vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Notebook: DB 76 Liberation]
[Sunday 22 September 2013 - Saturday 26 September 2013]
[page 153]
Sunday 22 September 2013
[A Theory of peace] p 7 Algorithm = technique = productivity
Depression - no way to go, utimately suicide. So we think of a society as being a network of parallel processors all working on the general process of survival, some from a very local (selfish) point of view, others (theologians?) taking the braodest possible view.
Rousseau, Confessions 1782. Rousseau
Quantum mechanics is symmetrical with respect to complexity, the formalism from 2 state identical to formalism for ℵn state. [honours Cantor symmetry]
Tit for tat. I want to get my own back on the Church, or at least some compensation for the loss of a lifetime of public service and commensurate income, ie all found with added recreational and entrepreneurial support. Axelrod; The Evolution of Cooperation
Monday 23 September 2013
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Play — optimization for winning / optimization for fun. In the former case we might say that play = work.
MAXIMUM ENTROPY = WILD
COMPUTABLE = TAME
Tuesday 24 September 2013
Introduction to the theory of peace.
The basis for hope is essentially grace whose physical embodiment for us is solar energy. At least this seems to be what saves me from despair. But the other root of this hope is cooperation, ie the recognition that we individuals are bound into a greater whole and none of us can survive as individual as the 'right' seems to think. All my feelings of despair serve as a testing ground for my theological ideas now that I have given up the idea of meriting heaven through pain and good works. The root of cooperation in turn is recognition that we all share a common biological and planetary universal heritage as Children of God in the object oriented software design sense that we share all the attributes of our parent and add attributes of our own while we are alive and active.
My main problem, I now think, is authenticity. Who am I to stand (as I am now) alone against the Catholic Church, the ancients, all the other religions that put God outside the world etc etc. This problem becomes acute each time I sit down to work on my websites and am forced to ask do I really
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believe this? My father warned me that a jack of all trades may be a master of none. My desire to convince the world that it is divine takes me across the whole intellectual spectrum from theology to physics and I can only see a little bit of each while trying to craft a model of everything to embrace them all.
The key to a feeling of authenticity is to be a well integrated member of a peer group, that is a group that shares a common language. By deviating from both the theists and the atheists, I find myself very much alone without peers. This is sometimes a source of loneliness and motivates me to question my path, but in the end I feel strong enough to carry on and hope to eventually emerge into the light and be seen, a reward (profit) from my investment.
Insofar as personal experience/feeling is the data od theology, theological heaven will come to me when everyone acknowledges that they are divine components of a divine Universe, and we talk and act in a manner consistent with that belief.
The next big step in 'unreasonable effectiveness' is to use the Cantor Symmetry to build a ladder from [quantum mechanics to mathematics and theology]
Wednesday 25 September 2013
A short three days season of fire, one allnighter.
<> And one special thing that I wanted to write down and have lost, like so much. What was I thinking?Its back: What is the balance between complete freedom
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and complete authoritarian control? The middle way is evidence based self control, which works across the spectrum from complete freedom (but one must live by the evidence to survive ie don't jump into raging fires) to complete control, where one must recognise the power of the controller and submit to it, or die at the hands of a controller (like Stalin) who murders the disobedient.
Don't let me down. People fail because they let one another down, leading to loss, recrimination and the general downward spiral we notice among many of the alcoholics, junkies, prostitutes and people given to criminal behaviour among our friends and acquaintances. We blame both people and society. The answer seems to be to construct a society where trust is rewarded.
Thursday 26 September 2013
Friday 27 September 2013
Plato, Parmenides: 'For you, in your poems, say The All is one, and of this you adduce excellent proofs; and he, on the other hand, says, There is no many; and on behalf of this he offers overwhelming evidence. You affirm unity, he denies plurality.Fundamentalism: the root crime against knowledge, refusing to look.
Things are rough in the initial period (listem to the DC3s starting up) and then become more and more refined (or at least we would like them to). So initially there is a high error rate until practice makes perfect.
Digitization: sacrificing precision for certainty - per sic
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et non: binary digitization. Abelard: Sic et Non
