vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Sunday 11 August 2013 - Saturday 17 August 2013]
[Notebook: DB 76 Liberation]
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Sunday 11 August 2013
For my purposes, the Roman Catholic Church serves as a paradigm for the elements of ancient religion in need of updating / revision.
Quantum mechanics is blind to the distinction between potential and kinetic, they do not exist for it since both require space, one in which to have a gradient, the other in which to move along a gradient. Potential energy - Wikipedia
1. God exists
2. God lives — physics, the science of motion and fixed points
3. We live in God — and so we had better fit in
4. Business — survival: income greater than outgoingds
5. Pleasure — pleasant dissipation of profit
6. Networks and communication
7. Truth and error Science/politics, past/future
8. Mysticism and the spirit: good and bad experiences in the human layer
9. Scientific theology / montheism etc
10. Is it true? — do we meet the specification?
Quantum mechanically, potential is as real as kinetic, so indistinguishable as noted above.
Monday 12August 2013
Natural theology is neutral theology.
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Potential = fixed point, from kinetic to potential (in a gravitational field) means slowing to a stop, like the bob of a pendulum.
Work is making things explicit [embodied].
Error correction: righting a wrong.
c2: God creates
ch3: Mathematical science
Tuesday 13 August 2013
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Two obstacles: scientific and political. Originally science was largely a preserve of the wealthy who could fund their own research. I am in that position now. The next step, which really only got going in the twentieth century, was for scientists to attract public money for their work by demonstrating its public benefits. We now know that almost all the enhancements to human life that we enjoy in the global middle and upper classes come from science Ie recursive tinkering with realut and observing the results and electing [on] them. Ie science is isomorphic to evolution. Fortun & Bernstein
Perhaps my major concern is to manipulate my outer and inner states so that I feel good. On the outside I have to maintain a supply of food and shelter. On the outside I have to maintain a supply of food and shelter, warmth and security, reasonable relationships with my peers and so on. On the inside I need to feel that all is going well and that I am in a good state. Many religions build on these ideas to promise good feeling if one does
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as they tell you. At the moment my internal state is perturbed by the fact that the dog I am minding for a friend followed me down the road yesterday and has not come back, the first time this has happened during his two month stay.
(i>A New Theology serves as a restatement of the Theory of peace, in a new and more durable medium: e-book. Maybe republish A Theory of Peace also.
c4: Quantum theory and the universal network.
Thursday 15 August 2013
The Roman Catholic feast of the Assumption. More deceptive promotion. Holy See
Woke up this morning depressed by the murder in Egypt and the black and white fundamentalist assumption that they have the right to kill (or at least hurt) anyone they do not agree with. They are basically in denial about the realities of moten, change and evolution, direct descendants of Parmenides. Parmenides - Wikipedia
Looking for quick results. Registered atheoryofpeace.net and consider producing a second edition [of a theory of peace] on the web.
Fundamentalism: denial of the dynamism of the Universe.
The fundamentalist Churches have kept science out of theology by claiming that God is completely mysterious ans undetectable, and therefore outside the range of empirical science, But is this rally so? What of the Universe and God are the same entity? Two objectins, one political and one scientific. Politics is a numbers game, We need the science
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to get the number; we need the numbers to pay for the scienc (support the science generally).
Friday 16 August 2013
Salman Rushdie: Haroun: 'the sea of stories' = transfinite computer network (page 72) ' Different parts of the Ocean contained different sorts of stories, and as all the stories that had ever been told and many that were still in the process of being invented could be found here, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was in fact the biggest library in the universe. And because the stories were held here in fluid form, they retained the ability to change, to become new versions of themselves, to join up with other stories and so become yet other stories; so that unlike a library of books, the Ocean of the Streams of Story was much more than a storeroom of yarns. It was not dead, but alive.' Rushdie
I grew u in the shadow of two principal terrors: Hell in the afterlife and nuclear war in this. Both are evils or errors to be avoided, and my mission to protect myself and my children has taken me a long way toward the root of the problem if evil, the principal theological problem. Nuclear was and Hell are both products of elites trying to control the masses for their own (the elite's) benefit. This is a natural tendency. Who want sto work and suffer if they can live in leisure and comfort by deploying lethal force to extract goods from the population. It can only be combatted by the population itself, ie democracy untainted by elite violence.
