vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Notebook: DB 76 Liberation]
[Sunday 4 August 2013 - Saturday 13 August 2013]
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Sunday 4 August 2013
Each form of interaction has some macroscopic consequence, the most general of which, applicable to any interaction, is thermodynamics and more generally statistical mechanics which seeks to understand microscopic behaviour using measurements made by macroscopic machines, like the Large Hadron Collider. Large Hadron Collider - Wikipedia
Whether we like it or not, the US is currently the dominant global power and so, if we want to change things, we must address US policy, and the best route is through theology.
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Mathematical theology vs political theology, scientific theology vs political theology. The ancient religions are highly politicised because established religions tend to group with the ruing elite and so are intimately involved in ruling, and claim the ultimate power over life and death, heaven or hell, the torture of the undead for all eternity.If you cannot beat them, join them We can probably all agree that we cannot beat God, so we must join it, become a member of the divine Universe, at home in the Universe.
Monday 5 August 2013
Nothing. Bed. Emotional labour. Our emotions are rather like the vacuum, a poorly defined source of energy (dynamism) that can lead to fixed points — reason arising out of passion and providing the fixed points for the next layer of passion. Love — inspiration — love . . . . Emotional labor - Wikipedia
Tuesday 6 August 2013
A social control system is designed to chop off the outliers, keeping people close to what the system sets as a targeted mean. We can mostly agree that people who want to destroy the society itself need restraint. On the other hand we rely on outliers to explore the potential behavioural space around us and we dedicate considerable funds to scientific exploration. Is the ideal social distribution normal or Poisson? Normal distribution - Wikipedia, Poisson distribution - Wikipedia
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A common model of social and political change is that we must destroy the old to implement the new. The network model suggests that this is not so. We build the new by correcting the errors of the old as seen from the perspective of a more comprehensive view of the world, moving eg from monarchy to a parallel organization of people for the people (whose fundamental error is disproportionate power of the elite, eg Murdoch, an American interfering in Australian politics, the signature move on an imperial power).
The essential point of this essay is that when we look at the Universe through the eyes of algorithmic information theory the continuum carries no information because it has no entropy because is has no distinct / countable states to encode entropy / information.
WaPo Wonkblog
Wednesday 7 August 2013
Christianity's biggest selling point is the claim that death has died (Donne). Unfortunately the hypothesis that spirit can exist without embodiment [that is coupling to God, the root] seems to be false, and the God, heaven, angels and saints (not to mention the devils and the damned) remains a fiction without any supporting evidence other than wishful thinking. Of course once we desired to fly , and now we do, by a cunning embodiment of the laws of nature based in theories by Bernoulli and Carnot , embodied by practical people. Death Be Not Proud (poem) - Wikipedia
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The internet shows a tendency in the direction of eternal life in that our personal experience of living, since it is a body of information, can be embodied in a computer network. The is the idea behind A Portrait of an Abstract Man, the story that helped me over the loss of eternal life when I rejected the disembodied soul hypothesis. A period also when a very good friend was killed. In other words, the fact that we can experience fantasies of eternal life says that these fantasies are [network] computable, and so, given the universality of quantum computation, could be embodied (realized). Embodiment means constructing a chain of causality (dependence) back to the initial singularity (= the Classical God)
Embodiment means coupling to action, energy, momentum, ie existence, time and space, the three main [first three] physical layers of the Universe.
The Conversation: I got into the theology game by being born a Catholic, ie into a milieu which required one to follow Catholic culture. The Conversation Media Group
The mission: bring monotheism to the world.
God is the touchstone of integrity, and without integrity we have disintegration, vide modern global politics.
As we begin to perceive our approach to a critical phase in our relationship with Earth, we must recall to mind the old adage, united we stand, divided we fall.
What do I want to do? What do I need to do? Any process can be represented by a vector (ordered set of
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actions (which may themselves be vectors) so what I want to do and what I need to do can be represented as vectors in a suitable space. If these vectors are parallel, we are in a species of heaven, desire and need in phase. In the opposite case, these vectors may be orthogonal (need and desire independent) or completely out of phase, need opposed to desire, a form of hell. I must go to work, but I rather like work (in suitable doses).
We can express all messages as vectors in a function space (Shannon). Claude Shannon
Modelling allows us to travel through time.
Thursday 8 August 2013
Physics understands the universe through the via negativa, things that are not happening (continuous symmetries) define the physical world as we know it, since they represent the fixed ponts, the points where nothing happens with the passage of time, which can be relied upon as firm foundations for the structure of the Universe.
Via negativa methodology common to theology and mathematics, reductio ad absurdum. Reductio ad absurdum - Wikipedia
The emission of a latter by a source is a quantum of action, so letters are the fixed points of a dynamic process, the establishment of a cycle of fixed frequency (energy).
Natural theology derives from Christian theology by a radical change of perspective. Christianity places the world outside God and God outside the world making the world completely dependent on God. By identifying God and the world we make
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an entity completely dependent on itself. We become gods inside God, autonomous sources of action drawing our action from the divinity of which we are part [the action comes entirely from God; some of the fixed points are our own].
Quantum mechanics is a mathematical description of God's body.
Physicists map little subsets of the divine network by drawing Feynman diagram. Each such diagram serves the function of a map in the space of differential geometry ad the Universe as a whole is an atlas of Feynman diagrams. Distance is measured by frequency of interaction [each order of the diagram accounting for influences from further away].
The decription of a simple system can be simple, needing only sufficient variety to fix the system described perfectly, requisite variety commanding a deterministic outcome by removing all uncertainty, The minmum binary digital uncertainty is 1 bit = 1 quantum of action.
Do the moneychangers have control of the Temple? Maybe, but they are certainly heavy hitters in the superposition of controls.
Nation: superposition of people, in a true democracy all have equal weight, ie in quantum mechanical terms they are equiprobable, so maximizing entroy. Natural codes like languages generally use their elements with varying probabilities — comare e and q in English, although equiprobability would maximize entropy. Why?
Friday 9 August 2013
The most effective way to proceed is to continue working until the time is right, which means when the website (a new theology) is complete. The ['new'] theology I propose
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is not generally new, but it is new with respect to Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
Procrustes founded the dogmatic model. Procrustes - Wikipedia
A New Theology Introduction lists the errors of the Roman Catholic Church, beginning with the false god and then its consequences.
Saturday 10 August 2013
A New Theology
Preface: personal motivation
Introduction: problems with the Roman Catholic Church
c1: God exists
c2: Physics — God's body — vis negativa — actus purus and fixed points
c3: Networks and internets: layering. Fixed points are messages
c4: Creation / insight / evolution / selection — network truth seeking
c5: Science, / politics / suvival / truth
c6: Error / evil / corruption / annihilation / sin / hell
c7: Morals / ethincs / entropy / headroom / work / play
c8: Mysticism / spirit /consciousness / experience
c9: Scientific theology / monotheism / integrity / heaven
c10: Is it true?
Maybe model on the Nicene Creed. Nicene Creed - Wikipedia
c1 I believe in God the father almighty
c2 Creator of heaven and Earth
etc.
Winter is survival time, spring summer and autumn a time for accumulating headroom, saving and capital
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formation.
