vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Sunday 17 February 2013 - Saturday 23 February 2013]
[Notebook: DB 74 CREATION]
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Sunday 17 February 2013
So much of the Graves biography is just gossip, the most interesting and ephemeral element in human conversation, as dinner last night where the burden of the conversation was the incompetence of others and the virtuosity of ourselves. This is the element of divinity that we see best, the local, and it can be trusted whereas the big picture supported by the Catholic Church has no roots local or otherwise. It deprecates locality, and its global picture is fiction, a set of dogmata which are generally inconsistent with immediate, local concrete experience.
Motion is necessary to restore consistency [broken by motion]. We feel pain, the signal for error, when we are constrained, So it is necessary to turn over in bed to relieve the pain of lying in one place. Organizations like the Church that refuse to move eventually build up the stresses that break them and it is part of my hope that I can show the Church how to abandon its dogmatic ways and becomes
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flexible enough to guide people to painless lives, rather than glorifying the pain of cohering to error as a path to ultimate pleasure.
The absolute monarchy of the Vatican, based on ancient fantasy, is bound to collapse one day, the sooner the better [unless it develops a dynamic process for conforming to reality, that is replaces absolute authority with dialectic between government and opposition.]
Bierce: Devil's Dictionary: 'Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the Universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.' page 250 Bierce
Bierce page 253: 'Priestcraft, n. A disease of which miss Europa has purged herself, and which miss Columbia is likely to be laid up with, ere long.'
page 261: 'Really, adv. Apparently.
page 266: 'Religion, n. A goodly tree, in which the foul birds of the air have made their nests.'
page 272: 'Retaliation, n. The natural rock on which is reared the Temple of Law.'
Revolution, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.'
page 281: 'Saint, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.
Monday 18 February 2013
Bierce page 79: 'Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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Bierce page 58: 'Disobedience, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.'
page 59: 'Divine, n. Bird of pray.'
page 121: 'Faith, n. A belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge of things without parallel.'
page 133: 'Fraud, n. The life of commerce the soul of religion, the bait of courtship and the basis of political power.
page 176: 'Impunity, n. Wealth.'
page 253: 'Priest, n. A gentleman who claims to own the inside track on the road to Paradise, and who wants to charge toll on same.'
Seymour-Smith page 225, Bronowski, Eirlys Roberts, Which Maurice Healy
We communicate mathematics with various physical embodiments of information, symbols, glyphs, phonemes and more generally physical states. In the Platonic or formal interpretation of mathematics such states are taken to have eternal unique entities that are in the first instance put into correspondence with the natural numbers. These numbers are generated fomally by Peano's axioms, and the sequence of natural numbers had both a natural order arising from the process of generation and no last member, so that it is said to be countably infinite.
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Cantor built on this sequence a space of transifinite numbers arising from the observation that the set of all orderings (permutations or functions) from the set of natural numbers to itself is strictly greater than the set of natural numbers. This process of permutation can proceed without end to generate an endless sequence of transfinite numbers, which we shall accept as providing a sufficient large alphabet of symbols to initiate theology [and say everything we need to say in mathematics].
This was the theological insight embodied in my 1987 lectures which still seems good after 26 years of slow gestation.
The Divine Universe (henceforth maybe du, which is a way to address a familiar) has costs and benefits. The principal cost is that a lot of human attitudes and interpersonal protocols will have to be changed, ie states of mind and conventions of communication: 'thou shalt not kill'. The benefit is that we will have a reliable evidence based theological foundation to understanding our Universe upon which to engineers a safe home for ourselves within the bosom of god. (bask to lower case to capture generality. We no longer say The Universe, but a Universe has the following properties.
I'm coming down out of the clouds. I wish to constitute myself as a member of the loyal opposition within a small c catholic church, motivated by the new epistemology of experience tempering authority. This is a step in the evolution of a large organism whose total life power has been maybe 100 billion human lives (membership X longevity integrated since AD began to now).
The catholic church is founded methodologically on
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the scientific method. Anyone can be a member who bases their lives more on realities than fantasies. History of the term "Catholic" - Wikipedia, Scientific method - Wikipedia
The consumers of religion must be assured that they are getting a safe and effective product in return for their input.
Quantum mechanics. Mathematical physics took off with the invention of calculus, an indispensable bridge between the eternal world of formal (Platonic) mathematics and the floating world of stars, planets and everything else that moves. Aristotle identified motion as the defining characteristic of the physical world.
