vol VII: Notes
2012
Notes
[Sunday 7 October 2012 - Saturday 13 October 2012]
[Notebook: DB 73 Spring2012]
[page 88]
Sunday 7 October 2012
Marr page 282: 'Now, after cursing God in the storm, he experienced that consummation in his own shabby paddock: a moment of ecstasy in which he apprehended God in all existence around him.' Marr: Patrick White
Of course. [natural religion will teach us to see God all the time in all circumstances, 'good' and 'bad'.]
The human world is built on the biggest possible mistake, identifying and worshipping a false god. The mistake is just a matter of a bit of information, changing the statement God ≠ Universe to God = Universe. Why have we made such a big mistake? It is a prime example of politics trumping science. Since time immemorial large swathes of the human population have been exploited by numerically small elites, oligarchs. In the final analysis oligarchy is founded on the sword although, as elites have found, it is most efficient to indoctrinate the slaves so that they believe that their condition is natural. So Christianity, as we know it, is dominated by a politically powerful organization, the Roman Catholic Church. This Church experienced a great boost in political power when Constantine accepted it as the religion of his Empire. . . . Constantine the Great and Christianity - Wikipedia
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The Tree of Man White
Marr page 291: 'For White it is axiomatic that humans betray.' It is a tactic of course to be used sparingly in cases where the betrayed might strike back.
page 306: 'Deep within him was also the fear that praise would be his ruin, and so the need to guard himself by turning inward away from applause. Under this self-protective impulse he looked to hostile critics for mortification, and the sense of being the object of antagonisms and misunderstandings spurred him on to new efforts.'
This attitude seems to be a product of the original sin model, that to be good is bad.
It seems to me that a closed model of the observable Universe is almost in hand, going from infinite dynamics to observable fixed points which divide the dynamics into discrete but continuous processes.
Marr page 311: "Mahatma Ghandi wrote, "It is impossible to do away with the law of suffering, which is the one indispensible condition of our being. Progress is to be measured by the amount of suffering undergone . . . the purer the suffering, the greater the progress."
Here 'suffering' = 'change' which is not necessarily painful of properly managed.
'White had used these words as an epitaph for Happy Valley.
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Monday 8 October 2012
Marr: White: ' "What I want to emphasize through my four riders . . . is that all faiths, whether religious, humanistic, instinctive or the creative artist's act of praise, are in fact one." ' page 360.
One faith, many different understandings I believe that I am alive, but what is life?
Marr page 443: White: ' "Everything comes out of the mess you're in." '
Tuesday 9 October 2012
Mess = equation - dynamics
Something / everything = solution
We are always 'solving equations' as we move trough life, adapting ourselves to constraints - how to deal with a bow in a piece of timber, arranging flashing so there are no leaks regardless of the direction of the weather, working out how to devise new theological foundation for the world, et cetara ad infinitum. If an equation (constraint) cannot be solved by reals, we can go off into complex computations to find a workaround, a 'hack'.
White page 479: 'To freinds in distress there was no one who could offer such instinctive comfort as White, but he expected them to pull themselves together fairly rapidly.
Emotion: complex dynamics; Reason: a monkey bar, scaffold
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of fixed points.
' "My experience has always been that nothing has ever come my way without pushing, fighting, manoeuvring, exploding. Now does it happen any easier now: not the things I really want, anyway." '
Story: fixed point meeting constraints, either in a realistic way or fantastic, imaginative, magical, unconstrained in imagination by physical reality.
Getting close to the orgasm in theological dynamics.
Newton's laws are the classical fixed points of celestial dynamics, that is symmetries, where nothing happens, nothing observable, because it is continuous and the continuous is not observable, a point fixed by the 'invisibility theorem'.
Np machine can continuously report its state within the real time of the process executing.
The analogy of the curious kid: what are you doing now? I'm . . . , what are you doing now, ditto, ditto, ditto,. Look, just shut up and warch or we'll never get finished.
