vol VII: Notes
2013
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]
[Sunday 15 December 2013 - Saturday 21 December 2013]
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Sunday 15 December 2013
The Roman Catholic Church is built on mythology, mystery and miracles, all of which seem to appeal to people more strongly that a scientific understanding of our condition. This may be due to the fact that the strongest force for survival is social cohesion, and it does not matter much how this cohesion is achieved, since most people in a Dominion would perceive their main competition as other people rather than the nature of the world in which they must survive, although a large proportion of our phenomenal success as a species is due to science and technology (partly the product of social cohesion!).
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Mead: the application of theology to global strategy. Francis (Pope) has declared himself against capitalism, but has nothing to offer in return because his organization has a very tenuous base in reality. Mead speaks as though everyone in the world is stupid and needs to be led by the US. No mention of the UN or the natural tendency of people to form social groups and look after themselves. Walter Russell Mead
Governments, institutions, religions and other groups down to sports teams and informal games are a principal source of hate and violence between people, dividing us into us and them and propagating false information about both us and them.
Monday 16 December 2013
God is the source of all events.
The Papacy, as distinct from the Pope, is in error and as such is a load on the human system which must be removed by correcting its error. Insofar as this error is embodied in practice, it is an evil to be removed as soon as possible. In reality, given the momentum of the Church, this might take a century, but we have to start somewhere. Keep writing, and like the Shakespearean monkeys, something might turn up.
Tuesday 17 December 2013
The thought of contributing to a theological revolution grows more realistic by the day I have been saying it for a long time but it is gathering momentum, feeling,
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ie increased bandwidth. I mixed nearly a cubic metre of concrete today to pour a small slab and am rather exhausted. It is time to cut back on this stuff and try to make a living by advocacy. Emphasizing plumbing over labouring as it is lighter work and I can charge more because of skill and markup. A natural progression from physical to mental labour, a step bypassed by many of the ruling elite who begin with bureaucracy with no practical experience behind them. Their insecurity is sometimes expressed by belittling the ruling class.
The spying business is bringing me back around to the Portrait of an Abstract Man, a disjointed piece of writing that helped me with the realization that I am not immortal. The proposal was that like a giant real time facebook, our lives are recorded in complete detail and algorithmic depth in the states of a neutron star and that the state of the star mimicked the state of myself to such degree that my conscious self would exist in the star as long as it lived. its information storage capacity is based on the fact that neutrons are fermions.
The heart of quantum mechanics is superposition which makes no sense in algorithmic information theoretic terms because there are no marks in the continuum to carry the information. Instead the eigenfunctions must be the nodes of a network and the eigenvalues tell us how frequently each of the nodes is addressed. Said this a while back, but it repeats as we bore spirally deeper into the foundations of our existence.
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The 'meaning' of money is determined by the account it is in. Wilkins Georgina Wilkins
There is a logical continuum from Platonic to animal which the ancients failed to recognise. Heavenly creatures. Concrete representation of form. Aristotle was sort of right, presaging Landauer's 'information is physical'. Rolf Landauer
Everything can happen but things happen with different frequencies or periods between events (dual measures of the same thing).
Because I am so weak I must win by pure formal power (potential), that is an eternal form with no energy (hence invariant, ie of infinite period). So these ideas, when correctly formalized, become eternal. There is a beautiful solution to the corruption engendered by elitism, ie deliberate variety reduction by a system seeking resources for itself, ie control of the environment (by people for the people or by the dictator for the dictator.
' 'Formal' and 'material' are dual spaces one static and the other dynamic. This is a corollary of the notion that dynamic systems have fixed points..
The primary purpose of human industry is to create heaven on Earth. To survive and fulfil their role an industry must be profitable, ie its income must be greater than its expenses. So with natural theology, a [profitable business is necessary to propagate it].
We may look at life as an interplay between static
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and dynamics, things that stay the same and things that change. The ancients, like Xenophanes and Parmenides saw this as a sharp dichotomy, a binary distinction (orthogonality) which we symbolize by p or not-p, ) or 1. Parmenides - Wikipedia
On the baby Jesus, a symbol of God. Here I propose a new symbol of God, more formal than a baby, but embracing both creative reproduction and eternal certainty.
At the heart of every religion is an equation linking action to reward. The vast literature of theology is devoted to proposing and arguing for and against various algorithms to represent this equation.
Wednesday 18 December 2013
Thursday 19 December 2013
Friday 20 December 2013
We seek certainty, a difficult commodity to capture. Now we move from Parmenides' idea of an absolute gulf between motion and stillness to the modern idea that there is a spectrum running from absolute stillness (eternal life) to pure motion or energy, where everything is in perpetual motion. The two extremes of the spectrum are duals of one another whose product is an invariant: in every case we find that longevity is the inverse of frequency, ie wavelength (in space or time) multiplied by frequency leads to an invariant velocity, c, and a similar structure of to be found universally, implemented in our models by simple arithmetic operations like addition and multiplication (linearity).
Clarke et al, page 10: '. . . the traditional distinctions between "foreign" and "domestic" are far less clear today than in the past . . . '. We are all in this together and only bandwidth
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maximization can save us. President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Richard A Clarke, Michael J Morell, Geoffrey R Stone, Cass R Sunstein and Peter Swire
Clarke page 14: 'The national security threats facing the United States and out allies are numerous and significant . . . ' negligible [in terms of death and disability] to the threats of disease, disaster and mismanagement, largely created by misgovernment itself!
page 15: '2: . . . risk management . . . '.
page 16: 'absolute' vs 'balanced'
'4. . . . both benefits and costs . . . '
The domestic Jesus is the dynamic aspect of God. We learn about the static element in the Greek tradition stretching from Xenophanes and Parmenides through Plato to the Fathers of the Church. Thomas Aquinas developed these ideas into the standard Catholic model of God, explained most maturely in the Summa Theologiae.
John's Gospel recounts the formal model of Jesus, the Word of God, a very significant phrase. Logos (Christianity) - Wikipedia
They are tinpot political generals taking a military approach to defending outmoded concepts of sovereignty. BriggsFreedom must be tempered with fairness and respect for the rights of others. There is optimal freedom that
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maximizes the entropy in s complex system
Order of Preachers Motto 'Veritas', now a falsehood. Dominicans
Saturday 21 December 2013
The principal error promulgated by the Church is the claim that the Universe is defective and its consequent denigration.
