bourke on locality: ' "To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ, as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love of our country, and to mankind".' and the rest.
page 308: Adam Smith: ' "That wisdom which contrived the system of human affections . . . seems to have judged that the interest of the great society of mankind would be best promoted by directing the principal attention of each individual to that particular portion of it, which was most within the sphere both of his abilities and of his understanding." 'Part VI, section II, chapter 2. Smith
Tuesday 3 July 2012
A lightly new direction. The foundation of my theology is, from a logical and mathematical point of view, the blindingly obvious that everything we observe in the Universe including the Universe itself is a discrete entity, that is something bounded and at a distance from all other entities. So the
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continuous paradigm is just an abstract approximation to what is really going on, which is best explained by analogy with a computer network. So for the time being we leave theology out of the picture (a la Newton) and simply describe how the Universe works. If this picture gains traction then we can reveal the isomorphism to God.
The continuous picture is an intellectual construct that people have been thinking about and working on for 3000 years or so, but it is only an approximation to reality and because it has very low entropy, cannot capture the full glory of the Universe. So the continuum is logically a subset of the discretum, a particular construct of axioms and rules of inference, a jewel set in a logical framework, but it is the logical framework rather that the mathematics of the continuum where the real picture of the Universe lies. We are inclined to think that we can do things that the world can't but we have missed the point that it made us rather than vice versa.
Lots of books come out these days about the dodginess of the human mind, laying down evolutionary hypotheses about how we got this way. Our emergence is an example of the process by which everything has emerged. This emergence populates the space of evolutionary possibility. This space is the transfinite network.
TRANSFINITE NETWORK = SPACE OF EVOLUTIONARY POSSIBILITY.
a) big, b) most powerful possible processor.
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Now that we have got a plan, we have to begin to do it.
Quantum gravity won't renormalize, so either quantum theory or renormalization has to be wrong. Renormalization [began] as a dodgy but effective process in the minds of its creators, but since then further successes and a lot of mathematical theory have given it a halo of respectability, which does not mean it is right. Rather it is a necessary consequence of the continuous paradigm, necessary if this paradigm is to be forced to yield measurable answers.
Haidt might be right: first we get the passion and then we look for the reasons, but this is really just a bit of science data (experience) followed by hypothesis and more data collection. Only the hypothesis can be falsified, not the data which are real experiences, input. Hypotheses are the output and what we act upon: he's going to jump that way so I go this way. Moments later the hypothesis is falsified or gains credibility.
However I think about this stuff I cannot get way from the theological angle: the world is divine and self sufficient, designing and building itself without exterior constraint. There are no initial conditions.
I have tried to write this article without using theological concepts, but have found that it is impossible. Like God, the Universe is pure intellect, pure love, pure power, in sum, pure act.
Although science would like to distance itself from
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theology, one sees that many of the best scientists are religious people, theologically motivated.
2300 years ago Aristotle invented the unmoved mover. The modern version of his insight, the result of 2300 years of careful thought and observation is the principle of conservation of energy. Quantum mechanics sees a world of perpetual motion, energy being the rate of action, and action being the measure of what everything, including ourselves, does.
One might say our blindness is extreme, but it too can be explained by the evolutionary need to do whatever is necessary to survive from generation to generation, so our minds are on the game, not the environment of the game. Christianity has done very well for us, even though many find faults with it. We do not need to throw it away, just see it as part of a larger picture and tweak it to make a better fit with this picture.
The plan will only work really if we develop plausible computable functions that explain the observations, and we have them already, the eigenfunctions of quantum operators. So all we have to prove is a one to one mapping between computable functions and the eigenfunctions , and the key is discreteness, standing waves. Eigenfunction - Wikipedia
Phases and neurons go together like a horse and carriage. In quantum mechanics phases add linearly. In the brain there is a metric which determines the weights to be attributed to various phases [by various neurons].
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Wigner on gravitation. [Relativistic Invariance and Quantum Mechanics, Symmetries and Reflections pp 51-81] Wigner
Implicit in all the theology / science discussions is the concept that they are different [independent] sources of knowledge.