Joyful again after watching a daylight saving sunrise.
Marr page 480: Barbara Baynton.
Bitchery and occasional violence, leavened by humour derived from the bigger picture, ultimately God is the source of joy and fun because it is the biggest picture [and it is good]
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Marr page 481: White: ' "I wish I could 'see' what I am writing while I am writing it." ' Blinded by the invisibility theorem.
Bell: Speakable. Bell: Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
In order to get fixed points we have to close open systems, ie let them possess their own boundaries, as the Universe does = its only boundaries are the initial singularity [actus purus] and consistency. This is how we make the Universe.
Einstein's constraints: equivalence, covariance. Einstein
Covariance is a constrain on representation, how we use a physical structure to represent another physical structure. The invisibility theorem tells us that the mapping between these structures is visible to us only by its effect, which shows up on the statistics of observed events. Grab one, the other gets away, how to hold all the degrees of freedom at once, wrestling, building etc. Requisite variety. Ashby: Cybernetics
Ex muddle veritas. Latin for muddle? [confusio?]
Marr 485: White: ' "I had to tell [Nolan] that i was altogether lost and just intended to go where I was led by whatever leads me (God, of course, but it hardly does to go round saying it directly)." '
God is the ultimate constraint, the being that possesses its own boundaries, ie the Universe.
Marr page 486: ' ". . . a real life—I mean working, which is the only thing that makes life real." '
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' ". . . investigate the variety of regularity." ' as the Master of Novices would say.
My life is 'of a piece'. I am having the same thoughts now as in my monastic days and my valedictory essay to the Church How Universal is the Universe How Universal is the Universe
The world reveals its answers, but not necessarily how it got them.
Marr page 496: White: ' "There are always people who enslave . . . and the ones who want to be enslaved." '
Two fitness increasing strategies—to change oneself or change the world, superposed n every action.
White's novels are empirical, a web of representation of experience.
Hot iron and dust at grandfather's farm.
White's mother Ruth as Pope, top be obeyed without question by reason of infallibility. The invisibility theorem (once proven) is infallible, a pure formality.
The invisibility theorem makes it possible to see that there are computers running transparently in the system whose outputs are the world of our experiences and whose inputs are their own analogous experiences. Mystery returns, a very good fit to reality and a marketing point.
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Marr page 500: White: ' "But the best rushes always come when I am in bed, in a bus, at the sink or anywhere inconvenient. The sessions at my desk are the usual agony." '
Was this agony necessary? Real?
My guess is that the effectiveness of mathematics is not so much a miracle as a consequence of all those theorems that state that the dynamics of a suitably bounded set (ie its mappings onto itself) have a fixed point. We will illustrate this by considering the mathematical community itself.
Is this true? Are the fixed points I represent in writing fixed points in the world?
Marr page 511: 'The Eye if the Storm follows the fundamental plot of all the books White wrote since falling in the storm at Castle Hill: the erratic, often unconscious search for God.'
Wednesday 10 October 2012
Marr page 581: White: ' "My homosexuality gives me all the insights that make me a great writer." '
New knowledge changes nothing in the sense that insofar as it is true it is a representation of what actually exists. On the other hand, by making us aware of what actually exists it excites emotions of wonder in many and explorations of the technological possibilities by others. Here we are going for the mother of them all, a realization that our world is divinely wonderful and the verification of a mathematical
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theory of peace that shows us the way to long term survival and we are talking of the billions of years that lie ahead of us before the sun becomes an uncomfortable neighbour,. At root, we are introducing the scientific method at the highest level and weakening the dominance of politics over science.
Theology is the theory of peace. Religion is the technology. By peace we mean the steady ordered structure of the world. By violence we mean sudden [or chronic] errors in this structure which cause us to collapse into war. All wars are in a sense civil wars, battles between two 'cities' for the control of a resource. Some will resist the equation City of God = City of [Hu]Man because it introduces what is from our point of view evil into God. but it was already there, as the Book of Job illustrates.