Seymour-Smith page 233: Laura Riding as an absolute and apodictiv frame of reference fo Robert graves, encapsulating him in a rigid structure of her own design. No geenral covariance (= gauge symmetry) here.
Riding: ' ". . . there are certain laws of being and procedure centralized in me on which Robert relies." '
The marketing department is beginning to smell a product here. How do we monetize theology? By applying it, theological engineering (a bit like software engineering) [religion = applied theology].The appropriate mathematics for theology (aka metaphysics) is metamathematics, which explores the boundaries between computable fixed points and incomputable symmetries or continua.
Cooking up religion. The Christians did it, and it
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looks to me as though they tried to take into account all the main intellectual threads of their era. By the fourth century they were making sophisticated models of God and deriving such power from them that they became the theological think tank of Europe, and continued to enjoy that role exclusively until the time of Galileo.
We are releasing a new epistemological product on the religion market. It is based on scientific investigation rather than blind faith, and we predict that its efficiency will eventually lead it to become the operating system for the human world, having means of dealing with both predictable/controllable and those that are unpredictable/uncontollable because they are a continuum or a symmetry rather than a fixed point.
Bootstrap: determinism requires error free communication; error free communication requires determinism.
Positive feedback increases entropy, so that the Universe is expanding entropically and this is instantiated at the least complex level by the physical expansion of the Universe, that is the changing ration of the average distance between atoms to the size of the atom, a direct consequence of Planck's constant and the three symmetries of action, energy and momentum. Atom - Wikipedia
Seymour-Smith page 256: graves: ' "I chose Claudius for a number of reasons: the first was that he was a historian before he was anything else and because he lived in an age in which every moral safeguard of a religious or patriotic or social sort has gome west - things were just disintegrating." '
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I am getting back into the optimistic mood I was in back in the late eighties and early nineties when I started publishing on the web and set up the theology company. The problems that stopped me then (fixed points, symmetry, creation etc) all seem to be solved in principle so that the creative loop is complete and my development of theology becomes recursive in that it can explain its own origin, ie its own differentiation from the continuum, cloud of unknowing, [absolute simplicity and pure act] that preceded it.
Seymour-Smith page 278: Laura Riding 'working on people.' Educating, changing minds, that is in some sense exerting force to change momentum, or energy to perform actions necessary for mind change = metanoia.
Tuesday 19 February 2013
Seymour-Smith page 356:: 'It is the poem of a healed man, one at last able to sleep without bad dreams.'
I am now feeling rather relaxed as I feel that unreasonable effectivness is complete in my mind even though thee are a few drafts to go on paper. My next hope os get some stimulation by stirring
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a little controversy in the science/theology interface by (hopefully) picking a fight with the Pontifical Academy of Science, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (?) and similar august bodies. Meanwhile I can return to developing my website more or less along the established lines and promoting it when it reaches as acceptable state. Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Holy See: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
We seem to be entering a political phase where governments and oppositions disagree on everything, thus bringing management of the human world to a standstill [in the face of many serious threats]. The worst example of this is in the US, but Australia is not far behind. This is clear evidence that we need a new theological consensus, which must be based on reality, not blind faith.
Chriatianity promises to forgive sins of any magnitude except the 'peccatum in Sancto Spiritu' which is tantamount to refusing the ability of the Church to forgive sins, Here we think of sin more practically as error, and wish to forgive the Roman Catholic Church for its fundamental error, promoting and worshipping a false God, but such forgiveness can only be effective if the Church renounces its error, which given its attitude of infallible dogmatism, is in effect to totally reject the foundation upon which it is built. Eternal sin - Wikipedia
It has long been known that much death is caused by the fear of death, by what we might call 'over securitization'. The US is a prime example, killing many millions of people over my lifetime out of fear when it has no real enemies threatening its territorial integrity, only the evils of its ideological integrity which must be replaced with an
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ideology based on reality, not hypocritical dreams of conquest and primacy, the scourge of any [self propclaimed] 'greatest nation on Earth' [ture if we measure greatness by murder rate!].
Poetic metre - the rhythm of phonemes emitting from a source. Print is static but we make it dynamic by scanning it symbol by symbol so that the read line becomes an ordered source.
The Theology Company might reasonably claim to be on a mission from God because, given its premise that the Universe is divine it is an element of the Universe trying to reclaim God from those Churches which have mystified and sequestered the Divinity for their own use. The Company is driven by the divinely inspired search for god to research and publish the idea that the Universe is divine and all our experience is experience of God. God is not essentially mysterious, although we have yet to learn a lot about ourselves and our divine Universe.
