vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Notebook: DB 76 Discretion]
[Sunday 1 December 2013 - Saturday 7 December 2013]
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Sunday 1 December 2013
Sydney —> Elands
Its a digital world, but how do the digits interact? In a computer we do it with electrodynamics, the physical process behind the formal process that we observe and use [shapes (forms) in spacetime] We find it comfortable to think of the electrodynamic process (or any other process that we use to implement digital logic) as a continuous process, but in fact this also is digital but we can
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imagine a continuous process (evolution of wave function) which determines the probabilities of the digital outcomes, rather than accepting that the digital outcomes are capable of interacting without a continuous matrix [but remember that true continuity is nothing]. Here we are searching for forms of words (digital strings) which make the digital world intelligible.
Value flows in units of action.
The old question: what is the hardware of the Universe, ie the fixed system which guides its action. Answer, the fixed point of the divine dynamics, beginning with the 'omnino simplex' classical God.
To know a network is to know all the different ways of getting from a to b and their costs in terms of distance, time, fuel, etc, like a taxi driver. In quantum mechanics this data is encoded in the Hamiltonian and the whole business is an illustration of Feynman's idea that there are [a] large number of different ways to derived the fixed equations of quantum mechanics and their meanings.
The motion of a swing is pretty much the same (a pendulum) whether the swinging weight is a rick or a living child, an example of the symmetry of mass-energy.
The motivation to undertake a project grows as models of the project become more precise and predict a positive outcome. The critical step in this process is the decision to declare the project 'bankable', a sufficiently low probability of loss to encourage investment. One sees in modern times companies like Snapchat which have no (or negligible) revenue, which are nevertheless assigned a very high capital value. Institutional Venture Partners
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It is hard to be certain what the investors are paying for. A properly developed theology and religion (the 'app') might justify similar attractions of capital.
Christianity denies the reality of death even though it is an ubiquitous phenomenon happening to everything from fundamental particles to stars and perhaps galaxies, a span that includes ourselves and the solar system that sustains us. By denying death, Christianity also effectively denies that the Universe is creative, breathing new life into the remains of the old in a very old cycle which will continue [for Earth] until the Sun becomes impossible to live with.
Good mathematics is bankable, like effective software.
LOCAL = DETERMINISTIC (one computer)
GLOBAL = DYNAMIC (branching, increasing entropy [second order differential equations?])
Monday 2 December 2013
Tuesday 3 December 2013
Doubt. Earlier in the year I would wake up in the morning filled with optimism derived from the progress I felt I was making. Now I wake up filled with doubt that I have bitten off more than I can chew. The core of the problem seems to be in the mathematics of continuity and the contention that from an algorithmic information point of view the mathematical continuum is nothing and that arguments from continuity are in effect arguments from the via negativa. While it seems reasonable to contend that Universe is divine, this view of continuity seems to fly in the face of too much mathematical history. The logic seems sound, however, that our mathematical treatment of continuity introduces digitization via the 'back door' and so does
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not really deal with true non-digital continuity, about which there is nothing to be said, as Cohen's work suggests. This view is supported (I think) by Noether's theorem. Time to bite the bullet and write 'reasonable effectiveness'. Cohen, Neuenschwander
Zurek on quantum jumps: what is necessary to make an observation is that both the observer and the observed have the same basis. Given that any basis may be brought into congruence with any other by rotation in a space with the same dimension of the bases, this is ultimately a matter of phase change until the phases of observer and observed are coincident . . . orthogonal bases.
Bonding requires duplicity: a loves b and b loves a.
Benchmark Capital
Lightspeed Venture Partners Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Behind the enormous complexity of the Universe is the simple concepts of conserved flow, like water flowing in leak free pipes. The basic flow in the Universe is the flow of energy which we understand mathematically as the flow of probability [frequency]. We like to manipulate the flows of probability, bringing the accident rate down and successful outcomes [journeys] up.
The aim of control is to control the flow of probability [frequency of events] concentrating on desirable outcomes and doing as much as reasonably possible to avoid undesirable outcomes in proportion to their undesirability, ie public health. All social issues are public health issues. We must include all sources of death and disability, preemptively as well as curatively.
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Communication is a flow of probability, the entropy of the channel determining how much control can be transmitted, ie information, the dual of entropy (general covariance, the metric being a natural number).
Probability is a ratio of actions. Fair coin gives 1:1 :: heads:tails.
Dirac's transformation theory operates at constant entropy, constant relationship between energy flow and information flow, whose structure is irrelevant to the transmitting hardware. No sequence of bits is taboo.
The power of the set concept is its symmetry with respect to cardinal number, All sets are the same, no matter how many elements they contain, from 0 to the alephs.
We save the world not by pain and suffering but by inventing new algorithms to improve our productivity in terms of pleasure per unit effort.
What we need to avoid is false economy.
We don't give a fuck about the facts, man, we just do what we like [Bush, Abbott]
Wednesday 4 December 2013
'Guardian will not be intimidated'
The elite have always depended on their priacy to maintain their power, while invading the privacy of the rest to check for threats to their regime. At the apex of this strategy lies the
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Catholic church an absolute authority enshrouded in total mystery. The Church's business plan is simple. It has convinced large numbers of people that it holds an infallible monopoly on communication with God. It has also convinced them that it is essential for them to listen to the Word of God preached by the Church and obey it if they are to avoid an eternity of agony in Hell and enjoy an eternity of bliss in Heaven. Both these convictions are false and once their falsity is accepted, a radical reform of Catholic theology becomes necessary. Once we accept that the Universe is divine and all experience is experience of God, theology can become an evidence based science. God is our judge; if we pursue wrong policies we are likely to be punished by the failure of our work, and the consequent loss. Do not listen to the Church; listen to the World. This seems to be what Francis is doing and one can see that the time for a theological paradigm change becomes nigh.
Thursday 5 December 2013
Friday 6 December 2013
On my relationship to God. Standing in the sun digging the foundations for an amenities block, I think that I am never closer to my God than when I am digging.
My God
Saturday 17 December 2013
The whole concept of enemies and the right to bug, torture and murder enemies is gradually falling out of date before the realization that we are all one interrelated species trying[page 25]
to survive in a complex planetary environment.
How do entanglement and 'spooky action at a distance' fit the digital world? Entanglement is a form of communication or coupling first outlined in the Einstein Podolsky Rosen experiment. It is non-local, suggesting that it exists at a fundamental level where space has not yet emerged. The layered network model supposes that any process at any level entrains processes right down to the initial singularity. Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen
If it is too good to be true it probably isn't. This sums up my fears for natural theology. But I have to face it. How else can we understand a Universe intelligent enough to create Earth and all who inhabit it?
Guardian > how to believe Guardian: Comment is free
Regulation does not cost, it pays. Washington Post.
The power of love. How far am I prepared to go outside my comfort zone (deviate from my generalized geodesic) to accomodate a relationship. 0, couldn't care less; 1, I would sacrifice my life for this person. ≥ 2 on the genetic level of decision.
Dear Pope Francis, the Catholic history of salvation is in fact rubbish, as any well educated modern person like yourself must clearly see, Any attempt to reform the Church without bringing it into contact with reality is doomed to failure, maybe not in the short run, but definitely in the long run. The Church worships a false God with feet of clay which is bound to collapse eventually.
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From a modern point of view, the sexual molestation of thousands of children and the centuries of cover up practised by the Church are trivial compared to perversion of billions of minds by the preachers of Catholic dogma.
