vol VII: Notes
2014
Notes
[Notebook: DB 77 Discretion]
[Sunday 29 June 2014 - Saturday 6 July 2014]
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Sunday 29 June 2014
From a scientific point of view the Roman Catholic Church is a fraudulent organization, asserting positions for which there is no evidence and demanding actions based on these assertions that are contrary to the wellbeing of individuals and the planet as a whole.
I cannot imagine that in the secular commercial sphere it is an adequate defence that an entity truly believes that its false accounts truly represent reality. They have a duty to exercise due diligence in the preparation of their accounts to be certain that they truly reflect reality. From this point of view it is no defence for the Church to claim that it truly believes its manifestly false doctrines, particularly because we are not dealing here with mere matters of money, but with the spiritual health and happiness of more than a billion people who rely on the Church for spiritual guidance.
I am invoking a superior God to you puny god who is a creature of the fertile [imaginations of the] servants of repressive monarchy. My God is real and judges everything impartially from driving in
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nails to the fall of empires d the Roman Catholic Empire is no exception.
Francis, July: This is the end of the personal contact. Fromnow on I willspeak to you as the Chief Executive Officer of the The Theology Company Pty Lts pitching to you for consultancy business, The product we are offering is CHRISTIANITY 2.0 BETA. the essence of this product is a translation of the christian commandment of love into formal language using the equation
love = true communication
Although love may be a mystery and a different thing to every person, the attributes of love communication and truth are the subject of formal mathematical expressions that can be used for engineering, that us the realization of mathematically expressed algorithms.
Christianity is a generic term which simply means anointedness, chosen, in other words a chosen set of algorithms for living. Insofar as any practical instruction can be transmitted, it can only be transmitted in computable algorithms, as when I am telling someone how to do something: first do this, then that, then this . . . , an ordered set of actions each of which may be deterministic or probabilistic (distributed, dispersed, symmetrical, uncaused).
The hardware of the Church is beautiful, part of the heritage of Homo sapiens but the software dates from n age when monarchy was king, the mainframe age. Now we are into distributed processing, and we count every person as a processor in the human peer network.
A religion, insofar as it is defined, is a set of algorithms
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for life.
The defects of Christianity 1.0 as implemented by the Catholic Church:
1. false god.
2. consequences of 1.
Can we patent Christianity 2.0 (Judaism 3.0)?
The Christianity 1.0 misidentification of God was a consequence of the limitations of logic, mathematics and physics [in the centuries when Christianity was developed]. In detail, the writers of X1.0 lacked the theorems of Cantor, Gödel, Turing, Shannon and Brouwer and had no knowledge of quantum mechanics and relativity. Because Christianity 2.0 is metamathematical and limited only by consistency, it is a powerful enough formalism to map the bounds on God which appear to us as the symmetries forming the boundaries of formal structure in the Universe. Physics studies the most basic of these symmetries, and the hierarchy of the sciences is related to the hierarchy of symmetries that each studies.
A clear manifestation of the sectarian nature of Christianity is that judgement on the Catholic Church did not come from within it but from the wider civil religion which embraces it.
Monday 30 June 2014
Christianity 2.0 is a radical revision of Christianity in a similar way to the Christian revision of Judaism.
So X2.0 About
1. God is love - love = true communication
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2. Aquinas - God is actus purus
3. Brouwer - actus purus can have fixed points
4. Cantor - symmetry with respect to complexity
5. Gödel - there is a boundary on formalism
6. Turing - time is of the essence
7. Shannon - we can avoid error, given time / processing rate
8. Love - we engineer society on truth and communication
Then Development
1. God - Universe / theology
2. Women - symmetry, equality, uncertainty / ex nihilo
3. Society / evolution / network / layering
Then maybe the old sequence, [method,] physics, biology, . . . work, [experience]
Or better start with love from X1 and then go on through truth and communication, ie Aristotle, Aquinas, Tarski, Shannon. What we are trying to fo is produce a zero entropy zero temperature formal code for human activity which will not upset anybody and so can be truly catholic, an engineering foundation that all can accept with minimum modification of existing cultural norms. The idea is to avoid all sectarianism by achieving mathematical universality.
Do we make the Sun the anointed one?
How long will this enthusiasm (Knox) last? It seems to me at the moment to be a practical step toward reforming the Church but it will almost inevitably cause controversy within the Church for some time (maybe a century) as it slowly leads the Church to the true God revealed by science and a stable decision making process founded on democracy. The clearer and more powerful the motivation for change, however, the faster and
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more painlessly it will occur, embracing all people of good will. Knox
One may write a novel with the aim of inserting excitement and tension into the story, A textbook, on the other hand, might aim for a steady consistent development of a picture without any amazing leaps and incredible coincidences. The e-book christianity 2.0 should perhaps try to be more of a textbook than a novel, unsensational, but at the same time irrefutable.