There was a time (was there?) when every boy had to train as a soldier or a priest, with a bit of hunting, farming etc on the side.
Marihuana, tobacco, alcohol, chocolate and coffee may be killing me but they are certainly helping me to break some of the conceptual bonds that I absorbed in my youth and so ?? the initial break came when I was quite young but it has taken me a long time to make sense of it.
The most painless way to deal with difficult people is to fall in love with them so love thy neighbour may mean take the trouble to see their point of view. To do this one needs an intellect flexible enough to see that there is an infinity of points of view on every issue, although communication of points of view requires a symmetry between the communicants, a set of meaningful symbols, a shared orthogonal basis. Such a basis must be computable if it has any change of being realized and being stable.
Theology is the traditional theory of everything because God is traditionally the fullness of being, everything possible.
Transfinite numbers are the mathematical equivalent of the fullness of being insofar as we cannot imagine a
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being so complex that it cannot be brought into correspondence with transfinite numbers. The application of mathematics in science is a matter of establishing such correspondences and then seeking the mathematical relationships between them to write such expressions as F = ma
Dreamtime Dreamtime - Wikipedia
This is all I can do and it seems good.
Broad Church : general covariance Broad church - Wikipedia, General covariance - Wikipedia
General covariance is an infinite dimensional symmetry which has been broken step by step through evolution to bring us to the set of mappings that we currently enjoy.
For a long time I have been working by the clock, counting every minute and trying to optimize it to create a geodesic from my Catholic upbringing to the theological and religious future that I see, Once it is documented I will be able to relax.
How does logic explain how squared amplitude gives probability, that is frequency? The world is a superposition of frequencies = probabilities. So probability is parametrized by time -- time division multiplexing -- what proportion of your time do you spend doing thread x?
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Te heart of the matter lies in the computational interpretation of quantum mechanics. Physics is a matter of conserved currents. We interpret these as flows of conserved action.
A quantum of action is a physical manifestation of the execution of a computable function. How this happens remains a mystery at this point, but no more mysterious that the operation of the wave equaion in infinite dimensional Hilbert space.
How does one prove eigenfunctions are computable function? See Pour-el and Richards Pour-El & Richards
The bit that Haidt seems to miss is that empirically based rational behaviour is so powerful that a little bit goes a long way and our society is shaped by simple ideas like roads, water pipes and communication links in general [which establish continuous connections between particles].
Quantum states can be mapped to a scalar as action, energy, momentum [in one spatial dimension].
A logical geometry of distinct states.
As you get older you will gradually become more aware of all the different acts that have to be kept together to make life work. Few people get old enough to comprehend them all.
Bin Laden's killers. A bunch of murderers really. No doubt Bin Laden was a murdered, but was
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it necessary to descend to his level?
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Geodesics all begin just 'outside' ('inside') the initial singularity.The Modularity of Mind corresponds to the modularity of the Universe, modules being snippets of software (structure) like electrons, atoms, etc. Fodor
To be a soldier is to stake one's like for the common good determined either genetically or socially. SAS member killed on seventh tour of Afghanistan. Risking not just life and limb but mental health and peace of mind. My fear of soldiering had a lot to do with my choice of the priesthood.
Continuity is a strong constraint on complexity which is appropriate at the low end of physical hardware layer.
The source of the notion of universal continuity which we have had since the time of Aristotle is the apparent continuity of motion, like the motion of the pen in each word of 'running writing'.
I am a source like a neuron whose output is guided by the relative weights (as a function of time) of the tasks necessary to maintain my existence like shopping (hunting, gathering) and eating.
The paradox is that we continue to believe that we can represent an irreducibly particiulate Universe by continuous functions, guided by Lagrange and Noether. Neuenschwander
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A foundation of the logical approach is that a symmetry is a non=event.
