vol VII: Notes
2014
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]
[Sunday 2 February 2014 - Saturday 8 February 2014]
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Sunday 2 February 2014
Entanglement is a consequence of the limited variety of quantum systems imposed by the limits on the power of computers and the fact that quantum mechanics in non local.
The Turing symmetry of the transfinite computer network is a further consequence of the limited power of Turing machines relative to the transfinite network and to meaning by which a countable number of transfinite sets (eg people) can be manipulated by Turing machines, eg in the social security system which requires only unique identifiers for each transfinite individual to manipulate them in a meaningful way, ie collecting taxes and distributing benefits.
We might say that in general a [corporate] desire for secrecy points to a programme of deception which is pointed toward ripping people off.
Monday 3 February 2014
Tuesday 4 February 2014
West Defoe page 136 (re Fqxi) '. . . like many people steeped in the past, he was often correct in his prophecies for the future.' West: Daniel Defoe
Depressing, flu, possible cancerous lump in neck, very small hope
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of changing Roman Catholic Church theology etc, but I remain naturally energetic and optimistic. I will survive no doubt and possibly set some theological ball rolling one day: just have to write the irrefutable paper that is lurking in my mind, sometimes briefly showing itself but still hard to catch.
Wednesday 5 February 2014
Via negativa suggests that we can only talk about perfection in terms of error by defining perfection as error free. So an error free computation is perfect, and we learn how to achieve perfection by learning how to prevent [and correct] errors. Which we do with a combination of observation, logic and mathematical communication theory.
Next: ultrasound guided needle biopsy.
The error of most interest to me at the moment is cancer. The essence of canceris that a cell breaks free of local government and begins to reproduce in an uncontrolled manner to the detriment of its environment [eg the human race]. Cancer - Wikipedia
We will understand world government when we understand how 10 trillion cells can live together generation after generation to be an organism like myself for so long.
Error is self correcting insofar as in the long run the erroneous ones fail to thrive, or become the new normal by outsurviving their peers.
The formal equivalent of sin is error. Sin is error plus guilt that somehow the agent has a malicious purpose in
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making the error.
Letter [to Francis] 6: sin and error.
Like electrons in an electrical system, units of money flow through the economic system, moved by the values they represent, the value of a piece of land to the buyer, of a unit of money to the seller. Money is potential, property is actual, and they are equivalent, the metric being the market [operation] which places monetary values on tradeable objects.
A fundamental error, shared by all traditionalists, is that real reality is static (a la Parmenides) rather than dynamic.
Another way to look at the via negativa: we can only study dynamic systems through their stationary points [differential equations, study dynamics by the not-dynamic].
Thursday 6 February 2014
Friday 7 February 2014
Scientific formalists (a bit like me) would like the whole world to be evidence based, but when we get down to cases things get a bit muddy. Aquinas defined God as pure act and eternal, omnipotent and so on, but from a formal point of view everything cannot be true at once, ie all possibilities cannot be simultaneously realized because there are more possibilities in the ordering of a set of symbols that can be realized at a given moment by the set of symbols [since one ordering excludes all the others]. All the sides of a die cannot be up at once. Instead we have to throw the die many times to see all of its states [the same as interrogating an atom to see all the lines in its spectrum]. So a dynamic system cannot realize all of its fixed points simultaneously. The quantum theory of superposition, like medieval theology, disputes this position, claiming the simultaneous rather than sequential existence of all the fixed
points of the energy equation in the same way that Aquinas claims that God is the tota simul realization of all possibility. This is a self-contradictory understanding of the relationship between statics and dynamics. This competition for static existence is the foundation of evolution, the allocation of finite resources to [relatively] infinite possibilities which makes something of a mockery of formal definitions of truth.
This conundrum captures much of the difficulty I have in writing, trying to [capture a dynamic system in one static sentence which would be equivalent to a differential equation].
So motion, as we experience it [kinematically], is a change of the fixed points in the underlying dynamics, the annihilation of the state at t1 and the creation of the state at t2, both being possible states, fixed points of the underlying dynamics. Matter =- action, form = fixed point, energy = rate of change of fixed points,
An insight a day keeps despair away and feeds enthusiasm for the next.
