An adequate discussion of any issue can only take place in a complete basis, that is all possibilities (eigenfunctions, processes) must be considered in the mix. In quantum mechanics superpositions are perfectly linear, but in more complex networked systems the sequence of actions of the various oerators can be very important: non-

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commutativity.

You cannot tell other people what to do, only expect to live in a milieu where other people will not hurt you, ie do no harm; all relationships to be negotated on a level field and voluntary.

Monday 17 February 2014

Controlling control. The big task is to get the controlling just right. Too much or too little can lead to trouble. At the two extremes of control we have total control and anarchy. [North Korea is a good modern example of attempted total control] Both lead to failure, anarchy because there is no cooperation in necessarily communal tasks, and total control because [it is] an unstable artificial reduction in entropy which must eventually fall foul of the second law of thermodynamics. Peter Walker

The law of requisite variety says that the system with enough variety to control itself must be controlled by itself, ie must be democratic, all elements working in parallel to achieve comfortable survival.

The notion of self control arising from self equivalence is the natural interpretation of requisite variety by duality in a complex system, the dual spaces being the individuals and the collective. The collective controls the environment for the individuals who direct the collective to implement the controle that best promote [the welfare of the individuals]. [This system goes bad when a small elite gain control, promoting their own welface at the expense of the rest of the population.]

In the physical Universe systems act to keep the action stationary (Euler -Lagrange equation), ie to establish fixed

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Neuenschwander: Fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations, page 28. Fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations - Wikipedia

Time is the independent variable here [in the Lagrangian], ticking along at an assumed constant rate. The x^μ [μ = 1, 2, . . . N]represent points in a[n N dimensional] space which are moving in an extremal way, that is we guess executing the most efficient algorithm to move from a to b.

Symmetry, N, page 36-37: J.W.Campbell: 'In applying [Newton's] laws to obtain the equations of motion in any given problem, any system of coordinates may be used that will give expression to them . . . The problem is simplified by the use of generalised coordinates . . . When we use generalized coordinates we do not specify the system. We write the coordinates but do not define what they mean. Thus we write the position of a point as (q₁, q₂, q₃) without specifying how the q's are obtained . . . thus

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Lagrange's equations give the equations of motion for all systems, and their explicit form is independent of the meaning of the coordinates. The only restriction is that the coordinates must uniquely determine the point.'

The stationary action integral is the basic fixed point in the Universe and points to discrete digital processes?

Neuenschwander page 37: 'Hamilton's principle and Newton's second law are equivalent—but only for classical mechanics.

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Wednesday 19 February 2014

Writers such as Dawkins ('G0od Delusion') are inclined to throw out the baby with the bathwater. We do not discredit ancient astronomy because their models of the heavens were a long way from current belief. We recognise their work as early efforts to explain the magnificent phenomena we observe in the heavens. Over the ast two millennia astronomy has been built on this foundation by the gradual steps we associate with Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Nicholas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. The history of Western theology is not so rich because the political power of the Churches has kept it in its infancy, but we must nevertheless see the work of ancient

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theologians as a foundation we can build on.

Now, 350 years after Galileo's inspiration, science still plays second fiddle to many entrenched beliefs like eternal life and female genital mutilation. The revision of theology is a big job, but we must start somewhere,

As we may conclude from its promotion of the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, the Catholic Church is an specifically and deliberately inhuman organization rooted in the conviction that humanity is defective.

Evolution - intelligent design

Cybernetics: feedback

Thursday 20 February 2014

By deprecating women and reproduction the church bypasses the unifying power of the fact that we are all one species, and opens the way for self interested theologians to provoke conflict around the world for their own benefit.

Always struggling to make progress. The idea now seems to be to write a book length version of natural theology without trying so much for precision as a rough outline that can be sculpted in detail and then coupled to a detailed reference space (perhaps predominantly Wikipedia) to help the reader through the forest of detail. This plan calls for a strong and straightforward statement of my position in my own terms without worrying too much about the sensibilities of the potential audience. If they find the general idea

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exciting enough they will put in the effort necessary to understand it as a whole. My tendency seems to be always to get bogged down in detail, contributing to my own education but often seeing more trees than forest.

It is time for Christianity, that went through its warring phase during the reformation . . . to step out of its parochial and ancient view of the world to the high ground of science so that it can leas the less developed religions to peace. This high ground we call scientific, natural or secular religion.

Friday 21 February 2014

Let us drop the reference to God in unreasonable effectiveness and concentrate of the vacuum - pure energy = initial singularity, thereby removing an obstacle to acceptance ßwhile formally representing the same ideas.

Christopher Hitchins 'That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence'. Christopher Hitchens

Fiddling with the book. Maybe the quickest way forward is a rewrite of the Synopsis volume f the natural theology website. Rename to A Divine World.

Beane et al Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation archiv.org/pdf/1210.1847v2.pdf. Silas R Beane et al

Neuenschwander page 47: 'Hamilton's principle is equivalent to requiring that the time averages of

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the kinetic energy and the potential energy be as nearly equal as possible.' And maybe integrated over the whole Universe, exactly equal. [Feynman Feynman: On Gravitation]

Saturday 22 February 2014

The emergence of a fixed point in the vacuum establishes a duality of fixed point - not fixed point which corresponds to the notion of father and son. One then imagines the emergence of further fixed points [by a recursive process, like turbukence] which can be represented by the transfinite numbers / halted communications.