Christianity 2.0 sounds cheap and nerdy but maybe this is a good cover because the mathematical, physical and theological foundation means that it is anything but cheap but will grow on people only slowly and gently and not upset too many. The main problem is the name — Christianity is well established as the name of a religion, and it is to some degree a generic term [χριστος (greek) = the anointed one].
Do I want to register christianity20 or not? Bought. This choice of name limits my impact to Christianity without drawing concern from other religions, which will fit into Christianity2.0 anyway because of its universality.
Development: we could work through the contents of Denzinger or the Catholic Catechism, pointing out errors and correcting them as we go along. Perhaps I should have registeres catholicism20 instead of christianity20. No, Christianity is better, more generic, but instead of Denzinger do we do the Creed?. No, perhaps just a list of what is wrong with the Church, eg Denzinger: Enchiridion Symbolorum, Definitionum et Declarationum de Rebus Fidei et Morum
1. False God
2. Faith
3. Original sin
4. Women [attitude to]
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5. Sex, reproduction and sexuality, ie full spectrum love
6. Dynamics and statics: infallibility, monarchy and democracy
7. Evolution and scientific method/creation
8. Sin, error, evil, Satan, corruption
9. Death and divinity
10. Truth and trustworthiness
11. Divine right
12. Matter and spirit / layered network
13. Pain
14. Markting and quality / Holy family / assumption / rise from the dead, etc
15. Sacraments [words witout efficacy].
Tuesday 1 July 2014
16. The deposit of faith = Universe = God.
Commentary on the 24 theses.
Denzinger:
a) God revealing itself, in every experience of every element of the Universe
b) God, one and three, going on to transfinite fixed points
c) Creation and evolution of fixed points
d) God admitting sin, ie error
e) God saving through Jesus, ie through human cooperation
f) God giving grace, ie building up the Universe layer by layers
g) God congregating the Church of salvation
h) God teaching through the magisterium of the Church
i) God sanctifying through the sacraments [better algorithms for salvation]
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j) God specifying the moral life
k) God's retribution and consummation [giving the story an artificial end]
Headings e) to k) could all be compressed into one ince they represent superfluous tasks that the Church has arrogated to itself as a consequence of the denial of the reality of God.
This work amounts to a species of anti-Denzinger.
Wednesday 2 July 2014
Capitalism is orthogonal to (independent of) democracy, but they may be coupled by a higher layer. They are independent processes. What can we say about the steps in a Turing machine? - they are an ordered causal sequence (formally speaking). The machine can stop after any step. Although the steps are time ordered, the duration of each step is irrelevant.
I am feeling very confident about my ability to develop christianity 2.0 but wonder if it will ever really catch on. My sales pitch is perhaps that the Catholic Church needs restumping, and that restumping will stabilize it without affecting its good points.
Apart from anything else, we can make the Holy Family real without any gobbledegook.
Prayer vs engineering. Prayer dates from the days of absolute rulers who could do anything they likes including granting favours to those who prayed (lobbied) hard enough, It is intended to move the powerful. To move the real world we must speak its language, the language of engineering, not spin and imprecation. Ambrose Bierce: Pray: . . .
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Thursday 3 July 2014
The main resistance to action against global warming is the sunk capital in the fossil industry and in the intellectual property in the related engineering industry. Of the two, the IP is very much more changeable, since there is very little new in coal / thermal power generation and much of the PV / wind technology is in hand. We could say the same about the Church. There is an enormous amount of capital sunk in hardware, but the software can be very easily changed—ultimately it is matter of just one bit. All the Catholic beliefs that actually impact on the hardware of the world(like the reality of transsubstantiation) can be left untouched with the proviso that they arte social symbols rather than physical realities.
Commentary on 24 Theses.
We want to cool the Earth and our tool is formalism, whose temperature is absolute zero, or very close to (within 1/2 ℏω).
Friday 4 July 2014
Christianity is based on a set of alleged miraculous and mysterious events that are far from the normal way of the Universe. Christianity 2.x, to the contrary, is based on the normal function of the Universe, that is the normal life of God.
The human envelope, violated by murderers, torturers, slave drivers and the like, all who unfairly extract value.
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Natural theology describes the broadband channel to God.
Memory makes deterministic processes possible by storing all the steps in an algorithm, and it makes evolution possible buy permuting the steps and learning new ones based on the old ones.
