vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Sunday 3 March 2013 - Saturday 9 March 2013]
[Notebook: DB 75 Reconstruction]
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Sunday 3 March 2013
Quid est hoc quod est esse? {encode, decode} =
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communicate = change past state into future state via a present state.
We are constructing a model of God (=Theory of Everything). Mathematically, this model exists if it is self consistent. WEe have learnt that consistency in mathematics implies incompleteness and incomputability, which bounds the rate of communication. Ontologically, this model represented the fixed and communicable points in the divine dynamics. From these observable points we seek to understand the dynamic process that governs them.
It is taking me a long time to synthesise al the various insights I have collected (see list 14 December 1012, pp 34-35), and see the fastest way forward as publishing all my notes to provide an environmental background for the Unreasonable Effectiveness, Development, Commentary on the Summa and similar secondary productions. Notes 14 December 2012
Time to stop worrying and let myself flow. What does this mean? Less attempting to model and deal with the distant future and more response to the immediate local condition, at the matter molecules and solid particles in the raging river outside my window are doing. My ideal is the theory of everything instantiated in every event that I experience.
Armstrong pp 105-6: [Moghul emperor Akbar ruled 1560-1605] . . . was respectful of all faiths. He built temples for Hindus, and in 1575 set is a 'house of worship' where scholars of all religions
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could meet for discussion.'
The flow of money is the principal component of the flow of [violent?] power and so needs to become transparent if we are to have an egalitarian (maximum entropy) society.
Obeid and co are analogous to cancer, directing the resources of a society toward its own destruction. SMH Editorial
One cannot turn back time [whatever the physicists say!. All reforms based on a return to the old days contain the roots of their own destruction because they are generally of lower entropy [than the present environment]. Wahhab, Armstrong, page 114. Armstrong
Armstrong page 115: 'Wahhabism is the form of Islam that is still practised in Saudi Arabia, a puritan religion based on a strict literal interpretation of scriptures and early Islamic tradition.'
page 121: 'To bear Europe at its own game a conventional agrarian society would have to transform itself from top to bottom, and recreate its entire social, economic, educational, religious, spiritual, political and intellectual structures. And they would have to do this very quickly, an impossible task since it has taken the West almost three hundred years to achieve this development.'
Drive on into the night. It is hard to imagine that even God does not know where it is going any more than I do. Created cannot be controlled nor predicted.
Monday 4 March 2013
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Armstrong page 125: 'The European invasion of the Islamic world . . . began in Moghul India . . . "the plundering of Bengal" . . . '
page 134: 'Politics has never been central to the Christian religious experience.' A joke? 'In hoc signo vinces'. At this moment the election of a new pope is neck deep in politics!. In hoc signo vinces - Wikipedia
Policy: Religion is applied theology, and the principal outputs of religion are policies on how to think and behave. Natural theology respects the creative nature of ourselves and our Universe and so places no constraint on thought, which is not observable, but on actions (messages) which are observable. Natural theology, being scientific, will naturally home in on how the Universe really works, and its application through religion will have the effect of moving us toward harmony with our natural divine environment. Our fundamental theological fact is that the world is both creative and conservative. Our layered model of the fixed points of creation explains which this is so. A higher layer cannot exist unless it maintains the layer upon which and from which it is built.
We understand science (and everything else) from its history, since every moment of our lives arises from the moment before, its history. Dp,e f this process is deterministic and fixed (complete, computable) and the rest of it is indeterminate, a product of the symmetry that arises as a consequence of incomputablility, non-control.
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Johnson, Nemesis page 77: '. . . simple amnesia . . . both [Niall] Ferguson and the Cambridge Illustrated Encyclopedia of the British Empire skip lightly over the fact that the empire ran the world's largest and most successful drug cartel. During the nineteenth century, Britain fought two wars of choice with China to force it to import opium. . . . The Australian scholar Carl A. Trocki concludes that, given the huge profits from the sale of opium, "without the drug, there probably would have been no British empire".' Johnson, Marshall, Trocki
page 80: 'For all its alleged liberalism and the capitalist institutions it forces on its captive people, the British Empire bred, inculcated and propagated racism as its ultimate justification.
Was the British Empire a 'good thing' or a 'bad thing'? Both. It was a one off, and is past, so there is so there is nothing we can do about is except to study it closely and learn from it. We learn about it from the memories of it that still exist in documents, buildings, sociual structures and all those things (memories) that have endured since imperial times.