How can a particle (like the Higgs boson) be responsible for the emergence of mass? Given special relativity we can read energy for mass. Given the quantization of action, we can read rate of action for energy, and for each entity we can partition action into inward directed (local) and outward directed (global). The mass of a particle then becomes the rate of inward action necessary to maintain its particulate existence.
A thesis: like Everett, very short.
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Empty nestification gives me time to concentrate on the theological reform plan.Got as bit weak back there but I am back on the rails again.
Democratize-the-papacy.net
Designerreligion.
Does it work? In the end the model I am promoting must work as a useful model of the world. I m trying to follow in the footsteps of the 'Fathers of Physics' and come up with a theory of principle that will work. It must begin with the observation that the Universe is intelligent enough to make us, who think ourselves intelligent enough to understand our
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origins. As we prize our mental capabilities above all, we must recognise the mental powers of the Universe that made us and learn to thing of it as mind rather than matter.
Cosmic psychology.
Thursday 5 July 2012
Shine S336:1375-7. 1376: Endler on Shine: '[Shine] "really observes and thinks about what the animals are doing and . . . lets the hypothesis be generated by their natural world, which is the characteristic of a real scientists". Endler says.'
All the evidence points to a discrete Universe,that is a logical Universe. Nevertheless physics is founded on continuous mathematics, as exemplified by the use of continuous functions in the theory of probability. We can construct a model Universe that looks like the real one using digital logic rather than the continuum.
There is a close connection between continuity and causality. We believe that because there are continuous functions the state equations of quantum [theory] evolve deterministically, like Turing machines,.
We can say that a deterministic computer is a logical continuum because each step is a logical consequence of the step before it.
Getting real is not easy. Gone to do some welding.
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This is a work of fiction, a story that I have made up.
If physics sees that their continuous approximation has a minimal 'infinitesimal' h, they need no longer let their denominators go to zero and [make] the necessary corrections . . . to deal with infinities.
The next conceptual hurdle is : is logical continuity as convincing as geometric or 'physical' continuity. One way to deal with this is to recognize that the logical process is pre-geometry, so the question of spatial continuity does not arise, since all processes are a time series of actions.
Theology = cosmic psychology.
Virtual particles = transparent processing. Perturbative expansions trace more and more remote and weak (infrequent) connections that nevertheless affect the outside result [all quantum events are of equal action, what differs is their probability/ frequency]
The transition from state a to state b requires one or more computation operations. When more than one is required, the second cannot begin until the first is finished.
We might imagine that each 'law' that we find in the Universe corresponds to a unique hardware or software algorithm. Energy is conserved because everything is processed through the fundamental piece of ware, the initial singularity, is. We begin with the equation, is is.
'Thermodynamiclly' we might day that the Universe began as one particle with infinite energy. This dopes not make sense insofar as the existene of energy implies the existence of
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duality whose changes have a frequency. Each change of this duality is represented by a quantum of action. Not operation as two spin ½ flips.
The reference molluscs and the represented world contain the same information like reciprocal spaces and in a sense link eachother together through as chain whose bond is the metric.
Why the continuum? It works pretty well. And it feels good, there is no action at a distance and the fields that inhabit space obey many symmetries including the universal conservation of action, energy and momentum, electric charge and so on.
From an accounting point of view the easiest way to conserve things is to create opposites in pairs. Gatlin and binary coding.
Assume a duality of dualities: potential < — >kinetic / space < — >time.
Time marches inexorably on in all parts of the Universe accessible to us. Most of our knowledge of the Universe comes from measuring frequencies and trying to make a model to fit these observations.
Where did all the energy come from? KE - PE = 0 (once we get the signs right) so it works like the banking system, PE is collateral for KE and vice versa and because energy transactions are reversible and perfect, the system is not subject to 'financial' crises. Strict arithmetic accountability is maintained.
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Only digital structure can define numbers without error since they have exponential power over unordered aggregates of points.
AQ computer system depends critically on how the data is represented, that is how the software is encoded by the programmer to be decoded by the hardware and put into action.