From Aristotle/Aquinas and Cantor we have two apparently irreconcilable approaches to God. On the one hand it is omnino simlex with no structure or details, the cloud of unknowing beloved of mystics. On the other hand we have a potential mathematical space in which to study God the boundless detailed complexity of the transfinite cardinal and ordinal numbers. We can, however, reconcile these two views of God using fixed point theory.
Wednesday 20 February 2013
Thursday 21 February 2013
Interest may be seen as payment for error, ie depreciation, to be offset against profit, new forms of technology, appreciation.
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I see my intellectual and personal power as very limited relative to the size of the project I have undertaken, which makes me feel that the probability of success is limited but the task is very well worth undertaking, This feeing has kept me going for a very long time (in proportion to my lifetime) and small breakthroughs make me happy and lead me on. All this personal experience is local input into the theory, since in trying to explain how god complexifies itself my main source of data is how I complexify myself by slowly teasing definite ideas out of the emotional mist. Love is a potential which, by a process akin to quantum mechanics, generates structure, as the potential between electrons and protons generate the [extraordinarily complex electronic] structure of atoms.
By birth I inherited the theological problems inherent in my milieu. My fate was to bring myself into close contact with these problems by deciding to enter the Order of Preachers, This Order is based on the belief that the Catholic model of human being is true and should be propagated to the world by preaching as Jesus commanded. [Mark 16:15] My experience in the Order suggested that Christian theology was but one of two alternatives , and that there seemed to be good reasons for assuming that God is visible and a subject for science rather than an invisible subject of mystery [in fact both, the visible being a countable subset of the transfinite invisible]. Mark 16:15, How Universal is the Universe?
Friday 22 February 2013
The Christian God is a living God. Aquinas accepts Aristotle's definition of life as self motion, and, to maintain the pure activity of God, must invent a second type of motion which is not motion from potential to act, but from act to act. In modern physics, we
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dispense with Aristotle's axiom that a potential can be actualized only by a system already actual , and place potential and actual (or kinetic) on an equal footing as in a simple harmonic oscillator like a pendulum. I a way our term kinetic energy corresponds to Aristotle's potential (δυναμς) and our potential corresponds to act (εντελεχεια) as the pendulum has maximum potential when it is stationary at the top of its swing. If we assume that we can model the living God by a mapping onto itself, we would expect to see fixed points in the divine dynamics and so we can resolve the distinction between complete simplicity and the complex of stationary points [which are part of the dynamics, not distinct from it, as Plato and successors have held].
From these historical considerations we can turn to contemporary quantum mechanics. We describe an isolated system [like the Universe] by the energy equation dΦ / dt = EΦ. When we observe such a system the continuous spectrum of solutions implied by the energy equation is reduced to the eigenvalues of the observation operator, the eigenvalue equation EΦ = eΦ, where e represents the fixed eigenvalues corresponding to the eigenfunctions of E. These fixed points in the quantum process are the foundation upon which the stable Universe, from fundamental particles through atoms, molecules, and cells to ourselves, planets and galaxies are built.
Fixed point theory suggests a reason for the quantization of the Universe, but we can take another approach through the mathematical theory of communication, which tells us that error free communication can be achieved by making our signals so far apart ibn message space that the probability of confusion (error) is negligible. This suggests that that we interpret quantum mechanics as a description of the
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traffic in a communication network. The overlap equation relating two points in the network enables is to compute the traffic between these points using the Born equation. Born rule - Wikipedia
Seymour-Smith page 382: Graves: ' "The craft of writing good English is based on a single principle: never lose the reader's attention. Since the most obvious ways of losing it are to offend, confuse or bore him, good writing can be reduced simply to the principle of active care for sensibilities.'
The energy equation describes a world of pure action, S339:554 'A clock directly linking time to a particle's mass" ω = mc2/ℏ. Lan
Up top my ears in theology, metaphysics, physics, metamathematics and all that sort of caper with the ultimate goal of making a divine Universe plausible and showing the mathematics fits the world of the equation collapse of the wave function = act of insight by a (neural) computer network. I am bound to humility by the slow pace at which I make sense of all this.
Seymour=Smith page 387: 'That there were, and are no matriarchies—in an anthropological sense— does not invalidate the essence of Graves's thesis. That thesis is, in general terms, that the feminine has been so trampled upon as to make life artificial and intolerable for the whole of mankind. This is indubitably correct.'