Johnson page 86: '. . . the British government did everything inits power to cover up the genocide it attempted [in Kenya] including burning the colonial archives relating to Kenya on the eve of leaving the country in 1963.
Model: Einstein said the most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein
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Wigner touches a similar vein when he discusses the unresonable effectiveness of mathematics in the sciences. Physicists talk of finding a theiory of everything but what they mean is not a theory of everything but a theory of the relaitonships between the fundamental particles of the Universe. There is a lot more to everything that them. My 100 kg of flesh is a monstrously complex structure buit from some 1030 (?) fundamental particles, and a theory of everything should explain how this and many far greater structures like planets came about.
The traditional theory of everything is theology, which tells us in effect that everything is the way it is and behaves the way it does because God made it that way and guides its actions in minute detailo because God is both ombipotent and omniscient.
Religion = applied theology = applied applied metamathematics.
Model: Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas . . . Brouwer.
Tuesday 5 March 2013
The variety (complexity) of language matches the vriety of experience, and to some extent they increase together, new sentences encoding new experiences and new experiences eliciting new sentences. An example of positive feedback, creation or growth.
The Roman Catholic Church has lost all moral standing by its cover-ups
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of child sexual abuse. Now we must show that it has got no intellectual standing either.
Epistemology: every science and tradition of science has a history that stretches back before the era of writing. Historians of science can mark a major transformation in each science where it ceased to base itself on eminent authorities and began to use observations and experience as touchstones of truth. We see this transformation happening in physics [beginning around the time of Galileo] and it has gradually taken place in biology and the psychological sciences. In all cases evidence based planning and action have replaced the whims of powerful people and organizations. The one major science where the transition has not happened is theology.
Traditional theology models God as a self-existent incomprehensible entity that creates maintains and destroys the world according to a mysterious 'history of salvation'.
The theory of network computing is the same at all scales, Turing machines and communication links.
We say God is comprehensible. We can say that it makes sense because our lives, properly understood, make sense. Christianity needs to push mystery because its story does not make sense, it only hlods together by mystery, miracles and magic.
As a construction worker I am accustomed
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to trusting my life to the structures I build. If it falls down or breaks under me, I am quite likely to be injured or killed.The psychology of monasticism: it is not just a belief system but a life system. So set in stone that we can bank on it. We are right We know. There is no need to ever change.
A comprehensible mathematical model of comprehensibility might turn out to be isomorphic to quantum mechanics.
I am motivated by a powerful idea: turning all of Western Christian theology on its head. What I aim to do is to bring theology back into the scientific fold. The basic step is simple. I identify God and the Universe so our symbol becomes GOD = UNIVERSE [Cosmos] Θ≡Κ
Cryptography Sebag-Montefiore Sebag-Montefiore
Wednesday 6 March 2013
Martial law. Martial law - Wikipedia
The era of rule by military force is dying along with the authoritarian approach to knowledge, another (inevitable) step in the history of science, a consequence of the statistical idea that entropy rarely decreases and often
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Agatha Chimneys chapter xxx: '.. . There's damn little equality going about. Mind you I still believe in democracy. But you've got to force it on people with a string hand—ram it down their throats. Men don't want to be brothers—they may some day, but they don't now. My belief in the brotherhood of man died the day I arrived in London last week, when I observed the people standing on the Tube train resolutely refuse to move up and make room for those who entered. You won't turn people into angels by appealing to their better natures just yet a while—but by judicious force you can coerce them into behaving more or less decently to one another to go on with. I still believe in the brotherhood of man, but its not coming yet awhile. Say ten thousand years or so. Its no good being impatient. Evolution is a slow process.'
Here comes the sun
People will treat one another well when they know it is in their best interests [this is the foundation of trade]. Many of the current political structure in the world set people against one another, and are, we suspect at the root of violence. We can proceed only by devising cooperative structures and educating ourselves in their operation. Human security studies suggest that the process is in operation now and many people are working to achieve it. The fundamental text is the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and the notion that the limits on the rate of communication identified by Einstein mean that we can only understand our world locally, within the sphere of reliable communication. Human Security Report Project, United Nations, Special relativity - Wikipedia
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Life is a deep game, and rivals seek to propagate error to enhance their own superiority. The British Empire, for instance, depended heavily on corrupting minds with drugs as well as killing people outright. This strategy is most manifest in elites who are trying to maintain control of their subjects. Our prime example is the error at the Root of the Roman Catholic Church which it uses to legitimize its 'infallible' authority. Trocki
The spectrum of human behaviour runs from tender love and reproduction to violent murder and cannibalism. These behaviours are activated by the environment (potential) in which people find themselves.Facing death by starvation or death by attempted plunder of the neighbours, those fit to survive will choose plunder, On the other hand, in the peace of secure human relationships, fitness dictates love. Given the uncertainty of all action, these behaviours are realized stochastically, the form (wavelength) of maximum probability being determined by the temperature. [Wien's law] A system is at its ost stable at absolute zero, ie the theoretical realm of perfectly deterministic determinism., where the energy change associated with any process is zero. Still grasping for the path between the collapse of the wave function and the act of insight. The concept that fixed formalisms are stationary points in the dynamics is the key to this, plus the theological [assumption[ that the dynamics of the Universe is locally consistent, that is within its light cone, ie it communication cone.