What did I think when I went into the monastery? Can't clearly remember, except a bit of loneliness in my cell. It seemed to be a necessary step, and I am now happy that I did it because it started me off on a course which seems to be coming to fruition and which could not have been begin in any other way [a medieval experience]. Later, my dreams that I was back in the monastery had overtones of nightmare, because by then )10 - 30 years later) I knew what a psychological prison the Catholic worldview is, one of the worlds great evils it seems now, but we cannot go back and fix it, it must be fixed in the future.
One can imagine (but how to measure) the vast amount of pain that has been indiced into human feelings by the errors of the ancient religions, a produce of the elite to control the slaves. White seems to be a well
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documented example, suffering for his elite upbringing, since we may see that the warders suffer as much as the prisoners in many cases.
Marr page 600: '. . . all [White's[ fiction explores the territory of pain that lies between sensuality and its expression, between lust and love.' A Christian dichotomy.
Thursday 11 October 2012
Back to work with Peskin and Schroeder. Peskin & Schroeder
Qw do not have separate principles of good and evil but one God, the Universe, that embraces both, since these are terms relative to individuals: good for me may be bas for you,. We assume also that God has the same emotional problems as me, bringing a formal definitiopn out of the continuum, an application of Cntor Symmetry.
Peskin page 6: HI (interaction Hamiltonian) couples electrons (e) to photons (γ) with rate proportional to e (electric charge) so this is the rate at which the algorithm e —> γ . . . is executed (ie algorithm = eigenfunction) which depends in turn on the rate at which the eigenfunction is 'discpvered' by the system. Why is σ proportional to E2?
The Feynman diagram for me is a formal expression of detailed network interactions which are performed sequentially at each vertex, so the formal complexity is spread out over time.
How do we convert Platonic mathematics to physics?:
[page 97]
a) Cantor symmetry, so ℵ0 = 2; b)invisibility theorem which hides actual process, so we can only see the statistics of the outcome.
A 'superposition' is a formal representation of an unorderd set of events in time. [and we must observe many sequential instances of the same interaction to measure the statistics]
Peskin page 13: Why field? Why not just particles?
page 14: 'Quantum field theory solves the causality problem in a miraculous way.'
Collins: Fiftieth Anniversary of the opening of Vat II: SMH Paul Collins
One cannot realize all possibilities [simultaneously] since the realization of any possibility lays the foundation for more possibilities, without end.
The Taliban just shot the girl who wanted to know. In the not so distant part, the Church would have burnt her, like Joan. Kamila Shamsie, Joan of Arc - Wikipedia
William Souder: Rachel Carson Souder
Friday 12 October 2012
Saturday 13 October 2012
The Slipper affair — communication makes mental states observable. SMH Editorial
energeia Aristotle Metaphysics 1047a30
dunamis Aristotle Metaphysics 1019a15
[page 98]
We work on the hypothesis that Aquinas expressed the ancient consensus on the nature of God, the source of everything.Every message has transparent foundations as it burrows down from user to initial singularity to user.
Aristotle on representation, Metphysics VI, iv. Aristotle: Metaphysics
Mathematicians exchange representations of mathematical ideas, ie mathematical mental states.
Combination and separation: is, is not. [Aquinas componens et dividens Aquinas 388
'for "falsity" and "truth" are not in things—the good, for example, being true and the bad false— but in thought . . . (Aristotle, Metaphysics, ?)
Nothing is simple. Something is com plex.
Mathematics as representations of stationary points in the mental dynamics of the mathematical community.
Feynman III, 8-1: '. . . the close mathematical resemblance between the equations of quantum mechanics and those of the scalar product of two vectors.' Feynman, Dot product - Wikipedia
Carson, Souder page 337: '[Nature is] that part of the world that man did not make.'
