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vol VII: Notes

2014

Notes

[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]

[Sunday 25 May 2014 - Saturday 31 May 2014]

[page 146]

Sunday 25 May 2014

Sitting here reading newspapers on the internet and thinking I should do some work, ie establish some new fixed points in the world either by fixing some things around the house, weeding and planting the garden, or moving some writing projects forward, particularly this month's letter to the pope. Such fixed points may be considered to have significant entropy taking note of the space of possibilites in which they exist, or perhaps zero entropy, insofar as they exist (when done) as independent entities, part of the past with no further space of possibilities surrounding them. Another task would be to find the planing machine, which is somewhere in the space of my property, and so can be assigned an entropy which will measure the amount of information I gain when I find it.

Stoicism: control of passions. Dirk Baltzly. An application

[page 147]

of the Carnot principle between high temperature (passion) and low temperature (reason)? Dirk Baltzly

Quid est hoc quod est esse? Communication? All my experience of self and world is communication, described at the fundamental level by quantum mechanics.

Baltzly: Stoicism and Epicureanism eclipsed by Christianity.

The principal means of dealing with corruption is to expose it, since it depends on secrecy for its survival, like cancer [or an infection].

The notion that all [good] things are spiritual is a delusion. What about the sun sparkling on rippling waters, a baby's smile of a dolphin cavorting in the waves. Spirit is physical, like all information. This is not to say that all spiritual matters are public. We can experience deep feelings of faith, hope and love within ourselves, but these can be expressed in words, art and literature whose meaning is clear to those who have experienced such feelings themselves.

Earth is heaven for us because we have evolved to fit in it.

'On the Sun God' [slogan, title].

Erle Stanley Gardner: The Case of the Careless Cupid: reality rules.

Money: action
Cashflow: energy
Capital: momentum

McTernan: 'It is a political cliche that it is only when you are sick of repeating something that the public are starting to hear it.' John McTernan

[page 148]

One cannot navigate with certainty without having the whole picture. The outlines of the picture are the stationary points and lines, wich are continuities. From an algorithmic point of view a continuum is a non event, a fixed point, Only breaks in the continuity can carry information, ie modulation, which is a species of computation. This is the world of theology at the boundary between chance and necessity.

We come back to the creative ower of the divinity in the multiplication of fixed points (personalities) in the Universe, a transfinite transformation of the Trinity.

The political mission of physicaltheology.com is to establish a scientific theology as the touchstone of human behaviour at all scales, that is to all behaviours at all scales, which, insofar as they are fixed, must be computable. The random incomputable is not to be found in the set of behaviours but to be a transfinite halo surrounding the set of computable behaviours.

Ha-Joon Chang page 254: 'Second: we should build a new economic system on the recognition that human rationality is severely limited', as is the rationality of the whole system, because the set of computable (predictable) functions is infinitesimally small compared to the set of all functions, but is endowed, by the power of computability, to become the [set of] most common processes in the Universe. Chang

A successful society must reconcile religion and economics. Religions have often claimed to be above economics, and economists have become sectarianized, rather like religions.

[page 149]

The root of any religion is its business plan. How does it extract money from the population for the services it yields? The traditional answer is with difficulty because it is of the essence of religion to maintain its financial survival by eliciting donations rather than charging fees.

The Church of the Invincible Sun.

The competing product is marketed by the Roman Catholic Church.

Monday 26 May 2014

The Sun shines [more or less] equally on us all and the Earth is our common heritage. There is no religious foundation for rich and poor.

On the whole communication between asynchronous systems can be quite dodgy, About 10% of the time my phone rings and there is no one there, probably a computer.

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Solar Theology: On the Sun. Possibility allows action as an open pipe allows flow, since the Universe is always under the pressure of action / creation, measured by the stress / energy tensor. So the idea od marketing the Sun as God opens the way for a new book.

We respect and honour those who give their lives for a cause even though the cause my be deceptive, foolish or plain wrong.

[page 150]

Complexification works by copying, that is reproduction, producing a new instance of a formally (approximately) identical entity.

On the Sun: An Introduction to Solar / Universal / complete theology

Sublime design: Louise McWhinnie, London Underground

solar theology

Adaptive radiation

Wednesday 28 May 2014

Order of service / order of operations / order of application of tools

Christians worship a false God,.The God of the Christians worship is a crusty and vindictive old mongrel. You might remember some of his more famous actions: The Fall, the Flood, the Exodus, Abraham and Jacob, the Crucifixion and so on all vicious retribution for supposed slights.

This God is clearly modelled on the personalities of the rules who held power while the Bible was being created, We see an interplay between vicious rulers and prophets predicting even worse to come ff the ruler does not conform to the supreme ruler, the prophet's God. I am setting out to play the role of a prophet, destroying the ancient and unsatisfactory Christian fictitious God and replacing it with the real God, reality. From a practical point of view, God is the way things are, as the Bible tells us in a more scientific moment. I Am that I Am - Wikipedia

[page 151]

Fundamentalists: those who feel that the only meaningful relationship with a woman is fucking.