Marx predicted the withering away of the state, but he failed to recognise that every tree must have a root and so the dictatorship of the proletariat degenerated into the imperial monarchies of Stalin, Mao, the Communist Party of China
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and their ilk. Stalin saw that he has to break down all human allegiances, leaving only allegiance to himself, and he arrogated to himself the right to kill anyone who opposed this structure. This we might call monarchical hierarchy, represented most perfectly by the Pope, as opposed to network hierarchy, in which the higher layers have greater entropy, not less as we move toward ever more complex (larger localities of) integration.
An open letter to the new pope: you have been charged by your board (your fellow cardinals) to reform a massive morally and intellectually bankrupt organization. etc, etc etc.
Enigma: people set against one another by the environment of a war. How do we treat one another when we are at war? Kill, by the most productive means available, a mixture of force and intelligence. Oba\ma's drone wars, a considrable de-escalation from Bush;s land wars, but still lacking the due process of a civil society.
Like the Nixon presidency, the Vatican has been engaged in a massive cover-up which is gradually becoming the subject of criminal investigation in jurisdictions around the world. Eventually the Vatican itself will be impeached and found guilty. Center for Constitutional Rights
Why did the Church do this? Because it considered itself above human law, as it continues to see itself to be above the law of nature, that is divine law, propagating a false God, a God if its own imagination which not surprisingly confers divine blessing on the Church itself.
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People at the interface with the world, farmers, hunters, physical workers of all kinds respect the constraints imposed by the world by careful observation and remembered experience. Ruling elites, on the other hand are inclined to propagate politically motivated doctrines designed to maintain their elite position.
Thursday 7 March 2013
The U-boat war demonstrates the power of knowledge to reduce search spaces to the point where (in the case of code) solutions could be found and (in the case of U-boats) submarines could be found and disabled or avoided.
Experiencing the stochastic nature of my own intelligence network, which seems to have put my writing mind on hold while I repair the leaks revealed by recent rains. One presumes that suitable sentences are not emerging from me at this point because the solutions to be represented in these sentences have not yet been found. The problem seems to be a way of expressing the self-perpetuating cycle of creation in an intelligible manner. Here we expect to see a clear expression of the idea incompleteness + incomputability ==> symmetry ==> broken symmetry = creation of fixed point upon which the next cycle of creation is to be based [fixed point is both dynamic and stationary, a local point mapping onto itself, by definition!].
A true theology would be of the greatest assistance in navigating human sace, avoiding or disabling the dangers = errors (U-boats, bugs, eg Hitler).
The local empirical test is for me to describe myself as a computer network. 'flop' = planck's constant. Now have
a clear grip of the idea that the 'collapse of the wave function' is represented by the halting of a computation and the emission of the answer a sa physical symbol, eg photon. This action corresponds to a quantum of action which in turn corresponds to a flop in modern computer jargon.
From a scientifc point of view, neither 'faith' nor 'infalibility' are grounds for belief.
Included in our dynamic range is the courage to face death.
SCIENCE = CODEBREAKING, learning to read God (Zoolander). Zoolander - Wikipedia
Friday 8 March 2013
The path from collapse of the ψ to insight is through the layers of the network. An insight, from a network point of view, is the consequence of a hierarchical series of 'insights' (messages) beginning at the quantum mechanical level and ending, for me, in this book.
Johnson, Nemesis page 91: 'In fact the president's untrammelled control of the CIA is probably the single most extraordinary power the imperial presidency possesses—totally beyond the balance of powers intended to protect the United States from the rise of a tyrant.'