Newton left the actual operation of the Universe in the hands of God and undertook only to explain its dynamics. Since that time our description of the world have become more self-sufficient, reaching the peak of independence in the general theory of relativity which explains the shape of the Universe on very few geometric assumptions.
A bit of loneliness might drive this project to completion and then I can sit back and receive the rewards, if any. At least I will be happy if I can dream up something I find satisfactory. I have lots of bits and pieces now and slowly putting them together.
Continuity = (operational) via negativa (do nothing) Apophatic theology - Wikipedia
Superposition : either we store all the states in a look-up table or we compute them on the fly. The latter seems more practical, since a simple algorithm can work with an infinity of different inputs to give an infinity of outputs (if it is reversible).
The Universe imagined by the Standard Model is very Platonic and impractical. How are all these differentials and integrals implemented?
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So we try to imagine naked relativity, before the advent of whatever came next.
The Universe invented gravitation all by itself, something that seems almost miraculous when we consider the genius of the man who worked it out thirteen billion years later.
What we can count in the world, as in a computer, is the relative frequency of various operations. Quantum theory explains these frequencies, and it explains why some things do not happen, the 'via negativa'.
Friday 6 July 2012
'Emergent' processes are rooted in the processes the emerge from as broken symmetries are rooted in unbroken symmetries.
The idea of a public wedding is to remove all public doubt about who is the partner of whom, so sending a definite message which is the result of the mysterious processes of love and courtship.
The properties of the initial singularity (then known as God) have been subject to thousands of years of study since the time of Parmenides. Theology begins with the fundamental problem of science : how to record the nature of a moving world in fixed text.
General covariance exposes the heart of gravitation by removing all the 'post gravitational' developments built upon it. By allowing all possible reference frames it exposes the symmetry common to them all.
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'The Higgs boson is not God!' We are all God particles.It makes me feel good to believe that I am descended from God and remain [part of God].
Like the Christians, the physicists are following a false God. This is because the Judaeo-Christian concpt of God still rules. In the beginning God created the world. This sentence defines the world as a product of God and the design of the world is a design dreamt up and implemented by God, just as a carpenter might design and build a house.
Politicians have been in love with physicists ever since they delivered the ultimate implementation of divine power, thermonuclear weapons. Physics has lapped up the resulting flow of money with ever more experiments to add finesse to the weapons design and facilitate the task of 'stewardship in a world without nuclear testing.
Ar last this work is becoming a job. My 'subconscious' or 'intuition' has decided that it is a task worth investing in, if only to siphon a bit of physics money my way.
Physics has been filling in while theology was out to lunch. Traditional theology began to lose credibility with the rise of science and the consequent notion of enlightenment. The priests say it is all a mystery, beyond your ken. Trust us. The scientists, following Aristotle, said No, it is alive and it works and we will find out how. The tremendous
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expansion of the human species in the last few centuries is witness to this. But while traditional theology has lost its credibility it retains its blind power. As the world goes down the plughole due to population pressure the Pope says contraception is a sin. He says this because (sitting on his celibate perch) he thinks fucking as animal behaviour verging on the sinful and can only be done if it is for the express purpose of having children, even if it is fun. Wrong, dangerously wrong.
Theoblogue
The rate of action in the world remains constant but what changes is the way that the action is arranged. At one end of the scale we imagine random sequences of action, and at the other a single deterministic machine in which every action is predetermined. Reality lies between these poles -- symmetry and computation, continuum and discretum.
So, I am building a new world.
Physics is still stuck with Newton's continuous divine sensorium, ie divine interface. The events of our lives are our interface with God.
Say it again: the Universe used its intellectual power to make our intellectual power, so we think of it as an intellect gradually coming to develop and understand ourselves by creation.
Why are their beings rather than nothing? Given God, 'emanation' is logically demanded to maintain consistency. Emanationism - Wikipedia
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Logical continuum is a flow of action[s].