And may be a consequence of the sexual dimorphism among humans which gives males the upper hand in matters of violence in which the violents (eg the Chriatian UDS) tend to triumph by killing the opposition,. The transfinite network points the way to the continuing and ultimate triumph of non-
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violence by showing how the high entropy systems can control those of low entropy (high energy per state).
We maintain our survival by reproduction and by controlling our environment. The former depends on our success at the latter, starvation of necessities shuts down reproduction. the control is a two way street. We must know the environment before we can manipulate it. And we learn from the results of our manipulations. This is made possible because the world has a large set of fixed points which we can count on in our engineering design. Every week scientific magazines like Science and Nature reveal another collection of experiments that have established certain correlations in the world which can act as guides to our actions. When we found out that some bacteria cause disease, we began to base public health policy on cleanliness and purity, breaking, for instance, the cycling of faecal bacteria into the food chain.
The biggest evil propagated by the Church is not the sexual molestation of children, criminal as it is, [or the cover up that has been used to hide these crimes] but the ideological manipulation of children's minds, Mental Rape, stealing people's minds for one's own use. We make a clear distinction between truth and imagination, insofar as truth, as measured against the world outside our minds, is a very small (countable) subset of the transfinite possibilities of imagination.
Predictable = computable. The argument that continuous = deterministic is sometimes false. It is only true in cases of logical continuity, and this where we must found our society.
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A network is made creative by differences in phase.
We expect high standards of scientific integrity in our promotion of public health. In the main our hospitals practice the state of the art and there are many other realms such as engineering where scientific standards apply. On the other hand there is a certain [amount of error induced for selfish political reasons].Mystery (and its mate secrecy) are the curtains behind which evil is done. Our whole public survival strategy depends on defeating unnecessary mystery and secrecy. So we 'unlock the secrets of nature', and have become so successful at this that we can foresee threats to our survival that we ourselves have created. Those who stand to benefit from such mismanagement have a political interest in maintaining their ways which they can achieve through the various used of power, one of which is suppressing information. So we find in the food industry, for instance, a certain reluctance to truly label their products.
The Catholic insistence on its 'gift of [ultimate] truth' hides a much more dangerous 'impoverishment by error'. The Roman Catholic Church first revealed its true colours in its treatment of Galileo, and now all is exposed by its institutionally sanctioned (qui tacet consentire) treatment of women and children as slaves, sex and labour objects held down by a impenetrable glass (secret) ceiling. Good writing requires one to get mad. John Paul IIIt is now clear that the Roman Catholic Church has been involved in wholesale perversion of justice under its imperial claim to be above the jurisdiction of civil courts. This behaviour is not unique to the Church, however, but widespread
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among the wealthy and powerful.
Seymour-Smith page 389: 'Then, in The Golden Fleece Graves found he has gone right back to the source of the trouble: the conflict between the irrational and once mighty goddess, and the obstinate and ambitious patriarchs bent on setting themselves up as controllers of a masculinized world.
page 390: 'There was something in Christianity which [Graves] felt was alien to mankind's true needs; yet he was not disposed at all to believe that Jesus Christ himself was any kind of monster.'
Saturday 23 February 2013
Comment Commonweal - After Benedict Commonweal: Editorial: After Benedict
Seymour-Smith page 430: Graves: The Nazarene Gospel Restored Graves
Like all dualities, Heaven is meaningless without Hell, but we can work to displace the centre of gravity of the duality by making heaven more common [for us] and Hell rarer and less hellish. Our principal public concern is to improve public health by reducing the prevalence of hell by reducing the incentives for crime, occupational health and safety, universal health care and environmental protection. All these things ultimately come down to the environment, the womb in which we all live. heaven and Hell are both aspects of God.
Seymour-Smith page 437: Graves' mother: ' "Work is far more interesting than play".'
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The river roars (say 40 cumec) but the rain has eased off, features of my God.
Seymour-Smith page 488: graves: ' "If there's need to write the wilder and more poignant sort [of poem] then there's trouble about for sure." '
My life has been so calm and steady that I have not felt like writing poetry for at least thirty years. And now, bored by pouring rain (which excites the river) a nap.
To know a subject is to have acquired a mental structure isomorphic (in salient details) to the fixed points of the subject.
Writing like this is in effect software for human [to be run on human minds], and we are setting out here to describe theological software using the language of computer engineering. The root of this, and of human society, can be expressed in terms of mathematical logic to give us mathematical theology, the science that stands an the whole of computable structure and looks out into the incomputable.