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Johnson page 95: 'The CIA belongs as much to the President as the Praetorian Guard once belonged to the Roman emperors.' This power can be broken by encouraging people to give their allegiance to God rather than particular political elites. This allegiance requires that no person be bound to secrecy but that we all use scientific method (ie observation and thoughtz) in composing our messages to our peers (ie every member of our species) and the layers of the network on which we depend (our environment or space). The basic problem in our society is error. One source of deliberate error is statements contrary to fact made for political purposes. In this context the most egregious such statement is the Church's claim that God is invisible, so we need the Church to communicate with it (It, IT(?)). In effect we maximize the entropy and stationarity of our world by all becoming 'whistleblowers', umpiring the human game at the local level by taking inside knowledge outside.
page 105: '. . . Chile provides us with the first written record of a US president ordering the overthrow of a democratically elected government—namely the handwritten notes of CIA director Richard Helms reflecting the orders given to him by president Nixon in the White House on September 5, 1970.'
Church: "covert action" is a"semantic disguise" for murder, coercion, blackmail, bribery, the spreading of lies and consorting with known torturers and international terrorists." '
US, like Roman Catholic Church and Communist Party of China, is a criminal organization.
page 112: 'William Casey . . . believed fervently that by increasing the Catholic Church's reach and power he could contain communism's advance, or
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reverse it.' ([Casey CIA Director] 1981-1987)
Johnson page 120: ' "Extraordinary rendition" kidnapping and torture'
A stable system is represented by a persistent communication link, as maybe foreseen by John Eccles. We are bonded when we correspond regularly and totally bonded when we communicate with no one else.
A stationarypoint is equivalent to a computer nop, no operation (operation that does nothing, f(x) = x)
Saturday 9 March 2013
Faced with the indeterminacy of quantum mechanics, we may question the claim that the underlying process is described by continuous mathematics [ie calculus], and that continuous mathematics is truly deterministic. To answer these questions we turn to Shannon;t theory of communication, and, since the theory depends heavily on encoding and decoding, to Turing's theory of computation.
Hierarchical structure of the world, Meyers et al, Science 339:773 Meyers, McKittrick & Chen
My processing speed, Lan et al Science 339:554 Lan
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A computer is a network, so we have a chicken and egg thing, as the computational encoding becomes more powerful, the number of distinguishable messages increases which increases the power of the computational encoding, a positive feedback that begins with the two state system and increases toward the Cantor limit (ℵ0) distinguishable messages, ie a state space of ℵ0 dimensions which is sufficient to describe ℵ1 states. Here we make the transition between physical and formal and introduce relativity of transfinity, taking us easily from finite to transfinite networks.
I feel like a codebreaker in a war. Each break made by a single person ot a small group is reflected in the theatre of war by the sinking of ships and submarines, the gain and loss of battalions of soldiers and swarms of tanks and planes. For me the war is against traditional errors, particularly the core error that God is invisible and unknowable. The basic assumption here is that God is knowable, ie we can communicate with it, beginning at the level of physics, the physical layer of God, and working up the transfinite hierarchy with the boundary between known and unknown always lying ahead of us and by Cantor's theorem always moving away form us as we move toward it, a model which encompasses both the comprehensible and incomprehensible features of God.
One operates on the edge of chaos, taking a rest (sleep) when things approach breakdown because one can no longer resolve and control all the elements in one's locality.
Churchill, like Yahweh was a fighting man. Keegan, Miles
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The 'Shannon limit' on computation creates symmetry which is the foundation of broken symmetry (continuous to discrete).
SYMMETRY = NOTHING = NO OP.
My diurnal cycle:
1. Sleep
2. Wake and record night thoughts in this log.
3. Distribute this writing, with editing, to ciurrent writing projects (typically ciurca 3 in a given day)
4. Progress writing projects on the basis of available new material.
5. Do a bit of physical construction
6. Relax with drugs (eg alcohol, caffeine, chocolate . . . )
7. Sicialize or read.
8. Sleep again.
One cycle of theological processing
Everything can be built around the boundary between locally computable ad incomputable, which defines the Shannon limits on error free communication in a formal (ie symmetrical with respect to rate of execution [=energy]) way. Platonic mathematics envisages infinite rates of execution (the Turing machine stops immediately or not at all) [coupled with zero energy, ie the Platonic forms are eternal and invariant, a contradictory situation].
A 'get the Pope' facebook page, ie reconstruct the Papacy as a scientifically driven constitutional monarch[y].
The Unreasonable effectiveness is explained by mathematical theology.
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Ie secularize the papacy, render it dynamic.
The war against history. I feel that I am out of the woods now and have a clear shot at the enemy (infallible eternal monarchy) and a weapon sufficiently thermonuclear to proceed.
Reform the Papacy.