Physics is up against an intractable barrier, how to take in gravitation, and like any other potential, it has led to a flowering of state (hypotheses) like string theory. All in defence of the continuous paradigm.
Nazi Germany: Hitler's private army. Deighton page 263. Deighton Winter
The Universe of discrete particles is made continuous by communication - fermion / boson.
Does the Higgs boson give mass to itself? Higgs boson - Wikipedia
Contradictions are represented by π difference in phase and hen added cancel to their probability of existence is zero, eg fermions in the same state. Fermion - Wikipedia
Conserved current → closed process, reversible, grouplike, arithmetic but not deterministic because of ordering, enabling the number of orders to exceed the number of letters and so requisite variety says we can have no control in this direction. Control works in the opposite direction and it it how complex systems maintain themselves by maintaining the environment which gives them the inputs necessary to survive.
A quantum of action can do anything a computer can do.
Deighton 276: ' "We've had persecution of the Jews in Europe for cenutries," ' said Lottie. "But in the old days if a Jew converted to the Christian faith the persecution ended."
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"Hitler offers no such respite. Hitler hates the Jews because they are of the Jewish race, not because of some subtle distinction in their beliefs about God." '
The Universe, like an embryo, goes through something like 1, 2, 4 etc cells by division of each cell like the procession of the Son of God.
Saturday 7 July 2012
Given the physical nature of time as a parameter, −t, while algebraically possible, is unphysical, like mathematical infinitesimals. Like the Christians, physicists have become fixated on a false paradigm because it seems to work in many, perhaps most, cases, particularly in the artificial milieux of accelerator physics. But we still have to get numbers, that is probabilities, out of [our model].
Enlightenment - getting to know God.
Deighton page 379: ' "This is Moscow . . . They'll fight harder for Moscow. We all know that." ' The sad weight of history.
What is most important is the change of attitude : we must begin to see the world and ourselves as divine and use this insight to guide our behaviour toward a stable model founded on solar energy.
A good idea generates its own motivation, or perhaps its the motivation that makes it a good idea, it works, therefore we think it. Both 'mental' and 'cosmic' psychology studies physically realized structures, because (Landauer) all information is represented physically. Rolf Landauer
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Deighton page 384: ' "Yes, Heil Hitler, Colonel Weizäcker. And may God be with you." ' Can God be with everyone in a conflict situation?
Love - free fall.
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Novel - network of people exploring personalities.
page 397: ' "You haven't seen what happens at the other end of all this paperwork. It gets very rough." '
On Revealing a New God.
I take it to be the priests' job to eliminate war and contradiction in general by preaching a consistent model of the world.
Old man dreaming dreams.
Even when we observe a continuum we observe it one photon at a time.
What did I do with my glasses? When I am distracted my short term memory disappears. They fell out of my pocket, I picked them up, and the rest is silence.
On the God thing, I am working to justify my intuition.
War gives a strong incentive to find new ways to use the powers of the Universe to kill our enemies and protect ourselves.
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Two approaches to reversibility: a) go back in time (not really possible); b) a lossless codec which encodes its input and then decodes it to give an output identical to the input coupled by the message (metric) between transmitter and receiver. Codec - WikipediaInverse eigenfunctions coupled through a particle. A computer is itself a network and we look at it through different layers. The processing that lies behind phenomena is transparent at the user end, but we may burrow down into it by going to higher energies.
Magnetism does not emerge until we have communication at a finite velocity to get the necessary relativistic effects to generate magnetism between moving charges as well as the electric force.
So we may imagine clocks of different frequencies coupled by and gates that give an output when they get two inputs in or out of phase.
Simplest computer, one gate (not) one memory, whose state is reversed by the action of the gate. In a two state Universe, not is reversible. We might imagine the two states of memory as antiparticles of one another, to be represented more graphically by + and - than by 0 and 1, which carries overtones of size. Better think of it as a two state quantum system, ie two orthogonal complex vectors. Here each complex variable acts as a clock.
Time interval - probability. How is time curved? By the differences in frequency of different elements of the superposition.