Mathematical theology: the breakout from institutional theology. The [local] limits to mathematics are the practical [local] limits to theology, but Cantor's theorem tells us that there is always something beyond what we can see.
SENSATION = DETERMINISTIC (ERROR FREE) COMMUNICATION
God is bigger than the Church, an obvious fact when we see that the Church is but a tiny subset of the Earth, let alone the Universe. Supreme monarchical arrogance [might claim otherwise].
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Theology is at a crossroads. For two thousand years theology has been the possession of the Catholic Church , an imperial monarchic organization which has turned about to be corrupt to the core [as we might expect from its claims to absolute power]. This corruption became manifest when the Church rejected the scientific method as a source of truth and solipsistically defined itself to be infallible. Now it is in ruins, destroyed by the criminal rape of vulnerable people and the subsequent cover up.
The Church suppressed scientific theology because it exposes the feet of clay. There is no scientific evidence for the Christian story. It is all a fiction dreamed up by the Church and the religious ideas it encountered in the Roman Empire which it eventually came to control and then supercede, creating 'Christian Europe'.
The Church, like political elites everywhere, places itself above humanity. It thinks it can act with complete impunity because its God said 'Whatever you bind ' ' ' . But it cannon. Its fantasies contradict the realities revealed by science (by which I mean all knowledge tied to sensation). Its monarchical structure contradicts the most fundamental thermodynamic or statistical mechanical observation of all, that stable systems have maximum entropy. They cover all possibilities, ie they are local Gods.
The faithful are getting sick of their hard earned donations being used to obtain out of court settlements that continue the cover-up of the Church's sexual and gender crimes. It is now time to point out that this is small beer compared to the mental rape of children inherent in the
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Church's claim to have the right to propagandize everyone [of any age].
The theoretical backone of mathematical theology is fairly heavy nerd work but we are fortunate that the advent of the internet has bred a large work force skilled in this area. With funding and parallel processing (ie many workers) the outlines should not take long to sketch.
ALGEBRA - SYMMETRY x can be any number.
The end of the theological mainstream road came for me when i read that Catholic Universities (like the Australian Catholic University) owed 'institutional fidelity' to the Church, Ie Catholic but not catholic, Universities, but not universities where free thought guided by evidence reigns. John Paul II: Ex Corde Ecclesiae: Apostolic Constitution of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II on Catholic Universities
The last few centuries of physics have taught s that no idea can be [too] outlandish, but that most outlandish ideas are inconsistent with reality, ie they unnecessarily reduce entropy.
Seymour-Smith page 491: '[Graves] has sometimes been taken by his enemies (and occasionally by his friends, if only when they have been impatient with him)—as a man who conceals a straightforward 'Don Juanism' under a pious system.
'No judgement could be more mistaken. Gaves differs from most other men in his feeling that any sort of resistance to romantic love is a kind of sin, a refusal of the Goddess, of what the Goddess means to him'. Just what Don would have said!
The coupling between love and suffering is a perverted
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Catholic idea, an overemphasis on grief where death is normal and inevitable.
Seymour-Smith: Graves: ' "Only during the last three years have I ventured to dramatize, truthfully and factually, the vicissitudes of a poet's dealings with the White Goddess, the Muse, the perpetual Other Woman. Whatever may be said against her, sheat least gives him an honest warning of what to expect—as it were tying a poison label around her neck. . . . " ' Sick. Poison only to one who cannot adapt to another person.
page 494: ' "A few years ago after an emotional crisis, I wrote a poem advising myself to be content with the mild pleasures of old age and inaction." '
The Theology Company, byt taking the work of both the Church and the military in maintaining public health and safety, can expect to harvest a small proportionof the cashflow in these industries, which may account for 10-15% of Glo0bal Product (GP).
page 311: graves: '. . . "Baraka—it means all sorts of things in Arabic but it is whatever makes a poem a poem—holiness, rapture, love, virtue (from the world Barak lightning)." '
page 520: White Goddess - incomputable, belle dame sans merci
Block Goddess - computable, reliable helpmate
522 Man Does, Woman Is, 1964
All Graves trouble arises because he wants to own people. A control freak like Laura Riding.
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Seymour-Smith page 534: Graves: ' "I write this for your sake, not mine, and I hate writing it. . . . I may not post it: but you will get the message nevertheless." ' A well honed hypocrite, product of Christianity.
page 564: 'He had now connected the practice of love directly with the observation of decency in human affairs.'