Hospital

Thursday 29 May 2014
Friday 30 May 2014
Saturday 31 May 2014

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Further reading

Books

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Chang, Ha-Joon, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Bloomsbury Press; Reprint edition 2012 From Publishers Weekly 'Chang . . . takes on the "free-market ideologues," the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world--over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing "free" about a market where wages are largely politically determined; that greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable; and a more educated population itself won't make a country richer. An advocate of big, active government and capitalism as distinct from a free market, Chang presents an enlightening précis of modern economic thought--and all the places it's gone wrong, urging us to act in order to completely rebuild the world economy: "This will some readers uncomfortable... it is time to get uncomfortable." '(Jan.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information 
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Heisenberg, Werner , Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory (translated by Carl Eckart and Frank C Hoyt), Dover 1949 Jacket: 'In this classic, based on lectures delivered at the University of Chicago, Heisenberg presents a complete physical picture of quantum theory. He covers not only his own contributions, but also those of Bohr, Dirac, Bose, de Broglie, Fermi, Einstein, Pauli, Schroedinger, Sommerfeld, Rupp, Wilson, Germer and others in a text written for the physical scientist who is not a specialist in quantum theory or in modern mathematics.' 
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Monod , Jacques , Chance and Necessity: An essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (translated by Austryn Wainhouse), Collins Fount 1979  
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Suyin, Han, The Crippled Tree, Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited 1985 Amazon book description: 'In The Crippled Tree Han Suyin evokes, through the life of her two families (eastern and western), a panorama of the history of China from 1885 to 1928. It contains eye-witness accounts, from family papers, of the Sino-French War, of the revolution of 1911 and of the emergence of Chiang Kai-shek. This book is more compelling than history and more profound than biography: it describes how events mould the lives of individuals, and how their private emotions are twisted by the gigantic conflicts of a changing world. The theme of the book is the story of the Chinese family of Han Suyin, a family deeply feudal, rooted in a far inland province of China adjacent to Tibet; yet, because of the western invasion of China, brought face to face with compelling change. . . . ' 
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Zee, Anthony, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, Princeton University Press 2003 Amazon book description: 'An esteemed researcher and acclaimed popular author takes up the challenge of providing a clear, relatively brief, and fully up-to-date introduction to one of the most vital but notoriously difficult subjects in theoretical physics. A quantum field theory text for the twenty-first century, this book makes the essential tool of modern theoretical physics available to any student who has completed a course on quantum mechanics and is eager to go on. Quantum field theory was invented to deal simultaneously with special relativity and quantum mechanics, the two greatest discoveries of early twentieth-century physics, but it has become increasingly important to many areas of physics. These days, physicists turn to quantum field theory to describe a multitude of phenomena. Stressing critical ideas and insights, Zee uses numerous examples to lead students to a true conceptual understanding of quantum field theory--what it means and what it can do. He covers an unusually diverse range of topics, including various contemporary developments,while guiding readers through thoughtfully designed problems. In contrast to previous texts, Zee incorporates gravity from the outset and discusses the innovative use of quantum field theory in modern condensed matter theory. Without a solid understanding of quantum field theory, no student can claim to have mastered contemporary theoretical physics. Offering a remarkably accessible conceptual introduction, this text will be widely welcomed and used.  
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Dirk Baltzly, Stoicism (Stanford Encyclopedia od Philosophy), 'Stoicism was one of the new philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period. The name derives from the porch (stoa poikilê) in the Agora at Athens decorated with mural paintings, where the members of the school congregated, and their lectures were held. Unlike ‘epicurean,’ the sense of the English adjective ‘stoical’ is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins. The Stoics did, in fact, hold that emotions like fear or envy (or impassioned sexual attachments, or passionate love of anything whatsoever) either were, or arose from, false judgements and that the sage—a person who had attained moral and intellectual perfection—would not undergo them.' back
I Am that I Am - Wikipedia, I Am that I Am - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, 'I Am that I Am (Hebrew: אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה‎, pronounced Ehyeh asher ehyeh [ʔehˈje ʔaˈʃer ʔehˈje]) is a common English translation (JPS among others) of the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for His name (Exodus 3:14). It is one of the most famous verses in the Torah. Hayah means "existed" or "was" in Hebrew; "ehyeh" is the first person singular imperfect form. Ehyeh asher ehyeh is generally interpreted to mean I am that I am, though it can also be translated as "I-shall-be that I-shall-be."' back
John McTernan, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey made all the wrong moves with budget execution, 'How do you succeed in politics? To paraphrase US General Norman Schwarzkopf, have a good plan and execute it violently. Do not be like the Coalition and have a confused plan which you implement incompetently. The catastrophic collapse in polling support – not just two-party preferred but the Prime Minister's personal ratings – was made entirely in Canberra. It is worth reflecting on why it has all gone so badly wrong.' Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/tony-abbott-and-joe-hockey-made-all-the-wrong-moves-with-budget-execution-20140522-zrkp4.html#ixzz32hCXze8s back
Louise McWhinnie, Sublime design: The London Underground map, 'The London Underground map is a classic design – however, probably few people question why. Certainly the fact that it has stood the test of time through its adaptability, and its ease of use are factors in its success. But its impact beyond its original setting should also be considered as a factor, for despite its humble beginnings, it can undoubtedly claim to have influenced information design on a global scale.' back

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